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Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO and director of Intelligence for Quill Intelligence LLC, a new research and analytics firm. She is known for her meticulous research in the financial markets and her unique perspective honed from years of experience in central banking and on Wall Street. Danielle is a global thought leader sought after for her insights on monetary policy in the United States and elsewhere. In a sign of her ideas’ value, European Parliamentarians invited her to Brussels in May 2018 to share her insights on global economic trends and fiscal policy.     Track record at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas  Earlier last decade, Danielle spent nine years from 2006 at the Dallas Fed, where she served as the advisor to that district’s president, Richard W. Fisher, until his retirement in March 2015. She provided market intelligence and policy briefings and advised Fisher on policy, a unique role, which had not existed outside of the New York Fed before her appointment. Get to know Danielle in today’s feature story, her remarkable career journey from working in equity markets and then being an advisor to Fisher, to her current role as a financial consultant, author, and commentator. More importantly, discover what she regards as her most significant investment loss and the valuable lessons she learned from it.      “My biggest lesson that I’ve ever learned is that I will never again deny the simplicity and the utility of liquidity and it’s as simple as that.”  - Danielle DiMartino Booth       Financial analyst has dodged some serious bullets in her time  While these podcasts are about missteps all our guests have made, Danielle has also had a considerable share of good fortune or made decisions that saved her from calamity; none perhaps more than her rejection of employment offers from four of the most infamous or ill-fated companies in US history: Arthur Andersen, Enron, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns.     So, as she told Andrew: “You never know in life that your choice might just end up being serendipitous but indeed providential at the same time.” This all happened was right before Danielle started working on Wall Street, which was before she returned to Dallas to serve at the Federal Reserve, which was also a move she had never planned to make. Danielle revisits New York every two or three weeks to contribute analysis to media outlets as one of the “Fed Whisperers,” offering explanations as she “understands how central bankers think,” which is a rare talent.     ‘Chief architect’ of liquidity rebirth failed to take her own advice  As a Fed insider, Danielle witnessed the meltdown following the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Her Dallas Fed boss at the time, Richard Fisher, was being criticized for comments against the Fed lowering interest rates to the “zero-bound.” He had pointed out that the ongoing problem was not a case of the price of credit being the impediment to the market working but rather liquidity being frozen, despite it being richly liquid in the years beforehand.     Danielle witnessed and understood her boss’ comments. She had helped to create many of the liquidity systems applied via the New York Fed. She had helped to turn on the financial “jaws of life” to force open the capital markets with liquidity facilities. What she realizes now is she had listened but not truly heard, looked but not truly seen. She had learned nothing from experience.    Despite being “one of the chief architects of these facilities”, she said was perhaps blinded by the emotion brought on by taking interest rates to zero unnecessarily. Then she saw first-hand the collapse of the global investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the bailout of AIG at the cost of US$85 billion bailouts. In the following months, she saw quantitative easing (QE, more or less printing money) rolled out and the effect that had on financial markets. Again and again, she failed to recall the lesson she had taught others about the importance of liquidity.    Now 10 years on, Danielle notes that the European Central Bank (ECB) finally stopped its QE program (one of the measures used to stimulate liquidity and therefore the markets) early this year but flags up that it is going to be the first for being “net negative in a global liquidity position in over a decade”.      Danielle’s takeaways  1. When liquidity opened up, Danielle says she should have jumped in feet first and invested enthusiastically to follow the flow until ECB chairman Mario Draghi put a halt on the ECB’s QE, but not until then because …   2. “Liquidity is global. It is fungible, it is agnostic, it knows no borders, and it knows no asset classes. It flows to wherever the cracks are open.” Liquidity moves where it can “find a home.” Every single asset class in the world has moved up, even gold, because of the rise in liquidity, which, over the past decade, “has found many homes”:   Australian, New Zealand and Canadian real estate  Many commodities markets  Hong Kong residential real estate   Commercial real estate in London   Corporate bonds in the United States   Stocks almost anywhere   3. Investors need to understand that as long as the wave of liquidity exists, they should not fight the waves. She explains: “As long as the liquidity is abundant, then you should be invested in risky assets.”    4. BUT: Now that liquidity is being withdrawn, the markets (and investors) do not like it at all.    5. Investors worldwide should be really aware of what central bankers are doing, and that is, all central bank bosses are applying the same policies  Even the Bank of Japan appears like it will not continue down the QE path.   The fact that QE is being pulled back into 2019 “should be completely front and center for investors worldwide”.    Andrew’s takeaways  1. Looking back at Danielle’s time at the Fed, interest rates were coming down.     2. As Danielle said, the price of credit, in other words, the interest rate, did not cause tightening in that market. Instead, the banks were flush with cash, but they were not lending.     3. Though lending rates were low, banks were risk averse and held back on lending.     4. The Fed stepped in and tried to get liquidity moving in the system.    5. When interest rates are brought down, and floods of money come into a system, you usually get two things:   Inflation, and   Malinvestment    Q&A on debt and how investors should prepare for the coming storm    Andrew Q1:   Companies and individuals were really hurt after the crisis, so they did not borrow that much in the first five years after the financial crisis. But a lot of that bad debt went onto the balance sheet of the US government.   Now the government’s sitting on a huge pile of debt and that is partly put on the Chinese government also.   Is this just a currency/government problem or is it really a consumer and a company problem now?     Danielle A1: Both sadly.     Aggregate GDP in China is above 300%; their non-financial debt is the likes of which we’ve never seen.   Non-financial debt to GDP in the United States is higher than it’s been in the history of mankind.  So is government debt – looking at US$1.3 trillion in deficit by next year.     Andrew Q2:   What should the average Joe investor think now that we see that the market is very high, driven by lots of the factors that we’re talking about? Is it going to go higher? Or should they think this is headed for a crash? Or can the markets be maintained at this level?    Danielle A2:     A lot of people think that governments and/or central banks are going to turn on the money-printing-press again   BUT: Before they turn the printing press on, they will have to lower interest rates back to the zero-bound.   That means going through a recession to get there.   “I lost in the weeds … because I was a bitter person inside the factory, inside the money-printing institution.”  “As long as the liquidity is abundant, then you should be invested in risky assets. If the liquidity spigot turns off, then you should not be ashamed to take advantage of 3% returns on cold hard cash and maybe have some gold as a hedge, in the coming one or two years.”     Final words from Danielle:  “You always take your profits off the table. If you want to let the dice roll, leave your cost base is there, take your profits. Put them in something safe, call it a day and you’ve still got a foothold in your original position.”    In other words, when she was working on Wall Street, Danielle used to have a yellow post-it on her computer that said:    “Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered.”    Resources from Andrew Stotz:  Andrew Stotz book 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them  My Worst Investment Ever  How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market    Further reading:  Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again – Peter Wallison      Resources from Danielle DiMartino Booth: Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America  Latest Weekly Newsletter     Connect with Danielle DiMartino Booth: dimartinobooth.com LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Connect with Andrew Stotz: astotz.com LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

This seminar was given by Peter Wallison, of American Enterprise Institute and author of “Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again. It was held on October 22, 2015 as part of the M-RCBG’s Business & Government Seminar Series.

Today on The Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Senator Lindsey Graham also joins the show, as well as Congressman Jim Jordan. Also on the show is Jeff Kilburg, Founder and CEO of KKM Financial along with Don Luskin, author of "I Am John Galt." Peter Wallison, author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Financial Crisis and White It Could Happen Again" joins Larry. As always, the money/politics panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on The Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Senator Lindsey Graham also joins the show, as well as Congressman Jim Jordan. Also on the show is Jeff Kilburg, Founder and CEO of KKM Financial along with Don Luskin, author of "I Am John Galt." Peter Wallison, author of "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Financial Crisis and White It Could Happen Again" joins Larry. As always, the money/politics panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on The Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Governor Rick Perry (R-TX). Also on the show is Governor Mike Pence (R-IN). Benn Steil, author of:"The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order" joins the show. More great guests include Mike Ozanian, Co-host "Sports Money" on the YES Network and Barry Ritholtz, author of: "Bailout Nation" and Weblog: "The Big Picture." Peter Wallison, author of NEW BOOK: "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again." As always, the Money/Politics Panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on The Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Governor Rick Perry (R-TX). Also on the show is Governor Mike Pence (R-IN). Benn Steil, author of:"The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order" joins the show. More great guests include Mike Ozanian, Co-host "Sports Money" on the YES Network and Barry Ritholtz, author of: "Bailout Nation" and Weblog: "The Big Picture." Peter Wallison, author of NEW BOOK: "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again." As always, the Money/Politics Panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!

Today on The Larry Kudlow Show, Larry talks with Governor Rick Perry (R-TX). Also on the show is Governor Mike Pence (R-IN). Benn Steil, author of:"The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order" joins the show. More great guests include Mike Ozanian, Co-host "Sports Money" on the YES Network and Barry Ritholtz, author of: "Bailout Nation" and Weblog: "The Big Picture." Peter Wallison, author of NEW BOOK: "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again." As always, the Money/Politics Panel with James Pethokoukis, Steve Moore, and John McIntyre. All this and much more on The Larry Kudlow Show!