Increasingly, Europe s politicians regard excess liquidity and economic reform as substitutes for one another.

That leaves a huge sum of excess liquidity sloshing around in global asset markets.

As a result, all of this excess liquidity is flowing to the financial sector rather than the real economy.

By contrast, countries that exported capital now enjoy an excess of liquidity because capital is shying away from saturated countries.

The Fed s policy of quantitative easing exacerbates the flow of excess liquidity, which could result in dangerous bubbles in emerging markets.

Instead, excess liquidity and fresh asset bubbles could emerge in the world s financial and housing markets, impeding, if not torpedoing, growth.

It is doubtful that the ECB would raise interest rates to curb excess liquidity so long as economic recovery remains in question.

A downshift to this more sustainable pace would provide welcome relief for an economy long plagued by excess resource consumption, labor market bottlenecks, excess liquidity, a large buildup of foreign exchange reserves, and mounting inflationary pressures.

Lowering volatility and sopping up excess liquidity can be beneficial, but there are risks here as well regulators can easily overshoot the mark, leaving financial markets with weakened capacity for price discovery and too little liquidity.

In Germany, banks earn close to nothing on the hundreds of billions of euros of excess liquidity that they have deposited at the ECB.

If they have built up large, monetized fiscal deficits, they should raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity sooner rather than later.

The reason is simple while base money is soaring, the velocity of money has collapsed, with banks hoarding the liquidity in the form of excess reserves.

The central bank (PBOC) initially attributed it to excess liquidity, and so began to use monetary policy tools, raising interest rates five times since late 2007.

The reason is simple while base money is soaring, the velocity of money has collapsed, with banks hoarding the liquidity in the form of excess reserves.

The credit channel also is not working properly, as banks have hoarded most of the extra liquidity from QE, creating excess reserves rather than increasing lending.

Today, as all major developed economies resort to expansionary monetary policy, the global economy is being flooded with excess liquidity, and a currency war is looming large.

If they remove the stimulus too soon by raising taxes, cutting spending, and mopping up the excess liquidity, the economy may fall back into recession and deflation.

If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.

Hyun Song Shin of Princeton University proposed a theory of excess liquidity in a paper with Tobias Adrian that he presented last month at the Bank for International Settlements in Brunnen, Switzerland.

This is the movement from Americans defining their success on having things to having liquidity, because the less excess that you have around you, the more nimble and fleet of foot you are.

Call it information liquidity, akin to financial liquidity.

So the key emerging issue for policymakers is to decide when to mop up the excess liquidity and normalize policy rates and when to raise taxes and cut government spending (and in which combination).

The new bank can make a major contribution to the global economy s health by facilitating the transition to new poles of growth and demand, helping to rebalance global savings and investments, and channeling excess liquidity to productive use.

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The small excess of quarks over antiquarks led to a small excess of baryons over antibaryons.

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A tax on oil, however, does not entail excess burdens. On the contrary, it implies excess benefits .

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If you relieved the excess demand for financial assets, you also cured the excess supply of goods and services (the shortfall of aggregate demand) and the excess supply of labor (mass unemployment).

The IMF recently established the Short Term Liquidity Facility to help strong performing members facing temporary liquidity problems.

Access is good excess is bad.

The sound principle is excess collateral.

The third problem concerns international liquidity.

The fact that there is even a small liquidity crunch for banks implies larger liquidity crunches for less intensively regulated financial institutions, and even greater liquidity crunches for manufacturing and real estate companies.

Excess of authority or contravention of instructions

Mill saw that excess demand for some particular set of assets in financial markets was mirrored by excess supply of goods and services in product markets, which in turn generated excess supply of workers in labor markets.

The implication of this was clear. If you relieved the excess demand for financial assets, you also cured the excess supply of goods and services (the shortfall of aggregate demand) and the excess supply of labor (mass unemployment).

Rather, it will increase banks excess reserve balances.

(d) Net excess (shortfall) of income over expenditure

Some economies may sustain collateral damage from both sides of the war, because, in addition to the pressure coming from excess dollar liquidity, they may be confronted with tougher competition (domestically and in third markets) from China, so long as the renminbi remains quasi pegged to the dollar.

But, whether caused by an excess of cable television, or an excess of debates themselves, this silly season has seemed especially prolonged, even frightening.

Such taxes surely reduce liquidity in financial markets.

This generates liquidity, which then stimulates GDP growth.