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

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Bank of the Future - Chapter 2: Banking as a Payment System

The Fed is a bank able to create money by expanding its balance sheet on both sides. Unlike the IMF, the Fed's dollar liabilities are immediately spendable to meet external financing crises. The past two decades has seen the construction of a tiered system of international liquidity provision. It is a global dollar system, with the Fed operating as the de facto global central bank providing support for it.

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