05/07/2022
Episode #47 with Shaun Richards is live on The Purse Podcast.
Shaun Richards is an independent economist who specialises in inflation measurement and monetary economics. This follows a career in the City of London where he specialised in derivatives (mainly options) on interest-rates and bonds.
We talk about:
An overview of the global economy: rising inflation, interest rates, slowing economic growth
-Why are the central banks slow to raise interest rates?
-How does money printing or quantitative easing (QE) affect global currency & its value?
-Buying assets to hedge inflation including bitcoin
-Can central banks ever stop printing money?
-What affect does an aging population, technology, indebtnesses have on the economy over the long-term?
Please enjoy! Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify+
Business · 2022