told me a challenge after hitting a 9 month low as the u.s. dollar and treasury yields are treated so what does it mean for ongoing concerns over inflation that you k. is being praised for its exact role off the bank of england says it is cautiously optimistic that a road to recovery would be just around the corner we have a life to get serious the let's get started. the brokerage app robin hood is back in the spotlight as the senate banking committee held a hearing on tuesday that call this business model into question while republicans have praised the app for its promise of 0 commission training that is meant to open the stock market up to anyone with a smartphone democratic committee chairman sherrod brown claimed that firms like robin hood were founded on a model that exploits small investors by encouraging fast and loose trading and then sells their trades to market players this as robin hood faces nearly $100.00 lawsuits stemming from its decision to place

a ban on the trading of stocks like game stop and amc after their reddit fueled the rise cost short sellers billions artie's natasha sweet has the latest. as litigation pelz up against the trading at robin hood this week users actually sold gains in their game stop shares many taking to twitter to share in their excitement prices reportedly reached its highest point since february 1st after game stop decided to put the e-commerce business portion into the hands of rain cohen investor and founder of chewy incorporated some are crediting the gains to his read it and twitter posts on the 40 streak of stocks rising doesn't come close to the 33000000000 seen on january 28th game stop saddam did reportedly jump to 13600000000 it's a change of pace for robin hood which has been facing severe criticism over recent treaty restrictions and last year's death of the novice young trader it was reported 20 year old alex kearns took his own life after. being misled to believe

in he lost more than $700000.00 on the trading app through automated emails according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family kearns sent 3 emails asking for clarification the family says at the time of his death there was no phone number for users to speak with an actual agent's robin had released a letter saying they were devastated to hear of kearns death and are working to clear the confusion with its products after game stop shares soared 600 percent in january house lawmakers grilled the c.e.o. of robin hood is it your testimony after rather pay this is $6.00 is back to settle those charges that conflict of interest is in your estimates best interest yes carol no waters 1st let me say regulatory compliance is at the center of everything that we do you know we've made mistakes in the past i'm not claiming that i could probably better get close to that question. so sitting so security is an important

counterpart and. nobody is denying that the reason that. l.c.d.'s you know aren't good enough and since the online chaos began protesters took to the streets they just want to talk to faster to make more money than the common man which i'm here to say for the common man let's well a class action lawsuit is also awaiting its day in court the beliefs about robin hood remain split i think it really shows how kind of oppressive and exploitive. our economy is and. just really shitty what robin hood's doing in. now tearing down all these regulations and when we play wherever those beforehand i think those are good tools i mean there's a good tools a good power you know what financial power in the hands of the you born hands of the little guy now i grew up in hood robin hood is facing more than 90 federal lawsuits after restricting trading back in january but it does have an arbitration

clause in its agreement that user signed agreeing to opt out of suing the company but if proven to be a proper class action lawsuit users may in fact be able to take action against the trading app that claims to support the average joe were porty for boom bust and sweet r.t. . for more on this let's bring in boom bust co-host ben swan who is in mexico today and kristie i join us from california christine let's start with you when it comes to this hearing focused on robin hood what is the senate banking committee trying to accomplish here. well the committee is here to basically evaluate the dangers of financial speculation and perhaps oversee additional regulations and reform of the u.s. system or retirement savings and stricter oversight of securities dealers so not surprisingly robin hood is again at the center of these hearings and it has completely changed the marketplace and basically demonstrated how technology and social media have been combined to push the limits of market regulation and one

issue that's getting a lot of attention right now is the game of the cation of the market so critics are saying that robin hood apps encourage more frequent use that is financially beneficial by luring the customer into betting more and enticing them to encourage repetitive use of the trading as robin hood on the other hand denies that calling its interface an intuitive and easy to use app that enables customers to understand control and direct their finances in a very responsible way so there's nothing wrong with making a platform more enjoyable and aesthetically pleasing for customers and of course the other issue is again the pay for flow model that robin hood uses in order to maintain its 0 fee trade program as of the practice said that it has lower the cost for retail traders but critics say that it creates a conflict of interest between progress and market makers and unlike last month's hearing where robin had sounded like a tenant and citadels griffin got hosed this time the witness list is mainly composed of academics so their testimony will be drawing comparisons to security bubbles that we've seen in the past and basically expressing the dangers of those

conditions and trying to draw some sort of parallel rather than actually focusing on the matter at hand which has completely different nuances than what we've seen previously and it is interesting to see how robin hood is the focus here because of all of the media coverage surrounding everything with game stop but there really is a lot at stake here whenever it comes to similar apps and some where companies now ben here in washington almost everything is seen as a 0 sum game so who is seen as being the victim here and of course who is painted as the villain. i think when we look at what is happening right now in the way that the game stop situation is being portrayed it's as if there was this rogue group of traders right the wall street bets guys who are the villains here that's how it's been set up and that they have kind of tricked the system and they've worked and colluded alongside the apps like robin hood in order to cause harm to the poor old grandmother who has her money set aside into

a mutual fund and it's it's all she's got in and she's being harmed by these reckless traders instead of looking that you know the thing they do on social media and popular opinion unpopular opinion here is the system was already getting this is them already rigged the system is already set up in a way that favors a few over the interests of the many and still the little old lady who has her money sitting in an account someplace is having the same thing done to her by wall street traders every day that the wall street bets guys on reddit are being accused of the only difference is the wall street bets guys aren't working for a 1000000000 dollar hedge fund they're not the ones who are usually profiting and so as soon as a different group of people is able to profit not from a new kind of system but from the same techniques just using a different technology now suddenly it's like oh my gosh the sky is falling so now congress needs to hold hearings in the senate is to hold hearings and people like

the democratic senator sherrod brown from ohio get up and they pound their fist and they say oh my gosh those poor people need to be defended from these reckless traitors know what you need to do is allow people to have the same access to markets and therefore create equality within that system and that is not happening and then you're saying how congress all of us and gets involved when we have short sellers losing tens of billions of dollars that now they're interested in saying what all is going on now christine there is an argument that wall robin-hood says that it has democratize finance that actually is not good for markets is that fair criticism. well actually the argument wasn't so much of that it's not good for the markets as more so that when robin hood democratize finance and made it so that basically anyone with a smartphone is able to trade the typical american is more harm than help by giving them an application that makes it so easy to trade with such frequency given their apparently lack of sophistication and financial knowledge needed to make these very informed decisions so the secondary argument is actually that these new interest

stocks that are driven by retail traders that undermine the face of proper functioning of the american how the markets that somehow the volatility stemming from these names are detrimental to the stability and overall health of the market so i mean let's break this down a little bit both of these arguments are kind of half baked at best because since when has as ben said too much access than that because that's the same argument that regulators used against script does back in 2017 that apparently ordinary investors should not even have access to quote those at all because they just don't understand it that is too risky that the regulators they're only looking out for you know protecting it because essentially what they're saying is that ordinary people are basically too dumb to figure out and learn so rather than trying to block access to opportunity there should be attention towards further education so opportunity and access should not be something that is limited a block to certain few it should be open to all education and learning how to use the tools at your disposal that can be the natural barrier to entry but certainly

not further regulation limiting exposure for retail investors because i would just create more problems and an equitable opportunities so by democratizing trading robin has helped a tremendous amount of americans to grow their wealth and by opportunities to learn a new skill set to generate income at a time when unemployment is already high due to cope and in a small into the market volatility how is that any different than tesla that's another security that is highly controversial suffer some massive short squeezes but there's absolutely no controversy on that because a wall street guys are mean it insults our price but that doesn't mean that there should be any regulation or any intervention. because there is no harm done to the market so regulators shouldn't stick to that line and only in terms of fraud yeah absolutely excellent point man there now ben what are your thoughts here is there a way to protect investors while still opening up training to be average person. well yeah i think there is but i think not the way congress is doing right now not

the way the senate's looking at it less than what christie just described i think is so important because what she's describing is the very nature the very definition of elitism right we talk about the elites all the time in society now there are these elites who think that they're better than everyone else therefore they should have one set of rules and other people should this is the perfect textbook example of believe this and where one group of people should be allowed to short sell because they understand how it works they should be allowed to make billions of dollars because they understand how it works and to her point they should be allowed to use digital currencies you know one thing that crypto currencies and digital currencies have done is they have created one of the greatest and have the potential to create the greatest transfer of wealth from the top back down word that we have seen in human history they actually have that potential and every effort is being made to stop that from happening to say keep the money at the top and everyone else is at the bottom we'll let you know how you can play and so this idea that well this is the city to protect the users the

senate needs to protect us from unfair rules right that allow one group of people to enrich themselves and make everyone else poorer by claiming again that they are the great protectors of society there's absolutely not they simply work for wall street they do what wall street wants i mean we've seen this play out over and over and over again and it continues to play out today. and i can honestly say you won't find better analysis on this topic and in simple occasions anywhere else but ends ron christie i thank you both so much for your time. russia's covert one team vaccine could soon be on its way to europe after an agreement was made with the swiss pharmaceutical company to produce sputnik fee at its facilities in italy that head of the italian russian chamber of congress called the agreement a historic event noting that it is the 1st of its kind with a european partner and this shows that italian companies can see beyond political

differences while a senior official from the european medicines agency called on even members to refrain from approving the russian vaccine before it is fully reviewed by their staff the latest study published in the lancet medical journal found that sputnik the is nearly 92 percent effective. hours after hitting a 9 month low gold futures rose more than one percent to above $700.00 an ounce on tuesday as both the us dollar and treasury yields retreated this as concerns remain over inflation and what the federal reserve will do as the latest $1.00 trillion dollars stimulus package nears president biden's approval so joining me now to discuss is here schiff chief economist and global strategist at euro pacific capital now peter gold has been in a downward trend so is this rebound we saw earlier likely to stick well you know i have no idea wasn't that you know impressive

a move considering how much gold has dropped proceeding this this move on the tuesday a lot of things that were beaten up bounce back today look at the movie saw the tech stocks that had been really getting hammered as rates are rising so i don't know if we've seen the lows in gold but i know for sure we haven't seen the highs so with this correction is over the price of gold is going much much higher. and there is a lot of talk that it still has a long way to go and that this is just the beginning now we've also heard a lot of talk about inflation and you yourself have said that the federal reserve is between a rock and a hard place right now because it couldn't fight inflation even if it wanted to so how long do you see jerome powell continuing to promise to keep interest rates low well rates are going to have to stay low indefinitely because the entire economy is a bubble i mean it's not a legitimate recovery that we're enjoying it's simply the spending of borrowed

money and more literally printed money we're writing massive deficits the federal government is spending over 8 trillion dollars a year but collecting less than 3 and a half trillion in taxes the difference is pretty much being supplied by the fed and americans are spending all this money that's why our trade deficits are skyrocketing right now so the whole thing that's keeping this house of cards from imploding is 0 percent interest rates and q.e. so the fed is not going to pull the rug out from under this bubble but it has support and that if it ever sees an inflation problem that it's got the tools to fight it even though it's bluffing because even if it had the tools it would never use them because the tools would destroy the house of cards that they've erected yeah that's a really good point and it is interesting that you refer to it as a house of cards as we have congress passing another 1.9 trillion dollars in stimulus now the federal reserve seems to be doing everything it can to keep the markets calm right now but if inflation fears continue to increase do you see gold

and precious metal prices catching up to those expectations. well i absolutely see right now i think the markets sense that inflation is going to be moving higher and maybe even higher than what the fed is acknowledging but i think the market still believe the fed that the fed will be able to contain the inflation problem before it really runs out of control so it's the expectation that the fed is going to fight inflation by raising rates that's what's pressuring goal but the markets are off i mean the fed is not even going to attempt to fight inflation is going to surrender inflation is going to win without a fight and when the markets realize that the fed is all bark and no bite and that inflation is going to be an even bigger problem that is going to be uncontrollable then the bottom is going to fall out of the dollar and goals going through the roof and alan definitely creates a lot of hope for those investors and gold now i can have you on without talking a little bit about cryptocurrency is i know you've been

a big critic but it appears that other skeptics have been changing their tune in recent weeks why do you think that is and of course you see it lasting well certainly there are some of the skeptics who are now capitulating which is something that you might expect at the end of a mania the early doubters naysayers you know can't help it and they join the party usually pretty late you know whether or not this party is going to rage for a lot while longer it's hard to say i also question some of the legitimacy of some of these bitcoin converts because i think some of the people who are now bullish also have vested interest they've kind of got involved in some crypto related enterprise and so it's in their financial interest to now be promoting big point so whether or not their newfound love for big coin is genuine or not it's hard to say when there's a lot of money at stake and people are trying to get their piece of the pie before it's god's. great insight to consider here peter schiff thank you so much for your

time sir thank. time now for a quick break but when we come back the british pound is reacting to the latest comments from the bank of england the governor says he is cautiously optimistic about a road to recovery will discuss it next and as we go to break here is the numbers out the club.

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with more than 22000000 residents receiving their 1st dose also awaiting the optimism where the latest comments from bank of england governor andrew bailey he confirmed that the central bank still has no plans to raise interest rates in response to a rapid recovery and would need to see clear evidence that inflation would be sustainable at the 2 percent target before it made any decisions so you know that it is hillary ford which president of strong mark business development consultants hilary i want to start here with governor bailey's comments he continues to warn that the risk room flay sion is increasingly 2 sided but he's also saying that the central bank is preparing for multiple options is that putting investors at ease right now or rachel pleasure to be back with you and yes a good number of factors putting the investors that. in the market to a couple of things he has been focus very much on inflation and

a dissipates that inflation won't be increasing more than say 2 percent this year he's also keeping the follow jobs program in place until september which is looking at keeping unemployment checked i think the markets are very stable and we could actually look to the pound the pound is up to 138 on march 18th of this 2020 it was down to 115 so there's been a steady increase of rise in the pound so i think with his combined focus on keeping inflation at bay to send and on employ. checked i think yes is keeping the markets addys. the u.k. is also getting a lot of praise for its vaccine rollout with the organization for economic cooperation and development upgrading its forecast for the british economy while at the same time calling out the e.u. for falling behind so how is the ongoing vaccine race playing a role in the overall competition between the u.k. and the e.u. well actually i would say rachel this is being quite a sort of a victory for those that were those that were bracks it is because it's actually

pointed rather to the devil in terms of the brussels rollout actually even to the extent that the lay in the current commissioner she had to release a statement last wednesday saying that you know mass production hasn't been what they anticipated to be and actually sort of pointed deliveries haven't been on time sort of pointing the finger elsewhere but this definitely has been an indication that a big bureaucracy doesn't work as well as a as an efficient distribution distribution system that the u.k. has by the national health system so this is very much been a victory for the british and i would say also in terms of production because of course factories offices and the u.k. program productivity nationwide is predicted to increase as you mentioned by the o.e.c.d. and what they're saying is by about 5 percent which they have now released up woods from their prediction of last year certainly a win for the u.k. and they will take anyone that they can get right now especially when it's against

the e.u. right now at the same time we also have to mention that the latest research shows that between bracks and encoded 19 the u.k. has lost significant market share in the us germany and china now we're talking about london's biggest export markets here so is there a concern that this decline will have a lasting impact on the u.k.'s recovery actually i don't really think so rachel because well i always say never bet against the brits but in terms of the vaccine because of what we just talked about that that's going to. to basically make sure that all the manufacturing and production will be ramped up i think the u.k. which had a very high infection rate did fall backwards but now with this rollout i think you will see it expedited while we mentioned earlier that the governor of the bank of england he's been somewhat i would say i think he called it cautiously optimistic or cautious realism i'm his chief economist and he how dein has been really very optimistic indeed and he has said he views the u.k.

economy like a coil that is ready to spring in the spring and he thinks there will be a massive recovery also we should look at the trade and investment head of the u.k. liz trust now she's up to 66 agreements including a recent one with cameroon is only 200000000 but it's another 200000000 under her belt so i think that you see when you see the trade agreements she has made across the world in conjunction with the vaccines those 2 together will make sure that the u.k. bounces back like a coil i think like the chief economist of the bank of england has predicted excellent insight there hilary ford which thank you so much for your time pleasure . that's all for now you can catch boom bust on demand by downloading the portable t.v. app for your apple or android device for your next time and as always don't forget to question more.

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