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As Rates Rise, MBS Liquidity Improves. The Wild Card: the Fed’s Plan to ‘Lighten’ Its Balance Sheet
February 14, 2017
Paul Muolo
Agency MBS trading volumes peaked back in 2008 – the height of the financial crisis – at $344.9 billion daily.
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