T dot com stay with us for the Financial News in the car with. Kaiser this is the kaiser report i dont know about you but so far this pandemic things working out great in america i say make america transcendental list again you know back in the 1820 states and fortys and the american transcendental as a movement they talked about how to rely on subjective intuition rather than object of empiricism and thats really the heart and soul of america this pandemic is bringing in a whole new era of selfreliance this plays great into the american soul. Speaking selfreliance and making sure my wire here is plugged in yes selfreliance ralph waldo and emerson one of the most famous quotes from that essay called Self Reliance was a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesman f. Loss of furs and divines i would say the philosophers are modern day think tanks and the divines are celebrity cable news hosts and they have these little minds that focus just on certain
In the studio to give you the latest update and half an hour join us again. Oh max keiser this is the kaiser report you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency usually what makes a currency is scarcity for example gold is a currency its money because its scarce thats the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or socialism is usually unworkable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money theres socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently one of the big president ial debates you know bank gets in trouble just print more money well whats the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about what is the ultimate scarce commodity. The most scarce commodity of all time and that isnt the headline here ikea becomes 1st retailer to let customers pay using time ikea is now letting custom
We also have the oil wars going on allegedly some oil wars we have russia versus saudi arabia the price crash you know kind of started with when the opec plus when they met you know saudi arabia essentially and russia and russia decided not to cut any production based on the decline in demand out of china and elsewhere but also right after that saudi arabia offered up to a 10. 00 discount per barrel just because i guess. Theyd been solomon got a little bit upset and threw a temper tantrum so thats what happened there but you know that seismic sell off a 30 percent and then followed by a like 101213 percent rise and boom bust and boom bust i thought this was an interesting tweet to kind of look at the whole situation is from royce we went to the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the p
I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report max those days you are in las vegas a lot of political things are happening here lets get the lowdown states well we are in political season max in fact when you and i landed here in las vegas who was on the runway the president doesnt show him literally on the runway but is playing air force one was on the runway and that was our meeting our arrival here in las vegas saying air force one again weve seen it of 2 or 3 times on our travels and its very impressive its a great prop when youre running for president and thats some of the all that what you have when you are president is the bully pulpit and thats going to weigh heavily in this 2020 election well in the nevada debates there was something that Bernie Sanders said on stage when he was you know going back and forth with mayor bloomberg when mayor bloomberg imploded on stage you know they were talking about billionaires and the problem with billionaires and should billionaires exist i twee
Actual and of the dollar when the fed cut on sunday night just as it had by the way in march of 2008 during the financial crisis in the beginning when bear stearns collapse here we saw emergency rate cuts of 100 basis points down to 0 it took them down Interest Rates down to 0 percent essentially and the markets tumbled the dollar is something weve been talking about for many years and its the only store of value at the moment everything is collapsing against the dollar so how long will that last probably not a long time because. As weve seen during brain woods or through the plaza accord of the 1980 s. Theres going to have to be a global coordinated sit down to rearrange the global 4 x. Market we arrange the global currency grid and the dollar is not the thing were going to have to match against because that runaway value on the dollar is whats causing this deflation and thats whats causing this global. Part 2 so theyre going to have to rejigger the global currency grid and as all wit