Can You Ever Actually De-Risk The Banking System?

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Joe

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast. I'm Joe Weisenthal. And

Tracy

I'm Tracy Alloway.

Joe

Tracy, you know we do all these episodes about private credit and obviously hedge funds, multi strategy hedge funds in particular lately. And, of course, it all sort of seems to be part of a bigger story of a bunch of things that used to happen inside banks no longer happening inside banks. Right.

Tracy

And this has been, like, a continual process ever since, like, the 2008 financial crisis. But even before that, we had, like, big periods of bank disintermediation, which we talked about recently on that episode with Hugh Van Stinas.

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