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Does anyone else recall Ben Bernanke bragging about the Fed's quality collateral? He'll take a 13% hit on those primo holdings. What's left to fall? Bloomberg said:
The central bank lent $2 trillion to financial institutions and hasn’t disclosed information about most of the collateral backing those loans.
Will Ben ask Treasury to make up other declines in a rescuer to rescuer capital call?