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

Musings on Markets

If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. 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.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

And that could be painful, because someone will have to take the pain, even if, unlike 2008, where the risk was concentrated on banks’ balance sheet, today is much more spread across, let’s say, asset managers. If you hit certain targets, certain goals, extra financial goals, then you will improve your cost of funding.