An extra blade but fatalistically and we see this time and time again so the us. At any moment they could get off this path in the camp of walking into the buzz saw that make conceivably but fate is drawing them to the blade you know we had Aristotle Plato socrates they understood the man right they understood what tribes us and we always tried to the buzz saw thats the way powerful people are powerful nations do it they just go straight into the buzzsaw theres no other option they can just like kindly walk off the stage you know its just goes into the but is cyclical nature of nature is one that can be dramatize stand in the case of humans they typically will be drawn to fatalistic and unnecessarily and thats what makes a tragic speaking of tragic just look at that chart this is our deficit numbers plunging here it is the deficit serves the us record it is widest budget deficit in fiscal 2020. Since the 2nd world war that was a child she was what she was a massive global tragedy at th
Any. To. The max kaiser. For many years now weve been saying that a new Bretton Woods is inevitable. And this past week that i may have said exactly the same thing a new private words is coming oh boy stacy whats going well so many people and so much media has focused on the clown car show happening in the us elections that they kind of overlooked this whole i. M. F. Is calling for a new Bretton Woods which of course would be seismic it would coincide with the 50 Year Anniversary and 2021 is a 50 Year Anniversary of the us Dollar Standard remember we went off the Gold Standard temporarily and august of 1971 Richard Nixon said there were close in the gold window just temporarily until they could default on their debts to england and of course 50 years later were still defaulting on the debts but we could be seeing a new Bretton Woods who knows whats going to happen but youre talking to simon dixon in the 2nd half about that in the meantime you know really whats going on is that through
They could default on their debts to england and of course 50 years later were still defaulting on the debts but we could be seeing a new Bretton Woods who knows whats going to happen but youre talking to simon dixon in the 2nd half about that in the meantime you know really whats going on is that through cities trap that weve talked about which is the rising power china always ends up in conflict with the decline in power which is the United States in the situation we certainly see that heating out and you see that however even in the attitudes of people around the world here is a chart which is worlds leading economic power this question was asked to people in advanced economies around the world and among advanced economy publics 48 percent thought china was the number one power 35 percent thought the u. S. And amongst germans it was 55 percent china as a leading power and 17 percent of the u. S. And this is unfathomable a low says adam to use this idea of the 3 cities trap you know
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Joe, its these mnuchin headlines getting something done in terms of stimulus by the election, he says, is tough. That caused a bit more of a selloff in stocks and it underscores why the nasdaq continues to have a bit under it yes, it does clearly and youre also seeing a little bit of a fallback in yield, scott. The tenyear is pushing back towards 70 basis points, somewhat troubling, i would think the market needs a little bit of some of the Forward Momentum that its been carrying in the last week or so to really cool off a little. I think we were getting a little too vertical in the way we were appreciating so the negative news that youre getting on the stimulus aligns with maybe a much needed little bit of pause in that rate of appreciation im not overly concerned by it. Yeah, rates are falling you see it there 71 basis points is where we are on the tenyear, an issue to deal with, tiffany, or perhaps the message in the fall. Everything is coming down on the mnuchin comments but its mo