Replying to Avatar curt finch

rates for overnight bank to Bank lending went up 106x from March 2022 to March 2023

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SOFR

this rate is backed by treasury bill lending

in a lot of ways this wrecked the economy

a lot of ways zero interest rates wrecked the economy also

I've heard of overnight lending but forgot why it matters

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it lubricates the financial system so a bank doesn't have to wait to fulfill withdrawal requests in such things as that

I met someone who's job it was to keep a excel spreadsheet at a bank of how much they had borrowed or lent to other banks at the end of the day. He used VBA to automate some of the stuff :-D which I'm sure makes the computer programmers wince.

Something like "citi owed Wells Fargo x million" at the end of the day.

that's legitimately f****** terrifying if that's really their only way of tracking this

Hehehe, maybe that was just the financial department, and the IT department had the actual clearing records of record