Radio Attack » macro http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack In this world, a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world, but this one. Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:00:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Collateral and shadow money http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/collateral-and-shadow-money/ http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/collateral-and-shadow-money/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:39:05 +0000 chris http://wahdis.com/RadioAttack/?p=93 FT Alphaville has a great post about the money-like properties of collateral in the shadow banking system.  It summarizes a note from Credit Suisse that tries to quantify how the repo market impacts the money supply.  Both are majestic, especially the Alphaville post for how clearly it places collateral in the monetary policy framework.  Diagrams like this make the subject accessible even to non-economists:

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