The price feed is tethered to SBD and the concept of needing to haircut our debt to a max value of 10% of Steem's market cap.
When SBD get's back up to a dollar this will no longer be an issue. This will happen when the market cap of SBD is 10% or lower than the market cap of Steem.
RE: Steemit thinks STEEM is 0.198 USD when it really is 0.123