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Fed Makes Emergency Move to Stabilize Markets. Will It Help?

Fed’s Solution to Market Meltdown: Buy Up More Short-Term Debt
The Federal Reserve announced today that they will be invoking Depression-era powers to buy “commercial paper”, which it hopes will provide struggling companies with money to pay their bills.
In this action, the Fed basically becomes a source of credit for nonfinancial business, in addition to the traditional [...]