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Where the Risk Went

Bagehot Did Not Have Pension Funds in Mind

The rule was lend freely to solvent institutions against good collateral. Every word of it assumed the borrower was a bank.

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Why can a central bank not simply lend to banks and let them onward-lend to non-banks in a stress?

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