Increasing illiquidity is how the value of your miles goes down with respect to the goods they can be exchanged for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pseudo-currency, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

"The markets are ... suffering from some illiquidity which is exaggerating moves on small volumes," credit strategists at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cost of Insuring European Debt Climbs Higher] Reference

This measure is designed to prevent that kind of illiquidity -- but it is perfectly possible to go too far in the opposite direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Schweber: Paulson's Plan -- Annotated] Reference

But as the Lehman failure illustrates, where should we draw the line between "illiquidity" and insolvency on the one hand, and higher risk and outright fraud?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Thus 84% of the illiquidity risk was carried by me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrett Johnson: Trying to Fix the Broken 401(k) System] Reference

Glut of financial professionals, illiquidity in carbon markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Stuebi: As Financial Markets Circle the Drain, What Happens to Clean Energy?] Reference

Underinvestment and illiquidity in the land market was the result.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Dana: The Feudal Mistake] Reference

Corporate bonds always have traded with a substantial illiquidity premium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easy Money Is Over for European Bonds] Reference

S&P futures and G3 currencies everything varies to degrees of illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard] Reference

He added that the market's recent illiquidity has kept him from buying more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rout to Riches in Corporate Bonds?] Reference

Once fear of illiquidity dissipates, the stock market will get back to normal levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Schram: Why the Stock Market is Cheap Now] Reference

In recent weeks, the commercial paper market has suffered severe stress and illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008] Reference

The market was largely fuelled by the inherent illiquidity in the corporate debt market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Cash King Again? CDS Market's Liquidity Dries Up] Reference

The theory is that buying high-quality bonds will reduce the illiquidity premium in the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOE's Corporate Bond Adventure] Reference

General Growth went into bankruptcy not because of insolvency but rather because of illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful] Reference

You can have a fundamentally solvent company that is profitable, that has an illiquidity problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2002] Reference

It drove investors out of the market, causing excess volatility and abnormal levels of illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Thoughts: Inflation Valuation] Reference

That policy is as much about trying to address illiquidity in credit markets as tackling deflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Air Out of Deflation Plan] Reference

A combination of illiquidity, technical factors and binary valuation arguments are stifling the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Bonds Remain Off-Limits for Many Investors] Reference

After the close, BoNY reported a sharp drop in fourth-quarter earnings, blaming "credit market illiquidity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Newmont Mining a Rare Gainer in Rout] Reference

"The SPAC class of 2007 could not have imagined the illiquidity the market is now experiencing," Mr. Tew says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closing Bell Is Tolling for '07 Buyout IPOs] Reference

He knows about the illiquidity discount and the substantial synergies to be gained, accretive to earnings by Q3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft vs. Google:] Reference

These markets are much smaller than those for gold, and the relative illiquidity can often exaggerate volatility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Follows the Euro Lower] Reference

Because of the illiquidity, brokers and their firms have been wary of holding securities that they can't offload.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bond Funds Grapple With a New Reality] Reference

So, if you're trying to predict where the next illiquidity-spawned crisis will come from, concentrate more on Level 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Level 3: An Investors' Guide] Reference

With a few exceptions, the hedge fund sector thus far has proven resilient to market volatility and protracted illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paulson's Remarks] Reference

The current crisis involving financial institutions cannot really be measured in terms of any leveraging of the illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Liebhardt: International bloggers on the bailout] Reference

The people in the article above have lost 25% of their retirement savings because of that illiquidity, a heavy price to pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garrett Johnson: Trying to Fix the Broken 401(k) System] Reference

A better solution would be to buy private-sector assets such as corporate bonds, where there is a clear illiquidity premium.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unpleasant Surprise Hurts BOE Credibility] Reference

But he says the illiquidity forced him to forgo buying a bigger second home because he couldn't get access to his cash in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped by Market Turmoil] Reference

After all, if you can't cover withdrawals, whether they're caused by rumors or something more "real," you're facing illiquidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yvette Kantrow: Crying Fire! Did CNBC Kill Bear Stearns?] Reference

But, there is no guarantee that artificially fixing those banks balance sheets will heal the illiquidity that is the real problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Abrams: It's the Liquidity, Stupid: Why Not Put the $700B Into Good Banks?] Reference

LandAmerica informed customers in a letter last week that it had "taken every reasonable step possible to avoid" the illiquidity problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [LandAmerica's Collapse Leaves Investors Looking for Cash] Reference

Unlike the 1930s the deepest problem of the recent crisis was not illiquidity but insolvency and especially the fear of insolvency of counterparties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday NBER round-up] Reference