Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Fear or Fear Not? My colleague John Rekenthaler recently wrote about the hazards of illiquid mutual fund investments. Long story short, mutual funds and illiquid investments are a potentially lethal ...

An introductory course in macroeconomics covers the basic characteristics of a “liquidity trap” (LT): the interest rate set by the Federal Reserve is close to zero; and the economy is barely growing ...

To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo The Federal Reserve reports that nonfinancial corporations held $1.7 trillion of liquid assets ...

SPY and QQQ are near highs but face a severe liquidity crunch, warranting a SELL recommendation. FED Net Liquidity and banking system cash assets have dropped sharply, signaling a scarcity of free ...

Europe may still be stuck in a liquidity trap. During the financial crisis, this economic idea came into play as economists worried the Federal Reserve's move to buy assets couldn't avoid this ...

In previous posts I’ve described how the U.S. slipped into a liquidity trap in both 1929 and 2008. But how is it that deliberately increasing the federal deficit can help to defeat this problem? First ...

AFTER the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump, and the subsequent market reactions, I think we are closing in on a decent theory of the way liquidity traps end. That might be going too ...

LIQUIDITY traps: we can't stop talking about them. Since late 2008, the nominal interest rate target suggested by most standard monetary policy rules has been negative, leaving the American economy in ...

Since the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, commercial banks in the United States began accumulating huge cash reserves in their accounts at the Federal Reserve. Thus, in 2007, just before the ...