Liquid assets are assets that resemble cash, because they can easily be converted into cash and used to buy other assets.

Should they explicitly guarantee large financial institutions liabilities and or classes of assets? Should they buy up assets at what they believe is a discount from their long run values, or buy up assets that private investors are unwilling to trade, even at a premium above their likely long run values?

To buy or even to hold risky assets in such a situation is a recipe for financial disaster.

Those who fear geopolitical catastrophe will sell assets, putting downward pressure on their value, only if there are other, safer assets that they see that they can buy.

No one is willing to buy assets and take on additional uncertainty, because everyone fears that somebody else knows more than they do namely, that anyone would be a fool to buy.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner s new public private investment program to buy toxic assets has few takers, despite subsidized non recourse financing. So the toxic assets remain on bank (and other) balance sheets.

But the Fed s low interest, non recourse loans to buy up toxic assets have not yet caused a stampede of participants.

Their central banks can borrow and use the money to buy up some of the flood of risky assets in the market.

Financial firms sell assets, like Treasury bonds or real estate securities, for cash, and promise to buy those assets back (i.e., to repurchase them or, for short, to do a repo ), typically the following day.

The Obama administration is promising to pick up losses to persuade hedge funds and other private investors to buy out banks bad assets.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

If the PBC started to buy non dollar assets in large quantities, it would invariably need to convert some current dollar assets into another currency, which would inevitably drive up that currency s value, thus increasing the PBC s costs.

In congressional testimony on the 2008 proposed legislative package to use federal funds to buy toxic assets from troubled financial firms, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke proposed that a reverse auction could be used to price the assets.

The Kremlin thinks that now is the time to buy assets cheaply, using the current financial crisis to emerge as a powerful global economic player.

Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.

To diversify away from US dollar assets while maintaining its effective dollar peg, China started to buy Japanese yen and South Korean won, hurting their competitiveness.

The Obama administration came out with a plan to spend up to 1 trillion dollars to buy banks toxic assets, but the plan has been put on hold.

A woman without a national ID is not able to own land, she cannot buy or sell assets and she cannot even inherit from her deceased family members.

First, the authorities can offer to buy illiquid assets through auctions and house them in a government entity, much as was envisaged in America s original Troubled Asset Relief Program.

I didn't buy everything Sami asked me to buy.

European and other international banks had acquired a lot of dollar denominated assets which they habitually funded in the interbank market as the market dried up, they were forced to buy dollars.

The original idea for the US government to buy up (some of the) toxic assets with the 700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) gave way to capital infusions (and auto bailouts).

People don't buy what you do they buy why you do it.

Of course, it is difficult to imagine that banks will use all of the money to buy the same assets that some of them have been trying to sell over the past few months.

All the money circulating in the eurozone originated in these five countries and was then largely used to buy goods and assets in the northern member countries and redeem foreign debt taken from them.

I'll buy this.

He could buy things that King Henry, in all his wealth, could never buy.

The exceptionally easy monetary policy at the start of the decade contributed to financial investors willingness to buy low quality financial assets in order to get higher yield and to an explosive rise in house prices.

They buy products on demand. A person in Alex doesn't buy a box of cigarettes. They buy one cigarette each day, even though it's more expensive.

Resource assets account for roughly 50 of total government assets, with operating assets amounting to 39 and administrative (or non operating) assets comprising another 6 .

I must buy one.

I must buy one.

I want to buy.

I want to buy.

You can't buy happiness.

What did you buy?

(a) Assets of the debtor, including the debtor's interest in encumbered assets and in third party owned assets

In China, this proportion of fixed, illiquid assets exceeds 90 . Resource assets account for roughly 50 of total government assets, with operating assets amounting to 39 and administrative (or non operating) assets comprising another 6 .

That boost in assets will, in turn, enable local credit markets, such as micro finance, to begin operating. Farmers will be able to buy inputs, either out of their own cash, or by borrowing against their improved creditworthiness.

China s official foreign reserves are increasing at a rate of about 1 billion per business day, almost all of which is used to buy US Treasury bonds and other international assets that carry a minimal rate of return.

However, over time these ultra low interest rates have promoted a highly speculative financial carry trade speculators borrow yen at low interest rates and then buy dollars and other currencies that are invested in higher yield assets elsewhere.

And with that entire wealth of England, King Henry could not buy any antibiotics, he could not buy refrigeration, he could not buy a trip of a thousand miles.

The only reason these people buy touch tone phones is because you can't buy rotary phones anymore.

Whereas this rickshaw wale in India could save up and buy antibiotics and he could buy refrigeration.

Buy Back or Pay Forward?