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Wall St for Main St welcomed back John Rubino! He is the editor of Dollarcollapse.com and co-authored The Money Bubble with James Turk. In this pdocast, we discussed the recent annoucement by G7 to include the Chinese Yuan in the SDR and implication it will have on the dollar and the gold market. Plus, we talked about the devaluation of the Yen and if it will bring deflation to the U.S. economy. Plus much more!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, Head of Research at Gold Moneyhttps://www.goldmoney.com/ Alasdair Macleod http://www.financeandeconomics.org/

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE AUDIO QUALITY AND PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OR SO OF THE INTERVIEW! WE HAD SOME PROBLEMS WITH SKYPE CALLING ALASDAIR IN ENGLAND. 

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Alasdair if he thinks China will announce a gold reserves update about its official public government gold holdings. 

Before Alasdair answers that question, he provides some background. Alasdair thinks the Chinese government/PBOC started accumulating massive tonnage of gold in the early to mid 1990s as it was getting ready to join the WTO. 

Alasdair does think China will update its official gold holdings soon but that China doesn't care very much if its currency gets into the SDR. 

Alasdair thinks China will eventually partially back its currency with gold (fractional gold standard?) and that China plans a separate SDR with other Asian economies. 

Jason and Alasdair also discuss where is the gold coming from, the financial struggles of gold miners, why deflation can't last for a long period of time and why it hasn't ever lasted in modern history for more than a few years and other interesting topics. 

They also discuss if the crack up boom has already started.

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on first time guest, Butcoin entrepreneur and investor, Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees http://moneyandstate.com/. 

Erik is currently CEO of ShapeShift.io and has ran or worked at other Bitcoin and block chain companies. Erik is also a Libertarian. 

During this 25+ minute conversation, Jason asks Eric how he became a Libertarian. 

Erik says he slowly noticed all the laws government was making about what people can and can't do and he became fed up. 

Jason then asks Erik how he found Bitcoin initially?

Erik found Bitcoin and learned all he can about the technology. Despite not being a computer programmer or coder, Erik was able to find jobs and management positions at Bitcoin companies because he excelled at marketing. 

Jason then asks Erik many questions about Bitcoin like what industries can the block chain technology disrupt, can governments kill Bitcoin, are regulators in the US already over-regulating Bitcoin and is he worried that Wall St and Silicon Valley are now both embracing Bitcoin?

Jason and Erik discuss the differences between Bitcoin and gold and whether they compete or compliment each other?

To wrap up the interview, Jason asks Erik about his entrepreneurial success and what skills he thinks entrepreneurs need to achieve success. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest Gordon T Long http://www.gordontlong.com/to talk about the emerging global cashless society and the war on cash and savings the economic and political elites have started. 

Jason and Gordon also discuss financial repression, asset bubbles, if financial repression can last 10 years or more going forward, China's QE and financial repression goals and whether global central banks are fighting a currency war or their actions are all coordinated in this 50+ minute discussion. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, editor of The Hat Trick Letter found at Golden Jackass http://www.goldenjackass.com/, Jim Willie for another in depth interview. 

During this hour+ long interview, Jason asks Jim about major topics including: 

1) Why are the banks and politicians moving things towards a cashless society?
2) Why don't Keynesian economists consider asset prices going up a lot as evidence of inflation?
3) China QE coming and China Gold Reserves update- Will China announce a public update to its gold reserves in the next 12 months to join the SDR basket? Does China plan to take apart the IMF from the inside out by joining the SDR while it builds the AIIB?
4) Is there a global currency war or are governments & central banks coordinating things and taking turns with QE to devalue currency and prop up markets?
5)George Soros says WWIII is coming soon between the US and China. Do you agree with him?
6)Hillary Clinton scandals- Why do political elites like her get mostly a free pass from the mainstream media, justice department, etc?
7)New Technology- Is it causing massive amounts of damage to the global economy while also stripping us of all our privacy and civil liberties? 

For answers to these questions and other interesting topics please listen to the interview! 

Jason Burack and Eric Dubin are launching a new podcast they plan to do 1-2 times per week! Please help name the podcast and you could win 1 Silver Eagle for helping us out! 

This podcast will cover interesting news and market topics that we view as important that the mainstream media is either not covering at all, not covering accurately, or is misleading the public about. 

This week's episode Jason and Eric discuss:
1) Precious Metals Market Update

2) China QE/ China's RMB being added into the SDR/ China updating its official gold reserves

3) Greece Leaving the Euro

4) Analysis of the Oil Market

5) All the news items involving hacking and cyber security

Wall St for Main St welcome back Dr Mark Thornton! He is an Austrian Economist and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute. In this podcast, we followed up our discussion on the "Skyscraper Curse" from our previous podcast. We also talked about the 2008 financial crisis and if the economic would be different if the government and central banks did not intervene. Plus much more!

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed John Tamny who is the Political Economy editor at Forbes, editor of RealClearMarkets.com http://www.realclearmarkets.com/, plus a senior economic advisor to Toreador Research & Trading. 

John writes a weekly column for Forbes that is available here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/

John also has a new book out called, Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You about Economics, with outstanding reviews on Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621...

During this 25+ minute interview, Jason asks John about conventional economics (Keynesian) and if it's overly complicated?

John thinks the current economics taught in most universities is far foo complicated and that real economics is much simpler. 

Jason and John talk about the Austrian School of Economics and how many people can easily read the introduction book to Austrian School Economics, Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt. 

Jason and John talk about Economics in One Lesson and John says how his goal with his new book, Popular Economics, was to make a more modern version of Economics in One Lesson, with modern stories. 

Jason and John discuss the Amtrak derailment and why does government even own trains in the first place? 

John says lower taxes on small business and less regulations will allow the private sector to create more jobs and allow the economy to fix itself. 

Jason and John also discuss the plight of Millennials, many of whom have 6 figures in student loan debt. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on former President of the Mises Institute, former banker and author Doug Frenchhttps://mises.org/profile/doug-french to discuss the Austrian School of Economics perspective/free market analysis on many recent current events including the Baltimore riots, the Amtrak derailment, Hillary Clinton scandals and many other interesting topics. 

Doug thinks big government, central banks and central planning are destroying society and the middle class in the US. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St welcomed back returning guest, former Wall St executive, whistle blower and author Nomi Prins http://www.nomiprins.com/

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason starts off by asking Nomi about her new book, All the Presidents' Bankers, and according to her research when did Wall St try to start buying off/controlling US presidents. 

Nomi talks about how she started her book in the late 19th century (1800s) and bankers like JP Morgan started cozying up up to bankers then and they ran in the same social and partying circles. 

Nomi talks about how money and political power enjoy each other's company. 

Jason and Nomi talk about the Creature from Jekyll Island and then about FDR and how FDR secretly met with lots of Wall St bankers according to Nomi's research for her book. 

Next, Jason and Nomi discuss corruption on Wall St and if it has increased since Nomi first began her career on Wall St in the 1980s. Nomi thinks corruption has increased massively because of the opaqueness of derivatives and financial products. 

Jason and Nomi discuss why corruption increased and Jason asks Nomi if the banks don't fear failure because of the Federal Reserve backstopping them.

Jason and Nomi discuss the role central banks like the Federal Reserve play in allowing bankers, hedge fund managers, etc to take enormous risk and not fear being fired, going to jail, etc. 

Next, Jason and Nomi discuss the global economy and why she thinks China is close to announcing a large QE program. Nomi thinks central bankers are coordinating their QE programs to help keep interest rates low and asset prices propped up. She thinks this can continue at least for awhile longer until interest rates go to zero in every major economy. 

Jason asks Nomi about why China, Russia and other G20 countries are creating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, an alternative SWIFT system and doing enormous currency swaps and bilateral trade agreements. 

Nomi thinks many economic and political elites know the status quo is collapsing. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Nomi talk about the sickening amount of corruption in politics and if anything can be done to reduce the corruption. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest Craig Hemke aka Turd Ferguson of the TF Metals Report http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/ to talk about the gold market and China.

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason asks Craig if he thinks the Shanghai Gold Exchange will eventually replace the LBMA and COMEX for setting the global gold price. Craig thinks it's inevitable and a question of when and not if this happens.

Next, Jason asks Craig where he thinks all the gold the US exports is coming from?

Craig says the US and UK are both exporting way more gold than they mine per year.

Jason and Craig discuss the SDR, metals markets and the global financial system and what role China is going to play going forward.

Best selling author, Austrian School Economist and financial and political commentator Charles Goyette http://charlesgoyette.com/ returned for an interview about the Baltimore Riots, corrupt politicians like Hillary Clinton and potential conflict in the Ukraine.

Charles is the first person to get Ron Paul's endorsement for an official documentary about Ron Paul, his life and his views.  A recent Kick Starter campaign to raise money for the documentary is here if anyone wants to donate: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, former top hedge fund manager and chairman of the Sprott group of companies http://www.sprott.com/, Eric Sprott.

During this 25+ minute interview Jason asks Eric about his expert opinion on many important topics including interest rates and financial repression, what's really going on in the US economy, Bitgold, production costs for gold and silver miners, and a review of the fundamentals of the gold and silver market.

Eric thinks anything can be manipulated now for awhile in markets and no major liquidations are allowed anymore.

Jason also asks Eric if he thinks China wants the SDR or if China plans to destroy the SDR from the inside?

Eric thinks China is only temporarily joining the SDR and eventually wants the world reserve currency itself.

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

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

During this 30+ minute interview, Jason and Dan discuss the fundamentals of the oil market, how many acquisitions could take place in the oil market in the next 6-12 months and where Dan sees good value in the oil and natural gas markets including some stock picks!

Wall St for Main St interviewed personal finance guru,author, founder of FinishRich.com and Vice President of Edelman Financial, David Bach. In this podcast, David goes into depth about the reasons why couples fight about fight and how it fix it. We also discussed how couples can plan for retirement and the common mistakes they would make.

Be sure to check out David's web site at http://www.edelmanfinancial.com/ and www.finishrich.com

A nine-time New York Times best-selling author with eleven national bestsellers, David Bach has helped millions of people around the world take the actions necessary to live and finish rich. He is a regularly featured financial expert in the media and has contributed to and appeared on multiple shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and NBC’s Today Show. He has also been profiled for his expertise in major publications and has produced and hosted public television specials, including Smart Women Finish Rich and Start Late, Finish Rich, as well as was the former host of The FinishRich Minute and Finish Rich with David Bach.

Jason Burack of Wall st for Main St had on gold and silver mining and oil and energy expert, Steve St. Angelo of the SRSRocco Report http://srsroccoreport.com/ on for an in depth interview.

During this 50+ minute interview, Jason asks Steve about the costs to operate a modern primary gold and primary silver miner. Jason and Steve discuss how since ore grades have fallen so much over the decades how they have made it difficult for miners for have high margins.

Jason asks Steve how miners have survived in the past when gold and silver were below their all in production costs in the mid 90s. Steve cites one miner, Coeur D'Alene Mining, who sold hundreds of millions more shares diluting shareholders to survive.

Jason and Steve discuss whether miners can sell many more shares in this environment. Jason doesn't think that's likely considering what he hears from his contacts in Toronto and Vancouver where miners normally get financed how there's basically no debt or equity available anymore, except in small amounts at penalty/punitive rates.

Jason asks Steve about primary copper miners and what will happen to the gold and silver by-product when the hedges of copper miners come off line and copper miners go bankrupt or shut down mines.

Steve thinks this could cause a supply squeeze in the near future unless gold and silver prices rise.

Jason and Steve talk about the fundamentals of the market how demand for physical is rising, while the paper price is controlled and how miners are struggling mightily financially just to not go bankrupt soon.

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Steve discuss the oil and energy markets, peak oil and how the fracking boom is about to turn into a fracking bust because US shale oil companies are not making a profit without their hedges, they have too much debt and the energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) in shale oil is poor compared to other oil production.

Steve and Jason also talk about solar power and how it's probably not a panacea to replace oil and natural gas, at least not until the battery problem is solved. Most rare earths mining is done in China to produce solar panels, making them not as environmentally friendly as people think and silver industrial demand should grow the more solar panels are used.

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main st had on returning guest, Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspo.... Mish is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management and he has one of the top and most popular websites about the economy and investing online.

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Mish about interest rates and financial repression and if he thinks the Federal Reserve is trapped and can they meaningfully raise interest rates?

Mish says the Fed would probably never admit they are trapped and is probably too stupid to know they are basically trapped.

Jason and Mish discuss financial repression in the US, Japan, etc.

Next, Jason asks Mish about his recent article about the pension plan crisis developing in the US.

Mish and Jason discuss if asset price inflation is intentionally being done to help generate higher returns for pension funds?

After this, Jason asks Mish about asset price inflation, bubbles and where Mish still sees value in markets. Mish likes gold, gold miners, Japanese stocks most.

Jason asks Mish about the oil market and they discuss job losses because of the US shale oil bust is happening now even though oil may have bottomed.

Jason and Mish then talk about inflation, currency wars, deflation and currency pegs.

Mish says Keynesian central bankers will do almost anything to fight deflation and that ultimately this will lead to a global currency crisis in the near future.

To end the interview, Jason asks Mish about the SDR and if CHina wants the World Reserve Currency?

Mish says China doesn't want the burden of the world reserve currency, at least not anytime soon.

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on Sprott http://www.sprott.com/ Executive VP of Corporate Development, Head of ETFs and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), John Ciampaglia.

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason asks John why ETFs have become popular versus mutual funds.

Jason asks John about the 2 new Sprott gold mining ETFs and their methodologies. Each ETF updates either quarterly or every 6 months.

Unlike many other ETFs, which are market cap weighted, Sprott's gold mining ETFs have a different qualitative methodology looking for better gold miners instead of just bigger gold miners.

Jason and John discuss whether mutual funds are dinosaurs since many mutual funds underperform their benchmark index due to management fees and other hidden fees.

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Wall St for Main St interviewed Joe Meyer, who is a former Money Manager and the Editor of The Straight Money Analysis. In this podcast, we discussed the change in the culture in Wall Street from the 1970s to today and how it has affected the market. Also, we talked about the potential exit of Greece from the Euro,the overvalued stock market and how investors can take caution. Plus much more!

Jason Burack of Wall st for Main St had on returning guest, hedge fund manager, author and newsletter writer of Addicted to Profits http://addictedtoprofits.net/, Dave Skarica. 

Dave's newest book out is, Collapse! How the Federal Reserve Created Another Stock Market Bubble And Why It Will Collapse. 

During this 50+ minute discussion, Jason asks Dave about his newest book, Collapse, and why the stock market hasn't collapsed yet? 

Dave talks about flight capital leaving other countries to come into the US and how central bankers are helping prop up asset markets. Dave doesn't think this is sustainable and that the US stock market is long overdue for a nasty and deep correction in the near future. 

After this massive correction or crash, Dave thinks the Federal Reserve instead of threatening to raise interest rates, will instead go for QE4 to try and manipulate interest rates lower using financial repression.

Dave thinks much more painful stagflation is in the future for the US and most of the rest of the world once the US Federal Reserve reverses course. 

Next, Jason asks Dave if it's become increasingly more difficult to be a contrarian investor and a value investor with the Federal Reserve and other Keynesian central banks all around the globe trying to boost asset prices with QE, Wealth Effect, etc. 

Dave thinks it's a lot harder to be a contrarian now and Jason and Dave discuss the investing philosophy and methodology of one of the world's most famous investors, Sir John Templeton. 

Jason and Dave also have a long discussion about financial engineering and how it's become pervasive both in corporate America and also by governments and their central banks. 

Next, Dave talks about the markets he is current buying and where he sees value. Jason and Dave discuss oil, coal and the precious metals during the rest of this interview. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, editor of The News Doctorshttp://thenewsdoctors.com/ and former technology executive, Eric Dubin.

During this 50+ minute long discussion, Jason asks Eric about the goals and logic of the US' foreign policy? 

Eric talks about the past strategies of the Roman Empire and the British Empire for divide and conquer and controlled chaos strategies to weaken key areas the US wants to control. 

Jason and Eric talk about how Machievllian US foreign policy is and how the US collects people in power in countries like the Ukraine as puppets. 

Next, Jason asks Eric about Hillary Clinton and her scandals and how the mainstream media is trying to help her become the next president in the 2016 elections. 

Eric says how the propaganda from the mainstream media is at an all time high and how bread ad circuses combined with the propaganda and lies about many things including how well the economy is doing is allowing Wall St and the US government to do whatever it wants because most Americans still don't have a clue about what's really going on or they don't care or they are blind ideologues. 

To wrap up the discussion, Jason and Eric talk about the SDR, the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and precious metals. 

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on former Wall St bond trader, gold fund manager and investment analyst, Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamicshttp://investmentresearchdynamics.com/

Dave also has started the new Shadow of Truth Podcast with Rory Hall of The Daily Coin. 

During this 40+ minute discussion, Jason asks Dave if he thinks the Fed is trapped about raising interest rates? Dave thinks the Fed cannot raise rates meaningfully and will most likely eventually have to end up lowering rates further on the yield curve towards zero. 


Jason and Dave discuss financial repression and how the US, UK, EU and Japan are all committed to financial repression with artificially manipulated interest rates. 

Next, Jason asks Dave about the housing market and the real economy. Dave cites how Realty Track, which is normally always bullish real estate, recently said ~35% of American homes still have negative equity because of mortgages. 

Dave and Jason talk about new government schemes to try and force younger adults with their first full time job to try and buy a house to keep the asset bubble going.

Next, Jason asks Dave about Amazon.com and why he thinks their accounting is bad? Dave talks about how Amazon has to have revenue growth at all cost in order to pay off debt and other obligations and expenses. 

To wrap up the interview, Jason and Dave discuss the Gold and silver markets and how much longer miners can survive with lower prices? 

Wall St for Main St interviewed best  selling author and newsletter writer, Jason Kelly. Jason recently published a new book The 3% Signal. In this podcast, we discussed the Japanese economy, the stock market and bond market in Japan and how the Fukushima crisishas affected Japan. Plus we will go into detail about Jason's unique investing strategy from his new book. Plus much more!

Be sure to check out Jason's new book at http://jasonkelly.com/

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, President and CEO of First Majestic Silver http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/Home.asp, Keith Neumeyer to discuss the silver market, silver miner's production costs and his companies.

Keith's full bio can be found here: http://www.firstmajestic.com/s/Manage...

During this 20+ minute interview, Jason asks Keith about the supply/demand fundamentals of silver, whether they have changed drastically in the last few years, about the production costs of silver miners worldwide, and how hard it is for the industry and for his mining company to cut costs.

Keith also tells Jason about his new company, First Mining Finance Corp, which recently went IPO.

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St had on returning guest, derivatives expert, precious metals expert, former Canadian broker, investment banker and trader, Rob Kirby of Kirby Analyticshttp://www.kirbyanalytics.com/

During this 40+ minute interview, Jason asks Rob about what's going on in the gold market. Rob says all the physical gold is moving from West to East (China, India, Russia, Middle East, Asia, etc) while the paper price of gold doesn't reflect the supply/demand fundamentals. 

Rob thinks in the near future Western central banks will run out of gold to sell to Asia. Jason and Rob discuss what happens to the gold and silver markets if a lot of gold and silver miners go bust and what that would do to supply. 

Next, Jason asks Rob about why the OTC derivatives market hasn't collapsed yet. Rob points to stealth money printing in many forms including currency swaps, by covert groups like the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF), Bank of International Settlements, etc to keep asset prices in stocks, bonds and real estate propped up and to make banks appear solvent with fake accounting. 

Rob says many trillions in backdoor bailouts has been printed to prevent the ~$800 trillion or so in interest rate swap contracts in the OTC derivatives market from collapsing everything.

Jason and Rob discuss end game for the current global financial system and what the next system may look like. 

Finally, to wrap up the interview, Jason asks Rob if debt and debt based fiat currencies can destroy society and destroy the fabric of society with moral decay.