Against shortterm Municipal Bonds. Banks buy them from money market funds and then can get loans aga against them at the Federal Reserve, to address strain in another market, 3. 8 trillion market for state and local government bonds and airport bonds, all kinds of stuff in there. Only a part of that is eligible for financing at the fed these are assets that were held by money markets and money markets have been shedding assets in part because theyve had draw downs from corporate borrowers andenutional borrowers seeking to raise cash. Part of the seizing up of the financial system, the fed trying to come in and almost every hour appears as a new program to liquify markets. This now another historic step by the fed one of the first ones ive seen so far where they are not simply repeating what they did last time, but adding 12month and shorter highly rated Municipal Bonds to the money Market Liquidity Fund and im sorry, guys, i dont think theyre done yet. It would be surprising if they we
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