we have tom longo, he is publisher of gold, goats and guns, blog and newsletter and in los angeles we crossed to pi, ian. he is.

we have tom longo. he is publisher of gold, goats and guns, blog and newsletter. and in los angeles, we crossed to pi, ian. he is a strategic planning consultant, a private equity advisor and independent economic analyst. hi gentlemen, cross og rules that affect. that means you can jump anytime you want. i always appreciated and this is certainly a blue ribbon panel. i act. thank all 3 of you for joining me today.

tom longo, geopolitical market analyst and publisher, the gold boats and guns newsletter says washington is deliberately provoking beijing as part of an economic pressure campaign. visit by philosophy is interesting because it just feels like so much theater to me and but at the same time it is very serious. right. the chinese are vickie, very seriously in the us knows exactly what it's doing in terms of provocation. this entire affair with policy is actually the giant boss to get the chinese to over commit, or to overreact to the situations. and now we can start putting up the sanctions wall around china and the same way. and that, that we put up or around russia, right? which is clearly, these are lead ups to a wider conflict in many ways i want as a single point of failure. hello things, trip to tie what appears not have received much support in the west, the media. and as a recent article by the new york times, the j, the visit may plunge the us into in direct conflict, not only with russia, but now also with china. us officials are a lot more concerned about ukraine's leadership tha

we have tom longo. he is publisher of gold, goats and guns, blog and newsletter and in los angeles, we cross to buy in. he is a strategic planning consultant and private equity advisor and independent economic analyst. hi gentlemen, cross our group and effect. that means you can jump anytime you want. i always appreciated. and this is certainly a blue ribbon panel. i act. thank all 3 of you for joining me today. michael, let me go to you 1st year. there seems to be a growing consensus that there is a recession is coming particularly for the west, maybe for the entire global economy. what makes this recession different if it is different whatsoever? because i think all of us would agree a lot of the bad economic news that we're experiencing, particularly in the west, again, is self inflicted. michael? well, when people talk about recession, they think of a business, a going up and down and then recovering. and this isn't a business cycle, this is a change in the way the world is being organized for one t