"Much of this growth likely reflects involuntary lending, that is, banks expanding assets in response to liquidity commitments they extended during the previous good times," he said.
Parmalat and its advisers repeatedly provided us with detailed information about its liquidity position and its liabilities, in response to our inquiries throughout the year and as recently as December 5th.
In my interview with Martin Wolf, I joked about apologizing to the emperor over Japanese policy — not because it was good, but because our policy in response to the liquidity trap has been even worse.
GM said it has sufficient liquidity for the remainder of 2008 in response to the Merrill comments, but the tide of negativity swayed investors, and shares were down 88 cents, or 7.5%, to $10.87.
The markets and the banks have jumped for joy in response to all this liquidity.
SHANGHAI — China's central bank on Tuesday signaled in its open market operations that it was tightening short-term liquidity at a faster-than-expected pace in response to increasing concerns about the economy overheating.
In response to the 1998 liquidity crisis, the composition of asset pools was expanded to include different kinds of securities backed by assets from various sectors (e.g. mortgages, mobile home loans, aircraft leases, and mutual fund fees).
Nevertheless, in response to concerns about liquidity at its guaranteed investment contracts division, it extended a $5.0 billion of credit to the insurer to allay fears, after Ackman said he was going short on the insurer last month.
TAF is a monetary policy program used by the Federal Reserve to help increase liquidity in the U.S. credit markets, first used in response to the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007.
