long term as was been logged and was the complicated but. it was all true so i think a certain logic 'd applied to this those organizations which have a global. imax kaiser this is the kaiser report did you know that there's a growing global helium shortage that's right the world is running out of helium you noticed on running out of paper money right stacy indeed you're not but you know what you need the helium because of all the paper money all the printing of money because helium is not only are the stock prices and everything going up up up like it's an a helium balloon but you need the helium balloon for the celebrations everybody

celebrating president trump while we've been here in new york or right now we're in brooklyn and he's tweeted stock market is rock or how i spend your money well you would think that he's inhaling helium and so are the various stocks that make up the s. and p. $500.00 and dow jones average but when you scratch the surface you find that there's nasty accounting fraud going on and all kinds of wall street derivatives tricks this is a real or just a fake ileum high exactly so stock markets hit all time high. and we know as we were covering a here the fed continues to intervene up to $250000000000.00 a day and the repo market so is there disaster or is there not why or why is this wall street class right across the river here why are they so coddled why are they such big babies there was actually a banker by the way on the news recently leon cooperman he literally started crying

on television because of elizabeth warren coming after his money. losing. money because the billions of the stuff that goes up in the when she did this is. who this guy is i would say discrete to the male gender he's a disgrace to wall street is a disgrace as an american so here we have a situation whereby the federal reserve bank of new york right here is intervening daily in the repo markets the fed in washington d.c. is also continuing some q.e. sort of measures we don't know but the stock markets are hitting all time highs and yet you look at the most successful investor ever warren buffett berkshire hathaway's cash pile climbed to a record $128000000000.00 in cash after reported

a 14 percent jump and profit obviously cash is dead money if it's just sitting there in a 0 percent interest rate war old he's not putting it to use he's not able to find i guess things to invest in but also on the other hand the fed is printing so much money so fastest processor jumping so fast like it's hard to even spend it so this is like that the end game of this wealth inequality there's but there's that at the bottom of it we have a black hole like the people running faster and faster just to stay in place and the debt keeps on catching up with them and their interest rates are too. 20 percent and they're falling sinker faster and faster into debt on the other side of the balance sheet of course is the top and they're there earning so much money that they can't possibly spend it as we recently covered this $4.00 trillion dollars this is $120000000000.00 of a half ways balance sheet they can't spend it because it's just it's just sitting there doing nothing or buffett is bored you know leon cooperman is bored you know

when you play monopoly if you own a certain the number of properties there's nothing to do except wait for everyone else to go bankrupt so they're just warren buffett or linux overmen they're just sitting in their office they're just collecting all the rent they're around ca's there and they don't build anything they don't invent anything they don't add anything to the economy they're just wrong t.a.'s they're oligarchs they're kleptocrats and they're bored they're just waiting for everyone else to go bankrupt that's the only thing that's that's the only play left in the global monopoly game of which america is the boardwalk and park place certainly berkshire hathaway has missed out the stock market's on its here tear i saw somebody i think it was josh brown somebody in the investment community here in new york was saying like this is one of the most hated ever all time highs they've ever seen usually there's giant euphoria we've seen it many times people are ecstatic and it can never go down here you have a lot of very very successful big bankers very well known list of the stock market

are all worried so i guess you always say stocks are climbing a wall and worry people are definitely worried but sometimes when you have a trillion dollar valuations and you have the fed having gone through the printing of at this point over the length of this bull market which started in 1902 i mean suppose they probably have printed close to $100.00 trillion dollars of cash and given it to their friends on wall street they're friends of the fed and you just enter a period of lethargy there's really literally nothing left to do there's nothing left to prove there's no corporation the. hasn't been bought out or merged or acquired in some way and it's just a matter of waiting for either a the rebels to come with the torches and the nooses or be to be carried out on a stretcher and put in a box somewhere and forgotten so here's a tweet from mountain to mirrors and this is referring to the berkshire hathaway $128000000000.00 cash cow just cast 0 percent even losing because of them play

ssion 3 of the 10 most valuable public companies in the world are holding more than 10 percent of their market cap as cash something something about opportunity cost of capital something she's referring to 0 hedges tweet about this and they show berkshire hathaway's pile of cash they're passing apple and google now so those are the other big giant holders of cash america's capitalism and capitalism it refers to capital and capital of it's not circulating is worthless capital sitting in a bank account of berkshire hathaway is like a rotting festering pile of horse manure in lust you spread it out over the field you don't do anything productive with them a new or so warren buffet is literally sitting in a barn full of stinky manure cash holding his nose playing people totally winks with charlie munger whatever they do over there and dying from suffocating of the stench of his own cash in the fed has intervened mostly for wall street and all of

berkshire hathaway's companies by the way all the insurance companies and all the other banks wells fargo what cobi all the stuff that collapsed during the financial collapse and as we said you know we have negative interest rates so many things can't be valued anymore so how do you as an investor even know how to allocate cash if you're a value investor like warren buffett how do as you point out warren buffett is underperforming the s. and p. underperform because in a way if you simply bought or index fund like over their bank are with no fees he would be out. they perform himself but because he thinks he's smart he's underperforming yes and pick or i suggest is a call the reverse hunger games the reverse hunger games are randomly picked 10 to 15 billionaires every year and strip them of everything down to 0 and force them out there naked into the world of commerce and see if they can build it up from scratch again introduce risk back into the american capital system once you have

a certain amount of money there's no more risk you're just clipping coupons for affinity and you have no stake in the game whatsoever think warren buffett has any risk at this point no he's just aggregating wealth risk list only that's not capitalism that's a monarchy we've got a new monarchy aristocracy in america i say you introduced the reverse hunger games randomly picked leone kuperman stripped them of everything stripped him naked and force them into the inner city and say here is mark i see what you can do now well also like what i was saying as well as warren buffett calls himself a value investor that's a certain sort of investor at that just looks for value long term value they're going to hold for 5 years 10 years 15 years most investors you see on c.m. b.c. are not value investors they're tracing chasing the trends their momentum traders and they're trading in and out they're high frequency traders most trades are from high frequency traders warren buffett is a value investor but value the way to understand value is you need time to have

some value so if time no longer has value because of all the interest rate the negative interest rates around the world it becomes very difficult to even be a value investor because all there is is the fake stuff the momentum whatever the fed is creating right go backwards in time to a time when these billionaires were just doing clipper routes and selling a soda on the street for nickels and see how they can regain their wealth from today in a world of negative interest rates because as you point out if you were to put warren buffett. and say explain the value investing in a world of negative interest rates i will bet you any amount of cash or he could say absolutely nothing they would be mute if there's nothing to say the value to a long gone the horses jumped the fence j.p. morgan the biggest bank in america can we be in a situation where like all of these unicorns in silicon valley they were held

privately they were unicorns on paper only and then they tried to bring it to market and retail investors this time around right were not paying those numbers. with bitcoin it was the retail investor that got in way before bankers here we have a situation where stock markets everything seems to be booming consumer spending is up everything looks great but j.p. morgan the biggest bank in america who. if a if jamie dimon cries the fed really answers the phone and they start bailing out stuff but j.p. morgan pours $130000000000.00 of excess cash into bonds in major shift quote the bank is acting like the next recession is here everything the bank is doing points that way they're looking like they think there's a recession coming they could be wrong who knows right now they're acting like that for his money or the business cycle which is you 5 in a recession would be up and that's over we're now in a period where j.p. morgan and others are often kuperman or calling up the drawbridge the castle is

being closed everyone who is not a billionaire right now is going to be left into the no man's land and are going to be fighting for every scrap of food you can possibly get the oligarchs and it started with $911.00 this culminating in the air 2020 or pulling up the drawbridge and leaving everyone else out there who's not a billionaire to fight among themselves for the remaining crumbs and cans of soup of course a lot of people are blaming this exact movement j.p. morgan for causing the turmoil in the repo market so that is one thing that can happen is j.p. morgan is the way all they were the london whale there the american whale there the whale in hong kong there the whale everywhere around the world so if they pull acquitted the from the market as they have a huge cash piles well they could cause everything to crash if they are the market essentially i know you have in the past have been the market and it's a bad place to be right well up in j.p. morgan again proving the point in the. suit $1008.00 it's not

a. liquidity crisis of insolvency crisis j.p. morgan is insolvent as is deutsche bank it's not a liquidity issue they're insolvent they have that are a 1000 times greater than any possibility of ever paying well exactly because the you know j.p. morgan is the largest creditor and they're all they all they own us they own americans and americans are in debt and they can't pay anything so essentially that's why they're also bankrupt j.p. morgan isn't solemn so if your bank is insolvent all major money center banks in the world are insolvent and all the money printing in the world is not going to solve the problem because at the end of the day we're running out of jail we'll go shop that's what donald trump. oh fabulous well don't go away stay right there coming back in a minute. because

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reading about a trillion dollars every 8 or 9 months i like to move my shoulders around i say that as the chilean dollar debt dance is a sustainable what's going on here yes it is. we obsess about the level of government did we ignore private debt and as myself and michael hudson another in a small band of rana go to college in saying for a long long time government that's not the problem private debt is the reason being that the government owns its own bank and it is creating when it's creating dead it's similar chinese to creating money but it spends into the into the physical economy we use government not just government created to put government mandated money as a form of commerce so we need it to be produced boss someone the government produces of the mirror image of that is the debt that it came the lights on the other hand when we borrow money if you borrow money from a bank the money they give you comes with a debt that you owe back to them when the government spends money the government accumulates the debt you get the cash so part of

a functional capitalist economy is money created by the guy. and i know there's all sorts of austrian projects of money etc etc but capitalist promise con happen without money and the government creating money creates money which the receiver gets without debt the government carries the day it doesn't matter that the government created money loses its purchasing power continuous this is one of the hassles people have if they want to if you think about the functions of money we talk of money as a unit of account as a store of value and a means of time and we obsess about the store of value but in fact the most important function of money is that it is the means of payment now if you obsess about the store of value you worry about money losing its value of atomics the trick cetera but if money is losing its value one thing you'll do as a result of that is spend it and part of that spending is actually what's stimulates economic activity hoarding money means you get less exactly productivity out of money so a certain degree of depreciation of money over time actually encourages spending

you get obsessed with about it as a store of value you don't spend you get a lodge amount of cash and 0 economy but a lot of people critical of the fact that money is loaned into existence along these lines that the basis of capitalism should be capital and capital is something that accrues an interest that people are putting in the bank and therefore using too fractional reserve out in the case of the fractional reserve banking system so without capital you can't really have capitalism so what you're describing it doesn't sound like capitalism per se what how would you describe that system scrub of the real world i mean a lot of people say we should have gold should be money bitcoin should be money all these other alternatives money because they don't like 1st of all government being involved in creative mining and they also don't like debt being opposed to go into it is not a factor the corporate debt the bank debt is

a factor here and debt of this of the of the private sector going up is a problem. and we see that trend exacerbating all over the world to this day in the sense we know check in place for that is the dangerous one because it's a level of profit which is partly profit gets stimulates the economy because when you borrow money you don't borrow for the shia pleasure of being and it you borrow to spend and that spending should be the top of capital spending or talking about where you borrow the money to establish a business to make goods and services to sell for money and that's what gives you a functioning circulating capitalist economy instead what we've got now is bankers lending money for us to borrow and go and buy an assett and drive its process up and speculate on the process sold and that gives us a form of financial capital rather than a healthy industrial capitalism that i want to get back to and that process of of borrowing money to gamble on asset process has driven us into the hospital of private debt in history so you whining about 22 trillion with those with the government debt but i think the level of. profit didn't america is not that is just

the debt of the nonfinancial american economy households and industrial companies to the financial sector is 150 percent of g.d.p. which means it's about 40 trillion dollars so the real worry is level of profit that's ignored by conventional economists and that's what actually causes the crossties of capitalism. and to manage this pile of debt there's an urgency to keep rates low to go to the 0 bound and in some places in the world to go negative now you're a guy who's are in a book called the banking economics and you're familiar with the work of dr michael hudson another's and the point is that not since the bronze age to today have we ever seen an economy where they've entered is negative interest rates never happened at it it's like negative entered rights being generally applied on the deposits that the province banks have with the central bank and this is the 1st

level of a malfunctioning system you get that you. point there now we actually have a negative mortgage rights in denmark which often absolutely absurd so were triggered this need for these negative rates is that this service the ever piling in of escalating dial up pile of debt was the way to commit what would be accounting fraud and negative interest rates rain that time has no value of effect time as a less than 0 value now i mean unless we're going backwards in time this is just counted in surprise it is a sign of a crazy dysfunctional system and it's happened because fundamentally the economists who are running central banks and making economic policy don't regard private debt as mattering at all i think level of private debt has no real impact on the macro economy so they click the dot of what they nor it was people like myself in model house and say private it actually is part of demand part of aggregate demand when you borrow money you borrow it to spend so that credit actually increases aggregate demand the mainstream economists think that you borrow money off another person

who's also a non-bank and therefore that person spending power goes down yours goes up when europe the opposite happens overall they don't think the level of private debt matters they're wrong because when you borrow money from a bank it's not borrowing from somebody else's bank account it's creating debt on one side which pushes up the bank's assets creating money on the other which produces a bill it is which is your deposit account you then spend that money so if credit is positive it boost demand is creative negative it reduces demand and that's been driving the actual malfunctioning of the american economy for the last 30 is completely ignored by mainstream economists so we want to get at it to the level it was back in the fifty's and sixty's when profit was about 40 percent to 70 percent of g.d.p. that's sustainable because we ignored it it's now it reached 170 percent during the financial cross now 150 percent we're living in a credit stagnation we'll have too much profit right anyone what this a so-called minsky moment where the debt is used to finance these assets that are

used to coax collateral to increase the debt by. and it goes on until it collapses just giant ponzi scheme what do you make of the fact that there is close to 5 trillion dollars held by you know one percent of their call that are yelling basically 0 it's money that is dead money it's not circulating at all there's a side that there needs to be a continuation bailing out of the economy with these low rates these artificially low rates these negative rates and yet that money is just sitting collecting dust it's not circulating $5.00 trillion dollars worth in the u.s. economy. why is that is how come it's not why is the velocity of money which is you know the bank lending so to bank based on the reserves of the other bank except for i that's a it's a chart you can look it up velocity of money itself of business activity it's at record lows why why is that. because people are carrying so much individual dead your reaction to that level of debt is still going to spend less and save money so

that i can pay my debt off but if you if the individual level you can save by ending the spending list and you want but at the aggregate level your spending is somebody else's income so if you put in for a 2nd so the 4.7 trillion it would create more economic activity in the hands of the bottom 50 percent of the 2 trillion in wealth that would be spent the multiplier effect would see the stock price of the top one percent probably increase by more than that what 4.7 percent other words it may actually get him money were greedy and he wanted to get your stock prices go higher you a lot you give that 4.7 trillion as a helicopter money to the bottom part of the economy and then go out and spend it as they do because they're not going to go buy a picasso for 200000000 yeah they're going to buy maybe a house with their money that they get and they have to put furniture in that house and they have to the other you know buy food for that house etc household formation which is at a record low and at a low it would increase in the mix to lie in the sense that dead money like that is

dead money because money should be turning over because they can like activity as your site. if you look at there's a wonderful measure by the louis federal reserve in this in the fred dot about as they call it called the velocity of money of 0 maturity which is the best measure we have the money turning over and you look back in the ninety's and fifty's and sixty's money to about $1.00 tons per year was roughly 2 times a year so one trillion dollars would cost $2.00 trillion dollars worth of economic activity it rose rapidly during the high inflation period 3 and a half times so one trillion quizzers do interior apathy it's u.p.d. because we're actually ignored the fact that it's now turning about one point want to 1.2 so one trillion dollars worth of cash is only causing about $1.00 trillion dollars worth of g.d.p. it's because people are so worried about the debt level they have if you're juice the debt level and all that money also back into the hands of the poor it would be turning of a trois she year out than once and would have tossed over all of the economic i so there is a write off the debt like student debt $1.00 trillion i believe or want to play $1.00 trillion dollars you can either strike that off 0 or you could

dump $4.00 trillion or 4.7 trillion in cash into the economy either one stimulates the economy and has no impact whatsoever on any corporation's bottom line because the corporation would actually get more cash coming in through the door right to fire you to think at the aggregate level we if we extrapolate from now individual situation to say that should be gov it is only ask you this in america there isn't we don't have health care universal health because the racism it's always been the case that the white population doesn't want the black population to have good health care that's why we don't have health care in america that's the unstated truth but as the truth is this true process possibly in economics we could release a $4.00 trillion or just under 5 trillion dollars of cash into the market but it will lot of a guy in the black population and the racism the hardened cultural institutionalized racism would be would want a lot of that to happen here from outside of the u.s.

you observe these things as an outsider your thoughts on that no because that within the european union would. have the same problems and it does have the same problem still the same obsession about saving money at the aggregate level but you'll saving at the aggregate level actually reduces income at the at the individual level reduces income at the aggregate level and that's that's the fallacy of composition the kind spoke about back on the not in thirty's and people slipping about the heads around that idea look at the machinery in the plumbing of the markets in other words in the repo market the overnight lending rate is busted and if you got 10 percent on the embassy ever seen it that's the stored it before it is this a problem it has happened a few times before but what's actually happened is that what used to be what's called a chordal system book or color system for the right of interest of the central federal reserve say it so they have a small amount of reserves existing and then they'd simply supplies musher was necessary to keep the right you know point 25 percent in either side of the interest right they've got when you have the financial process been enki increase the amount of money reserve money in the economy from trivial levels to church

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