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Danielle DiMartino Booth: Economic Downturn Worse Than '08 Global Financial Crisis? Bank Failures, Consolidations and Fed Pivot

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The Fed Posts Underwater Bonds as Collateral at Par

The Fed is taking something that has the full faith and backing of the United States government and giving par for it. So knowing full well, if said bank blows up fails goes away. They've pledged their collateral at the window. We can just hold on to it until it matures. Nobody loses a penny.

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