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by gills 6551 days ago
If the Fed would actually do it's job and drain the swamp (remove excess credit from the system), it would help calm the bubbles.
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If you agree with this line of thinking: The Great Moderation - http://www.winterspeak.com/2008_07_01_archive.html#150265996... then the real issue is relative rates of consumption.
How can they remove excess credit? If they do, it would collapse the financial industry. That's why they had to bail out BSC.
It wouldn't collapse [all of] the financial industry. Any banks which may already be insolvent without FRB loans would have to declare bankruptcy. There are probably a couple solvent banks out there. Failure seems to be a fair and natural outcome for businesses that are poorly managed or choose unsustainable business models.

The FRB can remove the slosh by not rolling over loans to primaries when they come due, and by putting back the trash securities they took as collateral through the TAF and TSLF.