Being joined by a banker turned bitcoin entrepreneur simon dixon of banks the future long term friend of this show and as wave a bit of an introduction his book banks of the future came out roughly 10 years ago it actually predicted a major crisis in 2020 its almost clairvoyant and how that accurate that prediction was simon is also recently gone on record that he believes a Central Banks will go directly to people and bypass the banks with their money printing thats now being discussed in the highest circles of backing this is an amazing prediction that was made basically by simon hes the 1st hes the best investment banker in bed calling encrypt oh so really a seminal character in the whole industry simon i want to get started 1st of all welcome thanks for having me no one gives an introduction like kaiser report thanks max well its well deserved now the front page of the economist magazine says free money in one month the United States printed more money than it had in 200 years how
The german chancellor says the cost are two great. 00 too great. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what markets are focusing on, partly what Angela Merkels, partly Emmanuel Macron. Let me go through the impact heavy on the markets. Areou look at stocks, they really fluctuating after data from the economies here in europe, and that is really costing casting doubt on the resurgence virus infection. We have french manufacturing unexpectedly contracting in august. Highlighting the need for further stimulus. I am also looking at offshore to extend less than six months, seven months, actually, when china market from the pandemic became one of the worlds fastest. This is what we are getting in terms of pmi out of the eurozone, expectations or certainly there in mind with what we were expecting. Barring 50. 1. Coming up later, everything you need to know about Exchange Traded funds. Iq europe is back. Exchange data funds. Pmi w
Out of congress as opposed to just these executive orders from the president that are taking quite a bit of heat over the weekend. Yeah, look, david, i think that there is a sense initially that it was a white house grab and it kind of went through the weekend, there was a recognition that, wait a second, maybe it is a grab if youre going to give 400, 100 has to come from the states and many of the states including red states are in trouble. The thing that is most compounding people is that 12 of the people who make 80 to 100,000 get this bizarre payroll tax cut when the problem is not the people employed but the people who are unemployed. I think that its arer so counterintuitive our old friend larry kudlow always believed in that. We have secretary mnuchin right now, which is terrific lets do it lets do it. Go ahead, jim. Mr. Secretary, always good to see you on squawk on the street. We get a little bargaining done on the show. How have you been . Good morning. How are you . Im doing
Remodeling bigtime during the lockdown. Profits went straight up, sales straight up. Those tools, wallboard and paint, just ran off the shelves. These two companies are economic indicators. They are doing well. The economy apparently recovering nicely. As for the overall market, well, the dow, thats close to the 28,000 level this morning, up about 40 points at the opening bell. The s p, thats just a couple of points away from an alltime high. The nasdaq, already there. By the way, apple is only, what, 10 shy of a 2 trillion valuation. All right. Lets get to it. The Virtual Convention. If it wasnt clear before, it should be clear now. This is Bernie Sanders Democrat Party. He laid out a far left platform and its been adopted by joe biden and kamala harris. Socialists wrote the party platform. Im calling it the Biden Harris Sanders ticket. Its the most progressive t campaign of any Political Party in recent history. Tonight, alexandria ocasiocortez will be a featured speaker. We heard fr
The dow as the president says the u. S. Government should take a cut of its deal. Apple inches toward a 2 trillion market cap. The price were looking for to hit that level is 4. 6777 about 27 above where we are now. Apple is up 1 today gold topping 2,000 an ounce for the first time ever. The precious metal is up as the market attempts to price in a postpandemic recovery, there are new signs the road back could be longer and bumpier than experts think steve is digging into the data good afternoon. Even if the forecast of economists for the strong second half ebound pans out, the u. S. Economy is still going to be in the e kwif lenquivalent of a reb year end the Unemployment Rate forecast decline from 11. 1 now to 9. 8 by december. Look at those numbers and the 9. 8 Unemployment Rate would make it the third highest among recessions we have done a good job of taking it down from 15 . It would be e clipted by the surgeon jobless followed by the 81 and 08 recessions. Charlie evans talking t