Dana El-Kurd
speaker
4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
Dana El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Which you can't legally call banking.
I mean, you actually can legally call it banking.
It's just things get weird really quickly.
Yeah, I don't think they can legally call themselves a bank, but I guess you can call it banking activity.
That's stupid and I'm mad already.
Yes.
Oh, you're going to get so much more mad by the end of this.
So the base definition is it's not that complicated, right?
It's something that does banking stuff that is legally not a bank.
You know, and so we could talk about what kinds of things is this, right?
It's like private equity firms, it's hedge funds, it's venture capital firms, right?
Yeah, but it's also, you know, pension funds.
It's like insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, business development companies, repo markets, broker dealers, special investment vehicles, securitization vehicles, money market mutual funds, asset-backed commercial paper conduits.
I mean, the funny thing is sovereign wealth fund is like
kind of a less fake one in that it's like it's all fake hey this is like it's all fake it's the well it's like this is the kingdom of saudi arabia has pulled all of the money it's gotten from it's like horrific crimes and put them together into one giant thing and that's a sovereign wealth fund oh so it's good is what you mean
No, I am a notable.
There is, by the way, a camp of people who believe that sovereign wealth funds are like a socialist thing and that you could use them to do socialism.
I'm going to jump out the window.
I think this is so stupid.
Yeah, this is we haven't even gotten into the nightmare stuff.
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