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Jan 2024
56m 51s

Easy Money

OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
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In his latest memo, Howard Marks considers what financial history can teach us about periods of easy money, the impact they have on investor behavior, and what happens when they end. He analyzes macroeconomic trends using insights from Edward Chancellor’s latest book The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest to argue that we’re unlikely to soon see the return of the permissive investment climate that prevailed in recent decades.

The memo is read by LJ Ganser.

You can read the memo here (https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/easy-money).

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