“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford in 1922 Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer and the reason we talked about Fordism last …
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This week on Looking Backwards: Alibaba’s investment plan in Turkey, Biden’s handling of classified documents, and Brazil riots. This week on Looking Forwards: Lignite mine demonstrations in Germany, South Korea selling arms to UAE, and Japanese bond market turmoil. Alibaba plans logistics hub at Istanbul Airport, data centre near Ankara, Transport & Logistics – THE …
Who is in control? The FED? Or the bond market? C Thomas walks us through two opposite views of Jeffrey Gundlach and Zoltan Pozsar. You can read this episode here, or listen on Spotify, or watch on Youtube Good morning I’m Austerity Jones, and I am here with C Thomas Printer. C Thomas: Good morning …
These days on our planet: the US House finally having a speaker, the Japanese increasing their support for nuclear, declining European inflation, US December CPI Inflation awaited, and Silvergate being hit with $8bn in crypto withdrawals. Watch the show YouTube News of the week, handpicked for you Kevin McCarthy is elected House speaker after 15 …
A perspective on what awaits us in the new year: Elon’s empire on the brink, oil price-supply&demand, geopolitics in China-Taiwan issue, other regional hostilities: Belarus-Ukraine, Kosovo-Serbia, and India-China, another potential hotspot: Ghana defaulting on its debt, and the big question mark: housing market. And finally, turbulences in the US: $545bn in interest in the $1.7tn …
The tricky task Jerome Powell has: taming inflation in the midst of a record deficit. Good morning I’m Austerity Jones and I am here with C Thomas Printer. C Thomas, what do you have for us today? C Thomas: Good morning Austerity. One of my favorite stories is the following. Warren Buffet asks a group of …
Argentina, the land stretching down the east side of South America and conjuring images of cosmopolitan cities, grass fed beef, Malbecs, the flat Pampas, and the mountainous Andes. It is a country full of abundant resources yet for the last century Argentina has been an interesting case economically because it could be argued that they …
We remember executive orders and government acts that demolished gold from being the backbone of the US currency. The question we now have is what if BRICS countries decide to turn back to gold, what happens? Good morning I’m Austerity Jones and I am here with C Thomas Printer who is ready to talk about …
Argentina, the land stretching down the east side of South America and conjuring images of cosmopolitan cities, grass fed beef, Malbecs, the flat Pampas, and the mountainous Andes. It is a country full of abundant resources yet for the last century Argentina has been an interesting case economically because it could be argued that they …
• US Midterm Election • CPI Inflation October • University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index November • The layoffs • US-China relations • The bankruptcy of the crypto exchange – FTX C Thomas: Happy Hump day! Welcome back to Looking Backwards Looking Forwards. I’m C Thomas. I’m here with Austerity Jones. Austerity: Happy Wednesday C …