Fisher: Fed should let security holdings 'roll off' at maturity

Plans to urge FOMC colleagues to ‘think more outside the box' during final four months in office

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Richard Fisher, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) member, believes it is "timely" to allow the Federal Reserve's security holdings to "run off as the bonds in our massive portfolio mature".

"Given [the] current circumstances, it would do no harm to start slowly trimming our holdings by letting them roll off as they mature," Fisher said during a speech in Texas yesterday, while acknowledging his thinking was "outside the box."

"But in my final

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