Market continues to crash

Mechafanboy

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Fall tied to the lack of liquidity in the repo market, which is in turn linked to the problems in private credit (shadow banking).

Basically, standard banks lent money to shadow banks, which then use those money to chase high yield returns. Some of those bets go wrong, and that is causing interest rates in overnight lending to spike.
 
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