A (the?) main risk to the financial system

is when people put money into assets that they think are safe, and those safe assets turn out to be correlated and risky. 

The more sorts of safe tranches you manufacture out of the basic raw materials of business cash flows, the more ways some of them could go wrong.

Private Equity  You take a thing with some risk, you divide it into a risky first-loss piece (the equity) and a safer second-loss piece (the debt), you sell the risky piece to people who want high returns and the safe piece to people who want safety. 

Matt Levine Bloomberg 24 July 2024



Private Equity  


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