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The Life Cycle of Money(doap.metal.bohyen.space)
50 points by nanacnote 5 hours ago | 8 comments
7777777phil 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One thing worth adding: the repo market underneath all of this is roughly $12.6 trillion in daily exposures, about $700B larger than previous estimates.

Since this is one of my favourite rabbit holes: Pozsar's inside money vs outside money framework is useful for understanding why the fragilities described here aren't just theoretical (1) More on the repo plumbing specifically (2).

(1) https://philippdubach.com/posts/pozsars-bretton-woods-iii-th...

(2) https://philippdubach.com/posts/repo-might-be-even-bigger-th...

xhrpost 38 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'll read more of the articles but very first bullet point raised my eyebrows

>Freezing Russian reserves in 2022 introduced confiscation risk to assets previously considered risk-free

Is this actually new? Didn't we freeze Iranian assets back in 1979? Wouldn't be surprised if there were other examples.

0sdi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find Richard Werner's take on money one of the most grounded. He has done a lot of work to track how it moves in the pipes. He has done a lot of communication around the subject, that one can find easily. The same guy that is said to have invented QE.

DevelopingElk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is written by an LLM account. My guess is this article was created with some human guidance too, but the profile shows LLM patterns.

skybrian 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not an expert, but amazingly this all looks correct?

xalava 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it looks correct, it must be then.

More seriously, if you want to learn money and its infrastructure, I recommend Banque de France's book on the matter "Payments and market infrastructures in the digital era" https://www.banque-france.fr/system/files/2023-04/payments_m...

atq2119 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks like it, yes. It's encouraging given that so many discussions of these topics online are wrong. The explanation of constraints on bank lending in particular is something many people should read.

solarity_studio 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Without reading it, this is written by ai