The Term Auction Facility can best be described as _____.

The Term Auction Facility was a temporary Federal Reserve program created during the financial crisis to provide term loans to banks and improve their access to funding. Its purpose was to increase liquidity in the banking system, so “a temporary program to increase bank liquidity” is the best description. The program used auctions to allocate loans, but it was not an auction of securities.

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