Podcast appearances and mentions of Jerome Powell

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Gemini, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance: Bitcoin Price Tumbles Amid Iran-Israel War Escalation Senate Passes Stablecoin Bill Trump Slams Fed for Not Cutting Rates Texas Signs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill into Law $SMLR Plans To Buy 105,000 Bitcoins Strategy Stacks More BTC as Saylor Predicts $21 Million Bitcoin Price Can Bitcoin Defund Wars?  Read the full, free weekly newsletter at thenewsblock.substack.com ---- Invest as you spend with the Gemini Bitcoin Credit Card. Sign up today to earn a $200 intro Bitcoin bonus. The new orange Gemini Credit Card lets you earn Bitcoin on everything you buy: www.gemini.com/natalie  ---- References mentioned in the episode: President Trump's Post on “Successful Bombing” of Iran Iran's Foreign Prime Minister: “U.S. Crossed the Line” Iran Claims “No Nuclear Contamination from U.S. Bombings”  Iran's Parliament Officially Approves Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Bloomberg: “How Iran Could Wreak Havoc on Global Oil Trade” Fed's Jerome Powell Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged  Waller: A Fed Cut Could Come as Soon as July  Trump Pressures “Too Late Powell” to Cut in Post Trump Post Directed at Jerome Powell to Cut Rates Bessent Interview on Stablecoins and Dollar Supremacy  David Sacks Interview on GENIUS Act Passing Senate  Trump's Comments on the GENIUS Act Passing Senate Trump Urges House to Send Him the GENIUS Act ASAP Texas Signs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill into Law Coin Stories Interview with Eric Semler and Renae Cormier  Smarter Web Company Raises 21 Million Shares  Semler Scientific Hires Bitcoin Veteran and Announces Plans DayDayCook Raises More Than $500 Million to Buy Bitcoin Alex Gladstein's Article on Fiat and Forever Wars ---- Upcoming Events: Bitcoin 2026 will be here before you know it. Get 10% off Early Bird passes using the code HODL: https://tickets.b.tc/event/bitcoin-2026?promoCodeTask=apply&promoCodeInput=  Your Bitcoin oasis awaits at Camp Nakamoto: A retreat for Bitcoiners, by Bitcoiners. Code HODL for discounted passes: https://massadoptionbtc.ticketspice.com/camp-nakamoto      ---- This podcast is for educational purposes and should not be construed as official investment advice. ---- VALUE FOR VALUE — SUPPORT NATALIE'S SHOWS Strike ID https://strike.me/coinstoriesnat/ Cash App $CoinStories #money #Bitcoin #investing

This week, the Justice brothers are back and diving deep into one of the most important questions facing markets today: What exactly is the Fed so scared of? Following this week's FOMC meeting, Mark and Matt Justice break down Jerome Powell's latest comments, dissect the Fed's cautious tone, and explore whether Powell has earned the nickname “Too Late Powell.” Are they being overly cautious—or are they seeing something the market isn't? In addition to the macro deep dive, the boys bring the heat in “Stock In and Drop It,” breaking down setups and news around major names like Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Meta. Expect technicals, fundamentals, and sharp insights on what matters now. And don't miss this week's Coaches Corner, where Matt answers listener questions on oil seasonality and shares perspective on whether this is a day trading or swing trading market environment. Insightful, actionable, and always entertaining—don't miss this episode of the Trading Justice Podcast.

Should Trump Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell? Steve Gill fills in for Todd Starnes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced, on Wednesday, that interest rates would remain unchanged, he answered reporters' questions; Kevin reviewed the transcript and points out the inconsistencies with comments made during the press conference and previous comments over the last two years. The head of a different independent Federal agency agrees with Kevin and has called on Jerome Powell to cut interest rates or resign; who is it? Kevin has the details. Earlier in the month, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, released their monthly survey of consumers' expectations for future inflation, which seems to contradict comments by Jerome Powell; Kevin has the details and offers his insights. Dollar General recently released their quarterly financial data; Eaton Corp. announced a major acquisition; Kevin has the details, looks at the data and offers his insights. Oil prices react to the on-going war between Israel and Iran, a Geopolitical risk premium is anticipated, the risk of Iran's oil production and ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Here is my fill-in on The Shelley Wynter Show with all news and commercials removed. I discuss hourly wages are up, the trade deficit is shrinking, deportations are up which is helping to fuel the rise in wages because those jobs are being filled by Americans now. We discuss propaganda, how why it's important to question narratives and not being afraid to ask questions. We wonder why Jerome Powell still refuses to lower interest rates and close with hearing beginning about Joe Biden and the auto-pen. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR,  TRUTH Social and YouTube by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!!

The show opens with great financial numbers for the United States and still Jerome Powell, Fed Chair, refuses to reduce the interest rates. Even the governor of the Fed says we need to lower them. As to ICE raids, DHS says they will continue. Why wouldn't they? It's a winning subject for the President and it's opening up jobs for Americans who will be paid appropriately. Yet, the Left wants to unmask ICE agents, putting their lives at risk. More members of the independent media are starting to remember whispers of the CCP being involved in the 2020 election and helping to get Joe Biden elected. At the same time, did you even hear about the first USAID case brought by the DOJ where all four defendants pleaded guilty to a scheme the defrauded the government of over $550 million dollars? A letter meant for FBI Director Kash Patel was accidentally released from the Minnesota assassin. Seems he blames Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) for why he chose to become a murderer. We then spend time with Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrats strategy to be an opposition only party, with nothing else to offer. As we go through various topics it is clear, this is not helping the Left retain supporters. Israel issues a message to the people of Iran, telling them they are not being targeted. Israel is only interested in going after the dictators who are keeping them from being free. As we close, we hear from former tennis phenom Martina Navratilova and how she believes men do not belong in women's sports. It is so refreshing to hear. And, to send us into the weekend, I share two anecdotes from my own marriage to prove there are definite differences between men and women. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR,  TRUTH Social and YouTube by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!!

Episode 608: Neal and Toby recap the Fed meeting where Fed Chair Jerome Powell continues to hold rates steady. Then, Nippon closes its acquisition of US Steel with the US getting the rare ‘golden share' of the deal. Also, Sam Altman is spilling the beans about Meta's attempt to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers. Meanwhile, Neal shares his favorite numbers: a new meme stock, the office supply, and the cost of being a sports fan nowadays.  00:00 - Tune in for our branding deep dive! 2:30 - Fed keeps it chill 6:30 - Nippon closes the steel deal 11:00 - Meta tries to poach OpenAI talent 15:30 - Meme stock madness 18:10 - Office glut cleanup 21:00 - It's expensive to be a sports fan 24:40 - Sprint Finish! Gain the edge with Amazon Ads by going to advertising.amazon.com/startnow Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron McIntire breaks down President Trump's mixed signals on potential U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, Marco Rubio's explanation of Iran's uranium enrichment progress, and a major Supreme Court win upholding Tennessee's ban on meatball surgeries for minors in the name of gender. Plus, Tucker Carlson's sophomoric gotcha attempt on Ted Cruz, a vibe check on Democrats, and Pope Leo XIV's urgent call for AI regulation.   The A.M. Update, Aaron McIntire, Trump, Iran, Israel, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Marco Rubio, uranium enrichment, Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Pope Leo XIV, AI regulation, Democrats

Dan Nathan and his co-host Guy Adami are joined by Peter Boockvar, CIO at Bleakly Financial Group. The discussion centers around recent statements from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, analyzing market reactions and economic forecasts, particularly in light of tariffs and inflation concerns. The hosts and guest delve into the Fed's stance on future rate cuts, the impact on GDP and inflation projections, and the broader implications for the labor market, housing sector, and global trade. Peter emphasizes the importance of unbiased risk management and offers a nuanced perspective on the potential economic repercussions of current fiscal policies. The episode also explores the role of the Federal Reserve, questioning whether market mechanisms should independently set interest rates. —FOLLOW USYouTube: @RiskReversalMediaInstagram: @riskreversalmediaTwitter: @RiskReversalLinkedIn: RiskReversal Media

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve left rates unchanged in June, signaling caution amid inflation concerns and trade uncertainty. While two cuts remain on the table for 2025, Powell warned tariffs will likely raise prices, and investors shouldn't expect quick moves. Treasury yields stalled as markets processed the mixed signals, with Powell emphasizing a “wait-and-see” approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump saboteurs inside and out! PLUS, Israel Ellis, author of The Wake Up Call: Global Jihad and the rise of antisemitism in a world gone MAD, talks to Shaun about the current war of decency vs. indecency. And Shaun talks to David Hochberg, Vice President of Lending for Team Hochberg at Homeside Financial, about Jerome Powell refusing to cut interest rates, how the current interest rates are affecting first time home buyers, and the downfall of living in Illinois (taxes!).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As tensions with Iran reach a boiling point, Israel signals it's ready to act decisively—Defense officials openly say the Ayatollah “can no longer continue to exist.” Tara unpacks Israel's bold warnings following devastating attacks and what it means for U.S. policy. With Trump vowing Iran “will not have nuclear weapons,” and Netanyahu hinting Israel may strike with or without U.S. backing, the countdown to a possible attack on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility is underway. Meanwhile, Trump's war powers are challenged by congressional Democrats—but legally, he holds the authority for limited military action. As these high-stakes decisions play out, Tara exposes how America's political landscape is shifting. The DNC is broke and reeling from donor exodus, while the GOP's fortunes rebound post-Ronna McDaniel. Plus: A look at the “Democrat sleeper cell” at the Fed, and how Jerome Powell's refusal to lower rates could trigger a financial crisis just in time to sabotage a Trump presidency. Bold moves, broken systems, and brinkmanship—this episode covers it all.

In the 5 AM hour, Larry O’Connor and Patrice Onwuka discussed: “Despite elevated uncertainty, the economy is in a solid position, the unemployment rate remains low, and the labor market is at or near maximum employment,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says. Loudoun County supervisor says 25 people have been taken from Sterling Immigration Court in past month Navy recruitment 'skyrockets' under Trump's leadership, official says Where to find more about WMAL's morning show: Follow Podcasts on Apple, Audible and Spotify Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor, @JGunlock, @PatricePinkfile, and @HeatherHunterDC Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Website: WMAL.com/OConnor-Company Episode: Thursday, June 19, 2025 / 5 AM HourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode, Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami about the Fed meeting, Jerome Powell and housing starts. Related to this episode: Homebuilders have no motivation to grow permits with 7% rates | HousingWire Fed holds rates steady amid inflation concerns, resilient job market | HousingWire ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HousingWire | YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠More info about HousingWire⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Enjoy the episode! The HousingWire Daily podcast brings the full picture of the most compelling stories in the housing market reported across HousingWire. Each morning, listen to editor in chief Sarah Wheeler talk to leading industry voices and get a deeper look behind the scenes of the top mortgage and real estate stories. Hosted and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Herold is back with a fiery edition of The Daily Herold, calling out censorship, foreign lobbying, and media manipulation with his trademark blend of sarcasm, receipts, and raw truth. He kicks off with praise for Rumble and a scathing rebuke of YouTube after another round of strikes against Badlands channels, proof, he says, that real free speech only exists on a handful of platforms. From there, Jon tears into Ted Cruz's viral interview with Tucker Carlson, blasting Cruz's unapologetic defense of Israel over Texas and exposing the cozy influence of AIPAC on U.S. politicians. He digs deep into the foreign lobbying debate, challenging why dual citizens and foreign-funded lawmakers get a pass while America-first voices are silenced. Other topics include Trump's executive order extending TikTok's deadline, Jerome Powell's refusal to cut rates, rising global tensions over Iran and Israel, and a surprising amount of praise for Trump's new “magnificent” flagpole. As always, Herold delivers a blend of sharp insight and offbeat humor while reminding listeners that much of what's unfolding is theater, with real consequences.

The Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, announced the decision to maintain a wait and see approach on the economy and left the interest rate unchanged; Kevin has the details, offers his insights and opinion on the decision. Kevin explains how the Fed's policy to keep interest rates high, affects credit card interest rates, business loans and home loans. The Atlanta Fed reported the GDPNow forecasting model; Kevin has the information and discusses the data. The U.S. Commerce Department released single family home starts, overall housing starts and new building permits; Kevin has the details, puts the information in perspective and offers his insights. The U.S. Labor Department released the Initial Jobless Claims Report; Kevin has the details, clarifies the data, offers his insights and opinion. Oil and gas prices react to possible U.S. involvement in the Israel - Iran conflict, possible disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, EIA data on U.S. crude oil inventories and comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at the end of its two-day meeting this week, despite political pressure to make cuts. The Fed last lowered interest rates in December, bringing its benchmark short-term rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Since then, the central bank has kept rates flat amid uncertainty on how tariffs will impact inflation and the economy. If rates remain unchanged Wednesday, it would be the Fed's fourth consecutive meeting without cuts.#fedmeeting #federalreserve #bitcoin~Fed Meeting LIVE

Tel Aviv and Tehran trade missiles as Trump weighs military action "Tel Aviv and Tehran continue to exchange missile salvos on the seventh day of escalating conflict, as Israeli pressure mounts on US President Donald Trump to intervene. Trump has reportedly approved military plans but has yet to decide whether to authorise an attack on Iran. Meanwhile, dozens of protesters gathered outside the White House, opposing another US military intervention in the Middle East. Only 16 percent of Americans support US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict, according to a YouGov poll. Israel launched strikes on Iran on Friday, targeting military positions and nuclear sites, killing senior officials, scientists, and hundreds of civilians. Iran responded with a barrage of missiles aimed at key Israeli positions." Putin: Iran's uranium sites intact despite Israeli strikes "More from the conflict between Israel and Iran... Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Iran's underground uranium sites remain untouched despite fierce Israeli airstrikes, as Iranian society rallies behind its leadership. Speaking in St. Petersburg, Putin urged a balanced resolution — protecting Iran's right to peaceful nuclear power and Israel's right to security. With US President Trump weighing intervention and Iranians fleeing the capital, Putin revealed he had held direct talks with Trump and Netanyahu, stressing diplomacy over escalation." Trump and Pakistan's Munir meet to discuss regional peace, trade "US President Donald Trump praised Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, for playing a pivotal role in averting a war with nuclear-armed India. Meeting privately in Washington, the two discussed regional tensions, including Iran and potential trade deals. Trump credited both Munir and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for de-escalating recent hostilities, calling their efforts “extremely influential.” The meeting marks a renewed tie between the US and Pakistan amid heightened tensions in South Asia and the Middle East." Rescue teams search as 700+ missing in Nigeria floods "More than seven-hundred people remain missing three weeks after devastating flash floods struck Niger state in central Nigeria, officials say. At least two-hundred-and-seven-bodies have been recovered, with four-hundred-homes destroyed and over three-thousand-residents displaced. Rescue teams continue their urgent search amid fears the toll could rise. Nigeria's rainy season, worsened by climate change and poor infrastructure, is expected to bring more flooding, threatening millions across the country. " US Fed holds interest rates, warns of economic uncertainty "The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady between four-point-twentyfive percent and four-point-fifty percent after its two-day meeting, signalling two rate cuts later this year. Despite its cautious stance, President Trump lashed out, calling Fed Chair Jerome Powell “stupid” for not lowering rates faster. The Fed also lowered its 2025 growth forecast to one-point-four percent while raising inflation and unemployment projections, underscoring economic uncertainties amid ongoing tariff pressures. Officials remain watchful, balancing risks in a volatile landscape."

New York Times best selling Author @BradThor stops by Room 101 to discuss his newest Scot Harvath novel Edge of Honor that is out July 1st. You can preorder at www.bradthor.comThe Federal Reserve refuses to lower the interest rate as the U.S. economy soars. President Trump calls out Jerome Powell. The Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning sex changes for minors. The DNC is out of money now that USAID has been cut. The FBI knew about China tampering with the 2020 election and did nothing about it. Democrats walk out of hearing on Joe Biden's health. 

Israel has confirmed it has struck nuclear sites in Iran overnight but U.S. President Trump says he has not yet made a final decision on whether to join the campaign and will announce his move at short notice. The U.S. Federal Reserve keeps rates steady but policy makers suggest two cuts by the end of the year. Chairman Jerome Powell has warned that tariffs will lead to price increases. The BoE, the SNB and the Norges Bank are due to make rate decisions later today. And we are live at the London Stock Exchange where the AIM exchange celebrates its 30th anniversary with almost £136bn raised so far. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Senior US officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign that Washington is assembling the infrastructure to directly enter a conflict with Tehran.Meantime, there are a lot of unknowns about the outlook for the economy and interest rates, but Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled at least one thing seems certain: Higher prices are coming. Policymakers voted unanimously to hold interest rates steady for a fourth straight meeting Wednesday as they await clarity on whether tariffs will leave a one-time or more lasting mark on inflation. Powell said it’s still unclear how much of the bill will fall on the shoulders of consumers, but he expects to learn more about tariffs this summer. For more, we speak to Mark Cranfield, Bloomberg MLIV Strategist in Singapore.Plus - for more on the Federal Reserve's latest decision, we heard from Betsey Stevenson. She is a Professor at the University of Michigan. Stevenson was also a former Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on America in the Morning Trump Considering Iran Attack Plans President Trump says the United States is still weighing its options in the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Iran continues, and said that no decision has been made whether the US will get involved militarily.  However, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the President has privately approved of attack plans for Iran but has withheld a final order.    Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports.   Read Not Guilty A Massachusetts jury finds Karen Read not guilty in the 2022 murder of her Boston police officer boyfriend.  Jim Roope reports the verdict came nearly a year after a separate jury deadlocked over Read's involvement in the death.   SCOTUS Upholds Transgender Law Tennessee will be allowed to continue their state policy banning gender transition treatments for minors, following a ruling at the US Supreme Court.  Correspondent Haya Panjwani reports.  Screening Students Officials will reportedly begin screening the online presence of foreign nationals applying for educational visas to attend schools in the United States.  Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.   Erick Strengthens The first major hurricane of the 2025 season to threaten land has formed and is gaining strength.  Hurricane Erick powered up into a Category 3 major hurricane Wednesday evening as it bore down on the southern Mexico coast.   Compliance Demands For Travel Ban The Trump administration is demanding action from several dozen countries currently facing a proposed US travel ban.  Correspondent Lisa Dwyer reports without compliance, bans against travel from those nations into the US will go into effect.       Trump Sounds Off On Powell Concerns over tariffs and stagflation, a condition of stagnant economic growth, was the reason the Fed Chairman announced that interest rates would remain unchanged, drawing a rebuke from President Trump who has demanded that interest rates go lower to help spur the economy.  Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports that President Trump did not hold back his anger at Jerome Powell.   Hegseth On The Hot Seat As the American military prepares for the possibility of becoming involved in the Israel-Iran conflict, a congressional hearing on the Defense Department Budget brought some heated exchanges between lawmakers and U-S Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.   She Was On The Hit List Saturday's shootings that claimed the lives of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and left another lawmaker and his wife seriously wounded, could have been much worse.  Correspondent Rich Johnson reports on another politician that was on the suspect's hit list.   Historic Team Sale One of sports' most iconic teams is changing hands in a record deal. Correspondent Gethin Coolbaugh reports on the sale of a 17-time NBA title-winning franchise, and the record-breaking price.   Latest Kohberger Hearing Despite a request from his defense attorney, the judge overseeing the trial of Bryan Kohberger indicated he will not delay the trial that is scheduled for August.   Finally  It pays to be a cheerleader.  The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are getting a 400 percent raise.   1975 was a summer that many were deeply afraid to go into the water after a blockbuster film about a gigantic shark hit theaters.  Kevin Carr has the 50th anniversary week of the classic movie – Jaws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Le statu quo annoncé hier soir par la Fed sur ses taux directeurs n'a pas déclenché grand-chose, hormis la proposition grinçante de Donald Trump de devenir président de la Fed à la place de Jerome Powell. Toutefois, quelques marqueurs ont bougé. Pendant ce temps, les Etats-Unis doutent de la conduite à tenir en Iran.

John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including President Trump's remarks to a reporter about Iran, Fed chairman Jerome Powell stifling the Trump economy, and the Democrats' controversial exit from a Senate hearing on President Biden's cognitive abilities. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Shaun talks to David Hochberg, Vice President of Lending for Team Hochberg at Homeside Financial, about Jerome Powell refusing to cut interest rates, how the current interest rates are affecting first time home buyers, and the downfall of living in Illinois (taxes!).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jerome Powell's latest announcement could SHAKE the entire crypto market! Will interest rates rise, fall, or hold? And what does it mean for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins? 

It's Fed Day! Will the Federal Reserve finally cut rates—or kick the can again? Lance Roberts & Danny Ratliff break down what's at stake, what markets are pricing in, and what it means for your money. Thursday is Juneteenth, markets are closed, and so are we. Lance reviews the track for crude oil prices and the likely effect on inflation as the Iran-Israel conflict continues. What will Jerome Powell say following today's Fed meeting? Fed grammar matters. Danny and Lance review elements of the Big, Beautiful Bill as it bounces between the House and Senate; contents subject to change. Lance points out the insane irony of the Dept. of Agriculture's stance on feeding wildlife vs. feeding the masses. Danny and Lance review a Barron's article depicting a dilemma of wanting to retire early on limited savings, and live to 98. Hilarity ensues. SEG-1: Juneteenth & Fed Day SEG-2a: Fed Meeting Preview & Market Sentiment SEG-2b: The BIg, Beautiful Bill - Pt.1 SEG-3: The Big, Beautiful Bill - Pt.2 SEG-4: Can You Afford to Retire? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, w Senior Financial Advisor Danny Ratliff, CFP Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer ------- Watch today's video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEf6M7XXCqQ&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=5s ------- Articles mention in this show: "The Bull Rally Continues" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/the-bull-rally-continues/ "The Iran-Israel Conflict And The Likely Impact On The Market" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/the-iran-israel-conflict-and-the-likely-impact-on-the-market/ ------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell, "Why Oil Prices Are On the Rise," is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6HNmfPPb4&list=PLwNgo56zE4RAbkqxgdj-8GOvjZTp9_Zlz&index=1 ------- Our previous show is here: "What's the Difference Between Fixed Income and "Stable" Income?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5Oepv5zPM&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=4s ------- Register for our next live webinar, "Financial Independence Candid Coffee," June 28, 2025: https://streamyard.com/watch/BUr4UuRVt6Uj ------- Get more info & commentary: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: https://www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #OilPrices #CrudeOil #Inflation #SupplyDemand #FedDay #FederalReserve #FedRateDecision #FOMC #InterestRateCut #JeromePowell #FinanceNews #IranIsraelConflict #MarketRally #GeopoliticalRisk #FixedIncome #StableIncome #RetirementPlanning #IncomeInvesting #FinancialEducation #MarketVolatility #BigBeautifulBill #DeptAgriculture #ParksWildlife #SNAP #InvestingAdvice #Money #Investing

It's Fed Day!  Will the Federal Reserve finally cut rates—or kick the can again? Lance Roberts & Danny Ratliff break down what's at stake, what markets are pricing in, and what it means for your money. Thursday is Juneteenth, markets are closed, and so are we. Lance reviews the track for crude oil prices and the likely effect on inflation as the Iran-Israel conflict continues. What will Jerome Powell say following today's Fed meeting? Fed grammar matters. Danny and Lance review elements of the Big, Beautiful Bill as it bounces between the House and Senate; contents subject to change. Lance points out the insane irony of the Dept. of Agriculture's stance on feeding wildlife vs. feeding the masses. Danny and Lance review a Barron's article depicting a dilemma of wanting to retire early on limited savings, and live to 98. Hilarity ensues. SEG-1: Juneteenth & Fed Day SEG-2a: Fed Meeting Preview & Market Sentiment SEG-2b: The BIg, Beautiful Bill - Pt.1 SEG-3: The Big, Beautiful Bill - Pt.2 SEG-4: Can You Afford to Retire? RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, w Senior Financial Advisor Danny Ratliff, CFP Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer ------- Watch today's video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEf6M7XXCqQ&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=5s ------- Articles mention in this show: "The Bull Rally Continues" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/the-bull-rally-continues/ "The Iran-Israel Conflict And The Likely Impact On The Market" https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/the-iran-israel-conflict-and-the-likely-impact-on-the-market/ ------- The latest installment of our new feature, Before the Bell, "Why Oil Prices Are On the Rise," is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6HNmfPPb4&list=PLwNgo56zE4RAbkqxgdj-8GOvjZTp9_Zlz&index=1 ------- Our previous show is here: "What's the Difference Between Fixed Income and "Stable" Income?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5Oepv5zPM&list=PLVT8LcWPeAugpcGzM8hHyEP11lE87RYPe&index=1&t=4s ------- Register for our next live webinar, "Financial Independence Candid Coffee," June 28, 2025: https://streamyard.com/watch/BUr4UuRVt6Uj ------- Get more info & commentary:  https://realinvestmentadvice.com/newsletter/ -------- SUBSCRIBE to The Real Investment Show here: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheRealInvestmentShow -------- Visit our Site: https://www.realinvestmentadvice.com Contact Us: 1-855-RIA-PLAN -------- Subscribe to SimpleVisor: https://www.simplevisor.com/register-new -------- Connect with us on social: https://twitter.com/RealInvAdvice https://twitter.com/LanceRoberts https://www.facebook.com/RealInvestmentAdvice/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/realinvestmentadvice/ #OilPrices #CrudeOil #Inflation #SupplyDemand #FedDay #FederalReserve #FedRateDecision #FOMC #InterestRateCut #JeromePowell #FinanceNews #IranIsraelConflict #MarketRally #GeopoliticalRisk #FixedIncome #StableIncome #RetirementPlanning #IncomeInvesting #FinancialEducation #MarketVolatility #BigBeautifulBill #DeptAgriculture #ParksWildlife #SNAP  #InvestingAdvice #Money #Investing

Kevin Hincks provides the trading day's roadmap with all eyes on the FOMC rate announcement and Jerome Powell's press conference. He dives into the morning's economic data, citing higher jobless claims numbers that are trending upward. Ahead of the FOMC, Kevin believes Powell will not say anything that changes the Fed's outlook but will be closely monitoring the "Dot Plot" for any changes. Kevin also cautions investors that any headlines from the Israel-Iran conflict could disrupt a day bookended by data and the Fed. ======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

The show opens with something far less serious, but I think says a lot about the elitist mentality. I use a comment by Ana Navarro related to the dairy industry and it helps show everything wrong with the Leftist leaders of today. We continue with more on possible plans for how the US will assist in the operation to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) summaries much of what I said in my show yesterday about trusting Donald Trump. And, CNN's chief pollster, Harry Eten, says the vast majority of Americans agree with President Trump's stance. Next, we have to further examine how weak and ineffectual the men are in today's Democrat party. Rep. Alex Padilla (D-CA) tried to effectuate tears when recounting his story about trying to barge in and intimidate DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) thinks it's weak and pathetic and unbecoming of what it is to be a real man. Which brings us to the latest copycat stunt pulled by the comptroller of NYC, Brad Lander, who just so happens to be running for the Mayor of the city. He also broke the law and then cried about it. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) used the opportunity to show she is for illegals first and New Yorkers last. Rep. Elisa Stefanik echoed those exact same thoughts. She also railed against Hochul setting aside $50 million in taxpayer dollars to help illegals with a slush fund for illegal to use to fight deportation. I remind you about the Chinese fake drivers licenses story and how then FBI Director Christopher Wray perjured himself before the Senate. Mike Benz was on Just the News and reminded us all about the close ties between the CCP and the Biden Crime Family Syndicate. The SCOTUS, in a 6-3 decision, said states can protect minors from genital mutilation and chemical castration. It should have been 9-0. CBP announces there were zero illegals who made it into our country in May of 2025. A year ago, Biden's policies allowed 62,000 to cross in May of 2024. Finally, we get a bit of comedy gold from President Trump. We learn more about why Trump calls him “Too Late” Powell, as it relates to the Fed chair Jerome Powell. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR,  TRUTH Social and YouTube by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!!

The US Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark interest rate at the current range of 4.25% - 4.50%, as it expects slower growth, higher inflation and slightly higher unemployment by the end of the year than it previously forecast. The move was widely expected, including by Donald Trump, who nonetheless insulted Fed Chairman Jerome Powell again. Plus, Nippon Steel has completed its takeover of US Steel after agreeing to let the US government have significant control in business decisions. 

El presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, ha decidido hoy mantener sin cambios los tipos de interés. Lo hace a pesar de las presiones e insultos del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para que los baje inmediatamente. Lo analizamos en Hora 25 de los Negocios. 

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Reserva Federal dejaría las tasas sin cambios, pero el mercado estará atento al gráfico de puntos y a la posterior conferencia de prensa de Jerome Powell; Senado de Colombia aprueba reforma laboral; Ethan Bronner, jefe de la oficina de Bloomberg News en Tel Aviv, despacha sobre el conflicto entre Israel e Irán.Más de Bloomberg en EspañolNewsletter Cinco cosas: bloom.bg/42Gu4pGLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomberg-en-espanol/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/BloombergEspanolWhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFVFoWKAwEg9Fdhml1lTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bloombergenespanolX: https://twitter.com/BBGenEspanolProducción: Eduardo ThomsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zed Francis says it's "pretty impressive" how different Tuesday's trading action was compared to Friday, noting the stark shift in interest rate trading. However, Zed argues the "flight to safety" aspect may not hold for long. He later weighs in on commentary from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon warning investors of a "crack" in the bond market. As for the Fed, Zed sees three interest rates and expects more dovish guidance from Jerome Powell in Wednesday's decision. ======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

Jessica Inskip will be listening to Fed chair Jerome Powell's interest rate commentary Wednesday as markets flip-flop on bearish and bullish sentiment. She also talks about how macro developments are impacting today's Big 3. On Vertiv Holdings (VRT), Jessica tells investors to keep an eye on it as A.I. infrastructure grows. She notes Reddit's (RDDT) A.I. and ad revenue strengths, along with Nasdaq's (NDAQ) retail trader play. Rick Ducat dives into the charts to highlight bearish and bullish signals in all three names.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

President Trump flew to Canada overnight for the G7 Summit only to turn back around as the Israel and Iran war grows. Kevin Hincks reports from the Cboe Global Markets to break down the latest developments and its impact on commodities like crude oil. This, as the Fed starts its interest rate meeting today with a decision expected tomorrow afternoon. Kevin says Jerome Powell and company will tackle a slowing U.S. economy and an uncertain inflation picture.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

Founder of the Raising Capitalists Foundation and previous co-host of The Real Estate Guys Radio show, Russell Gray, joins Keith to discuss the historical and current devaluation of the U.S. dollar, its impact on investors, and the broader economic implications. Gray highlights how the significant increase in interest rates has trapped equity in properties and affected development. He explains the shift from gold-backed currency to paper money, the role of the Federal Reserve, and the impact of the Bretton Woods Agreement.  Gray emphasizes the importance of understanding macroeconomic trends and advocates for Main Street capitalism to decentralize power and promote productivity. He also criticizes the idea of housing as a human right, arguing it leads to inflation and shortages. Resources: Connect with Russell Gray to learn more about his "Raising Capitalists" project and his plans for a new show. Follow up with Russell Gray to get a copy of the Beardsley Rummel speech transcript from 1946. follow@russellgray.com Show Notes: GetRichEducation.com/558 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREinvestmentcoach.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE  or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments.  You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review”.  For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript:   Automatically Transcribed With Otter.ai  Keith Weinhold  0:01   Welcome to GRE. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, what's the real backstory on why we have this thing called the dollar? Why it keeps getting debased? What you can do about it and when the dollar will die? It's a lesson in monetary history. And our distinguished guest is a familiar voice that you haven't heard in a while. Today on get rich education.   Mid south home buyers, I mean, they're total pros, with over two decades as the nation's highest rated turnkey provider, their empathetic property managers use your ROI as their North Star. So it's no wonder that smart investors just keep lining up to get their completely renovated income properties like it's the newest iPhone. They're headquartered in Memphis and have globally attractive cash flows and A plus rating with a better business bureau and now over 5000 houses renovated. There's zero markup on maintenance. Let that sink in, and they average a 98.9% occupancy rate, while their average renter stays more than three and a half years. Every home they offer has brand new components, a bumper to bumper, one year warranty, new 30 year roofs. And wait for it, a high quality renter. Remember that part and in an astounding price range, 100 to 180k I've personally toured their office and their properties in person in Memphis, get to know Mid South. Enjoy cash flow from day one. Start yourself right now at mid southhomebuyers.com that's mid south homebuyers.com   Russell Gray  1:54   You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education.   Keith Weinhold  2:10   Welcome to GRE from St John's Newfoundland to St Augustine, Florida and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith weinholden. You are inside get rich education. It's 2025. The real estate market is changing. We'll get into that in future. Weeks today. Over the past 100 years plus, we've gone from sound money to Monopoly money, and we're talking about America's currency collapse. What comes next and how it affects you as both an investor and a citizen.   I'd like to welcome in longtime friend of the show and someone that I've personally learned from over the years, because he's a brilliant teacher, real estate investors probably haven't heard his voice as much lately, because until last year, he had been the co host of the terrific real estate guys radio show for nearly 20 years. Before we're done today, you'll learn more about what he's doing now, as he runs the Main Street capitalist platform and is also founder of the raising capitalists foundation. Hey, it's been a few years. Welcome back to GRE Russell Gray.   Russell Gray  3:19   yeah, it's fun. I actually think it's been maybe 10 years when I think about it, I remember I was at a little resort in Mexico recording with you, I think in the gym. It was just audio back then, no video.    Keith Weinhold  3:24   Yeah, I remember we're trying to get the audio right. Then I think you've been here more recently than 10 years ago. But yeah, now there's this video component. I actually have to sit up straight and comb my hair. It's ridiculous. Well, Russ, you're also a buff of monetary history. And before we discuss that, talk about the state of the real estate market today, just briefly, from your vantage point.   Russell Gray 1  3:55    I think the big story, and I'm probably not telling anybody anything they don't know, but the interest rate hike cycle that we went through this last round was quite a bit more substantial, I think, than a lot of people really appreciated, you know. And I started talking about that many years ago, because when you hit the zero bound and you have 6,7,8, years of interest rates below half a point, the change when they started that interest rate cycle from point two, 525 basis points all the way up to five and a quarter? That's a 20x move. And people might say, well, oh, you know, I go back to what Paul Volcker did way back in the day, when he took interest rates from eight or nine to 18. That was only a little bit more than double. Double is a far cry from 20x so we've never seen anything like that. Part of the fallout of that, as you know, is a lot of people wisely, and I was on the front end of cheerleading This is go get those loans refinanced and lock in that cheap money for as long as possible, because a loan will actually become an asset. The problem is, when you do that, you're kind of married to that property. Now it's not quite as bad. As being upside down in a property and you can't get out of it, but it's really hard to walk away from a two or 3% loan in a Six 7% market, because you really can't take your same payment and end up getting more house. And so that equity is kind of a little bit trapped, and that creates some opportunities, but I think that's been the big story, and then kind of the byproduct of the story. Second tier of the story was the impact it had on development, because it made it a lot harder for developers to develop, because their cost of funds and everything in that supply chain, food chain, you marry that to the 2020, COVID Supply Chain lockdown and that disruption, which, you know, you don't shut an economy down and just flick a switch and have it come back on. And so there's all of that. And then the third thing is just this tremendous uncertainty everybody has, because we just went from one extreme to another. And I think people, you know, they don't want to, like, rock the boat, they're going to kind of stay status quo for a little bit, whether they're businesses, whether they're homeowners, whether they're anybody out there that's thinking about moving them, unless life forces you to do it, you're going to try to stay status quo until things calm down. And I don't know how close we are to things calming down.   Keith Weinhold  6:13   One word I use is normalized. Both the 30 year fixed rate mortgage and the Fed funds rate are pretty close to their long term historic average. It just doesn't feel that way, because it was that rate of increase in 2022 that caught a lot of people off guard, like you touched on Well, Russ, now that we've talked about the present day, let's go back in time, and then we'll slowly bring things up to the present day. The dollar is troubled. It's worth perhaps 3% of what it was 100 years ago, but it's still around since it was established in the Coinage Act of 1792 and it's still the world reserve currency. In fact, only three currencies have survived longer than the dollar, the British pound, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. So talk to us about this really relentless debasement of the dollar over time, including the creation of the Fed and the Bretton Woods Agreement and all that.   Russell Gray 7:09   That's a big story, as you know, and I always like to try to break it down a little bit. One of my specialties I'd like to believe, is I speak macro and I speak Main Street. And so when I try to break macroeconomics down, I start out with, why do I even care? I mean, if I'm a main street investor, why do I even care? In 2008 as you know, is a wipeout for me. Why? Because I didn't think anything had happened in the macro I didn't think Wall Street bond market. I didn't think that affected me. One thing I really cared about was interest rates. And I had a cursory interest in the bond market. We just try to figure out where interest rates were going. But for the most part, I thought, as a main street real estate investor, I was 100% insulated. I couldn't have been more wrong, because it really does matter, because the value of the dollar, in other words, the purchasing power of the dollar, and usually you refer to that as inflation, right? If inflation is there, the dollar is losing its purchasing power, and so the higher the inflation rate, the faster you're losing that purchasing power. And you might say, well, maybe that matters to me. Maybe it does. But the people who make the money available to the mortgage community, right to the real estate community to borrow that comes out of the bond market. And so when people go to buy a bond, which is an IOU, they're going to get paid back in the currency that they lent in, in this case, dollars. And if they know, if they're making a long term investment in a long term bond, and they're going to get paid back in dollars, they're going to be worth a whole lot less when they get them back. One of the things they're going to want is compensation for that time risk, and that's called higher interest rates. Okay, so now, if you're a main street investor, and higher interest rates impact you, now you understand why you want to pay attention. Okay, so let's just start with that. And so once you understand that the currency is a derivative of money, and money used to be you mentioned the Coinage Act Keith money, which is gold, used to be synonymous with the dollar. The dollar was only a unit of measure of gold, 1/20 of an ounce. It was a unit of measure. So it's like, the way I teach people is, like, if you had a gallon of milk and you traded, I'm a farmer, and I had a lot of milk, and so everybody decided they were going to use gallons of milk as their currency. Hey, where there's a lot of gallons of milk. He's got a big refrigerator. We'll just trade gallons of milk. Hey, Keith, I really like your beef. I you know, will you sell me some, a side of beef, and I'll give you, you know, 100 gallons of milk, you know, like, Oh, that's great. Well, I can't drink all this milk, so I'm going to leave the milk on deposit at the dairy, and then later on, when I decide I want a suit of clothes, I'll say, well, that's 10 gallons of milk. So I'll give the guy 10 gallons of milk. So I just give him a coupon, a claim, a piece of paper for that gallon of milk, or 20 gallons of milk, and he can go to the dairy and pick it up, right? And so that's kind of the way the monetary system evolved, except it wasn't milk, it was gold. So now you got the dollar. Well, after a while, nobody's going to get the milk. They don't care about the milk. And so now. Now, instead of just saying, I'll give you a gallon of milk, you just say, well, I'll give you a gallon. And somebody says, Okay, that's great. I'll take a gallon. They never opened the jug up. They never realized the jug is empty. They're just trading these empty jugs that used to have milk in them. Well, that's what the paper dollar is today. It went from being a gold certificate payable to bearer on demand, a certain amount of gold, a $20 gold certificate, what looks exactly like a $20 FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE. Today they look exactly the same, except one says FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, which is an IOU backed by nothing, and the other one said gold certificate, which was payable to bearer on demand, real money. So my point is, is he got money which is a derivative of the productivity, the beef, the soot, the milk, whatever, right? That's the real capital. The real capital is the goods and services we all want. Money is where we store the value of whatever it is we created until we want to trade it for something somebody else created later. And it used to be money and currency were one in the same, but now we've separated that. So now all we do is trade empty gallons, which are empty pieces of paper, and that's currency. So those are derivatives, and the last derivative of that chain is credit. And you had Richard Duncan on your show more than once, and he is famous for kind of having this term. We don't normally have capitalism. We have creditism, right? Everything is credit. Everything is claims on wealth, but it's not real wealth, and it's just when we look at what's going on with our current administration and the drive to become a productive rather than a financialized society, again, as part of this uncertainty that everybody has. Because this is not just a subtle little adjustment on the same course. This is like, No, we're we're going down a completely different path. But fundamentally, your system operates on this currency that is flowing through it, like the blood flowing through your body. And if the blood is bad, your body's sick. And right now, our currency is bad, and so it creates problems, not just for us, but all around the world. And now we're exacerbating that. And I'm not saying it's bad. In fact, I think it's actually it's actually good, but change is what it is, right? I mean, it can be really good to go to the gym and work out before we started recording, you talked about your commitment to fitness, and that if you stop working out, you get unfit, and it's hard to start up again. Well, we've allowed our economy to get very unfit. Now we're trying to get fit again, and it's going to be painful. We're going to be sore, but if we stick with it, I think we can actually kind of save this thing. So I don't know what that's going to mean for the dollar ultimately, or if we end up going to something else, but right now, to your point, the dollar is definitely the big dog still, but I think it's probably even more under attack today than it's ever been, and so it's just something I think every Main Street investor needs to pay attention to.    Keith Weinhold  12:46   And it was really that 1913 creation of the Fed, where the Fed's mandates really didn't begin to take effect until 1914 that accelerated this slide in the dollar. Prior to that, it was really just periods of war, like, for example, the Civil War, where we had inflation rise, but then after wars abated, the dollar's strength returned, but that ceased to happen last century.   Russell Gray  13:11   I think there's a much bigger story there. So when we founded the country, we established legal money in the Coinage Act of 1792 we got gold and silver and a specific unit of measure of gold, a specific unit, measure of silver was $1 and that's what money was constitutionally. Alexander Hamilton advocated for the first central bank and got it, but it was issued by Charter, which meant that it was operated by the permission of the Congress. It wasn't institutionalized. It wasn't embedded in the Constitution. It was just something that was granted, like a license. You have a charter to be able to run a bank. When that initial charter came up for renewal, Congress goes, now we're not going to renew it. Well, of course, that made the bankers really upset, because bankers have a pretty good gig, right? They get to just loan people money. They don't have to do any real work, and then they make money on just kind of arbitraging, you know, other people's money. Savers put their money in, and they borrowed the money out, and then they with fractional reserve, they're able to magnify that. So it's, it's kind of a cool gig. And so what happened? Then he had the first central bank, so then they got the second central bank, and the second central bank was also issued by charter this time when it came up for renewal, Congress goes, Yeah, let's renew it, right? Because the bankers knew we got to go buy a few congressmen if we want to keep this thing going. But President Andrew Jackson said, No, not going to happen. And it was a big battle. Is a famous quote of him just calling these bankers a brood of vipers. And I'm going to put you down. And God help me, I will, right? I mean, it was like intense fact, I do believe he got shot at one point. I think he died from lead poisoning, because he never got the bullet out. So, you know, when you go to up against the bankers, it's not pretty, but he succeeded. He was the last president that paid off all the debt, balanced budget, paid off all the debt, and we got kind of back on sound money. Well, then a little while later, said, Okay, we're going to need, like, something major, and this would. I should put on. I got my, this is my hat, right now, I'll kind of put it on. This is my, my tin foil hat. Okay? And so I put this on when I kind of go down the rabbit trail a little bit. No, I'm not saying this is what happened, but it wouldn't surprise me, right? Because I know that war is profitable, and so sometimes, you know, your comment was, hey, there's the bank, and then there was, you know, the war, or there's the war, then there's a bank, which comes first the chicken or the egg. I think there's an article where Henry Ford and Thomas Edison went to Congress. I think it was December. The article was published New York Tribune, December 4. I think 1921 you can look it up, New York Tribune, front page article   Keith Weinhold  15:38   fo those of you in the audio only. Russ started donning a tin foil looking hat here about one minute ago.    Russell Gray  15:45   I did, yeah, so I put it on. Just so fair warning. You know, I may go a little conspiratorial, but the reason I do that is I just, I think we've seen enough, just in current, modern history and politics, in the age of AI and software and freedom of speech and new media, there's a lot of weird stuff going on out there, but a lot of stuff that we thought was really weird a little while ago has turned out to be more true than we thought. When you look back in history, and you kind of read the official narrative and you wonder, you kind of read between the lines. You go, oh, maybe some stuff went on here. So anyway, the allegation that Ford made, smart guy, Thomas Edison, smart guy. And they go to Congress, and they go, Hey, we need to get the gold out of the banker's hands, because gold is money, and we need money not to revolve around gold, because the bankers control gold. They control the money, and they make profits, his words, not mine, by starting wars, because he was very upset about World War One, which happened. We got involved right after Fed gets formed in 1913 World War One starts in 1914 the United States sits off in the background and sells everybody, everything. It collects a bunch of gold, and then enters at the end and ends it all. And that big influx created the roaring 20s, as we all know, which ended big boom to big bust. And that cycle, which then a crisis that created, potentially a argument for why the government should have more control, right? So you kind of go down this path. So we ended up in 1865 with President Lincoln suppressing states rights and eventually creating an unconstitutional income tax and then creating an unconstitutional currency. That's what Abraham Lincoln did. And then on the back end of that, you know, it didn't end well for him, and I don't know why, but all I know is that we had a financial crisis in 1907 and the solution to that was the Aldrich plan, which was basically a monopoly on money. It's called a money trust. And Charles Lindbergh, SR was railing against it, as were many people at the time, going, No, this is terrible. So they renamed the Aldrich plan the Federal Reserve Act. And instead of going for a bank charter, they went for a constitutional amendment, and they got it in the 16th Amendment, and that's where we got the IRS. That's where we got the income tax, which was only supposed to be 7% only affect like the top one or 2% of earners, right? And that's where we got, you know, the Federal Reserve. That's where all that was born. Since that happened, to your point, the dollar has been on with a slight little rise up in the 20s, which, you know, there's a whole thing about whether that caused the crash or not. But at the end of the day, if you go look at St Louis Fed, which you go look at all the time, and you just look at the long term trend of the dollar, it's terrible. And the barometer, that's gold, right? $20 of gold in 1913 and 1933 and then 42 in 1971 or two, whatever it was, three, and then eventually as high as 850 but at the turn of the century, this century, it was $250 so at $2,500 it would have lost 90% in the 21st Century. The dollars lost 90% in the 21st Century, just to 2500 that's profound to go. That's right, it already lost more than 90% from $20 to 250 so it lost 90% and then 90% of the 10% that was left. And that's where we're at. We're worse than that. Today, no currency, as far as I understand, I've been told this. Haven't done the homework, but it's my understanding, no currency in the history of the world has ever survived that kind of debasement. So I think a lot of people who are watching are like, okay, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. And then the big question is, is when that when comes? What does the transition look like? What rises in its place? And then you look at things like a central bank digital currency, which is not like Bitcoin, it's not a crypto, it's a centrally controlled currency run by the central bank. If we get that, I would argue that's not good for privacy and security. Could be Bitcoin would be better. I would argue, could go back to gold backing, which I would say is better than what we have, or we could get something nobody's even thought of. I don't know. We don't know, but I do think we're at the end of the life cycle. Historically, all things being equal. And I think all the indication with a big run up of gold, gold is screaming something's broken. It's just screaming it right now, not just because the price is up, but who's buying it. It's just central banks.   Keith Weinhold  20:12   Central banks are doing most of the buying, right? It's not individual investors going to a coin shop. So that's really screaming, telling you that people are concerned. People are losing their faith in giving loans to the United States for sure. And Russ, as we talk about gold, and it's important link to the dollar over time, you mentioned how they wanted it, to get it out of the bank's hands for a while. Of course, there was also a period of time where it was illegal for Americans to own gold. And then we had this Bretton Woods Agreement, which was really important as well, where we ended up violating promises that had to do with gold again. So can you speak to us some more about that? Because a lot of people just don't understand what happened at Bretton Woods.   Russell Gray  20:56   What happened is we had the big crash in 1929 and the net result of that was, in 1933 we got executive order 6102 In fact, I have a picture of it framed, and that was in the wake of that in 1933 and so what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in signing that document, which was empowered by a previous act of Congress, basically let him confiscate all The money. It'd be like right now if, right now, you know, President Trump signed an executive order and said, You have to take all your cash, every all the cash that you have out of your wallet. You have to send it all, take it into the bank, and they're going to give you a Chuck E Cheese token, right? And if you don't do it, if you do it, it's a $500,000 fine in 10 years in prison. Right? Back then it was a $10,000 fine, which was twice the price of the average Home huge fine, plus jail time. That's how severe it was, okay? So they confiscated all the money. That happened in 33 okay? Now we go off to war, and we enter the war late again. And so we have the big manufacturing operation. We're selling munitions and all kinds of supplies to everybody, all over the world, right? And we're just raking the gold and 20,000 tons of gold. We got all the gold. We got the biggest army now, we got the biggest bomb, we got the biggest economy. We got the strongest balance sheet. Well, I mean, you know, we went into debt for the war, but, I mean, we had a lot of gold. So now everybody else is decimated. We're the big dog. Everybody knows we're the big dog. Nine states shows up in New Hampshire Bretton Woods, and they have this big meeting with the world, and they say, Hey guys, new sheriff in town. Britain used to be the world's reserve currency, but today we're going to be the world's reserve currency. And so this was the new setup. But it's okay. It's okay because our dollar is as good as gold. It's backed by gold, and so anytime you want foreign nations, you can just bring your dollars to us and we'll give you the gold, no problem. And everyone's like, okay, great. What are you going to say? Right? You got the big bomb, you got the big army. Everybody needs you for everything to live like you're not going to say no. So they said, Yes, of course, the United States immediately. I've got a speech that a guy named Beardsley Rummel did. Have you ever heard me talk about this before? Keith, No, I've never heard about this. So Beardsley Rummel was the New York Fed chair when all this was happening. And so he gave a speech to the American Bar Association in 1945 and I got a transcript of it, a PDF transcript of it from 1946 and basically he goes, Look, income taxes are obsolete. We don't need income tax anymore because we can print money, because we're off the gold standard and we have no accountability. We just admitted it, just totally admitted it, and said the only reason we have income tax is to manipulate behavior, is to redistribute wealth, is to force people to do what we want them to do, punish things and reward others, right? Just set it plain language. I have a transcript of the speech. You can get a copy of you send an email to Rummel R U, M, L@mainstreetcapitalist.com I'll get it to you. So it's really, really interesting. So he admitted it. So we went along in the 40s and the 50s, and, you know, we had the only big manufacturing you know, because everybody else is still recovering from the war. Everything been bombed to smithereens, and we're spending money and doing all kinds of stuff. And having the 50s, it was great, right, right up until the mid 60s. So the mid 60s, it's like, Okay, we got a problem. And Charles de Gaulle, who was the president of France at the time, went to a meeting. And there's a YouTube video, but you can see it, he basically told the world, hey, I don't think the United States is doing a good job managing this world's reserve currency. I don't think they've got the gold. I think they printed too much money. I think that we should start to go redeem our dollars and get the gold. That was pretty forward thinking. And he created a run on the bank. And at the same time, we passed the Coinage Act in 1965 and took all the silver out of the people's money. So we took the gold in 33 and then we took the silver in 65 right? Because we got Vietnam and the Great Society, welfare, all these things were going on in the 60s. We're just going broke. Meanwhile, our gold supply went from 20,000 tons down to eight and Richard. Nixon is like, whoa, time out. Like, this is bad. And so we had inflation in 1970 August 15, 1971 year before August 15, 1971 1970 Nixon writes an executive order and freezes all prices and all wages. It became illegal by presidential edict for a private business to give their employee a raise or to raise their prices to the customers.    Keith Weinhold  25:30   It's almost if that could happen price in theUnited States of America, right?    Russell Gray  25:36   And inflation was 4.4% and it was a national emergency like today. I mean, you know, a few years ago, like three or four years ago, we if we could get it down 4.4% it'd be Holly. I'd be like a celebration. That was bad. And so that's what happened. So a year later, that didn't work. It was a 90 day thing. It was a disaster. And so in a year later, August 15, 1971 Nixon came on live TV after Gunsmoke. I think it was, and I was old enough I'm watching TV on a Sunday night I watched it. Wow. So I live, that's how old I am. So it's a lot of this history, not the Bretton Woods stuff, but from like 1960 2,3,4, forward. I remember I was there.    Keith Weinhold  26:13   Yeah, that you remember the whole Nixon address on television. We should say it for the listener that doesn't know. Basically the announcement Nixon made, he said, was a temporary measure, is that foreign nations can no longer redeem their dollars for gold. He broke the promise that was made at Bretton Woods in about 1945   Russell Gray  26:32   Yeah. And then gold went from $42 up to 850 and a whole series of events that have led to where we're at today were put in place to cover up the fact that the dollar was failing. We had climate emergency. We were headed towards the next global Ice Age. We had an existential threat in two different diseases that hit one right after the other. First one was the h1 n1 flu, swine flu, and then the next thing was AIDS. And so we had existential pandemic, two of them. We also had a oil shortage crisis. We were going to run out of fossil fuel by the year 2000 we had to do all kinds of very public, visible, visceral things that we would all see. You could only buy gas odd even days, like, if your license plate ended in an odd number, you could go on these days, and if it ended on an even number, you could go on the other days. And so we had that. We lowered our national speed limit down to 55 miles an hour. We created the EPA and all these different agencies under Jimmy Carter to try to regulate and manage all of this crisis. Prior to that, Nixon sent Kissinger over to China, and we opened up trade relations. And we'd been in Vietnam to protect the world from communism because it was so horrible. And then in the wake of that, we go over to Communist China, Chairman Mao and open up trade relations. Why we needed access to their cheap labor to suck up all the inflation. And we went over to the Saudis, and we cut the petro dollar deal. Why? Because we needed the float. We needed some place for all these excess dollars that we had created to get sucked up. And so they got sucked up in trading the largest commodity in the world, energy. And the deal was, hey, Saudis, here's the deal. You like your kingdom? Well, we got the big bomb. We got the big army. You're going to rule the roost in the in the Middle East, and we'll protect you. All you got to do is make sure you sell all your oil in dollars and dollars only. And they're like, Well, what if we're selling oil to China, or what if we're selling oil to Japan? Can they pay in yen? Nope, they got to sell yen. Buy dollars. Well, what do we do with all these dollars? Buy our treasuries. Okay, so what if I got this? Yeah, and so that was the petrodollar system. And the world looked at everything went on, and the world is like, Hmm, the United States coming back to Europe, and Charles de Gaulle, they're like, the United States is not handling this whole dollar thing real well. We need an alternative. What if all of us independent nations in Europe got together and created a common currency? We don't want to be like one country, like the United States, but we want to be like an economic union. So let's create a current let's call it the euro. And they started that process in the 70s, but they didn't get it done till 99 and so they get it done in 99 as soon as they get it done, this guy named Saddam Hussein goes, Hey, I'm now the big dog here. I got the fourth largest army in the world. I'm here in, you know, big oil producing nation. Let's trade in the euro. Let's get off the dollar. Let's do oil in the euro. And he's gone. I'm not sure I should put my hat back on. I'm not sure, but somehow we went into Afghanistan and took a hard left and took this guy out.   Keith Weinhold  29:44   Some credence to this. Yes, yeah, so. But with that said,   Russell Gray  29:47   you know, we ended up with the Euro taking about 20% of the global trade market from the United States, which is about where it sits today. And the United States used to be up over 80% and now we're down below 60% still. The Big Dog by triple and the euro is not in a position to supplant the US, but I think China, whose claim to fame is looking at other people's technology and models and copying it, looked at what the United States did to become the dominant economic force, and I think they've systematically been copying it. I wrote a report on this way back in 2013 when I started really paying attention to it and began to chronicle all the things that they were doing, this big D dollarization movement that I think still has legs. It's the BRICS movement. It's all the central banks buying gold. It's the bilateral trade agreements where people are doing business outside the dollar. There's been not just that, but also putting together the infrastructure, right? The Asian Infrastructure Bank is an alternative to the IMF looking, if you have you read Confessions of an economic hitman. No. Okay, so this is a guy that used to work in the government, I think, CIA or something, and he would go down and he'd cut deals with leaders of countries to get them to borrow from the United States to put in key infrastructure so they could trade with the US. And then, of course, if they defaulted, then the US owned that in the infrastructure. You can look it up. His name is Perkins, right. Look it up confessions of economic hit now, but you see China doing the same thing. China's got their Belt and Road Initiative. And you go through, and if you want to trade with China on that route, you have traded, you're gonna have to have infrastructure. You can eat ports. You're gonna need terminals for distribution. But you, Oh, you don't have the money. We'll loan it to you, and we'll loan it to you and you want. Now we're creating demand for you want, and we also are enslaving borrower servant to the lender. We're beginning to enslave these other nations under the guise of helping them by financing their growth so they can do business with us. It's the same thing the United States did and Shanghai Gold Exchange, as opposed to the London Bullion exchange. So all of the key pieces of infrastructure that were put in place to facilitate Western hegemony in the financial markets the Chinese have been systematically putting in place with bricks, and so there's a reason we're in this big trade war right now. We recognize that they had started to get in a position where they were actually a real threat, and we got to cut their legs out from underneath them before they get any stronger. Again, I should put my hat back on. Nobody's calling me up and telling me, I'm just reading between the lines. Sure,   Keith Weinhold  32:23   there certainly are more competitors to the dollar now. And can you imagine what rate of inflation that we would have had if we had not outsourced our labor and productivity over to a low wage place like China in the east? Russ and I have been talking about the long term debasement of the dollar and why. More on that when we come back, including what Russ is up to today. You're listening to get rich education. Our guest is Russell Gray. I'm your host, Keith Weinhold, the same place where I get my own mortgage loans is where you can get yours. Ridge lending group and MLS, 42056, they provided our listeners with more loans than anyone because they specialize in income properties. They help you build a long term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. Start your pre qual and even chat with President Chaley Ridge personally while it's on your mind, start at Ridge lendinggroup.com that's Ridge lendinggroup.com. You know what's crazy? 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This is Rich Dad advisor, Garrett Sutton. You're listening to the always valuable. Get rich education with Keith Weinhold, don't quit your Daydream.    Keith Weinhold  34:52   Welcome back to get rich education. We're talking with the main street capitalists Russell gray about this long term debasement of the dollar. It's an. Inevitable. It's one of the things we actually can forecast with pretty good predictability that the dollar will continue to debase. It's one of the few almost guarantees that we have in investing. So we can think about how we want to play that Russ one thing I wonder about is, did we have to completely de peg the dollar from gold? Couldn't we have just diluted it where we could instead say, Well, hey, now, instead of just completely depegging the dollar from gold, we could say, well, now it takes 10 times as many dollars as it used to to redeem it for an ounce of gold. Did it make it more powerful that we just completely de pegged it 100%   Russell Gray  35:36   it would disempower the monopoly. Right? In other words, I think that the thing from the very beginning, was scripted to disconnect from the accountability of gold, which is what sound money advocates want. They want some form of independent Accountability. Gold is like an audit to a financial system. If you're the bankers and you're running the program, the last thing in the world you want is a gold standard, because it limits your ability to print money out of thin air and profit from that. So I don't think the people who are behind all of this are, in no way, shape or form, interested in doing anything that's going to limit their power or hold them accountable. They want just the opposite. I think if they could wave a magic wand and pick their solution to the problem, it would be central bank digital currency, which would give them ultimate control. Yeah. And it wouldn't surprise me if we maybe, perhaps, were on a path where some crises were going to converge, whether it's opportunistic, meaning that the crisis happened on its own, and quote Rahm Emanuel and whoever he was quoting, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste, and you're just opportunistic, or, you know, put the conspiracy theory hat on, and maybe these crises get created in order to facilitate the power grab. I don't know. It really doesn't matter what the motives are or how it happens at the end of the day, it's what happens. It happened in 33 it happened in 60. In 71 it's what happens. And so it's been a systematic de pegging of any form of accountability. I mean, we used to have a budget ceiling. We used to talk about now it's just like, it's routine. You blow right through it, right, right. There's you balance. I mean, when's the last time you even had a budget? Less, less, you know, much less anything that looked like a valid balanced budget amendment. So I think there's just no accountability other than the voting booth. And, you know, I think maybe you could make the argument that whether you like Trump or not, the public's apparent embrace of him, show you that the main street and have a lot of faith in Main Street. I think Main Street is like, you know what? This is broken. I don't know what's how to fix it, but somebody just needs to go in and just tear this thing down and figure out a new plant. Because I think if you anybody paying attention, knows that this perpetual debasement, which is kind of the theme of the show is it creates haves and have nots. Guys like you who understand how to use real estate to short the dollar, especially when you marry it to gold, which is one of my favorite strategies to double short the dollar, can really magnify the power of inflation to pull more wealth onto your balance sheet. Problem is the people who aren't on that side of the coin are on the other side of the coin, and so the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Well, the first order of business in a system we can't control is help as many people be on the rich get richer. That's why we had the get rich show, right? Let's help other people get rich. Because if I'm the only rich guy in the room, all the guns are pointed at me, right? I wanted everybody as rich as possible. I think Trump and Kiyosaki wrote about that in their book. Why we want you to be rich, right? When everybody's prospering, it's it's better, it's safer, you have people to trade with and whatnot, but we have eviscerated the middle class because industry has had to go access cheap labor markets in order to compensate for this inflation. And you know, you talk about the Fed mandate, which is 2% inflation, price inflation, 2% so if you say something that costs $1 today, a year from now, is going to cost $1 too, you think, well, maybe that's not that bad. But here's the problem, the natural progression of Business and Technology is to lower the cost, right? So you have something cost $1 today, and because somebody's using AI and internet and automation and robots and all this technology, right? And the cost, they could really sell it for 80 cents. And so the Fed looks at and goes, Let's inflate to $1.02 that's not two cents of inflation. That's 22 cents of inflation. And so there's hidden inflation. The benefits of the gains in productivity don't show up in the CPI, but it's like deferred maintenance on an apartment building. You can make your cash flow look great if you're not setting anything aside for the inevitable day when that roof is going to go out and that parking lot is going to need to be repaved, right? And you don't know how far out you are until you get there and you're like, wow, I'm really short, and I think that we have been experiencing for decades. The theft of the benefit of our productivity gains, and we're not just a little bit out of position. We're way out of position. That's   Keith Weinhold  40:07   a great point. Like I had said earlier, imagine what the rate of inflation would be if we hadn't outsourced so much of our labor and productivity to low cost China. And then imagine what the rate of inflation would be as well, if you would factor in all of this increased productivity and efficiency, the natural tendencies of which are to make prices go lower as society gets more productive, but instead they've gone higher. So when you adjust for some of these factors, you just can't imagine what the true debased purchasing power of the dollar is. It's been happening for a long time. It's inevitable that it's going to continue to happen in the future. So this has been a great chat about the history and us understanding what the powers that be have done to debase our dollar. It's only at what rate we don't know. Russ, tell us more about what you're doing today. You're really out there more as a champion for Main Street in capitalism.   Russell Gray  41:04   I mean, 20 years with Robert and the real estate guys, and it was fantastic. I loved it. I went through a lot, obviously, in 2008 and that changed me a little bit. Took me from kind of being a blocking and tackling, here's how you do real estate, and to really understanding macro and going, you know, it doesn't matter. You can do like I did, and you build this big collection. Big collection of properties and you lose it all in a moment because you don't understand macro. So I said, Okay, I want to champion that cause. And so we did that. And then we saw in the 2012 JOBS Act, the opportunity for capital raisers to go mainstream and advertise for credit investors. And I wrote a report then called the new law breaks Wall Street monopoly. And I felt like that was going to be a huge opportunity, and we pioneered that. But then after my late wife died, and I had a chance to spend some time alone during COVID, and I thought, life is short. What do I really want to accomplish before I go? And then I began looking at what was going on in the world. I see now a couple of things that are both opportunities and challenges or causes to be championed. And one is the mega trend that I believe the world is going you know, some people call it a fourth turning whatever. I don't consider that kind of we have to fall off a cliff as Destiny type of thing to be like cast in stone. But what I do see is that people are sick and tired of monopolies. We're sick and tired of big tech, we're sick and tired of big media, we're sick and tired of big government. We're sick and tired of big corporations, we don't want it, and big banks, right? So you got the rise of Bitcoin, you got people trying to get out from underneath the Western hegemony, as we've been talking about decentralization of everything. Our country was founded on the concept of decentralization, and so people don't understand that, right? It used to be everything was centralized. All powers in the king. Real Estate meant royal property. That's what real estate it's not like real asset, like tangible it's royal estate. It's royal property. Everything belonged to the king, and you just got to work it like a serf. And then you got to keep 75% in your produce, and you sent 25% you sent 25% through all the landlords, the land barons, and all the people in the hierarchy that fed on running things for the king, but you didn't own anything. Our founder set that on, turn that upside down, and said, No, no, no, no, no, it's not the king that's sovereign. It's the individual. The individual is sovereign. It isn't the monarchy, it's the individual states. And so we're going to bring the government, small. The central government small has only got a couple of obligations, like protect the borders, facilitate interstate commerce, and let's just have one common currency so that we can do business together. Other than that, like, the state's just going to run the show. Of course, Lincoln kind of blew that up, and it's gotten a lot worse after FDR, so I feel like we're under this big decentralization movement, and I think Main Street capitalism is the manifestation of that. If you want to decentralize capitalism, the gig economy, if you want to be a guy like you, and you can run your whole business off your laptop with a microphone and a camera, you know, in today's day and age with technology, people have tasted the freedom of decentralization. So I think the rise of the entrepreneur, I think the ability to go build a real asset portfolio and get out of the casinos of Wall Street. I think right now, if we are successful in bringing back these huge amounts of investment, Trump's already announced like two and a half or $3 trillion of investment, people are complaining, oh, the world is selling us. Well, they're selling stocks and they're selling but they're putting the money actually into creating businesses here in the United States that's going to create that primary driver, as you well know, in real estate, that's going to create the secondary and tertiary businesses, and the properties they're going to use all kinds of Main Street opportunity are going to grow around that. I lived in Silicon Valley, when a company would get funded, it wasn't just a company that prospered, it was everything around that company, right? All these companies. I remember when Apple started. I remember when Hewlett Packard, it was big, but it got a lot bigger, right there. I watched all that happen in Silicon Valley. I think that's going to happen again. I think we're at the front end of that. And so that's super exciting. Wave. The second thing that is super important is this raising capitalist project. And the reason I'm doing it is because if we don't train our next generation in the principles of capitalism and the freedom that it how it decentralizes Their personal economy, and they get excited about Bitcoin, but that's not productive. I'm not putting it down. I'm just saying it's not productive. You have to be productive. You want to have a decentralized currency. Yes, you want to decentralize productivity. That's Main Street capitalism. If kids who never get a chance to be in the productive economy get to vote at 1819, 2021, 22 before they've ever earned a paycheck, before they have any idea, never run a business. Somebody tells them, hey, those guys that have all that money and property, they cheated. It's not fair. We need to take from them. We need to limit them, not thinking, Oh, well, if I do that, when I get to be there, that what I'm voting for is going to get on me. Right now, Keith, there are kids in ninth grade who are going to vote for your next president, right?   Keith Weinhold  45:56   And they think capitalism is evil. This is part of what you're doing with the raising capitalists project, helping younger people think differently. Russ, I have one last thing to ask you. This has to do with the capitalism that you're championing on your platforms now. And real estate, I continue to see sometimes I get comments on my YouTube channel, especially maybe it's more and more people increasingly saying, Hey, I think housing should be a human right. So talk to us about that. And maybe it's interesting, Russ, if I take the other side of it and play devil's advocate, people who think housing is a human right, they say something like, the idea is that housing, you know, it's a fundamental need, just like food and clean water and health care are without stable housing. It's incredibly hard for a person to access opportunities like work and education or health care or participate meaningfully in society at all. So government ought to provide housing for everybody. What are your thoughts there?   Russell Gray  46:54   Well, it's inherently inflationary, which is the root cause of the entire problem. So anytime you create consumption without production, you're going to have more consumers than producers, and so you're going to have more competition for those goods. The net, net truth of what happens in that scenario are shortages everywhere. Every civilization that's ever tried any form of system where people just get things for free because they need them, end up with shortages in poverty. It doesn't lift everybody. It ruins everything. I mean, that's not conjecture. That's history, and so that's just the way it works. And if you just were to land somebody on a desert island and you had an economy of one, they're going to learn really quick the basic principles of capitalism, which is production always precedes consumption, always 100% of the time, right? If you're there on that desert island and you don't hunt fish or gather, you don't eat, right? You don't get it because, oh, it's a human right to have food. Nope, it's a human right to have the right to go get food. Otherwise, you're incarcerated, you have to have the freedom of movement to go do something to provide for yourself, but you cannot allow people to consume without production. So everybody has to produce. And you know, if you go back to the Plymouth Rock experiment, if you're familiar with that at all, yeah, yeah. So you know, just for anybody who doesn't know, when the Pilgrims came over here in the 1600s William Bradford was governor, and they tried it. They said, Hey, we're here. Let's Stick Together All for one and one for all. Here's the land. Everybody get up every day and work. Everybody works, and everybody eats. They starved. And so he goes, Okay, guys, new plan. All right, you wine holds. See this little plot of land, that's yours. You work it. You can eat whatever you produce. Over there, you grace. You're going to do yours and Johnson's, you're going to do yours, right? Well, what happened is now everybody got up and worked, and they created more than enough for their own family, and they had an abundance. And the abundance was created out of their hunger. When they went to serve their own needs, they created abundance forever others. That's the premise of capitalism. It's not the perfect system. There is no perfect system. We live in a world where human beings have to work before they get to eat. When I say eat, it could be having a roof over their head. It could be having clothes. It could be going on vacation. It could be having a nice car. It could be getting health care. It doesn't matter what it is, whatever it is you need. You have the right, or should have, the right, in a free system to go earn that by being productive, but the minute somebody comes and says, Oh, you worked, and I'm going to take what you produced and give it to somebody else who didn't, that's patently unfair, but economically, it's disastrous, because it incentivizes people not to work, which creates less production, more consumption. I have another analogy with sandwich makers, but you can imagine that if you got a group if you got a group of people making sandwiches, one guy starts creating coupons for sandwiches. Well then if somebody says, Okay, well now we got 19 people providing for 20. That's okay, but then all the guys making sandwiches. Why making sandwiches? I'm gonna get the coupon business pretty soon. You got 18 guys doing coupons, only two making sandwiches. Not. Have sandwiches to go around all the sandwiches cost tons of coupons because we got way more financialization than productivity, right? That's the American economy. We have to fix that. We can't have people making money by just trading on other people's productivity. We have to have people actually being productive. This is what I believe the administration is trying to do, rebuild the middle class, rebuild that manufacturing base, make us a truly productive economy, and then you don't have to worry about these things, right? We're going to create abundance. And if you don't have the inflation is which is coming from printing money out of thin air and giving to people who don't produce, then housing, all sudden, becomes affordable. It's not a problem. Health care becomes affordable. Everything becomes affordable because you create abundance, because everybody's producing the system is fundamentally broken. Now we have to learn how to profit in it in its current state, which is what you teach people how to do. We also have to realize that it's not sustainable. We're on an unsustainable path, and we're probably nearing that event horizon, the path of no return, where the system is going to break. And the question is, is, how are you going to be prepared for it when it happens? Number two, are you going to be wise enough to advocate when you get a chance to cast a vote or make your voice heard for something that's actually going to create prosperity and freedom versus something that's going to create scarcity and oppression? And that's the fundamental thing that we have to master as a society. We got to get to our youth, because they're the biggest demographic that can blow the thing up, and they're the ones that have been being indoctrinated the worst.   Keith Weinhold  51:29   Yes, Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself said that we live in a economic system today that is unsustainable. Yes, the collectivism we touched on quickly descends into the tyranny of the majority. And in my experience, historically, the success of public housing projects has been or to mixed at best, residents often don't respect the property when they don't have an equity stake in it or even a security deposit tied up in it, and blight and high crime rates have often followed with these public housing projects. When you go down that path of making housing as a human right, like you said earlier, you have a right to go procure housing for yourself, just not to ask others to pay for it for you. Well, Russ, this has been great. It's good to have your voice back on the show. Here again, here on a real estate show. If people want to connect with you, continue to see what you've been up to and the good projects that you're working on, promoting the virtues of capitalism. What's the best way for them to do that?   Russell Gray  52:31   I think just send an email to follow at Russell Gray, R, U, S, S, E, L, L, G, R, A, y.com, let you know where I am on social media. I'll let you know when I put out new content. I'll let you know when I'm a guest on somebody somebody's show and I'm on the cusp of getting my own show finally launched. I've been doing a lot of planning to get that out, but I'm excited about it because I do think, like I said, The time is now, and I think the marketplace is ripe, and I do speak Main Street and macro, and I hope I can add a nuance to the conversation that will add value to people.   Keith Weinhold  53:00   Russ, it's been valuable as always. Thanks so much for coming back onto the show. Thanks, Keith.   Yeah, terrific, historic outline from Russ about the long term decline of the dollar. It's really a fresh reminder and motivator to keep being that savvy borrower. Of course, real estate investors have access to borrow giant sums of dollars and short the currency that lay people do not. In fact, lay people don't even understand that it's a viable strategy at all. Like he touched on, Russ has really been bringing an awareness about how decentralization is such a powerful force that reshapes society. In fact, he was talking about that the last time that I saw him in person a few months ago. Notably, he touched on Nixon era wage and price controls. Don't you find it interesting? Fascinating, really, how a few weeks ago, Trump told Walmart not to pass tariff induced price increases onto their customers. Well, that's a form of price control that we're seeing today to our point, when we had the father of Reaganomics, David Stockman here on the show, five weeks ago, tariffs are already government intervention into the free market, and then a president telling private companies how to set their prices, that is really strong government overreach. I mean, I can't believe that more people aren't talking about this. Maybe that's just because this cycle started with Walmart, and that's just doesn't happen to be a company that people feel sorry for. Hey, well, I look forward to meeting you in person in Miami in just four days, as I'll be a faculty member for when we kick off the terrific real estate guys Investor Summit and see and really getting to know you, because we're going to spend nine days together. Teaching, learning and having a great time on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Until then, I'm your host. 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Chris Low, Chief Economist at FHN Financial, rejoins the guys for a live appearance from DCG's 41st Annual Balance Sheet Management Conference in Boston.  Within this comprehensive conversation, Chris expounds on the impact of tariffs and the nation's debt on long-term interest rates, the Sahm Rule and unemployment expectations, housing market trends along with bank lending and credit implications, and answers the question of whether we have seen Jerome Powell's last rate cut. For more insights and ideas, visit DCG at DarlingConsulting.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Watch The X22 Report On Video No videos found (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:17532056201798502,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-9437-3289"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs");pt> Click On Picture To See Larger PictureTrump is bringing in more investments each and everyday which is countering everything the [CB] has done over the many years. The parallel economy is getting stronger and the [CB] has lost the fight. Trump is prepping the new economy and the Federal Reserve will be restructured into the Treasury. The [DS] is panicking, Trump is in process of removing the state funded terrorists around the world. The people of Iran will be free soon. The [DS] is planning a mass riot across the country. They will most likely try to push a [FF] of creating some type of martyr. How do you force antifa, illegals, terrorist the [DS] out of the shadows and into the light? How do you bypass the corrupt judges? The [DS] is desperate and panicking, Trump is using this to trap them.   Economy https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1933554795765477508 (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:18510697282300316,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-8599-9832"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="https://cdn2.decide.dev/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); Restructuring the Federal Reserve into the Department of the Treasury—effectively absorbing its functions under direct executive control—would be a dramatic shift in U.S. monetary policy and governance. While Andrew Jackson dismantled the Second Bank of the United States by withdrawing federal funds and vetoing its recharter, the Federal Reserve is a far more complex and entrenched institution, created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 with a perpetual charter.     Potential Steps Trump Could Take   Trump could work with Congressional allies to draft a bill transferring key Fed functions (e.g., monetary policy, bank supervision) to the Treasury. This might involve creating a new Treasury division or empowering the Treasury Secretary to oversee interest rates and money supply. Frame the Narrative: Like Jackson, Trump could rally public support by portraying the Fed as an elitist institution that prioritizes Wall Street over Main Street. He could argue that placing monetary policy under the Treasury ensures democratic accountability. Leverage Political Capital: With Republican control of Congress, Trump could prioritize this agenda, using budget negotiations or debt ceiling talks to pressure lawmakers. However, he'd need to overcome resistance from moderates and filibuster threats in the Senate. Historical Precedent: Before the Fed, the Treasury managed some banking functions (e.g., under the Independent Treasury System post-1836). Trump could cite this as a viable model, though it was abandoned due to inefficiencies. Executive Actions to Increase Treasury Influence:   Trump could nominate a Treasury Secretary and Fed governors who support closer alignment between the two entities. While the Fed chair cannot be fired mid-term without cause, Trump could appoint a like-minded chair when the current term ends (e.g., Jerome Powell's term as chair expires in 2026).  Trump could issue orders directing the Treasury to study or assume certain Fed roles (e.g., payment systems or debt management). While symbolic, such moves could signal intent and pressure Congress. Treasury-Fed Coordination: Trump could push for formal agreements (e.g., a revised Treasury-Fed Accord, like the 1951 agreement) to give the Treasury more say in monetary policy, short of full control.

Charles notes how President Trump has stepped up his campaign to get Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut rates. The President on Thursday called Powell a “numbskull” who will be “too late” on a rate cut decision.  He is joined by FOX Business contributor Gary Kaltbaum to explore why Fed Chair Powell's cautious approach towards a rate cut decision and they analyze who the next Fed Chair could be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Markets erupted this week as oil spiked 13% overnight following Israeli strikes on Iran. Anthony and Piers unpack what it all means from geopolitical shockwaves to the tactical chaos of trading during breaking news.They also dive into the concept of backwardation and why it's dominated the oil market for years, despite the headlines. Plus, what U.S. inflation data reveals about Trump's tariff strategy and the real pressure behind his attacks on Fed Chair Jerome Powell.With the Fed meeting looming, a surging FTSE defying weak UK GDP, and signs of a subtle U.S.–China détente in London, this episode helps you connect the dots in a world full of noise.(00:00) Intro & Key Themes in Focus(02:14) Market Reactions to Geopolitical Events(12:33) Understanding Oil Market Dynamics(17:47) US Inflation Data and Its Implications(25:39) Trump Pressures the Fed to Cut(27:50) US-China Relations and Market Impact(32:45) UK GDP and the Resilience of the FTSE 100

Today is the second Mayoral Debate for NYC's Mayoral Race. Can Zohran Mamdani argue Andrew Cuomo off in the debate? Beach Boys Founder Brian Wilson passed away at 82. Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore. The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy? The Democrat's new talking point is now "Defund Ice". There's two new restaurant critics for The New York Times. Could The Beach Boys music top the charts at this time, if Z gen's blow it up? NYC may not need the National Guard to go against this weekend's protests. Mark Interviews Columnist Miranda Devine. Miranda talks about how Trump's energy is contagious. Miranda has a new podcast out that's a must listen. The podcast is called Pod Force 1.

Today is the second Mayoral Debate for NYC's Mayoral Race. Can Zohran Mamdani argue Andrew Cuomo off in the debate? Beach Boys Founder Brian Wilson passed away at 82. Mark Takes Your Calls! Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore. The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy?

The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy?

Today is the second Mayoral Debate for NYC's Mayoral Race. Can Zohran Mamdani argue Andrew Cuomo off in the debate? Beach Boys Founder Brian Wilson passed away at 82. Mark Takes Your Calls! Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore. The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is the second Mayoral Debate for NYC's Mayoral Race. Can Zohran Mamdani argue Andrew Cuomo off in the debate? Beach Boys Founder Brian Wilson passed away at 82. Mark Interviews Economist Steve Moore. The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy? The Democrat's new talking point is now "Defund Ice". There's two new restaurant critics for The New York Times. Could The Beach Boys music top the charts at this time, if Z gen's blow it up? NYC may not need the National Guard to go against this weekend's protests. Mark Interviews Columnist Miranda Devine. Miranda talks about how Trump's energy is contagious. Miranda has a new podcast out that's a must listen. The podcast is called Pod Force 1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Big Beautiful Bill looks like it may not pass by July 4th according to the Government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is thinking of running to be in Jerome Powell's position, if or when he steps down. Are the Riots in California destroying their economy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Plenty of Buy-the-Dip excitement Trial Balloons - Next Fed Chair thoughts Excitement over China talks PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Interactive Brokers  Warm-Up - Trial Balloons - Next Fed Chair - Everyone loves to hate China these days - Trump and Musk breakup - Your DNA may be for sale Markets - Retail shares have wide earnings outcomes - Plenty of Buy-the-Dip excitement - Excitement over China talks - Lutnik is showing the thumb-up - Who is buying? Powell Replacement - President Trump considering naming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to succeed Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after his term ends in May 2026, according to Bloomberg - Just floating the idea (Trial balloon) at this point - YES! --- Proof - Wait 45 minutes: - White House official tells Reuters that Bloomberg reporting is "false" that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is being considered for Fed Chair China - Everyone loves to hate - China's May factory activity unexpectedly shrinks as tariffs dent sentiment — worst drop since 2022 - China's manufacturing activity in May shrank at its fastest pace since September 2022, a private survey showed Tuesday, as a sharper decline in new export orders highlighted the impact of prohibitive U.S. tariffs. - The Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers' index came in at 48.3, missing Reuters' median estimate of 50.6 and dropping sharply from 50.4 in April. It fell below 50, the mark that separates growth from contraction, for the first time since September last year. China Eco Who is Buying and Selling? - When President Donald Trump set off a global stock market slump in April with the announcement of sweeping new tariffs, small investors across Asia rushed to the US stock market to buy the dip. -Retail investors in South Korea turned net sellers of US equities in May for the first time since before Trump's election victory, while Japanese accounts became net sellers of US exchange-traded funds, according to official data. - The number of Singapore traders buying US stocks fell by a quarter in May from the previous period. Trump Musk Divorce (Mutual Assured Destruction) - Trump says Elon Musk went ‘CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies - “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. ”I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!” - Trump wished Elon "very well" in a presser on Monday night - “I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump wrote in the social media post. -- Musk fired back with pictures of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and backed impeachment - “I asked him to leave,” Trump claimed. Musk called that “an obvious lie.” - - - - Does either one of these guys know the truth from a lie? -- Telsa stock dove harder than Trump's ratings post election on the spat BUT BUT - Wasn't the point of hiring Musk and the DOGE to reduce waste, fraud and abuse? - - Lots of positive thoughts on the job he was doing - Now that he found waste in the Big Beautiful Bill - he is banished??? Palantir CEO - CEO Alex Karp said the artificial intelligence arms race between the U.S. and China will culminate in one country coming out on top. - “My general bias on AI is it is dangerous,” Karp told CNBC's “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday. “There are positive and negative consequences, and either we win or China will win.” - Either way - Palantir wins - right? Select Retail