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

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The Lender of Last Resort

The classic Badget rule recommends that in crisis the lender of last resort should lend freely at a high rate against security. The idea is that once the crisis is over, the market price will re-emerge as a more attractive alternative. Deficit and surplus agents who meet during the crisis only on the balance sheet of the lender would have an incentive to instead meet directly in the wholesale money market. In other words, the problem is liquidity, not solvency.

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