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Someone to lean on

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Someone to lean on (via The Economist)

“LENDER of last resort” has long been in the job description of central banks, as they rediscovered with a vengeance in recent years. But after heroically lending billions of newly created dollars, euros and pounds to banks to stave off collapse…

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