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Anthony Kacensi with me who is written all sorts of brilliant books on short-term paper.

Is it Stigham's?

I've always had trouble pronouncing it.

Stigham's Money Market, which is the 1970s that I rewrote.'s 1,200 pages I put in about 500 new pages myself

updated to 200 charts

correct? Yeah it's like the Bible is short-term paper. When you see volatility across all asset classes so

dampened, witness the equity SPX VIX indicator going well under 10, record 24 lows. What does it say about the

machinery, the engine of our finance?

I connected to productivity and inflation and they are linked.

Productivity because of a lack of investment by US government and low inflation because

it means central banks, well they can't move their policy rates much because they know the fiscal

authorities aren't doing much to promote economic growth, which is languishing globally in

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