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Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by base698 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:15PM (#22827774)
What happens if liquidity still isn't there? Can't see people being comfortable with life as normal at 30% unemployment. Seems like leisure industry will be non existent for at least the next year and that will have further consequences.

Navigational guides and models only help in charted territory.

Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:46PM (#22827986)
> What happens if liquidity still isn't there?

Do you mean, what if the economy never recovers?

Then the Fed’s actions will soften the blow. They will have decoupled the spectre of deflation from the underlying destruction. It certainly won’t have caused more harm than would have otherwise occurred.

That said, no democracy survives 30%+ unemployment for long.

Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by oxide on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:46PM (#22827984)
If the liquidity isn't there, the Fed will create money out of nothing and inject liquidity until it is there.
Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by chii on Thursday April 09, 2020 @11:15PM (#22829657)
loss of liquidity is a loss of confidence by those holding the wealth/capital.

I think the FEDs doing these injections will distort the price of money in such a way that risky activities would be seen as less risky, and so spirals into further illiquidity when something bad hits the fan (again), and the FEDs will need to inject again.

The businesses failing needs to happen. The capital losses needs to happen. Like a forest fire - new growth can't come if the old capital doesn't die (i.e., those controlling the old capital is constantly being protected from downsides, which this illiquidity represent).

Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by millstone on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:11AM (#22830175)
We are not in a period of moderate correction, trimming non-viable deadweight. We are in a mass economic extinction of healthy and successful businesses.
Re:Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support by millstone on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:04AM (#22830132)
The Fed can inject liquidity, but it falls to Congress to generate demand when the economy cannot. The Fed's best move would be to commit to backing any level of spending passed by Congress and signed by the President.