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Credit turmoil ‘has hallmarks of bank run’ | Financial Times
Topic: Business 8:01 pm EDT, Sep  3, 2007

The tools that modern central banks possess to address liquidity problems can only directly address such runs inside the traditional banking sector, and do not directly touch the non-bank financial sector, which has been hardest hit by the current credit crisis.

James Hamilton, a professor at the University of California, warned that – as in old-fashioned bank runs – sudden demand for liquidity can lead to a firesale of assets that depresses their price, making otherwise solvent institutions insolvent.

Paul McCulley, managing director of Pimco, said there was a “run on the shadow banking system”.

Credit turmoil ‘has hallmarks of bank run’ | Financial Times



 
 
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