The History of the “Fed Put” - FED 11

This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss the history of the Fed backing up the market and ensuring that is does not fall AKA the “Fed Put”. 

Topics: 

• What is the Fed put?
• Define a put option
• Updates on Europe
• Corona Virus cases increasing 
• Crisis in Lebanon 
• Huge Bitcoin 14% difficulty increase
• Bitcoin Options Volume growing  

Links: 

CME Volume increasing: https://www.coindesk.com/cme-bitcoin-options-market-grew-10x-in-the-past-month

Italian Debt surging: 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-debt-is-surging-but-investors-are-playing-it-cool-11591545600

Central Banks Liquidity Swaps: 

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SWPT

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