4.8 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Talking about the... |
0:10.0 | We're still talking about the liquidity principle. |
0:13.3 | And what Palley wrote in his essay, in his essay, |
0:18.9 | liquidity, |
0:20.9 | um, |
0:21.2 | there, |
0:24.2 | we're almost done with this, |
0:27.6 | with this part of the, |
0:30.4 | of the discussion. |
0:32.6 | But just to pull back for a second, |
0:34.4 | because this is, this is a really kind of wonky, |
0:39.3 | talking about like, |
0:51.0 | the credit duration is a very wonky part of the discussion. And just to pull back on why it's so important, the single big, dumb lever that the central bank has is this |
0:55.1 | interest rate lever. And in every episode that we've done, and I keep wanting to drive home in |
1:01.3 | as many ways possible, is that this interest rate tool just literally can't function in a fiat |
1:06.7 | environment. So I'm trying to attack that point from as many ways as possible. And Palli himself, |
1:13.6 | he uses this essay liquidity to make that point. And so I just want to remind people again, |
1:21.1 | that's why we're talking about it. And the other point is that, again, the whole reason to do |
1:27.0 | this whole exercise was to try and imagine how will the world and how will the economic system work under Bitcoin standard. |
1:34.3 | And I feel like by understanding the liquidity principle, as Palli describes it, I actually have a, it's a narrow, but I have a plausible concept of how you can actually have |
1:46.0 | credit on a Bitcoin standard and how banks can still lend and still be liquid, which was |
1:51.4 | something that was alluding me before. And I feel like this has filled in a major hole |
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