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Preventing a stablecoin liquidity crisis Aug 03,2021 - Last updated at Aug 03,2021 LONDON Liquidity is to the modern economy what lubricant is to a car engine. Provide enough of it, and things run smoothly; come up short and the result is a red-hot, smoke-spewing mess. But whereas lubricating oil is easy to gauge, financial liquidity is here today and gone tomorrow. A financial crisis is always around the corner and the next one could result from the rapid rise of cryptocurrencies and especially so-called stablecoins. A financial crisis is another name for the sudden drying up of liquidity. Before the 2008 global financial meltdown, private financial institutions were busy creating it, slicing and dicing low-quality mortgages and combining them into financial assets that were liquid and attractive to hold until one day they weren’t. Panic-gripped financial players suddenly began dumping everything in their portfolios, including apparently ultra-safe money-market funds that

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