Jeff Snider On Shadow Money, History, Eurodollar System, Central Banks, Repo, Collateral (RCS 117)

Topics- Were the Dot-Com Bubble and the Housing Bubble caused by the exponential growth of shadow money since the late 80s? Risk, liquidity, Credit Bubble of ’95, China, Eurodollar System. Rehypothecation and how it works: return, leveraging assets, Repo Market, treasuries, repledging, collateral, derivatives. Central Banks, Global Monetary System, Salomon Brothers. Collateral shortage: is that the problem? Or is the financial system too big? The system doesn’t have enough safe collateral, and also the system is flawed. Fractional Reserve System, the real money, repo fails, funding markets, junk bonds, sub-prime mortgages. How does the shadow money benefit the real economy? Borrowing dollars from global market place, real wealth, repo as key part of the Eurodollar system itself, lender of last resort.

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