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  • It doesn’t even give them more leverage. They are talking about reserve requirement (customer deposits), ie they only have to keep less Government money. It gives them zero additional capacity to lend.

    What you are referring to is capital requirements, which involves increases or decreasing amount/quality of assets (which are loans given to customers or its own assets). In this case banks may give more and riskier loans for the amount of assets they have.

    This was what happened in 2008, banks gave out shit ton of bad loans while having little assets. They could go to the Fed and ask for loan but this (normally) would require them to give collateral which they didn’t have, in this case bank would have to be shut down, nationalized or bailed out.

    Reserve requirements wouldn’t have prevented this, better enforced capital requirements would have. That’s why Basel norms was all the talk back then.

    Fed capitalized the banks unconditionally while the banks provided fed with next to no collateral.




































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