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Wall Street Journal

The Fed's giant stash of assets is the equivalent of a semipermanent sovereign wealth fund, argues David Malpass, a deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, in a Journal op-ed. It's one of the "world's largest and most leveraged bond portfolios, taking massive interest-rate risks." Malpass says the Fed should be coerced into establishing a "clear portfolio wind-down process" to allow it to concentrate on monetary and regulatory policy. Financial Times ...