paul.kedrosky.com - 10/30/2008
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Nice Bloomberg chart of how market liquidity has trended over recent years, with things currently remaining highly restrictive in historical terms: More here .
online.wsj.com - 10/30/2008
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online.wsj.com —
LONDON -- Three-month U.S. dollar funding costs fell
Thursday, continuing the trend of lower daily fixes since...
the peak on Oct. 10. According to data from the British Bankers' Association, three-month U.S. dollar Libor fell to 3.1925% from ...
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Libor Suggests Liquidity Improving
wheredoesallmymoneygo.com - 10/24/2008
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wheredoesallmymoneygo.com —
Nothing is perfect. While passive investment products such
as ETFs and Index Funds are gaining favour with...
investors, it should be noted that there are some cons to go with the pros of indexing. One in particular is that indexers suffer from the ...
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Index Funds and the Liquidity Premium
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cato-unbound.org 12/8/2008 — Our fourth and final anatomist, J. Bradford DeLong, notes that "in the past two years the wealth that is the global capital stock has fallen in value from $80 trillion to $60 trillion," and lays out five reasons why this value might fluctuate. ...
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baselinescenario.com 5/19/2009 — Remember the days of talking about the TED spread and interbank lending? So over . And apparently Sheila Bair said “the liquidity crisis is over for good.”
One way to look at the decline in interbank lending rates is that interbank lending has become safe again – because ...
Can one be a liquidity trap denialist?
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No matter how much Japan increases the monetary base now, expectations
of future money supplies won’t move if people believe that the Bank of
Japan will move to stabilize the price level as soon as the economy
recovers. ...
Thinking about the liquidity trap
web.mit.edu 11/14/2008 — THINKING ABOUT THE LIQUIDITY TRAP Paul Krugman December 1999 We live in the Age of the Central Banker - an era in which Greenspan, Duisenberg, and Hayami are household words, in which monetary policy is generally believed to be so effective that it ...
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