All-Stars #80 Prof. Steve Keen: QE by any other name is still QE!

Macro Voices

Hedge Fund Manager Erik Townsend

Business, Investing, Business:investing

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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All-Star Prof. Steve Keen is back, and he says the Fed can call it whatever they want, but what they’re doing is still Quantitative Easing. Link: http://bit.ly/37C2xbA

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0:00.0	This is a special edition of Macrovoises with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.
0:14.2	The premier financial podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family
0:19.8	offices, and other sophisticated investors.
0:23.0	Now for this special edition of Macrovoises, here's hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.
0:29.9	Macrovoises All Stars Episode 80 was recorded on November 25, 2019.
0:36.3	I'm Eric Townsend.
0:38.1	Professor Steve Keane is back with us today.
0:41.1	This episode of Macrovoises All Stars was made possible by top traders on plugs.com,
0:46.7	which happens to be my own favorite podcast when it comes to quant and rules based investing.
0:51.9	Check them out, you'll be glad you did.
0:54.2	Steve, back in February of 2016, you wrote an article, Listeners, we've got a link to that
1:00.4	article in the description of today's interview on our homepage at macrovoises.com next
1:05.6	to Steve's picture.
1:07.4	Steve, you predicted back in February of 2016.
1:11.0	Don't believe what they say.
1:12.0	The Fed will eventually go back to more quantitative easing.
1:16.3	Now we have an interesting conundrum.
1:18.4	It appears on the surface that they have gone back to quantitative easing, but it has come
1:22.7	with some really, really strong press announcements assuring us that this expansion of the balance
1:29.9	sheet for the purpose of providing a accommodative policy is not quantitative easing.
1:35.1	Do not call it that.
1:37.1	Strickly prohibited.
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