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The Breakdown

Raoul Pal: Monetary Policy Is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8786 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting macroeconomics and financial media.  In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss:  Hot takes on the most recent Jerome Powell/Federal Reserve press conference Why central banks can’t do anything more until they merge with treasury departments  Why stablecoins are disrupting how we think about global reserve assets  Why traditional financial media missed an entire generation of investors Why all macro debates are boring

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0:00.0

The Fed are never going to raise rates again.

0:01.6

They can't.

0:02.4

Because if you remember from the last time we went through the rate cycle, what happens is

0:07.0

everyone puts more leverage on at the lower rates.

0:10.1

So then you can't raise rates because you blow them all up.

0:13.0

And if you just remember what's just happened in the last three months was record

0:16.8

borrowings from corporates.

0:18.6

So the leverages just ratcheted it up a whole other level

0:21.5

at the lowest all-time rates, which makes it now impossible to raise rates.

0:27.1

Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and

0:34.0

the big picture power shifts remaking our world. The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com, BitStamp, and nexo.io, and produced and distributed by CoinDess.

0:45.3

What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, September 17th, and I am so excited to share with you my

0:52.3

conversation with Raoul Paul. Raul is the co-founder and CEO of Real Vision

0:58.6

as well as the CEO and publisher of the Global Macro Investor. Listen, I know that if you are listening

1:05.5

to The Breakdown, you know who Raul is, you've been watching Real Vision content, you've been

1:10.4

listening to his talks. And I think what's really important about what Raul is. You've been watching Real Vision content. You've been listening to his talks.

1:12.2

And I think what's really important about what Raul is doing for this industry is that it's not

1:17.4

just that he has interesting perspectives, although, as you'll see, if you don't know yet, he does.

1:22.8

It's more that he's also creating an alternative platform where independent media voices or independent

1:30.0

finance voices that have really different perspectives than traditional finance media

1:35.5

are aggregating to share their perspective on key debates that are shaping the world around us.

1:42.8

In this conversation, we talk about Raal's Insta take

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