Alex Frangos
speaker
438 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 1 Sep
Alex Frangos’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you have to take that into account.
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But you know, people are worried.
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Is this a you know loss of confidence in the U.S.'s kind of fiscal rectitude and ability to say, look, we're gonna raise enough revenue through taxes to pay off our debt?
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There's some reason to think that was a little bit overblown, those concerns.
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But the thing that people are looking for are we gonna hit a breaking point where borrowing costs go up so quickly and so highly.
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That it spooks people.
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When borrowing costs go up, things tend to break.
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You know, this is what we had in the run-up to the financial crisis.
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Even just a couple years ago when the Fed was raising rates to fight inflation in the opening up from the pandemic.
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We had the banking implosions on the regional banks.
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You had in the UK the Liz Truss moment.
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Those were all happening in a period where rates were going up very quickly.
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Right now we don't have the Fed raising rates, but we have the market basically raising rates on the long end.
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The silver lining, maybe all this, is some people say, well, if rates go up enough, it's gonna cause a corrective and cause the administration and Congress to say, hey, look, we're gonna cut the deficit.
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In fact, sanctions evasion network.
And it's trying to set up subsidiaries and telling other countries that may have problems accessing the international banking system because US or European officials have sanctioned them or cut them off saying, Hey, we're here, we're here to help.
It's Monday, August 10th.
Yeah, it's basically replacing the role that a bank or a payments company like a PayPal or Western Union might fulfill in terms of helping people move money across borders.
So if you're a company and you're importing something from another country, you got to get money from A to B and usually it's your bank or some sort of payments provider and they exchange the currency.
And they make sure that the money goes from here to there.
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