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fell off rages on as the world foremost crypto currency has lost more than 10000 dollars just this year to bring you the later. then the federal reserve kicked off at the 1st meeting in 2022. so how many interest rate hikes we expect this year and is this going to be able to change during inflation for the stuff with a former insider? we have a lot to get to today, so let's get started. we leave the program was rising energy prices throughout europe. there's been an increasing amount of talk over the past few weeks about what will happen if russia and bays ukraine. now, despite the fact that russian president has said that he has no plans to invade the neighboring country, the united states appears to be making plans for possible military conflict with russia. and at the very least talk of unprecedented sanctions against russia. though all of this is taking place against the backdrop of europe's ongoing energy crisis. in fact, the price of energy across the world has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. and

it trend that's being exasperated by geo political pressures. now, according to the european commissioner for energy, the soaring cost of gas has clearly impacted energy prices on the continent. to joining us now discusses boom bus, co host, an investigative journalist, ben swan. now ben will all of this talk about possible military conflict with russia. make the cost of energy in europe even higher and make this even worse. yeah, i don't see how it couldn't look right now. what we're hearing is a lot of talk about sanctions about the possibility of war about u. s. troops possibly going to ukraine to fight alongside the ukrainians. i mean, the talk right now the rhetoric is ratcheted up so high. meanwhile, you have a number of european nations that are trying to bring down. i think some of this talk because of the fact that they're dealing with ridiculously high energy prices . that's been the case now for several months. we talked about a lot on the show, but you talked about the e u regulator. you talked about this, i want to share with you the wording that she use,

she affirm that the get this current astronomically high prices for electricity and gas are placing an intolerable burden on homeowners and businesses and intolerable burden. that's. that's i think, a pretty good way to summit up the price of gas is incredibly high. it is not going to get better when there is talk of gas disruptions possibly coming from russia, which provides about 40 percent of all the gas for europe. right. and yet, even though we're talking about, you know, something that is going on, whether it's with the e, u, with ukraine, with russia, we still had the united states getting involved in all of this. and meanwhile, we also had the u. s. in talks with energy companies and major gas producing countries globally about the potential for a large supply of natural gas to europe, in case russian deliveries are interrupted. so is the u. s. making the case to figure out that other countries, countries, other than russia, will have to provide natural gas soon. i mean, what kind of message are they sending here?

well, i think it's a terrible message. look, president biden is apparently trying to, to bring sol as to you nation say, listen back, what we're talking about here. don't worry, we'll take care of your energy problem and how are they planning to do that? well, he's talking to countries like dubai, and asking dubai to be responsible for bringing in of the majority of this, this natural gas into the area. which again, that's not going to happen if, if talking about 40 percent of all the natural gas energy that is provided to the e. you comes from of all places. russia and you're saying you're going to replace that 40 percent when prices are already at. and astronomical levels not going to happen. so i think what, what the, by demonstrations trying to do, and what president biden is trying to do is work very hard to reassure european countries that there won't be a price to pay if you back these moves against russia. there's absolutely will be in terms of the economic pain that's already being felt,

it will only get worse. absolutely. now present, biden's also insisted that there is total unity among western powers. after crisis talks with european leaders on how to deter russia from it and attack against ukraine a. but what does that unity actually mean? was interesting because in the us there's a lot of talk about possible military intervention. the, the rest of the world's not talking about military intervention. in fact, in the u. k. boris johnson, there is talking about the sanctions. right? they want to see severe sanctions against russia. other european countries like germany talking about sanctions. they're not talking about all out war, i think. would you have to recognize that this is a very serious ratcheting up of rhetoric that we've seen in the last few weeks, especially coming from the united states. and from the, from the neo cons in the united states. right, who have been anxious to get involved in another war. a war with russia is not like a war in afghanistan. it's not like a war in syria where we're funding rebels and we're dropping bombs. and there's no

consequence for the united states war with russia's very different. but also we have to recognize that russia has already made it very clear that they are very closely aligned at this point with china on these issues. and so you're not just talking about russia, you're talking about russia and china, potentially, and that creates a much bigger problems. i think the rest of the world is saying we can keep talking about sanctions. it sounds good, but there's no real, you know, in and of itself, it is not war. i don't know that they're willing to, to walk, you know, lock step with the united states into a war with russia. and certainly notable to watch how the u. s. has push this even as ukrainian officials are sitting there saying that an invasion from russia is not eminent on their side from what they're seeing. now we've got about a minute here. i want to switch gears to another topic we've been falling, which is that military contractor stocks life like raytheon actually down over the past week. but they have been trending up on tuesday. so what's going on there?

is that related to these ongoing tensions? well, it absolutely could be look way we know this whether or not there's all our war raytheon and be systems and a lot of these different military contractors are making a lot of money right now. why? because the biden administration is approving billions of dollars with a weapons to be sent to ukraine and to to give those to the ukrainians. so that is obviously ratcheted up. so that obviously is to provide support. but i think in terms of the overall market to do the overall markets one to hear talk of war, i don't think so, especially as fragile as the economy is right now. that's not necessarily going to be a positive for market. so yes, investors might want to hear about, we're going to sell weapons and more weapons around the world. but talking about war isn't necessarily going to translate. i don't believe into higher numbers for those stocks. we saw that throughout the last week again, where a lot of those contractors have been down over the last week. and of course, as we've mentioned on this show, as we talk about what's been going on with markets, it's in the middle of earning season right now. as well,

so that can also push things up and down as we go. boom. but spend swan. thank you so much. sure, thanks. and it's already been a roller coaster of a week for crypto currencies, with bitcoin falling to 6 month low is before stabilizing around $36000.00. on monday, the latest sell office costs the entire crypto market. one trillion dollars that we saw bitcoin hit record hiv back in november. and as a result it is now spark warnings of a crypto winner. like the one we saw at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018. when crypto was 80 percent from all time high and speaking of concerns, there are also countless questions surrounding what the vitamin ministration will do. as the u. s. central bank considers the reality of creating its own digital currency. bloomberg is reporting that president biden is expected to release some kind of executive order at the beginning of next month, which aims to put the white house in a central role on determining the government overall policy on crypto currencies.

so joining us now discuss later crypto analyst, kristi i, and dominic dontez, crypto market analyst at coin desk. it's great to have you both on the show today. christy. let's start with you now. anytime there are losses in the crypto world, we start hearing warnings of a crypto winter. so what do you make of the latest warnings and is this something we should be concerned about right now? i don't necessarily think that we're in a crypto winter yet. i think this is more of a cooling off period where the market needed to correct themselves and charts needed to resolve themselves and gaps needed to be filled. so the crypto market often go through this boom by cycle, and we've had nearly 2 years of the parabolic rally that it's about time that we consolidate before going further. so while equipped the winter is inevitable. i don't think we are there yet. all coins are still quite strong things like luna matic adam, though they're still holding up quite nicely and t market as well. you haven't seen

valuations of these valuable collections coming down at all. but a lot of the speculators are getting blown out, which is not surprising at all. so i think that this is just more chop ahead of the potential interest rate hikes and aggressive tightening from the fed. and unfortunately, because the involvement now from large institutional fund crypto acids are becoming more and more intertwined with traditional markets. so when hedges go risk off, the crypto markets will suffer as well. so there's this overall withdrawal from risky assets here. so i think it's really important for bitcoin to defend the 30000 mark if that breaks, then we might have a slide down and that in that case there's an increased likelihood of a crypto winter. dominick, what you actually make of that point that christy made. what do you see when it comes to a crypto winter? you know, it seems like we're in the midst of a decline. it depends on how you define winter can persists for quite some time. we always know that the peak to trough declined and bitcoin can go beyond 20 to 30 percent, to even 80 percent. like what we saw in 2018 overall looking at the long term trade

. it seems like we're midway through that up trend. so you have your, you know, your risk reward is pretty much balance on the upside or downside. so it seems like we're in the beginning stages of a winter. and i think that began back in november when we fail to break the highs around 69 k. and now we're back down about 47 percent from that old time to look at the drop down chart. you know, you can go to the extreme lowes and it seems like we're just around the beginning stages of that as the market is count some of those macro and regulatory risks that are on the horizon. and dominic, when it comes to, you know, all the volatility we've seen around criminal currencies like big quote, you know, we used to hear, oh, this could be the replacement hedge against inflation against bad market to what we might see with gold. what do you make of that? volatility is very strong, so such a new market. so there's a lot of speculation and a lot of understanding of what the true value is for the token across other tokens

and the crypto currency market. i haven't seen any data to confirm whether or not it's an inflation hedge yet, as you know, inflation can move in cycles and we got through the 70s, which was a pretty much extreme. and the markets haven't really been tested for a while over the long term, the global economy, i've been buying depletion, airy forces. so we haven't really seen any data to confirm that yet. and now chris, when it comes to now, i want to switch gears here because when it comes to that threat of government regulation on crypto, here in the u. s, what do we actually know about what president biden might do in issuing executive order? is that likely to have an impact, especially as we see crypto struggling right now? we don't know too much yet aside from the fact that it would place the white house in a central role in overseeing policies and regulations of digital assets. so the order would most likely involve numerous agencies and create a common approach the industry. unfortunately though, that work is being held up by the fact that the administration doesn't have anyone who knows anything about crypto on its team. barring one adviser who report 8,

he owned some bitcoin. so there is a lot of unknowns here and as for will have an effect. certainly it will most likely have an effect on the private industry and businesses that deal with digital currencies. unfortunately for them, they're going to be the one scrutinized and like we've seen in the past with companies like bit finnic, pallone export b and countless others. they might eventually decide to just leave us shores and exclude us citizens from business, because it's too much of a hassle to deal with when there's a much bigger pi outside of the u. s. so yes, the u. s. is a huge financial markets, so whatever comes down we'll have a short term effect on the crypto market. but there it says this is so much more bigger than the us and it's attempt to regulate it will kind of turn out no better than china. yeah, that sounds about right. if you have us officials who are literally asking their kid, what are your currency is so they can figure out how to regulate it. now before we go, dominic and the federal reserve says they are getting serious about creating a digital dollar. now obviously the government wants to convince americans that

they should choose acdc over crypto. but do you see that push being made specifically through regulation? and how do you see crypto users responding? yeah, i wouldn't be so quick to do. you know folks, decisions regarding their dollars c, d. c. i see is a very separate issue. it's more about improving the payment rules at the fed users . they have fed now program, you know, there's different mechanisms that the uses to move money to the system to currencies are very different. that's more of a sort of a separate market in terms of the next month where the executive decision is going to roll out. you know, similar to russia, i think diminished tree finance ban and you need to regulate rather than and so expect some tire. elation bring crypto more into the traditional regulatory framework is important so that users and investors have recourse to bad actions do occur. so i do think it's a sick enough to capture regulatory attention,

but over time i think there is a clear difference between c d. c and the the regular crypto. hark it for now. yeah, it will certainly be interesting to see what we get out of that executive order. we're going to have to leave it right there. the most christiane, in dominic onto the queen desk. thank you both for your time and insight. thank you . and yeah, and what was one set to become the largest semi conductor deal in history appears to be on the verge of being scrapped altogether. and video is quietly planning to abandon its $40000000000.00 acquisition, a british ship designer arm according to a report from bloomberg. since it was announced in september of 2020, the deal has faced heavy scrutiny from regulators in the u. k. european union and china. the united states federal trade commission even sued to stop the deal. now, meanwhile, off bank, which currently owns arm, is making preparations for an initial public offering up the company if the deal

were to fall through. and rachel, i think 1st of all, we should point out that this is all based on unnamed sources, but a lot of times they are correct when it comes to that. but it's interesting to look at the situation when we talk about and trust so much and taking on big tack and how there could be coming conglomerate. and this actually looks like it may have been stopped. and even in the case of china, what happened here was that regulators there according to sources, are saying that even if it's approved elsewhere, it likely wasn't going to be able to be approved in china. be able to operate there as well. so there's a lot going on here, but we'll continue to cover that story. absolutely. time now for a quick break, when we come back, we'll bring you the latest outlook for the federal reserve. as the u. s. central bank looks set to raise lending rates for the 1st time since 2013. and as we go to break here, the numbers at the close the there

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i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war. in the south is winning it's an open secret that private military companies have been playing a role in our conflicts world wide. u. s. government doesn't track the number of contractors it uses in places iraq or afghanistan, the united states army and the military and general is so reliance on the private sector. i would call the dependency, but we don't know who's the on the ground presence of these companies overseas. we just don't out west and private military companies can in their turn use so called sub contractors from countries with trouble pass. the chances are quite good that they had also been child diligence. this is, i was a child, as well as my job professional job is he's with the whole

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many wall street analysts expecting 3 more increases before the end of 2022. and this comes to us. equities have been reeling since the start of the year in the middle of earning season as the s and p $500.00 and tech heavy nasdaq have entered correction territory while a few more poor days will see the dow fault 10 percent below its recent highs and be in the same boat, while the fed seems to have met its goal of maximum employment, the nation is still 5 faces, rising prices with inflation surging at the highest rate in nearly 40 years. we can't say that enough. so will there be any surprise out of this week out of the fed this week? well, it's got this former fed insider, and theo of well intelligent danielle de martino booth. danielle, it appears that the fed composition is opening the door to kind of a more hawkish tone. what does that mean as the f o m c holds the 1st meeting of the year? well, i think what you have to focus on is really the change in the cast of characters. we've got christopher waller, jim bullard, of course,

waller sits on the board. but jim bullard loretta master and esther george, all 3 of them just rotated into voting for tomorrow's 1st vote. and they're all very hawkish as is christopher waller who has a permanent vote on the federal reserve board. and i think we have to take into account the risk that the power is facing a high degree of descent if he is not very articulate about about really tightening policy at a faster, more aggressive pace to get this inflation rained in. right. we want to know, not just that those interest rates are going to happen. we're interest rate hikes rather are going to happen. we want to know when they're going to happen. now right now, it seems like all signs have been pointing to the 1st rate height coming in march, but with the economy reaching maximum employment, while inflation seems to be out of its control. and with markets facing volatility, could we see power will come out and actually push up that timeline for ending easy monetary policy sooner than expected. yes,

there is anything is possible. and i think that the fed really would prefer to have void interest rate hikes if it could. so it would prefer to use the balance sheet and running off the balance sheet as a way of tightening a quantitative tightening if you will. i rather than interest rate hikes because the difference between the 2 year treasury yield and the tenure treasury yield is only 3 quarters of a percentage point. which means that the fed really does not have a lot of room to maneuver if there's going to be 3 rate hikes of $25.00 basis points, a quarter of a percentage point before it. technically inverts the yield curve, which in the past 40 years at least, has never failed to signal a recession coming down the pipeline that, that wants to avoid that. so i think i think that they're discussing today and, and tomorrow, the ability of the fed to maybe threat the needle and prefer to roll that balance sheet off at a more aggressive pace and thereby avoid the rate hikes. we'll see, we'll see if the, if the hawks are going to let them do that and, and, you know,

i mean, we cover, you know, a little bit of everything on the show. we cover global markets pretty regular investors worldwide. they're always keeping an eye on what the fed might do, and we know that global financial stability isn't at all in the feds mandate. but do you think power and the rest of the form? so you're keeping all this in mind when it comes to policy, because if they continue to see this volatility in the us markets that transcends to global markets, and then we might have a real problem on or her well, and again, you know, you point out something that is very challenging for the fed, and you know that policy is a global phenomenon, as you say. and effect cannot like take down the emerging markets complex, and yet, tightening policy is going to have ripple effects around the globe. it's going to cause the dollar to appreciate as well. and that also makes it difficult for, for countries who are exporting to united states. so there are a lot of different factors in, in, in, in flux right now. and you mentioned the volatility in the markets. this is going

to make for a very interesting press conference and a very interesting statement because federal federal reserve officials have to be aware of the fact that the markets are flying all over the place. oh absolutely. now you mentioned the importance of some of the players here. we know that both powell and lael brainard won't face confirmation votes for chair and vice chair respectively. until sometime next month. does this put them in a situation where they are vulnerable to political pressure as their fate sits in the hands of the senate? would say you so i find this to be a very disturbing a moment in fed history if you will. j. how old his, his job and his tenure as fetch here ends on monday, and they'll brainer, it does not end until january the 31st of 2026. so i think that the congress right now is being very political in trying to hold pals feet to the fire, make him the bad guy, make him the, you know,

the inflation fall guy. and by coupling there are 2 votes together, even though even though it lab reynard is going to continue on at the better reserve board after this monday, i think it's extremely bad politics, very bad optics. i've never seen anything i guess. i mean, for all we know on tuesday, if you call for the, for the chair, the federal reserve, you might get his voice mail because he's not tech to see chair any more. i say that tongue in cheek, but this is not a good moment for, for, for the u. s. congress where it's going to be interesting to see what j power comes out and does on wednesday. that's for sure. former fed insider daniel d, martina booth. always appreciate your expertise on the program. thank you. and finally, if you're wondering when your options for commuting to work will include a flying taxi when you're actually not alone there. boeing just invested $450000000.00 in the electric air taxi startup wisc arrow, and it's the latest round of funding. now you may remember the company was formed in a joint venture between boeing and the flying taxi company,

kitty hawk back in 2019, which is co fire, co founded, funded by the co founder of google. now the company has looked to set itself apart by noting that while its top competitors, such as william and joby, the ation have gone public by merging with specs and recent months. risk ero remains privately backed and is quote, one of the most well funded advanced air mobility companies in the entire world. now, as for the timeline of when we might get to see those flying taxis, well, that's up in the air as the f a has yet to certify any of these products for commercial use of now we are finally getting the closest thing maybe in the future we've ever gotten to flying cars and one way to look at it. absolutely had it feels like 2 years ago, pre pandemic, we were doing a story almost every week on boom bus about here's the future applying taxes. these are all the companies you have over, you have left everybody's getting involved. but the reality is that kind of depend never kind of pushed all of that back because people weren't thinking about, hey, let's get into a close space with

a bunch other people that we don't know and then flying around while we do it. yeah, exactly. well, it'll be interesting to see when that comes forward and of course, who is getting on one of those. i don't know if i'm gonna do on the 1st people this line up for that. i know that may not surprise you. i gotta tell ya, with traffic in dc, sometimes there may be a morning where i'm stuck and i'm going, you know, i could be there to half hour. i could be there in 10 minutes. i'm gonna take the flying taxi go. and that's it for this time. you can catch boom bus odd to band on the portable tv app available on smartphones and tablets. google play in the apple app store by search portable tv, portable tv. it can also be downloaded on samsung, smart tv and roku devices or simply check it out at portable dot tv will see you next time. mm hm. mm hm. lines have been drawn and positions made clear. after 2 weeks of high level

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