The Notion You Need Inflation To Create Growth “Is Just Bullshit”: Lawrence Lepard
At the risk of turning this week into International Lawrence Lepard Week here on the blog, I had a wonderful conversation with my friend Larry yesterday on my podcast.
At the risk of turning this week into International Lawrence Lepard Week here on the blog, I had a wonderful conversation with my friend Larry yesterday on my podcast that I think supplements my articles on Larry this week.
I had the pleasure of speaking to Larry yesterday not only about his most recent investor letter, but also about his thoughts on the possibility for World War III, the state of Russia and China working together, and whether markets will crash or go hyperinflationary.
On Monday, I published Larry's rundown of monetary policy history leading up to 1980. In the article, Larry also explained why he thinks paper gold suppression could mean and eventual 5x in gold prices.
On Tuesday, I published Larry's thoughts on the evolving monetary landscape globally that's occurring as a result of the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Larry wrote that he believed Putin "knows the monetary system is a credit based ponzi scheme" and he laid out 4 different catalysts for higher gold, silver and bitcoin prices.
Yesterday, during our discussion, we followed up on these two articles from the week but also tackled a whole host of new topics.
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About Larry Lepard
Larry manages the EMA GARP Fund, a Boston based investment management firm. Their strategy is focused on providing "Monetary Debasement Insurance". He has 38 years experience and an MBA from Harvard Business School. On Twitter he is @LawrenceLepard Managing Partner and, via email, he is llepard@ema2.com
Disclaimer: QTR is long various gold and silver miners and have both long and short exposure to the market through equities and derivatives. I have no position in Larry’s funds. Larry is a subscriber to Fringe Finance and has been on my podcast. The excerpts from Larry’s letter, above, shall not be construed as an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to sell, any securities or services. Any such offering may only be made at the time a qualified investor receives from EMA formal materials describing an offering plus related subscription documentation. There is no guarantee the Fund’s investment strategy will be successful. Investing involves risk, and an investment in the Fund could lose money. The strategy is also subject to the following risks: Currency Risk, Non-US Investment Risks, Issuer Specific Risk.
Great listen and thought provoking. Since I'm a giving man and very generous with other people's time, it would be great to hear you both follow up in approximately 2 months when we've gone through another quarter and another Fed meeting. Larry's up front honesty, especially with how the circumstances in the GFC blew up in his face when things fell apart but the big earthquake didn't happen, really held my attention. In the meantime, where is Marc Spiegel? We need some red meat now that Tesla has released earnings and proven it's worth it's 205 P/E with with net income about a 4th or 3d of Ford's (and a Ford P/E of nothing...well, 3.5 which is about nothing in this day and age). How about that offer for Musk Spindustries to buy out their main marketing agent, aka Twitter, and keep free speech alive? *there may be some sarcasm at hand. The shocking thing for me is to that, across the 'normal' conservative and libertarian-bitcoin spectrum, so many are falling for another Elon Da Vinci-Washington narrative. Unfortunately, I see a strong knee jerk reaction in favor of Musk because he figured out that tugging the nose of the woke mob and Hollywood earns a lot of social credit with those in the libertarian-pro bitcoin-pro sound money-pro conservative camp who take his bs at face value.
Too much Inflation everywhere...