Go birth yes i know youre thinking i look a lot of i like think lo jack no jack jack well jack i think were jack yes i do look a little bell if thats prince or go home to her money printer thank wont jack go burrow now was this. This is a printer roller this started the American Revolution because this technological advance allowed newspapers to get out quickly and allow the word to get out that we need to revolt and we need to change everything in the america to become independent you invented this like great great great grandfather hugh bax well thats right he invented this 1817 but after the revolution. And whats this series of medium you know that this is a laundry press. Looks like a Printing Press sorry laundering money with a Printing Press 5 think whoa jack whos a conducting me more fair. Whats all this mean. If yes all of these are in our headlines and actually thats why im also wearing my own as our kara due today because im looking like Wyatt Langham from the ozarks series the ozarks series got me thinking ok because what is that was our series is this respectable middle class families from chicago moved to the ozarks in missouri because the guy well the couple theyre laundering money from Mexican Drug Cartel so when they arrive in the ozarks what do they do they look for money losing businesses big money losers they must be huge money losers because they need to launder a lot of money for the Mexican Drug Cartels so that story line from the ozarks stood out to me when i saw this headline and read through this data from wall street dot com what uniform money sinkholes actually disrupt he goes through wayfarers zillow left we work carve on a tesla air b. N. B. Kasper sleeve zoom way and all of them are losing huge amounts of money so much ill tell you just wayfarer which is this online distributor of furniture right you go there and you buy some furniture and its supposed to be cheaper well it apparently is so cheap theyre giving it away because the thing that makes wayfair unique is that its losses have nearly doubled every year theyre rising on an exponential curve from 77000000 dollars in losses in 2015 to 194000000. 00 a losses in 2016 to 245000000 and 27002504 1000000 and 2018 nearly 1000000000 in losses and 29 teams i think the insight that you bring to this and its really interesting how you been able to cobble this all together that the only model that we see that loses money like this as predictably as this would be Money LaunderingMoney Laundering like a Mexican Drug Cartel for example. They would happily lose money in a casino in america because part of something is better than 100 percent of nothing and so losing money is part of the Money Laundering model as a model a Business Model and we look at these unicorns these startups and Silicon Valley like the ones you mentioned we work. Way fare goober we were lift theyre all losing money exponentially so then you have to ask yourself well maybe the model is to lose money and so who is laundering the money who is laundering the money i think thats the question who is the Mexican Drug Cartel equivalent in the Global Economy the who is that actor im going to say were straight up its not any of the corporations themselves what im saying is that we have the circumstantial evidence of Money Laundering so where do we you know if if this is going to be tried in a court of law like how do you find out why these businesses are losing money and its not just us unicorns and Silicon Valley by the way its fracking max and i have covered this with such exasperating like why do these investors continue to lose money year after year for 10 years and of course with the 1st business to basically introduce this model with private equity and private equity are like the capo de capo there thats where tim geithner goes to work thats where ben bernanke us work thats where former president s go to work is for private equity groups and private equity what they do is they find nice healthy Profitable Companies with Pension Funds and huge amount of assets like sears remember sears had all these. 100 something Year Old Company with lots of beautiful buildings worth a lot lots of real estate and they strip all this out swap it for that and lo and behold it falls apart under a big debt load and so my theory is that the larger picture of the Money Laundering is. The system is a fee out debt based system is that putting in essentially what ill say is feudalism and laundering and out on the other side comes capitalism which theres a believe this is all capitalism and its a free and fair market right well lets say you had a group of folks and the objective was to shove all hundreds of billions of the trillions of dollars into their pockets and not just a little bit of money but the g. D. P. Equaling size of money like if the g. D. P. Is 20. 00 trillion and you wanted to dump 56710. 00 trillion dollars into the pockets of your friends how could you do that without causing inflation well you have 20 or 30 Silicon Valley unicorn startups that are burning billions of dollars every day yes but you as the executive of those corporations or as a fund holder or as an intermediary banker are taking a cut so those debt unicorn economy and Silicon Valley is the feds. A lunny laundering operation to get that money into the hands of the billionaires remember during the pandemic the billionaires made another 250000000000. 00 i think its actually 45450000000000. 00 but they didnt cause any inflation wages went down i mean inflation in the sense that the g. D. P. Went up in any meaningful way the g. D. P. Is actually contract so how did they add 450000000000. 00 into billionaires pockets they need a Money Laundering operation is called fracking is a Money Laundering operation clearly it always has been and the unicorns a Silicon Valley its a Money Laundering operation clearly theyre not meant theyre not theyre not there to make money just like when mobsters take over a restaurant and then they launder money through until it goes bust and then they tortured yeah they get the insurance cash now here the fed runs their billions through these losing corporations and so they go bust like we work and then they torch it and theres going to be a bag holder that we work c. E. O. Lost billions and billions of billions because a he was the stupid guy at the poker table he was the chump but he got involved in a Money Laundering operation he wasnt even aware of it and the result of course is that just like that mob run restaurant eventually goes bust it has 2 words the American Economy is now on the verge of completely going under and now now the torch comes now the just put it all down when you look at a lot of the operations that the mob or cartels run the Money Laundering operations theres no there there right there its like its a fake sushi shop its its kind of has a sushi sign and they do do make some sushi if you dare eat it and my point is they knew but its not like done to any profession they dont spend any money on ingredients or something its meant to be a money losing operation so. Thats part of this hollowed out a condom you see why there is no Wealth Creation here is its been its taken over its all cartel and mean the cartels for example need somebody to produce wealth in order to spend on their products but we are. At the point where its all just these money losing operations and its just and i think its. Laundering your concepts your principles your ideas about time the negative Interest Rates of energy and matter like negative oil prices these are like gaslighting you theyre messing with your mind and laundering your ideas about how the world is supposed to operate and look herbalife we covered it its clearly a Money Laundering operation there its a money losing business theyve got hedge funds involved and theyre going to 650000000. 00 junk bonds done theyre going to sell to the fed so the fed is acting as the capital cop oh theyll buy the junk from herbalife theyll go to payday the stock will eventually go out completely to 0 because its a piece of garbage but as a Money Laundering operation herbalife is great but as unicorns of Silicon Valley as Money Laundering operations there are great the most important stories not individual companies none of those individuals no individual fracking rigger operation or play none of that is interesting in itself whats more important is the big picture of what is the Illicit Activity what is the thing that is overall like you know what the drug cartel why theyre laundering money and so if this entire system of all your businesses of all your industry is losing money almost intentionally that is establishing the primacy of debt but its also like i said laundering your ideas and concepts so when feudalism happened how it ended was our ideas changed and we realized that the king is not divine hes not divinely appointed heat we are equal the enlightenment came about and you realized wait im a sovereign individual i dont have to like abide by you but here we have where theyre trying to do the same thing and opposite they theyve learned from history these futile people have learned from history so theyve added these sort of layers of like its a game and its fun and and theyre rewarding the people. Who like all those Unicorn Companies you know those guys their billionaire Money Laundering. Not much drug cartels are profitable you know until everyones dead right yes well exactly but its not like were not pointing a finger saying that operation is but the system is itself its like he says it what wall street says here these Companies Lose money hand over fist even during the best of times theyre designed that way and executives are rewarded that way and investors want it that way they disrupt existing industries by not having to stick to the principle that a business has to be a selfsustaining ok so by not focusing on an individual company lets just say compared to a narco state you have a narco state yes in south america right its a narco state start to them right and this system the state is is is constructed of built around narcotics trades here you have a Money Laundering operation in america its not a narco state its a fear printing state equivalent to a narco state so jamie diamond goes to d. C. And goes to jay Powers Office and goes to so j. Ews with im going to do im going to lose like a 1000000000. 00 today it will give me 3000000000. 00 ok if you dont it d is going to break your legs and j. Pals like who precludes this 3000000000. 00. Then let it go worth it please dont kill me jamie diamond ill berbera blew the money for you its a norco state american Money Laundering operation thats going bust theyre going to push it anyone got marshalls. Ok were going to take a break and when we come back much more when the roster coming your way. Odd no team no crowd. No shots no. Actually well to be. You know well strap both of those 3. Points your thirst for action. Every single culture on earth has prohibitions against kill. 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Welcome back to the kaiser report im max as or time now to turn to Michael Kroger now Michael Kroger is one of the oh gee independent financial journalists we used pick his brain for years and hes only gotten better and better over the years michael welcome back oh thanks max yes great to be always you guys again and likewise youre 2 are like fine wine over there heck yeah that also assess your the introduction that youre a banker turned economic philosopher over there Liberty Blitzkrieg dot com is where everyone can find your writing and you crank out a lot of really excellent high end writing and we always turn to it every week for inspiration and ideas now Michael Kramer while the pandemic may have brought death and economic suffering for sub. It has also let the tide out of our collective delusions and we see the ideas that are wearing no sure its like money printing what lies in your opinion have been most exposed so that sure the money printing is one of them but one of the and i havent written a post about this quite yet but i but i probably will in future and i have tweeted about it i think theres a huge Silver Lining to the pandemic even though its extremely hard and difficult and horrible for a lot of people because people are being abused you know by the government because of the cant a lot of factors as you talk about all the time. But heres the thing i think that while people are for have been forced at home theres going to be a certain percentage of the population that has just getting a wake up moment and this and they will question you know their lot their lives you know the system all of that stuff is the stuff that you guys did decades ago this is the moment that i had about 12 years ago that changed my life forever i think a lot of people millions tens of millions and surely in this country could have that a week from now when i say that a lot of people come back to me and say well no what are you talking about like have you talked to most people in this in that theyre not rich enough theyre doing nothing theyre playing video games theyre buying stocks on robin hood and yes i agree most people of course are going to be in that but but my argument is you need a small percentage right maybe less than 5 percent lets say 3 to 5 percent of americans have an opinion during this lockdown during this quarantine about their lives and truly make a decision to change that could change the whole country right this idea that the masses in general you know and i know it sounds wrong to say this but its also true are usually and almost always spectators spectators to real change now really weve all been spectators for decades now while governments and Central Banks and all of arcs pillage us but i think its a small percentage of those people that have been pillaged. To wake up the whole worlds going to change the big big point for example right when when big queen was released no one knew big queen was in the works no no one knew it was about to come out and all the sudden one day there is ok and i think a similar experience is going to happen in a few years i dont think its going to be clear until a few years but i think maybe around the late you know around 20242025 period youre going to start to see inventions youre going to start seeing new things emerge that you didnt could never expect or think about and i think this period of quarantine in lockdown right now is that incubation period for a lot of great ideas maybe even novels new writers inventors i really think were going to have an invention cycle is going to start probably around 2025 and take us into 2030 and maybe the next decade will be a really true you know sort of renaissance and golden age but its and i think this quarantine lock down will be will be a catalyst for that so i guess what im saying is you know my advice to people is to do just that if you can you know to use this moment as a time to truly reflect and change and take action however you can take action because were not going to vote out all of our its not going to happen were not going to vote out and the only strength that we actually have a disagreement become very clear is to change ourselves and then in the in the however ways we can take revolutionary peaceful action do it in layout an interesting idea there that is going to have a renaissance era in this country and around the world people who are locked up suddenly right discover their inner strength and america theres a very strong tradition of Self Reliance and that if once that is reignite it could bring in a wave of selfreliance people making their own food growing their own food as you do and colorado pay paul suddenly waking up. To the fact that everything they need to be happy is within themselves and they dont need to be in debt they dont need to be consuming so much they dont need to go to college and incur a lot of debt they just need to get in touch with themselves its very socratic in that sense i guess this is economic philosophy on the other hand though we live in a world of. Money crack. Flingers over there at the central bank who want us to be as dependent as possible on their free money giveaways rights as select questionis how do you overcome the fact that where living in fear heroin dealer paradise with jay Powell Printing trillions and trillions and trying to keep people acquiescent to keep them in a stupor to keep them stupid to keep them dependent on his money printing michael thats been the real problem and so for example when i look back to 2010 to 2020 period. You know a lot of the changes that i thought could happen or the roof bolts that i thought might happen just didnt and i think the reason they didnt is a lot has a lot to do with what you just out you know what you know what ive called financial feudalism you know where debt is used as a effectively as a weapon against the lower classes but im in debt and its use is often said tool by wealthy people you know in the form of leverage great big leverage bets that the fed is backing you up with debt and you make a fortune in the close that out or through the Housing Market whatever you got even taishan homes are to blackstone. Whereas like poor people dont do that you know they just they just carry you know the debt keeps them from doing things so yes i mean its a very entrenched system of financial feudalism and its systematic and its and im not going to try to pretend that its easy for you know most people or the certainly the bottom 50 percent this country to just do a lot of what im saying its not its very Difficult People are absolutely trapped this is a modern form of slavery you know you call that need a neo feudalism which was brilliant he said that over a decade ago now ive used it since so i do believe its up to those who have the resources and belittle right to actually war to system be more independent resilient you know were the ones that the people that have the ability to act almost have a moral obligation to and i think if enough of those people do. Again things will change the wheels will go in motion you know interesting thing is and zuckerberg is not doing it because hes a good guy but you know he was recently talking about you know paying people letting people essentially work with where they are now and you know them work for facebook and just this brings up a concept of what i do see happening and i encourage it very strongly which is physical decentralization of the public great we have too much capital and we have too much talent right like intellectual lets say resources and Financial Resources in a few cities and i think that plays into what the fed wants so if you are lets say if you have you know talents right and you have capital my suggestion is to to get out of these centralized cities and disperse that talent around the country you know growing up in new york city i always thought it was the center of the world and you couldnt get a good bagel anywhere else can get a good pizza slice they were can get good food you know and i realized you know late in life that theres a big country out there and its incredible and when i drove across country and i know you guys have done that i fell in love with a lot of random places i hadnt heard of and a lot of those places i felt like i could live in you know this kind of someone from new york so i think if people that open mind and they and they try to move elsewhere and they can work right remotely thats a step would be a huge benefit because the more capital and talent that you have decentralized right localized throughout the country the harder it will be to control the country and so thats thats an example of centralization is a physical decentralization and i encourage i encourage that for our for this country. Because there a moment ago you know that because i compared a because it comes out of the Hacker Community and it comes out of 4 Chan Community theyre very good at coming up with a name and one of the names recently that has come out of the because i can marry as prince or go further which shows a direct correlation between pay pal. Printing of money in the fed trying to pump up the stock market and then of course 3 main stream media jumped on this is that thats not whats happening at all you know theres a policy here that makes sense but the Big Point Community has sussed out that money printer go burrow theyve figured out that the whole thing is a charade and fact bank of america came out with a report this week accusing the fed of engaging in fake marker fake markets that theyre the Market Making that they were doing at the Federal Reserve was completely fake watches of extraordinary allegation by bank of america to make by the fed however the question is can mean this alter consciousness and around the inequality of our system and kind of as a tag to this tagalog this idea it seems like names now and you have a background in banking as i do. Have a commodity ised you know maimed a man can a powerful man can can live a 1000000000 dollar market yeah absolutely and it brings up an even bigger point which i talked about before so back in the last crisis when people like you know myself and you too and others right is a Smaller Group of people that were talking we could have said monday money printer went burger back then right we didnt we didnt means one thing really that but the key thing is millennial right the midpoint of the middle any old generation like my wife for example back in the last crisis they were like 20 years old 21 years old so they didnt even know i mean they got robbed without knowing it there was no they were too young you know you know just coming out of college or entering college to understand how completely bamboozled their entire jaish generation was be and so why i think its going to be a little bit different this time is that those those those people who are 20 back then are now 30 and there are a lot more where and we have big coin and we have the community and so theres there are a lot more fighters out there there are a lot theres the. The idea of money printing essentially being got government welfare for the wealthiest people in the country is catching on to some degree that it in a way in the mainstream consciousness that he did not 10 years ago so im encouraged by that im not sure exactly how thats going to play out but clearly to me yes you through the use of means through the use of young people finally realizing how completely shafted they were systematically and its happening again right right in an even larger scale its the seeds are planted for some really Interesting Times ahead and you know i think the key here is to not you know make this ever write a neighbor against neighbor situation which so many people try to do you know demonizing the left or demonizing the right or this is just theater its your divide and conquer you know. Anyone whos not laser focused on power and power is wielded by a very small number of people in this country youre just playing their game its really stupid so we should be focused on how powerful actually functions coop who is who is whos pulling the strings of that and trying to make our lives. A rebellion against that system Michael Kroger they can omit philosopher and part time carter thanks for being on kaiser report at the time max thank you already well thats going to do it for this edition of the kaiser a part with me max kaiser and stacy ever like to thank our guest Michael Kroger you can find him at liberty lets kraig his stuff is hot if you want to catch us on twitter as kaiser report flextime by off. You cant be both with the yeah you like. Counting the cost and charting the future we demand any good theory to proceed it is time to assess the economic game just oh how is the crisis changed between one company and 3 if theres going to be a recovery well crime. 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