Rethinking the Dollar

It was great have Economist John Hearn (@jbhearn) join me on RTD to share his thoughts on how 'Government Spending & Very Low Interest Rates Create Recession Problems'. 

Find out more from this great interview here on the RTD website.

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/government-spending-very-low-interest-rates-create-recession-problems-w-john-b-hearn/

The United States is just one bad recession away from being right back at zero interest rates or even lower, Larry Summers warned on CNBC on Monday. “It’s a very different world when everyone’s stuck at zero interest rates,” said Summers, a critic of President Donald Trump who served as former President Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary and as an economic advisor for former President Barack Obama. 

Watch this full episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/us-economy-is-just-one-recession-away-from-nirp-rtd-live-talk/

In this interview we go over matters like the new round of quantitative easing that Mario Draghi recently announced, economic problems in the European Union and the growing threat of a deep recession closing in on the people. We also touch upon the political situation in the USA with the continuous attempts to impeach president Donald Trump, the nature of the two-party system of Democrats versus Republicans and the role of the Deep State.

Watch this episode now on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/the-european-union-is-crumbling-fast-ft-marco-janssen/

After a week of turbulence on global stock markets, a something-for-everyone US jobs report appears to have calmed investor nerves. Wall Street’s main stock indices enjoyed middling increases of about 0.5% in morning trading.

Watch the full episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/red-october-is-underway-only-more-bad-news-ahead-%f0%9f%98%ad-unfortunately-rtd-live-talk/

Today Donald Dempsey, CFP from Dempsey Investment Management, LLC., sits down on Rethinking the Dollar to share his concerns on the issues surrounding underfunded pension schemes in the United States. During the interview he stresses the importance on how people need to educate themselves and start adjusting for the reality of hard times ahead.

Watch this episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/pension-funds-during-the-next-market-correction-will-be-unrecoverable-w-donald-dempsey/

Forty U.S. states do not have enough money to pay all their bills primarily due to significant unfunded pensions or Other-Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB). Truth in Accounting (TIA), a nonpartisan, not-for-profit has been monitoring the financial health of states for a decade in order to educate taxpayers about the financial health of their states today released its tenth annual Financial State of the States.

Watch this episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/40-states-dont-have-enough-to-pay-bills-how-does-your-state-look-rtd-live-talk-w-mike/

It was great having Shaun Richards (@notayesmansecon) on RTD to share his thoughts on inflation & the issues w/ negative interest rates.

Watch the full episode of the podcast on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/minus-2-interest-rates-could-be-the-barrier-that-precipitates-a-banking-crisis-w-shaun-richards/

Britain's biggest repatriation effort since World War II ramped up on Tuesday as questions swirled over the pay Thomas Cook executives received in the run-up to the tour operator's collapse, which left thousands stranded globally.

Watch the full episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/thomas-cook-21000-victims-of-economic-deterioration-will-you-be-next/

One of the most vital pieces of plumbing that powers the global financial system usually runs so smoothly that it gets overlooked by market watchers. It’s the “repo market,” comprising the short-term funding that banks and financial counter-parties regularly tap to lend each other trillions.

Watch this episode on the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/federal-reserve-fast-cash-lending-is-permanently-open-no-need-to-repay/

This week Shalin Madan (@BodhiTreeCIO) of Bodhi Tree Asset Management talks talks rate cuts, repo activity & strategies for navigating markets. 

Watch this episode from the RTD website here:

https://www.rethinkingthedollar.com/the-federal-reserve-purchasing-equities-could-be-apart-of-the-tool-kit-w-shalin-madan/