Interview recorded - 08/01/2022

On todays episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Clem Chambers, CEO of Online Blockchain plc and founder and former CEO of ADVFN.

During our conversation we spoke about Clem's thoughts on the markets, how hedge funds are propping up the markets, when we will see the market crash and how to identify the bottom. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction
1:15 - Clem's thoughts on the current markets?
8:40 - We are in a bear market
13:00 - Reverse Repo
19:40 - Are hedge funds propping up the markets?
25:20 - Is Apple really worth $3 trillion?
31:00 - Inflation
32:00 - When will we see the crash?
38:15 - Counterparty risk from Banks to Crypto Exchanges
44:00 - Wash trading
48:20 - When will we experience the bottom?
50:30 - How to identify a market bottom?
56:55 - What does the top of a bubble look like?
1:00:50 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Clem Chambers is an author, journalist, Current CEO of Online Blockchain plc and founder/former CEO of ADVFN, Europe’s leading stocks and markets website. He is General Partner of Ylem Capital [email protected]. A sought after media commentator, Clem is a regular guest on major television networks including CNBC (US, Europe, Asia, Arabia), Al-Jazeera, BBC, BNN and Fox News.

The author of non-fiction titles including ‘Letters to my Broker’, ‘The Death of Wealth’ and the investment guides ‘101 Ways to Pick Stock Market Winners’ and ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Value Investing’, Clem writes for Seeking Alpha, Forbes and Engineering and Technology magazine and has written Nikkei BP, the Gulf News and The Scotsman as well as specialist trading and business publications Risk AFRICA, Traders and Your Trading Edge. He has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, which described him as a ‘Market Maven’.

Clem’s first thriller novel ‘The Armageddon Trade’ was published in 2009, followed by ‘The Twain Maxim’ in 2010, ‘Kusanagi’ in 2011 and ‘The First Horseman’ in 2012. The fifth instalment in the Jim Evans Saga, 'The Shrine', was published in January 2016 as an Amazon Kindle single.

In November 2018, Clem won Journalist of the Year in the Business Market Commentary category in the State Street UK Institutional Press Awards. The awards recognise outstanding performance in institutional financial services reporting in the UK.

He was shortlisted in 2016 and 2017 as Columnist of the Year (Business Media) in the PPA Awards for his column in E&T Magazine, The Institution Of Engineering & Technology, and in June 2017 won silver in the Tabbie Awards for his Money and Markets column in the same publication.

Clem Chambers - 

Website - https://www.clemchambers.com/index.html
Twitter - https://twitter.com/clemchambers?lang=en
Seeking Alpha - https://seekingalpha.com/author/clem-chambers
Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/?sh=cb26e1a3dde1
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clem-chambers-756145196/?originalSubdomain=uk

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