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Ken Griffin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
835 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

And when you look at the 10-year yield point or the 30-year yield point, what you're really observing is how much risk premium, how much insurance premium does the market demand for higher inflation?

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

Because remember, you're lending the money to the US government for 10 or 30 years at a time at a fixed rate.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

So you want to think very long and hard about what rate do you lend money to the US government, which is running a staggering deficit,

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

that is now running very, very easy monetary policy relative to the inflationary pressures that we're facing.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

What risk premium do you demand to do so?

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

So, although the Fed has brought short-term interest rates down, what it has really done, it has unnerved the bond market community that invests or commits capital for 10 years or 30 years at a time.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

And why does that matter?

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

Because capital formation, building a new factory,

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

is funded with 10 and 30-year debt.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

So the hope that we will stimulate the economy, that we will encourage the investments that we need in America, that are all funded with long-term debt, are actually being undermined by the easy monetary policy at the Fed today.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

Well, there's two markets.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

There's the fixed income market, which is anxious about this journey.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

And there's the equity market.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

The equity market loves an easy money story.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

So what we're seeing is a tale of two very different worlds from the perspective of two very different investor groups.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

Your fixed income investor doesn't participate directly in the easy money policies.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

In fact, they're adverse to that.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

They're anxious about that.

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

How much will inflation erode the value of the dollar that I lend to the government today?

Bloomberg Talks
Citadel's Ken Griffin Talks GOP Policies; Inflation

The equity market thrives on this.