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HORRIFIC! Under new bank regulations municipal bonds are considered a highly liquid asset

Robert Wenzel  |  March 20, 2018

By Robert Wenzel, includes “… What's going on now is not real deregulation where government is getting out of the bank regulation business but just changes in regulation that benefit banksters and others. Municipalities are now part of the 'others' that benefit, since the new regulations that rank muni bonds as highly liquid will provide incentive for commercial banks to hold them rather than make commercial loans. …”

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