Fed's first hurdle in 2020: Dispensing with 'QE Lite'
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(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's bond portfolio is swelling again at a pace not seen since the "quantitative easing" heyday in the early 2010s. Prices for stocks and other risky assets are also rising at a fast clip - a state of affairs that a growing chorus of investors, economists and former Fed officials say is no coincidence, and potentially a problem. Since the Fed started buying $60 billion of Treasury bills a month last fall to counter ructions on short-term money markets, credit spreads..