Insolvency
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(ECONOMICS) crisis created when a government or firm cannot pay its obligations in any reasonable time frame. Often confused with illiquidity, which is a when an entity suffers a temporary shortage of cash.
When a firm has assets that are greater than [liabilities], it is [solvent]. In a lot of cases, the management of a firm runs out of ways to make money with the assets it has, so it invests in poor quality assets with high risk of default (for example, by lending money to borrowers using inflated housing prices as [collateral]). -
The state of being insolvent.
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Insolvency is a situation in which an individual or organization can not pay off its bills and debts.
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(especially of a company) the condition of not having enough money to pay debts, buy goods, etc., or an occasion when this happens:
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