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CNBC video – Joe Kernan and Becky Quick interview Mohamed El-Erian.
Dr. El-Erian talks about how broken the system is and how the Fed has painted themselves into a corner. They have no alternative but to keep hiking interest rates – even if the system breaks.
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Owl bonds…sell them…to who, to who.
Would you sell bond etf holding 10 year treasuries with interest rates continuing to rise? Is the only way for the bond etf to recover losses for the interest rates to go back down to the level before the bond etf started falling?
If you hold bonds to maturity you get 100 Bo . If you sell now you lose money. Invest in high quality bonds and treasuries. Solves the problem while you get a nice4+ interest
It's over. Hope you all have been learning everything you can. Knowledge is power.
Michael Burry is right about the zombie companies hidden in the other funds like the repo market.
Thank you Ben, great video. Right now I'm mostly analysing companies with a high free cash flow yield and low debt. The past has shown that there's a huge chance that those companies outperform the market. Especially during a recession.
I really enjoyed your calming sincere presentation. Many financial youtubers are sensationalists lthough their subject matter is no more extreme from your own.
Is there any relation between the increase in the Fed's reverse repo market utilization over the last 2 years and the billions missing from the market?
Thanks Ben ¡¡
Someone needs to tell Joe it’s going to be worse than the great depression!!!
Both your moderate and performance returns are down more than 10% for the year. Why do people pay you to loose their money? If you understand the problems with the economy, there is no reason you should be loosing money. The money leaving equities is going into money markets which ends up in the Fed's Reverse Repo, which is now about $2.4 trillion.
They've only been hiking rates for a few months. This situation took years to create, it ain't gonna be reversed in one quarter. Forget about pivoting, it'll be 6 months until they basically stabilize, then hovering around that mark for several years.
The majority of so called 'buy the dip' financial advisers are little more than glorified sales 'people' with next to no real experience of real fundamental market forces. Just embarrassing to behold but that is the way of things and more than ever today. Never seen such a shambles from top to bottom. Where is the money going? Derivative debt margin calls perhaps….
Down 42% plus another 15% inflation hit.
Another Great show. Thx Ben!
Who insures the fdic if it fails .. just curious if its possible..
Hi Ben. You've brought up a few different times that you don't know where the outflow of money is going. Do you have an "opinion" of where the outflow may be going to? If you're not comfortable giving your opinion I understand.
Thank you for this video- very informative.
UK government treasuries are attracting interest from investors/savers. However, it is not inconceivable that the Uk defaults on its sovereign debt. This is unlikely because the Bank of England has been around since 1694 and seems to be addressing the issue – but it needs to act decisively to calm the nerves of bond holders.
I’ve been managing my own portfolio for almost 20 years now..and I will tell you .. I never invested in Gold and Silver till about a year ago.. I’m expecting equities to get back to 2012-14 prices … it’s not easy to sit on your hands ,but it’s what has to be done .Again the only things I have bought in the last year are Gold and Silver and Farmland .
thanks Ben. excellent video as always.
Ben how come you never talk about the lack of price discovery in the markets today ?
Is the comparison table of country performance normalized for local currency relative to usd? Maybe investors are buying T-bills or bonds, not bond funds? I look forward to your video very much, thank you!
Would you recommend Bond ETF’s at any point in the future? Meaning at a lower price?
I think the game isn’t investing for growth anymore. I think it’s about preserving the ability of buying power, even if everything tanks. A lot of options might not exist in 10 years.
Omg..pension funds leveraged 7x.
Thank you for the videos.
Wow. Where are we going in this world? Crazy isn’t it?
Are short-term (3-6 month) CD’s safe over time?
Are longer-term (multi-year) CD’s safer?
Ben, do you use CD’s in this type of falling market to minimize losses?
Thank you.
I appreciate all the effort put into these videos. This is definitely the most underrated financial YouTube channel.
Ben, what do you think about future of government bonds that are tied to inflation such as I-bonds?
Thank you, Ben. I enjoyed this week's episode as always.