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Also, didn't the fed buy $2T of mortgage backed securities during the pandemic?

EDIT: Not quite https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB

I believe they bought residential MBSs, which is one of the reasons why mortgage interest rates went so low. They may have bought commercial MBSs, but if they did I don't remember reading about it.

> They may have bought commercial MBSs, but if they did I don't remember reading about it.

Readily accessible, public data that the Fed updates weekly[1] clearly shows $9.943 billion at peak and currently sitting on $8.142 billion.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1qE9d

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