Financial crises come in many stripes, but over the past two decades the common trigger has been debt refinancing problems. High levels of debt and leverage are fine until the point when they can no longer be rolled-over or sustained. Stability and continuity require liquidity. It follows that ‘liquidity’ must be included in the benchmark that evaluates future financial crisis risk.
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