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E13: How SVB Unraveled and Whether Crypto Can Fix Finance with Byrne Hobart

"Moment of Zen"

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Using a Banking License or a Financial Liquidity Provider?

Central banking allows there to be a liquidity provider of last resort and so if a bank actually just runs out of cash but is otherwise solvent, then that emergency liquidity provider does step in. That allows the system to run with a lot more leverage because as long as you can trust that central liquidity provider, then you know that you still care about solvency. It creates all kinds of moral hazard right because now if you are a bank you don't necessarily have to think about liquidity because someone else will provide it for you. And that leads to a lot of credit creation like that encourages banks to lend as much as they feel like which can eventually be inflationary. There is no way the government

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