April 15, 2019· 40 min

Why Foreign Investors Cooled On U.S. Debt

Orality
Model
92%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,087 words)
M:94%
HostJoe Weisenthal(947 words)
M:94%
GuestZoltan Pozsar(4,438 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic50%
very, completely, clearly
Engagement67%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, so, see
Repetition100%
know (90x), market (47x), think (46x)
Parallelism100%
So have you heard the story ab..., And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So I'm just gonna I need to wo...
Sound Patterns67%
45 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases9%
you know what, i mean, if you will

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
might, maybe, probably
Passive Voice4%
is often, are engaged, be exposed
Abstract Nouns17%
investment, prescription, medication
Subordination9%
though, because, while
Sentence Length50%
Avg: 17.4 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style33%
452 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
automatically, family, specifically

Description

There's something wrong with prices in funding and bond markets, according to this week's Odd Lots guest. Zoltan Pozsar is a former adviser to the U.S. Treasury turned strategist at Credit Suisse. He argues that sweeping changes in the world's money markets help explain why foreign investors aren't buying as much U.S. debt as they used to. That could have big implications for the Federal Reserve as it attempts to wind down its balance sheet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.