welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to return to our conversation with brian rama lee over there voice 1st dot expert and around the coin pod cast brian welcome back thank you max a pleasure to be here while you know things are getting interesting during our previous conversation i just wanted to pick it up where we left off and we're talking about individual sovereignty style sovereignty the ability to monetize effectively what's going on inside our brains to the point where instead of just being swamped with images and data and requests to do commerce from outside we then have our own sovereign self that we can monetize using something like to claim and interact with this emerging artificially intelligent digital world as you see it in a very constructive way correct absolutely max i believe that big crying and other things built on top of the block chain of the coin will allow you to monetize yourself and the value that you create not only when you're living but as you go off is going to be immense in my view the beauty of the block chain is that it there's a pe

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser a time out to go to be honest sis welcome back i spend a lot it has been max thanks for having me back always a pleasure now you have written a 5 part series entitled when the world market itself as fake economic value loses any real meaning now go over the big picture thesis here on what's happening to our economy and how we see that spilling over now into politics this place what's happening is it's being hollowed out for a long time now the notion of value has been moved from the blood sweat and tears of people caught in which is where real value comes from creativity and effort and participation and and it is moved progressively from bat to assignments of value which are parasitically and predatorial siphoning off real value which is creativity and real effort and real labor into instruments which are essentially symbolic assignments or they capture that value in symbolic ways and then use that to replace actual value and as more and more of that gets siphoned off. as you saw you know early early seventy's a one middle class job full

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to pierre irshad who is not only famous a bit coin space but our all around great content provider a nice guy pierre welcome to the kaiser report thanks for having me max happy to be here big news and big calling we've got the jack dorsey company square in out this week that they bought 4709 bitcoin worth about 50000000 dollars for their treasury what does the company statement tell you in regards to the reasons for buying because this is obviously in the wake of micro strategy and michael saylor doing this is this the beginning now of the 4 trillion dollars worth of cash sitting on a corporate america's balance sheet being looked at and possibly other c.e.o.'s following suit with a fair missing out or a full low in the corporate space here yes it is but i would also highlight that this actually began a very long time ago which is that in 2013 and 14 fortress investment group became the 1st publicly traded company to hold big client on their balance sheet and i remember because i'm an accountant and i read financial stateme

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to return to our conversation with dan collins' entrepreneur extraordinary he was living in china for 20 years became an expert been on the show many times wrote the china money report welcome back dan. i want to pick up where we left off talking about and finance all set to be the biggest i.p.o. in history chinese financial media connected to jack ma of course of alibaba fame and you mentioned the statistic there about in terms of the body of a business they expect to do and i think you mention 80000000 enterprises or businesses will be hooked up day one to and finance a contrast that with j.p. morgan they did a story that just came out that they want to compete with scare square so they're going to launch a card similar to square for payments and when it launches they hope to have all of 2000 new customers wow whoop de doo so anyway let's talk about in financial support it seems like this is in keeping with the theme that china is just a different whole nother level right now and could it wasn't called it that did it it's been g

welcome back to take as a part imax keyser time now to go to stephen palli he's a partner anders and tell law firm stephen larkham back nice to be here max it's good to get your overview on things and accept us base of been no shortage of exciting crypto legal news these past few weeks what's your overall sense of the space in terms of how u.s. regulators at the department of justice are trading at or are trading at you know he went from a period of no regulations at all to now there are lots going on what's your feeling of the overall picture here sure so if you look at the you're referring to d.o.j. which issued a framework last week. related to crypto. we're also seeing some enforcement activity to talk more about it against critter currency exchange bit max buy see if you see india or j i r s issued guide is not long ago there are some other issues or guidance on use of crypto to pay ransom or what we're saying is that u.s. regulators and i'm sure elsewhere in the world i only really follow the u.s. closely understand the asset understand the space and are continuing to it's almo

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to andy had struck he's a wealth manager a hard money into this yes and he's the author of the blazingly brilliant book why buy bitcoin n.d. welcome to the kaiser report thanks for having me max great to be on with you all right i had a chance to be on with you on a call on another podcast recently and you know you're in the wealth management business even talking to people about big point for a while many heirs have got a book out their year experiencing what people like michael saylor who i is just now experiencing he's talking to other people about this asset class and here are a pretty well versed in it and let me ask firstly about what's happening now in this in this market you know back in 2017 we saw the foam 0 fer of missing out from the retail sector really the mom and pops out the small the fringe players the internet crazy people they drove it up to 20000 we had a big correction and now looks like we're in the midst of what you might call corporate fear of missing out corporate famo do you agree where is this goin

welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to turn to chris fenton he is the author of feeding the dragon this is a fascinating book it's caught the attention of social media and news media like chris welcome back so happy to be back always honored bank you already let's get into this discussion your book really catches an interesting inflection point when china kind of went from america's ally to once questioning like what's going on with china and as we head into this 2020 presidential election more and more the rhetoric seems to be antagonistic to torturing and i think your book does a good job in capturing that transition here now let me ask you about this 2020 election the moment in the vice presidential debates when china cut off the feet for mike pence during his answer relating to relations with china and then resumed when kamel harris was talking so what does that say to you about the 2 candidates and how china views i'm chris yeah i would cobble harris was talking so what does that say to you about the 2 candidates and how china views of chris. yeah what's it's sort o