The Fed would contract its balance sheet by selling interest-bearing Treasury securities back to the public.

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That is, how would the Fed manage to eventually reverse its efforts and sell those assets off its balance sheet without driving interest and bond yields sharply higher, bond prices sharply lower, thus hurting the economy and bond investors?

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