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ah, ah this is boom buzz though in business you can't afford to miss. i am radio bobbins in washington. coming up the u. s. and its allies moved, implement a host of new sanctions against russia. we'll take a look at how the new measures are already impacting global market. this as russia central bank move to devil interest rates, while the ruble see this worst day on record for discuss the latest central bank action and whether it could soon include the federal reserve, was delayed attendance, an oil prices back to a $100.00 the barrel will break down why mark is our concern and how long the latest rally is likely to laugh. we have a pass show today. so let's get started. we leave the program with
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a fall out in markets around the world as the u. s. e u and the u. k moved, implement new sanctions against russia over its ongoing military operation. ukraine . the result has been continued volatility as investors brace for the impact of the latest tensions. ortiz trinity chavez has more today, market volatility continues in the wake of the russia, ukraine, crisis, western nations. now ramping up sanctions against russia, with steps including blocking some of its banks from the swift global payment system. russia's currency, the rubel, tumbled to fresh record lows. and the russian central bank has raised its key interest rate more than doubling it to 20 percent on wall street. markets are under pressure monday. morning futures for the s and p 500 index dropped about 1.4 percent. while futures for the tech heavy nasdaq, $100.00 declined roughly 1.2 percent. as the volatility index rose to with highest level seen in over a year. the pan continental stock europe $600.00 also felt approaching
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a correction. this while china's hang saying index retreated, point 2 percent at the close of monday, trading the lowest since march 2020. the peak of the pandemic as the market is down, oil prices are up. brent crude oil, the international oil benchmark rows as much as 7 percent to trade as high as a $105.00 per barrel. texas intermediate proved futures. the u. s. benchmark also gained as much as 7 percent to trade above $98.00 per barrel. meantime, investors are on high alert as a situation intensifies in ukraine. many scrambling to adjust their positions to geopolitical developments for boom bust trinity jarvis r t. meanwhile, in russia, the rural fall, the record lows on monday, prompting the nation central bank to increase interest rates from 9.5 percent up to 20 percent now will not unprecedented. it is notably higher than when the bank raise rates to 17 percent back in 2014, when it was also facing sanctions from the rest surrounding the situation in
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ukraine. this time around the u. s. e u and the u. k. say they are moving to block, he, russian bangs from accessing the swift payment system while threatening more measures in the future. however, notably the west appears to be skirting around rushes, energy sector, given how much they still rely on it. so joining us now the best way to co host christy. i know christy break this one down for us. what sparks to move by russia central bank to more than double interest rate. yeah, the re height is designed to offset increased risk approval, depreciation and inflation. so this was an attempt to defend the currency on the back of a slew of new sanctions and penalties imposed on russia by europe and the u. s. and this follows the central bank orders to him. now halt foreigners is to sell russian security in an effort to contain this market fall out. the rubel fell as far as 30 percent from friday's close before pairing some losses. but it's still down roughly 20 percent against the dollar in the last year. and the bank also said that it
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would be freeing about $8.00, a $1000000000.00 in local reserves to boost the quantity. so all of these dramatic steps together, they underlined fears of a run on rushes banks, and already there are huge lined to withdraw cash at 8 hands in russia, and the banks have reported significant outflows of deposits in a very short period of time. wow, that's a lot of concern that's continuing going from the top down to the average people there. now, when it comes to the measures that the u. s. u and the u. k. are taking against russia right now. what do we know and do we know what exactly is being cut off from the switch payment system so far? well, over the weekend, the us european allies in canada, they agreed to cut off key russian banks from the swift messaging system which connects more than $11000.00 banks. now this is a very significant move, and it means that there's going to be an enormous scramble for dollars in russia. and now russia over the past several years, they've a mass, a huge war, chest of some $630000000000.00 in foreign reserves,
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which is at its highest level ever right now. so this war chest will help it to withstand sanctions and losses and export revenue. however, if some of those assets are frozen, that changes the calculations for russia, because by cutting it off from swift, it'll make it near impossible for the central bank of russia to liquidate those assets. so now with this move, russia cannot deploy a good part of that $600000000000.00 that has been carefully building up. and this means that it will block rushes ability to support the ruble as it plunges in value amid the tightening western sanction. and this was one of the most potentially crippling financial penalties now imposed on russia. so officials, they're still ironing out the fine print of the sanction, so they can limit the impact of the restrictions on other economies and european purchases of russian energy. so as of now they have not yet fully settled on which banks exactly will be cut off. so while this is a very strong move, it's not without its own got some possible loopholes because experts have warned
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that this is also violated. the tradition of respecting the sovereign immunity of central banks. but with the details of the move still yet to be announced, it is likely to limit russia's ability to backstop the nation's banks. yeah, and that is a notable, especially as we talk about all of these measures that are being pursued. and yet, at the same time, we have the kind of keeping away from going really severely after rushes energy sector. now, given that europe relies on russia around 40 percent of their natural gas supply, how much of an impact would have on europe, specifically if they were to target rushes, energy supplies moving forward. now kicking russia out of slip that will hurt other economies, including germany. and russia, plays a very big role in the global energy trade and trace about 80000000000 euros with the e u, which is 10 times as much as the u. s. so germany, they've initially bought that the measure as it could hit them hard and caused energy supply disruptions that would in turn plunge their own country into chaos.
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so for now, energy is not being targeted and officials are still trying to be very selective with the banks that are cut off so that they do not affect the energy trade too much. the sanctions will of course, make it more difficult for russia to export energy and other commodities, but not completely impossible as to how much pain the sanctions will render on the russian economy will depend on which banks are restricted and which measures are taken to restrict the ability of the central bank to operate, and despite their efforts to limit the impact of the energy trade, the price of the oil have already jumped by roughly 40 percent over the last 3 months over concerns of a disruption. so the current exemptions for energy related transactions run through june 24th, but it can be renewed. wow. and i know when we talk about the energy prices, of course there's a lot of speculation there and that just keeps going more and more. now when it comes to the sanctions that are being implemented, i know we often talk about how sanctions impact the average people much more than they do the government and officials, they're targeting. how do the latest measures stand impact the russian people?
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especially, i know you mentioned with people going and trying to take their money out of bank accounts. i mean what sort of that panic look like when those sanctions become a reality? i mean, it's already a reality and it's going to be very difficult for the average russian citizen to withstand the decline of the ruble would likely send inflation story and the resulting economic disruption is saturdays. measures are as harsh as described. they could lead food and facing political unrest at home. now, analyst, they've also predicted intensify, runs on banks by russian falling government reserves, as russian scramble to sell their target currency for safer assets. and any financial system is essentially built on trust and for citizens, they trust their national currency and they look up to their central bank to step in if something were to go wrong. but now since the central bank can't exactly do anything with the sanctions, that trust becomes broken and that's likely to generate financial outflows on top of the immediate effects felt by citizens. so the long term effects will be less
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worn investments and developments into the country, which in turns results in less growth. certainly a lot of daycare boom bus kristi, i thank you for your time and insight and from one central bank to another. the federal reserve is just days away from its 1st expected interest rate hikes in 2018. but as the fed begins to move away from the easy money policies is that it has had in place for nearly 2 years now. it remains to be seen if and how the latest your political tensions could have an impact. for example, a top strategist from credit suisse is now comparing the current situation to the 2008 lehman brothers. crisis warning that excluding certain russian banks from swift will lead to miss payments, which will be similar to layman's ability to make payments due to its clearing banks unwillingness to sun payments on his behalf. he went on to say, quote, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. so to go further and just on the spring and jeffrey tucker,
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president of the brownstone institute, jeffrey, it's great to have you on the show today. now, what do you make of that comparison? there that excluding certain russian banks from swift could lead to action on a federal level, specifically from the federal reserve. what seemed a little bit implausible, at 1st, on the, on the other hand, if it's even slightly likely, the fed my rethink everything, you know, there's so many moving pieces here. and we really are talking about myth payments and subtly that's kind of reserves going to be on tap to, to, to do, you know, a few weeks to flatten the curve here where it facing incentive to, to do, to do more listening rather than, than tightening. so that's, it really does change everything. and i tell you this last week, you know, that you have the fed seem to have it also up until the russia ukraine thing and many people the i'm after world bank you state department and the fed
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were very reluctant to touch the swift system. but it seems like you know, now that with the, by the ministration, trying to get syria to lease appear to be serious about this with everybody screaming dropped to sweat scraps. suddenly others and a great deal of pressure. and we're going to see how the pan out, but it's going to change everything for the federal reserve that can be on tap to, you know, flood of the world again with dollars just to keep the financial system alive. and keep in mind to that despite 2 years of non stop crisis, we've actually not have any serious financial problems. there's been no real threat to the financial system such this is something completely different and the fed is nowhere near prepared to deal with this. this combination of factors does not exist in any money and banking textbook, i can tell you that for sure. yeah, no, it feels like there is another new crisis and it never feels like we are quite
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prepared for it whenever we get there. now i'm glad you mentioned last week because the last time that you were on the show, you did talk about how a crisis like the one in ukraine could be exactly what the federal reserve is. kind of looking for hoping for. i mean, do you believe that they don't want to move into the world of quantitative tightening under instead looking for an excuse to keep that money flowing so to speak? since like, it seems like that's what the bottom recession once, because as bad inflation is we live in a world at that terrified of a recession. and he sort of down to the markets. it's going to cause people on pensions. everybody is used to seeing their fall and kids go up and jobs go approach and we go up. and so we really have lost a cultural, political cultural sense, any tolerance for the tolerating downturns at all. so, you know, i mean,
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it's been 40 years since we've had in public official lives that i know of to say something obvious, you know, which is that sometimes you need, you know, cleanse into the system. after after an unsustainable boom. and they will go through a year or 2 of recession and then come out on the other side of it. i mean, that's sort of wisdom of the past. it seems to be completely obliterated. and the entire federal reserve policy and everything associated with fiscal policy and everything else seems to be devoted to avoiding recession at all costs, even if that means tolerating inflation. right? and already the markets have completed world out. the idea that the fed, it's going to hit it's a 2 percent target this year. next for the next. i mean we're, we're, we're, we're,
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we're into, into a world of, of inflation tolerance like we've, we've never seen before. i mean, i don't know what point it stops, you know, is the c p start trees in 10 percent, 11 percent. you're going to see a tremendous amount of public anger. and the other hand at the fed, at this point, might be willing to tolerate that in exchange for which we don't go into a period of declining financials and, and recessionary territory in terms of overall productivity. and that to me is really scary because in fact they might get both. that's why you're seeing the word stagflation. so much being talked about right now in the financial press, your brain is like they're trying to avoid anything that looks like a recession at all. but at the same time, i mean we've been talking about record high after record high. and so it kind of brings up the question, i mean, can these record highs just keep going up and up at some time they've got to come down, right. i mean, what are the long term effects of sort of the policy that we're seeing right now?
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so here's the thing, rachel, you and this is a little bit weird, but you can imagine a world in which markets go up and up enough enough. at the same time, inflation is worrying, right, and the economy is tipping into recession. all of these things can happen at the same time. it's all about creating illusion. illusion that wages are going up even though they're going down in real terms. the idea that the markets are going up, even though they're, they're, they're going down in real terms in terms of purchasing power. so it's a shell game at this mine. and as i said, you know, just a couple of months ago, the fed thought that had all turn up who's going to go back to quantitative easing . we're going to raise interest rates, you know, and that will fix in place. i never believe that for a 2nd. this new conflict with russia and ukraine changes. absolutely everything. and i already the markets are expecting for fewer rate hikes over the next year
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than, than they did just 2 weeks ago. i'm really wondering and that's going to continue to be back and we're going to see the fed say ok, no, no rate increases. for now we're going to wait to the cases passes. we're going to hit the timer. the same thing is going to happen, hit the fall, same things that have we been here before promises promises and it never happens. all those promises will continue to follow them to think what they actually decide to do. jeffrey tucker, the brown stern institute. thank you so much sam. now for a quick break, when we come back, oil prices are on the rise in the wake of the ongoing conflict in ukraine. on the other side, we'll discuss the latest rally and how long it's likely to laugh. and as we go to break, here are the numbers that the clothes with
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welcome back. oil prices have continued to rise with the international benchmark bank crew rising as much as 7 percent did a $105.00 per barrel on monday, before settling back around a $100.00, even while the latest sanctions against russia haven't moved to directly target the nation's energy supply, they have driven concern over their impact on the global economy at a time when demand is still struggling to recover. so how high will prices go and what will the latest tensions mean for the future of supply? well, joining us a bubble horwitz cheap market strategist at barbara training, but it's always great to have you back on the show. now, i know we've been kind of flirting with the reality of a $100.00 per barrel for weeks now. so what do you see is driving the latest rising prices and how are the new sanctions against russia playing a role?
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i rates i'll greatly back with you. listen, we oil is going higher and has been going higher since the election. you know, it, once we gave up all of our own power to produce oil through fracking and shell producing, we became dependent on saudi arabia and they are not going to produce more oil. right now you're seeing a little bit of a driver of fear because of the uncertainty in the world, not because of what energy that russia would supply. okay, so really oil is going higher and i think there's probably a better than even money chance that we see and brand new all time high, which is closer to 150 a barrel. unless we do something here to change what we're doing and it doesn't appear that this administration wants to make any changes to their current ridiculous argee policy a and said, they just want to call on opec plus and complain about what they're doing. and you know, it's interesting because when we talk about the united states and saudi arabia, we always talk about how they're close allies. but it kind of seems like saudi
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arabia is saying, hey, you as you're on your own on this one. right. and they're kind of going more towards what russia is doing, even in a case like this, where tensions are so high. so i mean, where does that leave the united states? you would think that president biting would have a little bit more of a plan by now. right. well, i mean, i don't think he has a plan. i think that the entire administration's clueless when it comes to inflation. you know, we have a federal reserve that won't do anything about the inflation and, and hopefully they won't do it right away because we have a simple solution. we can reduce harmful ation in 5 minutes with a signature on the present, but they don't want to do that. they want to continue to hold up and can you know, right, nasty letters to a prince in saudi arabia saying, can you make some more oil for us? i mean, this is a, this is almost level because saudi arabia, although an ally, is really more of an enemy. and what would loving see you love more, the z, the united states struggle? because right now, the only 3 happy countries in the world right now are china,
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russia and, and, and, and you is saudi arabia, with the exception. russell's going through some of the sanctions. but we forget one thing that russia is a big weak producer. and that could cause another problem down the road. yeah, i know whenever it comes to their exports, i mean, are there concerns that it will still be impacted even though in kind of got the u . s. in europe saying, hey, we're not really going to directly target your energy sector, is there still major concerns about russia's exports and how that could impact oil prices, especially when it's when we're in a situation where it seems like any possible little thing has a major impact on the state of the oil market. well, i don't know that, right. as i said earlier, russia will have a major effect on the all market. i think the rhetoric and propaganda coming out of washington and i guess i must, there must be election coming up soon. because obviously we're seeing how these things come out suddenly. but i think when you're looking at the bigger picture, russia has a very little effect on us for oil. now, certainly,
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germany and you do you care going to suffer greatly because russia is a big supply, hurt their natural gas. and if there is problems they can get things out. you shut down the swift system, you're going to have some real real problems there. because how are, how are they going to get their heat and the in the natural gas that they need? so i think there's a lot of issues here, but i think oil is more running a little bit on fear, but we're going hire no matter what we roll ro 100 last week and we're going to get close to it again this week. i wouldn't be surprised because i said to see all time you, isaac, i propose all done. yes. certainly seems like all of the pieces are there for the puzzle to be put together. now another story that i wanted to touch on when it comes to all of the reaction here is the fact that b p announce that it is offloading it's 20 percent stake, and the russian oil giant ross net, which will cost the british company around $25000000000.00. i mean, what is behind to move like that and does it benefit b p in any way? well, i may benefit them from maybe looking good,
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but let's see if this is just lip service or has is going to be real. you know, a lot of people say a lot of things in the heat of the battle and to make sure they look like they're on the right side of the battle. but let's see it, it really becomes part of it. let's either willing to take that $25000000000.00 hit and let's see if it doesn't cure it's all about before it's all sudden done. again, remember, a lot of people say things that they don't necessarily mean that the moment they sam and it could be just for, you're almost not political but to make their company look better for the moment until things settle down a little bit. yeah, their p r people are certainly talking there now. lastly, i know you mentioned that you're predicting oil possibly going to record highs. we've got president biden's state of the union address coming up this week. so i mean, what does that look like for his administration? do you expect them to actually do anything in the months coming forward, especially when we're talking about an election coming up?
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well, i don't think they're going to do anything, but i know that the senator hall is bringing us, trying to bring a bill to floor, to allow us to go back to create their own oil. and i would think it didn't get it to the floor. there's a real chance could pass because many of the moderates, you know, they don't want to lose the election and they're already and pretty much severe trouble here. so i think, you know, but you, when you start taking away the ability to earn for people, wages are not as your previous gut. so said inflation is skyrocketing and shelves are empty. the why chain has broken down. so we are in recession, you know, we may not see it yet, but we are in a recession based on all of these. i just saw g grades that as though he has taught her at and by the training. thank you so much for your time. i do ritual and as tensions here on earth continue to rise between russia and western nation that has largely been confined within the atmosphere. but that could soon change according to the director general of russia equivalent to nasa who claims that the recent
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wave of sanctions from the united states could threaten cooperation between the 2 powers on the international space station. the heightened sanctions come as the longstanding project is entering its final decade of cooperation as the i assess is set to be decommissioned in 2031. now the hope is that the united states will transition to a privately operated space system and the coming days. and of course, that all of those tensions here on earth won't continue to the point where they make their way all up to space. maybe that'll be the sacred area where everyone can get come together and get along at the end of the day. and that is it. for this time, you can catch boom bus on demand on the portable tv app, which is available on smartphones and tablets through google play and the apple app store by searching portable tv, portable tv. you can also download it on samsung, smart tvs and roku devices, or simply check it out at portable dot tv will see you next time with
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who wrote that completely untrue day in the tele prompts for not anyway, america finally has a solution to our labor crisis. you know, the one that's been causing restaurants to close due to a lack of employee's causing retail outlets to cut their hours and causing sesame street to have to fill employment gap with on documented pop it. i love you, carlos putting stuff out the same. the immigrants come here and they steal our jobs . that should be my, with an art students, hand up it anyway with the labor crisis getting bad. perhaps the answer is to pay workers more. here's a rather complicated chart of the minimum wage since 2009. as you can see back and do the 9. it was $725.00. ok. and now a whole 13 years later, it's a whopping $725.00. so that's almost enough to buy the lunch. she'll need to seek
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or lead out of a new balance running shoes. so it doesn't look like you're eating on the job at the shoe store where you work. but even though the minimum wage has not changed in all those years, it's not as bad as it looks because you have to take into account inflation. 725 today was worth 950 in 2009. so it's kind of like the minimum wage used to be $950.00 and it's actually gone down to $725.00. 0 so it's it's worth it worse. it's worse now it's, it's not better. i think i got it backwards like that time in my high school talon shell. i did the moon walk forwards and ended up in the orchestra pit. ok, so the wages shock in this country, the benefits shock for most employees. the benefits consist of a coupon for 15 percent off of sexual harassment, but you only get one coupon. so use it sparingly. and a lot of.
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