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Covid-19 has presented the private debt market with both challenges and opportunities. William Brady, Mei Lian, Luke McDougall, Diala Minott and Jennifer Yount of Paul Hastings assess some of the major developments.
There’s no shortage of Cassandras sounding the alarm over what some fear is the reckless printing of money by the Federal Reserve and other major central banks to try to shore up their economies in the face of the global pandemic, even as balance sheets and government debts continue to grow exponentially, writes Robin Blumenthal.
The former chief economist at Merrill Lynch has been bearish on the economy for a while. A perfect storm of volatility suggests he’s called it right.