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But first of all, the rate that the government is charging is something called libor, London Interbank Overnight Rate plus 8 1/2 percent.
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Specifically, the documents say employees of the companies communicated with each other in an attempt to artificially influence the yen London interbank offered rate, known as libor, and increase their profits on trades related to the rate.
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The libor is the premium over bank rate in the UK, or treasuries in the US.
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This would unlock the short term debt market and lower short term rates such as libor back to a more natural level.
Our leaders "have failed utterly and catastrophically to project any sense of authority." Ann Althouse 2008
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Bloomberg has a roundup of which members of congress are getting wiped out from the AIG fallout ( "a bailout" but I think the fed's line of credit at the libor + 850 basis points is really a forced, if not immediate, liquidation dressed up as a bailout).
Archive 2008-09-01 xtra 2008
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Bloomberg has a roundup of which members of congress are getting wiped out from the AIG fallout ( "a bailout" but I think the fed's line of credit at the libor + 850 basis points is really a forced, if not immediate, liquidation dressed up as a bailout).
Congress Members Getting Hosed xtra 2008
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Today, even the Fed has now lost control of mortgage interest rates and foreign bank libor-set rates.
NATIONALIZE HOME LENDING - Treasury Direct, No Debt-Money, Home Loans - 2009
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What was the point of the liquidity injections if they then turn around and encourage markets to bid libor up?
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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What was the point of the liquidity injections if they then turn around and encourage markets to bid libor up?
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008
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The libor would have to double before my variable rate gets to 9% but now that scenario looks very likely.
john commented on the word libor
“Anyway, what I’m talking about is the spread between Libor — the London Interbank Offer Rate, which is the rate at which banks lend to each other — and the yields on Treasuries of the same maturity.�?
The New York Times, Listening to Libor, by Paul Krugman, November 23, 2007
October 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word libor
Also known as the TED spread. Finally I understand what that means.
October 16, 2008