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Explore "balance sheets" with insightful episodes like "We Like Cannibals*", "Investors Shrug Off Inflation Fears", "Chris Bloomstran - An Update on Public Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.171]", "How The Crisis Nearly Blew Up One Of The World’s Safest Trades" and "How Private Sector Balance Sheets Changed Recessions" from podcasts like ""Motley Fool Money", "Motley Fool Money", "Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy", "Odd Lots" and "Odd Lots"" and more!
In normal times, U.S. Treasuries are the ultimate safe haven. They are highly liquid and guaranteed to pay out. So when people want to hide out during periods of economic and financial market volatility, you can typically count on there being a strong bid for them. But in the last couple of weeks, the volatility has been so extreme, and the flight-to-cash so severe, that the market stopped behaving as normal. And popular trades involving arbing Treasuries and Treasury bond futures started to fail. On today’s episode, we speak with Josh Younger, a managing director at JPMorgan, who explains how and why it started to fall apart.
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Can the U.S. economy have a recession without it turning into a crisis? In the old days, such garden-variety recessions were fairly common. These days, less so. But why is this? And can we go back to the old-style soft recessions? The issue, arguably, is that private sector balance sheets (both debts and assets) have grown so large relative to incomes, that the value of financial assets swamp effects from changing incomes.
On this week's Odd Lots, we speak with David Levy of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center about his new report called Bubble Or Nothing about how the economy works in a world of gigantic balance sheets and extreme risk taking.
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