Where do central banks get the money for a liquidity injection?
The Bank of Canada has billions of dollars in assets – about $56-billion at last count – mostly held in very safe securities such as bonds and treasury bills. In essence, when it makes money available to commercial banks, it is temporarily swapping its safe securities for the riskier ones the banks are putting up as collateral.
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