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Macro Musings with David Beckworth

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Leverage Ratio Requires a Backstop for a Liquidity Crisis

The supplementary leverage ratio requirement was added on banks and bank holding companies as part of the post global financial crisis regulations. When that was calebrated, it was done so at a time when reserve balances were expected to fall to zero. And generally, it's not controversial among banking economists that you want your leverage requirements to be a back stop. So provides the confidence that could kind of nip in the bud a crisis before it emerges.

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