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If that's true, it's the repo rate, at one-week maturities.
If it's been overnight lending at the punitive "marginal lending facility" rate, it's 1.75%, when the overnight interbank lending rate is not much higher than 0.25%
All of this lending is overcollateralised, as it is "against eligible assets" at a discount set by the ECB itself at its discretion.
Anyway you look at it, the ECB is making a lot of money on this lending. It's called Seigniorage. Keynesianism is intellectually hard, as evidenced by the inability of many trained economists to get it - Paul Krugman
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