Mark Cuban Quotes
Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.
Cuban, Mark. "Net Worth." Blog Maverick, Mark Cuban, 5 Jan. 2017.
See Daniel Webster for an earlier expression of this notion.
The same is true of nations, cities, states and counties. As a result, we often see politicians spinning if not lying about the economic situation of a political entity. If perceived as insolvent, they can rapidly become insolvent. This is also who come counties are so sensitive to the activities of international currency traders. If a large trader or two starts to sell that nations currency, others also sell in fear that there may be a reason for the other selling and a spiral starts. The country if it does not handle this crises well will be perceived as insolvent which then makes the situation worse.
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, media proprietor, and investor, whose net worth is an estimated $4.3 billion, according to Forbes, and ranked #177 on the 2020 Forbes 400 list. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.