Municipalities, universities, hospitals, and corporations are seeing their borrowing costs go up, and we can trace this directly to the dislocation caused by this rule.
KEITH J. ROTHFUS: “Municipalities, universities, hospitals, and corporations are seeing their borrowing costs go up, and we can trace this…”
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Rothfus links increased borrowing costs to regulatory dislocation in the money market.
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