Stablecoins Are The New Eurodollars | Daniel Neilson on Death Spirals, Liquidity Runs, and The Fragility of Par

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Daniel Neilson, professor of economics at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and author of “Soon Parted,” returns to Forward Guidance to share findings from his seminal paper, “On par: A Money View of stablecoins.” Co-authored with Iñaki Aldasoro and Perry Mehrling as a working paper for the Bank For International Settlements (BIS), this paper compares on-chain currency (stablecoins) to Eurodollars to explore how they deal with issues of liquidity and par settlement. Filmed on December 8, 2023.

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BIS Paper, “On par: A Money View of stablecoins”: https://www.bis.org/publ/work1146.pdf

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:34) Why Stablecoins?

(04:46) The Issue Of Par

(09:43) The Great Financial Crisis Of 2008

(12:12) Did The Fed's Rate Surge Halt The Stablecoin Boom?

(22:06) Stablecoins, The New Eurodollars

(24:20) The Need For Smooth Forward Markets

(27:40) There's No Central Bank In Crypto

(34:22) Silicon Valley Bank and Circle

(49:43) Tether

(01:02:20) The Role Of Zero Interest Rates

(01:05:01) The Role Of Stablecoins: "Lots of Fireworks"

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