When the stock market tanks, where does the money go?
Make Me Smart
Marketplace
4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It’s Whaddya Wanna Know Wednesday, and Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams are answering your questions, including one from a listener who wonders what the Fed reducing its balance sheet means for mortgage rates. We also dig into what it takes to harness tidal power, and why it’s not a bigger source of renewable energy.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody I'm Kai, Rizad, welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:09.0 | Making the day make sense is our thing. |
| 0:12.2 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:13.6 | Thank you for joining us for What Do You Want to Know Wednesday, The Day When We Answer |
| 0:18.3 | Your Questions. |
| 0:19.7 | You can email those questions to us at Make Me Smart at Marketplace.org or leave us a |
| 0:24.1 | voice mail. |
| 0:25.1 | Our number is 508UB Smart. |
| 0:28.3 | First up we've got a voice mail from a listener in Arizona. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, this is Mark from Chandler. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm wondering if Kai and Kimberly can make me smart about where all the money is leaving |
| 0:38.1 | the market, both the stock and crypto is going. |
| 0:41.5 | The over one trillion that's been lost when somewhere. |
| 0:44.6 | There were sellers that took that cash and did something with it. |
| 0:47.7 | Where are they putting it? |
| 0:48.7 | Thanks for making me smart. |
| 0:51.1 | You take that one. |
| 0:52.1 | So that's a really good question. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah, that's a really good question. |
| 0:55.4 | And part of it I suppose is on people who present market summaries and say, you know, a trillion |
| 1:01.3 | dollars has left the market in the last, you know, a month and a half or whatever. |
| 1:04.4 | Here's the thing that you need to know. |
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