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Illiquidity + Opacity = Insolvency: A Discussion with Gary Stern, Former President of the Minneapolis Fed

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Is Liquidity a Risk Management Tool?

liquidity is one of those concepts that you can't really measure because something is liquid today and much less liquid tomorrow. And especially in things like government bond markets, which we're seeing now. I think there's some concern that the liquidity provided by the major primary dealers is has been shrinking drastically over the years as the capacity of banks to make markets has been pulled back. A lot of trading that goes on, especially in hedge funds, not just in treasuries, but in any fixed income market is not necessarily directional. It's based on the relationship of two similar securities. So if you're long one and short the other,you can have inversions of that spread, which is referred

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