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Just as central banks had a hand in the events that led up to the crisis, so they have been intimately involved in clearing up the mess. The credit crunch presented central bankers with dual dilemmas, one for each of their two jobs. The first of these is to keep the financial system working smoothly by ensuring that the banking system has enough liquidity. If the system gets jammed, credit will become scarce and market interest rates will rise—and the economy may become jammed too. On the other hand, pumping in liquidity too eagerly may create moral hazard: if banks think that central banks will bail them out come what may, they will be more incli Tory Burch Flats
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ood cause to hoard their own cash, because they feared that they might have to rescue their own troubled conduits, or bring their subsidiaries' assets back on to their balance sheets.
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