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Understanding Eurodollars, Part 3

By |2013-11-26T13:07:18-05:00November 26th, 2013|Markets|

Given the relatively light holiday week, I thought it somewhat appropriate to finish the very heavy and systemic examination of the series on eurodollar markets (Part 1 here; Part 2 here). The preceding episodes were dedicated to the eurodollar system as it built up toward the 2007 reckoning. What started out as an alternative to [...]

Understanding Eurodollars, Part 2

By |2013-11-15T12:39:21-05:00November 15th, 2013|Markets|

The rapid growth of the eurodollar market made closing the gold window viable. Without an international mechanism to settle trade imbalances, there was no way to keep the dollar as a reserve currency. That is why SDR’s were first conceived, and funded, in the 1960’s. There was every intention to ditch the dollar and move [...]

Understanding Eurodollars, Part 1

By |2013-11-13T15:21:38-05:00November 13th, 2013|Markets|

With the Federal Reserve’s taper summer having created “dollar” troubles throughout the known credit world, there is renewed interest in eurodollars and wholesale money. When the world previously took note in August 2007 (at least those that were paying attention) it was an introduction into modern banking. Gone are the days when banks took in [...]

Understanding the Basis Is The Most Pressing Task In The World

By |2016-04-29T12:42:32-04:00April 29th, 2016|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

On December 27, 1990, changes to Regulation D went into effect with the maintenance period that began that day. Among those alterations was a reduction in the reserve requirement imposed upon what are officially called “eurocurrency liabilities.” Under the Monetary Control Act of 1980, which made reserve requirements universal to any US chartered federally insured [...]

Eurodollar Futures, The Verdict (Eurodollar University)

By |2017-08-22T16:34:53-04:00August 22nd, 2017|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The American banking system had been primarily a domestic one throughout its early development. Despite, or because of, the rapid growth in the later 19th century, banking was orientated almost entirely inward to finance the needs of that growth. But as a growing national as well as industrial power, the US adopted several measures early [...]

THE LOST DECADE, or introducing EURODOLLAR UNIVERSITY

By |2017-08-09T18:30:56-04:00August 9th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

At the end of his life and career, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great American novelist, wrote a series of short stories for Esquire Magazine. It’s difficult to tell whether he was forced into the job, far as it might have seemed from the 1920’s salons of Paris carousing with his wife Zelda and other international [...]

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