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I don’t think it should be. 2 Now, the memo focuses on the period from ‘09, at the beginning of which, the Fed took the fed funds rate to zero for the first time in history to fight the Global Financial Crisis, to the end of ‘21 when it gave up on inflation being transitory and decided to raise interest rates, which it did in early ‘22., The memo I put out in January entitled Easy Money was actually inspired by an English financial historian named Edward Chancellor and a book he wrote called The Price of Time.

So Much That's False Nutty

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : SoMuchThat’sFalseand Nutty As reported in The New York Times of May 5, Warren Buffett told the crowd at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting: There is so much that’s false and nutty in modern investing practice and modern investment banking., Perhaps this memo can help get it back on., In the remainder of this memo, I’ll discuss these trends and their ramifications., A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d 14 * * * “Apropos of nothing,” as my mother used to say, I’m going to use the opportunity provided by this memo to discuss market conditions and the outlook.

Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics

All Rights Reserved Follow us: Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Shall We Repeal the Laws of Economics?, For months, I’ve been saving up clippings for a memo on the above topic, but favorite subjects such as risk, debt, and uncertainty repeatedly jumped the queue, delaying my intended memo until the U.S., Another Case in Point: Rent Control The issue that first suggested this memo several months ago was rent control, something I’ve had personal experience with, having lived in an apartment that rented for $92 a month in 1956, when I was ten.

On Regulation

Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: OnRegulation I’ve been asked why there weren’t any memos during the twelve weeks between September 9 and December 1., It pulls together all of the strands of my philosophy into what might be thought of as a super-memo.

Nobody Knows

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: Howard M a r k s R e : Nobody K n o w s T h e t i t l e o f t h i s m emo isn’t a joke; I mean it.

The Roundup: Top Takeaways From Oaktree’s Quarterly Letters - 4Q2022

(See Howard’s memo The Illusion of Knowledge for Oaktree’s view on the usefulness of macro forecasting.)

We're Not in 1999 Anymore

A l l R i g h t s R e s e r v e d Memo to: OaktreeClients From: HowardMarks Re: We're Not In 1999 Anymore, Toto In "The Wizard of Oz," a tornado carried Dorothy and her dog, Toto, to a land ruled by a mysterious despot in whom people had vested extraordinary powers.

Liquidity

All Rights Reserved Memo to: Oaktree Clients From: Howard Marks Re: Liquidity My wife Nancy’s accusations of repetitiveness notwithstanding, once in a while I think of something about which I haven’t written much., But I think it’s worth a memo., (Several years ago I cited Wikipedia in a memo, and Oaktree co-founder Richard Masson – a stickler for correctness – told me in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t a respectable source., * * * I started this memo by saying liquidity might not be a profound topic.

The Winds of Change

Yet there are changes taking place, and they’ll be the subject of this memo., In my January memo, Something of Value, I described some of the changes technology is making in the business world., In August 2008, on the way to ending my memo What Worries Me, I included a passage from the 2004 book Running on Empty by Pete Peterson (for those who weren’t in the business world in the 20th century, Pete held important positions in government and co-founded Blackstone with Steve Schwarzman): . . . while our problems are not yet intractable, both political parties are increasingly incorrigible., But it has to be part of a memo that purports to discuss important changes that are underway., Senior economics consultant Neil Irwin summed up our situation very well in The New York Times on April 16, 2020 (I borrowed this quote for inclusion in my May 2020 memo Uncertainty.): The world economy is an infinitely complicated web of interconnections.

A Fresh Start Hopefully

Memo t o : O a k t r e e C l i e nts F r o m: Howard M a rks Re: AFreshStart (Hopefully) For years I kept these memos away from anything related to politics.