Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. solvency

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Bailout 1: Liquidity vs. solvency발음듣기

In the next series of videos, I'm going to give my best attempt at trying to get a handle on the bailout and the financial crisis.발음듣기

So I'm going to try to explain different concepts in more than one way.발음듣기

Then I think hopefully it'll all sink in.발음듣기

But the big picture really is that there's a lot of fancy terminology being thrown around, but the underlying concepts really aren't that fancy.발음듣기

So I think a good place to start is just with the idea of the balance sheet.발음듣기

And you could watch some of the videos that I did before the whole financial mess on the balance sheet and that'll give you good primer, but it doesn't hurt to review it here.발음듣기

So a balance sheet is just a snapshot of what you have and what you owe and the difference between, and the difference between is kind of like your wealth.발음듣기

So if I just had a personal balance sheet, I could write my assets.발음듣기

They mean what you think they mean.발음듣기

These are things that will give you future benefit.발음듣기

So let's say I have $1,000 cash.발음듣기

Let's say I have a $100,000 house.발음듣기

Let's say I have a $10,000 car.발음듣기

And let's say everything else, I'll call it other, my furniture, my TV and everything else, is another $5,000.발음듣기

So those would be my assets.발음듣기

And so what are my total assets?발음듣기

It's $101,000, $111,000, $116,000.발음듣기

Well, it would be great if we lived in a world of only assets.발음듣기

But, unfortunately, let's say that I had liabilities as well. So liabilities.발음듣기

And a liability is what you think it means.발음듣기

It means something that you have to give future economic benefit for.발음듣기

You're kind of on the hook for something.발음듣기

And so let's say, my liabilities, I have a $20,000 student loan.발음듣기

And let's say on that house, unfortunately, I don't own it outright.발음듣기

Let's say that I have an $80,000 mortgage on that house, so essentially I borrowed $80,000 from the bank.발음듣기

And let's throw some credit card debt in there.발음듣기

Just to make this realistic relative to I think a lot of households out there, let's say that there's $5,000 of credit card debt, although for most households right now, this house is a lot more and this mortgage is a lot more.발음듣기

But anyway, I won't make social commentary.발음듣기

This is just to explain what a balance sheet is.발음듣기

So what is left over for me?발음듣기

What is my assets minus my liability?발음듣기

Let's calculate our total liabilities.발음듣기

So this is total assets.발음듣기

I'll use an A colon.발음듣기

So what are my total liabilities?발음듣기

20 plus 80 plus 5, so it's $105,000.발음듣기

$105,000 total liabilities.발음듣기

So the difference between these two, my assets minus my liabilities, this is essentially my net worth.발음듣기

If I just liquidated everything tomorrow, if I sold all of this and paid off all this, this is what I would be left standing with.발음듣기

That's my net worth.발음듣기

Or you could view that as that is my equity.발음듣기

You often hear equity in the context of a house.발음듣기

In the context of a house, it's just the asset of the house minus the liability, but I'm talking about in the context of my personal balance sheet, not that these are the actual numbers.발음듣기

I don't want to give away too much about my life just yet.발음듣기

But anyway, so what is that number here?발음듣기

So my equity, and I'll do that in green since if it's positive it's a good number.발음듣기

My equity is $116,000 minus is $105,000.발음듣기

So what is that?발음듣기

That's $11,000.발음듣기

That's my equity.발음듣기

So there's a couple of things to think about here.발음듣기

You'll meet people with a $100,000 house or a $1 million house, and they say, oh, I am worth $1 million.발음듣기

And you're like, well, you're not really worth $1 million unless you own that house outright and you could actually sell that house for $1 million.발음듣기

It's not what you paid for it.발음듣기

It's what the market is willing to give for it.발음듣기

But your real net worth is your assets minus all of your liabilities.발음듣기

So in this case, your net worth is actually $11,000, not $116,000.발음듣기

And this is another important thing to think about.발음듣기

Assets are always equal to liabilities plus equity.발음듣기

That just comes out of the definition of what equity is.발음듣기

Equity was assets minus liabilities.발음듣기

If you take an MBA, they'll write it down, and it looks like an equation, but it's assets is equal to liabilities plus equity.발음듣기

But that's almost by definition that that's going to be true.발음듣기

So what can we do with this?발음듣기

How does this help us?발음듣기

Well, there's a couple of ways that we can think about this.발음듣기

First of all, what happens if my liabilities are larger than my assets?발음듣기

So if I owe the world more than the world owes me?발음듣기

Well, then this number is going to be negative.발음듣기

And if this number is negative, then there's no really good reason for me, maybe to preserve my credit score, but other than that, if we take that out of the equation, there's no good reason for me to continue living this existence.발음듣기

If my liabilities are greater than my assets, let's think about that situation.발음듣기

Let's say that my house is only worth $100,000, but for whatever reason, I owe $120,000 to the bank.발음듣기

Let's say maybe I originally bought the house with a no-money down payment for $120,000.발음듣기

And now I'm honest with myself.발음듣기

I'm like the value has gone down.발음듣기

It's only worth $100,000 now.발음듣기

So I'm in the situation where you could say I'm upside down in my mortgage.발음듣기

Well, one, you could say there's no incentive for me to continue paying this house.발음듣기

An even bigger picture, if I now look at my balance sheet, what are my liabilities now?발음듣기

My liabilities would be $145,000.발음듣기

And my equity would be my assets minus my liabilities.발음듣기

So $116,000 minus $45,000, what is that?발음듣기

Minus $29,000.발음듣기

I'll do that in red.발음듣기

That's a bad number for your equity.발음듣기

So in this situation, there's really no reason for me to continue living like the way I am, at least financially.발음듣기

As long as you're breathing, there's no reason not to continue breathing.발음듣기

But you wouldn't want to live like this financially anymore, so there's no reason not to go seek bankruptcy protection.발음듣기

And bankruptcy protection is admitting I am insolvent, which means that there's no way that I'm going to be able to unwind all of my liabilities.발음듣기

Courts protect me.발음듣기

My lenders can't come back after me.발음듣기

Everything is going to be erased.발음듣기

They're going to take all my assets, all my liabilities, and they're essentially going to take these and divide them up amongst the people that I owe stuff to.발음듣기

So that's bankruptcy.발음듣기

That's insolvency.발음듣기

And I want to highlight the word insolvency because that's a word that we're going touch on when we actually talk about the credit crisis.발음듣기

And that is opposed illiquidity.발음듣기

So what is illiquidity?발음듣기

So insolvency means there's no reason for you to continue with this type of a financial situation.발음듣기

You're bankrupt.발음듣기

You go get bankruptcy protection.발음듣기

That's insolvency.발음듣기

Illiquidity is a different situation.발음듣기

Illiquidity says no, I actually do have positive equity.발음듣기

So let me go back to the original circumstance.발음듣기

It really was I only owe $80,000 on the house, so my liabilities really are only $105,000.발음듣기

So I really do have a positive equity of $11,000.발음듣기

So this isn't insolvency anymore.발음듣기

So I'm going to describe what illiquidity means to you.발음듣기

Or to me, in this case, because this is my balance sheet.발음듣기

So let's say that my wife comes to me and says we need to pay our child's tuition.발음듣기

It is $5,000 for the upcoming year.발음듣기

I need to pay $5,000 in tuition.발음듣기

Actually, let me take a better situation because if I'm talking about tuition, it should have shown up on liabilities.발음듣기

Let's say that I have to make a $5,000 payment on my student loan.발음듣기

So I have some kind of weird student loan, where $5,000 comes due all of a sudden.발음듣기

So I have to make a $5,000 payment on the student loan.발음듣기

Let me do that in red.발음듣기

Make $5,000 payment.발음듣기

And it could be for anything, but let's say it's to satisfy part of one of these liabilities.발음듣기

So if you look at my equity, if you look at my assets minus my liabilities, I clearly have $11,000.발음듣기

I'm worth $11,000.발음듣기

And if I could liquidate all my assets and all my liabilities overnight, I would have $11,000 in cash, and then I could pay that $5,000.발음듣기

In fact, in the process of doing it, I would have paid that $5,000.발음듣기

But in this circumstance, if I just look at my situation, let's say that student loan payment is due tomorrow.발음듣기

I only have $1,000 of cash.발음듣기

I only have $1,000 maybe sitting in my checking account.발음듣기

So I can't make that $5,000 payment just with my cash.발음듣기

And then I look at everything else, and I'm like, boy, can unload any of these assets overnight?발음듣기

Well, a house, absolutely not.발음듣기

There's no way I'm going to be able to unload my house tomorrow.발음듣기

Maybe I could find someone who would buy it for $50,000 tomorrow, but that wouldn't help my situation.발음듣기

Then my equity would go negative again.발음듣기

So that won't help.발음듣기

I can't sell my car overnight.발음듣기

Maybe I could sell it at a super low price for $4,000, just to kind of make this payment, but I don't want to do that either.발음듣기

And same thing, your furniture, you'd have to go on Craigslist and take pictures of it.발음듣기

You couldn't do it.발음듣기

So this is a situation where you are having a liquidity crisis.발음듣기

You are illiquid, but you're not insolvent.발음듣기

You have a positive net worth, assuming that you're not lying about what's going on in your balance sheet.발음듣기

And that's another issue.발음듣기

So how do you get past a liquidity crisis like this?발음듣기

Well, someone has to give you - we could call it a bridge loan because they're giving you a financial bridge from here to where you need to go.발음듣기

Or they're giving you a bridge that essentially buys you time.발음듣기

Let's say your dad says, OK, Sal, or my dad, I guess, I'll give you a $5,000 loan for the next two months.발음듣기

And over the next two months, I expect you to find some other source of cash.발음듣기

Maybe sell your car, buy a cheaper car, sell some of your furniture or something.발음듣기

So that is a loan to prevent a liquidity crisis.발음듣기

And that loan wouldn't be a bad idea because if this person isn't lying about their balance sheet, or I'm not lying about my balance sheet, then I actually am good for the money.발음듣기

On the other hand, that loan be a bad idea if I had insolvency because it would just be throwing good money after bad.발음듣기

I'm not able to pay my current loans, and you're just giving me another loan that I wouldn't be able to pay.발음듣기

Anyway, I'm out of time.발음듣기

I'll see you in the next video.발음듣기

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