Is the Bond Market Really Slow?

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The bond market a undred and 20 trillion, and the equity mark is about 70 trillion. So it's almost 50 to 50 % more double than that. Why is it that retail knows so much less about equities? I think there're a lot of reasons. It's just easier, and always has been, or generally has been, easier, for regular people, for individual investors, to buy public equities. Whereas, like, to really play in the bond market, you can buy eye bonds,. You can buy treasury notes, whatever. But it is much harder to buy like, a block of five million bonds. There's all this like, actual kind of

Mary Childs is the co-host of NPR’s Planet Money & has been a business reporter for over a decade (Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Barron’s, Reuters). She's the author of “The Bond King”, a profile of Bill Gross & his bond management firm (PIMCO) which managed ~$2T at its peak.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:48) - Meme Of The Week
(00:01:35) - Mary Child's Book: The Bond King
(00:05:09) - Stock Market vs Bond Market
(00:07:41) - Who Are The Lenders In The Bond Market
(00:09:12) - Bill Gross
(00:10:42) - Bonds Then vs Now
(00:16:37) - Bill Gross Motivation
(00:19:27) - Mary’s Take On Bitcoin & Crypto
(00:30:26) - Planet Money's Crypto Stories
(00:31:17) - Can Crypto Change The Bond Market?
(00:32:15) - Going Solo
(00:37:18) - How has the life of a story changed?
(00:39:55) - Planet Money
(00:41:51) - The Definition Of Recession
(00:45:24) - Podcasting: what you’d do differently with no restrictions
(00:48:18) - Joe Rogan + Long Pods
(00:51:14) - How NIA Boys Manage Information Flow
(01:01:01) - Mary’s 3 Fav Podcasts

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