NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said shrinking the balance sheet is the wrong objective for the central bank, and many of the proposals to meet that objective would threaten financial ...

President Trump’s nominee to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve wants to overhaul the central bank, including its more than $6 trillion balance sheet. By Colby Smith Colby Smith covers the ...

Professors Darrol Stanley and Michael Kinsman, authors of the October 2025 study “Excessive Valuation of Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets,“ set out to answer an interesting question: Do companies ...

Mortgage servicing rights are one of the most notoriously volatile assets in financial markets. The Federal Reserve's plan to loosen their capital treatment could foretell major problems in the future ...

Fed nominee Warsh has been a critic of a large Fed balance sheet Experts warn shrinking Fed holdings is hard, potentially destabilizing Liquidity regulation changes could give Fed space to shrink ...

As Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh could be expected to take a hammer to the central bank's balance sheet, which for years had been tied closely to the ups and downs of the stock market. However, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry. For most of the last decade, fintech liked to pretend the balance ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Federal Reserve has to grapple with the question of how big its balance sheet should be after it stopped shrinking its $6.5 trillion portfolio, according to economists at the central bank.

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) have added billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities to their balance sheets, leading some to surmise that they're aiming to tamp down ...

The Federal Reserve is ready to expand its balance sheet once more by buying short-term Treasury securities, aiming to head off bouts of pressure in overnight lending markets that are critical to the ...

If you’ve ever looked at a balance sheet and immediately wanted to slam your laptop shut, you’re not alone. Most business owners don’t come from accounting backgrounds, and the sheer volume of numbers ...