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Reading Perry Mehrling: Where’s My Swap Line? [Ep. 151, Macropiece Theater]

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Professor Perry Merling has written a working paper called Where's My Swapline. He argues that the IMF could be an international lender of last resort for countries facing external financing crises. Meanwhile, central bank liquidity swap lines are largely limited to core countries of the global north. In this system, central bank swapped their own currencies for dollars, which they then on lend to their own banking systems as needed.

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