Money Destruction to Trigger Uncontrollable Deflation? with Randy Woodward

Interview recorded - 8th of September, 2023

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Randy Woodward, Managing Director in the Fixed Income Capital Markets division at Raymond James Financial.

During our conversation we spoke about what is happening in the markets, why the bank collapses occurred, how the FED changed forever under Bernanke, whether inflation will remain higher for longer and potential for a commercial real estate crisis. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
3:04 - What is Randy watching in markets/economy?
6:20 - Inverted yield curve?
8:50 - How are banks fairing with unrealised losses?
16.30 - Central banks can do anything?
19:15 - Saving the financial system at all costs
23:50 - Banks missing out on higher revenues
30:00 - Will inflation be transitory or higher for longer?
35:30 - Global countries going to cut faster than US
37:48 - What is currently happening in commercial real estate?
46:40 - Companies defaulting on real estate
48:55 - Could Commercial Real Estate be another 2008 crisis?
52:20 - Ben Bernanke changed the markets
54:42 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Randy Woodward is a Managing Director in the Fixed Income Capital Markets division at Raymond James Financial. Randy has unique experience and depth of knowledge in the fixed income industry.

Randy began his career at Bloomberg from 1988 to 1995, working in a range of areas including training, editorial, programming, and sales. Randy became a fixed income broker in 1995, and has developed a proven track record of helping institutional clients manage safe and sound bond portfolios. Given his unique skill set, Randy provides his clients an advanced service that no other broker can offer. Whether they have access to a Bloomberg or rely on brokers for screen shots, it’s imperative they understand in detail the screens that are provided to them, and more importantly, they need to understand what can be manipulated, altered, or omitted.

Randy’s primary objective as a broker is to not only “protect” his clients, but also to educate them on how to better protect themselves, as well as making better investment decisions and executions.

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