their job is not buying it for them they have to buy it but they can't deduct it from their taxes right you know this is a never going back to the way business was you know people are now just totally shifting their entire outlook and approach to work and their relationship with the company or the institution whether it's the school working remotely or working at home people are building their home studios their home offices and they're using online media and for not going to go back i mean this is the beginning of a new era and this is something that we're it's going to look to stall to flee to the era of the office water cooler and having lunch with your friends at work and all that if that's all apparently never come to come back i don't think no it's over and that's why they're in trying these rights in europe right now their workers there are like on top of things i think mediately see their life is changing and they're making sure they get rights here we don't know it's hard to count anything or anybody we don't know what is here and we are seeing some of the signs like for example we've covered the fact that savings rate is at an all time

high household wealth is allegedly at an all time high in america and yet you read a headline like this 10 percent of adults did not have enough to eat in the previous 7 days census bureau stats show an increasing number of people are struggling with rent food and job losses due to covert so this was the census bureau households polls survey and they i guess they looked at 249200000 american adults and they found that 134200000 had enough food of the right type 63800000 had enough food not necessarily the right type 17300000 sometimes to not have enough to eat 4900000 often did not have enough to eat and 29000000 did not report the grail arity of just trying to have minimum calorie intake per capita to keep workers alive to click on from their casino gulag hubble's of which they may or may not have to pay for their own. toilet paper

the corporation of course has artificial intelligence tools and data big data as it's called to maximize their yield the average consumer is the on the other end of the artificial intelligence there the rats in the cage there are the mice in the experiment the ai is observing to develop how to get greatest yield from them without killing the mice or the people and that trend is exacerbating of course we see it quite strenuously being deployed in asia but it's coming to america and canada all these other countries are in europe as well it's also the difference you're seeing between the u.s. and america where the u.s. america europe and america where in europe they're essentially on a dollar standard right they can't print the dollars but there are no dollars down because most world trade is in the reserve currency so they don't have a reserve currency they have a semi reserve currency but they have to like nickel and dime they have to count down to the nearest penny so that's why they're looking at sheets of toilet paper

how much you use per day and how much you get reimbursed for it whereas here we just spray the entire economy with cash like free money for all we're bailing out european banks latin american economies and stuff like that so we could do that but there's no the distribution itself because our infrastructure so rickety especially the banking infrastructure is just really rickety here and so it's not getting to these people and i'm assuming that some of them are undocumented and so they can't access some of the free money spewing all over the place so we're going to look at where it is like actually doing ok for small and medium sized enterprises versus large enterprises and that is this headline from wall street dot com twisted bailout economy chapter 11 bankruptcy surged but commercial chapter 13 bankruptcy has plunged 420000 small businesses close quietly highest rate ever so the chapter 11 bankruptcy which are like restructure. you're going to continue as an entity

those are the from the larger multinational do it the bigger corporations and those surged whereas the chapter 13 which are smaller businesses those have hit an all time low i mean it's a chart is pretty amazing on that and chapter 13 bankruptcy filings plunged to the low 2006 levels and then we have also the chapter 7 bankruptcy so those are plunging because they've got 550 $1000000000.00 with the p.p.p. the payment protection purchasing act whatever you know the $1.00 that spewed $550000000000.00 a lot when to fraudulent companies and you're seeing people get arrested for that but it did help some of those where you're seeing the increase in bankruptcies of the chapter 11 like all those fracking companies and all the retail companies the system is broken and in america they round up to there is trillion remember during the 2000 a crisis they originally they were going to ask for chilean dollars from congress

but the wisdom of hank paulson at the time said that psychologically that sounded big so they when they asked for 800000000000 so 1000000000 here or there you know eventually adds up and it's real money right but this reserve currency is literally sprayed around like out of a fire hydrant and trillions and trillions of it and whether it's chapter 13 chapter 7 or chapter 11 there doesn't seem to be any end to the chapters of the story of money printing it's the never ending. novella of print more there are signs that it is actually getting to small or medium sized enterprises versus the big guns versus the the people with access to the fed and the feds free money and so you are seeing signs that it is getting to some of the smaller groups of people there in fact the consumer bankruptcies are down 36 percent in september on last year so well so to what extent are these small to medium size that. prizes now becoming zombie companies so there is that companies

out that huge problem in the s. and p. 500 the banking industry they live on bailouts and they in fact don't have a viable underlying business so they're taking that busted model and they're applying it to small medium sized enterprises so every dry cleaner and falafel shop in america not canada is going to be living on p p e loans coming from the government out of the money printer go br'er and he got a nation of zombies that's why pop culture has given us all the zombie films and zombie t.v. shows to prepare us for the zombie apocalypse there is indeed a bit of a trickle down zombie for cation that could be happening here and everybody gets to be a zombie but it does show as well the data shows that we've also seen a record closing not bankruptcy's of small and medium sized enterprises so these are people that chose to just close their business and not apply for these p.p.p. loans or maybe they didn't get one of these p.p.p. loans because remember j.p.

morgan and the big banks got most of the money and they gave it to their favorite cousin they couldn't compete with the small i'll be getting the zombie getting the free money chats with it's not so zombies take over obviously a very slow moving yes so you think you could. outrun them and beat them but that's not the way zombie succeed they succeed through cash infusion from the government yes so that's what i'm saying all this data showing a very varied picture and it gets blurred by the amount of spew of paper dollars being sprayed at the economy and it doesn't necessarily rescue the bits of the economy that you want rescued notes malinvestment that's what we would say and let's say the austrian school for example that when you just willy nilly money printer go burner and you give it to the best zombies you could end up with a dysfunctional zombie apocalypse doesn't seem to have stopped the spread of. of

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priority problems how will they vote which they do next not. just some of the questions we put to the american. welcome back to 3 part time not to go to ali how mom he is the founder of tea he needs restaurants a chain of self described quote best middle eastern restaurants in the world out of london ontario canada he's got a very fixed dory about inflation wealth confiscation through currency devaluation and bitcoin this is got it it's a great story and great food alley welcome to the kaiser report thank you max thank you for having me it's an honor you've got an interesting story so let's start with

you fleeing egypt after the so-called arab spring that kaiser report was there just 2 or 3 weeks after the barack was overthrown we did some shows in cairo so lay out the scene for those too young to remember what happened tell us how the wealth confiscation happened we grew up in egypt and my father was working in saudi arabia professor and we were kind of back and forth between both countries but i got my hired to cation from egypt and then 2000 live in came and we witnessed gyptian revolution and it was a spectacular events. we were like we were honored to be a part of part of the revolution and we saw we saw you know the whole country sit stand out against the current president back then and we overthrew him and

then the same year we decided to leave egypt and move to canada because that's where my father recently got his ph d. so we're all dual citizens. and we decided to move. we were faced with a big problem of my father moving his well from egypt to canada and the banks pretty much froze. coming capital coming out of the country and you can only move like a $1000.00 per month or something ridiculous like that. so which forced my father to work an extra 6 years in saudi to kind of fund his retirement fund his new home that they have here in canada and yeah we were faced with with strict capital controls on on their money and it was

a wake up call. during that time from 2012 to 2017. where things got a little bit easier to move money around we all witnessed the egyptian pound drop 65 percent against the us dollar. which was devastating we saw it happening year over year and spend 5 years my parents saw a lot of their well just evaporate into thin air sorry call and as mentioned kaiser report was an cairo shortly there after the so-called arab spring and the revolution i remember at the time the feeling was euphoric and also this idea they called it the facebook revolution because through social media the generation in particular women and whole thanks to kicked off with the protests the women's

protest against some police brutality i believe and this was at that one hand it was your forte and it was socially media and as we outsmarted mubarak and we took over with in a very short order of time they. the euphoria faded and a harder reality came in and you became desensitized to banks you know a currency devaluation and. everything that a lot of people all over the world are experiencing and we see similar events in the lebannon argentina venezuela do you think that westerners in places like europe town or in the u.s. are too lax a days ago about thinking that something like that could happen here it's not there are the same countries. like the western countries and countries in the middle east and asians who work but. we know where that road leads we're not

saying it's going to happen tomorrow or next year or whatever but eventually with the same monetary system in place we know what that looks like and that's not something that i would be comfortable. taking my family through and we want to tell people about that and we want to tell people they there's another option you know and bitcoin provides step option because it gives you that freedom to say you know what i don't care what happens to countries what happens to currencies i'm safe my family's safe i can focus on our health you know our job our careers and so on so i have peace of mind in that and yes as much as the dictionary evolution was something euphoric. when we were we were part of that i can tell you max like you've seen it you seen how. like when

you're in the streets you look to your right you can see people as far as your eye can see you look to your left and it's the same thing. and it's all nice and dandy but. when it comes to your wealth that is getting affected by those type of events i remember a time a square it was crazy stime mob scenes but what was interesting is my observation was that the police for effectively not on the street the place where nowhere to be same but yet people all came together and they functioned in a chaotic way but they still managed to find a consensus if you will amongst the people who are clinging to this newfound freedom and it was working as a way i remember at the huts out socking somebody who sat here for the 1st time in a life as a jeff and felt the sense in his heart. of being free and he could just tell he was

completely elated and it just seems that you've carried the torch of this freedom with your bit coy and what the way you carry bitcoin and your restaurant chain was really a trend setter and did something remarkable some might say is that you put a big portion of your cash into bitcoin as a safe haven as as a reserve currency and something that michael saylor over at micro strategies got a lot of attention for i believe you actually made this move ahead of michael saylor correct actually you know we did it right after michael saylor announce it right before we were all because winners in the company and we already had a few meetings about being the company's reserves into big going and soon as we saw michael saylor announced we were like that was just so over the edge and we realized ok game on this is going to be

a recent accumulation. we think that all corporations are eventually going to be acquiring bitcoin at some point and we just said hey we're going to do it 1st right so that was the kind of the spark that that got you guys off the fence and it's like i are going to put our portion of our reserves to depict going you know i got to ask did i watch your videos on you tube every day right from to he's restaurant where you're preparing little what's i love and you know i got to tell you you seem to be doing very well these days the terms of keeping the company going keeping the spirit going up and up the franchise and i see that with cove it around the world this is not always the case what what's what's your secret our secret in our business is just good food and good customer service and that when it comes down to that we really focus on making the best middle eastern food out there and we

have meetings every day and every week on how we can make it even better so i think. you know our focus on quality is kind of the secret recipe behind our business model and also our profitability profitability. which gave a reason for all these franchisees to come join us and open a nice franchisees themselves now do you communicate customers about decline to take brick or as their pick my message in the restaurant area on that level so not really we we made it public through our twitter account and our franchisees and our customers can see that as well. but we we made it clear that you know we did go on a bit quaint standard. but we will continue doing our transactions and and purchases in fear because it's s.

just the efficient way to do it that's what most people do it. and we don't think like i personally don't think that because it is a payment sick knology i think we have better things to do that. it's a savings technology right and that's what what i think people should fud as sources we know is that we got all these like messages like 80 payments lining payments like guys do i spend your big queen. bee as a. queen with it. i don't think it's made to be spent that way well you know the customer is always right after customers demanding that they can pay a breakpoint you know you've got a listener customer that's your customer centric enterprise that's what made you the greatest middle eastern food in the world and you know driving the soul movement in canada is customer appreciation so i also draw on technology

i see amazon these other companies are getting into drone when will i kick back order a falafel by drone. hey max i told you this before if you ever want to take a nice meal let me know i will like show next it to you any time you want you don't have to worry about that oh now we're talking that's what i that's the kind of thing i like so it's because i'm it's middle eastern cuisine you're in canada a town is a little different climate than egypt a little colder and have you become an ice aki fan not really actually i've tried to watch it and i can never keep my eye on the puck so. i know canadians are going to get upset about that but. oh i'll stick with making food and focusing on that and. yeah accuse not for me though it's sam just up it quite resonates with you on a much deeper level is that true yes max so i actually want to send a message to everybody that's watching your show. and i want to tell them that. our

move into bitcoin wasn't just an investment it was our savings policy ok and we struggle and i think a lot of communities struggle with this around the world where. i'm also going to speak for like a muslim community for example. i don't know if you knew this about the muslim community max but in our religious teachings were not it's against our religion teachings to use interest and to live in a debt economy. but we're faced with that our whole lives because that's what the whole world runs on. so we also have a situation where you have inflation at a rate of 10 to 20 percent it's not the 2 percent that everybody talks about it's actually 10 to 20 percent and for people to really understand that they they need

to understand that their retirement is running away from them at a 10 to 20 percent per year which means if you want to keep up you need to earn an extra 20 percent every year just to retire so whatever people's off's option number one is. stick with their principles and try to save in cash and be poor for the rest of their lives that's not a good option option over to is embrace forget your principles embrace or embrace the debt economy. load up on debt. and then spend the rest of your life paying off these debts and then still not have enough to retire at the end ok so that's that's not a good option an option 3 is somehow figure out the stock market become a financial like expert and buy all the apples and amazons and the googles right

when they start and try to get it all right good luck with that right it's not going to happen all right got to cut off their thanksgiving icons are part of genies restaurant thanks for having me and well that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert like to thank our guests mom of 2 here nice restaurant up there account of if you'd like to get in touch with us please disowns all next on. american citizen he didn't want to talk. about her and he had a stick. and. i would vote for

a republican i would vote for anyone who's not equal and has half a brain. if you get. our 2nd wife. she can handle. she and i divorce because our trouble is a lot of the president and i floated for him and she crouched. down when the most important election. in our history. listed a month to go before the next presidential election is the history in the u.s. now. what are the highest priority problems will be. event they do next. just some of the questions we feel to be american. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy

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