More troubling are the banks that are forced by regulators to increase capital ratios by shrinking their balance sheet or in other words, stop making loans.

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My point in bringing this up is that it does lend credence to the idea that the FOMC may slow or stop growing the balance sheet sooner rather than later.

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Metal sheet piling was placed around the hole to stop the soil from sliding, and it was filled.

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