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Former Dallas Fed insider, Danielle DiMartino Booth, spoke with SBTV about the inner workings of the Fed and how the Federal Reserve missed the train wreck which resulted in the 2007 Financial Crisis. Without being alarmist, Danielle presented a factual view of how leveraged and indebted our financial system has become.
She points out that loose monetary policies of global central banks have resulted in huge amounts of cheap money looking for a home worldwide. This has caused asset prices from real estate to stock markets to rise. Money printing by the ECB and the BOJ now dwarfs the Federal Reserve’s own quantitative easing.
US companies are also using this central bank cheap money for stock buybacks, thus inflating their stock prices. 2018 will be a record year for buybacks with $850 billion in buybacks alone.
The financial crisis of 2008 saw the mortgage market outsize the US treasury market. The collapse of this one market was sufficient to put the world in recession. Today, there is more tinder to light a bigger financial crisis if we add up all the asset classes today whether it is junk bonds, leveraged loans or trillion-dollar ‘investment grade’ bonds.
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