New Year’s Resolutions, the $15 Trillion Liquidity Flood With Garrett Baldwin, Reacting vs Predicting
December 30, 2025
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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: This live-streamed financial chat blends host-led analysis with guest expertise to unpack 2025's market highs amid liquidity floods and Fed maneuvers, delivering a technical yet conversational tone packed with charts and real-time banter.
- The Format: Casual interview with deep-dive market discussion.
- The Key Players:
- Guest: Garrett Baldwin – Financial writer, investor, and Substack author of Me and the Money Printer, known for simplifying complex macro topics like global liquidity and repo markets from his journalism and economics background at Johns Hopkins and Purdue.
🗝️ Key Themes & Topics
The episode dissects 2025's record market highs through liquidity floods, Fed policy shifts, precious metals surges, and trading strategies amid unprecedented global capital flows.
- Topic 1: Liquidity as Market Driver – Hosts explore how $15 trillion in global liquidity since 2024 (mostly shadow banking beyond M2) fueled asset rallies, CapEx booms, and IPOs, inverting the Chicago Fed's Financial Conditions Index to mirror S&P 500 gains; valuation expansion, not earnings, dominates returns globally.
- Topic 2: Fed's Hidden Stability Mandate – Discussion reveals the Fed prioritizes repo market stability (via SOFR over Fed funds rate) and financial asset prices over traditional inflation/em
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What you'll learn
- 1 Financial writer/investor with journalism, economics background; advanced studies at Johns Hopkins, Purdue, Kelley School of Business; ex-financial publishing/competitive intelligence; hosts *Market Masters* at TheoTrade; newsletters: *Me and the Money Printer*, *Postcards from the Edge*.
- 2 Record highs in stocks, consumer spending, capex, IPOs, GDP despite Fed's 3 cuts in 2025; 16% odds for Jan cut.
- 3 Shift focus from economy to global liquidity: $15T added since Jan 2024 ($13T in 2025 alone), per Michael Howell; "flood" not tailwind.
- 4 Liquidity drives assets (Druckenmiller: "liquidity moves prices"); expands multiples, boosts capex/IPOs/consumer spending via rising incomes/assets/credit.
- 5 Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Index loosest since COVID; inverted, tracks S&P 500 perfectly.
- 6 Stagnant national home prices; Bitcoin flat/down YTD after intra-year gains; oil/energy weak.
- 7 Everything else up: EMs, TIPS, cash, developed Asia/Europe/Japan/Germany, China tech; Russell +9%, S&P ~20% total return, gold +65%, silver ~2x.
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Show Notes
On this TCAF Tuesday, hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Downtown Josh Brown and special co-host Garrett Baldwin!
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