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

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The Central Bank Swap Network and the Global Offshore Debt Crisis

US support for the most recent SDR allocation can be seen as welcoming the shift of credit risk onto other shoulders. Kindle Burger was writing before the rise of market-based credit, and therefore his focus was on lender of last resort, not dealer of last resort. It was these swap lines that stabilized global funding markets in early days of COVID-19 pandemic. In stabilizing global funding markets, the Fed was operating as a global dealer of last resorts.

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