Wall St. For Main St., Released on 8/22/20 As a percentage of GDP, European countries have done way more bailouts and loan guarantees than the US (see chart on screen) since the pandemic started. In early June the ECB announced what some are calling QE Infinity: 1) QE infinity? The European Central Bank’s emergency stimulus […]
Geopolitics & Empire, Released on 7/14/20 Author John Rubino discusses the bursting of the financial bubble by the pandemic and how long governments and central banks can continue to extend the life of the economy with bailouts, deficits, money printing, and negative interest rates. He also gives his take on the US dollar, digital national […]
Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Podcast, Released on 6/24/20 Dr. Ed Yardeni is the President and Chief Investment Strategist of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of independent investment strategy and economics research. James “Jim” Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. […]
Rethinking the Dollar, Released on 6/17/20 Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is […]
Wolfstreet, Released on 6/7/20 What’s so insidious about the Fed’s bailouts of investors in hedge funds, stocks, bonds, leveraged loans, and other often risky assets in a crisis? The destruction of capitalism. Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, […]
The Tom Woods Show, Released on 5/15/20 David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan, joins The Tom Woods Show for a discussion of the wisdom (or otherwise) of the response to COVID-19, and what the economic ramifications are. David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was […]
KCRW, Released on 5/15/20 Nomi covers the Fed, Wall Street and the recent bailouts. Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman […]
Financial Survival Network, Released on 5/6/20 The people running states like New Jersey and cities like Chicago know they’re broke. Ridiculously generous public employee pensions – concocted by elected officials and union leaders who had to have understood that they were writing checks their taxpayers couldn’t cover – are bleeding them dry, with no political […]
