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Taibbi: Is LIBOR, Crucial Financial Benchmark, a Lie? - Rolling Stone

2017-08-12

Taibbi: Is LIBOR, Crucial Financial Benchmark, a Lie? - Rolling Stone

LIBOR stands for the London Interbank Offered Rate. It measures the rate at which banks lend to each other. If you have any kind of consumer loan, it’s a fair bet that it’s based on LIBOR.

Years ago, we found out that the world’s biggest banks were manipulating LIBOR. That sucked.

Now, the news is worse: LIBOR is made up.

Actually it’s worse even than that. LIBOR is probably both manipulated and made up. The basis for a substantial portion of the world’s borrowing is a bent fairy tale.

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