VRIC Media, Released on 12/24/24

Steve Hanke has his eyes on a number of geopolitical events and global conflicts, including escalations between Russia and Ukraine, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, China’s restriction of commodities exports to the West, and much more. Steve sees a fundamental shift in the way the world is operating into a bifurcated division of East and West, where shifting alliances will redesign economies, markets, and the path of history itself. His latest book is Capital, Interest, and Waiting: Controversies, Puzzles, and New Additions to Capital Theory.

00:00 Introduction
00:52 Effects of Trump Presidency: Good & Bad
08:36 Steve Hanke Versus Elon Musk
13:19 Geopolitical Landscape
20:27 Outlook on Gold
24:11 Commodities Bull Cycle Ahead?
30:41 Fixed Income Market
33:48 Canada’s Economic Woes

Steve Hanke is an American applied economist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise in Baltimore, Maryland. Hanke is known for his work as a currency reformer in emerging-market countries. He was a senior economist with President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1982, and has served as an adviser to heads of state in countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is also known for his work on currency boards, dollarization, hyperinflation, water pricing and demand, benefit-cost analysis, privatization, and other topics in applied economics. Hanke has written extensively as a columnist for Forbes magazine and other publications. He is also a currency and commodity trader. His latest book is Capital, Interest, and Waiting: Controversies, Puzzles, and New Additions to Capital Theory.

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