00:00 – Meet George Noble: Four Decades in the Markets
03:50 – How Markets Changed: From Fundamentals to Financialization
07:30 – The Hidden Problem With Private Equity & Private Credit
14:20 – What Rising Cost of Capital Could Break Next
16:40 – Why Insurance Could Be the Next Big Risk
20:00 – Gold, Deficits & the Coming Liquidity Problem
24:00 – Are “Uncorrelated” Assets Really Diversified?
29:20 – Bitcoin, Speculation & the Gambling Mentality
33:00 – Why Markets Eventually Punish Bad Policy
41:00 – Lessons From Peter Lynch & the Return of Fundamental Investing

What happens when decades of cheap money collide with a rising cost of capital?

On the latest Protect the Pile, R. Patrick Kent, Sam Rahman and Brooks Cutright welcome veteran investor George Noble for a wide-ranging conversation on private equity, private credit, AI, interest rates and where financial stress may be hiding beneath the surface. Noble argues that years of artificially cheap capital have distorted markets—and that the consequences may only now be starting to emerge.

Noble brings more than four decades of investing experience, including managing Fidelity’s first international fund and later billion-dollar hedge funds. He is also the author and publisher of The Noble Report

From AI financing and insurance risk to gold, speculation and lessons learned from Peter Lynch, this episode challenges some of today’s most popular market assumptions.

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The Cheap Money Era Is Over | Protect the Pile Episode 27

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The Cheap Money Era Is Over | Protect the Pile Episode 27