Coming Collateral Crunch Charted

To better comprehend the chaos that is currently viciously circling in European funding markets, its critical to understand the difference between 'linear' collateral needs and the highly non-linear self-destroying re-pledging collateral crunch that is about to occur. Perry Mehrling, of INETeconomics, does a good job of explaining, in his chalkboard-style video, the three lending-based demands for collateral among the European banks and their central banks (Interbank, National Central

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