Keiser Report (February 2021 - October 2021): Recent Episodes
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Markets! Finance! Scandal! Keiser Report is a no holds barred look at the shocking scandals behind the global financial headlines. From the collusion between Wall Street and Capitol Hill to the latest banking crime wave, from bogus government economic statistics to rigged stock markets, nothing escapes the eye of Max Keiser, a former stockbroker, inventor of the virtual specialist technology and co-founder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange. With the help of Keiser's co-host, Stacy Herbert, and guests from around the world, Keiser Report tells you what is really going on in the global economy.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy ask, “are you prepared?” – for the sudden repricing of everything, including risk and money. In the second half, Max continues his chat with Nick Giambruno. They turn to chip shortages and commodity prices.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the stories related to rising inflation, building shortages and the multinational retail chains renting private cargo ships to deliver holiday goods. In the second half, Max chats to Nick Giambruno about the Bank of England’s warning that bitcoin could cause a financial meltdown. They then discuss the actual financial meltdown in Lebanon, where Nick had previously lived, and ask: Is there hope for the country, and if so, would bitcoin fix it?
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the multiple supply chain catastrophes unfolding around the world as markets continue their relentless march higher. Is this due to amazing economic activity? Or a huge volume of new money? In the second half, Max continues his chat with bitcoin podcaster Mark Moss about going where you are wanted, and how bitcoin changes the rules of the game for the individual.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the ongoing consequences of the pandemic response: from everything shortages to energy crises. In the second half, Max chats to bitcoin podcaster Mark Moss about how he had predicted the energy crisis and how bitcoin fixes it.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at reflexivity and misallocation of capital on an epic scale. In the second half, Max chats to precious metals expert Craig Hemke of TF Metals Report about platinum heading to one trillion and the report out from JP Morgan, which observes that their institutional clients are buying bitcoin, not gold, as an inflation hedge.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look back to the most notorious robber baron from the Gilded Age, Jay Gould, and see what insight he could offer to the internecine conflict during the age of Robber Baron 2.0. In the second half, Max chats to entrepreneur Sinclair Skinner of the Black Blockchain Summit and ILoveBlackPeople.com about the attempts to divide bitcoiners with ‘white supremacy’ FUD from the mainstream media.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy propose a tiny coin packed with one sextillion dollars on it in order to save the global economy from all the debt. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Lawrence Lepard about his bitcoin pitch to the gold crowd.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the appeals to ‘save the middle class’ with permanent Universal Basic Income (UBI). In the second half, Max talks to Lawrence Lepard about his planned speech to goldbugs, “fix the money, fix the world.”
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the latest financial news, including that shortages continue and the money printing does too. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Rick Ackerman of Rick’s Picks about the hyper-hypothecated treasuries moment.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the latest financial news, including that Jamie Dimon predicts bitcoin will be worth ten times its current value within five years. In the second half, Max talks to Rick Ackerman of Rick’s Picks about inflation, deflation and markets.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the growing fashion trend in diplomacy of talking like an undiplomatic New Yorker. In the second half, Max and Stacy continue their conversation about the fallout from the AUKUS deal which torpedoed France’s submarine contract with Australia as well as the escalating crisis with shortages and rent increases popping up globally.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the growing demands in the US for a Chinese-style social credit system, whereby the tech giants permanently ‘disappear’ certain deplorables and undesirables from the internet. In the second half, Max interviews Harry Halpin, of Nym Technologies, about privacy in an age of surveillance.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at Joe Biden’s tweet from June 2021 in which he declared “Diplomacy is back!” and juxtapose this with the headlines of today, in which France has withdrawn its ambassador to the US for the first time in several hundred years. In the second half, Max interviews Alexis Roussel about the digital integrity of the human person.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the two-tier social justice system whereby the powerful and the famous are exempt from the consequences of their ‘terms of service’ violations, unlike the millions of deplorables. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Pierre Noizat of Paymium.com about entropy, money and bitcoin.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the loopholes being invented to add more debt to otherwise over-indebted monetary, economic and financial systems. In the second half, Max interviews Pierre Noizat of Paymium.com about proof of work and anti-entropy money.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at food shortages hitting Sri Lanka simply due to a shortage of dollars. Bitcoin fixes this, too. In the second half, Max continues his chat with Michael Pento of PentoPort.com about ‘the coming great deflation’ – what it looks like, and how to prepare.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look back to what Henry Ford and others said about an energy-backed currency and the problem with using gold when governments control so much of it. In the second half, Max chats with Michael Pento of PentoPort.com about his case for gold in an era when, indeed, so much is controlled by the same entities, institutions and governments who have caused the economic disasters before us.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at a report into the huge profits earned by the private security industry that sprouted up after the September 11th attacks 20 years ago. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Dr. Michael Hudson about the third edition of his classic book, “Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance,” as well as another new book to be published before the end of the year, “The Destiny of Civilization,” and whether or not the Thucydides Trap is real.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss a recent economic report finding that the rich getting richer is causing low rates which, in turn, is causing the rich to get richer. In the second half, Max chats to Dr Michael Hudson about the third edition of his classic book, “Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of US World Dominance” on how the US came to be the world’s ‘most affluent’ empire, despite being the largest debtor nation.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss bitcoin becoming legal tender in El Salvador. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Mish Shedlock of MishTalk.com about the ‘Sink America Plan’.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the first signs of an official social credit score arriving in Western economies as the nudge becomes a cudgel. In the second half, Max chats to Mish Shedlock of MishTalk.com about parabolic markets in the age of pandemic and ‘transitory’ inflation.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the financial storms coming and why bitcoin may be the only money left afterwards. In the second half, Max continues his chat with David Morgan of the Morgan Report about gold, silver and US money supply.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the World Economic Forum encouraging people to embrace fear, anger and sadness and to reject ‘toxic positivity.’ In the second half, Max chats to David Morgan of the Morgan Report about losing Kabul on the 50th anniversary of the Nixon Shock.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the never-ending bond bubble and those who continue to bet against it. They also look at the ordinary Americans able to negotiate prices similar to or better than multibillion-dollar health insurance giants for medical procedures. In the second half, Max chats to Gerald Celente in Phoenix, Arizona about the end of yet another empire in Afghanistan.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy examine the helicopter money of collapsing empire as money printing and outright plunder accelerate. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Dan Collins, a long-time resident of China, on what the aftermath of Afghanistan will look like for China and whether or not they will burn their Treasure Fleet once again before benefiting from this new world disorder.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy examine the political theories of the ‘geographical pivot’ as it plays out 100 years later, as the Afghanistan war collapses into chaos. In the second half, Max chats to Dan Collins, a long-time resident of China, with his analysis of the country in a post-Covid and post-US-empire world.
Max and Stacy compare the situation in Afghanistan where the US failed to secure ‘victory’ after 20 years and US monetary policy where the strategy is similar: ‘One more bout of QE’ is the ‘one more surge will gain us victory over the enemy forces’ – be they Taliban or deflation. In the second half, Max chats to Wolf Richter, publisher of WolfStreet.com, about the inflation mindset and supply chain chaos.
Max and Stacy ask what would have happened had China shut down for the past year as did much of the West. Without supplies of goods on which to spend stimulus checks, what would the inflation picture look like? They then ask whether or not China is using this historic moment to burn their Treasure Fleet instead of capitalizing on their manufacturing advantage. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about his latest piece, ‘The Extinction of Gold Derivatives’, and what it has to do with the Nixon Shock and the Basel III net stable funding ratio.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy enjoy a ‘cup of Joe Biden’, as consumers are happy to pay ever higher prices for their morning cup of coffee thanks to the ongoing stimulus and enhanced unemployment benefits. In the second half, Max interviews Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about his latest piece, ‘The Extinction of Gold Derivatives’, and what it has to do with the Nixon shock and the Basel III net stable funding ratio.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the tales of small landlords being forced into forbearance as the rent moratorium gets extended yet again. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein about the consequences of letting children play with derivatives, including the fact that only 2% of the dollar’s original value still remains. They also discuss the ‘steal from savers’ program causing havoc on balance sheets around the world.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the negative yielding bonds and how they’ve turned an asset into a liability and, thus, turned them into pure speculation to hold them. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Mark Valek of Incrementum about 50 years of fiat and how the consequences of monetary policy have played out across the global economic and financial system.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the magnitudes: from the dollar value that bitcoin has been hitting, to the worth of SDRs that the IMF has been conjuring up out of thin air. In the second half, Max interviews Mark Valek of Incrementum about 50 years of fiat and about negative interest rates across the yield curve, and what this says about the world’s mindset.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the US dollar’s Red Queen syndrome – since Nixon closed the gold window, disallowing foreign central banks from redeeming their dollars for gold, thereby facilitating its devaluation, Americans have had to work harder and harder just to stay in the same place. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Egon von Greyerz, of GoldSwitzerland.com, about the coming dollar reckoning, as the tension builds between a rising power, China, and a fading one, the US.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the increased adoption of bitcoin in Nigeria after the government tried to ban it. In the second half, Max interviews Egon von Greyerz of GoldSwitzerland.com about 50 years of fiat and the still ongoing consequences of Richard Nixon shutting the gold window on 15 August 1971.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the report released by the UK Public Accounts Committee which said No 10's response to the Covid-19 crisis has exposed UK taxpayers to “significant financial risks,” according to the BBC. In the second half, Max and Stacy continue their conversation with James Howard Kunstler of Kunstler.com about fifty years of fiat.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the data showing ‘no resistance’ to price increases, as money-printing and stimulus checks encourage Americans to pay whatever the price is without negotiation. In the second half, Max and Stacy chat to author James Howard Kunstler, of Kunstler.com, about his time as a news reporter on the day that Nixon shut the gold window in 1971.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the data showing ‘no resistance’ to price increases as money printing and stimulus checks encourage Americans to pay whatever the price is without negotiation. In the second half, Max chats to Craig Hemke of TF Metals Report about the Nixon Shock, 50 years later. They also discuss the latest news on market manipulation in the precious metals market.
Max and Stacy look at President Biden’s promise that more money printing will reduce inflation. Say what? They also look at the ‘outrage business model’ of corporate media suffering a huge post-Trump hit to their ratings. In the second half, Max continues his chat with Tavi Costa of Crescat Capital about hyperinflation and the 50th anniversary of the US dollar.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at President Joe Biden’s call that the Fed should do whatever is necessary to help the economy recover. With stock markets and property prices at all-time-highs, however, what exactly is this ‘recovery’ of which the president speaks?
In the second half, Max chats to Tavi Costa of Crescat Capital about the plunge in Treasury yields and the rise in inflation numbers.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the White House calls for limiting social media access across all platforms for those discredited on one. They look back to an episode of the Keiser Report from two years earlier in which they had predicted that China’s ‘social credit score’ would come to America. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com about the China-US relationship and how that might impact both the dollar and the global economy.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at an opinion piece from the Guardian arguing that only the ‘right’ is concerned about inflation. They look at recent headlines cataloguing the human catastrophes wrought by inflation on the poor. In the second half, Max chats to Gerald Celente about his forecast for inflation and its consequences.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at why container freight prices are hitting crazy new highs. In the second half, Max talks to technical analyst Rick Ackerman of Rick’s Picks trading newsletter about the case for DEFLATION despite the signs of inflation in prices all around us.
On this episode of Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021, Max and Stacy chat to businessman Dan Collins, a long-time former resident of China, about the latest emerging tensions as its power and wealth increases. They discuss how the richest American businessmen, like Charlie Munger and Elon Musk, have been openly praising China’s business model as Jack Ma is dethroned. They also discuss the ‘warnings’ that Chinese household wealth could soon be ‘unleashed’ upon the world and drive up prices even further than the money printing has done.
In this Summer Solutions 2021 episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com about the ‘I’ word now being used by even the central banks, who have long denied inflation would ever result from the excessive money printing that is constantly suggested as a solution to the previous bout of printing and interest rate cuts. Rubino offers his outlook, options for a post-dollar world, what he forecasts for inflation on the horizon and how that plays out amongst the population.
In this episode of Summer Solutions 2021 of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com about the problem with ‘too much liquidity.’ Will the central bank choose to raise interest rates or to allow the dollar to collapse? Macleod feels most central banks have no choice but to allow inflation to rip. They also look at the balance sheet of the People’s Bank of China and forecast the possible consequences of their having much less debt and leverage than Western central banks.
In this episode of Summer Solutions 2021 of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat with Professor Steve Keen about his new book, “The New Economics: a Manifesto.” They discuss the problems with neoclassical economics and offer some solutions. One issue is that equilibrium is a desired goal of orthodox economics whereas, as Schumpeter pointed out, instability is one of the strengths of industrial capitalism which leads to innovation. They also look at the increasing wealth gap and how to resolve that.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how the parabolic move in the money-printing asset markets is also driving the parabolic network effect in bitcoin. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about negative-yielding bonds and surging inflation.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how semiconductor ship prices continue to surge as money printing goes into overdrive, while demand for the limited supply grows even faster. In the second half, Max chats to Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the inflation data and all his charts demonstrating the effects of that money printing.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how the US central bank is now warning that ‘transitory’ inflation may be around longer than expected. They also remind the audience that quantitative easing was also meant to be temporary before it, too, became permanent. In the second half, they discuss whether it’s fair that their taxes are going toward propping up landlords whose rent their tenants haven’t paid during the pandemic. After all, while house prices have risen nearly 25% in the same period, the likes of Max and Stacy won’t get a cut of the profits.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how the profit motive is better than the plunder model in terms of achieving favorable long-term outcomes for an economy. Hegemonic powers going back thousands of years have ultimately resorted to the plunder rather than competitive profit model and inevitably end up losing their power as a result. They discuss the Great Hashpower Migration out of China as an example. In the second half, they continue with the second part of the most talked about event of Bitcoin 2021: Max interviewing Michael Saylor about the reason he bitcoins, and what next on the road to hyperbitcoinization.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the rapidly rising prices in Stacy’s online shopping cart and the ‘Bitcoin Willy Wonka’ label on Max. In the second half, they play the most talked-about event of Bitcoin 2021: Max interviewing Michael Saylor about being a ‘newbie’ and why the cyber hornets drew him to bitcoin.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss rug-pulling in the global fiat economy through money printing and other interventions which pull the value from under economic infrastructure. In the second half, Max chats to technical analyst, Tone Vays, about bitcoin markets and geopolitics.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the last stages of the global fiat regime as young people decide they’d rather stay home than work. There is no meritocracy only cantillionaires and oligarchs and so, in China, they have their own: the ‘lie flat’ movement. In the second half, Max chats to Carliño about Bitcoin Lake in Guatemala and the hopes for the region after neighbor, El Salvador, makes bitcoin legal tender.
In this special episode of the Keiser Report recorded at Bitcoin 2021 in Miami, Max and Stacy discuss dumpster diving fiat. In the second half, Max chats to the ‘Podfather’, Adam Curry, about price discovery on Lightning for content creators and driving the innovation of the independent ecosystem of podcasting. The murmuration model and the value block for content creation is growing.
On this fifth episode of Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021 series, Max and Stacy chat to James Howard Kunstler of Kunstler.com about the Fourth Turning of a rotting empire facing a Thucydides Trap. They look at the reversal of growth leading to a situation where there is not enough surplus wealth to service the debt, leaving a system in which debts are never expected to be repaid. The withering and reorganizing of international trade is underway as a consequence, hindering the ability of the US to project economic domination. And, finally, they examine the woke hysteria leading America down the path of idiocracy.
In this fourth episode of Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021 series, Max and Stacy chat to Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen’s energy program about the private equity problem as vulture capitalists buy up public utilities just as the Biden administration is about to dole out billions of dollars to get them to convert to renewables.
In this first episode of Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021 series, Max and Stacy chat to Marshall Auerback, an economic analyst, about the trillions of newly printed dollars and the chances it could lead to hyperinflation as no new goods and services are being created. They also examine the hyperpartisanship of the elite media class who focus on condemning and marginalizing the tens of millions of ‘deplorables’ rather than trying to bridge the opportunity and wealth divide.
In this episode of the Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021 series, Max and Stacy chat to Simon Dixon of BnkToTheFuture.com about the strategies to cope with bitcoin market sell offs requiring a change in psychology first. One can no longer behave in a fiat manner around the hardest money ever invented. They also discuss the strategy of printing yet more trillions of dollars as central banks and governments pave the way for a command-and-control digital currency regime to replace the existing monetary failure.
In the first episode of the Keiser Report’s Summer Solutions 2021 series, Max and Stacy look at the US dollar rug pull as rapid and massive money printing pulls the value out from under dollar savings.
They also look at the overproduction of the elite as they scramble for limited space at top schools, universities and exclusive clubs in the Hamptons and beyond, as the billionaires compete with OnlyFans for room at the beach.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the inflation mindset ready, willing and able to take higher prices thus allowing prices to continue rising. In the second half Max continues his conversation with Michael Pento about price signals and capital allocation.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, who’s on record as saying he’d rather buy bitcoin than bonds in an inflationary environment. Soon after, it was reported he owned bitcoin. They also look at the European Central Bank gift that has made Bernard Arnault the richest man in the world. In the second half, Max chats to Michael Pento about the ‘everything bubble’ and the risk of hyperinflation.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the surging US trade deficit with China and how the elite are now trying to negotiate with the reality they set in motion back in 2001. What they are learning is that beggars can’t be choosers. In the second half, Max chats to Chris Fenton, author of ‘Feeding the Dragon’, about Hollywood selling out to China. Max asks whether or not the US can even afford to alter the course their elite set in motion.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the small-time traders on the free-trading apps calling the Hertz bankruptcy right whilst billionaire hedge fund investor Carl Icahn called it wrong. In the second half Max continues his conversation with Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about supply chains, the US dollar and the aliens landing in time to clean up the mess.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the central bank-sponsored speculation driving asset bubbles and retail shortages. In the second half Max talks to Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about the underlying reasons for the Colonial Pipeline hack and ensuing gasoline shortages.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy are stranded without gasoline as panic buying continues after the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. They look at the headlines indicating more inflation is in the pipeline (pun intended). In the second half, Max continues his interview with David Morgan of TheMorganReport.com about shortages and supply-chain problems; inflation v deflation and the problem with gold.
Max and Stacy look at the warning from legendary hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller that the central banks are destroying fiat currencies and that bitcoin is a solution. Max interviews David Morgan of TheMorganReport.com about the disco-like quality of money printing as if the central banks know the party is about to end.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the worker shortages amidst the central banks’ ‘everything bubble’. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Aleks Svetski of Amber App about central bank digital currencies and fiat communism.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the buyers’ frenzy chasing up prices as inflation starts to explode across prices in the economy. In the second half Max interviews Aleks Svetski of Amber App about fiat collectivism and the misallocation of capital it causes.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the chip shortages hitting manufacturing and note that some of this supply shock is due to manufacturers having taken the obvious decision to cut back on orders, with the assumption that consumers would cut back during a global lockdown… little did they expect the avalanche of money printing! In the second half, Max interviews John Titus about his freedom of information request to the Federal Reserve.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at soaring lumber prices adding tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of building a new house. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the population loving the boom times of planet Ponzi as the free money drives a surge in consumer spending and stock and property manias.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the return of the Roaring Twenties, as incomes and consumption soar. In the second half, Max continues his interview with James Turk of GoldMoney.com about the fate of the US dollar in the age of the Belt and Road Initiative and excessive money-printing.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at companies starting to protect their balance sheets from the melting ice cube of excessive money printing. In the second half Max interviews James Turk of GoldMoney.com about the chances of hyperinflation, and whether or not the bond bull market is actually over after more than 40 years.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the fraying of the global currency reserve system as the Triffin dilemma reaches its inevitable conclusion. They look at the rise of populism as the result of the built-in problem with a fiat reserve currency and how a bitcoin standard could reduce the volatility and inherent violence of a capricious fiat regime.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the $421,000 worth of 1958 dollars (inflation adjusted) found under a floorboard – worth just $46,000 over 50 years later. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Craig ‘Don Quixote’ Hemke of TFMetalsReport.com about his campaign to try and stop silver price manipulation.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the central banks pumping money into the economy, leading to a shortage of workers willing to roll out of bed for less than $50. In the second half, Max interviews Craig Hemke of TFMetalsReport.com about gold prices unable to signal anything, thanks to intervention in price discovery.
Max and Stacy look at the flow of hard money into China as rumors fly about gold-backed central bank digital currencies and bitcoin receives some positive words from the PBOC. Max continues his interview with Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about the cultural revolution sweeping the West and what it means for the economy going forward.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at JP Morgan all the way down as bilking grandma is the business model. In the second half Max interviews Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about the ‘fatal synergies’ and the ‘sealed pressure cooker’ resulting when the system refuses to offer a solution to those denied a voice or access to resources. They also discuss the oversupply of elites and the chaos this ultimately brings to society.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the charts from Constantin Gurdgiev on US labor participation rates: this isn’t normal. In the second half Max continues his conversation with Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about geopolitics in an age of rampant money printing.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the call by JP Morgan for an unexpectedly large increase in inflation as pent-up savings is unleashed. In the second half, Max chats to Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about whether or not we are heading for inflation, deflation, hyperinflation or hyperdeflation, and why it is so difficult to tell.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the easy sell of Ponzi economics as the human imagination prefers the fantasy of impossible gains to the hard slog of actually producing or manufacturing profits. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Rick Ackerman, a market analyst and former market maker, who argues that gold is the only asset class at the moment not in a bubble, and that it is, in fact, completely reviled.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the signs of continuing asset price inflation as more and more money printing is pushed into the economy and yet, ‘is goldbug macro dead?’ Despite the unprecedented increase in money supply, gold has barely responded since last summer. What does this mean? In the second half, Max continues his interview with Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about price signals and bond markets.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the explosion in mortgages for second properties. In the second half, Max interviews Wolf Richter of wolfstreet.com about whether or not the debt is sustainable.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the increase in leverage and ‘complex bets’ threatening to unravel at the slightest change in interest rates or stock prices. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Lawrence Lepard, an independent investment adviser, about the dollar, inflation, and global trade.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at indications that the Ponzi economy is beginning to buckle, similar to the dotcom crash, as SPACs insiders begin to sell. In the second half, Max interviews investment manager, Lawrence Lepard, about the failure of gold to provide a meaningful price signal in the day of massive money printing. Lepard believes the dollar, and all fiat currencies, are hyperinflating against bitcoin, however.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the acceleration of deglobalization, as surveillance capitalism meets the Thucydides Trap, in which the panopticon gets restricted to national boundaries. In the second half, Max continues his interview with John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com about more free money and safe havens in a time of inflation.
Max and Stacy look at mainstream conspiracy theories distorting the worldview of blue-check Twitter. Max interviews John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com about the relative weakness of gold in a time of endless money printing.
On this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the Thucydides Trap and Cantillon Effect starting to show up in the data and the geopolitical drama. In the second half, Max interviews geo-economic analyst, Dan Collins, about the aftermath of the Alaska Summit and what’s next for the US-China relationship.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the fact that the market can no longer react to price signals because all of the so-called ‘signals’ are now fake. In the second half, Max interviews Brady Swenson of SwanBitcoin.com about Generation Bitcoin and how this plays out in the Zoomer vs Boomer mindset around value and time preference.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the data on what the trillions in free money are doing in terms of the wealth gap as Twitter users start trending demands for more of that free money. In the second half, Max interviews Abe Cambridge of TheSunExchange.com about the latest innovations happening in the solar market.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the ‘grim’ data on the ‘exploding’ US deficits and what the Congressional Budget Office forecasts over the next 30 years – more debt. In the second half, Max interviews Michael Pento of PentoPort.com, who takes a very, very different position to Stan Druckenmiller on the US dollar.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the claim by a Bank of America analyst that the 40-year bull market in bonds is over as the inflation trade gets set to soar. In the second half, Max interviews Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about the end of the bond market bull and the coming surge in inflation.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the tumbling purchase power of the dollar as the Federal Reserve gets its wish. In the second half, Max interviews Nick Giambruno, an independent geopolitical analyst, about lackluster gold in an age of excessive money-printing. They discuss the fact that bitcoin has displaced the need for gold for most individuals.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the soaring house prices as money-printing pushes up asset prices, and how the same policymakers who caused the original problem are now concerned that the rises will lock a generation out of owning a home. In the second half, Max interviews Paddy Lowe of Zero Petroleum about ‘petrosynthesis’ as a way to address imbalances in markets and the environment.
Max and Stacy look at a statement from Aker, a 180-year-old energy engineering company in Norway that is turning to bitcoin, viewing it as a means to capture otherwise stranded energy. Max interviews Jonathan Chester of Bitwage.com about the new reality of a post-pandemic world meeting his company’s business model of not only allowing anyone to be paid their wages in bitcoin but facilitating remote worker salaries across borders.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the Citibank report suggesting that bitcoin will be the new currency for global trade within the next seven years. In the second half, Max interviews Chris Fenton, author of 'Feeding the Dragon,' about why the United States is falling so far behind China in high tech, and whether or not a financialized economy, characterized by stock buybacks and loading companies with debt instead of R&D, is one that can ever compete against an economy like China’s, in which investment in innovation is growing.
Max and Stacy look at the rapidly growing number of 5G base stations in China as they continue to build out capacity rapidly as America remains in economic lockdown. Max interviews Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen’s Energy Program about what happened in Texas and solutions to problems with the energy grid across the US.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the “growing concern that market-based inflation expectations have become unreliable as indicators,” i.e. the central banks have destroyed the price signal foundational to free and fair markets. In this environment, we see Goodhart’s Law at work: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Singer says of the “market craziness” that there is a “scarcity of honest profits.”
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the head of the NY Fed's confirmation that there is evidence that quantitative easing and low interest rates are causing the wealth gap to rise via the Cantillon Effect. In the second half, Max talks to Stephen Flood of GoldCore.com about the case for gold in a bitcoin world.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at yields soaring on US government debt. ARK’s Cathie Wood warns, “there will be fear.” In the second half, Max continues his interview with Mark Valek of Incrementum.li about gold, bitcoin, and the future of money.
Max and Stacy look at the Washington Post editorial on whether Fed chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will do something about bitcoin revealing the flaw of money printing. In the second half, Max interviews Mark Valek of Incrementum.li about the growth in US money supply and whether or not hedge fund investor Stan Druckenmiller is right to go very, very short on the dollar in response. They discuss Weimar inflation, currency debasement, and gold prices.