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How Lehman Opened the Fed's Spigot

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Lehman has repackaged about $2.8 billion of leveraged buyout debt and loans that were difficult to sell into an investmentvehicle called "Freedom" which in turn issued debt securities backed by the loans. A bit of financial engineering which got investment grade ratings from Standard and Poors and Moodly's. Some of this was given to the Fed in exchange for loans from the Fed from its newly created lending facility. The borrowing from this new lending facility has been robust which is a good sign for the credit markets functioning.


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