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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Blogging Live from Berlin - Any Requests?

Apr 11, 2012

Just wanted to let you all know that amongst the distinguished, distinguishable and disturbing people at the INET conference we have inserted ourselves in the middle to do some interviews, attend talks and blog about what is going on.

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Liquidity: Not Like Water (part 1 of many)

Mar 4, 2012

Discussion of the results of the ECB’s LTRO2 has revolved around the question of hoarding, specifically whether banks are using the newly-created reserves to fund new lending.

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Crisis Averted: Understanding LTRO2

Feb 29, 2012

Fundamentally, the ECB is trying to keep the ongoing sovereign debt crisis from turning into a full-fledged bank credit crisis.