Zoltan Pozsar and Perry Mehrling On The Historic Crisis Of Financial Market Plumbing
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The plumbing of the financial system is coming under strain like never before. On this week’s podcast, we speak with two legendary experts on how the money system works: Zoltan Pozsar of Credit Suisse and Perry Mehrling of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. They explain the extreme level of stress we’re seeing, what the Fed has done to alleviate, what more needs to be done, and what the post-crisis future may look like.
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| 0:32.0 | Joe, I was going to start with a really long intro for this one but I think we can actually make it really short. |
| 0:39.7 | What is it? |
| 0:40.7 | I'm all for that. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm all for we don't need we're past the era of throat clearing and |
| 0:45.2 | intros there's no time for that anymore yeah exactly okay so anyone who's been |
| 0:50.3 | listening to all bots knows there's been volatility in the market. |
| 0:54.0 | There's been a lot of drama in the repo market specifically, a lot of things going on with |
| 0:59.4 | money market funds as well. |
| 1:01.4 | Who do we turn to in times of repo market madness? I can only think of one person |
| 1:09.3 | when the when the when the phrase repo market madness comes to mind. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, and you would be absolutely right if you said |
| 1:17.2 | Zolten Pozar, the strategist over at Credit Suisse, he is with us once again, but to make this episode even better, we also have Perry |
| 1:27.2 | Merling, who we've had on all thoughts before as well. |
| 1:31.2 | He's a professor of international political economy at the |
| 1:34.4 | Party School of Global Studies at Boston University and he's worked with |
| 1:39.3 | Zoltan. They've co-authored some papers a long time ago. And in fact, Zoltin referenced one of Perry's famous quotes |
| 1:47.7 | in one of our original episodes with him. |
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