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Aug 17, 2016
Jeff Brown: China Will Never Report Their Real Holdings of Gold

Wall St for Main St welcome back Jeff Brown, who is the Author of China Rising and he is also an analyst and journalist.

You can buy Jeff's book at http://chinarising.puntopress.com/ or at Amazon.

In this podcast, we looked at the Chinese economy in the aftermath of the stock market collapse last year and how the credit expansion affected the economy. We also examine the U.S. government and mainstream media criticism of China currency manipulation when the U.S. is doing the exact same thing. Hypocrite!

Finally, we look at the current state of the gold and silver demand in China and why Jeff thinks China will never report their real holdings of gold and silver in the vault.

Aug 12, 2016
Raoul Pal: US Dollar Shortage Causing Many Problems For Global Economy?

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed first time guest, former hedge fund manager, global macro newsletter writer and Co-Founder & CEO of Real Vision TV https://realvisiontv.com/, Raoul Pal.

Raoul is the former Co-manager of the hedge fund GLG Global Macro Fund which he managed for years after working on Wall Street and in the financial industry for years as well.

He retired from the financial industry at age 36 and started writing a paid newsletter called, The Global Macro Investor http://www.globalmacroinvestor.com/About.asp

Raoul became upset with the lack of honest, in depth coverage of what's really going on in markets and the global economy by the mainstream financial media so he and co-founder, Grant Williams decided to start Real Vision TV where they traveled around the world interviewing top guests like Kyle Bass, Jim Rogers and Hugh Hendry at length for their insights on the global economy.

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason starts off by asking Raoul the consequences of a strong US Dollar for the global economy?

Raoul talks about how according to the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) there's over $10 trillion in outstanding US Dollar denominated loans and how there's not enough money to pay those loans back.

Jason and Raoul discuss how lower oil and base metal commodity prices helped exacerbate falling currencies in countries like Brazil and Russia.

Jun 17, 2016
Dan Joseph: China's Exploding Debt Is Getting Out of Hand

Wall St for Main St interviewed Dan Joseph, he is the editor of The China Learning Curve and author.

To check out his work go to www.chinalearningcurve.com

In this podcast, we discussed Dan's background and why he decided to move to China and start his business there. We also discussed the misconception people have regarding the business environment in China. From there, we looked in to the debt crisis in China and how it is getting out of control after a few decades of economic growth.

Finally, we touched on the subject of the falling Yuan and what it means for their economy. Plus much more!

May 22, 2016
Bill Holter: The Perfect Storm For Silver Is Here

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, precious metals expert and author on JS Mineset http://www.jsmineset.com/, Bill Holter.

Bill has decades of experience working in the financial industry and he now works in collaboration with "Mr. Gold" Jim Sinclair doing weekly podcasts and also writing articles (pay subscription required for most content). Bill's articles can be found here:http://www.jsmineset.com/category/bill-holter/

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason starts off by asking Bill about his article he published the end of April (<http://www.jsmineset.com/2016/04/26/this...)why he thinks that the global financial system won't last until October.

Bill talks about the problems in the credit and derivatives markets and how the real economy, which is dire and collapsing in his opinion, cannot support the amount of credit/debt already in the global financial system.

Jason and Bill discuss the debt problems in the global economy.

Next, Jason asks Bill about the class action lawsuit Jim Sinclair is filing against Deutsche Bank after they admitted manipulating the gold and silver markets. Jason asks Bill if precious metals investors who have lost many thousands of dollars each are allowed to join the lawsuit? Bill says there will be multiple lawsuits filed but the current lawsuit is for gold and silver mining companies.

Jason and Bill discuss if the US Treasury market can support the Saudis dumping all of their US Treasuries at once and the spike in open interest on the COMEX.

Bill thinks that the perfect storm for silver is now here now that annual silver supply is declining thanks to base metal miners shutting off mines or going bankrupt, strong demand for physical silver and the US Dollar strength appears to have topped.

Bill thinks this will be the precious metals bull market where investors NEVER sell their physical metal or their best gold and silver company shares because currencies are going to collapse all over the globe.

May 20, 2016
John Rubino: Does The Federal Reserve Know What They Are Doing?

Wall St for Main St welcomed back John Rubino, who is the editor of The Dollar Collapse and co-author of The Money Bubble. In this podcast, we discussed the feds next move as the economy continues to struggle. Does the feds know what they are doing or are they clueless?

Also, we discussed the best way to invest in the gold and silver market and how technology has been easier for people to move money outside the banking system.

Finally, we touched on Obama's recent press conference on the state of the economy. He is pushing to raise minimum wage in effort to stimulate the economy. This is called the Keynesian multiplier effect and guess what.....it doesn't work! Otherwise, the government stimulus programs should have dug us out of this recession. Plus much more!

Apr 6, 2016
Dr. Marc Faber: Federal Reserve Won't Stop Printing Money

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, editor & publisher of the Gloom Boom Doom Report http://www.gloomboomdoom.com/, Dr. Marc Faber.

Marc has decades of experience investing in global financial markets and he has wrote the book, Tomorrow's Gold- Asia's Age of Discovery.

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason opens the interview by asking Marc about how he thinks China will deal with the massive debt problems its state owned banks and municipalities have?

Marc jokes about Jason asking the Chinese government instead of him. Jason then asks Marc about what Kyle Bass is saying about China. Marc says the US mainstream financial media and Federal Reserve are talking about how bad things are in China and Europe to deflect attention from the US' debt problems.

Next, Jason asks Marc how much global central banks are coordinating their policies and doing market manipulations and market manipulations together?

Marc says he thinks there's no such thing as currency wars and that the US, UK, Japan and the ECB all coordinate monetary and interest rate policy together so they can take turns doing QE and devaluing their currencies.

Marc and Jason discuss where negative i9nterest rate policy or NIRP fits into the equation.

Jason asks Marc about the recent bear market rally in oil and base metals. Marc thinks the rally will sputter out soon and oil will go back down in the near future.

Marc also gives his thoughts on the 2016 US presidential elections.

Jason also asks Marc about gold, gold stocks, bad government economic data and where he sees value in markets so don't miss listening this great interview!

Apr 6, 2016

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

During this hour+ interview, Jason asks Jim 6 important questions about the global economy and the upcoming US presidential election.

Here's the questions Jason asked Jim:
1) Do you think many central banks are colluding and coordinating behind the scenes to manipulate markets, interest rates and currency exchange rates? How much more "monetary cocaine and heroine" can the global financial system take before all control is lost?

2) What do you think governments and central banks gain from implementing NIRP? Is this a main part of the cashless society and totalitarian control plan?

3) Was this recent bear market rally in oil and base metals done so banks wouldn't have to write off many billions in bad loans? Is that tsunami of loan defaults still coming soon?

4) Is it even possible for the GLD to get its hands on over 100 tons of physical gold in a week or two?

5) Do you think TPTB can hold markets and the global economy together through US presidential elections in November 2016?

6) Noted hedge fund manager Kyle Bass says in his February 2016 newsletter that China will need to print $10 trillion US dollars worth of RMB to bailout its banking system and municipalities. What do you think this means for China and the global economy? Could China just dramatically revalue its gold holdings instead of printing all that fiat currency?

Mar 30, 2016
James Rickards: Global Financial System Needs Golden Anchor?

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, best selling author and Chief Global Strategist at the West Shore Funds, Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a monthly newsletter, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital, James Rickards. http://www.jamesrickardsproject.com/

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason first asks Jim why do you think so many people on Wall St don't understand or hate gold?

Jim says there's been over 40 years of conditioning, brainwashing, etc in schools in the US that's anti-gold and that people in other countries understand gold's role in a diversified investment portfolio far better.

Jason and Jim discuss Warren Buffett's view on gold and the erroneous view that gold caused the Great Depression of 1929.

Jim says that gold is money and doesn't need a yield. Next, Jason asks Jim why Russia and China are accumulating so much physical gold?

Jim says China is doing it to hedge its paper US Treasury holdings (over $3 trillion) in case the US is successfully able to create massive amounts of inflation and devalue the US Dollar.

Jim thinks Russia is accumulating gold more because the US is targeting them more with financial warfare.

Jason then asks Jim if the Shanghai Gold Exchange will allow for real price discovery in the gold market?

Jim talks about how has been manipulated for over 100 years since WWI and that the Chinese would love to accumulate more gold at a lower price but that the gold miners cannot withstand gold at lower prices. Jim mentions a trip to Switzerland to speak to one of the world's largest gold refiners and how this refiner is running his plant 24/7/365 and can't adequately source enough physical gold to send to his Chinese customers.

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Jim what event/s will stop the currency wars or coordinated central bank currency devaluations?

Jim says currency wars normally last a long time (at least a decade) and that the current currency war has only been ongoing for about 6 years. As the global economy becomes more incoherent, fragile and volatile, the global economy may need to return to a golden standard. But, people should accumulate at least some gold and be on their own personal gold standard.

Mar 29, 2016
Dan Collins: Why the U.S. Can't Have Nice Things Like China Does

Wall St for Main St welcomed back Dan Collins, who is the Editor of The China Money Report. We bring on Dan to provide insights on what is going on in China since he lives and owns a business in China unlike some of the pundits on CNN and MSNBC where the closest they have been to China is Panda Express ;)

In this podcast, we discussed the propaganda war going on in the mainstream media on the Chinese economy. Are they blowing things out of proportion? Also, we talked about the volatile Chinese stock market , Trump's proposal to increase tariff on Chinese imports, China gold buying spree and much more!

Mar 27, 2016

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, former portfolio manager and founder of 720 Global http://www.720global.com/, Michael Lebowitz. Michael's articles frequently appear on Zero Hedge. His firm 720 Global writes institutional research.

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Michael about the Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen announcing this week that they will not try to aggressively raise interest rates and if they are trapped and have to go to negative interest rate policy (NIRP) asap?

Michael says the Fed probably won't increase interest more than at most once more in 2016 before they start reversing their interest rate hikes into rate cuts back towards zero and NIRP.

Michael says central bank policies from the US, Japan, China and the ECB are driving people into gold along with the threat of NIRP.

Michael thinks gold has probably bottomed and will continue to go higher long term as long as central banks keep making desperate policy decisions.

Next, Jason asks Michael if he is surprised the stock market hasn't crashed yet?

Michael says he has written 4 articles in the last year or so about share buybacks driving the US stock market higher.

He thinks as the amount of share buybacks decreases soon the likelihood of a stock market crash and bad balance sheets of corporations doing buybacks with too much debt could increase the odds of a stock market crash.

Michael cites Conoco Phillips as an example of a large corporation that did too many share buybacks in 2012 and 2013.

Jason asks Michael if he thinks the recent rallies in oil and base metals prices are based on fundamentals or short covering? Michael thinks very little of those rallies have to do with fundamentals and he thinks oil goes much lower back to $20-30/barrel in the near future.

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Michael which industries he sees value for in stocks?

Michael says people can start positions in larger oil companies with good balance sheets who don't have a lot of debt and that more sophisticated investors who can read financial statements well can look at oil bonds.

He doesn't like the value in almost any sector but thinks select gold stocks are still very good buys. Michael says people with smaller amounts of capital should buy a gold mining ETF or gold stock mutual fund or royalty and streaming companies like Franco Nevada.

Jason and Michael briefly discuss the silliness of election season now upon the US until November presidential elections are over.

Mar 12, 2016
Welcome to Dystopia Episode 16: Gold Bull Market Spanking Permabears

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and managing editor of The News Doctors http://thenewsdoctors.com/ and independent financial journalist, Eric Dubin are back for episode 16 of the Welcome to Dystopia podcast.  

Jason asks Eric about the price action in gold and gold stocks. Eric thinks the bull market in gold is back and it's very bullish that the gold chart has had its 50 day moving average cross over the top of its 200 day moving average.

Jason and Eric discuss this managed retreat going on in the gold market.

A lot of Wall St managed money is clearly moving into gold from stocks, bonds, etc.

Jason and Eric talk about how more evidence keeps appearing of the real global economy slowing down an worsening.

Former central bankers like Mervyn King are now coming out and saying how another crisis is guaranteed and that the elites of Europe intentionally created an economic depression in Europe.

Jason and Eric also discuss how Venezuela is going through hyperinflation now and a collapse of their government and society.

Feb 25, 2016
Willem Middelkoop: Global Economy Continues to De-Dollarize

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, best selling author of the book, The Big Reset, http://www.thebigresetblog.com/ about the changing global economy and commodities fund manager, http://www.cdfund.com/ Willem Middelkoop.

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason first asks Willem about whether another 2008 style banking crisis is happening as we see the share prices of bank stocks including Deutche Bank fall to levels not seen since 2008. Willem thinks a banking crisis is happening as there's over $1 trillion according to his estimates of bad oil and energy loan debts the banks can't write off or absorb that will mean banks are nationalized, bailed out or go bankrupt.

Willem thinks this can be worse than the 2008 crash as this is a global problem of banks going bankrupt as many gave out enormous amounts of oil and energy loans.

Jason asks a follow up question if Willem thinks there's good value for oil stocks that don't have a lot of debt because Willem manages money and invests heavily in resource stocks with his Commodities Discovery Fund.

Willem thinks there's lots of opportunities to make good investments in oil if people know where to look but many oil companies won't survive oil prices this low.

Next, Jason asks Willem about the US Dollar's status as the world's reserve currency (WRC) and the petrodollar with the RMB slated to go into the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) special drawing rights (SDR) basket towards the end of 2016 and what effects this will have on the global economy.

Willem says many countries are already doing currency swaps and bilateral trade agreements outside the US Dollar and that the process of the global economy "de-dollarizing" will continue unabated. Willem doesn't know how long the process will take but that the process is not going to stop.

Next, Jason asks Willem about the rally in gold and silver prices and whether the cyclical bear market in US Dollar terms for gold and silver is over? Willem says he believes the bear market is over although there will be corrections and volatility along the way as precious metals prices move higher.

Willem thinks there's really good value in select gold and silver stocks.

Finally, to wrap up the interview Jason asks Willem if in 10 years they will look back and be amazed at how the powers that be (TPTB) have been able to keep the game going and prop up asset prices and create more asset bubbles and credit bubbles without the US losing the WRC?

Willem thinks the global economy is not ready just yet to completely abandon the US Dollar but there's no need to keep nearly as many US Dollar reserves globally. Willem also thinks there's a high probability of a US stock market crash in the near future and that large amounts of managed money on Wall St is slowly moving large amounts of capital into precious metal related investments building positions for the next leg of the bull market in precious metals to continue higher after this long bear market has finally ended.

Feb 20, 2016
Nick Giambruno: Why You Need To Diversify Outside The Border

Wall St for Main St welcome Nick Giambruno, who is the senior editor of International Man. Nick specialized in offshore banking, foreign real estate, crisis investing and international traveling.

To check out Nick's work, go to www.internationalman.com

In this podcast, we asked Nick's insight on the global economy as he is traveling around the world. We also discussed the impact FATCA is having on U.S. citizens opening a bank account in foreign countries, the impact negative interest rate will have on Main St and what you can do to protect yourself and much more!

Feb 19, 2016

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, Gordon T Long http://www.gordontlong.com/

Gordon is a financial repression expert who has many years of experience working in corporate finance as a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and as a technology executive and investor. His full bio can be found here: http://www.gordontlong.com/About_Us.htm

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Gordon about why the global credit cycle is tightening and the negative consequences of it happening.

Gordon talks about corporations doing financial engineering to grow earnings without increasing revenues and how leveraged buyouts (LBOs) has exploded since 2008 because of the availability of cheap credit. He thinks the yield curve has been fully distorted to benefit governments, large corporations, big banks and Wall St.

Gordon thinks all of this ties into problems in the bond market, negative interest rates and financial repression.

Next, Jason asks Gordon about the bank stocks collapsing and about a potential stock market crash. Gordon thinks it's likely in the near future and that gold and silver prices have most likely bottomed.

However, Gordon thinks gold will be confiscated or heavily taxed by the US government as it continues to rise in price.

Jason and Gordon discuss how silver may be safer than gold because governments are less likely to confiscate it than gold.

To wrap up the show, Gordon talks about how many more taxes are being layered onto middle class people on Main St, USA and how it will destroy the real economy in the near future until this changes.

Feb 13, 2016
Greg Mannarino: Negative Interest Rates Coming to the US

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, former Wall St trader, author and economic expert Greg Mannarino https://traderschoice.net/

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason asks Greg about the Federal Reserve and global central banks implementing negative interest rates.

Greg thinks because all the major central banks constantly talk and "plan" with each other that it's inevitable that the US will also try negative interest rates just like Japan and parts of Europe are trying.

Greg thinks this will hurt the real economy further and that the stock market is in a slow motion crash.

Greg thinks gold and silver have bottomed due to physical supply constraints and money leaving the stock market and going into hard assets like precious metals.

Feb 13, 2016
Welcome to Dystopia Episode 15: Fear The Bust! Bank Carnage, Precious Metals Bull Returns?

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and independent financial journalist and managing editor of The News Doctors http://thenewsdoctors.com/, Eric Dubin are back for Episode #15 of their new Welcome to Dystopia podcast show.

Topics on this week's show include:
1) Japan going to negative interest rates
2) Some members at the Federal Reserve talking about copying Japan and experimenting with negative interest rates
3) Where do negative interest rates come from? (Hint: They come from Marx's labor theory of value and Marx's and Keynes' views of a "savings glut" in an economy)
4) Bank Stocks Look to Be Collapsing and predicting an imminent stock market crash and large global financial crisis
5) Many sovereign wealth funds are selling their stock positions to go to cash to pay off debt in their home countries
6) Russia now takes RMB for its oil. What does this mean for the petrodollar?
7) Gold and Silver markets appear to have finally bottomed and a strong rally looks to be underway
8) What problems does a strong US Dollar cause for the global economy?

Jan 29, 2016
Fabian Calvo: The Economy Needs A Bigger Rate Hike

Wall St for Main St interviewed Fabian Calvo, who is the Founder of Fabian4Liberty. Fabian is a libertarian blogger, podcaster and a successful real estate investor.

In this podcast, we discussed the recent comments made by the Federal Reserve hinting that they made a policy error in raising the rate and Fabian tell us why we need a bigger rate hike. We also talked about the real estate and where it is headed in 2016 and the 2016 elections. Plus much more!

Jan 27, 2016
Welcome to Dystopia Episode 14: Goodbye 'Eye of the Hurricane,' Hello 2016!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and independent financial journalist and managing editor of The News Doctors http://thenewsdoctors.com/, Eric Dubin are back for Episode #14 of the Welcome to Dystopia podcast!

This is the first show of 2016!

During this show, Jason and Eric discuss and review briefly what happened in different markets in 2015 and Jason talks about the new report Wall St for Main St just released free to its email subscribers.

Eric says the derivatives market seems to have started to break in 2015 and this acceleration of asset price deflation should continue in 2016 perhaps leading to a 2008 or worse crash in markets.

Jason and Eric talk about emerging markets, base metals and oil collapsing in 2016 and how all 3 of these may be worse than the sub prime market. Eric thinks there's over $7 trillion in debt from these entities combined that cannot be paid.

To wrap up the show, Jason and Eric preview what listeners can expect in 2016. Jason expects a lot more volatility and asset prices having a meaningful correction and/or crash.

Jan 26, 2016
Grant Williams: Global Debt Problem Can't Be Fixed

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, Grant Williams http://ttmygh.com/. Grant writes the popular investing newsletter, Things That Make You Go Hmmm. He also co-founded the new investor education company Real Vision TV https://realvisiontv.com/.

Grant has over 20 years experience working in the financial industry and he's been a money manager and other jobs.

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason asks Grant how bad things are in the global economy since he travels all over the globe often?

Grant says the global economy has slowed down a lot and that the oil market is a major indicator.

Next, Jason asks Grant a listener question about if Russia will go bankrupt because of the low oil price and if it will have to sell any of its gold. Grant thinks there's very little chance Russia or China sells any of its physical gold.

Jason then asks Grant about the collapse in the oil market and emerging market debt problems and if he thinks the crisis is much larger than the sub prime housing bubble?

Grant says there's a global debt problem and either of these things is capable of collapsing the asset markets and the real economy.

Jason then asks Grant a number of WS4MS listener questions about whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, the problems with GLD and about the survival and investment worthiness of gold mining companies.

Grant says in his 3 decades of experience, he has never seen a more hated group of investments than gold miners. He thinks sentiment will change in the near future.

Jan 13, 2016
Robert Murphy: Mistakes of 1929 Great Depression Being Repeated?

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest Austrian School Economist and author, Robert Murphy http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog

Robert's bio and his Mises articles can be found here: https://mises.org/profile/robert-p-mu...

Robert hosts the popular Contra Krugman podcast with Tom Woods that debunks each of Paul Krugman of the NY Times' articles: http://contrakrugman.com/

Robert's many popular Austrian School of Economics books can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Robert-P.-Murph...

During this 35+ minute interview, Jason starts by asking Robert about the long term consequences to the interventionist policy of the Keynesian central planners.

Robert talks about the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle and how while the bust has been delayed, it has also been made much larger.

Jason and Robert discuss Keynesian Economics and why Keynesian Economics won't die. Robert thinks the people in power love it because it gives them the justification to do what they already wanted to do.

Next, Jason asks Robert if he sees parallels to the US now and prior to the 1929 stock market crash and ensuing Great Depression since he wrote a book about the Great Depression of 1929 and the New Deal.

Robert says the 2008 crash resembled the 1929 crash and the roaring 20s were similar to the housing bubble of the 2000s prior to the 2008 crash.

Robert then talks about how the history books have Herbert Hoover incorrect labeled as a proponent of the free market when in fact he was a massive interventionist.

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Robert talk about how Wall St and Keynesians don't count asset price inflation as inflation while Austrians do and why Keynesians hate saving and deflation so much.

Jan 13, 2016
Patrick Byrne: Block Chain Tech Will Force More Transparency on Wall St

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, Co-Founder and CEO of Overstock.com http://www.overstock.com, Patrick Byrne to talk about the economy, the block chain and Austrian School of Economics.

Patrick is a a "classical liberal" and a big proponent of Austrian School of Economics, the free market and Bitcoin and the block chain. Overstock was one of the first major businesses to accept Bitcoin.

Patrick is a key investor in Tee-Zero https://t0.com/, which is a block chain trading platform that will (hopefully) force Wall St to become more transparent with its investing and trading practices.

Dec 23, 2015
Charles Hugh Smith: Radical Changes in Jobs Market Now & in Future

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, author and popular economic blogger, Charles Hugh Smith http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html.

Charles came on to discuss his new book, A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful which can be purchased on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017....

Charles' other books he's authored are listed here: http://www.oftwominds.com/CHS-books.html

Charles' full bio: Charles Hugh Smith is the author of the oftwominds.com blog, #7 in CNBC's top alternative
financial sites, and nine books on our economy and society, including "Why Things Are
Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It," "The Nearly Free University and the Emerging
Economy," "Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy" and most recently, "A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All." His work is published on a number of popular financial websites including Zero Hedge, Financial Sense, and David Stockman's Contra Corner.

Smith has also written seven novels and has posted a number of book and film commentaries on his website.

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Charles about the radical changes the jobs market is currently undergoing.

Charles talks about how central planning, technology and outsourcing/offshoring has made labor and capital both un-scarce.

Jason and Charles talk about the goals of Keynesian central planning and how it has made capital so cheap that it's easier for companies to invest in robots and automation now than it should be without normalized interest rates.

Next, Jason asks Charles about the current jobs market and how difficult it's becoming to find a good high paying full time job and why most jobs being created are part time jobs.

Charles thinks continued learned throughout one's adult lifetime, working in local communities and finding more work there with relationships with people will be more enjoyable than a corporate job working 70+ hours a week.

Dec 23, 2015
Chris Martenson & Adam Taggart: Prosper in Challenging Times

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, Dr. Chris Martenson and his business partner at Peak Prosperity http://www.peakprosperity.com/, first time guest Adam Taggart.

Chris and Adam co-founded Peak Prosperity and also created the popular Crash Course video series on the 3Es: Economy, Energy and the Environment that has woken a lot of people up about what's really going on in the world since the video series debuted around 2007.

Chris worked as a corporate executive for a Fortune 500 company before quitting his job and changing his lifestyle and Adam worked on Wall St and was an executive at Yahoo before also quitting his job, waking up and changing his lifestyle as well.

They came on a podcast to talk about their new book, Prosper!: How To Prepare for the Future and Create a World Worth Inheriting

The book can be bought on Amazon and Audible in hard cover, ebook and audio book formats. http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/95...

For a limited time, the book is also 50% for Audible members until December 16th is over: http://www.audible.com/mt/Member-Than...

During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks Chris and Adam about the myriad of problems and craziness going on in the world and why they decided to write a new book now?

Chris and Adam talk about how their Crash Course video series and subsequent book were about identifying all the problems with the economy, energy and the environment and how their new book offers the regular person on Main St a bunch of different solutions to many of these problems.

Chris and Adam talk in the book about how people can protect their wealth, improve their health, change their lifestyle and how to protect themselves and their family and friends against asset prices potentially collapsing in value.

Chris and Adam see painful deflation happening in the near term as asset prices fall and then governments and central banks will drastically over-react and create massive, massive inflation to counter the deflation.

Jason also asks both about how to create a meaningful, prosperous life without chasing every last Dollar.

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Adam and Chris about Generation X'ers and the Millennials and how they can prosper in the future with the student loan debt bubble, no savings and a very poor job market to find a good high paying job after college.

Dec 23, 2015
Welcome to Dystopia Episode 13 w/ Adam Dick: No Guns For You!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St and independent financial journalist and managing editor of The News Doctors http://thenewsdoctors.com/, Eric Dubin are back for Episode #13 of Welcome to Dystopia!

This week's special guest is Adam Dick who is a lawyer and senior fellow at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity http://ronpaulinstitute.org/

Adam's full bio is: Adam worked from 2003 through 2013 as a legislative aide for Rep. Ron Paul. Previously, he was a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Elections, a co-manager of Ed Thompson's 2002 Wisconsin governor campaign, and a lawyer in New York and Connecticuit. Adam helped Ron Paul with his domestic policy.

Adam is also an expert on the 2nd Amendment and he came on the show to talk about his new article http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/...

Adam released his article after President Obama's speech/address on Sunday night and the New York Times article about eliminating gun ownership in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opi...

For most of this week's episode, Jason and Eric ask Adam about his article, the 2nd Amendment and why Progressives keep wanting to eliminate all gun ownership when in the strictest gun regulation states like California criminals and terrorists still are able to get their hands on guns.

It's a very interesting discussion on the gun debate.

After the lengthy discussion on guns in the US, Jason and Eric talk about the implications of the RMB going into the SDR and how the IMF ignored the protests of the US.

Jason and Eric also talked about the president of Brazil potentially facing impeachment charges for misappropriating funds and corruption and how many other emerging markets are in similar trouble.

Dec 23, 2015
Jim Willie: $1 Trillion/month in Reverse Repos Keeping Zombie System Alive

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, editor of The Hat Trick Letter at Golden Jackass.com http://www.goldenjackass.com/, Jim Willie.

This is an interesting 90+ minute interview.

Questions/Topics for the interview include:
• Recently, there was a secret meeting between Russia and a Saudi Prince- Was the meeting about a coordinated oil production cut to move the price higher to save the world's largest oil producing countries? Or about what to do about Syria and pipelines? Or a mix?
• The IMF has said Saudi Arabia can only survive at most 5 years of low oil prices at their current burn rate in foreign exchange reserves before they go bankrupt too. Almost every other OPEC producer has spent most of their oil profits almost as soon as the profits come in and are in much worse shape than the Saudis. Will OPEC be going to China begging for a bailout if oil prices don't rise again soon?
• Some Wall St commodity traders are illegally buying $10/barrel oil on the black market from ISIS. Why haven't the buyers gotten caught?
• In our last interview you talked about a massive oil bust that was coming, but why haven't we seen banks go bust from shale oil loans yet? Is the Federal Reserve secretly bailing these banks out?
• Christine Lagarde of the IMF seems to approve of the RMB going into the SDR very soon but the US government appears committed to blocking the RMB into the SDR. How much longer can the US government block the RMB going into the SDR?
• What happens to gold and silver supply available if many gold and silver mines shut down and miners start going bust?
• Do you think Wall St is planning on buying gold and silver mines up as they go bankrupt?
• Why do you think Wall St banks are starting to rapidly embrace the block chain technology behind Bitcoin? Is this another part of the elite's plan for a cashless society where all transactions are taxed and tracked?
• China is negotiating a large currency swap bailout with Venezuela probably in exchange for a massive amount of oil. Will this be the model how the developing world/commodity producing countries with too much US Dollar denominated debt will strategically default on their US debt and then get financing from China and Chinese banks?
• Do you think currency swaps will be the main bailout tool for central banks going forward?
• In early November, Bloomberg put out an article how Wall St banks are trying to offer discounted interest rate swaps to attract more buyers of these products. Why are the banks trying to sell more of these when there's already so many?

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