Alain Van Loo, Chief Investment Officer at The Sharp Financial Group, joins Jim Grant to discuss the state of the US financial system and global capital markets. Van Loo and Grant unpack some of the crucial but frequently misunderstood underlying plumbing of the US financial system, with a focus on the money markets and the Fed's repo operations, before widening the lens to talk about investment opportunities in developed and emerging markets. Filmed on November 7th in New York.