Stifel Financial (SF) CEO Ron Kruszewski and Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to talk about the macro issues impacting the investment banking firm, including geopolitical tensions and the growing US deficit.

Kruszewski says that tensions between the US and other global powers impact Stifel. "Anything that impacts global flows impacts US flows, and as a financial institution, we're at the fulcrum between savers and people who need capital. We don't want to see those tensions."

The CEO raises some macroeconomic concerns about the growing US debt. "We are the reserve currency of the world. That has a huge advantage. However, we should never take that for granted, and so that's the other warning, you have got to be careful, is that we don't just believe we can print money forever,"

"This is about unleashing the economic activity primarily in the United States, and growth always trumps these concerns [about the national deficit]."

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