# Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/liquidity-finance-motion-or-evaporation)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much liquidity. Whenever global economic trends fail to flow with the theory, economists and financial observers invoke liquidity, in the same way that physicists invoke dark matter and dark energy to explain problems with the origins of the universe. This lecture explores the various definitions and explanations of liquidity, concluding with some thoughts on why this watery concept is so important.

## Lectures

1. [Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/liquidity-finance-motion-or-evaporation/905fd8a136ee) (YouTube)