Who Determines Short Term Interest Rates?
…rates from a different Federal Reserve site These are tabulated monthly values. But the T-Bill rate is set in a weekly auction, and the Fed Funds rate is set by…
…rates from a different Federal Reserve site These are tabulated monthly values. But the T-Bill rate is set in a weekly auction, and the Fed Funds rate is set by…
…spectrum auction provisions in Title IV, Subtitle A, reallocating spectrum from federal to nonfederal use. These provisions, among many detailed ones, e.g., permit private administrators of state public safety networks…
…real estate) play an important role (“First they sell the family silver” H. MacMillan) The financial system has worked out not necessarily to Italy’s advantage — the latest BTP auction…
Brad DeLong asks why it hasn’t been done, if it hasn’t been done. The biggest problem I can see is that you don’t know how insane the participants are—and that…
…raising the cost at which the U.S. government can borrow funds — and thus end up increasing the deficit. So what happened today? There was a seven-year Treasury auction: Today…
by Bruce Webb Digby points us to the following NYT piece: At $106.5 Million, a Picasso Sets an Auction Record with what is in one sense an understandable bitter comment…
…Professor Bill Mitchell: If a government bond auction “fails” (i.e. the government doesn’t find enough buyers for the paper it issues during that particular sale), does this mean that your…
…over to the bank, Hoskins rented a bulldozer and turned his dream house into rubble. His business is scheduled to go up for auction on March 2 and Hoskins says…
…mandated MLR for each area would be set by an auction process and in that model you pretty much needed a Public Option to establish a baseline. Over the course…
Following up on this post, a 4-week auction over year-end (PDF) that sold at 0.00% interest, with a coverage ratio of 4.4:1. (Yield unchanged from the previous week, and the…