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Fed policy, the Treasury yield curve, and term premia

The recent flattening of the US Treasury yield curve mainly reflects a renewed plunge in long-dated term premia, at least based on one set of estimates published by the Fed. Its “risk-neutral” counterpart has not followed suit, and the “terminal” policy rate implied by risk-neutral yields is not implausibly low.

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