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glasshug | 3 years ago

They started such a program this week: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bank-term-fund...

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dimal|3 years ago

That doesn’t buy them back. It allows banks to use them as collateral for a loan. So it provides short term liquidity, but the banks are still on the hook if prices don’t recover. The hope is that eventually prices will recover.