Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire · Marc Faber: Markets, Petroyuan, and World War #072

Renown Swiss investor and publisher of "The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report" Dr. Marc Faber discusses the global markets, housing and bond bubbles, central bank manipulation, gold, Trump, the petroyuan, the New Silk Road and what a potential conflict between the U.S. and China might look like as old empires die and new ones are born.

Show Notes

Financial insiders contemplate “imminent” 2018 US stock market crash of up to “50%” https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/city-of-london-financiers-contemplate-imminent-2018-us-stock-market-crash-of-up-to-fifty-ed217752428

Trump's $4.4T budget would move U.S. deficits sharply higher http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-budget-1.4531653

Real Estate Bubbles: The 8 Global Cities at Risk http://www.visualcapitalist.com/real-estate-bubbles-8-global-cities-risk

How China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/how-china-will-shake-up-the-oil-futures-market-quicktake-q-a

India to build major military facility in Seychelles amid growing China influence http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/india-seychelles-china-military-facility-indian-ocean-islands-a8217596.html

Empire of Chaos : With President Trump, Is the American Experiment Over? http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176387/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_tom_engelhardt%2C_through_the_gates_of_hell/#more

The US is Executing a Global War Plan https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/18/us-is-executing-global-war-plan.html

Website

https://www.gloomboomdoom.com

About Marc Faber

Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude.

Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, MARC FABER LIMITED which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.

Dr Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including “ TOMORROW'S GOLD – Asia's Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “ TOMORROW'S GOLD ” was for several weeks on Amazon's best seller list and is being translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and German. Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world.

A book on Dr Faber, "RIDING THE MILLENNIAL STORM", by Nuri Vittachi, was published in 1998.

A regular speaker at various investment seminars, Dr Faber is well known for his "contrarian" investment approach. He is also associated with a variety of funds and is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous companies.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Renown Swiss investor and publisher of "The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report" Dr. Marc Faber discusses the global markets, housing and bond bubbles, central bank manipulation, gold, Trump, the petroyuan, the New Silk Road and what a potential conflict between the U.S. and China might look like as old empires die and new ones are born.

Show Notes

Financial insiders contemplate “imminent” 2018 US stock market crash of up to “50%” https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/city-of-london-financiers-contemplate-imminent-2018-us-stock-market-crash-of-up-to-fifty-ed217752428

Trump's $4.4T budget would move U.S. deficits sharply higher http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-budget-1.4531653

Real Estate Bubbles: The 8 Global Cities at Risk http://www.visualcapitalist.com/real-estate-bubbles-8-global-cities-risk

How China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-09/how-china-will-shake-up-the-oil-futures-market-quicktake-q-a

India to build major military facility in Seychelles amid growing China influence http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/india-seychelles-china-military-facility-indian-ocean-islands-a8217596.html

Empire of Chaos : With President Trump, Is the American Experiment Over? http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176387/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_tom_engelhardt%2C_through_the_gates_of_hell/#more

The US is Executing a Global War Plan https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/18/us-is-executing-global-war-plan.html

Website

https://www.gloomboomdoom.com

About Marc Faber

Dr Marc Faber was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He went to school in Geneva and Zurich and finished high school with the Matura. He studied Economics at the University of Zurich and, at the age of 24, obtained a PhD in Economics magna cum laude.

Between 1970 and 1978, Dr Faber worked for White Weld & Company Limited in New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Since 1973, he has lived in Hong Kong. From 1978 to February 1990, he was the Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In June 1990, he set up his own business, MARC FABER LIMITED which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager.

Dr Faber publishes a widely read monthly investment newsletter "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" report which highlights unusual investment opportunities, and is the author of several books including “ TOMORROW'S GOLD – Asia's Age of Discovery” which was first published in 2002 and highlights future investment opportunities around the world. “ TOMORROW'S GOLD ” was for several weeks on Amazon's best seller list and is being translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and German. Dr. Faber is also a regular contributor to several leading financial publications around the world.

A book on Dr Faber, "RIDING THE MILLENNIAL STORM", by Nuri Vittachi, was published in 1998. A regular speaker at various investment seminars, Dr Faber is well known for his "contrarian" investment approach. He is also associated with a variety of funds and is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous companies.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Geopolitics & Empire · Jefferson Morley: James Angleton and the Birth of the American Deep State #071

Washington author and veteran journalist Jefferson Morley discusses his latest book on CIA Director James Angleton who was one of the founders of what is known as the American "Deep State".

Show Notes

5 of the Most Important JFK Files the CIA Is Still Hiding https://www.alternet.org/top-5-jfk-files-cia-still-hiding-coverup-secrecy

Sure, #ReleaseTheMemo—Along With All of the Underlying Documentation https://www.alternet.org/all-means-releasethememo-and-all-underlying-documentation

The New JFK Files Reveal How the CIA Tracked Oswald https://www.alternet.org/new-jfk-files-illuminate-cia-surveillance-oswald

Websites

http://jeffersonmorley.com

http://www.jfkfacts.org

http://www.alternet.org

https://twitter.com/jeffersonmorley

Books

https://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Morley/e/B001ILHJ9K/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1517637068&sr=8-2-ent

About Jefferson Morley

Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. A skilled investigative reporter, Morley combines granular detail with storytelling verve to capture unknown realities of subjects as disparate as the Central Intelligence Agency and America’s legacy of racial violence.

Morley’s newest book, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, tells the story of a paranoid genius who was perhaps the most powerful unelected official in the U.S. government. At the height of the Cold War, Angleton’s secret influence extended from Moscow to London to Jerusalem to the Vatican, to the White House. If there is a “Deep State” in American life as some contend, Angleton was one of its Founding Fathers.

The Ghost is a companion and sequel to Morley’s first book Our Man in Mexico, a biography of an improbable American spy. Winston Scott was an Alabama math teacher turned FBI agent who joined the CIA at its founding, became close friends with Angleton and became the chief of the agency’s Mexico City station in the 1960s. “Every decade or so a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse of the Central Intelligence Agency,” said historian Thomas Powers of the book.

Morley’s second book, Snow-Storm in August, was described by best-selling author David Mariniss as “History so fresh it feels alive.” A vivid account of a white riot that swept the nation’s capital 25 years before the Civil War, Snow-Storm’s “plunge beneath the surface of history exposes realities more true to daily experience than executive proclamations or speeches in Congress,” said the Washington Post. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it “elegant and readable.”

Morley is one of the world’s most credible authorities on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is editor of the blog, JFK Facts. He sued the CIA for certain records related to the Kennedy assassination in 2003. Fourteen years later, his lawsuit, Morley v. CIA is still active in federal court.

Morley is married and lives in Washington D.C.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Washington author and veteran journalist Jefferson Morley discusses his latest book on CIA Director James Angleton who was one of the founders of what is known as the American "Deep State".

Show Notes

5 of the Most Important JFK Files the CIA Is Still Hiding https://www.alternet.org/top-5-jfk-files-cia-still-hiding-coverup-secrecy

Sure, #ReleaseTheMemo—Along With All of the Underlying Documentation https://www.alternet.org/all-means-releasethememo-and-all-underlying-documentation

The New JFK Files Reveal How the CIA Tracked Oswald https://www.alternet.org/new-jfk-files-illuminate-cia-surveillance-oswald

Websites

http://jeffersonmorley.com

http://www.jfkfacts.org

http://www.alternet.org

https://twitter.com/jeffersonmorley

Books

https://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Morley/e/B001ILHJ9K/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1517637068&sr=8-2-ent

About Jefferson Morley

Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. A skilled investigative reporter, Morley combines granular detail with storytelling verve to capture unknown realities of subjects as disparate as the Central Intelligence Agency and America’s legacy of racial violence.

Morley’s newest book, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, tells the story of a paranoid genius who was perhaps the most powerful unelected official in the U.S. government. At the height of the Cold War, Angleton’s secret influence extended from Moscow to London to Jerusalem to the Vatican, to the White House. If there is a “Deep State” in American life as some contend, Angleton was one of its Founding Fathers.

The Ghost is a companion and sequel to Morley’s first book Our Man in Mexico, a biography of an improbable American spy. Winston Scott was an Alabama math teacher turned FBI agent who joined the CIA at its founding, became close friends with Angleton and became the chief of the agency’s Mexico City station in the 1960s. “Every decade or so a talented writer provides a genuinely new glimpse of the Central Intelligence Agency,” said historian Thomas Powers of the book.

Morley’s second book, Snow-Storm in August, was described by best-selling author David Mariniss as “History so fresh it feels alive.” A vivid account of a white riot that swept the nation’s capital 25 years before the Civil War, Snow-Storm’s “plunge beneath the surface of history exposes realities more true to daily experience than executive proclamations or speeches in Congress,” said the Washington Post. The Minneapolis Star Tribune called it “elegant and readable.”

Morley is one of the world’s most credible authorities on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is editor of the blog, JFK Facts. He sued the CIA for certain records related to the Kennedy assassination in 2003. Fourteen years later, his lawsuit, Morley v. CIA is still active in federal court. Morley is married and lives in Washington D.C.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Geopolitics & Empire · Gideon Levy: Israel, Palestine and American Empire: #070

Author and journalist Gideon Levy discusses Israeli politics, the fate of Palestine and the role of American empire in the Middle East.

Show Notes

Netanyahu's son caught on secret recordings outside strip club talking about major energy deal http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/netanyahus-son-caught-secret-recordings-outside-strip-club-talking

Abbas Is Right. Why Does Israel Keep Saying He's Wrong? https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/abbas-is-right-why-does-israel-keep-saying-he-s-wrong-1.5744750

Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGO3eBxQX7Q

Gideon Levy: Americans "Are Supporting the First Signs of Fascism in Israel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QNP4Zw-KQ

Website

https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/1.4968119

Books

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Gideon+Levy&search-alias=books&field-author=Gideon+Levy&sort=relevancerank

About Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.

Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.

His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Author and journalist Gideon Levy discusses Israeli politics, the fate of Palestine and the role of American empire in the Middle East.

Show Notes

Netanyahu's son caught on secret recordings outside strip club talking about major energy deal http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/netanyahus-son-caught-secret-recordings-outside-strip-club-talking

Abbas Is Right. Why Does Israel Keep Saying He's Wrong? https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/abbas-is-right-why-does-israel-keep-saying-he-s-wrong-1.5744750

Gideon Levy: Does unconditional support for Israel endanger Israeli voices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGO3eBxQX7Q

Gideon Levy: Americans "Are Supporting the First Signs of Fascism in Israel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QNP4Zw-KQ

Website

https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/1.4968119

Books

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Gideon+Levy&search-alias=books&field-author=Gideon+Levy&sort=relevancerank

About Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.

Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996. His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJtm_0VMIZo&t=25s

In this interview we speak with Sayasat Nurbek who is the managing director of the Astana International Financial Center and the director of the Public Policy Institute which is associated with the Kazakh government's "Nur Otan" political party. We discuss the geopolitics of Kazakhstan and what it’s future looks like as it integrates into the global economy with a new stock exchange, cryptocurrency and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Show Notes

Understanding Kazakhstan’s Politics https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/understanding-kazakhstans-internal-politics

This is America with Dennis Wholey and Sayasat Nurbek, Nur Otan Political Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09hssHX3Yk

Websites

https://twitter.com/sayasatnurbek

http://www.aifc.kz

About Sayasat Nurbek

At a very young age, Sayasat Nurbek has been fortunate in achieving significant heights in education and career. A graduate of educational institutions in the United States, Italy and Kazakhstan, he held internships and various training courses in public administration and public policy, HR management, management of technology in the USA, Singapore, Belgium, Japan, the UK and the Netherlands. In 2000-01, he worked as an assistant to Congressman Mark Smith (USA) and was employed by the Government of the State of Iowa (USA). In 2006-2009, Sayasat worked in the Investment Projects department of the Sustainable Development Fund Kazyna, and held positions of Head of the HR Policy Division of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan, Vice-Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan, Executive Director and Department Director of HR policy of National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna. In 2009, he was appointed Director of the National School of Public Policy. The President of Kazakhstan has decorated Sayasat Nurbek with several medals and commendation letters.

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Sayasat was elected as a young leader and member of various councils and state committees on youth policy, public service and human capital development. He represents Kazakhstan in the Bologna Process Working Group on Mobility and Internationalization where he contributed to the implementation of the EHEA Mobility for Better Learning Strategy. He is an active member of the Youth Policy Council under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan where he took part in formulating youth policy and implementation of youth-oriented projects. Since 2007, he has been on the board of the National Expert Commission, a body in charge of selecting top candidates for the Bolashak scholarship. As a long-term member of the Expert Council of Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs, he participated in the new reform of civil service currently implemented in Kazakhstan. He is also an active member of the Alumni Association of President’s Bolashak International Scholarship. In 2012, he succeeded in launching the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers community hub which brought significant social change to the development of Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan.

As President of the Center for International Programs for three years (2010-2013), Sayasat was entitled to administer the Bolashak international scholarship programme – one of the most successful strategic initiatives of President Nazarbayev. He managed to reshape the Bolashak program and carry it to the next level of perfecting the leadership skills of its scholars. The programme’s impact on a national level is profound. Many graduates have also reshaped the national policies through their work in important ministries, governors’ offices and national companies. In 2012, Kazakhstan’s rank in the Global Competitiveness Index jumped from 72 to 51, and numerous Bolashak scholars have contributed to this growth. In addition to accumulated knowledge, the programme has also brought about a social multiplying effect in Kazakhstan. Bolashak scholars are commonly viewed as agents of change. These talented and educated people generate new knowledge in their workplaces and bring sophisticated work ethics. Globally, Bolashak works towards preparing the next generation of leaders to be able to act as ethical global citizens in the face of daunting challenges that will be thrown upon them in years to come. Using all his institutional power and policy tools at hand, he has been continuously passionate about helping identify young leaders with strong values and then support them to develop to their fullest potential.

He has recently completed and published a monograph on Bolashak Presidential Program and its impact on human capital formation of Kazakhstan.

In October 2013 Sayasat Nurbek was appointed as Director of the Institute of Public Policy - policy think tank affiliated with ruling Nur Otan Party. He was invited as Department Director of the Almaty City Government by Mr. Baibek since October 2015, and after almost a year of civil service has decided to switch to the corporate sector where he joined the new ambitious project of the President - the Astana International Financial Center aifc.kz as Member of the Board in charge of HR, Strategy and International Cooperation. ​[/spoiler]

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

English Transcript:

Hrvoje Moric:

I recently had the opportunity to meet Sayasat Nurbek who I would consider one of Kazakhstan’s thought leaders and most forward-thinkers. He has degrees in International Law and Geopolitics from universities around the world and he speaks 8 languages. Sayasat has worked in the US Government as Congressman Mark Smith’s assistant and has held numerous positions within the Kazakh public and private sector. He is the Director of the Kazakh government’s first think tank, the Public Policy Institute and is one of the managing directors of the Astana International Financial Center. In this interview we discuss the geopolitics of Kazakhstan and what it’s future looks like as it integrates into the global economy with a new stock exchange, cryptocurrency and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. I hope you enjoy the talk and please do share the interview on social media, subscribe to the Geopolitics & Empire weekly newsletter and YouTube channel. Also think about donating $1 a month on Patreon to help support the work we do.

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Sayasat has worked in the U.S government as congressman Mark Smith’s assistant and has held numerous positions within the Kazakh public and private sector. He is the director of the Kazakh government's first think tank, the Public Policy Institute and is one of the managing directors of the Astana International Financial Center.

In this interview, we discuss the geopolitics of Kazakhstan and what its future looks like as it integrates into the global economy with a new stock exchange, cryptocurrency and China's Belt and Road initiative. I hope you enjoy the talk and please do share the interview on social media. Subscribe to the Geopolitics and Empire free weekly newsletter and YouTube channel. Also think about donating one dollar a month on Patreon to help support the work that we do.

We are here today with Sayasat Nurbek who is the managing director of the Astana International Financial Center. It's great to have you here.

Sayasat Nurbek:

Thank you. Thank you.

Hrvoje Moric:

I'd like to discuss the geopolitics of Kazakhstan, the economics, and it's development, and my first question for you is, how would you describe the geopolitical position of Kazakhstan and by this I mean its current relationship with its neighboring countries as well as the big powers such USA, Russia and China?

Sayasat Nurbek:

Okay, good. Well, let me start by an interesting example I had in Canada. So, I was attending a conference in Canada a few years ago, 10 years ago. So I asked them, "How are you doing in Canada?" They said, "Well, it's like sleeping in a bed with an elephant." Meaning the US. You always have to keep one eye open. So in our case, then the colleagues of mine, they said, "Look, but you know, we are okay. We would survive. But we are really worried about you guys. Do you ever sleep with two elephants in your bed?" That meaning, they are China and Russia.

And you know, the 90's when Kazakhstan first gained its independence, there were a lot of really negative, very really negative, negative scenarios and a lot of experts in geopolitics, a lot of the politicians, public policy advisers, they agreed that Kazakhstan was a powder keg. They coined a term a powder keg. Why? Because all the arguments, all the background information, the situation, geography, and there's this great book, Curse of Geography; was against us.

You have a multinational country with 130 ethnic groups living under the same roof with lots of religions and a very bad, very unstable neighborhood with this Soviet Union inertia, with a lot of ecological problems. We're the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world. So a lot of people are wondering, "They are not gonna survive. The country would be split with such huge territory with such small population. This country inevitably will fall in pieces, will fall apart."

But you know, history proved it wrong. A lot of these assessments, it proved it wrong. We did, not only we were able to keep our independence and keep our territory and unity, we also showed some significant economic development, political development. But of course the neighborhood, I mean the curse of geography, it does play its role. So five to seven years ago, the geopolitical situation in the region was quite stable. Right, so we had a tripod situation; Russia, China and United States.

United States primarily had a huge interest in energy sector, in minerals and of course US had interest in Kazakhstan as the biggest country in the regio

In this interview we speak with Sayasat Nurbek who is the managing director of the Astana International Financial Center and the director of the Public Policy Institute which is associated with the Kazakh government's "Nur Otan" political party. We discuss the geopolitics of Kazakhstan and what it’s future looks like as it integrates into the global economy with a new stock exchange, cryptocurrency and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Show Notes

Understanding Kazakhstan’s Politics https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/understanding-kazakhstans-internal-politics

This is America with Dennis Wholey and Sayasat Nurbek, Nur Otan Political Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09hssHX3Yk

Websites

https://twitter.com/sayasatnurbek

http://www.aifc.kz

About Sayasat Nurbek

At a very young age, Sayasat Nurbek has been fortunate in achieving significant heights in education and career. A graduate of educational institutions in the United States, Italy and Kazakhstan, he held internships and various training courses in public administration and public policy, HR management, management of technology in the USA, Singapore, Belgium, Japan, the UK and the Netherlands. In 2000-01, he worked as an assistant to Congressman Mark Smith (USA) and was employed by the Government of the State of Iowa (USA). In 2006-2009, Sayasat worked in the Investment Projects department of the Sustainable Development Fund Kazyna, and held positions of Head of the HR Policy Division of the Administration of the President of Kazakhstan, Vice-Rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan, Executive Director and Department Director of HR policy of National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna. In 2009, he was appointed Director of the National School of Public Policy. The President of Kazakhstan has decorated Sayasat Nurbek with several medals and commendation letters.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BI_ftWfGcg&t=18s

Market analyst Tom Luongo describes the maturation of the cryptocurrency market and what lies ahead for Bitcoin and other cryptos. He also explains why countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan are seeking crypto versions of their national currencies.

Show Notes

The Foundation of the Next Cryptocurrency Bull Market https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/16/the-foundation-of-the-next-cryptocurrency-bull-market

With Bitcoin’s Adolescence Comes Real Competition https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/11/with-bitcoins-adolescence-comes-real-competition

Why Russia Had to Embrace Cryptocurrencies https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/03/russia-putin-embrace-cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin Makes New Highs, Ethereum Is The Real Opportunity https://seekingalpha.com/article/4113517-bitcoin-makes-new-highs-ethereum-real-opportunity

Websites

https://tomluongo.me

https://www.patreon.com/GoldGoatsNGuns

https://seekingalpha.com/author/tom-luongo/articles#regular_articles

About Tom Luongo

Tom Luongo is a former research chemist by trade and an Austrian Economist by study and a market analyst by choice. For the past four years he has been a Senior Financial Editor with Newsmax Media publishing thoughts on where markets, central banks, gold and geopolitics meet and explode.

He is now the publisher of Gold, Goats n' Guns, a monthly newsletter offered through Patreon.

He has been an investor and market analyst for more seventeen years and is an astute observer in changes within the culture and the political landscape.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Market analyst Tom Luongo describes the maturation of the cryptocurrency market and what lies ahead for Bitcoin and other cryptos. He also explains why countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan are seeking crypto versions of their national currencies.

Show Notes

The Foundation of the Next Cryptocurrency Bull Market https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/16/the-foundation-of-the-next-cryptocurrency-bull-market

With Bitcoin’s Adolescence Comes Real Competition https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/11/with-bitcoins-adolescence-comes-real-competition

Why Russia Had to Embrace Cryptocurrencies https://tomluongo.me/2017/11/03/russia-putin-embrace-cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin Makes New Highs, Ethereum Is The Real Opportunity https://seekingalpha.com/article/4113517-bitcoin-makes-new-highs-ethereum-real-opportunity

Websites

https://tomluongo.me

https://www.patreon.com/GoldGoatsNGuns

https://seekingalpha.com/author/tom-luongo/articles#regular_articles

About Tom Luongo

Tom Luongo is a former research chemist by trade and an Austrian Economist by study and a market analyst by choice. For the past four years he has been a Senior Financial Editor with Newsmax Media publishing thoughts on where markets, central banks, gold and geopolitics meet and explode.

He is now the publisher of Gold, Goats n' Guns, a monthly newsletter offered through Patreon. He has been an investor and market analyst for more seventeen years and is an astute observer in changes within the culture and the political landscape.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)