Luke Gromen is one of my favorites lately. He doesn't fear monger, doesn't slap that icing on the cake. Instead he just spits out nothing but facts facts facts. knowing the past is important and Like is seeing the chain of events and putting all of the pieces together. Definitely bring him on more often.
Wealth gap is NOT a survival of the fittest issue! That is classic blame the victim thinking. At the bottom of the wealth gap, a full time job should always, always, always support an individual to the point where food and shelter are affordable. Forty hours of a human's work effort should be commensurate to a living wage on a weekly basis. That is the basis of fairness. To turn the issue into who deserves wealth is to miss the point of the wealth gap problem.
I'm a Gromen FFTT subscriber and this was one of his best casts for substance. Some podcasts don't understand that when you get a Luke Gromen, it's ok to just let this man talk. Keep up the amazing work!
@@normandolinic2044 imperfect, multi-dimensional problems don’t have straightforward solutions, lol. His thesis is to understand concepts like Triffin’s dilemma and to play defense with hard assets. Each person should research, perform risk assessment based on their unique circumstances and protect themselves. Listen to 29:00, no answers yet, get it?
C Michael Hudson - How Taxes Were Shifted to American Homeowners ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8rhBdWojLe0.html Michael Hudson - Income Taxes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yOAsyDM-rik.html Remember why the mighty Roman Empire crashed ? ( the bankers pushed the entire country into debt and then forcleosed and hired lots and lots of slaves) We are doing the very same thing. Ooh history repeating. ( well no need to teach MARX thoughts, cause he is a commie, LOL) The financhial sector ( neolibeberal 1% ) funds the DNC & RNC who select Two really good candidates for president. Who can enact LAWS. ( like what could possibly go wrong, he is a billion air. ) = = = = = = = = = === = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = BANKING was unchained by Ronald Ray Gun_Zap 1970. The great tax break for the rich and trickle down economics (verified hard failure) continues But wait their is more. . . . Thanks to the neoliberal 1%, you know the PIC (PEOPLE IN CHARGE) scary isn't it ? Keep pulling the nose up, and the 747 will fall out of the sky same as a Cessna 150. (personal debt and national debt)
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"Never attribute to malice that which is more easily explained to be ignorance." Although central banks can be equally guilty of both. The global anti-christ financial system will crash by both neglect and design, achieving the goal of economic depression and world-wide starvation.
Luke Gromen is the sharpest macro mind out there. His news letter is tremendous. To the host, I enjoyed your interview of Grant Williams as well. Great show. Please more fascinating interviews from great minds like Luke on how the system will unwind.
Unfortunately he is completely wrong about BTC. BTC on its own is limited in supply, but the whole universe of cryptocurrencies is unlimited in the same way as the universe of fiat currencies. You have to ask yourself, in what sense is BTC superior to all other either already existing cryptos or those possibly zillions to be yet created and technologically even better. How can BTC survive that kind of competition? Will we spend almost all of our available energy to support that kind of waste of energy? To me all that virtual money BS is just another "religious" financial nonsense. If even big insurances are so foolish to invest in that kind of risky asset it is really scary. The only cryptos that can survive will be those supported by governments as their currencies. All others can not survive that limitless competition in crypto space.
@@newestcentipede5148, truth be told, I have some investments in crypto, which I would like to see increase, and even though I think the banking system from the central ‘banks’ on down are cultist thieves, I am not sure what is the best path from a national security standpoint. That being said, as far as tons of competition not allowing any cryptos to be dominant, when I say cola, what comes to mind? Why?
@@newestcentipede5148 right on. Taleb and Gates basically have the same view; Taleb calls it a Ponzi scheme. RU-vid is absolutely infested of late with crypto pump & dumpers - it's the biggest scam going, based on the hope that it somehow displaces national central banking. Those people live in cloud cuckoo land. That doesn't stop the pumpers driving it to the moon before they hit their predefined limit and dumping it. Cryptos are the future, which everyone knows, and which is one of the reasons that's driving BTC appreciation, but it's the fintech version of Web 1.0 and will be replaced by cryptoCURRENCIES with utility (recall that Bitcoin was conceived as a currency, but has been turned into a "commodity" with no utility other than it can be sold at a greater price to the next fool)
Luke is the economist last year that convinced me last April that the market would continue to roar back, despite the massive hit to the real economy. I owe him a beer and a steak.
I have been based in Central America for the last two years and watched carefully how the lower and middle class survived the economic carnage of the COVID response. The surprising answer is that many actually didn't suffer as much as one would have expected. Why? Because most are/were debt free. If you temporarily had no income, the extended familiy supported you until such time as you could pick yourself up again. It is the high debt levels (or the equivalent rent) that has inflicted so much worry and uncertainty on the peoples of Europe and North America over the last year.
Mr. Gromen is doing a magnificent job of walking us through information that most of us know much of while making the historical and geopolitical motivations that help us truly see the whole story. I am truly impressed with his articulation of the big picture - and I am only half way through his presentation.
FINALLY - a macro analyst makes a connection to culture and man's search for meaning. Nearly all just talk numbers and economic narrative while avoiding the elephant in the room. I don't believe "the internet" is going to bring meaning or create community, but at least someone is addressing it.
Luke Gromen is the first person to demonstrate with passion, such insight of the role of society in creating a strong economy. To become a healthy and wealthy country, the citizens needs must first be met. Gromen will always have a competitive advantage due to his insight.
Thank you, Luke Gromen, for calling it like it is and holding up the mirror to the US. Not many people can look beyond the rhetoric and demonization of the "opponents" and admit to the responsibility of their own downfall. Own up and fix it right and that's not by bad mouthing and finger pointing.
Michael: Wishing you and Blockworks continued success. Y'all are providing tremendous value but, I really wanted to say is how much I've been enjoying the intellectual, well reasoned and researched thought provoking interviews you've been producing. Such an enjoyable spend of time, and, more importantly, the information you are exploring often changes what I think and impacts my actions for the positive. THANK YOU!
Groman is perhaps one of the best economist I have seen yet and the good ones understand that energy is not just a commodity. But he is still off in his analysis regarding energy. He seems to believe that the energy used to make things like gold and Bitcoin can be stored which is not quite right. He needs to revisit the laws of thermodynamics, particularly the second in which energy degrades into less dense (useable) forms every time it is transformed. Basically it means that everytime you want to do work (change something from its current state) you need energy to do that, but the energy you use is then lost as useless heat, never to be recovered. So you need more energy to make the next change. (Which means you have to collect more energy) but gold, Bitcoin, any form of currency currently in use doesn't degrade. Then end result is that you can peg gold, Bitcoin or anything else you want against energy (oil, solar, wind, food etc are all sources energy we use on the planet) but unless it degrades like energy does and matches the available usable energy on the planet then you will always have imbalances that result in speculation and attempts to accumulate money in order to monopolize and control how energy is used within the economy. Leading to inequality yet again. What you need is a form of money that is generated as energy is collected on the planet and degrades by a given percentage every time it is used just as energy does. Most people will not like this because it means no one will ever be able to accumulate millions of dollars, but it also means no more boom bust economic cycles and will actually mean the economy can effectively distribute good and services within the population and people will have a purpose. Whatever currency we used should degrade like energy and be pegged against the unit for energy the Joule and the supply should be determined by availability of energy ( joules) on the planet.
Fiat: Full faith and confidence in the USA government to conduct business and pay its debts Crypto: Full faith and confidence in the USA government to be incompetent.
Luke started me on my journey a few years ago. Absolutely genuine, salt of the earth type person. Only time I've seen him get a little excited is when he debates Hugh Hendry. Thanks for having him on, great questions. Your channel is rocking.
Just discovered thus channel and listened to a few interviews. Quality interviewer lets his guests shine in their expertise - much appreciated! Subbed.
Mr. Gromen makes the point that the US government has in effect exchanged gold with treasury-backed dollars. Very profound; very, very interesting. I'll be pondering that for a while. . .
Great interview! Especially re: China and US dollar. (Bitcoin convo - not so much. A bit shallow, no discussion of risk that government regulation is a huge potential downside.). Still, overall, fascinating. Thanks!
please how does this whole crypto works, I'm interested in it and I'm willing and ready to invest in it but I'm gonna need an assistant from any trusted and productive professional.
Luke Gromen is fantastic 👍 Just discovered the genius, on RU-vid 👍 Luke Gromen is the best there is on the evil "dollar system" 👍 (I write from Exeter, England, UK) 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸🏴🏏
You're a really good interviewer man. It's nice to see other young guys creating macro focused content. I started my own channel to wake people up to this stuff man it's not good.
On this note at the last how and what we all everyone need is such "our need" for a part 2 for these men to break open to our learning the fork from the DNS internet and all of its endless pitfalls and not to mention its demand for all our contact info, to the blockchain (ei. IPFS) with much greater uncensorable and near totally privacy.
Great interview Luke and Michael. Would the next signature move of the Fed (and other OECD central banks) be to issue 50 and 100 year bonds in tranches of $1 Trillion? That would allow kicking the can down the road for another decade, no?
All the discussion of "what is an economy?" I've gotten interested in ancient history recently. Very informative to follow the rise of agriculture in the fertile crescent from eg 4000BC to 500BC. The economy simply developed to make work specialization more efficient (eg better than barter).
My first real interaction with BTC and what sucked me into this vortex was Saylor’s analogue of money as energy. I had zero Econ/finance education or experience other than keeping my personal finances in excel. But my engineering brain immediately groked Saylor’s analogy and suddenly the world of economics was no longer opaque to me. The analogy is perfect because it’s real in nature. Laws of thermodynamics and evolutionary principles made manifest as money and exchange. Gromen takes this to the next several orders of magnitude greater - macro and BTC make sense. Macro and fiat don’t. While gold makes sense now, it’s inertia will die slowly then suddenly as a more perfect gold takes its place.
We were doing fine with the discussion of what policies were there to help people who aren't Tom Brady. Then he said, let the market figure it out. But they didn't let the market figure it out, the gov't provided trillions of dollars in loans to send everyone to college whether they could cut it like Tom in the NFL or not. Then they did the same thing by not letting the banks fail after pushing them to allow people who couldn't afford homes to buy more than one.
If you put gold in a vault, it's in a building which uses energy. Transporting it uses energy. Keeping track of it with computers uses energy. Keep it real. I think we'll find BTC and other bank building elimination technologies are much more efficient than the current high rise banking system.
At 46:46 he talks about "Upward lubricant". In order to have upward lubricant there needs to be a degree of downward lubricant. Inheritance tax to level the playing field?
Loss of meaning in economic disruption leads to suicide alcoholism male breakdown, applies to Russia 1990-, Native America 1880-, wow, amazing and persuasive point.
@@michaelippolito8705 In your discussion about Bitcoin, the one topic not covered is legislation and the rise of 'official' digital currencies. China and Turkey have banned Bitcoin and the UK is launching its own official digital and may use that as an excuse to legislate against competing cryptos.
12:00 "... for those who are disenfranchised by technology ...". No. Its like this Luke: Fiscal winners cant feel like winners unless they have soon-to-be- losers to out-race and control. But that doesn't work for long without a shooting war erupting. So in a wise democracy the winners pay the losers (thru taxes) to stay calm and continue losing, BUT ONLY relatively speaking. No starving or freezing.
Luke's voice sounds different than it usually does. I don't know if it is Luke or the audio. I hope he is well. Oh! Towards the end of this I learned Luke was Ill. Please feel better!
Really enjoyed that.. Thankyou. 👍 Luke... can I politely suggest to invest in a decent set of headphones or EarPods. The feedback from you mic was.... unfortunate.
Nice video!! Very engaging from beginning to end. Nevertheless, businesses and investment are the easiest way to make money irrespective of which party makes it to the oval office.
