What is Liquidity?
Simply put - when you deposit your money in a bank, it doesn’t stay there! The bank tells us we can have our money back in the short term, but then lends it out to borrowers over terms of 3,5,10, even 25 years.
When the bank doesn’t have enough money to satisfy this months withdrawals from depositors, then they are have a liquidity problem - they must desperately scramble to attract more incoming depositors money.
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