Prompt. In the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve has
introduced a series of unconventional monetary policy tools—lending
facilities, essentially, designed to ease credit strains that firms
and municipalities will likely experience as the U.S. economy is
buffeted by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The “Fed Brief” that
accompanies this prompt outlines these new unconventional tools.
Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act grants the central bank
the authority, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
to implement these...