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Re:Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone by justincormack on Sunday March 17, 2013 @06:58PM (#5391449)
All the lending to commercial banks is secured lending, they have to provide collateral to the ECB. The less good quality stuff is lent by individual central banks, so governments underwrite it. There is no unsecured buying of bank debt (banks can use covered bonds as collateral but again that is secured). And the LTRO is only three years. So it is not like you suggest at all.
Re:Cypriot Bailout Sends Shivers Throughout the Euro Zone by pavlov on Monday March 18, 2013 @03:28AM (#5392901)
Thanks and sorry, I was clearly misinformed. I must have taken some "stuff they say on the Internet" at face value.