Pub. 11 2022 Issue 1

The CommunityBanker 16 The Fed’s Balancing Act for 2022 There can be no question that the Fed is right to accelerate the “tapering” and stop pumping liquidity into an over-liquified banking system. In their zest to prop up the economy to when COVID was new, they characteristically overdid the job, creating way too much cheap money, distorting financial markets, and fueling asset price bubbles in speculative assets that pose serious risks going forward.

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