Chamath: “What does the Fed actually do in 2025?”
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Brief Summary
The episode critiques the Fed's effectiveness in monetary policy and data reliance for 2025.
Key points
- The Role of the Fed in 2025. Exploring the effectiveness of the Fed's monetary policy and its impact on the economy.
Transcript
What does the Fed actually do in 2025? We have an extremely vibrant and complicated and interconnected $130 trillion global economy. It's moving at the speed of light. The Fed gets together once a month, tries to divine what monetary policy, what the money supply should look like based on data that is often incorrect. We see that in the BLS data. We see that in the GDP prints. We see it in all of the inputs. So, I think the real question is there are certain parts of what the Fed does that they can continue to do and I think everybody would probably say it's an okay thing. Could they be a lender last resort? Personally, in my opinion, no. I
think that Treasury does a better job. And I think that Treasury has a better mechanism to get the American taxpayer a win than the Fed does. Do they actually create monetary policy and price stability? I would say that the capital markets and the free markets actually do a better job of that. They define much more what the spread is. I think sofur is a much better rate mechanism than the Fed funds rate at this point. Do they do banking supervision and regulation? Yeah, they probably do a reasonably good job of that. Do they do a good job as a payment system and a clearing house? Again, probably something that's pretty uncontroversial that they could continue
to do. The bigger picture is the two things that are the most dynamic, they are the worst at doing. And so I would actually question whether that responsibility should sit with a handful of humans looking at faulty month old data.





