'Everything Bubble' at Risk of Bursting? with Lawrence Lepard

Interview recorded - 17th of November, 2023

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Lawrence Lepard - Founder of Equity Management Associates and a sound money advocate. 

During our conversation we spoke about Lawrence's current thoughts on the market, risk of everything bubble bursting, whether the FED can land the plane, geopolitical shifts, why something is going to break, Bitcoin and more! I hope you enjoy. 

0:00 - Introduction
1:16 - What is happening in the markets?
6:17 - Has the FED landed the plane?
9:30 - Monetary inflation vs real inflation?
14:24 - Geopolitical shifts
14:58 - Commodity super cycle to crash
16:17 - Stock market doesn’t always go up
17:38 - Higher yields for longer?
21:03 - Dollar is better than other currencies
24:03 - Something is going to break soon
30:48 - Any other assets that will protect wealth during monetary debasement?
33:08 - Concern about Bitcoin correlation with the NASDAQ?
35:38 - Spot ETF a bad thing for Bitcoin?
38:08 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Larry founded Equity Management Associates, LLC (EMA) in 2006. EMA is an equity investment management firm that invests in growing private and public companies located around the world. 

Since 2008, EMA has focused on investing in companies which mine the monetary metals, gold and silver. Larry presently serves on the Board of Directors of two development-stage gold mining companies: Lavras Gold Corp. (Toronto/Brazil) and Rise Gold Corp. (California). He has been a frequent guest of many media outlets including Bloomberg Television for his expertise on the monetary metals market. Prior to founding EMA, he spent 13 years at Geocapital Partners (Geo) in Fort Lee, NJ. There, he was one of two Managing General Partners and was responsible for four venture capital funds, aggregating ~$500 million. At Geo, he invested and/or served on the boards of many successful deals including Autoweb, Jackson Hewitt, Netcom, and Realtor.com. 

Prior to Geo, Larry spent seven years at Summit Partners in Boston, MA and Newport Beach, CA, where he established Summit’s West Coast office. Larry was a General Partner in Summit I and Summit II and invested and/or served on the boards of Chips & Technologies and Software Spectrum, among other investments. Earlier in his career, Larry worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co.

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