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137 - Pick Your Poison

Mar 19, 20231 hr 4 minEp. 142
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Episode description

With the recent fallovers and subsequent bailouts of 5 American banks, largely due to the rising interest rates damaging the profitability of their government bond holdings, we are left with two bad choices: raise interest rates to fight inflation and cause more banks to fall over or lower rates to protect the banks and supercharge inflation?

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