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Operation Twist

Bernanke Puts New ‘Twist’ on Old, Failed Policy

by Steve Stanek on September 28, 2011

Steve Stanek of FIRE News discusses “Operation Twist,” the Federal Reserve’s program to move hundreds of billions of dollars of the Fed’s investment portfolio into longer-term debt. Critics argue the program is a new twist on an old policy that failed in the 1960s.