FDIC’s Sheila Bair Calls Liquidity Crisis Over
247wallst.com 4/27/2009 — FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has been speaking today at a luncheon at the Economic Club of New York today. While there were many more things noted, there are two standout issues that she noted that could be expected to dominate the headlines this ...

Liquidity Then and Now
paul.kedrosky.com 10/30/2008 — Nice Bloomberg chart of how market liquidity has trended over recent years, with things currently remaining highly restrictive in historical terms: More here .

Is Liquidity Really Good for You?
nakedcapitalism.com 5/3/2009 — One of the arguments apparently being made in Washington by those who oppose regulation of credit default swaps is that it would reduce liquidity and that of course would be a terrible thing. My impression is that no one has endeavored to put ...

Liquidity
angrybear.blogspot.com 3/9/2009 — Robert Waldmann The word "liquidity" is slippery, since there is not a single solid agreed definition. "Liquidity" refers to different things each of which is very important. I have long been fighting the suspicion that confusion of the various ...

What is Liquidity? (Part III)
alephblog.com 9/18/2009 — I have had a number of posts on liquidity over the past few years, in an attempt to explain an ill-understood phenomenon. Here is a sampling: What is Liquidity? (one of my first posts) What is Liquidity? (Part II) The Five Pillars of Liquidity Nonidentical Twins: Solvency and ...

Sheila Bair Listens to Me
baselinescenario.com 5/28/2009 — Yesterday I said that Tim Geithner or Sheila Bair should come out and slap down the idea that banks will be allowed to bid on their own assets. And today she did! Rolfe Winkler, in a guest post at naked capitalism , did the hard work transcribing the audio of the press conference. Although ...

Sheila Bair, FDIC, and the financial crisis : The New Yorker
newyorker.com 7/30/2009 — Last month, Sheila Bair, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, received a Profile in Courage Award at the Kennedy Library, in Boston. Each year, the Kennedy Library Foundation presents the award to public officials who it feels have ...

CBRE: This Has NOT Been A Liquidity Crisis, But A Crisis Of Bad Credit
hf-implode.com 6/12/2009 — " Maybe the administration will finally listen when one of their own potential bailout beneficiaries tells them the sad truth about the inevitable CRE implosion. Surprisingly, a very good summary of the CRE debacle straight out of CBRE Partners (with $36 Billion AUM, it is just 3x larger than ...

Understanding liquidity risk and its role in the crisis
VoxEU.org 11/15/2008 — Lasse Heje Pedersen , 15 November 2008 What is liquidity? Why is it at the heart of the crisis? How can we fix it? This column explains it all in terms any trained economist can understand. Full Article: Understanding liquidity risk and its role in ...

China and the liquidity trap
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 5/21/2009 — I liked this David Leonhardt article about the China-US economic relationship. But I do have a problem with this passage: The most obviously worrisome part of the situation today is that the Chinese could decide that they no longer want to buy ...