Use "liquidity crisis" in a sentence

1. However, the second half of 2008 was characterized by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the implosion of the mortgage and real estate markets in the United States, and the ensuing liquidity crisis that threatened to bring down some of the country’s biggest financial and industrial institutions

2. They simultaneously withdrew millions of dollars from the New York banking system, already seasonally low in funds in autumn because of the outflow of money for the grain harvest in the West, to create an artificial depression and liquidity crisis