supplementary leverage ratio

Jay Powell’s Bad Cop Routine: Intentionally Pushing Banks Off the SLR ‘Cliff’

By |2021-03-19T17:10:16-04:00March 19th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The Federal Reserve has allowed itself an image of a marshmallow when it comes to the banking system it is (one-third) charged with regulating. First and foremost, along with the two other (redundant) triplets, the OCC and FDIC, the US central bank is not a central bank at all; it is near exclusively a domestic bank regulator. And while “macroprudential” [...]

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While Two ‘Fs’ In Cliff, There Isn’t In the SLR Heading Toward One

By |2021-02-19T18:02:42-05:00February 19th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

A few have asked, so I’ve written up what is actually a shorter piece on this SLR business is all about. First, SLR stands for Supplementary Leverage Ratio (and it’s not SLF, as I managed to leave two of the same typos in the main article referenced below, to the point the mistake made it into the headline). Parts of [...]

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