Become an Expert in Secured Money Markets

The Fed sits at the heart of the global dollar system and is the best place to learn about dollar money markets. Joseph shares his expertise in this course by drawing a wide range of publicly available data and putting all the pieces together for you.

  • Learn what "repo" is - from the basic transactional structure to GC/Specials to the market segments and participants

  • Learn the mechanics behind FX swaps, why uses them and how they fit into the global dollar system

  • Understand how the Fed operates in the secured money markets and keeps the entire system together

  • Access to our community forum where you can ask Joseph questions on the material. Course is 90 minutes.

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Instructor(s)

Principal Joseph Wang

Joseph is the CIO of Monetary Macro LLC, author of Central Banking 101, and operator of Fedguy.com. Earlier in his career he was a senior trader on the Federal Reserve's Open Markets Desk, a credit analyst at S&P Ratings, and an attorney in New York. Through his career he has had the opportunity to study the financial system from the outside as a market participant, but also from its very center on the Desk. His work aims shed light on what often appears to be an opaque system, and to bridge the gap between academia and practice when it comes to financial markets.


Joseph holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and an MSc. in Financial Economics from Oxford University.