Peters: Central Banks Are No Longer Truly Independent of Treasuries
Eric Peters · Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180) · Mar 8, 2021 · at 34:56
One River Asset Management CIO Eric Peters discusses how pandemic-era monetary and fiscal coordination broke long-standing economic orthodoxy on central bank independence.
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“We no longer really have independent central banks. They're working together with treasury, and politicians are looking at that as a solution right now, and inflation hasn't taken off.”
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