Billionaire investor Marc Lasry says the Fed's rampant stimulus makes 2020 a once in a lifetime opportunity for investors, as the US economy is fundamentally fine

He called COVID-19 a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for investors, who he said can benefit from massive stimulus while the economy itself is fundamentally solid.
"You're not going to see this again. Where you've actually got an economy that's fine, and you've got a Fed pumping trillions of dollars in," he told Yahoo! Finance.
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The Fed pouring trillions of dollars to shore up markets has in fact made coronavirus a "once in a lifetime opportunity," billionaire investor Marc Lasry says.

"I know you're not supposed to say this, but it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. You're not going to see this again. Where you've actually got an economy that's fine, and you've got a Fed pumping trillions of dollars in," Lasry, the CEO of Avenue Capital Group and the co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks told Yahoo! Finance.

Read More: UBS has compiled an investing playbook for all the possible election outcomes. Here are the 6 trades it recommends to profit from a Trump triumph and 10 for a Biden blue wave. In recent weeks, the Fed has poured trillions of dollars into the economy to help it ride out the coronavirus. The Fed's measures include $2.3 trillion in lending to support households, employers, financial markets, and state and local governments, as well as reducing interest rates to almost zero. The central bank also bought $428 million worth of bonds issued by individual companies , as part of a $250 billion programme to buy corporate debt. Companies whose debt the scheme has already purchased include household names like Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Berkshire Hathaway. Read More: Buy these 15 stocks that are shielded from COVID-19 fallout and primed to beat the market even as virus cases spike, Evercore says Lasry compared the current climate to the Great Recession. "You've got a lot of companies that are in trouble," Larry said. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime, but it happened 10 years ago, also." But Lasry believes the economy is better prepared to survive the ongoing COVID-19 crisis than the economy could have, had this happened in 2008. He said: "Today we all know something. We will be fine in two years. People will be back out, there will be a vaccine. The question is: How long will it take to get back to normal?" He also said that making loans to other companies that subsequently collapse is what helps debt investors like himself do "extremely well." Lasry's hedge fund has piled into the stocks of companies who have recently filed for bankruptcy, including Hertz and J.C. Penney . NOW WATCH: What it takes to be a PGA Tour caddie See Also: A gauge of US service activity posts is biggest monthly jump since 1997 as the economy reopens These 6 charts from the June jobs report show how much the economy has recovered and how much further it has to go A 22-year market vet explains why stocks are headed for a 'massive reset' as the economy struggles to recover from COVID-19 and outlines why that will put mega-cap tech companies in serious danger