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Why the Fed Watches the Debt Ceiling's New Math
On this episode of The Federal Reserve Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a number that just crossed a striking threshold: the U.S. national debt has passed $40 trillion, more than doubling in a decade. With the Fed Funds rate sitting at 3.63 percent and the ten-year Treasury yield at 4.74 percent, the cost of servicing that debt is starting to matter for monetary policy. Lucas explains the Fed's delicate dance — how rising interest payments constrain the Fed's ability to fight inflation, and why the central bank is now watching Treasury buybacks as a potential tool to ease market…
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