Wall St for Main St interviewed Charles Ortel, who is an investor, money manager and writer. In this podcast, we discussed the volatility in the stock market, the low oil prices and how it is affecting the nationalist oil countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran and we also talked about Charles six month investigation of the Clinton Foundation. His investigation found some shocking information on how the Clinton Foundation is being managed. Check it out! 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, oil expert Dan Steffens of the Energy Prospectus Group https://www.energyprospectus.com/

Dan has over 30 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry. 

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Dan about OPEC and the oil cartel's power over the oil market? 

Dan says OPEC more specifically the Saudis has tried to intentionally bankrupt shale oil companies to gain market share but that OPEC is hurting financially now with these low oil prices.

Dan thinks OPEC may cut production in the near future. 

Next, Jason asks Dan why M&A hasn't occurred in oil exploration and production companies? 

Dan expects that to occur in the near future after oil prices start to rise. 

Jason and Dan discuss the supply/demand fundamentals of oil. Dan says 25 times the amount of real oil is traded daily in paper oil. (Does this remind you of gold and silver futures markets?)

Jason asks about potential dividend cuts from Chevron, ExxonMobil, etc. Dan doesn't think they will cut the dividend. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Dan about the natural gas and the LNG markets as well as what types of oil companies are safe investments.

Jason Burack and Eric Dubin return for Episode 7 of the new Welcome to Dystopia podcast. 

In this podcast, they talk extensively about market volatility reappearing in stocks after almost no volatility for the last few years. 

Jason and Eric discuss how all the major economies in the world are trying to manage or manipulate important markets. 

The stock market, the oil market and the gold and silver markets are discussed. 

With this increased intervention, Jason reads his "3 Most Important Rules for Investing in the New Normal" and how much rules changes going forward are going to be a difficult part to figure out. 

Next, Jason and Eric talk about the gold and silver mining sector and how there's a new article out talking about the cost of gold miners http://www.zealllc.com/2015/gm1200fl.htm and why it's not an accurate picture of the industry since the cyclical bear market for gold and silver (manipulated) started in 2011. 

Scumbag of the Week Nominees: 

1) Former Subway sandwich pitch man and pervert/child porn aficionado, Jared Foglehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mo...

2) Government agencies and law enforcement practicing totally unjustified civil forfeiturehttp://photographyisnotacrime.com/201...

3) Oligarch and president of the Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko breaks a key part of the Minsk II "peace treaty." See: http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=499156

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, editor of the Hat Trick Letter http://www.goldenjackass.com/, Jim Willie. 

Jim has been writing his newsletter about the global economy, gold, etc for over a decade and has had many successful predictions years in advance including predicting the 2008 collapse of US banks. 

During this hour+ long interview, Jason starts off by asking Jim if China is planning additional retaliation against the US after their couple of devaluations against the US Dollar for the RMB not being allowed into the SDR?

Jim says the RMB will never be allowed into the SDR. 

Next, Jason asks Jim why do you think China, Russia and the BRICs haven't pulled the plug yet and what steps do you think need to be taken before they do it?

Jim says China is currently dumping massive amounts of US Treasuries and they are requiring the RMB for trade settlement. 

Next, Jason asks Jim about why the oil price is falling and if the Saudis or OPEC hired Wall St to intentionally short the paper oil market? 

Jim thinks the Saudis and OPEC are pushing the oil price down to bankrupt US shale oil companies and also punish the US banks who loaned money and underwrote hedges for the US shale producers. 

Jim thinks the coming oil bust will not be contained and will be bigger than the US sub prime mortgage and housing crisis that spread into the US banking system, into all US real estate and across the globe. 

Next, Jason asks Jim about evidence of developing shortages in the physical silver market. Jim says the shortages will get worse as Wall St banks are destroying the precious metals mining sector. 

Jason and Jim discuss whether the covert price manipulation of silver is like a government mandated price control.

After that, Jason asks Jim about US Secretary of State John Kerry's comments about the US Dollar losing its sole World Reserve Currency (WRC) status and why a high level US politician would admit that in public?

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Jim about Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve's bloated, growing balance sheet and if they are trapped and can ever raise interest rates and the gold market. 

Jason asks Jim why mainstream, Progressive billionaires like Stanley Druckenmiller are buying gold for the first time in their lives and why China only reported an increase in its gold holdings of 1600 tons?

Jim Willie says we are in the 9th inning of the current financial system and global economy before the next global economic system is put into place. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, precious metals expert David Jensen who owns a private mining company and also is a paid consultant in the precious metals mining industry. 

During this 50+ minute interview, Jason asks David about his views about the global economy. David talks about the consequences of zero interest rate policy or ZIRP caused by governments using financial repression to manipulate interest rates. 
David talks about John Exeter's inverse expansion pyramid and the importance of gold during an economic collapse because of no counter party risk from owning metal. 

David and Jason discuss inflation, deflation, base metals and the employment situation in the US.

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks David a lot of questions about the gold and silver markets and also gold and silver miners. 

They discuss a COMEX default, if it's possible for silver shortages and how much money gold and silver miners are losing. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, the founder and managing partner of 720 Global http://www.720global.com/, Michael Lebowitz, CFA. (Chartered Financial Analyst) 

Michael's articles appear on Zero Hedge and he has previously worked in the financial industry trading bonds and derivatives at Fannie Mae for 15 years including during the 2008 financial crisis and he also ran a very successful investment firm for 8 years. 

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Michael about his recent articles that have appeared on Zero Hedge about share buybacks. Michael calls them fraudulent. 

Jason and Michael discuss all the misallocations of capital in the economy. 

Jason and Michael have a long discussion about the current macroeconomic situation, deflation, inflation and currency wars. 

Michael is more of a deflationist right now although Jason got him to admit his bills are rising on many everyday items along with his property taxes. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Michael would investors should be doing right now to protect themselves?

Wall St for Main St interviewed Jeffrey Tucker, who is the Chief Liberty Officer and Founder of Liberty.me. In this podcast, we discussed the growing popularity of Bitcoin and he thinks Bitcoin will replace gold/silver as the safe haven for Main Street. We also talked about the debate of minimum wage, income inequality, his article on Donald Trump that went viral and much more! 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest "Doc" from Silver Doctorshttp://www.silverdoctors.com/ to talk about his article about a potential wholesale silver shortage. 

Here's the link to his article: http://www.silverdoctors.com/wholesal... so you can come to your own conclusions. 

During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks Doc about the journey of silver and gold from the mine site to bars and coins at the bullion dealer. 

Then, they discuss Doc's controversial article about a potential shortage. 

Doc thinks through his sources there's evidence of a developing shortage. 

He thinks sentiment levels for precious metals are much worse than 2008. 

Jason and Doc discuss whether silver can ever be in a shortage and also discuss the supply/demand fundamentals of physical metal instead of the paper price. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and co-host of the Welcome to Dystopia podcast, independent financial and geopolitical analyst, and the managing editor of The News Doctorshttp://thenewsdoctors.com/, Eric Dubin, had on former successful lawyer and entrepreur and current host of the very popular Financial Survival Network show http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/, Kerry Lutz for this week's show.

Financial Survival Network has over 14 million downloads on iTunes in only a few years since it was started. 

During this new episode of Welcome to Dystopia, Jason asks Kerry about how he found the Austrian School of Economics and became a Libertarian when he was a successful lawyer in NYC. 

Kerry talks about the Austrian School Economics and then Jason asks him about the problems with today's legal system. 

Kerry thinks the legal system continues to spiral out of control with power and corruption and is a symptom of the decline in the US. 

Jason asks Kerry about inflation and deflation and if he's surprised TPTB have been able to prevent another collapse for so long after 2008. Kerry says he's been very surprised and that it's impossible to accurately predict when the SHTF so people should prepare ahead of time. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Eric ask Kerry about how people can survive and thrive in this environment and solutions for people who can't afford to buy lots of different types of investments and inflation hedges to protect themselves and their families from what is to come. 


Nominees for Scumbag of the Week:
1) The EPA for possibly intentionally dumping 3 million gallons of toxic sludge containing lead and arsenic into the Animas River in Colorado to gain extra Superfund cleanup money

2) Many 20 something female teachers in the the US who are now getting caught having sex with 15 and 16 year old boys (there's at least a few of these cases per month now all over the US according to the NY Post stories and other sources)

3) AT&T for being so eager to screw over its customers to help the NSA according to new info from Edward Snowden http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08...

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, oil and energy expert Dr. Kent Moors.

http://oilandenergyinvestor.com/.

Dr. Moors has over 30 years of experience working in the oil and energy industries in many different positions as well as a consultant for big oil companies, oil producing countries, etc.

He's invited to important oil meetings in London, Dubai, etc. 

During this 40+ minute discussion about the oil market, Dr. Moors says there's absolutely ZERO evidence that oil demand has collapsed but rather that there's a small over supply of oil and he also drops a bombshell that the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia and other key OPEC countries have been shorting the paper oil price to try and bankrupt higher cost and debt laden US shale oil producers so OPEC and the Saudis can regain market share. 

Wall St then jumped on the trade on the short side and is convinced that oil will go much lower from these levels. Dr. Moors thinks many higher cost, bad balance sheet oil producers can survive maybe another 3 months of low prices before there's supply problems. 

Dr. Moors also reveals how many US shale oil producers were financed with similar collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to sub prime housing! 

Oil demand is still also strong with 3% growth in car sales in China (down from 7% projected car sales growth which would have meant 25 million new cars on the road in 2015 in China alone) along with around 75 million new cars being added to the global fleet in 2015. 

Here's his latest free article on the oil market from last week: http://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2015/...

He also has a paid oil and energy newsletter. 

The oil market is extensively discussed in great detail in this podcast along with natural gas. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, former Wall St economist and money manager, Woody O'Brien. http://www.woodyknowsmarkets.com/ http://www.abolishfiatslavery.com/

Woody is now a farmer in West Virginia where he also pays attention to commodities markets and invests in commodities and Woody has woken up to the Austrian School of Economics and is a Libertarian.

During this 50+ minute interview, Jason asks Woody about his background and how he woke up. Woody says he was working on Wall St as an economist and a money manager when the technology bubble and 9/11 happened and he began asking honest questions the government was intentionally not answering. 

Woody talks about taxes and precious metals, about how government forces the taxpayer to pay for a bunch of things and entitlements that creates very bad incentives for people in the the US. 

Jason asks Woody about commodities and for how long so many commodities can sell below the cost of farmers, miners, etc?

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Woody discuss inflation and deflation and how much longer the status quo can continue. 

Wall St for Main St interviewed Dan Collins, the Editor of The China Money Report. There are a lot of current events occurring in China, so we wanted you to have insights and analysis from Dan, who lives in China. In this podcast, we discussed the Yuan devaluation, currency wars, financial repression, China stock market meltdown, gold demand in China and much more! 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, American author, lecturer, and filmmaker, G Edward Griffin http://www.freedomforceinternational.... He is the author of the popular book, The Creature from Jekyll Island which was published in 1994. 

His full bio can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edwa...

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks G Edward Griffin about when things really started to go badly in the US and if 1913 marked a key historical point? 

Griffin says the US Constitution was flawed and yet the US prospered for many, many years until collectivism started to massively accelerate during the Woodrow Wilson era. 

Jason then asks Griffin about Keynesian Economics and if deflation will be allowed for a long period of time?

Griffin says there's a big, important ideological battle going on now between collectivism and people who oppose it. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, oil and energy expert Robert Rapierhttp://www.energytrendsinsider.com/

Robert has over 20 years of experience working in the oil and energy industry and has been a successful oil and energy investor for many years as well.

During this 20+ minute interview they discuss the supply/demand fundamentals of oil, Petro Bras, shale producers surviving low prices, oil companies cutting dividends and also large oil companies dramatically writing down their oil reserves in the near future. 

Robert just put out a new article about oil companies writing down reserves:http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/20...

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Robert discuss the natural gas market, nuclear power and where is the best places to invest in oil and energy right now.

Jason Burack and Eric Dubin are back for Episode #5 of the Welcome to Dystopia podcast! Today's special guest is Chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action (GATA) Committee http://www.gata.org/, Bill Murphy. Bill also runs the popular investing website and newsletter at Le Metropole Cafehttps://www.lemetropolecafe.com/

In this episode of Welcome to Dystopia, Eric and Jason ask Bill about the macroeconomic situation. 

Bill agrees with Bill Gross that all markets are manipulated. 

Next, Jason asks Bill about the gold and silver markets and how he discovered they were manipulated. 

Martin Armstrong's track record for market calls is also discussed.

Bill has heard from his extensive list of bullion dealer contacts that there may be a large physical shortage of silver starting to appear before the end of the fall. This is for larger orders of physical silver.

Wall St for Main St welcome back Fabian Calvo, who is an entrepreneur and founder of Fabian4Liberty. In this podcast, we discussed the recent crash in the gold prices and the causes, the Greece debt crisis, the China stock market and much more!

Wall St for Main St interviewed Michael Covel, who is an entrepreneur, best selling author and trend trader. In this podcast, we discussed Greece unsustainable debt situation and how it differs from the U.S. debt problem, the lack of good leadership in Washington D.C. and the 2016 election to fix the economy and Michael will also talk about the basic of Trend Trading.

Be sure to check out our other podcasts at www.wallstformainst.com

Wall St for Main St welcome Jim Bruce, who is the Writer/Producer/Director of Money For Nothing: Inside The Federal Reserve. In this podcast, we talked about Jim's recent documentary about the Federal Reserve and how their bad monetary policies created a lot of unintended consequences in the economy. We also talked about his experience interacting with the Fed members and what surprised him the most about them. Plus much more!

To buy the movie, go to http://moneyfornothingthemovie.org/ and enter the code MAINSTREET for a discount!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest former Wall St bond trader, gold fund manager and creator of the popular investing website Investment Research Dynamicshttp://investmentresearchdynamics.com/, Dave Kranzler. 

Dave also recently started a new podcast with Rory Hall of The Daily Coin called Shadow of Truth. 

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Dave about the Greek crisis (Grexit) and if Greece may be sacrificed like Lehman Bros was? 

Dave thinks the OTC derivatives market is being protected and a large effort being made to prevent the credit default swaps from being triggered. 

Next, Jason asks Dave about China now printing money to buy Chinese stocks. 

Dave says the US has already been doing it for years and Jason mentions how Japan also does it. Basically, all the major economies in the world have their central banks printing up currency to buy assets.

Jason asks Dave why money managers on Wall St don't like to admit there's massive evidence of inflation in higher and higher asset prices? 

Dave says the financial livelihoods of these guys depends on not admitting asset prices are going higher because of money printing. 

Jason and Dave also discuss the oil market.
To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Dave about the gold and silver markets, gold and silver miners, the TPP, Wall St Corruption and why China and Russia haven't already pulled the plug on the global financial system? 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Bitgoldhttps://www.bitgold.com/, Josh Crumb. 

Josh is also a serial entrepreneur. 

His full bio is here: Josh Crumb is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of BitGold. He is an entrepreneur with a background in early stage global businesses. Josh was previously the Senior Metals Strategist at Goldman Sachs in the Global Economics, Commodities and Strategies research division in London. He also held various positions within the Lundin group of companies, serving as Director of Corporate Development and Special Project Analyst for group chairman Lukas Lundin. Currently, Josh is a director of three Canadian listed public companies and plays a large role in many philanthropic organizations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mineral Economics, a Graduate Certificate in International Political Economy, and Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks Josh why he and his co-founder of Bitgold, Roy Sebag decided to get into the gold business? 

Next, Jason asks Josh for an explanation of how Bitgold works. 

Josh says it allows for people to immediately buy and transact in gold close to spot prices, store in 6 vaults in different countries and also take delivery of the gold quickly even in small amounts. 

Josh thinks Bitgold allows the individual to be on a personal gold standard without governments backing their currencies with gold. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Josh to address some very common and prevalent objections and misconceptions about Bitgold in the gold community and among gold bugs.

Jason Burack and Eric Dubin are back for another episode of Welcome to Dystopia! In episode 4, they host their first guest, Richard Daughty aka the Mogambo Guru, http://mogamboguru.com/

Richard used to write for the The Daily Reckoning and he had a newsletter for many years. His archived articles can be found on the blog website above Junior Mogambo Ranger (JMR) Doug maintains. 

Here's Richard's bio: Richard Daughty (Mogambo Guru) is general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. The Mogambo Guru is quoted frequently in Barron's, The Daily Reckoning, and other fine publications.

Mogambo's most recent piece was published a few days ago here on Lew Rockwell's website:https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/r...

Topics discussed on the show:
* Is Mogambo Guru surprised TPTB have managed to kick the can down the road since 2008 without another major collapse?

*Greece's Default and whether they are an intentional sacrificial lamb like Lehman Brothers was?

*Political Corruption at all levels of government in the US

*Gold and Silver Market Manipulation

* TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership and what's hidden in the agreement? 

*Jason's (unfortunate) dating and social life in DC are also discussed and Jason cited the mini documentary about how bad dating is in DC http://www.dated-series.com/. Eric and Richard both suggest Jason should move away ASAP. 


Stories and Nominees for Scumbag of the Week:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/politic...

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, finance professor, Austrian School Economist and US Senate candidate, Murray Sabrin, http://murraysabrin.com/

Murray has a number of good documentaries out about taxation and the Federal Reserve available for free on You Tube. 

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Murray about his background and how he found the Austrian School of Economics? 

Murray says he found Austrian School Economics by accident while on an airplane. He saw an article by Murray Rothbard about President Nixon's wage and prices controls in the 1970s. 

Jason then asks Murray about the problems with Keynesian Economics. 

Jason asks Murray if he thinks the 2 party political system is broken? 

Murray thinks there's very little difference between both parties and its been this way for decades. 

Jason and Murray then discuss inflation, deflation, stagflation, asset bubbles and whether the central planners will allow deflation for a long period of time without massive intervention? 

Murray talks about beneficial deflation in the economy and how Keynesians refuse to recognize any deflation as good. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Murray if he thinks the people in power can kick the can down the road and keep printing for another 10 years? Murray thinks a tipping point is coming again like in 2008 in the next few years. 

Wall St for Main St interviewed Jeff Brown, who is the editor of 44 Days. Jeff is a China Analyst who lives in Beijing and he was able to give us an unique insight on what is happening to the Chinese economy and social structure. 

In this podcast, we discussed the volatility in the China stock exchanges, the latest on China real estate market and the so called ghost cities and the rise of robotics. Plus much more!

Check out Jeff's web site at www.44days.net

Wall St for Main St welcomed back Andrew Henderson, he is the Founder of Nomad Capitalist! In this podcast, we discussed why Andrew gave up his multimillion dollar business and moved abroad to start Nomad Capitalist. We also discussed how the U.S. is deteriorating economically and socially. Andrew will share his advice for people that want to live abroad as well. Plus much more! 

In this episode, Jason and Eric go in depth about robotics and automation and Martin Ford's new book on the subject, Rise of the Robots is talked about extensively. The book, Rise of the Robots, may be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Tec... or on audio book on Audible. 

Additional references about automation and robotics used or talked about in this podcast include: 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/issues...

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/down...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworsta...

http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/none...

Many more academic white papers available on the subject, just Google " jobs lost to robots statistics."

Also, take a look at the short You Tube documentary on robots and automation, Humans Need Not Apply. 

Jason and Eric extensively discuss robotics, why robots are improving so quickly now compared to decades past, what industries they might disrupt first and how to protect yourself from losing your income to automation and robotics.

If you have additional ideas for show topics, comments or want to nominate a politician, bureaucrat or government agent for Scumbag of the Week Award, please use #welcometodystopia to get a hold of us on Twitter. 

Welcome to Dystopia logo contest is still ongoing. 

Article from this week's scumbag of the week award referencing training in China for handling corruption scandals: http://www.ibtimes.com/chinese-tycoon...