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Re:NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B by cm2187 on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @07:09PM (#21000989)
You car is not a very good asset from the bank point of view, so it's not going to be cheap. But the typical example is to draw on your mortgage, (equity release, i.e. reborrow a little more against your home). That's pretty much as cheaply as a consumer can get liquidity against an illiquid asset (home).

And that's pretty much what banks do with the Fed. They have assets that they get funding for from the Fed with a short term repo transaction. In theory the Fed takes very little risk on the transaction.

Re:NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B by TuringNYC on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:16PM (#21001917)
With credit cards you are typically getting a 0% borrow rate for ~30days, secures by your credit rating.
Re:NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B by cm2187 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:54AM (#21002935)
True, though it is paid by the high transaction fee paid by the seller.