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Liquidity means something though. Think of a bank. If everyone withdraws their funds at the same time they may not have the liquidity to pay out. In order to be able to pay out everyone at the same time, they would need to keep it all uninvested/unlent, and then charge you a banking fee instead of paying you interest on it. So there is a tradeoff there.


But banks don't really pay interest anymore, so in some sense I'd expect them to keep it uninvested.


They have fixed costs though




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