here at our table is daniel franklin, executive and diplomatic editor at the economist. here is the cover, the world in 2020. you say this year will not be short of drama. what do you think? politically, the big drama is going to be the election in the u.s., running through november. elsewhere, as we have seen in recent days, it is a risky world, and the pace of change seems to be so fast. host: you break it down into many different facets, which i think viewers will find interesting. you begin saying it is judgment time. it is doubly true for president trump, first in congress as the democrats try to remove him from office, and then with this election in november. tell me about judgment time. guest: i think the world will be watching. this is something that clearly concerns the u.s., but given the importance of this country to everything that happens around the world, this is an international, global drama. i think particularly starting with the actual impeachment trial in the senate, people will be tuning in, and then particularly once we get to the further stages of t

host: you are on with daniel franklin. good morning. caller: thank you very much. thank you for having me on. thank you for taking my questions. i have three quick points. i consider this should be front page news everywhere, but it is not. currently, the central bank starting in september, late october, has pumped more money into the financial system than at any time since the great financial crisis, approximately $400 billion and counting. there is a perfect correlation with rising stocks and these qe measures the fed takes. it is almost a 100% correlation. i trade financial instruments for a living, so i know something about this. i was curious why nobody is covering this, since it is so dramatic and out of the ordinary, and if i could just get one other quick point here. i consider the stock market a little bit of an inequality index. the vast majority of people don't own any stocks. there is a small majority that own $40,000, but the majority is owned by the 1%. this is the third asset bubble i have seen in my lifetime. these sort of things should be generatio

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