May 31, 2023 / 06:30PM GMT
Patrick Davitt -
All right. Good afternoon, everyone. For those of you that don't know me, I'm Patrick Davitt, US. Asset Manager analyst here at Autonomous. As a reminder, we're using Pigeonhole online for the Q&A today. So if you have any questions for Mike, please throw those in there, and I'll try to pepper them as appropriate.
So it's my pleasure to welcome Ares Management's Co-Founder and CEO, Michael Arougheti. So thanks for joining us this afternoon.
Michael J. Arougheti - Ares Management Corporation - Co-Founder, CEO, President & Director
Thanks for having me.
Questions and Answers:
Patrick Davitt -So given we have most of the major alt CEOs at this conference, I'm starting all the conversations with a similar kind of high-level questions so we can compare and contrast easier across the group. So given everything going on in the world, let's start macro. There's a view that the Fed probably needs to force a recession to tackle inflation. One, do you agree with this view? And through that lens, what is