Back during the Financial Crisis the Federal Reserve set up a Term Auction Facility (TAF) to make one-month and three-month lending available to any sound bank. The point of the TAF then and the point now is to make sure credit keeps flowing to  medium- and small-sized businesses (and even households) that can have a […]


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