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Credit-default-swap spreads on European bank bonds are in almost all cases higher for banks that have less capital.
ECONOMIST: Recapitalising Europe��s banks: Cushion calculations | The
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In reality, the slump in the rouble, which has fallen 56% against the dollar since August 15th, and the resulting collapse in government-bond prices have made these and almost all other commercial banks in Russia insolvent.
ECONOMIST: Russian banks
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Amazingly the roles of the Fed and other global central banks in all this are almost entirely ignored.
FORBES: We've Seen This Movie Before
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It is because of history that central banks hold in their reserves almost a quarter of all the gold that has ever been mined.
ECONOMIST: Buttonwood
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And while Illinois has a great location in Chicago, the state has arranged that almost all credits are sold to banks, who use the credits themselves.
FORBES: Tinseltown Tax
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The balance sheet for the whole Eurosystem (including all the national central banks) shows almost half a trillion euros in capital and revaluation reserves.
FORBES: Revised TARGET2 Paper & Implications for ECB of Cyprus Exit
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In the graph above it is clear that most of the growth in demand for gilts has come from the banks category, and within that category, almost all the demand has been from the Bank of England.
BBC: Who owns the UK's debt?