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New Tools! More Pure Bank Profit!

MishTalk

Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. It proposes a new tool to pay banks even more interest on money banks don''t lend and cannot use (as an alternative to shrinking money supply).

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Michael Pettis on the China.

MishTalk

There is liquidity in the system and the PBoC still has the tools needed to alleviate a short-term liquidity crunch before it leads to a banking crisis. the country’s balance sheet, and this will mean not a collapse but. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140).

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. Nick Lovegrove.

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