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Did you catch Trump and Musk competing to be the most anti-union? America is tired of the FAILED anti-worker neoliberal BS. Will Kamala forge a way forward- finally- for all Americans?Plus, Thom reads from "The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy" by Christopher Leonard. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Christopher Leonard is the author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. Ranjan Roy is the author of Margins. Both join Big Technology Podcast for a special episode where we dig into the Federal Reserve's outsized role in the economy, how its recent moves may send asset prices spiraling, and whether we're heading toward a financial crisis as a result. Tune into a timely and important episode as the Fed's aggressive interest rate shock is starting to broadly reverberate. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com

Christopher Leonard is an investigative reporter, director of the Watchdog Writers Group at the Mizzou School of Journalism, and author of bestselling novel, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. In this fascinating discussion, Christopher sheds light on one of America's most mysterious institutions — The Federal Reserve — and argues how quantitative easing, amongst other policies, have accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Christopher Leonard is an investigative reporter, director of the Watchdog Writers Group at the Mizzou School of Journalism, and author of bestselling novel, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. In this fascinating discussion, Christopher sheds light on one of America's most mysterious institutions — The Federal Reserve — and argues how quantitative easing, amongst other policies, have accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk.

We all know the story. After worshipping at the altar of "lean" for decades, we spent two years wondering where all the toilet paper and pickup trucks went. Covid reminded us that too much efficiency could be colossally inefficient, slack was back, hooray. Then you tried to board that Southwest flight a couple months ago and you realized the germ-like aversion to slack had taken root far beyond the manufacturing sector. In this episode, we discuss how keeping "slack in the system" in all aspects of our lives helps us stay happy, productive, and safe from the horrifying dystopia foretold by Garfield In Paradise. (chrome, chrome, chrome…bop bop a re-bop)Mentioned in this episode:1:40 - Episode #50: Unions, Strikes, and Your Rights with Dan Gilmore3:20 - FTC Holds Public Forum on Proposed Rule Banning Use of Non-Compete Agreements10:20 - The Employment Situation - December 202210:50 - Episode #48: Let's Get Down(sized)!11:05 - The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy14:20 - Billionaire Charlie Munger says to stop complaining everyone is five times better off than they used to be15:00 - The 15-Hour Workweek15:40 - Episode #41: Time For Niksen (not that Nixon)20:15 - Why 2023 Could Finally Be the Year of the 4-Day Workweek20:15 - Episode #44: Charlotte Lockhart and the 4-Day Week25:20 - Southwest Airlines Has Fallen Apart39:00 - Garfield in Paradise Come visit us at busynessparadox.com to see episode transcripts, blog posts and other content while you're there!

Hub Dialogues (part of The Hub, Canada's daily information source for public policy – https://www.thehub.ca) are in-depth conversations about big ideas from the worlds of business, economics, geopolitics, public policy, and technology.The Hub Dialogues feature The Hub's editor-at-large, Sean Speer, in conversation with leading entrepreneurs, policymakers, scholars, and thinkers on the issues and challenges that will shape Canada's future at home and abroad. The episodes are generously supported by The Ira Gluskin And Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Charitable Foundation.This episode features Sean Speer in conversation with journalist and award-winning author Christopher Leonard about his fascinating, new book, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.If you like what you are hearing on Hub Dialogues consider subscribing to The Hub's free weekly email newsletter featuring our insights and analysis on public policy issues. Sign up here: https://thehub.ca/free-member-sign-up/.The Hub is Canada's leading information source for public policy. Stridently non-partisan, The Hub is committed to delivering to Canadians the latest analysis and cutting-edge perspectives into the debates that are shaping our collective future.Visit The Hub now at https://www.thehub.ca. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Christopher Leonard, the author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you've followed this podcast for a while, you'll know that I'm something of an economics nerd, and occasionally I indulge this passion by choosing guests who can offer insight into our past, present, and future through a financial lens. I was particularly excited to speak with journalist and author Christopher Leonard because he speaks to issues that have been troubling me for some time about the “easy money” policies of the Federal Reserve over the past decade or so. Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, we've gotten accustomed to hearing about low or even zero interest rates, “quantitative easing,” and other monetary policies designed to jump-start the economy. Which sounds like a good thing, right? Well, maybe. Or maybe not. I started questioning these policies when I was living in Northern California and watching the tech bubble form as hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital flowed though that economic ecosystem. I watched the housing market go crazy, first in the Bay Area and the across the nation, and the extraordinary run of the stock market reshaping the contours of our economy. And I asked myself repeatedly, is this really a good thing? Of course, anyone who owns assets likes to see them go up in value. But is the economy as a whole served when the Fed pursues policies that significantly distort the functioning of markets? My guest on this episode, Christopher Leonard, suggests that the cost of these policies may be much greater than we realize. His recent book, Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy takes readers inside one of our country's most unique institutions, and argues that the Fed is responsible for accelerating income inequality and setting us up for the problems we're facing today, with inflation on the rise. Even if you're not an economics nerd like me, I hope you'll find this episode to be a highly lucid analysis of issues that affect all of us, whether we realize it or not.

It's summertime and there is no BETTER time to do a bit of reflection, turn off the zoom meetings and dig into some good books. In this episode, Nick Lichtenberg, executive editor of news at Fortune Magazine talks about his favorite titles on topics ranging from reinventing work to the history of venture capitalists. Stories that both teach you something useful and keep you occupied on the beach. Tune in! Titles include The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard, The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future by Julia Hobsbawm, Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Brian Hutchison and The Candy House by Jennifer Egan.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today, we touch on cleaning out, rearranging spaces, and the effort and bravery required for living. We discuss the confusion of being a fed-up woman and the ongoing politicization and policing of women's bodies.Meghan gives a book report on The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard before we round it out with rants, raves, and advice and we're left wondering: Where do our tax dollars go?“Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?” By Jia TolentinoMeghan McDonnell on MediumRead along in Listless: Volume Eleven – The Journals of Meghan McDonnellPlaylist on SpotifyFollow us on InstagramEmail us at thefeelingspodcast@gmail.comFind us on Pinterest: @thefeelingspodcastThe Feelings (buzzsprout.com)Music: “When it All Falls” by Ketsa* Names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect identities. We have solely recorded our interpretations and opinions of all events. Certain place names have been changed

February 27, 2022 will probably‌ go down as a major turning point in the global economic system. That is the day that the Western countries levied the strongest sanctions against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, pushing them away from using the dollar as their reserve currency and forcing other countries to also question the dollar. So, what new monetary system are we moving towards? What role will the dollar play? And what about gold? Matthew Piepenburg is the Commercial Director of Matterhorn Asset Management AG and the author of Rigged to Fail: Blunt-Spoken Investment Solutions for Unsuspecting Investors. A graduate of Brown (BA), Harvard (MA), and the University of Michigan (JD), he is the author of numerous international white papers on macro conditions, asset classes, and global risk management strategies at SignalsMatter.com. On this episode of The Wiggin Sessions, Matt joins me to share his insight on the erosion of trust and confidence in the US dollar and why money created with a mouse click is a system that's rigged to fail. Matt discusses how the economic war happening now is due to years and years of 'drunk driving' by the central banks, policymakers, the Fed, etc. Listen in to understand why the changing out of the US dollar as the world reserve currency is inevitable. Matt will give his insight into the manipulation of the price of gold, what new monetary system we might be moving toward, and his advice on risk management for individual investors now. Key Takeaways How Matt's experiences informed his views of policy, markets, currencies, and risk assets Matt's take on what the great reset is and why were basically in Bretton Woods 2.0 Matt's insight into a new monetary system and what role the US dollar and gold will play Why pinning the need for another great reset on the war on COVID is disingenuous Why Matt thinks the great reset will be very disorderly and preceded by more social unrest, political polarization, and wayward monetary policies How countries like China and Russia are getting the last laugh in preparation for the great reset What's happening in Switzerland Matt shares his opinion of Bitcoin as the speculative asset of all times Why it's time for an anchor in the monetary system What Matt thinks is the most dangerous allocation investors are making with their IRAs and 401k's 3 places Matt recommends investing your money in right now Connect with Matt Piepenburg Matt Piepenburg on LinkedIn Matt Piepenburg at Signals Matter Matterhorn Asset Management AG Connect with Addison Wiggin Consilience Financial Be sure to follow The Wiggin Sessions on your socials. You can find me on— Facebook @thewigginsessions Instagram @thewigginsessions Twitter @WigginSessions Resources Rigged to Fail: Blunt-Spoken Investment Solutions for Unsuspecting Investors Gold's Prosecutors, Defenders & Bitcoin by Matthew Piepenburg on Goldbroker.com The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy Christopher Leonard—Are the Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Increases Too Little, Too Late? EP51 James West—Global Commodities in a Time of War, Broken Supply Chains and Epic Inflation EP53 Bretton Woods system

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff: US Supreme Court to investigate Roe v Wade draft opinion leak, confirms its authenticity. What conservative justices said — and didn't say — about Roe at their confirmations. $57 billion wiped from Australian market, Wall Street rout as Dow plunges 1,000 points, Nasdaq loses 5pc. Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts despite no experience in large-scale procurement. Albanese unable to recite Labor's NDIS policy. The search for Narelle Seymour, One Nation's invisible candidate for the southern Sydney seat of Hughes. Queensland LNP candidate Vivian Lobo referred to federal police over allegations of false address. Frydenberg calls ‘Treasurer for NSW' label insulting after fiery debate. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www.UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things. The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. Unnatural Selection is a show made for comedic purposes and should not be taken seriously by anyone. Twitter: @JorgeTsipos @TomDHeath @UnnaturalShow Instagram: @JorgeTsipos @AdamCDireen @Tom.Heath @UnnaturalShow

On this edition of Parallax Views, Ari Rabin-Havt, deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign, joins me for a brief 20 minute about his new campaign memoir The Fighting Soul: On the Road With Bernie Sanders. Rabin-Havt provides not only a behind-the-scenes look at the Sanders campaign but also a rare glimpse into the passionate Vermont Senator himself that gets beyond what one saw from him in televised appearances, town halls, and Presidential debates. Most of this conversation focuses on how Bernie developed a greater confidence in his foreign policy views and detailing his fight to pass the Yemen War Powers Act/Resolution alongside seemingly unlikely allies Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). We also discuss Bernie's 2018 lunch with then Iranian foreign minister Javad Zaraf, an anecdote about Bernie Sanders and America's most prominent Israel lobby AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Bernie's love of mo-town, an exchange between Barack Obama and Bernie that illustrates Bernie's principles, and an amusing story involving Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus. Be sure to pick of The Fighting Soul: On the Road With Bernie Sanders as this only covers a small slice of a book that is a fast-paced, rollicking read throughout. In the second segment of the show, former Senior Federal Reserve official Thomas M. Hoenig joins me to discuss the aftermath of the global financial crisis and his opposition to Quantitative Easing, "Too Big To Fail Banks", and support for a new, modernized Glass-Steagall Act to break up mega-banks. As listeners of Parallax Views may recall, Hoenig was recently featured as the main protagonist of recent guest Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Broke the American Economy. In the second segment of the show, former Senior Federal Reserve official Thomas M. Hoenig joins me to discuss the aftermath of the global financial crisis and his opposition to Quantitative Easing, "Too Big To Fail Banks", and support for a new, modernized Glass-Steagall Act to break up mega-banks. As listeners of Parallax Views may recall, Hoenig was recently featured as the main protagonist of recent guest Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Broke the American Economy. In Leonard's book, which covers the Federal Reserve's policies in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, Hoenig is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City who consistently (and in opposition to other Federal Reserve officials) votes "No" on proposed policies. Although painted as being merely an "anti-inflation hawk", Leonard says this is a misrepresentation and that Hoenig saw how Quantitative Easing was hurting rather than helping the ordinary citizens of Main Street America. In this conversation, Hoenig explains exactly how he saw policies like Quantitative Easing and the belief in "Too Big To Fail Banks" as having negative consequences for ordinary America. Hoenig is unfiltered in the course of our discussion and expresses his pro-market views, small "c" conservative views while also noting the ways in which some of his views have overlapped with liberal and left-wing figures like Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown. This conversation doesn't get into a debate about politics, but rather allows Hoenig to express his views. All in all it is hope by Parallax Views that this is seen as a fascinating discussion with a former major figure from the Federal Reserve who now serves as a Distinguished Fellow for the Mercatus Center.

For years and years the line among liberal fiscal policy experts were that low interest rates, even 0% interest rates were the best thing to do to help struggling Americans gain employment and grow wealth. Only the wealthy, and those excessively fearful of inflation wanted them raised. But Christopher Leonard author of The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, tells a different story. Plus, texts from Mike Lee and an Antwentig from Mike P. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The book is titled "The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy." The author is Christopher Leonard, the current director of the Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. On the dust jacket of the book it says: "If you ask most people what forces led to today's income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve." Christopher Leonard explains why so few people understand the language or inner workings of how American money is managed by a seven-member board in Washington, DC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of Parallax Views, New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist Christopher Leonard joins us to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. The book chronicles how the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke dealt with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath from 2010-2014. In doing so he attempts to offer a concise and highly critical examination of the policy known as quantitative easing and makes the case that quantitative easing has enriched the wealthy at the expense of the working and middle classes through a form of hyper-trickle-down economics. Leonard and I begin the conversation by discussing his earlier works The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business and Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. We then discuss how his critical examination of the Federal Reserve departs from many of the criticisms of the Fed from libertarians and the right such as G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island. Leonard also praises William Greider's seminal work on the subject Secrets of the Temple. From there we delve into what the Federal Reserve is, what it isn't, and the question of whether it is a public or private institution as well as the ways the Fed, and monetary policy in general, is often treated as being too mystical for a layperson to understand (even if this is not the case). Leonard also explains the concept of quantitative easing and how it has, he argues, enriched the wealthy at the expense of the working and middle classes. Among the many other topics, we cover in the conversation: the Federal Reserve and the Tea Party Movement in November 2010, the story of former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Thomas Hoenig's dissenting from Ben Bernanke's quantitative easing policies, Alan Greenspan and ideology within the institution of the Federal Reserve, the populist William Jennings Bryan and his "Cross of Gold" speech, Bill Clinton and the declaration he made during his Presidency that "the era of big government is over", hyper-trickle-down economics, Andrew Mellon, and much, much more!

Christopher Leonard is the author of the new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in 2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us. But the Fed also has a unique power to reshape the American economy for the worse, which it did, fatefully, on November 4, 2010 through a radical intervention called quantitative easing. In just a few short years, the Fed more than quadrupled the money supply with one goal: to encourage banks and other investors to extend more risky debt. Leaders at the Fed knew that they were undertaking a bold experiment that would produce few real jobs, with long-term risks that were hard to measure. But the Fed proceeded anyway...and then found itself trapped. Once it printed all that money, there was no way to withdraw it from circulation. The Fed tried several times, only to see market start to crash, at which point the Fed turned the money spigot back on. That's what it did when COVID hit, printing 300 years' worth of money in two short months. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Lords-of-Easy-Money/Christopher-Leonard/9781982166632  https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/06/feds-reverse-repos-surge-to-historic-485-billion-whats-wall-street-afraid-of-this-time/  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/repurchaseagreement.asp  https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/North-America/United-States/Price-History  HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you haven't already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don't forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you'll find the links in the description below. You can listen to the show on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5AYWZh12d92D4PDASG4McB?si=5835f2cf172d47cd&nd=1  Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chatter/id1273192590  Google Podcasts - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RpYW50LmNvL2NoYXR0ZXIvcnNzLnhtbA  And all major podcast platforms.  Watch Us On Odysee.com - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheJist:4   Sign up and watch videos to earn crypto-currency!  Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War - https://amzn.to/39XXVjq  Mailing List - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/thejist  Twitter - https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist  Website - https://thejist.co.uk/

Professors Ted De Barbieri and Pat Reyhan discuss the Federal Reserve, inflation, and monetary policy with best selling autor Christopher Leonard. Leaonard's recent book, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, tells the story of the Fed's quantitative easing program, the implications Fed policy has on the economy, and what it means for law and regulation. First Mondays aims to to enrich the intellectual life of the law school and show students the legal overlay of current issues in the news. Recorded March 7, 2022.

Today we welcome in author and financial journalist, Christopher Leonard, to discuss his latest book "The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy." Chris discusses the research and the writing of this book, the key players of QE and ZIRP, and how he takes the lessons from the book into our current economic challenges. Purchase the book at: http://www.christopherleonard.biz/ We'd like to thank our sponsors: Integra Resources is advancing the past-producing DeLamar Project in southwestern Idaho. The Company has continued to demonstrate resource growth and conversion through greenfield and brownfield exploration. Integra Resources trades on the TSX-V under ITR and the NYSE American under ITRG. Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. Rio-2 is advancing the Fenix Gold Project in Chile, the largest undeveloped gold heap leach project in the Americas. Fenix consists of 5 million ounces in the measured and indicated resource category and 1.4 million ounces in the inferred resource category. With a robust PFS in place, Fenix is set up for fast-tracked construction and production. You can find a list of project and company information on their website, rio2.com. ASCU is a Copper Mining Company with a 100% ownership of The Cactus Mine, located on private land in the Arizona Copper Belt. The Company is committed to supplying LME Grade A Copper Cathodes usable in the Renewable Energy Future, mined in a responsible and sustainable manner. Our goal, beyond our ESG Strategy, is to ensure “Net Zero Carbon Emission” from future operations, minimizing the effect of climate change on the earth and preserving our planet for our children and future generations. https://arizonasonoran.com/

The Federal Reserve has broken our American economy and I sit down with Chris Leonard to discuss his new book that details how our monetary system ended up here teetering on ruin. Chris is a New York Times best selling author and his new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy is a "fascinating and propulsive story about the Federal Reserve" and how quantitative easing and political posturing have put America's monetary system in peril. I talked to Chris about how the United States Federal Reserve has printed an astronomical amount of money under FED Chairs Ben S. Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and Jerome Powell. We dig into why the Federal Reserve was originally created and how the institution has changed over the years to become, as meme lords would put it, the folks who make the "money printer go brrr". Chris offers his insights into why a crash is all but imminent for the American economy and what role inflation plays in accelerating this in 2022. See more

Sam hosts investigative journalist Christopher Leonard to discuss his recent book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, on how the lessons that the US Government took from the 2008 financial crash led to a decade of an asset boom on Wall Street alongside wage stagnation for workers, and the role the COVID-19 pandemic played at the end of it. They begin by essentially situating what the Federal Reserve is and does, and what changed with the Great Recession in 2008, looking to the Feds creation in 1913 to manage our currency, and the Congressional acts of 1978 that dialed down their focus to specifically a mandate of managing inflation and employment, before diving into how the institution effectively printed 3.5x the money from 2008-2014 that they had printed in the near-century before that. Sam and Christopher then look to the relationship between these two mandates, with a generally inverse relationship between their respective solutions and issues, the differences between democratic fiscal policy and unilateral monetary policy solutions, and how the US has recently seen a complete paralysis of fiscal policy during a multi-decade run of Congressional inaction. Thus, Christopher arrives at how the Federal Reserve was left out as the only problem-solving actor in the shadow of the 2008 financial crisis, setting the stage for the revelation for Wall Street that was quantitative easing, in which the Fed effectively funneled billions of dollars into Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as primary lenders, reducing debt, pushing the interest rate to zero, and forcing the need for riskier investments. Diving into the difference between assets, which hold their value, and material goods, Sam and Christopher dive into how this tactic worked to bump up risky lending practices, pushing for a hyper-trickle down tactic of forcing up asset prices, and effectively bolstering a separate economic boom for the exclusively-wealthy, while continued wage stagnation saw the regular economy falter and forced high-risk investments saw elites trade away job growth for the working class with no accountability for their mistakes. They wrap up the interview by looking to the CARES Act as the US Government finally coming back around on fiscal policy, despite it quite literally being what saved us from the Great Depression, and why, in spite of this, our commitment to hyper-efficient supply lines, logistics, and monopolies meant the fiscal policy would not also see the necessary systemic changes that have been lagging for 15 years. Sam and Emma also dive into Professor Jonathan Turley's revelation on Fox News that if MLK had been treated like conservative protesters are, he might have been arrested, potentially even multiple times, some of which maybe would've resulted in quintessential civil rights texts that are read across the country. Purchase tickets for the live show in Boston on May 15th HERE: https://thewilbur.com/artist/majority-report/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein's podcast News from Nowhere. https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

On this week's episode, Jim sits down with author and journalist Christopher Leonard to discuss his new book, The Lords of Easy Money How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. Chris has spent his career writing about powerful institutions on behalf of the public and his new work examines how FED policy over the last fifteen years has shaped our current financial landscape. From Quantitative Easing, to Income Inequality to Asset Inflation, he covers it all. A fascinating conversation you don't want to miss.

Chris Leonard talks about his new book, The Lord's of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, how the Fed contributed to worsening income inequality, incentivized excessive risk taking, created asset bubbles and overstepped its original mission. An excellent account of an opaque institution at the heart of our economic lives.

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Christopher Leonard, the author of “The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy”. Christopher Leonard is an award-winning author and a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We know the headlines: Inflation is the highest in 40 years, climbing 7 percent last year. Stock prices and corporate debt have been running incredibly high. Unemployment, meanwhile, is incredibly low, while the U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021, its fastest full-year clip since 1984. The wealth gap, meanwhile, continues to spread. To fight these realities – especially inflation – the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank will soon start unwinding their two most significant policies that drove extreme amounts of available money at rates that made that money virtually free to borrow since 2008 and the Great Recession and through the Covid pandemic: They will stop the extraordinary experiment of mass buying of U.S. Treasuries known as Quantitative Easing, and they will raise interest rates at least three – perhaps 4 or more times – this year.   The American easy money party is over, and it's time to clean up any mess. So how did this party get started? Why did it go on so long – long after the first signs of rising inflation arose last year? Who made the decisions and, perhaps more centrally, why is the U.S. central bank, comprised of unelected governors and bank presidents, so opaque? What happened behind closed doors? Christopher Leonard has the inside story – and he tells it masterfully. His book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, is a clear telling of Fed policy and the key personalities behind it: people like Jerome Powell, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, and one you may never have heard of, Thomas Hoenig. About Leonard: He is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Meat Racket and Kochland.  

In this episode of the Solutions With David Ansara podcast, I speak with Alex Gladstein, Head of Strategy at the Human Rights Foundation, about the relationship between Bitcoin and human rights. Alex and I discuss why currency stability and asset security have been so absent from international human rights discussions. Until now. Alex argues that the emergence of Bitcoin is enabling people in unstable economies to protect their savings from currency debasement and devaluation. In authoritarian regimes, human rights activists are now able to access foreign donor funding, and Bitcoin is also lowering the cost of remittances, he says. We also talk about the global financial system and the 'special privilege' enjoyed by the United States Dollar as an international reserve currency. This has enabled the US Federal Reserve to vastly increase the money supply, which is now leading to growing inflation in the US and elsewhere. Alex and I explore whether Bitcoin could offer a viable long-term alternative to the current dollar-based system. TIMESTAMPS (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:00) Alex Gladstein on the work of the Human Rights Foundation (00:04:44) Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin and human rights (00:17:20) Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin as digital property rights (00:28:19) Alex Gladstein on BTC price volatility (00:37:34) Alex Gladstein on asset price inflation (00:39:51) Alex Gladstein on governments banning Bitcoin (00:43:39) Alex Gladstein on inflation (00:48:55) Alex Gladstein on shifts in global politics (00:48:55) Alex Gladstein on how to get started with Bitcoin (01:03:04) Conclusion RESOURCES About Alex Gladstein: https://hrf.org/team/alex-gladstein/ 'The Village and the Strongman: The unlikely story of Bitcoin and El Salvador' by Alex Gladstein (Bitcoin Magazine, 16 September 2021): https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/the-polarity-of-bitcoin-in-el-salvador 'Why you shouldn't be worried about a Bitcoin ban' by Rob Price (Bitcoin Magazine, 5 May 2021): https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/why-governments-cant-ban-bitcoin 'The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy' by Christopher Leonard (2022): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Lords-of-Easy-Money/Christopher-Leonard/9781982166632

On todays podcast we are happy to be hosting Christopher Leonard, a New York Times bestselling journalist and author of the recently released book “The Lords of Easy Money - How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy”.On the podcast we talk about the book, why the FED was created, how this changed with the implementation of Quantitative Easing and how these actions have led to the asset inflation we have seen over the past 13 years. I hope you enjoy!You can buy the book here - Kindle - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Easy-Money-Federal-American-ebook/dp/B09843RVM5/Hardcover - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Easy-Money-Federal-American/dp/1982166630/0:00 - Podcast Introduction0:22 - What influenced Chris to write the book?2:50 - People treat QE as a necessary evil, but it didn't have to be the case4:37 - Who is Thomas Hoenig and why is he so important to the story?8:00 - The need for consensus in the FED11:35 - Why was the FED created and how did QE change their meaning?16:40 - How the 70's and the actions taken then compare to today?22:10 - Price increases leading to instability 24:00 - How many people have dropped from the middle class26:55 - Why QE hasn't trickled down and stayed in many financial tools?31:10 - Greenspan Put and how that increases risk appetite in the market?35:00 - Stark increase in the gap between Middle Class and Upper Class37:00 - The FEDs bailing out highly leveraged Hedge Funds in 201941:50 - Why did the FED complicate their communications?48:55 - Linked to transitory inflation and how the FED denied for as long as possible51:05 - Why did Jerome Powell's views change while being a part of the FED?59:30 - One message to take away from the interview?Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of The Lords of Easy Money, The Meat Racket and Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award. Christopher Leonard - Website - http://www.christopherleonard.biz/Twitter - https://twitter.com/CLeonardNewsLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-leonard-605a767/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherLeonardAuthor/?ref=page_internalWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Christopher Leonard has written a fascinating new book on the Federal Reserve, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. This was one of my top three favorite podcast interviews of all time. Chris, a prominent journalist and author of the acclaimed Kochland, has written an outstanding book, and his knowledge and passion are evident in this interview.

Ready for a deep dive into the world of experimental monetary policy? In this podcast, author Christopher Leonard discusses his new book, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, with Capital Group's Matt Miller and Anne Vandenabeele. It's a timely interview as the Fed considers raising interest rates in 2022. For industry-leading insights, support tools and more, subscribe to Capital Ideas at getcapitalideas.com. The Capital Ideas website is not intended for use outside the U.S. In Canada visit capitalgroup.com/ca for Capital Group insights.

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically, stock prices are trading far above what many consider justified by actual corporate profits, corporate debt in America is at an all-time high, and this debt is being traded by big banks on Wall Street, leaving them vulnerable—just as they were during the mortgage boom. Middle-class wages have barely budged in a decade, and consumers are buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt. If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. However, Christopher Leonard is here to tell you otherwise. In his new book, The Lords of Easy Money, Leonard goes into shocking detail about how quantitative easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the one man who tried to warn us. He says this will be the first inside story of how we really got here—and why we face a frightening future. Join us as Christopher Leonard takes us through the world of the Federal Reserve, and why you should be alarmed. SPEAKERS Christopher Leonard Business Reporter; Author, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy In Conversation with Lenny Mendonca Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor, State of California; Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on January 18th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically, stock prices are trading far above what many consider justified by actual corporate profits, corporate debt in America is at an all-time high, and this debt is being traded by big banks on Wall Street, leaving them vulnerable—just as they were during the mortgage boom. Middle-class wages have barely budged in a decade, and consumers are buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt. If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. However, Christopher Leonard is here to tell you otherwise. In his new book, The Lords of Easy Money, Leonard goes into shocking detail about how quantitative easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the one man who tried to warn us. He says this will be the first inside story of how we really got here—and why we face a frightening future. Join us as Christopher Leonard takes us through the world of the Federal Reserve, and why you should be alarmed. SPEAKERS Christopher Leonard Business Reporter; Author, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy In Conversation with Lenny Mendonca Former Chief Economic and Business Advisor, State of California; Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on January 18th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the Federal Reserve makes money, where does it go? Turns out, the Fed's hands are tied—it can't do anything other than assume that the new money will trickle down into the hands of ordinary Americans through Wall Street's coffers. And according to journalist Christopher Leonard, that's put the United States' economic stability at risk and accelerated income inequality.  Christopher Leonard is a business reporter and executive director of the Watchdog Writers Group at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is the author of Kochland: The Secret History of the Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. His new book is The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.  Twitter: @CLeonardNews The Lords of Easy Money: https://bookshop.org/books/the-lords-of-easy-money-how-the-federal-reserve-broke-the-american-economy/9781982166632  How Nov. 2, 2010 Made the Rich So Much Richer: https://time.com/6112931/federal-reserve-wealth-inequality-recession/  The Fed's Doomsday Prophet Has a Dire Warning About Where We're Headed: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/28/inflation-interest-rates-thomas-hoenig-federal-reserve-526177  Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick's twitter: @NickHanauer

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Lindsey Bell, chief markets and money strategist at Ally Invest, says that the market is capable of generating double-digit returns for the third consecutive year despite concerns about inflation, rising interest rates and more. Bell says that what is likely to determine the market's ability to actually deliver is the actions of the Federal Reserve, which may not comfort listeners after hearing today's Book Interview, in which author Christopher Leonard, discusses his new book, 'The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy.' Also on the show, more market talk featuring Louis Ricci, head trader at Emles Advisors, and David Trainer of New Constructs puts Tesla and Box -- two picks that didn't go his way in 2021 -- back into the Danger Zone noting that the companies' ability to put off trouble doesn't mean avoiding it forever.

Christopher Leonard, author of Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, joins us to discuss the institution's secret history.

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It doesn't make sense to manage money the old fashioned way any more. If you learn how to use the power of the Internet to keep track of all your finances, you will do a much better job and improve your financial life significantly. Liz Pulliam Weston, author of the new book Easy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out Of Life and a columnist for MSN Money and the Los Angeles Times syndicate, describes in this interview all the steps you need to take to harness the power of the Internet in your financial life. Among other topics, she explains how to set up online bill paying systems, spending and budgeting tracking and no-sweat investment methods.

It doesn't make sense to manage money the old fashioned way any more. If you learn how to use the power of the Internet to keep track of all your finances, you will do a much better job and improve your financial life significantly. Liz Pulliam Weston, author of the new book Easy Money: How to Simplify Your Finances and Get What You Want Out Of Life and a columnist for MSN Money and the Los Angeles Times syndicate, describes in this interview all the steps you need to take to harness the power of the Internet in your financial life. Among other topics, she explains how to set up online bill paying systems, spending and budgeting tracking and no-sweat investment methods.