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Former JPMorgan strategist Josh Younger explains the repo market — the $5 trillion-per-day overnight lending market that underpins all financial markets. When repo breaks, everything breaks. Most investors don't know it exists.
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Younger describes how repo desk traders are responsible for keeping the financial system's plumbing functioning — a responsibility that provides intense meaning and pressure, even though the work is invisible to the public.
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The repo market is the invisible foundation of global finance — $5 trillion per day in overnight loans that almost no one understands
Younger explains that the repo market — where banks borrow cash overnight using Treasuries as collateral — processes roughly $5 trillion daily and is the single most important market in the world. When it seized in September 2019, the Fed had to intervene within hours.Was this useful?