Don't be alarmed by the harse tone of this episode. A contractionary phase in the monetary cycle is a difficult and challenging one for labor, real estate, and capital markets. After years of expanding the monetary base, which had led to misallocations of inexpensive capital, those funds must be now eviscerated.

Ivan explains the only two ways that capital is necessarily destroyed in a contractionary monetary policy environment.

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