Indeed, while Asia is rising, the rich industrial countries of the old G 7 have been drifting into a liquidity trap.

Keynes was worried about a liquidity trap the inability of monetary authorities to induce an increase in the supply of credit in order to raise the level of economic activity.

Hobbled by severe damage to private and public sector balance sheets, and with policy interest rates at or near zero, post bubble economies have been mired in a classic liquidity trap.

The Inequality Trap

The Security Trap

The Fed Trap

The Climate Policy Trap

Asia s Inflation Trap

Ever since Japan s banking crisis began in 1990, the country has been in a liquidity trap, with central bank rates close to zero, and from 1998 to 2005 the price level declined by more than 4 .

Negotiations in a Strategic Trap

China s Inflation Muddle

The Middle East Turmoil Trap

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

If China is to avoid falling into a Japanese style liquidity trap, the best solution is to fix its exchange rate in a completely credible way so that there is no fear of currency appreciation.

Arthur realises he has fallen into a trap.

The Liquidity Puzzle

Perhaps, but most students of monetary policy view quantitative easing as the textbook policy for pulling an economy out of a zero interest rate liquidity trap, thereby preventing the onset of a sustained deflation, which would exacerbate debt burdens.

Now it looks as if his words have trapped him.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

When the economy starts recovering, and banks start lending, will they be able to drain the liquidity smoothly out of the system? Will America face a bout of inflation?

The Liquidity Time Bomb

Is Liquidity Enough?

CAMBRIDGE The West is ensnared in a debt crisis.

Poor people are locked into a low level asset (or capability) trap.

Confronting the Coming Liquidity Crisis

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Moreover, Labour and the Conservatives are in a political trap.

The deflationary debt trap is threatening to destroy a still incomplete political union.

Similarly, Israel s government has backed itself into a domestic policy trap of its own.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

The key here is to avoid the trap of protectionism and international isolation.

But this middle income transition is sometimes deemed a trap.

Charlize doesn't find the video horrible at all and wonders why the government bans it.

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

Because it s very easy to fall into the trap that these states are absolute.

In the past, developing countries filled this role, running trade and fiscal deficits.

A pitfall trap is a trapping pit for small animals, such as insects, amphibians and reptiles.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Abe is right about one thing Japan needs to get out of its no growth and deflationary trap.