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Financial Alchemy in Crisis

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Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova presents her work on the shadow banking system and its role in causing the financial crisis of 2007, which was fuelled by the concept of the illusion of liquidity which she developed in her 2010 book Financial Alchemy in Crisis.

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