There is a single problem that is beginning to plague financial markets today: not enough cash. As global central banks have pushed interest rates far below equilibrium levels, would-be money market savers have been forced to put their money in longer-duration and higher-risk investments. Now that rates have hit new lows and excess liquidity is gone, the U.S. repo market is starting to break down as banks no longer have the cash on hand to invest in short-term money markets.
Put simply, this has created a house of cards in the global financial system where