Before we get going, here's a bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should

be considered as investment advice.

This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.

So while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining, please do your own research

or speak to a financial advisor before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets.

And now, on with the show.

Welcome everybody to another edition of The Grant Williams Podcast coming to you from Australia

this time.

It's early in the morning here.

It's Monday afternoon in New York and I wanted to talk to someone about what's happening

in the banking sector this week, obviously, with the implosion of Silicon Valley bank and signature bank.

Now, there's an awful lot of noise out there.

There's an awful lot of people with opinions.

I've been reading through them because I'm going to write about this this weekend.

How can I not?

So I didn't want to add to that noise.

So I wanted to have a chat with my great friend, Peter Abwater, who has been someone that I followed

for many, many years now and his work on mood in markets has been so important to me personally in helping

understand the kind of shifting sentiments that tend to lead events like we saw over this past weekend.

So rather than add another opinion on whether it's a bailout, whether it isn't, whether the Fed and the regulars did a good job,

whether they didn't, I'll get into that next weekend.

I wanted to have a slightly different conversation and hopefully add something to the discussion that won't necessarily be being discussed.

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