Thats coming up next. Welcome back to kaiser report summer solution series on back skies with stacy harbor and today were going to be talking about the many selves of money self sovereignty self custody and Self Reliance joining us very quickly will be jamison of cheese dot com stacy yes and i just you want to say of course that max i didnt invest in cost because we use the service on that some amazing really so jamison i want to look at a piece from Forbes Magazine that somebody was tweeting about their article said that 15 percent of American Adults now own some form of crypto currency more than half of those invested for the 1st time in the 1st half of 2020 on average they invested about 67500000000. 00 in crypto currency roughly 4000. 00 per person so locked down stimulus money has been good for a lot of people theyre pouring their money into robin hood up and apparently and many people are buying crypto currency if theyre buying bitcoin which they should be instead of crypto what
Economic recovery im joined by my guest Benjamin Cowen lubbock he is the director of the Free Market Institute professor of economics at Texas Tech University as well as a senior fellow with the independent institute and in los angeles we cross to he is an independent economic and geopolitical analyst as well as a former commodities trader all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciating lets go to los angeles 1st here i said in my introduction i guess probably the most important question there is as we come out of this pandemic and its all going to be about the economy and its everything were going to think about for the next few months if not years is about recovery so infer a very simple question will it be a v. A you or an l go here well weve been in an l. Shaped depression since the 2008 financial cry. Basis i mean only that true Economic Data on unemployment inflation g. D. P. And the like have been warped or hidden
Looks like a of b. Because that wouldnt buy that were going back to the economic world we all lived in at the start of the year but the virus is still going to be with us so opening back up means taking account of that and weighing that in our economic transactions so restaurants working at half capacity or 3rd capacity whatever customers and entrepreneurs do you say airlines that much less than capacity all of these things going to abide by bouncing back to where we were now i think whats important is that we dont have dumb Government Policies preventing Entrepreneurial Solutions that let us make our recovery as quick as we can and not stick us in how so its somewhere more like a you somewhere in between but thats really got to be for the market process to sort out you know the game it seemed that cycle about the market here you know plight we have now as we speak and i think it was as of today 26000000 people over the past 5 weeks have gone on unemployment and the this is massive i m
The former California Attorney general because the first africanamerican woman and first south Asian American woman on the ticket. Big revamp. They will exit all noneuropean Corporate Banking activity, and they forecast longlost loanloss provisions at 3 billion euros for the year. We will speak with the cfo of abn amro. Let me get to some of the breaking news we are getting here from the u. K. We have u. K. Gdp numbers coming through. We are looking for the month of june and for the quarterly figure. We have seen a rebound in the month of june at a. 7 . That was 8. 7 . That was ahead of the estimates. Thats the rebound for june. A rebound was expected. Quarter coming in at 20. 4 . That was with an estimate of around 21 . If you look at the year on your number, its similar. Its the extent of the losses that we saw in terms of Economic Activity in the Second Quarter. We look at things for a year on your number. Officially what we already knew because of the u. K. In the session. Saw the
What is normal Economic Activity and recovery look like and i dont think it looks like a of b. Because that wouldnt buy that were going back to the economic role we all lived in at the start of the year but the virus is still going to be with us so opening back up means taking account of that and weighing that in our economic transactions so restaurants working at half capacity or a 3rd capacity whatever customers and entrepreneurs do you say airlines that much less than capacity all of these things dont abide by bouncing back to where we were now i think whats important is that we dont have dumb Government Policies preventing Entrepreneurial Solutions that let us make our recovery as quick as we can and that stick us in how so its somewhere more like a you somewhere in between but thats really got to be for the market process to sort out you know came in that scene that socket that market here you know plight we have now as we speak and i think it was as of today 26000000 people over