2024 Supervisors Symposium

Internal Use Only Banks should lend and grow the US economy; not become a parking lot for an oversupply of US Treasuries • Financial repression is when governments implement policies to channel to

themselves funds that in a deregulated market environment would go elsewhere – generally as a form of debt reduction. • Financial regulation has history of financial repression – forcing banks to fund the government; could it happen again? • History of fights in the US about the leverage ratio related to treatment of Treasuries.

Commercial Banking Program (CBP) Adam C. Sinn ‘00 Department of Finance

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Commercial Banking Program (CBP) Adam C. Sinn ‘00 Department of Finance

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