Liquidity is drying up and the market is becoming sharply vulnerable to fear, forced selling, and early signs of dislocation. This has already started.
Markets, especially the major financial stocks globally, have begun to respond to dramatically altered liquidity prospects. Marketplace liquidity is mercurial, especially late in the cycle. Market blowoffs fueled by speculative leverage guarantee acute liquidity instability. On the upside, self-reinforcing speculation and leveraging propagate liquidity overabundance and the perception of endless liquidity. But speculative melt-ups set …
