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by OscarCunningham 2286 days ago
By making lending to the closed businesses so attractive that they can stay open over the course of the quarantine. (Likewise people can stay fed.)
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But that's not what this is doing at all. This is keeping existing corporate debt artificially priced.

Unless they lower rates to negative, new debt isn't getting any cheaper.