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Apr 2023
1h 11m

Will the Fed Thread the Needle? with Ita...

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About this episode

Itay Vinik is the Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Equi, an alternative investment platform that brings investment strategies to accredited investors.

Today, Itay returns to the pod to answer the question: can the Fed thread the needle between inflation and recession?

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------ Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 6:00 Itay Returns 8:00 Reflecting on 2022 12:04 Equi Portfolio 15:35 Threading the Needle 19:10 Destroying Wealth 26:45 Accelerating Chaos 29:10 Inflation and Monetary Supply 38:30 The Fed is Bleeding 43:30 Small Cap Stocks 46:00 Will the Fed Pivot? 55:14 Economic Recession 1:01:14 Recession Indicators 1:02:59 Hopium 1:06:24 The US Banking System 1:09:44 How to Analyze the Economy

------ Resources:

Itay Vinik https://twitter.com/VinikItay?s=20 

Equi https://www.equi.com/ 

Links to our recent macro series https://youtu.be/pP_HHE0kFhA  https://youtu.be/E8lxrsF29u0  https://youtu.be/-DzY_pCFGbIhttps://youtube.com/live/eregdZPLYjghttps://youtu.be/5sNCrPAwt6w 

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