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Thank you. Im happy to be here today to introduce amy webb. Her title is quantitative futurist, so she has the most interesting title of anybody in this room. She founded the future today institute. She studies technology and science. She guides universities, intotry, and government navigating change. She explores a range of intriguing ideas such as fair and equal codebase against the dangers of bias. Her most recent book teaches us how to think like a futurist and distinguish the real trend fro...

Should be a national holiday. They should swap president s day out for super bowl monday. The fact we have to work the morning after, being required as americans to calling on preside trump to do something about it right now. [ cheers and applause ] thats one he would do, right . It was a this is us last nigh. Eagles won their first super bowl ever, toppling tom brady and the dynasty known as the new England Patriots 4133. Tom brady, a quart of almond mi and ate half of a grape. [ applause ] the...

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Creditors what he called terrorism. Meantime, greek banks remain closed today. The atms are running out of money. The ecb is holding a Conference Call today tole try and decide how long to keep a life live at the banks. Meantime Germanys Angela Merkel will meet with Frances Francois hollande today. And theres a meeting of creditors today. We were talking before the show it just is confounding to me just watching it happen. It almost looks like you get so defiant at some point, youd almost rather...

Putting together the session. A great deal of interest to ge capital capital, and i think to any issuer who makes regular use of the bond markets. The whole question of liquidity and if it doesnt function as it should means the bond markets do not function efficiently. Representing issuers or the viewpoint, which is what im most familiar with, to the extent that the bond markets cease to be effective, more important, a source of capitol, which can be flexible in its form, and allows issuers like...

Liquidity. And we cant let this narrative go unchallenged. Youve seen it in the fsoc annual report. There was a drive by of it in the multi Agency Report that came out last october. And ive been around this town long enough there always has to be a boogeyman somewhere when youre trying to misdirect. I think this is an area that we need to encourage and not run away from and not vilify, not accept the standard pushback that were getting. And the second point, too which is this notion of the aggre...

Whats needed is an order displaced facility. It doesnt have to be mandated by the government, bit has to be something where private entities can create these things where the price res made public, not necessarily through a consolidated system. But if not reuters or others will consolidate the information just as incident either active does. But most importantly, a system where youre not allowed to trade through those prices because youre not doing your client a service by failing to pick up the...

Its going to predict how it would react under a stress event. And so was the key one of the key issues is what how are investors anticipating this . Is this part of their Investment Strategy . And do prices reflect it, and do practice Risk Management practices reflect that . I think that there are two issues we have to separate as we address the questions you offered. Is there a liquidity crisis . The first is are we in the midst of a transition from one type of market to over. If over night, we...

Issues we have to separate as we address the questions you offered. Is there a liquidity crisis . The first is are we in the midst of a transition from one type of market to over. If over night, we say that ever bond dealer who works in a bank can no longer deal bonds, the next day it will be a little harder to buy bounds. No question about it, and sell them as well. But what will happen afterwards, the banks will sell their operations to hedge funds to other companies, to the employees themselv...