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E13: How SVB Unraveled and Whether Crypto Can Fix Finance with Byrne Hobart

"Moment of Zen"

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Housing Is a Massive Asset Class

The world just runs a maturity mismatch book and if we didn't adjust for that we would have much much higher long-term interest rates. We've like the fiat system is actually this surprisingly successful way to engineer a kind of sensible yield curve on average where houses do get financed. The engineered shortage in housing is a substantial contributor to that maturity mismatch problem so it's a substantial contributors to financial crises. I'm going to take the other side of this bear i'm going to say we didn't have this mortgage market it wouldn't be the case that everything would be terrible we would just be europeans or germany because they don't really have the same mortgage market we do.

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