Jack - Think you're being unduly ' hard ' on a Dunagun - he's a really nice guy and ask's good in depth questions . I'm sure if ' AM ' ever thought he wasn't being given enough space to make his points - that he wouldn't be found as as he is , being interviewed on ' Liberty & Finance ' with such regularity
Couldn't agree more about the situation in the Middle East being at a critical moment and one which could send equities into a tailspin. What's surprising to me is Iran's patience after the level of Israeli aggression. The question is why? Why, despite all the intense anger from their populations are the leadership of Middle Eastern nations not upping the ante in any meaningful way and leaving it to the Houthis - a fierce but fringe group at best to channel the public's anger?
My theory is the answer is coming at Kazan in October. We're two months away from the BRICS meeting which should introduce the unit. Retribution could be swift and economic in the form of the bloc deciding they no longer need the constraints of the USD, the IMF, the World Bank or any other USD institution. Nor would they need treasury portfolios from that point on.
Unrestrained military conflict might result in a desperate Israeli leadership using nuclear weapons, but economic strikes on the bond market when America is carrying $35T debt and a $2.5T deficit means any BRICS "economic sanctions" would lead to a massive disruption in supply chains and therefore western economies going into deep recession and an equities wipeout. No functioning US financial system, no functioning Israel either.
That's far more preferable compared with killing millions of people and they could certainly argue, "well guys you started it!"
The Ukraine vs Russia war is a cannonball over the bow, as a warning shot from America.......that there'll be more of the same should BRICS continue to move forward.
Israel's belligerence vs Hamas/Iran sets the stage for US control over oil fields and the Middle East in general. Our brilliant "strategic thinkers" in Washington have viewed those reserves as ours for over sixty years
The USA will collapse much faster should NATO enter the war. Anyone who still thinks that we live in a unipolar world of USA power can't see the utter pathology wrecking the USA from the inside put. Mostly this is care of Z1onism and bankster pathology. USA might have ten more years . Within a generation or two Russia and China and Iran will lift Africa into a world where it is protected nit devastated, USA is the sick bed of the world along with Europe. All gone soon enough, as planned for. Israel gone too. Not planned for. They don't have the man power.
Paul - Agreed , but in real terms -USA / UK / NATO et al have been co-belligerent's
in all of this , and essentially since the Maidan Coup of 2014 . In International Law and given the massive supply of armaments / military trainers & contractors + the vast amount of intelligence that's been provided from the word go - then should he / they have been mega- trigger happy as per USA / UK / NATO , then Mr Putin would have been well within his rights to take out military bases / depot's and Airfield's across Europe & potentially in the USA as well - No thanks to the non existant strategic and tactical nous of all the blow-hard medal ribbon & scrambled egg laden men & women who allegedly perform the function of the defence & general staff of the USA . ( A Sick Joke - the lot of them ) .etc .
It's been all too clear all along that the USA / UK / NATO are far too scared of public opinion back home ( should they have committed ground troops ) , and of the thought of their own boy's mashed up limbs and cadaver's being sent home en-masse' - that as so many Analysts have noted , they are happy and content to fight the Russian's ......down to the last Ukrainian Soldier along the Contact Line - NO ..??
Precious little wonder that the mighty & invincible US Military which the American populace hold in such reverence and high esteem - are seen for what they truly are
which is - " BEYOND THE PALE " - throughout most of the rest of the World .
The " Cannonball Across The Bow " if it is indeed something intended to make Mr Putin and the Russian Military mess themselves - is a round of ordnance made of marshmallow fired by a bunch of witless Paper-Tiger's at the leading statesman / strategist and fully functioning Military Machine in the World . It will be treated with the contempt it so richly deserves and be swatted away like the minor irritant it most assuredly is . America and its 300 + Million citizenry are on ever thinner ice , the longer that the moron's inhabiting
the Beltway & The Pentagon + their NATO poodles are allowed to play these stupid but oh so dangerous ' War - Games ' . You've only got the mind boggling restraint as shown by the likes of Putin & Lavrov to thank for the all too apparent fact that if they hadn't been so kind & patient - that a vast number of you would already be sat upon a phalanx of white clouds plucking merrily away on the Harp's that come with the territory .
Ukraine has lost - the current Kursk thing is a sideshow. Ukraine has always been a proxy war for the dollar reserve and it was specifically orchestrated by Putin with the backing of Xi to bleed the west dry. Hence the matching suits and ties meeting at 2022 Winter Olympics.
The core strategy was brilliant. Allow Russian gas to Europe via Nord Stream, but denominated in euros, not dollars. Putin knew only too well there was no way one of America's closest allies - Germany - could be seen to be pricing energy outside the US Treasury recycling system. If Germany could do it, any country could, breaking the key stranglehold which has allowed American monetary expansion and deficit spending without repercussions - the petrodollar system. That tactic was in response to America's undermining of Russia via the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, orchestrated by the State Dept with Victoria Nuland as main facilitator.
The neocon idiots running Washington from the late 1990s created this. One could trace it all the way back to the New Deal, overspending on the Vietnam War and Nixon's forced closure of the gold window, but recent history put the nail in the coffin. US corporations outsourcing virtually all production and supply chains to Asia made the issue far, far worse and Ben Bernanke's insane response to the debt crisis of 2008 sealed the deal.
2009-2013 was the real turning point for the vast majority of the world. ZIRP, QE2, QE3 etc That's when they worked out the only way to make the world more equitable and stop having to swallow rampant US inflation and cultural colonialism was to end the dollar reserve and recreate every institution which enforced USD hegemony. Hence the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, CIPS and SPFS, the AIIB, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and more recently the BRICS, the SCO and the Eurasian Economic Forum.
Sixteen years later we see the vast majority of the world convinced to turn away from the dollar. Europe, Japan, the UK can't help either - all are bankrupt vassals of Washington and a few massively indebted nations buying the debt of other massively indebted nations doesn't work long term.
Doesn't how much war you try to unleash on the world. It won't work especially given the atrocious military record of the past decade and attitude of the 'Me' generation. Good luck trying to convince them to fight en-masse for duty or honour or other such nebulous concepts lost on a bunch of entitled, whinging, social media content creators.
Tariffs won't work either. It just gives countries more impetus to dump T-bills faster in a coordinated fashion once the new BRICS currency is officially up and running and use that cash to reinvent everything. Besides, China's pretty much done that already.
Anyone following the history of the Ukraine and the world even since say the beginning of the 20th century will see that what Andy Grace says is accurate and real. I downloaded your thesis here Andy for re-iteration into the cozy but stupefying living rooms of New Zealand. One of the reasons I place high value on Alasdair Macleod is that his knowledge of geopolitics is sound and fact based. . It is forever pointless interacting with people who get their information from the TV screen.
Completely Agree - just would like to wish you the best of luck in your effort's to get this message into the living room 's & mindset's of your compatriot's .
Given the largely fruitless efforts involved in trying to wake up ' Joe Public '
to the lie that is / was the " Covid-Plandemic " and man-made " Global Climate Change " ( + much else ) , then you're for sure going to have your work cut out ... HOPE YOU HAVE MUCH DESERVED SUCCESS WITH THIS ..!! .
Alasdair, do you consider gold/silver mining stocks in the same way that you do the general market? Will these stocks decline just as the others in a 1929-like crash of equities that you believe is on the horizon?
I watched the increase in the fiat currency value of a house in Christchurch over 40 years.
In 1979 I called my flat-mate in to the news paper real estate column , and there was the highest value home we had ever seen. Over $NZ100,000
Over the next 40 years I saw that home grow in [ fiat currency ] value to $NZ 3 million .
It had maybe about 15% of its value in improvements.
Had that home really increased in worth by 30 times ,when in reality it had depreciated in many ways over that 40 years.
No. Our New Zealand dollar had depreciated similarly to all the National and group currencies
Untainted or learned in terms of economic and financial theory I absorbed the message of devaluation rather then the rather hopeful and harmless sounding word inflation
Look people will say > a dollar is a dollar > look at it you can see for yourself.
Fast forward to Alasdair Macleod.
Search in your pocket, your $NZ one dollar coin is no longer, you replaced it by these latter day ; $NZ50 notes which are the size of your old 1979 $NZ1 note, now shriveled and gone .
Forward more to the commencement of the Equities market crash, panic,> lets cash in our Equities to the $US , Look you can see for yourself the $US, it is just as good as ever , It is strong , I don’t know why everything has got so expensive, it must be the false plague.
I know the country and empire owes massive trillions of dollars but that doesn’t apply to me .
I might vote for Kamala Harris, the AI videos make her look fine. Things might get better.
Paul , For god's sake don't ever contemplate voting for ' Kamala ' - not that your vote when cast in ' NZ ' will count ....??? - may be wrong here as it's likely that the Demon-Rats will grab as many votes as they can to stitch up ' DJT ', however far afield they come from . .
Tend to think that apart from his pro - Zionist views , that RFK Jnr should be the best
For pity sake...... does this interviewer ever shut up?
There is no good reason you would want to to shut down Dunagan Keiser . .Jack on the other hand yes ,you are useless here, shut you down
Jack - Think you're being unduly ' hard ' on a Dunagun - he's a really nice guy and ask's good in depth questions . I'm sure if ' AM ' ever thought he wasn't being given enough space to make his points - that he wouldn't be found as as he is , being interviewed on ' Liberty & Finance ' with such regularity
I always enjoy Alasdair's informative and wide ranging conversations with DK.
Me as well .
Couldn't agree more about the situation in the Middle East being at a critical moment and one which could send equities into a tailspin. What's surprising to me is Iran's patience after the level of Israeli aggression. The question is why? Why, despite all the intense anger from their populations are the leadership of Middle Eastern nations not upping the ante in any meaningful way and leaving it to the Houthis - a fierce but fringe group at best to channel the public's anger?
My theory is the answer is coming at Kazan in October. We're two months away from the BRICS meeting which should introduce the unit. Retribution could be swift and economic in the form of the bloc deciding they no longer need the constraints of the USD, the IMF, the World Bank or any other USD institution. Nor would they need treasury portfolios from that point on.
Unrestrained military conflict might result in a desperate Israeli leadership using nuclear weapons, but economic strikes on the bond market when America is carrying $35T debt and a $2.5T deficit means any BRICS "economic sanctions" would lead to a massive disruption in supply chains and therefore western economies going into deep recession and an equities wipeout. No functioning US financial system, no functioning Israel either.
That's far more preferable compared with killing millions of people and they could certainly argue, "well guys you started it!"
Point's well made .
The Ukraine vs Russia war is a cannonball over the bow, as a warning shot from America.......that there'll be more of the same should BRICS continue to move forward.
Israel's belligerence vs Hamas/Iran sets the stage for US control over oil fields and the Middle East in general. Our brilliant "strategic thinkers" in Washington have viewed those reserves as ours for over sixty years
The USA will collapse much faster should NATO enter the war. Anyone who still thinks that we live in a unipolar world of USA power can't see the utter pathology wrecking the USA from the inside put. Mostly this is care of Z1onism and bankster pathology. USA might have ten more years . Within a generation or two Russia and China and Iran will lift Africa into a world where it is protected nit devastated, USA is the sick bed of the world along with Europe. All gone soon enough, as planned for. Israel gone too. Not planned for. They don't have the man power.
Paul - Agreed , but in real terms -USA / UK / NATO et al have been co-belligerent's
in all of this , and essentially since the Maidan Coup of 2014 . In International Law and given the massive supply of armaments / military trainers & contractors + the vast amount of intelligence that's been provided from the word go - then should he / they have been mega- trigger happy as per USA / UK / NATO , then Mr Putin would have been well within his rights to take out military bases / depot's and Airfield's across Europe & potentially in the USA as well - No thanks to the non existant strategic and tactical nous of all the blow-hard medal ribbon & scrambled egg laden men & women who allegedly perform the function of the defence & general staff of the USA . ( A Sick Joke - the lot of them ) .etc .
It's been all too clear all along that the USA / UK / NATO are far too scared of public opinion back home ( should they have committed ground troops ) , and of the thought of their own boy's mashed up limbs and cadaver's being sent home en-masse' - that as so many Analysts have noted , they are happy and content to fight the Russian's ......down to the last Ukrainian Soldier along the Contact Line - NO ..??
Precious little wonder that the mighty & invincible US Military which the American populace hold in such reverence and high esteem - are seen for what they truly are
which is - " BEYOND THE PALE " - throughout most of the rest of the World .
The " Cannonball Across The Bow " if it is indeed something intended to make Mr Putin and the Russian Military mess themselves - is a round of ordnance made of marshmallow fired by a bunch of witless Paper-Tiger's at the leading statesman / strategist and fully functioning Military Machine in the World . It will be treated with the contempt it so richly deserves and be swatted away like the minor irritant it most assuredly is . America and its 300 + Million citizenry are on ever thinner ice , the longer that the moron's inhabiting
the Beltway & The Pentagon + their NATO poodles are allowed to play these stupid but oh so dangerous ' War - Games ' . You've only got the mind boggling restraint as shown by the likes of Putin & Lavrov to thank for the all too apparent fact that if they hadn't been so kind & patient - that a vast number of you would already be sat upon a phalanx of white clouds plucking merrily away on the Harp's that come with the territory .
Again well said Simon. Have a super day.
Ukraine has lost - the current Kursk thing is a sideshow. Ukraine has always been a proxy war for the dollar reserve and it was specifically orchestrated by Putin with the backing of Xi to bleed the west dry. Hence the matching suits and ties meeting at 2022 Winter Olympics.
The core strategy was brilliant. Allow Russian gas to Europe via Nord Stream, but denominated in euros, not dollars. Putin knew only too well there was no way one of America's closest allies - Germany - could be seen to be pricing energy outside the US Treasury recycling system. If Germany could do it, any country could, breaking the key stranglehold which has allowed American monetary expansion and deficit spending without repercussions - the petrodollar system. That tactic was in response to America's undermining of Russia via the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, orchestrated by the State Dept with Victoria Nuland as main facilitator.
The neocon idiots running Washington from the late 1990s created this. One could trace it all the way back to the New Deal, overspending on the Vietnam War and Nixon's forced closure of the gold window, but recent history put the nail in the coffin. US corporations outsourcing virtually all production and supply chains to Asia made the issue far, far worse and Ben Bernanke's insane response to the debt crisis of 2008 sealed the deal.
2009-2013 was the real turning point for the vast majority of the world. ZIRP, QE2, QE3 etc That's when they worked out the only way to make the world more equitable and stop having to swallow rampant US inflation and cultural colonialism was to end the dollar reserve and recreate every institution which enforced USD hegemony. Hence the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, CIPS and SPFS, the AIIB, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and more recently the BRICS, the SCO and the Eurasian Economic Forum.
Sixteen years later we see the vast majority of the world convinced to turn away from the dollar. Europe, Japan, the UK can't help either - all are bankrupt vassals of Washington and a few massively indebted nations buying the debt of other massively indebted nations doesn't work long term.
Doesn't how much war you try to unleash on the world. It won't work especially given the atrocious military record of the past decade and attitude of the 'Me' generation. Good luck trying to convince them to fight en-masse for duty or honour or other such nebulous concepts lost on a bunch of entitled, whinging, social media content creators.
Tariffs won't work either. It just gives countries more impetus to dump T-bills faster in a coordinated fashion once the new BRICS currency is officially up and running and use that cash to reinvent everything. Besides, China's pretty much done that already.
Anyone following the history of the Ukraine and the world even since say the beginning of the 20th century will see that what Andy Grace says is accurate and real. I downloaded your thesis here Andy for re-iteration into the cozy but stupefying living rooms of New Zealand. One of the reasons I place high value on Alasdair Macleod is that his knowledge of geopolitics is sound and fact based. . It is forever pointless interacting with people who get their information from the TV screen.
Completely Agree - just would like to wish you the best of luck in your effort's to get this message into the living room 's & mindset's of your compatriot's .
Given the largely fruitless efforts involved in trying to wake up ' Joe Public '
to the lie that is / was the " Covid-Plandemic " and man-made " Global Climate Change " ( + much else ) , then you're for sure going to have your work cut out ... HOPE YOU HAVE MUCH DESERVED SUCCESS WITH THIS ..!! .
Thank you Paul, I greatly appreciate your kind comment.
Another quite superb missive - completely " Over the Target " ( as usual )
Thank tou Alasdair.
Alasdair, do you consider gold/silver mining stocks in the same way that you do the general market? Will these stocks decline just as the others in a 1929-like crash of equities that you believe is on the horizon?
They should perform better than anything else. Note that Homestake Mines held their value during the crash, but soared five-fold in the 1930s.
From ignorance to fundamental truth
I watched the increase in the fiat currency value of a house in Christchurch over 40 years.
In 1979 I called my flat-mate in to the news paper real estate column , and there was the highest value home we had ever seen. Over $NZ100,000
Over the next 40 years I saw that home grow in [ fiat currency ] value to $NZ 3 million .
It had maybe about 15% of its value in improvements.
Had that home really increased in worth by 30 times ,when in reality it had depreciated in many ways over that 40 years.
No. Our New Zealand dollar had depreciated similarly to all the National and group currencies
Untainted or learned in terms of economic and financial theory I absorbed the message of devaluation rather then the rather hopeful and harmless sounding word inflation
Look people will say > a dollar is a dollar > look at it you can see for yourself.
Fast forward to Alasdair Macleod.
Search in your pocket, your $NZ one dollar coin is no longer, you replaced it by these latter day ; $NZ50 notes which are the size of your old 1979 $NZ1 note, now shriveled and gone .
Forward more to the commencement of the Equities market crash, panic,> lets cash in our Equities to the $US , Look you can see for yourself the $US, it is just as good as ever , It is strong , I don’t know why everything has got so expensive, it must be the false plague.
I know the country and empire owes massive trillions of dollars but that doesn’t apply to me .
I might vote for Kamala Harris, the AI videos make her look fine. Things might get better.
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Paul , For god's sake don't ever contemplate voting for ' Kamala ' - not that your vote when cast in ' NZ ' will count ....??? - may be wrong here as it's likely that the Demon-Rats will grab as many votes as they can to stitch up ' DJT ', however far afield they come from . .
Tend to think that apart from his pro - Zionist views , that RFK Jnr should be the best
candidate for the Y.S. Presidency .