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

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The International Lender of Last Resort

The market-based dollar credit system is global, the credit superstructure built on the global dollar payment system. Such an international system requires an international lender of last resort. Kindle Burger worried that the rise of the offshore euro-dollar system had created a new vulnerability to crisis as the global dollar was increasingly outside the control of the US Fed. The solution would be internationalization of the control mechanisms of the increasingly global dollar system.

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