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Wall Street Unplugged - What's Really Moving These Markets

How the Fed can control inflation

Wall Street Unplugged - What's Really Moving These Markets

Frank Curzio

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Joe Zhao, former Fed economist and founder of venture fund Millennial Capital, shares an inside view of the Fed’s policymaking process and the private equity market. We discuss what the Fed should do to control inflation… Joe’s take on SPACs… how a successful private equity fund approaches opportunities in the private market… how the government will regulate crypto… and why it’s time to buy IPOs. In this episode: How the Fed can slow inflation [0:19] The psychology behind successful investing [12:58] How a successful private equity fund decides what to buy [18:32] The main goal of both venture capitalists and SPACs [26:57] How the government with regulate crypto [32:15] Why it’s time to starting buying IPOs [40:27] Enjoyed this episode? Get Wall Street Unplugged delivered FREE to your inbox every Wednesday: https://www.curzioresearch.com/wall-street-unplugged/ Wall Street Unplugged podcast is available at: --: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-unplugged-frank/ -- : https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/curzio-research/wall-street-unplugged-2 -- : https://www.curzioresearch.com/category/podcast/wall-street-unplugged/ : https://twitter.com/frankcurzio :. https://www.facebook.com/CurzioResearch/ : https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-curzio-690561a7/ : https://www.curzioresearch.com

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0:00.0

The Wall Street Unplug looks beyond the regular headlines, heard on mainstream financial

0:06.4

media to bring you unscripted interviews and breaking commentary direct from Wall Street

0:11.5

right to you on Main Street.

0:12.8

This is gonna have to, it's Thursday, May 19th.

0:18.4

Now, if I guess it's the Wall Street Unplug podcast where I break that headlines, and

0:25.0

tell you what's really moving these markets, it's a great interview today.

0:32.8

The former Fed economist, Joe Zau, worked at the Federal Bank of New York, helped out

0:39.9

on Bernanke's tape a tantrum plan.

0:41.9

He's no longer at the Fed, left to launch his own venture fund called Millennial Capital,

0:46.7

which he invested in some of the big tech unicorns in the pre-IPO rounds.

0:54.2

The Fed economist, starting a venture fund, it's where, something that you don't see,

0:58.8

right?

0:59.8

Fed's usually big macro and venture is more small and looking at ideas, so Joe is a super

1:05.7

smart guy.

1:06.7

I was introduced to him from John Patrides, and we spent 40 minutes on the phone just talking

1:10.9

at, so you know what, I got to get this on interview.

1:12.7

It's fantastic because it's about PE, it's about, which is private equity, venture funds,

1:17.3

valuations, how they're changing, and also he had a lot to say about the Fed and how

1:20.3

they're addressing policy right now, and just, yeah, it was just so amazing.

1:23.8

I said, I got to get you on a podcast, it's going to be fantastic interview.

1:26.3

It's so relevant today with the Fed, and a lot of people believe the Fed has lost its

1:29.8

credibility.

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