Tag: reverse repo

Global Money, a Work in Progress

Today global money is largely private credit money, the issue of a profit-seeking bank that promises ultimate payment in public money which is the issue of some state, quite possibly a different state from the one where the bank is chartered and does its business.  Global money is also largely dollar-denominated, even when the ultimate […]

Tags: central banking, global money, liquidity risk, reverse repo

Turbulent Exit Redux

A lot of people have speculated about what would happen when the Fed raised rates, and almost all of them have been surprised. One of them is Zoltan Pozsar, who boldly went on record with the view that corporate cash pools of various kinds would shift out of bank deposits into government-only mutual funds, which […]

Tags: central banking, reverse repo