Sentences with phrase «if financial repression»

If financial repression continues, you want to own the least bad thing out there, which is equities.

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Because low - risk investments return roughly 20 % on average in a country with 20 % nominal GDP growth, financial repression means that the benefits of growth are unfairly distributed between savers (who get just the deposit rate, say 3 %), banks, who get the spread between the lending and the deposit rate (say 3.5 %) and the borrower, who gets everything else (13.5 % in this case, assuming he takes little risk — even more if he takes risk).

«Regarding financial repression, if you think about interest rates today, it is very painful for an institution to hold cash.

You recently had a discussion with our co-founder, Gordon T. Long, and I'm just wondering if you can relate that in terms of how financial repression has caused the trade wars.

And so in terms of financial repression, perhaps the one key sector that we need to look at is student loan debt because so many millennials are carrying student loan debt, and you know a small student loan debt is like $ 25,000 - $ 30,000 if someone can escape with a bachelor's diploma and only have $ 30,000 in debt they're considered to have done quite well, but when you think about it that's a pretty large debt for somebody who doesn't even have a full - time job yet.

So, at the margin, an investor would probably be wise to give equities a little more benefit of the doubt, and hence a little more weight in their portfolio than they would do, if the Fed weren't pursuing policies of financial repression.

If you think financial repression will go on for another 20 years, you need to have equities.

If avoiding a painful recession requires zero or negative interest rates that juice up asset prices and force investors — through financial repression — to reach for yield and take more risk than they should, then — so the wisdom of today's central bankers» goes — so be it.