With the Fed raising rates all the talk of the markets and my increasingly esoteric take on the political dynamics at play, this week I chat with Blakeley Advisory Group CFO Peter Boockvar about what he thinks is going on with the Fed and the central banks in general as a counterpoint.
Peter’s experience and clear thinking is appreciated as we move towards the March meeting of the FOMC now that the Fed has been exposed as way behind the inflation curve.
Peter on Twitter @PBoockvar
Tom on Twitter @tfl1728
Previous Episodes:
Podcast Episode #95 – Dave Collum and the The Drone Strike of Truth
Podcast Episode #94 – Marco Rocco and the Fragile Future for Italy and the EU
Podcast Episode #93 — Alex Krainer and the New Rules of the Geopolitical Game
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I am for separating politics from the state, separating religion from the state, separating education from the state, and separating money from the state. But most of all, I am for a strict constitution that criminalizes anything the state does besides defend and protect its citizens. Nothing else. Everything else is voluntary.
In other words, “Neuter the State”. This would eliminate most wars, most recessions and all depressions, the inequality gap, and would certainly bring morality and legitimacy back to the real world. #StatismIsRootedInEvil
Thanks for the information. I agree with your ideas about vandalism. It is hard for people to grasp the idea that sometimes destruction is the end game and not some complicated plan with lots of moving parts. The Socialist-communist-fascists are masters at this game, and are always underestimated.
Boockvar said inflation is a main-street problem created by FED. Silence from him of inflating the STOCK MARKET with cheap money for buy backs for over valued corporations hollowed out with no concept of making a profit. Your thesis of POWELL and the EU and the NEW YORK banks to me makes a lot of sense! Good podcast! :-)
Boockvar said inflation is a main-street problem created by FED. Silence from him of inflating the STOCK MARKET with cheap money for buy backs for over valued corporations hollowed out with no concept of making a profit. Your thesis of POWELL and the EU and the NEW YORK banks to me makes a lot of sense! Good podcast! :-)
Its SUPER BOWL SUNDAY in the USA!
Men gather around the TV to watch two teams full of big muscular men grab and man-handle each other while wearing tight pants. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Ladies gather to watch the commercials and gab.
The game happens in a subsidized stadium funded with tax-exempt bonds. The team owners are billionaires, the players get multi-million dollar contracts before product endorsements. Businesses that actually produce stuff — corporations and Mom-and-pop businesses alike — are taxed heavily to compensate.
New Yorkers who balked at giving Amazon/Bezos tax subsidies didn’t even blink at giving the millionaire and billionaire New York Yankees a $2.5 billion stadium… where they serve $50 hamburgers, $20 drinks, and (in the hot sun) $100 mass-produced sushi plates. How come there are fewer and fewer good jobs in NYC the people wonder?
Tax businesses that create jobs. Subsidize dumb jocks who make millions. It all makes sense!!!
Bread and circus
All we need is the emperor to parade around with his praetorian guard or maybe a military fighter fly-over… DOH!!!
Fascinating moment at 12:10, where Tom invites Boockvar to consider whether this rolling disaster has been a feature or a bug. Because there are of course many who believe we are witnessing a co-ordinated controlled demolition of the fiat currency system by central bankers at the behest of the Davosians so they can have their Great Reset.
And Boockvar instantly shuts Tom down, insisting that he is “giving them too much credit”
Boockvar’s arrogance is blinding him.
He is looking down at the imbeciles that the Davosians have patiently installed, and assuming that rot goes to the top. It doesn’t.
Joe Biden, Jay Powell, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau – all monkeys.
The organ grinders are people like Draghi and Carney – Davosians to the core, who care nothing for fiat currency, peace, freedom, borders or nation states. They are working to bring all that down and impose global governance. And not even because they are evil – they just believe that global problems require global solutions. They probably think of themselves as heroes.
And Boockvar’s intellectual arrogance is what these Davosians rely upon – they want us to look at their monkeys and assume this is all an accident. So that when the Davosians bring our currencies and economies crashing down, the monkeys will carry the can and we will beg the organ grinders to save us.
Personally, I am surrounded by peers, colleagues and loved ones that are oblivious to any of this, and I fear will prove willing and eager to capitulate – to bargain away their essential liberties in exchange for a little security, and of course getting neither.
I suspect most of us can say the same, and that bodes very poorly.
If we don’t stop laughing at the monkeys. sober up, and start wargaming the plans of the organ grinders, we might lose this. And time is growing very short.
It wasn’t the easiest conversation, to be sure. I respect Peter’s view on things, but it’s clear I couldn’t hide my disagreement.
Many intellectuals, even liberty minded ones, refuse to believe in major conspiracies whatsoever. Robert Higgs is a good example of this. I greatly respect him and interacted with him on his Facebook feed during the beginning of the current scamdemic in early 2020. He would attribute the simultaneous, coordinated ruinous actions of health officials and politicians around the world to incompetence and/or corruption. He plainly stated that he and his academic colleagues would laugh at any such suggestion of a coordinated effort of purposeful destruction directed by world elite. I think folks like him fear looking like a kook more than anything else.
Great point. Jordan Peterson has this same blind spot, unfortunately. And your point about status is spot on.
Indeed, and by the end you’d challenged his normalcy bias just enough for him to feel uncomfortable.
You’re clearly right – we have arrived at a confluence of political, economic, cultural and monetary inflection points all across the world, and the Davosians will take advantage if they can.
The difference between us is that you see them as a corrupt and fragmented ancien Eurotrash regime too weak to impose their will.
Whereas I think they are truly globalist and have spent generations manufacturing this global crisis. Once they let it rip, they won’t need to impose their Great Reset.
The masses will beg for it.
P.S – When I was still uncertain whether this was a feature or a bug, I found it helpful to ask a version of Lando’s Question. “How can it still be so hard to tell whether this is a feature or a bug, this late in the game?”
A – They’re jamming you.
Our differences run far deeper than just ‘they are sclerotic Eurotrash.’ They are that. But this is a much deeper argument rooted in physics, human behavior and the cyclic nature of all things physical.
Those generations of planning come to naught if they are preparing the world for the wrong crisis at the wrong moment in time.
This plan was supposed to be Agenda 2050, after they’d wiped out 2 generations of westerners of owning property, making them analogous to Russia’s serfs under the Tsars.
Moving that Agenda up 20-30 years because the fundamental crisis hit earlier than they’d planned for leaves them very very vulnerable to failure.
That’s where we are.
You are on the right track with all of this. If you look at the talking points on the whole covid thing they are almost identical. Same words same statistics etc. Someone or some organization is coordinating this. And by the way, the intellectuals were some of the first people purged by Lenin and Mao when they gained control. They will never learn.
Is there a download button for this podcast? I don’t see it.
Click through to the Spreaker page and the D/L button is there. You can only listen to it on the blog. Better yet, sub to the podcast on your favorite player and listen to it there.
I post it on the website so newbies can learn about it, not that you use the website as your access point.
I’m consistently amazed how many of you listen to it directly here.
How do you feel about the Samual Huntington “Clash of Civilizations” thesis ? It now seems clear that Russia, China, Iran and possibly India are not cooperating with a “global” reset. These are culturally powerful nations that are saying no. There are other culturally powerful nations in the waiting like Germany, France and Italy. If the fundamental direction of the reset is to impoverish the people in order to make them compliant then how can a reset only work in the Anglo- Saxon countries? Why would they cripple their economy vs these other civilizational powers?
The reset is a neo-Marxist grand strategy that has the backing of only the Democrats and similar leftist leaders in EU who are only temporarily ascendant through an obvious fraud. It has no cultural depth or universal cultural legitimacy. It is running counter to Huntington’s thesis. I think that support for the reset is fracturing rapidly and the truckers are the beginning of the revolt here. The Anglo countries have always stood for individual freedom and economic opportunity. This culture cannot be erased.
Hi Tom,
I found Boockvar to be a little bit too superficial and uninquisitive. He reminds me of how I was back in the 1980s. However, I wish I could believe things worked the way that Boockvar posits they do. And there is no way to really challenge him as he insists they all are bumbling about. However, after listening to your podcast, I considered Boockvar’s hypothesis for about 3 days, until I ran into this speech by Charles Schwab at Harvard (start @ t = 21m0s):
https://rumble.com/vv96yw-ep.-1709-the-great-reset-is-here-the-dan-bongino-show.html
And Schwab names all of the WEF affiliated world leaders: Macron, Macri, Trudeau, Ardern, etc… … and you can probably add Johnson, Zelensky and Nalvany to the list. And why would the WEF be interested in penetrating national governments? Are we to presume they are all part of an agenda-less lunch club, as Boockvar might posit?
I have to go with the way you are seeing things over Boockvar, sadly.
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I really think that the Putin & Xi detected the WEF./Davos agenda well before we in the United States have. There probably was a good chance that Russia & China would have gone down the democratic path… however, thanks to the WEF/Davos, the only type of democracy on offer is the type where they stop counting the votes in the middle of the night to “look for” missing ballots for their preferred candidates. So, the only way to counter that type of subversion is through non-democratic authoritarianism. If China & Russia did open up and relax, the WEF/Davos would have their hooks in those two countries the same way they do Canada and much of the West… and they would become oligarchic controlled faux-democracies run out of Switzerland. And I think this is the divide we are seeing in the world right now… where the United States has nothing to offer Russia and China except to become puppets of the WEF/ Davos.
Anyway, thanks for the interview… I wish I could believe Boockvar, but I can’t.