investigative journalist ben swan and jeffrey tucker the editorial director at the american institute for economic research now but i want you to break down this generational divide for us. yeah it's pretty simple i mean gold obviously just hit an all time high of $2000.00 and older investors who know gold as a safe haven asset they know that it's something that governments around the world strongly desire and want to be involved in and they know that gold's been around literally for amber and so they anticipate that it will continue to be they are hedging their bets with gold whereas younger investors millennial are leaning towards big coin which some call and our own chris the i calls it digital gold right it's a safe haven asset but it's also much more portable much easier to access and much more fluid obviously then you know gold would be so we're seeing a clear divide between the way investors are moving right now younger investors millennialist they really are interested in big quoting digital currencies older investors sticking with precious metals now jeffrey would this be the case does it mean tha

course gold here on boom bust boom bust caused ben swan and jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research thank you both for your time. and finally now here on boom bust we have talked about the bustling business of video games amid the pandemic as the industry has seen a massive spike in sales streaming in time spent playing and now we are really seeing the effect on bottom lines as giants the field earnings reports now nintendo reported thursday that operating profit had jumped 428 percent for april through june quarter outpacing expectations now the company's operating profit for the quarter was 144700000000 yen a huge jump from the 27400000000 yen reported for the same quarter last year now a lot of this can actually be attributed to the massive success of animal crossing new horizons which has sold more than $22000000.00 copies after releasing right around the start of stay at home orders here in the united states consuls council sales were also up as well as then $100.00 said the switch and switched light sales grew by 167 percent to just over 5 and a half 1000000 units sold in that

investigative journalist ben swan and jeffrey tucker editorial director with the american institute for economic research thank you both for joining us but i want to start with you here because we know you've been very critical of the u.s. stance on chinese companies including this move over to so does this latest statement i mean he just matched it over ali baba does it surprise you. it doesn't surprise me it disappoints me i continue to be disappointed by these decisions by the trump administration really to take the stance look i have a huge problem with that i have a problem with the way the way has been treated as a private company but essentially having the u.s. government essentially launch not only a war against wall wait here in the u.s. but to really go to bat overseas and to try to get while we remove from countries around the world which again is not a government entity it's a private company now you can argue and you can say well you know why the way they give their technology and they give access which is what the u.s. says to the chinese government but the u.s. is still never produced any

on the program we've been speaking to geoffrey turk or editorial director for the american institute for economic research and ted hall co-founder of occupy wall street 2 economists thank you very much gentlemen. ok an eye opening account next year on our to international chronicling america's northernmost state on the life being lived by many of its residents losing alaska begins in a moment good bye for now.

firsthand through this whole pandemic but with co-host christine jeffrey tucker on the american institute for economic research thank you both so much for your time today. the u.s. is now making progress on a plan to bring iraq's. power grid into an alliance with gulf states that include saudi arabia will a move that would take iraq away from a long standing energy relationship with iran this comes as president continues to promise that u.s. troops in iraq will be leaving very soon are 11 joining me now to discuss the details rachel what do we know so far about the steel well the u.s. is spending more than a year trying to convince iraq to cut off its energy dependence on iran and instead connect its power grid to u.s. allies in the region now what they want iraq to do is join this gulf cooperation council which includes countries like saudi arabia the u.a.e. and kuwait and now officials are saying that such a move could be happening in the coming months now we've seen statements that include iraq's foreign minister who told the atlantic council of the project is on the verge of being defined and designed and

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investigative journalist ben swan and geoffrey tucker editorial director with the american institute for economic research thank you both for joining us but i want to start with you here because we know you've been very critical of the u.s. stance on chinese companies including this move over to so does this latest statement i mean he just matched it over ali baba does it surprise you it doesn't surprise me it disappoints me i continue to be disappointed by these decisions by the trump administration really to take the stance look i have a huge problem with it i have a problem with the way the way has been treated as a private company but essentially having the u.s. government essentially launch not only a war against wall wait here in the u.s. but to really go to bat overseas and to try to get while we remove from countries around the world which again is not a good.

as we have an election coming up here so we will see that jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research boom bust co-host ben swan thank you both for your time. thanks. and trading in the markets remain subdued on monday as traders weighed the prospect of tighter quarantine measures against continued government support now meanwhile tensions continue to mount between the u.s. and china as the 2 have postponed trade talks as well that had been set for this past weekend to discuss the status of the phase one trade deal but markets perked up slightly as china made another liquidity injection let's go ahead and bring in blue bus co-host christiane to go over the details chris i want to start right there what does this new liquidity injection mean for these markets well the people's bank of china just offered 700000000000 arm b. of one year funding via the medium term lending facility so this is to offset the 400000000000 army that in loans coming due monday as well as the other 150000000000 maternal later in august so this liquidity injection signals a moderate easing of monetary policy mon

it's know the that, and the american institute for economic research we've got a.b.re as well. the president has already characterized joe biden, a a cross to plant life, and so if he just does okay and doesn't think, won't that lowered bar be to his advantage? >> i think you're right, neil. the president and his allies for a really long time have been lowering expectations way too low for joe biden so that if he shows up at the debate and does okay, it's going to be very helpful to joe biden. tonight he's going to read off a teleprompter. this is not an area where joe biden usually misses a step, so i think that the convention, not only because its been pretty well-designed for an awkward virtual, not exciting convention that we're used to, not that energizing. they've really done a lot of interesting things, far exceeded my expectations in terms of its design, and i think that what they've also done in terms of trump's messaging about him, biden being captive to the radical left, is you know, fill the entire program with messaging to center right former s and forme

let's get the read from edward stringham, american institute for economic research president. tarlov with us, fox news contributor and last but not least, connell mcshane. connell, i understand, the big cheese with the "after the bell" show, everything else, everything was hunky-dory but your power went out and you were unable to make it to air so it's interesting how i orchestrated that, isn't it? >> we have now gotten the list of suspects. this was yesterday at 3:57 p.m. i'm working out of this beautiful home studio and all of a sudden, all of a sudden the power's on all day with the tropical storm coming up the coast. two to three minutes before air, blackout. you say well, who's on another network at the same exact time that might stand to benefit from the power going out. so we're looking into it. investigators don't want to leap to any conclusions. so far, everything looks pretty good today. neil: all right. we can pull the plug on him now, guys. all right. i'm not minimizing it. the battle back and forth over i think it's come down to those unemployment benefits, so i t

course gold here on boom bust boom bust caused ben swan and jeffrey tucker of the american institute for economic research thank you both for your time. and finally now here on boom bust we have talked about the bustling business of video games amid the pandemic as the industry has seen a massive spike in sales streaming in time spent playing and now we are really seeing the effect on bottom lines as giants the field file earnings reports now nintendo reported thursday that operating profit had jumped 428 percent for april through june quarter outpacing expectations now the company's operating profit for the quarter was 144700000000 yen a huge jump from the 27400000000 yen reported for the same quarter last year now a lot of this can actually be attributed to the massive success of animal crossing new horizons which has sold more than $22000000.00 copies after releasing right around the start of stay at home orders here in the united states consuls council sales were also up as well as the $10.00 oh said the switch and switched light sales group by 167 percent to just over 5 and a half 1000000 units sold