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Jacobin Radio: Robert Brenner on Coronavirus

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The Corporate Bailout Section of the CARES Act Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg

The Fed had to set up vehicles for various categories of corporate debt, losing investment grade and becoming junk. It meant that as people know, lending today is much less lender to borrower than taking place through the markets. And so what the Fed was doing was saying, by our intervention, we're going to keep up the value of the bonds.

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