Friday, November 18, 2011

ECB will lend money to the IMF to purchase Euro-bonds

Interesting stuff that I found on YouTube yesterday. 
It says that the European Central Bank ECB) will lend money 
to the International Monetary Fund 
so that they can purchase sovereign debt and buy Euro-bonds.

It is sort of like I am lending money to you, so that I can borrow money from you.

The trick is I am lending to you at say 0.5% while borrowing from you at 1%, so effectively only paying you 0.5% of the borrowed amount for the effort,
while showing everyone that the Euro-bonds are all sold out.

Another real life game theory application - who are the real winners?

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