#062 Jim Rickards: ‘Are You Kidding Me? This Is The Biggest Bailout In History’

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Best-selling author Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) returns to the podcast for the third time to share his views on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and why the intervention — especially the Federal Reserve’s new emergency lending program, the Bank Term Funding Program — is the biggest bailout in history. Rickards is a New York Times bestselling author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis and several other best-sellers, including The New Great Depression, Aftermath, The Road to Ruin, Death of Money, The New Case for Gold, and his newest book Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy. An investment advisor, lawyer, inventor, and economist, Rickards has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. He is also the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a widely-read financial newsletter. 0:00 Intro 1:00 Reaction to SVB, Signature Bank failures 1:54 The mistake Silicon Valley Bank made 4:12 Bond Math 101 4:45 The Fed is between a rock and a hard place 4:52 Huge unrealized losses on the bond portfolio at SVB 6:35 There already was leakage 9:33 Friday’s press release from the FDIC 12:50 Global ripple effects of SVB failure 14:50 Other banks had similar problems 17:08 Biggest bailout in history 23:00 Executive stock sales 24:11 There would likely have been lines at banks 25:00 The biggest crybabies were the billionaires 26:15 The banking system is effectively nationalized 32:00 This was risk management 101 39:46 The Volcker mistake 40:50 Inflation 42:30 You’ll see the Fed expanding the balance sheet 43:30 Name your poison 44:10 25bps at the next Fed meeting is the most likely scenario 44:55 This is the no-drama Fed 45:45 ECB 46:10 It’s a global economy 47:00 Panics have two stages 47:30 Credit Suisse 52:10 A road to ruin 54:35 Each bailout was bigger than the one before 55:30 A front based on confidence 58:30 Deteriorating trust in institutions 1:07:27 Gold