We have been concerned by recent media reports of an imminent US repo funding crisis in the next couple of months, driven by everything from dropping Reverse Repo Facility balances to excess tax payments to bank balance sheets to money market funds in a fire sale. While there are some causes for concern, it is worth slowing the “irrational exuberance” of worry in favor of seeing this thinking as part of a broader conversation about potential future funding activity.
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