We want to trade and we want to be transparent thats our nature our nature also does get restricted by maff and usually a declining empire does not like globalization so much because they no longer when america is no longer winning back in the late late 1800 and early 1900 of course the United Kingdom was a great empire and it started to lose the trade. Global trade didnt favor them as much as it was favoring others so i think china definitely wants cool as ation because theyre the rising power they like trumps bluntness whether or not you yourself or anybody in the audience or any voter likes trump or not what im saying is that he keeps tweeting hes signaling not only to his potential voters but also to the chinese negotiators that hes easy to read at the poker table that is going. Well trade is honest and theyre used to dealing with this honest politician everywhere around the world and at the u. K. Of course they decided to get out of the global eyes ation the while ago but theres their loss i think the bigger economies are moving toward globalization and china america russia are heading in that direction so lets talk about another dishonesty and that is you know when you have hard currency you have hard money it is honest money they always call it well gold of course has been honest money and the foundation of our global system as well on our global trade system in the World Economy as we know it it is however very heavy its difficult to move unless you own and hold that gold on your own its not yours and i want to flash back to this headline from january because it has relevance to a headline this past week stein meet and bid to pull 1200000000. 00 of gold from u. K. Nicolas maduro is embattled Venezuelan Regime desperate to hold on to the dwindling cash pilot has abroad was stymied in its bid to pull one point 2000000000. 00 worth of gold out of the bank of england the bank of englands decision to deny men duros officials withdraw we quest comes after top u. S. Officials including secretary of state Michael Pompei o and National Security advisor john bolton has now gone lobby there you cape counterparts to help cut off the regime promise over seas assets try venezuela wants to trade and they use gold as the obvious and visible historic means to trade the u. K. Doesnt want to trade u. K. Is where a lot of the War Industries headquartered in a lot of the banks of fund the war industry headquartered so theyre empty trade empty free markets and a lot of ways that as well as just loss of trade they just want their goal and to deprive them of their gold using censorship or financial censorship or in. Margots and sanction is antiglobalization anti the spirit of humanity regardless of what you think of madeira or his regime or his government or anything like that what were talking about here is not if you dont hold the private keys that is not your asset if you dont hold your gold that is not your asset so it is part of a deal globalization where everything there is some sort of diminishing pie going on there isnt. A sort of resent manana fear in part perhaps an anger about china being larger economy than the us china seemingly winning chinas got 5 g. We dont have 5 g. Theyre moving to 60 they have all sorts of technologies that we dont have there is a sort of anger going on and the dishonesty in the game youre seizing somebody elses assets but now i want to turn to a headline this week and thats why the madeira story is relevant its relevant to an ongoing gold versus between debate that weve been following peter schiff of course says between is fake money its a ponzi scheme blah blah blah he says gold is the only way to go is the only way to store your wealth well of course the nation state of venezuela had their gold seized that happens on an individual level but here on the nation state level with bitcoin venezuelas president maduro touts treys or bitcoin wall and National Television on november 6th president of venezuela Nicolas Maduro a parrot on state run television Venezuelan TelevisionCorporation Holding a crypto hardware storage device allegedly developed major wallet supplier trace or video is posted on the official Facebook Page of president Maduro Fraser is the lying having any role in this and that the 2 alleged executives from trees or in this video they said this is not it but the point is heres a nation state this is the 1st weve seen jump up to the nation state level of course president xi recently said blocked chain they want to have a blocked chain and. Their own china but here you like holding up a tres or wallet and that is very significant self sovereignty their ship is confusing bitcoin with fear at money he makes that equation he doesnt understand the gold 2. 0 which kind of indication doesnt really understand gold either which is ironic but here you have the madeira was holding up a treasure or a wallet and hes saying look this is sovereignty this is individual sovereign say we can put a 11050000000000. 00 worth of a store of value Currency Bitcoin its a goal to point out and it wont be any censorship the bank of england wont deprive us of trading with the rest of the world they want the privacy of our human rights even though they dont want to and thats where were heading with bitcoin is reading toward a world that is more in keeping with the spirit of humanity to trade its peaceful remember trump is a man of peace thats why the deep state hits him you believe that i prop perhaps dont believe it as much but some people will have opposite opinions and that doesnt matter of course a lot of people will say madeira is bad this is bad news for bitcoin they said that when president she said you know into block chain and this is bad for big coin but the fact is the same thing happened early on in the very very early stages of bitcoin seto she nakamoto himself said it was horrible that wiki leaks was receiving big quite dont let him get involved we dont want to be crushed before we even flourish and because its always those edge cases of course its the outlaws its those being denied and censored that are sometimes horrible maybe not you know maybe not a lot of people dont like them maybe as we see in the u. S. Media here a lot of people dont like Julian Assange a lot of jew journalists dont support him even though hes being locked up in a cave but here again like the fact is that censorship resistance you censor them we did say this years ago when the u. S. 1st weaponized with that they would start. That censorship and that people nation states would move around it in this case hes suggesting because. Nothing to worry about in terms of big point in the early days because because it is an idea that is an invention and once invented it cannot be invented like gunpowder before that change the geopolitics profoundly on invent gunpowder you can invent coin and those nations out of braces are going to be moving the humanity ball forward those and they are resistant to it are going to be left in the backwater talk about left in the backwater max and i we lived in europe and we saw then we moved here recently in the last few years and we saw the backwater that is the Financial System here heres the head you know the center the power behind the global Financial System and their Payment System here is so antiquated i had it i had gone 20 years without writing one single check i write checks day after day after day here it takes days and days for a payment to transfer from one entity to the other well big queen is because of bitcoin because of such so she nakamoto finally the u. S. Is actually going to do what most other nations the world already have and thats instant payments f. T. C. Commissioner size libra and support of feds real time Payment System so of course libra as facebook suggested or a proposed crypto currency which is inspired by of course big coin the Libra Cryptocurrency project should be sufficient motivation for the Federal Reserve to launch a real time Payment System a senior Government Official row on thursday federal trade Commission Commissioner rohit chopra wrote a letter to the fat the Us Central Bank supporting the potential development of the fed now service the potential high speed Payment System the group is now examining about libra he said the vague and scant details on the text platform propose shadow Global Central Bank have sounded. International norm balance particularly in light of facebooks ongoing scandals and reputation for abuse regardless of libras ultimate fate the proposals emerges underscores the appetite for real time payments and the urgency of intervention by the Federal Reserve the fed was warning trade the fed was putting the necessary layers of intermediation and the human spirit goes against that wall fight that its been doing that 4100000 or 200000 years and big coin now forces these other players to either innovate or be worked around or to be made obsolete so the fed facing obsolescence with decline has decided to fight their rear guard action and try to create something similar to big going to stay relevant they of course will fail because its centralized and big quite as decentralized and they will never give up the idea of settling trades using the dollar as a means of settlement and because it is self settling its auto settling it settles with every transaction its a complete new paradigm shift into a complete new world that satisfies our d. N. A. Our d. N. A. Is a block chain its a biological block recording is a cryptic block chain and it fills our need to trade it for fills our satisfies our need to be human to communicate to travel get a new way and you will be relegated to the dustbin of history thats the facts thats the way it is were going to take a break and when we come back much more coming your way. Through descriptions summed up to tell you sing even for the owners. How to choose just that Food Industry is telling us what to feed our pets really more based on what they want to sound less than whats necessarily good. For the pet turns out in pet food may not be as healthy as people believe we have animals that have you know diabetes in our straightest they have auto immune disorders they cant allergies we are actually creating these problems its a huge epidemic of problems all of them i believe can be linked to fairy simple problem of diet and some dog owners so heartbreaking stories about their pets last treats a larger corporations are not very interested in proving or disproving the value of their food because theyre already making it a 1000000000. 00 on it and theres no reason to do that research. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure when ill be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see you then. Tough in finding another one of our history my fellow slayer both of us whove told us about itself more to say about. 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Welcome back to the kaiser report im ask iser time now to turn to dr Michael Hudson writer of many books from super imperialism all the way to the latest forgive them their debts an instant classic i might add welcome back thanks for having me max yeah i mean youre an economist but i know youre also on a story in which i love it that you can really put things on a timeline the economics as weve looked at it over history over hundreds of years and then how it changes and morphs and it really gives a fantastic perspective on things and i wanted to pick your brain on something in the last episode professor steve kean says that the u. S. National debt increasing from 22 trillion in february to 23 trillion today is not a problem do you agree yes because the u. S. Has no intention of actually paying the debt may be a problem for other countries that are holding that debt but the United States can simply print the money to pay the debt and unlike argentina or grace who have to actually borrow money because they cant print their own money the United States of somebody turns on a 100. 00 bond can just print a 100. 00 bill so what steve means is the government can create the money to pay it off just like its created the 4. 6 trillion to a pump end of the stock and bond markets and so obamas bailout. The government really doesnt have that much of a debt problem bets amount of modern monetary theory should money have any Intrinsic Value no it never did have any Intrinsic Value and even the value of gold and silver back in the 3rd millennium b. C. Was all set by the government. The government by setting a price ratio decide what the price of gold will be in any case the reason gold has. A value is really for the balance of payments not for domestic spending at all but when countries run a deficit with each other how are you going to settle it and until 17011. 00 american went off gold the idea was that a country running a deficit would have to pay with Something Real like gold but then the United States said wait a minute weve been running a entirely military budget deficit through the fiftys sixtys and seventys we dont want to pay him gold we want other people to pay us in gold but were not going to pay him gold were just going to pay them a government ious and throw them into the World Economy and theyll all end up with some troll banks that all all recycle its just just a recycling excess of course the government setting the value of gold is by weight and of course that way travels universally around the world and can totally bypass any fianna or Government Application of a value to it because its got that weight in weight as universally accepted as having substance but the thing about it when you have all this debt being created historically every once in a while there is a debt you believe that seems to square the circle if you well and we havent had one of those really in significantly for years we had an opportunity for one in 2008 but instead of bailing out those debtors the Obama Administration decided to pal out the creditors has that ever happened like that in history im sure has when it is happened like that and wasnt that a colossal mistake it certainly was a colossal mistake because many of the bad loans were fraudulent real estate loans there were loans far in excess of the borrower his ability to repay the loan and in excess of the value of the property so the banks who made these fraudulent bad loans should have had to absorb the loss and. Baer who is the head of the f. D. A. I see said the worst offender was citibank she said it was crookedly run it was incompetently run and she said here we had a chance to take it over wipe out the the bad stockholders and she was stuck by a one obama said im letting. Tim geithner tell me what to do because he represents my donor class and the people who are funding mace and geithner work for rubin who taken over a citibank and themselves had a relation reason prize when the Justice Department of justice recently declared jamie diamond guilty of racketeering for a price fixing and manipulation in the gold market thats exactly what. Chase was doing i had to say that about the bank that i used to work for but they wouldnt have done that 60 years ago when i was there they do it and aside from the gold market arent they behaving in the same predatory Cartel Behavior emaar all markets futures markets Capital Markets bond futures stocks currencies its across the board this is authentic yes the large banks in the United States have done that just like they fixed the. London interbank borrowing rate that set everybody then trust rates that was all martin or you know bank of england was implicated in that and in the u. K. They said well because this is demichelis important were not going to prosecute mark and they say its rich people are systemically important you can only prosecute non rich people but the rich person the systemically important because theyre the Campaign Contributors theyre the people who run the party so of course theres the stomach we important theyre the oligarchy lets talk about some of the internal machinations of these markets because unlike a lot of economists youve actually worked out a bank you mentioned change theres been a lot of activity in whats called the repo market yemenite lending rate which is kind of the bank to Bank Lending Rate and its deep down in the bowels of the Financial System it seems to be flashing distress right. Theyre high because theres a lot of trust thats absent now and weve seen this in 2008 crisis weve seen it in previous crises is there a crisis going on whats going on this republican wanted to tell us if anything the crisis is really a huge amount of debt pyramiding of leverage ing and people have tried to make huge bets on derivatives and on the stocks and bonds with very little of their own money so all you need is for one bank to make a mistake or somebody to embezzle like happens about every 10 years offended says were going to put 12130140 1000000000 into this overnight market isnt that the same thing as quantitative easing except on the short and ok. Yes its the same thing it is creating money simply on a balance by paper you create a debt and the debt on one side is an asset somebody elses asset on the other side and when youve got all these assets and debts mounting up somebody camp a at a point because theyve made a wrong bet and theres a sudden drop in a bond or a drop in a price of gold or a drop in the share price and hope theyve lost a lot of money thats not a valid like the london whale from chase bank of the whale made a big bet that was quote unauthorized and thats an example of something that could have triggered a meltdown so its another bailout yes and its quantitative easing for q. E. 4 its a perfect lets call it a permanent bailout ok if its a permanent bailout and we were told that q. E. Was temporary if its not sam pereira the actual economic term for that would be debt monetization is temporary its 50 years. A temporary main were not were not putting an end point on it but its not separate its debt monetization you dont have an accident menagerie public and that we criticize them for printing and then buying back their own paper its exactly what were doing in america correct am i wrong when america does that its not a crime to paraphrase president nixon all right fair enough so youre about to head to china what are you doing there oh basically discussing the real estate question i think that what id like china to do what is the realistic question well theres a lot of people whove been borrowing to bid up the price of houses and theyve been borrowing from like payday lenders the big banks in china will make loans to small. Payday lenders theyre lending organizations and theyve advanced money because every people in china think property prices will go up how do you stop the property prices from going up a simple way and its the way that hong kong originally did things you make a tax on the land value and. If you tax away any of the increase in the land value which is really what the what is grating the price of the property then youre going to stabilize prices you know the Federal Reserve bank minus standing when it was created would be the lender of last resort and to be proactive in helping to keep the connally from going through these booms and busts by justing Monetary Policy but greenspan said that actually they dont do that anymore they wait for the crisis then they react and their reaction is always to make more money easily available so that seems like a repudiation of any idea of a central bank whatsoever that seems like all they do is put money into the pockets of these oligarchs youre talking about but let me just move on about china for a 2nd theres a trade war trump talks about constantly so the question is is it going to be is are going to be a trade war do we care if theres a trade war the latest breakthrough is real whos winning this trade war is it the right thing for trump to do is this going to make America Great again what tell us about this trade war thats going on isnt happening whos winning whats happening well as you can tell from the stock market going up and down every day and gyrating people are trying to guess whats going to happen from the trade war. What has happened already is once you start a war the world can never be the same again in the sense of people expecting there can never be a war so chinas already realized like other countries have they have to decouple from the u. S. Economy they dont ever want us to say were going to use an asymmetrical warfare against you were going to all of a sudden not give you access to our technology were going to let you plug into our Banking Center same thing is de globalization is it did dollars a. C. F that the dollar is asian and the globalization is china therefore is that why theyre buying so much gold. Theyre buying gold because they have a lot of. Balance of payment for plus they dont want to buy u. S. Treasury bond and have the u. S. Treasury say ok were not going to pay you any of the money that we owe you. Theres a sign that theyre buying so much gold hundreds of tons now what else are they going to buy theyre not going to buy euros because the euro is probably going down to one euro per dollar theyre not going to buy any more of the russian currency which they do to try and. Finance their own trades to something that like over the last 2000 years if you get something that the whole world can agree upon what do you use nobodys a great on anything except gold so you already have these thousands of years of backing i mean asia used to like so over and at a certain point i can imagine china bikes over there they were on a Silver Standard for a while one thing thats right but theyre also marrying this idea of gold block chain ok and they state that their block chain interests are there to skirt u. S. Dollar based settlements system number one to avoid u. S. Censorship in swift and other areas number 2 they identify block chain as a way to do an end run around u. S. Dollar gemini around everything clearing through the new york fed so i dont know how much work youve done on block jane but our i understand i think you would agree that their intention is worthwhile because they need to escape from being under the yoke of that u. S. Imperial system euro super imperialism but i mean look to block change in a good avenue for them to succeed in their endeavor if theyre pursuing it obviously they think that its a good avenue and anything that they can do to prevent the us ability to separate the is really a protection against us sabotage in the us like its been sabotaging the iranian system china looks at what america is doing to a ram and no country has ever interfered like the United States is doing with a. What prompted sterling to rent sending up red flags over the whole world saying youve got were going to be next the United States is going to smash us if we dont agree with them and so trump is just driving could all any other country n. C. O. Shanghai Cooperation Organization china goes down this path they bring russia and iran with them yet is that enough of an new balancing of Global Economy to shift the axis of doll of currency power out of the u. S. It wont be shifted it will leave the United States with its satellites in europe and latin america but china will be. Its own asia will have its own block dr Michael Hunter thanks for being on the kaiser report good to be here and im not going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me nice guys or stacy who want to thank our guest dr Michael Anthony funny conscious on twitter its guys reports and. Your government our government and all the other major governments of the world know whats going to them when its going to. But they havent told you and they havent told me and theyll. Imagine something as big as the earth is going to cause tidal waves earthquakes volcanoes erupt and its going to tell. So very for a while right. My great grandfathers. 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Wrong its just its just such a council and man so rests the yellow best movement marks his 1st anniversary with anger directed against the french government also ahead. Tensions rise in bolivia with 5 supporters of ousted president morales reportedly killed in clashes with police. And a full when you asked ambassador to ukraine testify as a witness in the trump impeachment hearing we report on how americans are now apparently losing interest in the whole saga