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Pam and Russ Martens: Fed admits corporate bond buying will be at least a 5-year bailout
By Pam and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
On May 13 the House Financial Services' Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions held a virtual roundtable with federal regulators. One of the regulators in attendance was the vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, Randal Quarles.
At the very end of what evolved into a roundtable beset with static and inaudible passages, it was Utah Rep. Ben McAdams' turn to ask questions. McAdams' voice was sharp and crisp. He politely said he had a question about the corporate bond buying program that the Fed was launching (for the first time in its 107-year history).
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The exchange went as follows:
McAdams: "Do you anticipate holding these investments through the life of the purchased bond or do you anticipate selling them at a date TBD?" [To be determined.]
Quarles: "Our intention is to buy and hold."
That answer from Quarles effectively means that the Fed plans to keep its corporate bond-buying program alive for at least half a decade. Here's how we know that.
The Fed has two corporate bond buying programs: the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility and the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility. The Fed has released detailed descriptions (called term sheets) for both programs. The PMCCF Term Sheet indicates that the bonds it will be buying will "have a maturity of four years or less." The term sheet for the SMCCF states that the bonds it will buy will "have a remaining maturity of five years or less.”
Since the Fed plans to "buy and hold," the program will have to be alive for at least five years until the last of its bonds mature. But here's why the program could last much longer than that.
The combined programs will start out to buy up $750 billion in bonds by September 30 this year. Both programs say the Fed can extend that purchase period. If it's extended a year, then we have a six-year program; if it's extended two years, then we have a seven-year program, and so forth. ...
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