This week in Extra Credit, we talk rent debt, student-loan cancellation and the debt ceiling
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Foreigners are on pace to buy a record amount of U.S. corporate debt this year, a sharp reversal of the tsunami of selling seen in 2020, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
As the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet climbs past $8 trillion for the first time, it easily can keep growing for years to come, even after the central bank starts reducing its large-scale asset purchases, according to the Wells Fargo Institute.
The U.S. dollar is on fire, surging higher after the Federal Reserve signaled a more hawkish tone at its June policy meeting and appeared to spur a rethink of the currency’s path in 2021.
Demand by banks and others using the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse repo program surged to a new $755.80 billion record high on Thursday, a day after the central bank bumped up how much it pays on parked cash.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn said over the weekend that a Myanmar-like coup — in which the military overthrew a democratically elected government — “should happen” in the U.S.
The implosion of Archegos is an early warning sign about the next generation of unaccountable capital and exotic, risky financial instruments hidden inside ‘family offices’
Federal Reserve officials seem to be having some success in calming investor fears over inflation — a chart from Deutsche Bank illustrates why that was a tall task.
Europe’s largest residential property group Vonovia has agreed to buy rival Deutsche Wohnen for €18 billion, in a deal that will reshape Germany’s real-estate sector.
Nearly two months ago, the Federal Reserve’s reverse repo program had almost no customers. Now demand for the lending program is back to roughly $400 billion overnight, its highest since June 2017, according to Tradeweb data.
