Congress Asks Bernanke For Full Risk Analysis On Fed's Soaring Balance Sheet

`` In a letter [to Ben Bernanke] penned by the Chairman of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, Jim Jordan, says that he is "troubled by the corresponding effect that the Federal Reserve's expanding portfolio could have on current and future economic growth" and has asked the Fed what its "future plans to unwind the [$3 trillion and rising at $885 billion per month] portfolio" are.''