With REITs, an investor can buy shares on an open exchange or invest in a real estate focused mutual fund, partaking in a highly liquid way of investing in real estate.
Lay put up a chunk of his Enron stock and a smaller percentage of his more liquid assets (cash and real estate, for example) as collateral for the loans.
Angels are becoming more liquid as their stock market and real estate assets recover, and institutions again have earnings to put into venture capital funds.
So the ample liquidity held by big banks simply reflect the depressed times we live in, where banks are frequently reluctant to make loans to the real economy and deplete their liquid reserves.
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