The European Central Bank (ECB) announced last week that it would temporarily exempt central bank assets of supervised banks from the Basel III Leverage Ratio. This decision will free up some balance sheet and help during the next squeeze. But the ECB skipped past the elephant in the room. It isn’t going anywhere.
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