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The ECB has explicit standards for collateral. The Fed seems to have taken complete (unrated) junk from Lehman.

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 16th, 2010 at 02:06:17 PM EST
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I guess the Fed had swallowed the ideological position that a central bank need only carry out only open market operations and set the base interest rate hook, line and sinker; to the point that they had forgotten how to operate the discount window.

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Mar 16th, 2010 at 04:12:44 PM EST
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