#Lending

Victoria Guida

vtg2

Now that things are a bit calmer, I’d like to explain the ways the Fed’s trillion-dollar emergency lending programs are designed to work. 1/14 There are a few different ways

Lucas

0x_Lucas

Earlier this week I released a report on @compoundfinance The #DeFi lending protocol has seen substantial growth, reaching $1.5B in total supply + $300M in borrowing activity since inception Full

Sarah Binder

bindersab

1/ Important thread -- I would add a caution in how we interpret "congressional" intent in reading statutes. That's a particularly difficult task in the context of the direction in

Isabel Schnabel

Isabel_Schnabel

Today the @ecb announced new measures to alleviate the effects of potential rating downgrades on collateral availability. On this occasion, our Vice President Luis de Guindos & I have published

G∆V!N LOW

MrGavinLow

Say if you have BNB right now, and would like a LONG exposure to #BNB . At the same time, you would like to generate yield from it. There are

Mira Mira on the wall

ShoutsAndMiras

When people ask me if they can invest in farmers through TJ, I try to explain that it's not easy to deliver returns like this. We're only now getting to

Ethan Vera

ethan_vera

Nationalizing an industry… what could possibly go wrong. https://www.criptonoticias.com/mineria/legalizada-mineria-bitcoin-venezuela-habra-pool-nacional/ TL;DR it is reported that Venezuela is creating a national Mining Pool. Miners that

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coldtakesonly

I only go on Twitter to defend China anymore. Asian Americans have a duty to defend China from racist lies. These lies hurt China, other Asian countries, and any country

Hadi Taheri

haditaheri

Negative rates in USBofA rates strategist Mark Cabana says that his "sense is that several [money market funds] are already preparing for the possibility of negative rates." Here's What Would

Mindao Yang

mindaoyang

1/ very good write-up from @arjunblj , however, I‘m quite skeptical of the CeFiDeFi convergence hypothesis. More likely it's just binary. In the short-term, CeFi-DeFi is playing the ’Front shop,

JohannesBorgen

jeuasommenulle

We finally have the total cost of the Archegos disaster for Credit Suisse: 4.4bn CHF.There is one question I get A LOT: how is it possible that Credit Suisse took

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

I worry that the IMF's agenda this fall is far less ambitious than the current shock demands. One way of framing this point is that the IMF so far

Frank_vL

Frank_vanlerven

Had the privilege of being on @LBC with @NickFerrariLBC. Here are 3 things I to say about @hmtreasury CBILS scheme:1) Badly designed2) Assumes banks like lending to business 3) Relying

Ron Butler

ronmortgageguy

Private Mortgage Funeral? Long Thread Week ago I called for the death of private mortgages And yet we still see offers for private mortgages?Dead Lender Walking? Let's break it down

Rohan Grey

rohangrey

1. Here's @RashidaTlaib in July last year asking the Fed to commit to buying state/local government debt in a recession.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/aoc-is-making-monetary-policy-cool-and-political-again.html 2. Here's the WSJ on t

James-Yakubu Ōbásān 🚀 Thoughts

afroconomist

A rate floor doesn’t mean exact market rate. It connotes the lowest rate that should be offered and in a competitive market, sellers (in this case banks) will compete to