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On the recordJune 6, 2016
There is a lot of conversation here about a liquidity crisis, so we might as well ask the question whether or not there is a liquidity crisis at all.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions the existence of a liquidity crisis in the U.S. banking system.

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