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Daily Archive for August 20th, 2012

In the most recent study of one of the many credit facilities set up by the Fed during the financial crisis:  In this paper I use the TAF micro-level loan data and find that about 60 percent of TAF loans went to foreign banks that pledged asset-backed securities as collateral for these loans.  The data and analysis […]

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Surely the stories of dark air over London had something to them. And they did. Air quality in London steadily deteriorated until the beginning of the 20th century. But just as the air dirtied (with no one’s intention by the way) so too did it clean. Here is a a chart via Matt Ridley (I […]

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