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name is you know neal who bring you the latest news in the weekly right now stay with us for the report. and i'm exercising this is the kaiser report the show that goes where no show dares to go i think i'm back again and then go back. yes we've continued to stay in vegas we have not left i don't know if i'll ever leave but we're still here and the party continues here in vegas it's always a party but the q-q. party is over i mean ever heard of i think. it's yes no it's qualitative and quantitative easing has been happening in japan but that party is.

talking on it nobody has noticed this except for wall street dot com they notice that the party's over everybody's been talking about the fed doing that quantitative tightening they're starting to ease back i think it's something like their balance sheet shrunk by two hundred eighty five billion dollars over in japan where they've had something like thirty years of quantitative easing and then they . came along and they jumped it up to q q qualitative and quantitative economic easing q e party is drying up even at the bank of japan despite repeated speeches to the contrary as of september thirtieth total assets on the bank of japan's elephant tiny balance sheet dropped by five point four trillion yen which is thirty three billion dollars from a month earlier to five hundred thirty seven trillion yen or four point seven

trillion dollars four point seven trillion dollars is the bank of japan's balance sheet and they said it was the fourth month over month decline and a series that started in december this is what that looks like here is the total bank of japan total assets that's a little scoop down that it's had but this is where even omics begins that's the q q e and that is in two thousand and thirteen now. potentially so in two thousand and eight you had a global credit freeze and. we had a phenomenon in japan because of their rates being close to zero point zero zero zero one percent as being the world's first to borrow and then reinvest in low yielding securities to reliquefy the global balance sheet of the global banks in this huge carry trade as it's called and this extended and pretended as if the banks were not insolvent from two thousand and eight to twenty eighteen noun twenty

eight seen if there's a credit freeze like there is happening in japan if interest rates start to go up because banks are lending to each other then the kimono is open and the revelation is seen by all that all these major banks in japan deutsche bank in america are insolvent and that they'll once again come to the central banks and say we need q.e. four we need another bailout we need twenty five trillion freshly printed u.s. dollars or we're going to go into a massive recession in fact that's not going to happen because the interest rate environment now after thirty two years ago and down is entering into a secular bear market for a bonds which means a secular move in interest rates higher that could last five to ten years we're heading into bond nucular winter the bond winter the bond. could go under it could go worst in fukushima it could go worse than godzilla if you go

worst than for a can you know bad sushi on an empty stomach well actually i'm going to skip ahead to the conclusion that wall street offers because of course some might say oh japan will face a debt crisis but they can't face a debt crisis essentially because they have too much savings in cash i just am by far the most over indebted country in the world their relationship to its economy has decided that there will be no debt crisis a debt crisis would force a pan to brutally. it's budget for social services and raise taxes by large amounts to make ends meet japan has decided that it would never come to that instead there may be a currency crisis or an inflation crisis for both which would spread pain more evenly so the end if there is a the it's going to be inflated away to make sure that these banks don't go under which means that carry trade on the basis on the years the cost goes up even by one

tenth of one percentage point thus making an enormous amount of the multi quadrillion dollars derivatives market instantly and solve it so this is. the point you know to mix metaphors even more that tokyo is kind of like the churn noble of the global financial markets and it looks like it's blowing right now it's a mt vesuvius it's another metaphor it's another analogy i've run out of it just to put it into context because remember the united states government mostly i'm sorry not the united states government but the fed has bought mainly government bonds and government backed bonds like fannie mae and freddie macin a higher quality stuff. bank of japan has been buying stocks e.t.f. equities all sorts of stuff but again to put this into context what we've seen with even omics and if they're on winding the b.o.j.

has been buying mostly japanese government securities and short term bills but also equity e.t.f. japanese reads the real estate investment trusts and corporate bonds japanese government securities are the largest asset class on the balance sheet by now the b.o.j. has acquired about fifty percent of all outstanding japanese government debt from about fourteen percent and late two thousand and twelve this means that the government prints money. then they use that money that they print to buy back their own bonds and their own stocks and that's called jet my. out of his asian and if you look up the definition of banana republic it will say this is a frickin banana republic because a they're buying their own debt but in japan they call that quantitative easing not debt monetization with the canard that well it's temporary but it's been thirty years now and it's never going to go away and now the reaper must be made the grim reaper of the bond market has appeared

with this swiss sky and he's looking at the global bond market and he's going to go on and it's obama apocalypse it's a tsunami of bad paper and it's. going to be the greatest financial collapse ever love it. of course the bond apocalypse thing that has been a great widowmaker. many people have been waiting for this for decades because it where. we're in a thirty something year bull market in bonds and everybody always promises it's about to finally collapse but maybe it might be that time now but you know what i want to also say that it seems to go on forever and ever is another article in the past week or so which is about her never ending presence in afghanistan because of course we first went bankrupt as

a nation in one thousand seventy one when we couldn't pay for the war in vietnam. we were founded because of that you know no taxation without representation that was actually in one thousand nine hundred sixty five hundred sixty seven hundred sixty five when the our our monarch the british empire was basically bust for from after several wars and they needed some taxes you know tax never ending wars tend to end empires so if the dollar and the u.s. dollar bond and all its minions through the you know the japanese bonds and stuff like that if this is all falling apart if that. empire debt around the world does collapse we are still in afghanistan it would be quite fitting because afghanistan has been not a widowmaker but. an empire the death of empire it's been a murder of empires for many for the past hundred years or so. are we still doing

in afghanistan spending forty five billion dollars a year and erik prince once every dime apparently erik prince is back and this guy never goes away he's always there with a mercenary army ready to go in and he's proposing quite something quite amazing so according to the senate subcommittee on federal spending oversight we are spending about forty five billion dollars a year in afghanistan about one billion of that amount is spent for economic aid to afghanistan and five billion is being spent on the afghan forces according to the report that leaves thirteen billion dollars we're currently spending on the u.s. military forces in afghanistan and twenty six billion on so-called logistical support it's that thirty nine billion dollars to erik prince has his eye on so he wants to send in two thousand five hundred of his own special forces to replace fifteen thousand american military troops who you know by the way have the whole

backing of the u.s. military and the navy but he's somehow going to do it on the cheap with these two thousand five hundred mercenaries collect the full amount the thirty nine billion that we're spending now but he says he's going to reduce the bill for the american population well the price just. barely cost thirty nine billion commit genocide and you know afghanistan of course is the number one source for lithium and that's why america stays there because collectively the population is going insane and they need the lithium just to keep some cells balance for another of. the other interesting thing there is that what he wants to send in two thousand five hundred to. three place our military but he also proposes his force of six thousand private contractors in total that would be there would be supported by air through a fleet of contracted aircraft flown by joint teams of afghans and contractors

according to the times this is a curious one as well he's got he's alleging that he has some sort of private air force that he could call upon which is probably quite expensive component of our entire military apparatus is you know the air the aircraft and the aircraft landers i suspect erik prince in fact died. been really animated in a video game with a little artificial intelligence has gone rogue so the avatar erik prince in this video game atmosphere of war craft is dictating terms to supine u.s. military pentagon budget administrator and authorizing tens of billions of dollars to imaginary forces to get that lithium because he's insane it's apocalypse now to the root of apocalypse now this makes me want to be in you know bad lieutenant. the flying nun well i mean i also want to point out in the last minute here that we

also have the fact that pakistan has gone to the i.m.f. for some more money billions of dollars they mean pakistan and afghanistan but particularly pakistan are quite crucial to china's belt road policy and that is you know. you have to look at the long term we as a nation don't have economic policies beyond the next trading day but political and military policy they are looking at long term and long term they only see china so if they're you know if they're. why we might be there it might not be about saving taxpayers money like erik prince things as more about containing china containing china it all seems to come back to containing china well. well ok let's take a break and when we come back let's do more of good stuff. so

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find out more about susan powell's susan. thank you max keiser and i'm delighted to be here at fantastic you know we i've been seeing you know for years and years wherever i go and a purpose space there is susan poole well there you go there so what like what do you do in the spaces yeah i'm doing a lot of different things i work for you know corporate america in the software industry and i got it a big point a few years ago and i literally went all in with my career and create a whole new career work for myself i do advisory consulting is it out to do before in your career where you just literally got swept off your feet and just committed yourself wildly to something like that is it a new thing that's ever happened before it's a brand new thing and you know i was in the software industry i missed the wave of social media i missed google i heard about big point i'm like this is why i missed both to go into big car and all and you know i believe that there's something on the aesthetic side of because where it's very beautiful the way that the incentives are balanced and the way that it tends to turn everyone into

a maximalist and do you feel that as well in other words you are in the software industry you understand technology but as a human being were you attracted to what i would call the aesthetic of because your thoughts on this idea i absolutely was my motto at the beginning and i love my i thought i was a bit naïve i recognize now it was banking me on banks right for me because i was banking the unbanked was probably the first presentations i heard in an event and i realized like i could be part of something that can change people's lives you know software changes people's lives but this is on a one on one situation. and i thought naively like that's that's how that's going to happen like everywhere now almost it's just so silly i was a so hopeful and starry eyed and now you know. a couple of years later i see the infrastructure is the technology is the distributed apps being built that hopefully will enable and such types of applications and uses for the most disadvantaged

people in the world yeah there's a sujoy idea that oh yeah big point can help the disadvantaged people of the world and then there's a huge group of disadvantaged people the world called americans and they've been cut out of hard money now since one nine hundred seventy one and there are millions of them in dire straits living in abject poverty without any health services and what about right here in america there seems to be a blockade against allowing people to have individual sovereignty and access to hard money like big going what about right here in the good old usa susan poole how we're going to get this message through ok well i want to give you like up my two cents on the state of what it is and why it is that way you know my whole career isn't like sales and business development and somebody was either seeking to solve a problem or to get rid of a pain i don't see a lot of people understanding like how to get rid of the pain of that with bitcoin so there's a gap there were

a good point so in marketing you're either escaping the pain or seeking to solve a problem pleasure seeking pleasure or going away from pain essentially is the essence of sales and every ad on t.v. are either it's either you know headache medicine or a car exactly you get it was just the bifurcation those are the the two rude stored marketing so that's a plus typically it's not obvious what problem it solves at the moment because people are very happy with money very happy with credit cards very happy with the system the inflation is somewhat dulled it's only one or two percent a year ok lose ninety seven percent over one hundred years but over five years don't really notice it so you don't have the urgency go to countries like venezuela argentina where they do have the urgency and they are quickly adopting hard money. so i guess that would that would be your point is that they've got the urgency that they're getting they're skipping the i mean their pain could be death their pain is the worst pain ever their pain could be starving even though we do have quite

a disadvantage part of our society in america are about people individuals in america there's food pantry you know there is just a bit different and i think you know to personally motivate yourself. you can motivate yourself but then life can motivate you and in those countries their governments are motivating the urgency around with the point speaking of different governments so you are part of an e.u. regulatory forum how does the e.u. compare to the u.s. or are they just looking to the u.s. for guidance well this is a great topic because you know you probably know this as well but every country in the world wants to be or every entity every country domain whatever wants to be that entity where they get the most out of block pain and quite right and so just like many americans complain that a lot of technology is going to leave the country because of regulations or

a lot of regulations europe is looking like that korea is looking like that and everybody wants to have the landscape for infrastructure builds and lead the way and so europe is no different than any other entity like well yeah there are a number of countries that are vying to become quote big client so let's you and including switzerland yes so you. go switzerland different territory what do you see on the regulatory front what countries are doing the right thing to doing it right and will attract critical mass obviously getting a wrong. well i would see most of the conversations i have of people is that they're americans are concerned that america is going to get it wrong and having worked. in a prior role i got really exposed to just how much. learning is required for people in the regulatory structures to catch up to all of us who've been in the center three immersed right so they're still managing their current monetary systems and now to try to catch up so it's hard because in america regulations are not

necessarily an impediment to grow for example or violin or all kinds of regulations and they became a billion dollar company you have other companies like. like uber commies. they're not. flouting all kinds of regulations and they become a billion dollar industry so in the finance space people don't abide by regulations and they create for example the birger of citi group travelers insurance corporation was illegal at the time but they changed the laws to accommodate it in after it was consummated so why would we. just you know. to. full speed ahead forget the regulations we're just going to take this to where we need to get it and let god sort it out well it's such a great question and i believe the major differentiator there is that those were

centralized entities for profit and big point as we know being decentralized like who is the we to lead that charge all of us are doing it individually by being involved in it. while classes for free on saturdays here in las vegas just to do my bit of like some people what a multi-state while it is you know so that scales to everyone we could all collectively have that force but i don't see the force in those kind of things were too large entities merged or somebody built a new or that just kind of went viral i'm queen so it's just of the debate different to me so right so where does this leave regulations in this space are they going to need to create new regulations. just just for this new asset class or somehow fit into. the current scheme well i think if i had that answer would be very popular you see the tea leaves reading the tea leaves and which way you think this is ok i like that question well i have a lot of contacts in d.c. and the f.c.c.

right now is very open to people with entities like coming in and talking about you know they go with their lawyers and they're saying we're thinking of doing this so they're open to information the regulatory structure is i believe. yeah. sorry forgot the question that's ok oh repeat and summarize they would being the professional journalist i'm not so in other words you got your ear in d.c. and they're open to hearing they're talking to folks at the f.c.c. and they are trying to i think be at the same time accommodative of this new industry but they've got to adhere to securities like the thirty three and thirty four as i have said many times before technology people come to me into the question of technology very come to me and they say my interpretation of the securities law is that we figured out how to bypass it with saft or some other something else i'll say you know sort of cheat for you and your interpretation of securities law it's up to the as you see in their interpretation of security out

and they've come down quite hard said you know what there's nothing j. clinton said there's no way c.e.o.'s that he's seen this through security that's pretty clear that he's now believes that this you see his dominion over every single and they're out there pulling back on these i see young people have to send the money back what's your take on the boom of twenty seventeen i mean what did you think when you were seeing that i was completely stunned they had people from all over the world contacting me on linked in saying we'll give you one hundred thousand tokens if you will like pump our i c.e.o. and i turn down one hundred percent of them i try to put things simply like if my family was going to get ripped off by this would i want to even. think of doing that and i didn't have time to vet any of them so i just one hundred percent know. but what's the weirdest question is why do we never hear about all the people who lost all their money and i see you or all their big quaint i never hear them complaining anywhere do you well this is known on financial circles that people who

are victims you know tend to stay quiet because it's not something you want to make you know brag about but on the other hand we have this you see because putting pressure on i.c.a.o. companies and offerings they are quietly returning all the cash. and this is happening in dozens of. the cash being returned and we also have instances where companies are converting the token into equity nice going on. i've always asked that question because i'm thinking i'm sure people i know i've had that situation but they don't talk about it and i also want to say obviously there's some great innovation through some of these i c.e.o.'s and you know it's hard to tell which ones are good and which ones are fake or which require an enormous amount of due diligence and you know if you get like a thirty or forty of these fish tax in a day. cycle happened so spend a lot of time in vegas you live in vegas i spend a lot of time here i have

a few places where i hang my hat because i travel so much and yeah i was going to mention one of the thing on ice you know now i'm getting what i like about this year is now i'm getting and she's coming coming to me that are public companies saying you know we're interested in you being an advisor because you have a network of service providers and can you connect us and we trust you or someone you know what i mean and so that's exciting for me now i'm interested in the i'm interested in those i have one that's the c.e.o. took a company public he wants to talk and i something in his vertical market wow so it's kind of like the next wave in my view of the tokenization and i see ok so according to susan poole we have entered a new wave in the tokenization market which is the experimentation phase is behind us we see. to be getting into a more institutional or friendly marketplace and so this form of fundraising is seems to be not going to go away would you say that's

a fair statement i don't see it going away i think the regulations will play play a role in who is going to do it i mean do you have to be highly financially savvy or you have to be tech savvy so who's going to do those i suppose will change depending on regulations and where they're at and also i want to say you know it's interesting that corporations you know in america are interested in digital assets and tokenization and now they're coming to this community to say who do i talk to where do i go and i mean publicly traded company three you know the mass national baseball league is offering tokenized bobbleheads of people who come to the park and it's a huge hit in a something like that could really force adoption we're out of time susan poole thanks for being on the kaiser report well thank you very much already that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser for us me my spies from station over want to thank our guests for joining us on twitter as kaiser report so next time.

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