This week, ck and Ansel sit down to discuss the history of the Fed backing up the market and ensuring that is does not fall AKA the “Fed Put”. 

Topics: 

• What is the Fed put?
• Define a put option
• Updates on Europe
• Corona Virus cases increasing 
• Crisis in Lebanon 
• Huge Bitcoin 14% difficulty increase
• Bitcoin Options Volume growing  

Links: 

CME Volume increasing: https://www.coindesk.com/cme-bitcoin-options-market-grew-10x-in-the-past-month

Italian Debt surging: 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-debt-is-surging-but-investors-are-playing-it-cool-11591545600

Central Banks Liquidity Swaps: 

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SWPT

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