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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

Not only was this an indication of how dollar-centric much of finance education used to be, but also of how much faith there was that the US treasury was default-free. The most obvious reason is economic, where a crisis and collapse in government revenues, from taxes and other sources, causes a government to be unable meet its obligations.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. So what do our experiences, post-financial crisis, post-COVID, tell us about the need for balance between monetary and fiscal stimulus?