Wednesday, April 5, 2023

History of Interest Rates


History of Interest Rates
April 5, 2023


Interest rates affects every part of the US economy and has global impact.

Professor Emeritus of Economics at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, author and financial historian Dr. Richard Sylla on one of his most widely studied areas... interest rates.

After authoring "A History of Interest Rates" a book which examined over four millennia of interest rates trhoughout periods of inflation, financial crises' and recessions, there's no one better equipped to discuss the Fed's current tightening cycle and how it impacted banks such as SVB in the Fed's current quest to fight inflation.

00:00 Introduction 00:39 A Return To Normalcy For Interest Rates 05:10 How Interest Rate Rises Led To SVB's Collapse 09:24 The First Bank of The United States 13:36 Paul Volcker's Historic Interest Rate Rises 20:35 Why We Have Inflation Now... But Not Post 2008 28:03 Permissionless 29:06 The Fed's Between A Rock & A Hard Place 32:03 The Savings & Loan Crisis 37:41 All Signs Point Towards A Recession 44:59 Blockworks Research 45:59 What An Inverted Yield Curve Really Indicates 48:49 A Banking Panic Solution, Through The Eyes of Alexander Hamilton 57:03 How ZIRP Caused Problems In The Financial System

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