Everyone is predicting the US dollar to eventually crash. What if it first becomes unimaginably strong? Brent Johnson, CEO at Santiago Capital breaks down his Dollar Milkshake Theory while we explore the basics of the current financial system and how things work... or don’t work.

Part 2. As former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson knows a thing or two about empire building. Tasks to write the infamous - Iraq has weapons of mass destruction speech - Lawrence has since blown the whistle and now teaches about the power of American Empire and how it might end. We follow up our conversation by looking at how American Democracy might sway in the coming years.

Bonus Podcast Only Version. Part 1. As former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson knows a thing or two about empire building. Tasks to write the infamous - Iraq has weapons of mass destruction speech - Lawrence has since blown the whistle and now teaches about the power of American Empire and how it might end. We dive into the different ways America might choose or be forced off the highway of empire.

As a member of Patriot Millionaires Eric Schoenberg believes if inequality is left unaddressed our current system will not be able to survive. Eric advocates for a different form of capitalism and reformed tax policy where he stands to pay much more.

Is America continually progressing towards a better and better future? Does a profit-at-all-costs economic framework permeate into how we treat our neighbors? Is racism something of the past or relevant today? Princeton theological seminary professor & economic thinker Keri Day unpacks this and more in our wide ranging conversation.

Recorded in the spring of 2020 before we began officially producing our podcast. We're releasing it here as a bonus episode.

What is empire and how is the US uniquely different from the empires that came before? We finish by looking at the biggest question of the next decades - US and China relations. Martin Wolf is the Chief Economics Commentary at the Financial Times, London and was awarded the Commander of the British Empire for services to financial journalism.

Escaping the Soviet Union at the age of 19, Simon Mikhailovich could recognize a crisis in the making. With that same skepticism he positioned and profited from both the 2000 and 2008 market dislocations. Through his extensive market experience and history he explains the origin of the US’s current problems and how we’re really not that different from those who come before us.

Today we break down the US’s main tool of hegemonic power, the Petrodollar. An expert in the currency markets, Lyn Alden is an engineer from the aeronautics industry turned financial engineer where she is now well known among fund managers for her priceless market analysis.

The highly successful tech entrepreneur Jeff Booth explains tech is deflationary and growing exponentially. In reaction, our inflationary world system has only just begun to print money to fight that deflation. Something is bound to break.

World renowned Anthropologist Wade Davis dives deeper into his viral Rolling Stones article critiquing Covid-19 and America.