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28 - Treasury Debt Management in the 1970s

from Part VIII - The 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2021

Kenneth D. Garbade
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Describes the circumstances that prompted the introduction of Treasury note and bond auctions in 1970 and the gradual introduction of regular and predictable offerings of coupon-bearing debt beginning in 1972. Elimination of fixed-price offerings allowed the FOMC to terminate the practice of “even keeling.”

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A History of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations, the US Government Securities Market, and Treasury Debt Management from 1951 to 1979
, pp. 425 - 457
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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