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Michael Howell: Capital Wars, Liquidity & The Rise of China

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The Federal Reserve and the Shadow Banks

In all three occasions, the federal reserve bailed the system out. The fed balance sheet is now significantly bigger than it was in two thousand and seven. And what's more, take a look at the swap lines that the federal reserve has put in place around the world for friends to borrow a dollars. These swap lines are like, in the fed opening a foreign branch in offshore, overseas to actually provide dollars to the global financial system.

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