That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Those are the headlines this hour the cause reporters on your way in just a few moments. In the studio. To give you the morning news headlines. Hi im max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report Summer Solutions thats right we solve all the worlds problems by bringing in the biggest genius to the way we know that ive ever been on the show and were going to talk about a very scary the word and that of course is the flakes and joining us former tech entrepreneur jeff booth hes the author of the price of tomorrow why deflation is the key to an abundant future this book has caught fire amongst the crypt a community they Call Community all communities its really a fantastic book stating so jeff but i want to ask you because deflation is usually associated with depression and bad times and nobody likes us but based on the title of your book the key to an abundant future it sounds like youre quite optimistic about deflation so how exactly do you define deflation and how might it lead to abundance
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Created of themselves out of Monetary Policy fighting against force and i would ask a simple question isnt it good when the value of your money goes up and cut prices go down but for you personally and so so if we can see that that could be a good thing. And that means we could work less time and the abundance from technology would be broadly distributed instead of being concentrated like it is today i cut something now much i want to focus on this big ben read your book and ive talked to a couple times and you emphasize that the transition to a deflationary economy i think thats key because we had to flush our economy back in the 1800s are so under a cult standard which was a very productive era and it worked wonderfully to kape have a check and balance on world trade but then there was a transition to money system or an inflationary system that was a bandaid and kept adding more bandaids onto an underlying structural problem and that was budget deficits and political. Problems and al