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Profiting off the Liquidity Preference (flag)
www.crossingwallstreet.com — One aspect of this market that I find fascinating is the dramatic yield spreads between short-term Treasury yields ( ^IRX ) and just about everything else. Short-term Treasuries have one major benefit over all other securities and that is their safety. No matter what happens, an investor can be ...
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Monday links: liquidity preferences
Abnormal Returns — ... Investors are demanding liquidity at all costs. (Crossing Wall Street also ...

One Dozen Observations on the Current Market Stress
The Aleph Blog — ... the quality of their balance sheet buy up securities where liquidity is temporarily in short supply.  Personally, I don’t think it will work.  It is much easier to get into a market than to get out, particularly if you are a large player with no profit motive.  Three last semi-related articles that I found interesting: Quantitative easing: printing money like mad to ward off deflation Should We Penalize Liquidity Preference? Profiting off the Liquidity Preference T-bills are in high ...

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econlog.econlib.org 12/1/2008 — (November 30, 2008 02:38 PM, by Arnold Kling) Greg Mankiw says that it is time to re-read Keynes, and Tyler Cowen is ready to take him up on it. One important Keynesian idea is liquidity preference. In textbooks, an increase in liquidity preference ...
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 5/3/2009 — Joe Nocera writes about Thursday's New York Revie/PEN event on the economy, but fails to mention what I found the most depressing aspect of the whole thing: further confirmation that we're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics, in which hard-won ...
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