Tales from the Crypt #122: Parker Lewis
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss:
- What is QE?
- The Fed's balance sheet over the last decade
- Unwinding the balance sheet
- Repo market madness
- Source of the repo liquidity crunch
- Moving forward
- much more
Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up freaks? Welcome back to Tales from the Crypt. It's your boy Marty been here on a cold |
| 0:06.2 | Sunday morning, very cold Sunday morning, waiting for my coffee to heat up and not had that dose of caffeine. |
| 0:12.1 | You freak's going to be happy to know I've been buying my coffee and making it at home more recently. |
| 0:18.1 | It's been about three months now. It's been good. I haven't bought coffee in quite a while. |
| 0:22.9 | Yeah, we got a great conversation with Parker Lewis here. |
| 0:26.7 | Today, a quick 45-minute rip. |
| 0:29.7 | Really wanted to talk to Parker about what's going on in the repo markets in particular. |
| 0:34.8 | He's not an expert per se. |
| 0:36.3 | He'll tell you this in the conversation |
| 0:38.1 | that we have, but Parker has been a Fed watcher in a past life and has a lot of intimate |
| 0:46.0 | knowledge about Fed policy in the post 2008 world that we find ourselves in. And this conversation |
| 0:53.6 | was extremely illuminating, particularly because it starkly highlights the fact that the Fed had no idea that the unwinding of its balance sheet was going to cause this liquidity crunch in the repo markets. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm not going to rehash what we talked about. You guys are about to listen |
| 1:12.6 | to the good stuff. So this episode of Tales from the Crypt is brought to you by the Cash App. |
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