The Rise of “Too Big To Fail” In Private Equity | Carolyn Sissoko & Joseph Wang

Carolyn Sissoko, senior lecturer at University of the West of England, joins Forward Guidance alongside Joseph Wang, CIO of Monetary Macro and author at FedGuy.com, to discuss the Federal Reserve’s public acknowledgement that it may cut interest rates in 2024, the collateral supply effect, and the merging of of credit allocation facilities and money markets. Filmed on December 19, 2023.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Joseph's Take On The Fed's December FOMC Meeting
09:25 Does Zero Interest Rate Policy Cause Malinvestment And Misallocation of Credit?
15:02 The Rise of "Too Big To Fail"
24:32 Line Separating Bank Lending And Money Markets Has Been "Almost Completely Obliterated"
38:25 Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and Stablecoins
40:48 Joseph On Why Fed Quantitative Tightening (QT) Could Continue Even As It Cuts Rates
45:20 Joseph's Views On Bonds
01:02:03 The Collateral Effect
01:17:04 CLOs and Private Equity
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