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Crisis Architecture & The Global Dollar

Boring Money, Levered Money

The same overnight loan is a money fund’s safest asset and a hedge fund’s fifty-times bet.

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A government money market fund has $5B to place overnight. A bank offers a deposit at 4.28%. Repo against Treasuries pays 4.30%. Why does the fund overwhelmingly choose repo?

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