Of course, it was bailed out along with all the other money market funds.

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But they are unlikely to want to do so at this point, even if the US political system allowed it.

Money market funds from the United States are returning, albeit cautiously, to resume funding of European bank debt.

These six international banks alone accounted for nearly 20 of the prime money market funds value.

But the 2008 financial crisis showed that, when push comes to shove, the government will backstop money market funds nonetheless.

This, they believe, is better than the current typical default option of putting individuals money into money market funds.

The money may be paid by employers, private insurers, or government health care funds (the trickiest source).

In 2012, American prime money market funds, which buy bank and corporate debt, were worth nearly 1.5 trillion.

All money market funds then became suspect, and many investors fled withdrawing one third of a trillion dollars in a single week.

The Federal Reserve, seeking to stem the growing panic and stabilize the American and international banking system, promptly guaranteed the value of all money market funds.

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Many small savers place their savings in so called money market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits.

Institutional investors, such as pension funds and life insurance companies, with more than 70 trillion in assets, are a major additional source of long term capital.

Money market funds take excess cash from investors and use it to purchase short term IOUs from businesses, banks, and other financial institutions.

The City of London, lower Manhattan, and a few other centers became money machines that made investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and private equity folk immoderately wealthy.

Capital exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.

Hedge funds first made money betting that the crisis would worsen, but then lost money betting on a eurozone breakup.

The sub prime crisis has diverted attention from rising fears about Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF s) as the new bogeyman of global finance.

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There were similar fears recently when it became known that US based money market funds had lent heavily to European banks. And some leading US banks also rely on money market funding here, too, the shadows and the banks have aligned interests.

A large money market fund broke the buck and investment banks that relied on the commercial paper market had difficulty financing their operations.

By Thursday a run on money market funds was in full swing and we came as close to a meltdown as at any time since the 1930s.

If money market funds had to maintain capital reserves, industry representatives argued, yields to investors would decline and the industry s profits would suffer.

As a result of the SEC s inaction, money market funds will continue to operate outside the scope of bank style rules on capital and reserves, even though investors treat them like bank accounts.

If sovereign wealth funds want to enter and keep capital starved firms afloat in hopes of a big rebound, they should be allowed to do so.

But inflows through money market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.

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SWFs like to portray themselves as politically independent, commercially motivated investment vehicles.

Since much of the money market funds assets are IOUs from the world s biggest banks, the withdrawals weakened the already shaky global banking system.

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And, if retail investors saw their money market funds values declining from the amount that they had invested, and if they knew that they could not get all of their money back immediately, the funds would become less attractive.

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But it may be worse coordinating everyone into risky asset investments may be more dangerous than coordinating them into boring investments like money market funds.

There is not yet a Volcker Rule (limiting proprietary trading by banks), the rules for derivatives are still a work in progress, and money market funds remain unreformed.

The Reserve Fund, a well established money market fund with too many unpaid IOUs from Lehman, could not keep its value steady.

Second, not only have new foreign equity investments declined during the financial crisis, but SWFs have also recently engaged in an unprecedented wave of divestments, especially of foreign holdings.

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