Remove Federal Reserve Data (FRED)
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Data Update 3 for 2021: Currencies, Commodities, Collectibles and Cryptos

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will take a look at these other markets, starting with a way of dividing investments into assets, commodities, currencies and collectibles that I find useful in thinking about what I can (and cannot) do in those markets, and then reviewing how these markets performed during 2020. Currencies : A currency serves three functions.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: Fred Schwed, right? Is that who wrote the — CHANCELLOR: Fred Schwed. CHANCELLOR: They’re buying them to manipulate the currency of China, most of all. So, you’ll see that in this sort of what you might call a proto capitalistic society, interest is serving a number of different important functions.