Financial bubbles emerge wherever liquid asset markets exist.

This value should be added to the return that is attributed to various classes of liquid assets in normal times, thereby affecting the relative attractiveness of liquid and illiquid assets and influencing the asset allocation choices made by various classes of investors.

In China, this proportion of fixed, illiquid assets exceeds 90 .

Here are some ways to reduce the overhang.

Cash and investments are the main liquid assets of UNDP.

Once upon a time, policymakers understood that the government should tweak asset supplies to ensure sufficient supplies of liquid assets, safe assets, and savings vehicles.

The obvious solution is for governments to create more cash to satisfy the demand for safe, secure, liquid 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 .

Saudi businesswomen owned approximately 30 per cent of liquid assets deposited in banks, and were very active in the commercial and economic sectors.

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.

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

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

For those entities that are closed down, this would mean moving illiquid assets into a holding entity that would gradually sell them off.

On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer term and illiquid assets.

As Keynes liked to say Unemployment develops...because people want the moon safe, secure, and liquid assets.

When the prices of even safe assets fall and interest rates climb to sky high levels because traders and financiers collectively want more liquid assets than currently exist, it is simply not safe to let the market sort things out.

And global financial markets are now telling us that this excess demand for safe, liquid, high quality financial assets has just gotten bigger.

Both effects can lead to increased trade in illiquid assets today, and unlock lending, though this outcome may require significant government outlays.

This signals a remarkable shift in relative demand for high quality and liquid financial assets an extraordinary rise in market wide excess demand for such assets.

The idea seems to be that there are a lot of liquid assets lying around, and that they are being used to get money to bid up the prices of stocks, housing, land, art, etc.

While the regulations are likely to reduce the likelihood and impact of financial crises, they will also make long term loans more expensive and investments in illiquid assets riskier.

There is thus a broader risk that many leveraged investors in both equity and credit markets will be forced to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets, leading to a cascading fall in asset prices to below their fundamental values.

Deleveraging by highly leveraged firms such as hedge funds will lead them to sell illiquid assets in illiquid markets.

Second, in times of widespread distress, liquid portfolios create investment opportunities, as depressed asset prices (often overly so) combine with the capacity to invest while others cannot or will not.

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In nature, water exists in liquid, solid, and gaseous states.

There are important differences between the structure of the Japanese and the US economies, including the enormously high level of liquid assets held by Japanese households, which tends to lead to lower consumption when interest rates fall.

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Instead they have to obtain their food in a liquid form.

He pointed to how the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990 s caused the region s voracious investment demand to collapse, while simultaneously inducing Asian governments to stockpile liquid assets as a hedge against another crisis.

It is used for volumes of dry commodities (not liquids), most often in agriculture.

When there is excess demand for safe, liquid, high quality financial assets, the rule for which economic policy to pursue if, that is, you want to avoid a deeper depression has been well established since 1825.

This differs substantially from the current approach (in which well capitalized entities are given even more capital), which does not deal with the overhang of illiquid assets that more distressed entities hold.

Although they had experienced large declines in share prices and house values, they had such large amounts of liquid savings in postal savings accounts and in banks that they did not feel the need to increase saving in order to rebuild assets.

When the excess demand is for liquid assets used as means of payment for money the natural response is to have the central bank buy government bonds for cash, thus increasing the money stock and bringing supply back into balance with demand.

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We have seen this principle in action since the early fall of 2007, as growing excess demand for safe, liquid, high quality financial assets has carried with it growing excess supply for the goods and services that are the products of ongoing human labor.

Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen in a liquid state at an extremely low temperature.

On top of all this, there is a shadow financial system of non bank financial institutions that, like banks, borrow short and liquid and lend to or invest in longer term and illiquid assets. This shadow system includes structured investment vehicles (SIVs), conduits, money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks.

Financial bubbles emerge wherever liquid asset markets exist. Indeed, the objects of such speculation astound the imagination tulip bulbs, gold and silver mines, real estate, the debt of new nations, corporate securities.

The solution is to persuade the public that green cheese i.e., the notes printed by the central bank is practically the same thing and to have a green cheese factory i.e. a central bank under public control...

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Only 15 per cent of the liquid waste is being purified before its release into the rivers or lakes.

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The method of disposal of solid and liquid waste materials in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not satisfactory.