Josh Younger on the Soaring Cost of Climate Change and Understanding the SLR
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What is the connection between the big trend in interest rates over the last several years and the cost of climate change mitigation? This is a question that's been analyzed by Josh Younger, a rates derivative strategist at JPMorgan. On the latest episode of Odd Lots, he discusses his work on interest rates and the cost of fighting climate change. We also discuss the significance of the Fed's SLR decision, and what it means for rates and bank balance sheets.
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| 0:59.6 | And I'm Joe, why isn't all? You know what you never see. |
| 1:05.5 | Go on. That's pretty open-ended. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, okay. Well, you know, as a journalist, I'm told to ask open-ended questions, |
| 1:13.0 | but you never see anyone connect climate change with real yields and secular stagnation. |
| 1:22.1 | But I enlarge those are pretty separate conversations. I mean, maybe the secular stagnation part |
| 1:29.3 | but I definitely do not see much conversation connecting the dots between anything that's |
| 1:34.2 | going on in interest rates or real rates or anything like that in climate. Yeah, that's exactly |
| 1:40.3 | right. So despite the fact that every bank in the world seems to be really high on ESG right now |
| 1:47.2 | and certainly you and I are on the receiving ends of, you know, tons of press releases about what |
| 1:52.8 | banks are doing in the space. You actually don't see that many people talk about climate change |
| 1:58.9 | from a market's perspective, which is kind of weird because if you think about the battle, |
| 2:04.4 | the climate change battle right now, so much of it is about estimating the costs and the benefits |
| 2:11.8 | or the costs versus the benefits of actually tackling this issue. And if you think about how you |
| 2:18.7 | calculate cost and benefit, that's basically a market question, right? Like you have to consider |
| 2:25.6 | how the market is functioning and at what rate the market is actually rewarding action at any |
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