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🗓️ 8 March 2021
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0:00.0 | So last year, last time we talked actually, Treasury yields were falling really close to zero. |
0:08.0 | Especially short-term Treasury's interest rates went to zero. |
0:12.3 | The Fed was like, we're freaked out about this COVID thing. |
0:16.4 | Where were we at economic growth is going to collapse. |
0:19.3 | Let's cut borrowing rates to the absolute bone so no one has to pay anything to borrow. |
0:24.2 | We want economic activity to continue. |
0:26.2 | We want companies to be able to borrow money to get through these shutdowns. |
0:32.2 | And so that means that Treasury prices go up more or less. |
0:37.6 | But now we're reopening and all of a sudden we don't need super low borrowing rates anymore. |
0:44.4 | And I don't think the Fed is going to raise rates anytime soon. |
0:46.9 | Like it were a long way away from that. |
0:49.4 | But because growth is better, because there might be some inflation as opposed to prices cratering from the year before. |
1:00.0 | People are like, oh shit, maybe I don't want to be in bonds. |
1:03.5 | Maybe I want to be in stocks. |
1:05.7 | And there's also a really weird political angle to it. |
1:11.0 | So markets, a lot of old-timey markets guys were in college in the 70s. |
1:19.8 | And so they remember the vulgar inflation. |
1:21.9 | They remember like, oh my god, if unions have any power, that means inflation is going to go to the moon. |
1:30.1 | And we're not going to be able to earn anything in markets. |
1:35.0 | Well, I can imagine too that they're pretty horrified at how expensive marijuana is now. |
1:39.0 | I mean, especially considering their college days and how strong it is. |
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