The Fed's Balance Sheet and the Market's Response to Stealth QE

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M2 money supply is starting to turn over and finally go negative for the first time ever. The Fed has not said that they're going to stop that, but some interesting things have happened. All this damage in the market was just during this period of tightening. However, there has been a big jump in the Fed's balance sheet as a result of the support that the Fed has given banks to the discount window.

Itay Vinik is the Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Equi, an alternative investment platform that brings investment strategies to accredited investors.

Today, Itay returns to the pod to answer the question: can the Fed thread the needle between inflation and recession?

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------ Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 6:00 Itay Returns 8:00 Reflecting on 2022 12:04 Equi Portfolio 15:35 Threading the Needle 19:10 Destroying Wealth 26:45 Accelerating Chaos 29:10 Inflation and Monetary Supply 38:30 The Fed is Bleeding 43:30 Small Cap Stocks 46:00 Will the Fed Pivot? 55:14 Economic Recession 1:01:14 Recession Indicators 1:02:59 Hopium 1:06:24 The US Banking System 1:09:44 How to Analyze the Economy

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Itay Vinik https://twitter.com/VinikItay?s=20

Equi https://www.equi.com/

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