King’s liquidity snub puts housing finance in peril

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King’s liquidity snub puts housing finance in peril

Mervyn King has poured cold water on the idea of supporting UK mortgage lenders more than the Bank of England already has. Yet he ignores the dire liquidity situation in wholesale funding markets at his peril.

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