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The Financial Guys
A highlight from Republican Debates, Election Predictions, and Media Criticism
"At some point we have to take the economy seriously. We can't just keep printing money and sending it overseas. Welcome to another Financial Guys podcast. I'm Mike Hayflick along with my partner, Mike Speraza. We are always excited to be here, Mike. Um, we are here after the second Bill's win. Yeah. Yeah. We will, we'll keep it at that. Every time we talk very little, things go well. So let's, let's keep it at a win and big game Sunday. Miami. What should be right. A massively popular game. I mean, when they put up 70 against Denver and we, we basically, did we shut out the three points? Three, three. Okay. We held, held Washington, the Washington commanders to only three. That should be a really, really dynamite game. So. Had to change their name due to political correctness. I know, I know. And we had some conversation about that. The people I was watching the game with were reflecting on, I guess the good old days when the, the nicknames of teams just didn't seem to matter as much, but it matters now. Now they want to take down statues. You're an Iroquois guy. They're taking that name away. The chiefs because apparently saying chiefs is very, uh, politically incorrect. I mean, a leader. You can't be called the leaders anymore. Maybe it'll be the Iroquois comrades because everyone's got to just hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Yeah. And, and you know, nobody gets a gender anymore. Nobody can dominate one or the other. Even if it's a sport, there really might not even ever be winners or losers. They might not even keep score anymore in sports. Like it's just going to be for the experience of it trophy for the trophy for the trophy. Line them all up. They're all going to look exactly the same. There'll be gender neutral trophies. When will we have a they, them team name? Like the, the Washington they, thems, like when, when, I mean, I know that sounds outrageous, but that's where we're headed. Yeah, it's true. It's going to be comrades. Friends. Yeah. The friends, the Iroquois friends, the Iroquois comrades. It literally is heading that way though. Something where you go, what is, what is this sport? Like we don't even know based on the name, what the sport is. We don't even, yeah. You won't know. Like usually you could derive some more information from things like that. Oh, no, no, not anymore. No, you're going to have to dig real deep. You're going to have to show up at these events and, uh, you know, maybe wear a nice hoodie and a pair of shorts at the events. Yeah, I agree with you. And, uh, you know, maybe right after you went through the Senate chambers to vote on something, you can head and do a game with your hoodie and shorts on. Anyway, the next one, the last thing I'll say is the next one will be the Patriots. They'll be getting their name taken because that represents Donald Trump and his movement. We got to take away the name Patriot, right? That'll be the next one. There you go. You know, I just, I can't with these people anymore. It's really getting to be absurd. Yep. Totally. So, uh, Mike, let's start with this one. A second Republican debate coming this Wednesday night, September 27th, and Dana Perino, who I've always enjoyed listening to. Um, she will be joining Stuart Varney and Ilia Calderon at the Ronald Reagan library. presidential Suitable place. I love it. Yeah. And, uh, I, we were just chatting a bit before the podcast, so let's just line this up. All right. I don't know the order, but we're going to have Pence, Christie, DeSantis, Rama, Swami, uh, Doug Burgum made it Dougie Dougie. Um, who is that? Who else? I'm I've got five Nikki Haley. Thank you. And then, uh, there should be one more. Um, I did pens from, let's write this down. One more time for everybody. Pence, Rama, Swami, right? DeSantis. How do I not remember? Tim Scott, Tim Scott. Thank you. So, so seven this time, um, not Asa Hutchinson, I think you said he, he didn't make it. Didn't qualify. So, um, of course the big elephant in the room is that Donald Trump again will not be there. Just tell me your thoughts, I guess, on this next upcoming debate. Are we going to hear anything different? Is there any going to be anything that really makes people go, Whoa, this guy's really racing to the front or female. Um, if it's Nikki Haley, anyone going to race to the front after this one? I really, I mean, I think we're kind of wasting our time here and I'm not saying it as a, as a Trump voter. I'm just saying it realistically. Right. I mean, at this point, the lead is 40 to 50 points. Nobody makes up that ground than a debate, right? Like Nikki Haley had a great debate last time. She's still polling single digits. Right. I don't agree with Nikki Haley stance on a lot of things, but she, she fared well in that debate and she really didn't grow or fall behind anymore. Right. So I think that's the tough part. When we look at these debates, the Donald Trump in the 2015, 2016 campaign years, that is your like unicorn, right? Where, where you just go up there and go bananas. And then you end up, you know, taking over the field. The difference was there was no Donald Trump in that election, right? Like you had a Jeb Bush, but he wasn't the guaranteed slam dunk candidate right now. You have Donald Trump, Mike, and he is the guaranteed slammed on Canada. The only one that we thought maybe had a chance was Ron DeSantis and he has crumbled mightily, whether you like him or hate him. It's just the facts. He's, he's in trouble. Right. I mean, so what, what are we accomplishing with these debates other than kind of a, I guess I'll say wasting our time. Yeah. And I, I just, I just think it's worth breaking this down a little bit. Like what is it that people like you and I think that these others are just inferior to a guy like a Donald Trump? Like, and I'll tell you my opinion first. Mine is I just don't think they'll win. And I just feel like more and more people need to, you got to vote and expect that the conservative Republican candidate in this case wins. And I don't think any of these other people could, could actually win. I don't think they have enough, you know, experience. They don't have the fortitude that a Donald Trump has. Well, I think that that to me is, is there's two reasons why I'm voting for Donald Trump, right? Number one was I thought he had a very good four year term other than the COVID 19 issue. And I, I'm telling you right now, I say this to people all the time. If it was Ron DeSantis, if it was Donald Trump, if it was Hillary Clinton, that, that, that whole debacle was, was a disaster and there was no way you were going to look good in that debacle. I'm just telling you. Yeah. Number one, but that was a Trump fault that I have. And if I ever talked to him, I would tell him that that I do not agree with what he did with COVID. It's easy for me to say that now, but, but at the end of the day, he had a great four year term other than that, in my personal opinion. Number two is every time they've tried to knock him down at the knees, Mike, that has made me want him back more, right? The, the every time they indict him, I want him back more, right? Every time they try and silence him with gag orders, I want him back more. This is how I think a lot of conservatives are feeling. And at this point, it's kind of like, okay, is Rhonda, here's what my other point, I don't mean to keep going on, but at the end of the day is whether it's Ron, DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, or Donald Trump, I'm going to use those three for a second. They will be treated the exact same way by the media, by the Democrat party. It doesn't matter who that candidate is. It doesn't matter. Right. People always say like, Oh, but, but Trump's hated. If DeSantis is a candidate, he's already taken crap from the leftist media, right? Like if he's the candidate, he's going to, it's going to be open up another can of worms. I don't think it matters. The reason why we got to go with Donald Trump is he's been there. He's been able to handle it. We know that whether you like him or not, he's handled the media and he's handled the Democrats well. And we need that experience. This is the election of our lifetime. And I will say that now, this is the election of our lifetime. We need to win. Dana Perino says, I believe the economy will feature prominently because we know that that is the biggest concern and preoccupation that is worrying Americans. And she says in many ways, in my opinion, the economy is the thread that runs through all of these other possible topics. For example, if you're concerned about crime, one of the issues is what kind of resources do you have and are you willing to use in order to help deal with that? I think she's spot on. I think when it comes to the economy, the economy sort of is the fuel and whether you then have a notion to, you know, actually shut down the border, improve childcare, improve education, then the, the economy obviously is the main thread that actually everything else seems to branch off of. If you have a lot of people working, for instance, you're going to have a thriving economy because supply and demand is going to balance out. You're going to have lots of products and services to offer and a lot of people can afford these things. Right. So, uh, I, I agree with her. Plus it is Fox business that's hosting the event. So might lean a little bit more toward economics. Yeah, I think it should. I agree with you. I mean, at some point we have to take the economy seriously. We can't just keep printing money and sending it overseas at some point, you know, and I say, I've said this to you, Mike before, going to get groceries now at times, like they ring all the stuff up and I'm like, Holy crap. I bought, I have a cat. I bought five cans of cat food. They're, they're the size of like a lacrosse ball, not even. And it's like $5 for five cans. I'm like this, this thing costs more than my kids at this point. This cat's going to be very thin. It's going to be out of crash diet. I mean, but seriously, how do people, Mike, that don't make money? And I say this in a sad way, like how do people that don't make money survive? Even going, you go to a local fast food restaurant for two people. My wife and I it's 30 bucks. I'm like, what the hell happened out here? I told that is what's going on. And that's scary. Yeah. When they have to make those kinds of hard choices. Right. Uh, all right. So, uh, let's move on. So speaking of Trump, we're talking about these other seven candidates that will be there Wednesday, this Wednesday night, nine to 11 PM in the second Republican debate, Donald Trump will not be there, but this came out like in a Washington post poll. Trump is now up 10%, uh, over a potential run against Biden, 10 % double digit. Now if you just pin Trump against Biden again, first your thoughts, and then we'll go a little deeper into this. Well, I'm not surprised. Um, I think, I think Americans are getting sick and tired of it. I think Americans are worried about our futures. I think the migrant crisis is hurting the Democrat party because you have liberal places like New York city that are waking up saying, Oh my God, we can't do this anymore. And there's like 10 ,000 migrants in New York city, not 10 million. Right. So like, like it's starting to click, I think with certain people, number one, number two, Mike, I think it's hard to hide Joe Biden's cognitive decline, right? The left can say whatever they want in the media. You just can't, when you fall over on things, when you do talk like that, I mean, they, it's a problem. It's a real problem and it's visible. Um, do I trust these polls? Yes and no. I think, if I think America is as smart as I think they would, the polls should be probably higher, like 30 % lead for Trump. Um, but I think the numbers that keep growing in Trump's favor, the margin of error is not that big, right? Michael, like you look at the Republican primary polls, the margin of error is not 40%, right? He's up 40%. So even if they're off by 20%, he's still up 20%. The same thing's starting to happen in these head to head polls with Biden. It started, you know, Trump down, then it was Trump even, then it was Trump three, five, now it's 10. I mean, that's a lot. Yeah. And so I want to read a little bit here. So the post ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle. This is, by the way, the Washington Post little write -up, uh, after the poll was done. Um, so this is, this is actually humorous. Although the sizable margin of Trump's lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest to virtual dead heat, the difference between this poll and others as well as the unusual makeup of Trump's and Biden's coalitions in the survey. So Mike, the more words, the muddier this all gets, right? It sounds like excuses coming up, right? It sounds like Kamala Harris. It really is. It's like, yeah, total word salad. Um, I just said suggested is probably an outlier, right? So, so this, this I thought was interesting. Um, Byron Byron York of the Washington examiner said the post dumped on headline news in quotes from its own poll. So basically they do a poll. They say that their poll is likely an outlier and, and he, he goes on to then say Washington Post sub heads suggests its own poll may be an outlier. That may be true, but they put no such disclaimer in headline three years ago when they published a poll of Wisconsin, right before election day in 2020, showing Biden up 17 points on Trump, 10 points more than the average of other polls at the time. That was real clear politics, president Tom Bevin. So, so funny to me, so interesting, right? Even when they try to do something where they want to take part in the polling process and inform all of us as Americans, Ooh, that's not really where we wanted to see that. That's likely an outlier folks. Yeah. Oh, Donald Trump's winning. Shit. That doesn't count. Okay. What are we going to do? Next one. Okay. These were registered voters. What are we going to do? This is 10 points. Holy shit. What are we going to say? Let's just say it's an outlier. Oh damn. That was a fake poll. Oh, those stupid polls. Yeah. I mean, and it might, I'll say this before we get onto another topic on what's, what's, you're starting to see it all come together. It's like, it's like when they see, you know, hurricanes forming in the ocean, right? We're starting to see it now. The polls are shifting to Trump. Now we have Hillary Clinton coming out saying things like, Oh yeah, who's to say Putin won't medal in the election in 2024 again, right? You have others saying like, Ooh, we got to get Trump off the ballot or people saying, let's indict Trump again for this or that let's put gag orders on him. It's all coming together. Now the new thing too, Mike is, Hmm, let's indict the Bidens and let's see if we can get, we can get a Joe Biden off the ticket. We've used him, we've abused him. Now we're getting them out of here. It's all, it's that wave in the ocean. It's that hurricane forming in the ocean. That's what's happening. And I believe that because why, why would Hillary Clinton come out and say, if you're so confident right in the 2024 election, if you're so confident and Trump's an idiot, he's never going to make it again and get rid of them. Why are you now saying, Hmm, maybe Putin will medal in the elections again. Why would you say that? Right. Right. And by the way, this is the same guy that's richer than ever because his country has been able to sell oil at a high rate since Biden's been in office. This is the same country that has had its way with the Ukraine walking in there and taking over land since Biden's been in there. Why would, why would Putin medal in the election to get in and probably in his mind, the nut job of Donald Trump back in office, it may drop a nuke on him. Why would he want Trump back in office? Ask yourself that question. Don't have to, if you have any sense at all, then you don't even have to ask that. Um, so anyway, let's see what the next number of polls start to reveal. Let's see if, let's see if polls stop coming out, Mike, right? Because once you have one that's got Trump winning by double digit, maybe they just start to say, polls are stupid. Polls are for racists. You're homophobic. If you read polls, I mean, we'll see. Or they come out with some poll from the middle of nowhere. That's like Biden up 35 points on Donald Trump. Right, right. This was from registered voters in the white house. Yes. We interviewed seven people and it was six to one, six to one. And the other one we fired, we don't even know who that was. Yeah. So, so let's go to this now. Every once in a while, Mike, I have to do this CNN, right? I go to the cnn .com site. I just got to see what they're finding note newsworthy, noteworthy, whatever you want to say. And honestly, and I've often reported this, I'm often in disbelief at what they aren't reporting. In this example though, I was like, Oh, a few stories down. Here's a story, Mike, why more women are choosing not to have kids. So right away I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, these are the most unlikable people, the most anti traditional family structure people ever. They probably don't want to have a relationship at all. They don't want to ever have true, you know, intimacy with anybody cause they just can't do it. They're just nasty. They're mostly on, you know, just awful. These lots, so many of these people. So I go on to read a little bit of this and you know, this is, this is someone named Diana Volek who, who never, who was never someone who dreamed of becoming a mother, right? And these are just some of the reasons given. They don't want the responsibility of being a parent. They fear a lack of support. They like their life as it is. They're still judged for being child free. So so even when they don't choose to have children, right? So I'm like looking at this and then suddenly I go, wait a second. This was published at midnight, uh, basically Sunday or Monday, you know, September 25th. That's that's now as we record editor's note, this story was originally published in August, 2021. Some details such as the ages of those interviewed remain the same as they were when the story first published. So you're telling me right away, I thought, is the Hollywood writers strike? Is it bleeding into CNN now? Cause there aren't enough stories. There aren't enough people to write like modern stories. There's not enough news. They had to pull a story from two years ago to talk about why many women are deciding not to have kids. Like how pathetic is that? How pathetic. This new trend too, of like, it's cool to just say, screw it. I don't want to have a family is the weirdest thing ever. And then we wonder why these people are miserable, right? I mean, again, is parenting easy? I'm a new parent. Mike, you know that you, you parented two girls for, you know, they're what? 25, 22, right? So you've had, you've had 25 years of parenting experience. I've had, you know, almost a year. It's the most enjoyable thing ever. Right? I mean you're finally, it's good not to be selfish. It's good to take care of somebody else and love somebody else. Right. And I'm not saying you don't love your spouse, but your spouse is an adult relationship. You have to have a relationship with a baby, which turns into a toddler, which turns into an adolescent, a young adult like that. There's nothing more special than that. You should want that. Instead it's like, Oh, kids are stupid. I'm going to be so rich. Really weigh me down. Yeah, yeah, sure. Okay. They're going to weigh me down. I want my independence. I don't want to be responsible to another human being. I've got myself to worry about and treat and, and you know, I don't know, a door like I get like, that's fine. I want to see the next story though be why many women are deciding that having a child is rewarding. It can become a very loving, you know, yes, you have to be responsible. Like it just was so gross to me like that. And two years ago, this isn't even news. This is like, Oh my gosh, we got to fill these headlines. What do we get out? Pull that one again. We don't like kids. We don't want anyone, you know, raising children, my God for, you know, I'll say this though, Mike and all seriousness too. Like, yes. Is, is it fun being a college degenerate and booze and all the time and having a blast? Sure it is. We all did it right. I mean, yes, of course it's a fun thing. Is it fun to not care if you can go to bed at 2am or 5am or 5pm? Sure. That's great. But at some point you have to mature as an adult, take your job seriously, take your family seriously and care about things like I always say this, Mike, and this is something I've brought up a million times. Think about being, you know, if you want it, like if you didn't want to have kids, I'm not saying people that can't have kids cause I feel for them. But if you, if you didn't want children, cause you didn't want the responsibility, what do you do in your sixties and seventies with no family? Like that breaks my heart, honestly. Right? Like I, what my relationship with my parents, my wife's with her parents, like it's, it's fun, right? It's, you're a family. You get to do things together and you get to enjoy each other. Who doesn't want that? I just don't get it. Well, there's a lot of people in Washington that actually have spouses and children and grandchildren. And clearly there is not a lot of love and support going on between all of them. Because some of these people, I mean, we know who we're talking about, the Mitch McConnell's, the Joe Biden's, they would not be in front of microphones if people actually cared about them. They would not let those loved ones go through what they go through on a daily basis, unless they have no connection, no personal connection at all. Um, all right. AOC. She's almost the last story of our day, but there's one more after this. So we got a bonus. We do a bonus story here, breaking news. So AOC wins the hypocrisy award mic for this, uh, at least this week, maybe the year on this one decade, this is hilarious. And, um, I'll just set this up for a second. So here she was on CBS's face the nation. And, um, she was discussing president Biden's plan to visit the Michigan auto workers on Tuesday. So host of CBS's face, the nation, Margaret Brennan points out a couple of interesting facts about AOC and her selection of vehicles. So let's go ahead and play that. Yup.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Fresh update on "examiner" discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Kevin McCullough wrote a piece over at Town Hall. Since Joe Biden has come to office, he has endorsed and incentivized more aliens to come here illegally than the populations of 32 states. Think about that. A replacement population for any single of 32 sovereign territories. Do the math. Do the math. The five point nine million people who have crossed illegally and have not been vetted would be a replacement for the bottom eight states and territories combined. And Biden is setting all kinds of records. Boy, he's got a real big record to set. Big. He's made history. More than three hundred thousand immigrants. I'm reading here from the Washington Examiner. They call them immigrants. I'll call them illegals. More than three hundred thousand illegals attempted to enter the United States unlawfully or were paroled during August, surpassing all national records and spelling a catastrophe for the Biden administration that claimed its sweeping policy reforms were working. Pretty wild when the Washington Post says don't believe our own poll. Now, we all know the Biden ministration has committed billions to the war in Ukraine, but it took 60 minutes on CBS to come along and reveal that the money that we're spending buys far more than just guns in that embattled nation. Why do we have to learn from 60 Minutes that we, the taxpayers, are paying for virtually all the first responders in Ukraine? You know, my show, we do something called the First Responders Bible, which is a spiritual fitness manual with the King James Bible and a spiritual fitness manual for our first responders in the United States. Now, I wouldn't object to sending some to Ukraine, but clearly our focus is on American first responders. I cannot believe that we are literally, as 60 Minutes discovered, paying all of Ukraine's bills like this. I mean, I'm not I've got to get your reaction to this. I cannot believe my phones aren't exploding. It's almost like people are so numb you don't that they've learned that the U.S., meaning the American taxpayer, is financing a lot more than just weapons in Ukraine. I mean, that's the Lindsey Graham argument, right? Weapons. The neocons just expect us to let Ukraine defend themselves against Russia's aggression. That's what it's about. I got to get a bunch of voices in here. Give me an honest reaction to the news that you just are hearing that CBS' 60 Minutes has discovered that the American taxpayers are financing seeds and fertilizer for the farmers. We're paying the salaries of every single one of Ukraine's first responders. And we're subsidizing Ukrainian small businesses. I got to, come on, flood the phone lines with your reactions. Let's get a whole bunch of voices on here. 1-800-655-MIKE. I want to hear from small business owners. I want to hear from first responders. Maybe you think that's the right thing to do. Let's find out. I want to know. 800-655-MIKE. You tell me what your reaction is. Do you think we should be footing all these bills for Ukraine? Or do people like Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene start to make a little more sense? 800-655-MIKE. Bryant is in Texas. Bryant, welcome to The Mike Gallagher Show. How are you? Mike, I'm wonderful. Good to talk to you today. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you, sir, for joining us. I appreciate it. Well, I'm a small business owner here in Ingrahamoon. You said that this morning, our subsidizers and all these small businesses. I'm watching my little town die. And it's all small businesses. It's all hunting, agriculture. And they're just having a heck of a time. My customers don't come in because they can't. Isn't it infuriating to know that taxpayers, instead of helping you, were helping Ukraine? Amen to that, brother. Amen to that. I cannot get over it. I am absolutely in such a state of shock over this. And I'm wondering if Americans are paying attention. I mean, again, I share this news with you and I figure the phones will explode. No, a couple of calls here, a couple of calls. Aren't you sick? Aren't you absolutely sick? What a wild turn of events. Meantime, 2024 is coming and Hillary can't help herself. She's counting on you to try to forget her fabricated phony story about Russian collusion. She sat down for an interview with Jen Psaki over at MSNBC. She claimed that the Russians are going to interfere with the election again. Here's a reality.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 2
"The most important thing is, you know, just because a lawyer tells you something is okay, that's not a defense. Geez, he said it. He seemed to think everything was okay. Yeah. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent, that's an excuse. In part two of our series digging into SPF's defense, we dissect Sam Bankman -freed's claims that his lawyers played a larger role in FTX's collapse than he did. It might sound like a stretch, but there is legal precedent behind it. SPF also says he was pressured by counsel into turning FTX over to their hand -picked successor. In this episode, we sit down with Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff, Travis Kling, a fund manager who still has millions of dollars tied up in FTX, and Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor and fellow FTX victim, to see if there's any legitimacy to SPF's claims that lawyers who were there for FTX's rise are now primed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. Money that SPF says should be used to pay back depositors. I'm Zach Ousman, you're listening to the SPF Defense Podcast, a coinage investigation. SPF's position is that FTX would have made it through the crisis if not for his lawyers, which conspired to steal the company out from under him, cover up their role in its operation, and siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from the bankrupt estate. SPF even names one lawyer in particular, Ryan Miller, who joined FTX US from the law firm's Sullivan and Cromwell, and planned on returning there after his time at the exchange, according to an affidavit from FTX's top lawyer. SPF says Miller conspired to hand the company over to Solcrom and their chosen agent, John J. Ray III, who also handled Enron's bankruptcy. And whether you come to believe Sam's claims or not, Solcrom and Ray clearly won. If FTX's bankruptcy process takes the two years like Enron's did, it's on track to cost over $800 million. And Solcrom's relationship has already been called out by more than just Sam. It's even been raised as an issue by senators and 18 state regulators. But could SPF be right about Ryan Miller and Solcrom's nefarious motives? And even if they did do some evil lawyer shit, will it be enough to get SPF off the hook? To fully understand this defense strategy, it helps to start with SPF's story behind his attempt to plug the now notorious multi -billion dollar hole at FTX back in November's collapse. As the story goes, he was preparing to handle the liquidity crisis by courting Nomura, Japan's largest investment group, and the crypto company Tron, who had pledged billions of dollars in liquidity to FTX, while other investors were still deliberating. SPF had said he planned on giving away most of his equity in the company, and therefore most of his wealth, in an attempt to make customers of FTX International whole. SPF has always maintained that FTX US remained completely solvent right up to the end. But SPF says his rescue plan failed because Ryan Miller and Solcrom agents at his company, including Tim Wilson, another FTX lawyer with a past at Solcrom, pressed him repeatedly to sign the company's over to John Ray in bankruptcy, and even implied that if he refused, they could have him arrested and quote, change control in order to authorize a proper insolvency process. SPF said he changed his mind within 10 minutes of signing, but it was already too late. And he says his lawyers reneged on their promises to let him select a board share, blocking him out of his accounts and refusing to communicate further. As soon as John Ray was installed, he chose Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX's primary counsel. To be fair, SPF actually has a point when it comes to the sketchiness of that process. Even outside legal observers have taken issue with Solcrom being tapped as the firm to manage FTX's bankruptcy. In fact, a bipartisan group of two Republican and two Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, urging him to appoint an independent examiner rather than Solcrom, which worked with FTX and Alameda before the collapse, bringing in $8 .5 million in legal fees. The senators argued, quote, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company's victims. Regulators from 18 states echoed that issue, saying appointing an independent examiner wasn't just right, it was also legally required. But back in February, the judge in the case threw out those requests, saying it would cost too much money, though we should note FTX's lawyers also charged the bankruptcy estate $21 ,000 over 20 days just for meals, which apparently isn't too much to spend. And if you ask the victims in FTX's collapse, this is all pretty important, considering it's their deposits and claims at stake. And if their money is being drained in broad daylight by a law firm who also helped FTX pre -collapse, that might not sit any better than Sam spending it. We talked to Travis Kling, who lost his crypto investment fund in FTX's collapse, and asked him to weigh in. If you ask me at the very beginning, do you think this is going to be one of the most expensive bankruptcies in U .S. history, I would say yes. Yes. You know, it's enormous. There's a ton of fraud, and it's magic internet money. Trying to kind of Monday morning quarterback this and say, oh, Sam would have been better off not filing for bankruptcy. That's not something that I feel very strongly about. And Solkrom's outrageous fees aren't the only reason for concern. SPF also claims Solkrom gave a clean bill of health to Alameda's trading accounts on FTX in a report with the CFTC just months before the collapse. Furthermore, in his affidavit, Dan Friedberg, who was both FTX's chief compliance officer and Alameda's general counsel until he stepped down following the crisis, says Miller only included FTX U .S. in the bankruptcy proceedings precisely because Miller knew it had the funds to pay Solkrom for its work, which backs up what SPF said about how FTX U .S. was never insolvent. So this may be a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Solkrom denies any of this, of course. The firm's top bankruptcy lawyer, Andrew Dietrich, who told other lawyers FTX was rock solid in an email just days before the bankruptcy, said he only spoke with SPF twice. The FTX debtors also countersued Friedberg to seek damages, alleging he breached his fiduciary duties. We can't say much more beyond that because Solkrom never got back to us when we asked for a comment. But one thing is clear, what guidance Sam's lawyers gave him, and particularly what they knew about the business, will become integral to SPF's defense at trial. Even if you asked Ryan Miller before the collapse, the laws are pretty simple for any business, crypto or otherwise. Here he is explaining that concept at an MIT Bitcoin meetup in July 2022. Don't do fraud, don't lie, don't release materially incomplete statements. That then creates a basis for liability, liability from a criminal authority, be it a Department of Justice or liability in a civil context. Yet according to Caroline Allison's guilty plea, they had trouble following even those rules. In her sworn testimony, she said, quote, I agreed with Mr. Bankman, Fried and others to provide materially misleading financial statements to Alameda's lenders. Could Miller or any of SPF's lawyers, for that matter, be one of those others? Sam's other allegation that Miller contacted the DOJ to turn over documents that led to his indictment days before SPF linked, which controlled the company, makes Miller start to look even sketchier. But even if Solkrom really does have a true conflict of interest, could SPF really use their role in everything that happened to get an acquittal? Given that I'm not a lawyer, we pose that defense to Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff. Can a lawyer be a criminal? Sure. Yeah. Can a lawyer be part of a criminal enterprise? Yes. Do they often go down? I don't know a lot of reputable lawyers who are going to bless lying to investors, lying to banks, intermingling funds, lying to auditors. If he happened to find one who knew all that was going on and blessed it, then maybe as a defense. But I tend to doubt it. You can't think of it as, well, oh, well, you know, Sullivan and Cromwell was involved or a former Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer was involved and, geez, he said he seemed to think everything was okay. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent. That's an excuse masquerading as an advice of counsel defense. Advice of counsel defense is very specific and narrow. You need competent counsel and they'll stipulate that any lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell is competent in the subject area that they're being asked about. Second, every material fact has to be disclosed to them. Third, you have to seek their legal opinion on a subject. And fourth, you have to follow the advice. So if the defense can make out those elements, I would think they'd be able to present the defense and it might have a shot of winning. So Sol Cromwell might not be saints, but as we covered last time in episode one, SPF isn't exactly facing a trial over FTX's collapse. He's charged with a lot of things that led up to FTX's collapse. Arguably, what's alleged to have happened post -collapse matters more for FTX's victims. And if you ask them, the reviews are mixed on exactly what's played out thus far. If I'm going to judge Sullivan and Cromwell and John J. Wray from my purview of being someone who's seen these things in bankruptcy, I would give them a very low grade because you can say, oh, this is crypto, it's difficult, but it's not that difficult. And sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. I will say that these debtors are extremely bad in my professional experience. That was Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor who has experience following bankruptcy proceedings. For former FTX customers like him, Sam's spat with Sol Cromwell matters very little, as long as the firm can help achieve a meaningful recovery of their funds. And despite the fact that legal fees are stacking up, the bidding market for FTX customer claims is showing a growing hope they might not be stuck with pennies on the dollar. Another way to frame it is, you know, there's a claims market for FTX claims, trade claims, trade actively. There's a little niche of traditional finance that all they do is go around to different bankruptcies in all industries and they buy claims. This is this is a, you know, a subsector of of investing. And this is a huge bankruptcy. So this has been a very big liquid market. Right. And the first, you know, we're a very big creditor in this. So, you know, I'm in active conversations in this claims market. First, first bid we saw was in Thanksgiving and it was like six cents. That was the first bid. Six cents on the dollar, six cents on the dollar. And now now it's like 40 cents. And so it's gone from six to 40 cents. So then I'm like, OK, well, that feels quite good. Yeah. And OK, these guys are charging a load of money for that, but they have taken us from six cents to 40 cents. With both FTX's bankruptcy case and SPF's criminal case unfolding in real time, one may very well impact the other. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CFTC to share the report. Sam says Solkrom filed to support that FTX's structure was above board. The agency denied our request, saying it's unable to share documents that, quote, could interfere with the conduct of federal agency law enforcement activities. And of course, as long as Solkrom selected John Ray is running the show at FTX, it's unexpected anything comes out to support SPF's case. FTX, too, didn't get back for comment. So unless SPF has direct evidence of lawyers being aware of FTX's shaky financials and helping for years to cover it up, it's hard to judge SPF's advice of counsel defense or the idea that he thought he was in the clear leading up to the collapse just because his lawyers said it was fine. As Litt said, that sounds more like an excuse than a defense. As a community owned Web3 media outlet, Coinage will be breaking down everything we've learned together through this series and curating still unanswered questions at Coinage .Media. I'm Zach Guzman. This was the second part of Coinage's investigative series covering SPF's defense. Stay tuned for episode three, where we'll explore another pillar. Of SPF's defense. You've been listening to the SPF Defense on the Coindesk Podcast Network. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get all the Coindesk shows in one place and head over to Coindesk .com for all the Sam Bankman freed coverage. Thanks for listening.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Duane Patterson fills in for Hugh
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale, at Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there, and of course, to listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Q for Hillsdale .com, or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. That music means we are joined by David Drucker, the beltway insider of The Dispatch. You can read everything that David writes and link through it at on Twitter, or X, at David M. Drucker. Good morning, David. I want to start with Pennsylvania Senate, because we got some news in there. There's kind of twin stories this week. You've got a piece in The Dispatch. Our mutual friend Selena Zito's got a piece at RAN, I think yesterday, or maybe it was today in The Examiner. Dave McCormick is getting in, and to me, the newsworthy part of that story isn't so much that McCormick's getting in. I really kind of hoped he would. But the newsworthy part is that Doug Mastriano, the failed MAGA gubernatorial candidate from this last cycle, has already come out and endorsed McCormick. So it looks like there's some party unifying going on in Pennsylvania. What do you make of this, David? Yeah, look, it's a really big deal for Republicans not to have to fight through a nasty primary, especially one that pits the populist wing versus the more traditional conservative wing. Dave McCormick is the candidate that Republicans in Washington wanted, but he's also the candidate Republicans many in Pennsylvania wanted. He's also run before. That makes him more formidable, because he's been through the process, and it gives Republicans to field a seasoned candidate against a rather seasoned incumbent. Bob Casey, you know, he might not make the most headlines, he might not be the most interesting guy in the world, but he's won a lot of tough races. And he's got a last name in Pennsylvania. Say that again, Dwayne? I said he's got a last name in Pennsylvania that he's been trading on. He does, but you know, he has now been in office since 2006, and so I think he has established himself in his own right. And he is very adept at knowing where he needs to pull votes from, where Republicans need to be undercut the most. And so what's really good about this is McCormick is now going to be doing this for the second time. Now, in a general election, it'll be his first, but he's the kind of Republican that can win general elections in Pennsylvania, at least if you look at his profile and the way he's positioned himself. So Republicans have to be happy about this, and they should be. Oh, he's the best candidate the Republicans could field. In an environment where you've got a chance of picking up a bunch of seats because of just how many Democrats are playing defense this cycle, this is as good of an opportunity as the Republicans could possibly hope for in the Keystone State. Let's go to the president's interview with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, where he talked about, I'm going to negotiate the abortion federal legislation because the heartbeat stuff I'm not all for. I think the heartbeat laws were terrible. There should be some negotiation of where that limit is. How is that playing in Iowa amongst GOP primary voters? Well, look, I think we'll find out. I mean, I think for now, the president's fine. I don't think it's impacted polling numbers much, but as his Republican competitors chip away at him on this issue, it could ultimately have an effect. I mean, one of the things we really don't know yet, Dwayne, because we haven't seen it yet, is for years, the issue with abortion in Republican primaries has been who's going to be, who's reliable and dependable when it comes to appointing conservative judges that if a challenge to Roe versus Wade were to get before them, would vote to overturn it. Well, Roe's gone, and we're now in an era where it's about what kind of legislation would you vote for or sign at the federal level to curtail abortion rights. And so we don't yet have something to go on yet in terms of how Republican primary voters look at this and react to this kind of debate. And we're going to find out. Of course, the former president's doing what he always does. He tells everybody he's going to make them happy. How? You know, I just will. Don't worry. Trust me. Well, we'll see how that works out. He's running against one governor who signed a six week heartbeat bill. He's running against other Republicans who have promised a 15 week federal ban on abortion. And we'll see if the president's bobbing and weaving on what kind of legislation he would push for or accept as president. Again, we'll see if that has an impact on how Republicans in Iowa vote. We don't know that it'll have any impact, but it might. Couple minutes left with David Drucker of the Dispatch. I want to shift over to the House GOP circus that is dealing with are we going to have a shutdown or are we not going to have a shutdown? It looks like it's looming again. And David Drucker, I read a piece back when he was with the examiner from 10 years ago. It's a really bad deja vu, David Drucker. Yeah, you know, I went and found that last night and I posted it and, you know, there they go again. The thing about shutdowns, Dwayne, is the party that instigates them almost, almost, almost never wins them. And we saw Republicans do this 10 years ago. They instigated a shutdown to try and force President Obama to defund his signature health care law. Of course, he was never going to do it. Of course, a majority Democratic Senate was never going to go along with it, but they did it anyway. They ended up failing and they ended up missing an opportunity to push incremental conservative reforms through a majority Democratic government. When I say Democratic, Democratic Party run government and Republicans seem on intent on reprising that mistake. There's no end game here. There's no unity. One of the reasons Kevin McCarthy was able to win a debt ceiling fight is there was unity among 218 Republicans. They don't have that here and they don't really know what they're doing at this point. That doesn't bode well. David Drucker, read everything he writes over at the Dispatch or you can catch him on Twitter, the site formerly known as Twitter X, at David M. Drucker, Dwayne Patterson in for Hugh Hewitt. We'll be back with the political roundup after the top of the hour break. Come right back next.
Crypto Business
A highlight from Growing a Business With Web3: The Web3 Academy Story
"Hey there, it's Mike Stelzner. I wanted to say thank you for being a loyal podcast listener and committing to your ongoing education. Are you feeling the pressure? There are really big changes happening in the marketing industry. We've got AI, Twitter rebranding, and of course, Threads from Instagram, just to name a few. Having people you can talk to in person has never been more important. Imagine surrounding yourself with other marketers who are also working through all this change. We're here to help make this a reality. Consider attending the 11th annual Social Media Marketing World. When you do, you'll discover new marketing strategies in an immersive environment designed by and for marketers. Grab your tickets by visiting socialmediamarketingworld .info. I can't wait to see you there. Welcome to the Web3 Business Podcast, helping you navigate the future of business. And now here is your host, Michael Stelzner. Hello, hello, hello. Thank you so much for joining me for the Web3 Business Podcast brought to you by Social Media Examiner. I'm your host, Michael Stelzner, and this is the podcast for innovative thinkers who want to know what works in the world of Web3. Today, I'm going to be joined by Kyle Readhead, and we're going to explore growing a business in Web3, specifically how Web3 Academy is growing their business and all the fascinating tools they're using to be able to pull off all the great things that they're doing. By the way, I'm at Mike underscore Stelzner on Twitter slash X. If you want to reach out to me, that's the way to reach me. Social media is dead. That was the headline published on a major media site recently. The article claimed that group chats and messaging were the assailants, but I don't think so. First, here's the facts. Number one, we don't see posts from as many friends anymore. Where'd they go? Number two, we spend a lot less time on social interactions and a lot more time on media consumption. The insider writer said, quote, regularly posting content is now largely confined to content creators and influencers, unquote. Here's what I think is happening. The major social platforms are moving back to the olden days of media. Back in the pre -internet days of the 1990s, everyone watched a couple of television shows. The biggest ones were ER, 90210, Frasier and Friends. What did they all share in common? Yes, they all had serious drama or hilarious comedy, but they also were able to hold an audience and keep people coming back for more. And that meant they were massive money makers for their networks. All those eyeballs sold a lot of ads and we're seeing the exact same thing happen right now on social media. Creator focused media is now the primary focus of Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter slash X, all the platforms. This new normal does present an incredible opportunities for smart content creators and marketers like you. That's why I'm working really hard to recruit a killer lineup at Social Media Marketing World. There are people who understand how to play this game and the rewards can be absolutely massive. So, question for you, isn't it time you refreshed your social strategy? If you want to upgrade your plans, make sure you attend Social Media Marketing World. Visit socialmediamarketingworld .info for more information.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jim Nelles
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. Have you heard that some people have a nose for news? Well, Eric has a nose for everything. That's why this is called The Show About Everything. Now welcome your host, who definitely passes the smell test, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. So welcome to hour two. I always call it hour two. I don't know why, maybe because it comes after hour one. Probably that's why. Today, in this hour, we're gonna talk about the American economy. And I always like to have somebody on to talk about things that I don't understand. Like, for example, what do we mean when we talk about the American economy under somebody like Joe Biden, who stole an election and is incompetent and evil? And I say those terms, you know, in love. But we have somebody who can help us figure this out. His name is Jim Nels. Jim Nels, how do we describe him? He served as an officer in the US Navy. He writes on these issues for the Washington Examiner, for Daily Wire, Fox News, blah, blah, blah. He is a supply chain consultant based in Chicago. That's not a joke. Here he is. Jim Nels, welcome to the program. Eric, thanks a lot for having us. Great to be here. Listen, people know I'm not kidding. I don't understand the economy, but I understand when it's doing dramatically poorly. And so I wanna talk to you about that. Help us understand what is happening right now. Where is the US economy right now under this fake evil president? I personally believe the economy is teetering yet again on the brink. If you look at what's going on across the board, first of all, we're still experiencing inflation. And you hear all the talking heads on TV say, oh, inflation's coming down to three and a half percent. It's a great thing, but inflation's cumulative. And a year ago, inflation was at 8 .2%. So when you add three and a half to 8 .2, you're in double -digit inflation compared to where we were two years ago. We just saw oil hit the mid 80s now. We're seeing mortgage rates at all time highs. And the only reason we don't have a housing crisis right now is because the American public actually learned from the housing crisis that we faced in 2008 and stopped getting variable rate mortgages. So you have a whole bunch of people sitting on mortgages at four and a half percent and below. They don't wanna move. Why would you trade from a four and a half percent mortgage to an eight percent mortgage? I'm personally sitting on a two and a half percent mortgage. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon with that. So we're seeing that. But the other thing that we're starting to see though is the real wages are still not keeping pace with inflation. So you have people working harder and paying more in order to buy less. The other thing that we're seeing is crushing debt. Credit card debt has surpassed $1 trillion for the first time ever in the United States economy. That means that people are using their credit card not to buy that flat screen TV, not to go on that vacation. They're using it for rent, utilities and for food. And that spells danger for America. The last piece that we're seeing with these high interest rates is that it's making cars more and more unaffordable for first time buyers. The interest rates on cars keep going up. And even if the price comes down by say $1 ,000, you're still paying an extra $100 a month on interest on the car anyway. So people can't afford to do that. So net net, everything is seeming to be hurting the working class Americans, which is just the same folks that the Biden regime claims that they're trying to help.
Mark Levin
Sen. Tom Cotton: Dems Want to Prop Biden up by Taking Trump Down
"Washington DC has done the day before the Super Tuesday primaries. And that's because they know that Joe Biden is so weak, he's run our economy, That that he's not mentally fit to be president. And the only way they may be able to prop him up is to criminally charge not just the former president, Mark, that's bad enough. That's banana republic kind of stuff. Donald But Trump is also the leading candidate of the opposition party. That is really banana republic style operation. That's something you see in Brazil or Pakistan or other countries, not in America. And again, this is a very dangerous precedent that that water is already crossing the bridge, though. And we should not be surprised to see Republican Attorney General or Republican VAs, for instance, who have had Hunter Biden or Jim Biden or even Joe Biden passed through their jurisdictions at some point in recent years, looking for opportunities to charge them with crimes, just as these Democratic have prosecutors looked at Donald Trump much like Stalin's chief of secret police once said, show me the man and I'll find you the crime. Yeah, there's an interesting piece, Senator, by Byron York in the Washington Examiner the other day, any quote to see fight a is the language of the unheard. On February 7, 2022, Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was about the case of Ron Leslie, a Rochester, Minnesota man sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a man during Black Lives Matter riot in Minneapolis. Remember this case? And you remember what the Department of Justice said while you were so upset about it? No, I remember it very well. This is during the BLM riots of 2020. Many of your listeners may remember this terrible tragedy where a building was set fire and it killed a man who was inside. It is a murder. This is not alluding, Mark. This is not
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Labor Day Throwback Tribute: The Top Terms Every Veteran Should Know
"Topic is all about what Michael Hopkins for the vet talk radio show today's topic is These are the top terms every veteran should know when filing a claim That's right, Michael Hopkins and there are 40 40 of these terms We're going to count down from number 40 to 35 just five today we're covering on this episode Let's get started Michael. What do you have for us? Well, you know Carrie the first one is called clear and unmistakable evidence Okay, you're saying at number 40, yeah, I'm number 40 right clear and unmistakable evidence and What that basically means is this in VA terms is called a Q claim Because you know that VA they have to shorten it but reality is this the VA made a mistake They made a mistake when they when you filed your claim there was some evidence that they overlooked and It and it's real easy for them to overlook Evidence, you know a perfect example would be You filed for tinnitus that's the ringing in the ear in the process of you getting an examination The examiner Clearly said in his notes that you had tinnitus and it is service -connected In other words it happened while you want active duty The VA and what the VA claims section did they focused in on your claim for hearing loss Instead of focusing in on Instead of hearing loss. They should have focused in on your tinnitus, but they didn't do that So what they decided that is the claims section decided that You're not service -connected for hearing loss and what they were supposed to do even though you weren't Claimed you weren't rated for hearing loss what they were supposed to do Carrie They were supposed to focus in on your tinnitus and you were supposed to get rated for your tinnitus But they didn't do that Wow Right Yeah, yeah that that is a problem Clear and unmistakable evidence they had the evidence right there in front of them and all they had to do was make a sound decision about Your tinnitus and grant it to you
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 114: Part 1: Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith is still Defending and Protecting
"Ola, ola, ola, amigos, amigos, players, playwrights, dududettes, everybody in between. Welcome to episode 114 of Game of Crimes, the 114th attempt to silence us once again. And as I say, we shall not go quietly into the night, will we, Murph? That's right. We're not going anywhere. Not going anywhere, all right. It reminds me of that case with the guys from NYPD. Yeah, go fuck yourself. Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, we got some good stuff for you, but as always, before we get to it, we gotta do just some quick housekeeping. Hey, head on over to Apple Spotify, hit those five stars. Really means a lot. Guys, if you're on Stitcher, move off Stitcher. That's like officially closed now. So I think you'll hear they've moved a lot of that stuff over to Spotify, but make sure you find us on your favorite podcasting platform and hit that subscribe button on it so you get these episodes delivered to you without thinking about it, without fail, every Monday and Tuesday. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. Hey, we've got some interesting stuff coming up. We've got guests, you know, we've got books, quite a few books that we're working on. We've got some guests coming up, like a medical examiner. We've got some books from there. We've got CIA guy. We've got a guy who writes for Tom Clancy now, former US Marshal. Got his books. So we got a lot of good stuff coming up. So head on over there. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes on podcast, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram, but head on over to patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. We just got through recording a 911 episode that will, that's interesting, but it will break your heart, make you mad and piss you off. Oh yeah. I'm still, if I get a little bitchy on this intro, you'll know why, cause we just finished it. But we don't wanna give away the ending because you gotta put your ears on, you gotta be an audio Sherlock Holmes and figure out what went on. So, but we got a lot of good stuff. We got our Q and A coming out. You can't make this shit up. We did our Narcometer review, which Murph will never be allowed to recommend another movie for Narcometer review without prior review. It's a truth, I agree. Yeah, but we did just finish season three of Narcos where our buddy, Chris Feisal, Dave Mitchell, they were the DEA agents that helped bring down the Cali Cartel. So we go through and we analyze season three of Narcos, the gentlemen of the Cali Cartel. So we got a lot of good stuff. So patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. Also head on over and find Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, and guess what? You will find the internal, the secret fan group run by our favorite mafia queen, the iron fist with the velvet glove, Sandy Salvato, who shall allow you entrance into the inner sanctum. Answer a couple of questions, get close, come on people, give it a shot, give it the old college try. You too may be on the inside where all the hilarity, jocularity happens in a bubble of insularity. Okay, the arities. And that is, I tell you what, there's some funny stuff that goes on there. You really need to take a look at it. It'll brighten your day. Right, and you know what else brightens your day, Murph? What's that? It's our next little section. And we call that? Well, guess what time it is though. First of all, guess what time it is? Guess what time it is? What time is it, Murph? I bet it's time for Police Small Town Blutter. And I forgot to tell you, hey, this is Show About Crime. We talk about bad people doing bad things and bad people doing bad things to good people. We take the story seriously, not ourself. How do we know that? Because we do Small Town Police Blutter. Sorry, we got it backwards. It's like one of those endings at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial, you know, the previous hit of the mother. Anyway, all right, let's get into this. We're keeping you on your toes, that's all. I might've had some caffeine today. Anyway, hey, Murph, this story comes to us from Lancaster County, Nebraska. All right. You always want good citizens, right? A good citizen out there called in, told dispatchers, hey, somebody is driving a truck on the wrong side of the road. Highway 77 in Lancaster County nearly ran him off the road. So driver, I mean, the caller gives excellent description, says, hey, here's where it happened. Here's where the collision nearly happened. And so obviously they vector deputies in, right? So even though the guy's rattled, he's able to give them, you know, the calls. So the deputy gets out there and the deputy finds the driver and pulls it over. And he's the caller. He's the caller. Deputy goes, do you know why I stopped you? Yeah, because I was on the wrong side of the road. The man responded jockeying the air up to a missed exit. Oh, okay, well, you know, the problem is he had a blood alcohol content, twice the legal limit. Oh, don't you just hate when that happens? Yeah, so he confessed to calling 911 on himself and the deputy realized who he had in custody. Yeah, I did that because I thought somebody was on the wrong side of the fucking road, bro. The deputy goes, yeah, but it turned out to be you. But it turned out it was you. He goes, yep, like a dumb fuck. He says this on body cam day. Hey, you know what, ladies and gentlemen, we have a sectional Patreon called you can't make this shit up. This is the first one from that. Hey, there's a truck almost ran me off the road. Yeah, unfortunately for you, Skippy, they were going the right way. You were going the wrong way. That's wonderful. Hey, Mark, I know at your age, you're not on a dating app, right, but you've heard of those dating apps, right? Match .com, you know, Tinder. Yeah, you know, and what do they always say? You know, like, if you like somebody, you swipe right. I think it is, if you don't like them, you swipe left. Have my money. Something like that, right, so. Obviously you have. Well, no, no, I have, because I read the story. So, what do you think would be an innovative way to find a fugitive? Are you using a dating app? This guy out of England, he's a million dollar fraudster. He apparently swiped flight, you know, instead of right, he swiped flight. This wanted man, Wayne Parker, successfully evaded authorities for nearly a year after committing a million dollars in fraud, but then the farmer from Suffolk, England, signed up for a dating app, right? They were shocked to see, cops, coppers were shocked to see the convicted criminal crop up after Parker created a profile on Match .com. So, what happened was the 35 year old scammer was found guilty a year ago of owing a whopping $970 ,000 to a supplier. He failed to appear in court in February for sentencing and was being hunted by police to no avail until the on the lam lothario, this is them writing that, not me, decided to start looking for love in all the wrong places. So, I mean, if he'd waited, what, seven years, the statute of limitations run out, he could have done it, but no. Since going on the run, Mr. Paca is known to have been using Match's dating website. He's also been hiring cars in a bid and is believed to avoid detection by the police. So, he failed to appear in court. So, he said he would return to Suffolk to face the consequences of his action, but so far has failed to head to, has failed to do so. So, it's only a matter of time before the law catches up. We would strongly urge him to hand himself in. Well, guess what? They didn't have to wait too long. Now, this frisky farmer, he'd previously been prosecuted for posing a serious risk of spreading bovine tuberculosis. He failed to dispose of farmed animal remains appropriately, was found to be moving large quantities of cattle without following the proper process, as well as not keeping adequate records of the cattle. So, he was handed a 12 -week jail sentence and an 18 -month suspension from doing business. That was then, but now he's going to go to prison for a million dollars in fraud, all because he had the urge he got on the dating site. Oh, because he's stupid. He's stupid. Speaking of stupid, Murph, this next one comes to us from Vero Beach, Florida, population 16 ,534. Salute. And that's a beautiful place. Yeah, so Rashad McGriff, he, I'll give it away, he went to jail. He has a lengthy rap sheet, currently on probation, following conviction in March for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. What kind of taunt could an ex -girlfriend send over a text that would cause this felon, this person now charged with battery and burglary, what kind of taunt could send him over the edge? I'm going to guess it was a reference, a negative reference towards his private parts. She taunted him via text about having a little penis. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Investigators say that the 42 -year -old woman was in her bed when McGriff got into the house, which he has no commitments to. He then punched the woman in the face and choked her, which then obstructed her ability to breathe temporarily. She was bleeding from the bridge, did you ever know? She told police that she texted McGriff a photo of somebody else's penis and advised Rashad he had a little one. Oh my God. Oh, oh, I don't even know what to say. Sorry. Well, the judge ordered McGriff to have no contact with the victim because he threatened her as well. So he's been previously, the woman's previously sued McGriff three times for failure to pay child support. So they do have a hearing. So hey, look, domestic violence is not funny, but you know, sending a picture of somebody's junk and then following it up with a really small piece of junk and saying, you got a little one or something like that. Oh no, actually she sent him a picture. She sent a picture of apparently what she liked and said that you've got a much smaller one. Did she call him shorty or stubby? Yeah, we shouldn't make fun of that, I'm sorry. Yeah, well, we'll just see if the evidence stands up in court. Anyway, thank you very much. Hey, well, let's, we're gonna, what we're gonna do is I'm gonna talk about our next guest. We'll do the intro here because then when we get into the interview, we're not gonna do re -intro the intro. But this one, this one's the one I helped arrange because I've known this person for probably 18 years now. No, her and her husband. And for those of you in law enforcement, when I say the name JD Buck Savage, if you've been around, except Murph. Murph had no idea until they started watching the videos. Legendary police trainer, used to train Caliber Press, Street Survival, has a, him and his wife now, we'll talk about, have a company, The Winning Mind, they do a lot of this. Now, Betsy Brantner Smith, Sergeant Betsy Brantner Smith retired after 29 years on the Naperville Police Department, which I used to be up in Naperville for some other stuff in a prior life, actually had a TV series about her, a lot of good stuff. But now she is the spokesperson for the National Police Association, nationalpolice .org. And Murph, I would say we had a good, some of you folks, I'm gonna tell you right now, this is gonna be a controversial topic for some of you. You're not gonna like it because, but we get into some, we, you know, hey, we talk about the facts around what's happening with police right now, what's going on, the narratives, and Betsy pulls no punches. Look, with all of our guests, they have the absolute right to the First Amendment. She gets to say what she wants to say because it's her opinion, it's her voice. But the other thing too is, I'm not gonna give it away, you're gonna find out on the episode, but Betsy has a right to say what she wants to say when you understand what she's been through and what she survived. And she's an effective, I remember times she used to get ahold of me and say, hey, I see you on Fox and CNN and all this stuff all the time. And she'd be jealous. I'm like, I sent her a text, hey, I see you on all these shows all the time, I'm jealous now. I tell you what, once you hear her talk, she's a feisty little lady, you can see why she was selected as a national spokesperson for the National Police Association. And as you'll hear me say at the end of the interview, she was honestly a breath of fresh air, standing up in discussion, hot issues that involve the police culture, but she's just not giving an opinion. She's backing it up with facts and statistics, which is, anybody can have an opinion, just like buttholes, we've all got them, but when you back them up with facts, there's a good position. So this was honestly a great interview with Betsy. It was a pleasure to meet you. I will continue to watch JD Buck Savage videos here. They're funny. If you haven't seen them, just go on YouTube and put in JD Buck Savage and you'll see them. Saw drunk? If you want to know where saw drunk arrested same originated as JD Buck Savage. You just know hanging out with these two, you're gonna come out with tears streaming down your cheeks cause they're gonna keep you laughing. Oh man, Dave and I had a good time. Well, Murph, we can't get to it until I ask you the question that is on everybody's mind, mind, mad, mind, on our mad mind. Our mad mind, are you ready to play the biggest, baddest, most dangerous game of all? The unadulterated, unfettered, unrestricted game of crimes. Here we are. Yes, we are ready. So get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. We got Ms. Betsy coming on. You're gonna love this lady.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Byron York Unpacks Leftist Media's Response to New Trump Indictments
"I'm hugh hewitt live in studio north joined by byron york of the washington examiner and of fox news where he's a contributor Good morning. Byron. Good morning hugh I am not going to attribute great competence to the fulton county da because last night's circus showed us there isn't great competence But it certainly is convenient to joe biden that the indictment dropped on the eve of the second anniversary of the fall of cobble, isn't it? It is uh Biden has had good luck, you know with some of these things, you know Um, I have to say I was I was watching some of msnbc last night Oh you poor man and uh, well, I heard you discussing ruth marcus's piece which was an interesting piece And the commentators at msnbc they gathered their all -stars because this is such a big deal. They were like children Who'd gotten? Way more than they asked for on christmas morning. They were they seemed a little overwhelmed. They seemed a little confused Wow, this is really huge um, and I think they At bottom at bottom they wondered whether this was really a great idea. This was just so vast and And that I think is what ruth marcus is talking about. Uh, she tries to dismiss all of the actual objections You know, this is this is not double jeopardy. It's it's not double jeopardy. She's right on the law there. She's right She's worried, you know, she's worried about triple jeopardy and quadruple jeopardy and quintuple jeopardy. Yes, and down the line as well And you know in this case I had actually I I was Was I surprised not? Really, but I I was surprised I guess by the just by the vastness of this conspiracy that she alleges um and the reasonable explanations For people's behavior that she she just totally rejected and Here we
Mark Levin
FBI Memo Targeting Catholic Group Went Beyond Richmond Office
"For by the taxpayers that is to travel this this isn't you know upholding Roe v. Wade this is upholding murder so is murder what they're saying here is Ray and the FBI really tried to limit this they they gave the committee Jim Jordan committee a heavily document redacted and that document from January basically fingered the Richmond office the field office of the FBI that was it Ray said as soon as he heard about it yanked it he killed it and rejected it but now the committee has looked under some of these redactions and that wasn't they show just the Richmond field office it included the FBI offices in Oregon and Los Angeles California that's three FBI offices in other words that's the FBI the version obtained by the Washington Examiner linked so -called radical traditional Catholics now these are Catholics where the mass is often if not in a whole in part in Latin and that would include people like Antonin Scalia he he went to a Catholic Church where that's the kind of practice they had but I want you to think about what's taking place here it's the same Justice Department trying to destroy Donald Trump trying to by the rights of parents the documents first made headlines is was here after revealed the Richmond office had assessed that threat presented by the so -called radical traditional Catholics and explored threat mitigation opportunities such as engaging with certain churches
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Trump pleads not guilty at arraignment for 2020 election indictment
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at hughforhillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning Glory America, I am Hugh Hugh, but I'm not there today. I am off for the next few days flying with grandkids. And so I just want you to know before they go away, and I'm not counting down the hours that they leave, and I'm really sad that they're going to be leaving. Really, I am sad. I love them to death, and they got to go to the other side of the world, and it would be a while till I see them. So I'm taking a couple of days with them. I did pre -record Dr. Larry Oren on the Trump indictment yesterday, so we do have him standing by coming up in hour three. But for the first two hours, General Isham, I thank you, Dwayne, for taking on over the load today. Take it away. Thank you. Thank you, Hugh Hewitt, Dwayne Patterson, in for Hugh today. And on Monday, we've got lots of news. It's just another summer day of politics in the Beltway. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a four -count indictment and arraignment of a former president, growing corruption involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and the fact that the Devin Archer testimony from this week was released showing that Joe Biden has been lying to you every day of his life about his involvement and culpability in the Hunter -Biden affair. There's all sorts of stuff breaking today. We will have that for you as the program progresses. As Hugh said, in hour three, Dr. Larry Oren will be joining Hugh for the Hillsdale Dialogue. And if you remember back to 2015 and 2016, Dr. Oren was one of the first people to say something is afoot here, and kind of put his finger on the pulse of a change of attitude when it came to the candidacy of Donald Trump and knew that the American people were ready for a change. And they kind of addressed that because at least half the country is just not happy with how things are going right now. They don't have trust in the federal agencies. They don't like the way the DOJ is selectively prosecuting. There is something afoot going on. And so a lot of that is discussed in hour three. I will be joined today by Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner to see how the Hill is reacting to both fronts, both the growing corruption scandals surrounding Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, plus congressional reaction to the arraignment of Donald Trump yesterday. Let's get right to it. Donald Trump was kind of bookend of the day, a little bit doing media. He was on the Simon Conway radio show yesterday morning before going to D .C. and had this to say, cut number one, Harley. I think it's a very dangerous thing to even talk about because we do have a tremendously passionate group of voters. And I mean, maybe, you know, maybe 100, 150. I've never seen anything like it. Much more passion than they had in 2020 and much more passion than they had in 2016.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Effort To Imprison Trump Is Election Interference
"This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is The Mike Gallagher Show. The sanctimonious super PAC always backed out, should focus more on Florida property and auto insurance instead of spending money on a campaign that's going absolutely nowhere. He's crashing. I do think that Donald Trump is stronger than he was politically in 2016. We may have a criminal family sitting in the White House. Now from the relief factor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. Holy cow. What a weekend with breaking news. What would we do without each other? What would I do without you? What would I do without being able to give out a phone number and have a bunch of normal Americans call this show and weigh in on all of the issues that are, are coming our way? And, uh, there's a lot, where, where do you want to begin? Uh, Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field and in a head to head match up against Biden would beat him pretty easily, according to the brand new Harvard Harris poll that came out Friday. A lot of things happened on Friday. How about the judge issuing a ruling that Trump's trial, um, on, uh, what, what charges are these? Is this when he ripped the mattress tags off or are these unpaid parking tickets or he groped somebody in 1967? I can't remember. There's some chart. Oh, is this the January 6th? He led an insurrection. When he told people to go peacefully protest, I think it might be on that charge, May of 2024, how's that going to be like, how's that going to work when we're in the thick of the presidential campaign and he's got to defend himself in this goofy trial? Trump's attorneys were asking the judge at least please hold off until after the election. Let the American, this is all about election interference. We all know it. You know it. I know it. They know it, but that's the gig, right? That's the game. That's the, uh, that's the scheme. Listen to one of the more radical voices over at MSNBC, Ali Velshi, and what he said about every new indictment that is coming Trump's way. Polling over the last several months indicates that with each new indictment, Trump's popularity grows among his extremist Republican base. Considering all these factors prosecuting this particular former president becomes an entirely different ball game. However, it is a ball game that it is entirely necessary to play. Excusing the behavior of a defiant and habitual law breaker with fascist fascist ambitions would raise serious questions about the integrity of our democratic system, and it could undermine the very bedrock of our democratic principles. Trump's popularity rises among his extremist Republican base. Must be a lot of extremists in America with these numbers. I get, of course, we're all extremists, right? We're deplorables and we're extremists. That's all they got to try to marginalize millions and millions of Americans, arguably most Americans. In MSNBC world, most America is extremist and that's why they're swimming uphill. That's why they're swimming upstream. Back to this judge for a moment, Mark Levin on Fox News over the weekend, the great one, had an impassioned reaction, very passionate reaction to the judge determining that this trial has to take place months before the election. The whole purpose of what's going on here is to interfere with the election, to protect Biden from scrutiny, criminal investigation, to protect him, to get him reelected. That's what the Democrat Party wants. That's why they trashed Robert Kennedy Jr. That's what they want. And at the same time, on the second path, to destroy who they believe would be the nominee, or at least potentially Donald Trump. They have the DA in Manhattan working on it, the DA in Atlanta working on it, the attorney general in New York working on it. They had the two grand juries in Washington, D .C. They're looking at January 6th. Pile it on, pile it on, pile it on. All we need is one out of hundreds of charges. All we need is one, one to stick in front of some Democrat jury. And Judge Cannon, in Florida, you let the country down. This trial should have been moved till after the election. You just gave your imprimatur and the imprimatur of the federal judiciary to the interference in this election. He's right. He's completely right. Can anyone challenge what he just said? If so, call me. I'll put you to the top of the line. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE. It's all about election interference. It's all about going around the American people. The question will linger. The question is, will enough of the American people recognize it? That's all this is. They just got to find one thing to stick. You know, if you can just go to jail for a little bit. This is how goofy. The Washington Examiner has a big front page article today about how this special counsel, this Smith character, is pulling out all these obscure laws to try to stop Trump, to try to crush Trump, to try to convict Trump. He's pulling out all kinds of laws out of obscurity, mundane laws, things that are going to go around the American people. We should get to decide. Listen, Trump could lose. I don't even know that he'll get the nomination. Maybe not. Maybe Ron DeSantis will surpass him or Vivek Ramaswamy will come out of nowhere or Glenn Youngkin will decide to throw his hat in the ring in November. And all of a sudden he resonates with the American people. Or in a head to head matchup, maybe Trump loses to Biden. If Trump is the nominee and Biden decides to run again, and I still I sincerely doubt it, but if he does, maybe Trump loses to Biden. But we should get to decide that. That shouldn't be decided by some federal judge or some deranged prosecutor who is hell bent on interfering with an election. We I mean, it's Biden who's interfering. This is Biden's Justice Department. And the American people should get to make this decision and they're going to try to prevent that from happening. And it's sickening and it's a sorrowful chapter in American history. And again, the question becomes, will enough Americans figure it out? 1 -800 -655 -MIKE, welcome aboard. It's Monday, July the 24th. Wow. The month, the year is just racing past. Hard to believe we're knocking on the door of August, isn't it? We're in the ReliefFactor .com studios.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The No Interruptions Podcast - TikTok Ban Debate
"There are more identity threats than you realize, even if you monitor your credit, only a little personal info needs to leak out, like your social security number or your password, for you to end up underwater. LifeLock alerts you to threats you could miss. If your identity is stolen, a dedicated U .S.-based restoration specialist will work to fix it. No one can prevent all identity theft or monitor all transactions, but everyone can save up to 25 % their first year at lifelock .com. This week's No Interruptions podcast is about TikTok, big news this week out of South Carolina. As you know, I used to host the Clemson football Tiger Tailgate show, so I know Clemson University quite well, and Clemson University banned TikTok from its internal servers. I keep wondering how this actually is going to look like. What does a TikTok ban look like? Brad Palumbo is editor -in -chief and co -founder of Based Politics, which I am loving. I'm enjoying it very, very much. Brad is a libertarian conservative journalist. You've probably seen his work on The Washington Examiner, The New York Post, Newsweek, maybe seen him on TV. Brad, it's great having you on the show. Daniel Greenfield, who's an investigative reporter and journalist at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, covering everything from the Left's war on America to terrorism abroad. He writes for front -page magazine frontpagemag .com, has his own blog as well. Daniel, thanks very much for joining us as well. Let's start with you. I'm struggling with understanding, pragmatically speaking, how a TikTok ban works, but I've read your work. I've read some of your background. Tell me a little bit about why you think we should ban TikTok here in America. The simple answer is that TikTok is a whole lot like Facebook and big tech companies, except it's much more abusive and it's run by the Chinese Communist Party. We know this from former executives with Bytedance, which is TikTok's parent company. We know that there's a unit called the committee within Bytedance. We know that even though TikTok executives repeatedly come to Congress and say that all the data stays in America, that it's monitored by American teams, that actually everything is seen in China. That's a quote. There's some backdoor access to user data in almost all of them. Furthermore, TikTok's people have the ability in China to monitor individual Americans, get their location, find out what they're doing. Your smartphone in general is eavesdropping device that is monitoring you all the time. With TikTok, your smartphone is a monitoring device that goes directly to China. And this is not just happening to adults who can make decisions. TikTok aggressively targets children and the results are destructive. First of all, it means that China has a direct pipeline to what your children are doing. And TikTok is even more destructive than ordinary social media. We've seen a number of American children actually die because of TikTok challenges that were pushed to them. Last year, there was a lawsuit in which an eight and nine -year -old girl died of self -strangulation after TikTok's algorithm pushed a blackout challenge for them in which they were encouraged to strangle themselves with belts per string and twist ties until they actually passed out and eventually died. This is something that China does not allow within its own borders. Bytedance's version of TikTok in China is closely regulated. It is not allowed to promote any kind of destructive behaviors. Within America, however, they can promote the most destructive behaviors possible, including those that have killed about five American children thus far. TikTok spies on Americans. It is a direct pipeline to the Chinese Communist Party and it is killing American children. The argument for banning it is pretty straightforward. All right, Brad Palumbo, Daniel makes some compelling arguments in favor of banning TikTok. I know you've certainly embraced the digital space. I've become a big fan of Based Politics. Everybody I've recommended on my show, based -politics .com. As somebody who really appreciates that space, you have argued against banning TikTok and you wrote a very powerful argument back in March at the Washington Examiner, all the reasons why the U .S. should not ban TikTok. Go ahead and why don't you respond to the arguments that Daniel laid out and explain why you disagree with the idea of a TikTok ban in the United States.
Mark Levin
Roberts, Kavanaugh, & Barrett Have Empowered Judges Over Legislatures
"Wow. Now what they've unleashed here of course will be endless lawsuits in state and federal court. So the state legislatures will not have the final say do not the have final say even though according to the federal constitution they're the only state entity that has any say. See how this works? So the Supreme Court the opinion with written by John, Johnny, here's Johnny and support with Barrett and Kavanaugh have completely altered the election process in the Constitution. And they've not only empowered state judges get this they've empowered federal judges but they don't say how exactly or why exactly to also intervene as they see necessary in state decisions. legislative So the state legislature really has no say. The state courts look over their shoulders. Federal courts look over their shoulders. This was a moot case and they took it and they destroyed the whole election process. Extreme activism, extreme activism, just as bad as any activism of the far left. And of course the three radicals of the Republican Party are perfectly fine. And they are being celebrated Mr. Producer are they not? Celebrated today with all the usual a -holes on TV. But what are the three conservatives on the court? The originalists, the Republicans. Breckin Thys, investigative reporter, Washington Examiner,
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"examiner" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"So and you guys know what I'm talking about. I just can't think of it right now. But these cases are going to take a very long time. There's a lot of things that they need to sift through, things that have disappeared or remain a little bit curious. And it's also very interesting that SPF was one of the second largest donor to the particular candidate presidential who is now sitting in office. And I think not a lot of information will be public due to that. That's just my personal opinion, though. You talk about Mt. Gox there. Just just Mt. Gox? Mt. Gox? You talk about Mt. Gox? I'm talking about Toys R Us. No, the 10 the 10 year bankruptcy, the crypto. No, it was it was like a TradFi company. It's so stupid. I know it's like on the tip of my tongue. I just can't fathom it right now. Is it linens and things? Yeah, might be Toys R Us or linens and things. Maybe Mervins? Mervins, man. That's a blast from the past. California. If you were in California in the 90s, raise your hand. Mervins. Boom. We're just going to start naming off companies that have gone through bankruptcy for the rest of the show. Nice. Nice. Good stuff. Good stuff. Mervins. Still, I'm still on the Mervins thing. The FTX 2 .0 thing is interesting, Zach. But I want to point out the last time we spoke about it, John J. Ray the third had spent six hours, according to his invoicing, you know, deliberating or reviewing documents about FTX 2 .0. And I think in the grand scheme of things, six hours is maybe not maybe maybe not that much, but but maybe. Jen, last little tidbit. What do you got? We have a tweet of the day. Get ready for this. Kyle Davies made an announcement on Twitter saying 3AC is dead. Long live 3AC Ventures. 3AC Ventures is going to be investing in projects building in the OPNX ecosystem, which we've spoken about on the show before. This was the very interesting part. Arthur Hayes, quote, tweeted that and said, why did 3AC die? Please enlighten us. Zach, what are your thoughts? I mean, I ain't wading into this one, but yeah, second acts in crypto do exist. And both these guys are living interesting second acts. What do you think, Wendy? 10 -10, Chad. I love Arthur Hayes. I think that he posts a lot of really great stuff. He's got I want to say he's got like a blog and he posts a lot of alpha there. I would trust Arthur Hayes over Kyle Davies or anybody affiliated with 3AC any time. Not saying I trust either very, very much, but I think it's funny. Arthur's been in the space for a very, very, very, very, very, very long time. And I love to see these types of disputes, especially when one party is clearly in the right. Zach. All right. I'll wrap it. Arthur Hayes is the best blogger in crypto. I will say that. All right. I'm Zach, Wendy, Jen. We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for being here. It's The Hash. Bye. You've been listening to The Hash on the Coindesk Podcast Network. We would like to hear from you. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us at podcasts at coindesk .com, subject line The Hash, or leave us a review on your favorite podcast player. Thanks for listening. We'll see you tomorrow.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
"examiner" Discussed on CoinDesk Podcast Network
"So one of the things they're testing with this white paper is online commerce. They have Amazon, Faz and Grab who are doing a pilot for this. And the pilot would involve escrow arrangements for online retail payments. So an example of this is like it would allow for a payment to be released to the merchant only when the customer receives the item. So they're really talking about like programmable money here, that that's what this whole white paper is about. How can we program money to make the retail experience better and maybe possibly offer some kind of of loyalty? Wendy, I'm going to pass it off to you for your thoughts. So I understand why they want to do this from a business aspect. However, one of the big, big, big fundamental bullish things about Bitcoin and crypto assets was that you couldn't do chargebacks once the transaction was sent, it was sent. And one of the issues that we have in retail, especially in America, is with chargeback, people will say, oh, I didn't get this item or oh, this wasn't me that did it. So they would call the credit card company and they would have that transaction reverse. And a lot of times the merchant would end up getting kind of, you know, kind of getting screwed out of their their money. So at the same time, I think that this is a good thing. But I also can see the issues with that, too, because the whole purpose of, you know, using a P2P currency is so you don't have to deal with chargebacks and you don't have to deal with that issue. Also, too, I wonder what the costs are to, you know, create a system like this. And of course, that cost is going to be passed down to the consumers. It's never going to stay with the company. Programmable money. I think it's cool. I think it's really cool. I'm a CBDC bull, automated taxes baby, automated taxes, program my money. Let's do this thing. I think it's cool. I mean, hey, this is very much within the context of these markets seeking to establish themselves as true innovators in the digital money era. So you see Korea here, you see Singapore here, Italia, Italy on the board. That's interesting. So you have these big players who are looking to be like innovative and embracing of new technologies rather than being draconian and stifling of new technologies. So I see that as also sort of the subtext here, whether it's CBDCs or stablecoins, the idea of programmable money improving the way people transact online, especially fascinating. It's great to see like big institutions grapple with this stuff. And again, again, get into the nitty gritty of whether these things should be programmable, which is like a very open question. I think the EU, as mentioned in this piece, is saying that, no, if we program it, it like loses some of the benefits that cash can have. Right. And that's a perfectly fair argument. Of course, there are other efficiencies and cool features that programmable money introduces, especially into the e -commerce realm. So I don't know. Interesting to see this being thought about again by some pretty significant players as it relates to the banks and countries involved.
AP News Radio
7 dead in vehicle crash on Interstate 5 in Oregon
"Police are looking into a deadly crash in Oregon. 7 people died and others were hurt in a highway crash near Albany Oregon Thursday afternoon, the temporarily closed down part of interstate 5 between Eugene and Salem, Oregon state police say the cause of the crash is under investigation. From video and witnesses, it appears a passenger van was badly crushed between two semi trucks, the Albany Democrat Herald reported bodies covered in plastic could be seen in a nearby field as life flights departed, and a county medical examiner and paramedics worked the scene. It's heart wrenching. Motorists feel priced, talked to KATU TV. A lot of the officers, like the police, they see a lot of motion, so you know if something was really wrong. I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Some call NYC subway choking criminal, others hold judgment
"Protesters in New York are calling for an arrest in the death of Jordan Neely, who died after being put in a chokehold by a fellow subway passenger. A New York medical examiner's office ruled that Jordan Neely's death was a homicide from compression of the neck, groups of protesters in New York are demanding charges, witnesses say nearly was acting erratically on an up train in the New York subway Monday afternoon, threatening passengers and throwing garbage and his jacket when he was tackled by bystanders, police questioned and then released a 24 year old white marine showed on video holding nearly in a headlock for at least three minutes, prosecutors promised a rigorous investigation and police are seeking additional witnesses, photos and video that might help illuminate what transpired. Some New Yorkers see the choking as the latest in a long history of attacks on black city residents. Others are withholding judgment, New York mayor Eric Adams said Thursday there were many layers to the incident, saying he respects the process. Governor Kathy hochul called the video encounter horrific to view, and said nearly family deserves justice. I am Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Chokehold killed man restrained by NYC subway passengers
"The Manhattan district attorney's office says its investigating Monday's death of a man on the New York City subway, who died after being restrained by three other passengers. Police and witnesses say 30 year old Jordan Neely was yelling and pacing back and forth on an F train in Manhattan when fellow riders tackled him, and a former U.S. Marine put nearly in a chokehold that lasted until nearly body went limp video of the incident has been posted online, the 24 year old military veteran was taken into custody and released without charges. His name has not been released publicly. On Wednesday, people protested inside the subway station demanding justice for kneeling, whose recognizable to some New Yorkers as a Michael Jackson impersonator, who often danced in the Times Square transit hub, the medical examiner's office has classified Neely's death as a homicide from a chokehold. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
7 bodies found during search for missing Oklahoma teens
"7 bodies have been discovered on a rural Oklahoma property where authorities had been searching for two missing teens. I Norman hall, investigators say the 7 bodies were found in the town of Henrietta about 90 miles east of Oklahoma City, a spokesman for the Oklahoma state bureau of investigation says the state medical examiner will have to identify the victims, but authorities are no longer searching for the two missing teens or man they may have been with, a registered sex offender, officials in oak mal GE county have declined to release a location, identities are causes of death. They will only say that there is no longer a threat to the community. The father of one of the teens says his daughter is among the dead. I Norman hall
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"examiner" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"So much of life ahead, he says, he'll give back for as long as he can. I'm Ashley Milne tight, for marketplace. This final note on the way out today in which the big banks it seems are taking pity. On smaller banks, Reuters reports this week that executives at JPMorgan and Citigroup and Bank of America are putting out the word not to poach people from banks that might be having troubles. JPMorgan, for instance, and this is from a memo that Reuters says it has seen. They say quote, we should never give the appearance of exploiting a situation of stress or uncertainty we do not make disparaging comments regarding competitors and of quote. Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts. All right, on the way out, here's your moment of economic context, a quick check on oil often, as you know, a convenient gauge of where things might be headed very macro, economically. The global benchmark Brent North Sea about $75 a barrel today. Here is the context for that. That's down about 9%. Since SVB went under. Our theme music was composed by BJ leaderman marketplace's executive producer, Nancy Fargo, Donna tamm is the executive editor Neil Scarborough's vice president and general manager. I'm Kai riz, I'll have a good weekend to everybody, have a great weekend. How about that? We'll be back on Monday. This is 8 p.m.. Hi, I'm John Kim, the host of the angry therapist podcast. I'm a therapist who went through my own rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since. I believe in casual over clinical with you instead of at you, I come unrehearsed on purpose because self help doesn't have to be so complicated. Our podcast episodes are short and easy to jump into. I encourage you to check out the angry therapist podcast now whenever you listen to podcasts.
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
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"Coming up, I don't know if it's like when you're going to college and you got to choose a major? Back to school jitters for the later in life crowd. But first, let's do the numbers. The down industrials up one 32 today, four tenths percent, 32,000 to two 37 for the blue chips. NASDAQ gained 36 points about three tenths percent 11,000 to 8 23, the S&P 500 up 22.5 10% a half percent another way to say that 39 and 70. For the week, the Dow gained one and two tenths percent the NASDAQ up about 1.7% S&P 500 rows one and four tenths of 1%. Bank shares down yet another day U.S. bank dropped four tenths percent Morgan Stanley slid two and two tenths percent JPMorgan Chase dipped about one and 5 10% and a half. Another way to say that Wells Fargo down about 1%. Bond prices up yields down ten year ten O 3.37%. You're listening to marketplace. This is marketplace. If you've passed a movie marquee as you've been out and about lately, you probably seen a whole lot of numbers because there have been at least three big sequels released this month, scream 6, creed three, and then today John Wick chapter four, the latest from Keanu Reeves. These are big franchises and could be kind of a barometer as to whether people are going to keep on going to theaters, marketplaces, Stephanie Hughes, went to the movies for us today. A lot of us have seen all of at least one action movie franchise. Maybe you got invested in the plight of Sarah Connor in terminator or just plain hooked on the cars in the fast and the furious. The franchise John notary shows up for is John Wick. It's almost embarrassing to talk about because they are so absurdly violent. You know? You're going to die. Maybe not. Goodbye to you. At the same time the action sequences are so intense, there's almost something just beautiful about the movement in it. Notary Annie is planning to see John Wick chapter four tonight in Portland, where he lives. These kinds of big releases with known characters help get people out in March when they might otherwise hunker down at home. Charles schrager is a Professor of business at NYU inform. Theater owners would certainly like to keep people in the habit of going to movie theaters. So having Keanu back in theaters is nice, but the person theater owner is really went back is franchise fan, John natarajan. Kathleen Lyon operates two movie theaters in Baltimore. So we need to sell tickets and we need to sell popcorn and we need to have birthday parties and we need all of that stuff to happen to run a business. One of lion's theaters, the senator shows a lot of big releases, and she says its ticket sales are back to pre-pandemic levels. Her other theater, the Charles shows more arthouse fare. She says those sales are not back in the same way. So maybe there should be a sequel to everything everywhere all at once with a guest appearance from Sarah Connor. I'd give it a shot. I'm Stephanie Hughes for marketplace. Most of the time and probably for most people, college is thought of as a place where you go to somehow turn yourself into an adult and ideally get yourself ready for a work in life. More and more those schools are offering programs to people at the other end of the career spectrum. Adults in their 50s and their 60s who might have finished one career and aren't ready to retire yet. And it makes financial sense for schools to go after that market fewer 18 year olds are enrolling in college, while the number of people over 50 is growing and they have often got money to spend. Ashley Milton tight reports. Last year, Terry Harrington was at an impasse. She's lived in Denver and practiced law there for decades. At 66 in divorced, she was torturing herself with questions about her future, keep working in the business she founded, moved to live near her son and grandkids. I don't know if it's like when you're going to college and you got to choose a major, but it is an unsettling feeling to not really know what the remainder of your life looks like or what you want to do with it when you have that choice. Then Harrington spotted a Facebook ad for a new program called change makers at the university of Colorado, Denver. It's aimed at professionals at or near the end of their careers who want to repurpose their energies for what some people call their encore phase of life. Harrington is now part of the program's inaugural class of 17. I can not tell you how much I have learned about people my age, the processes they go through, the options they have, once a week, the class features guest speakers over Zoom. This week it's author and Yahoo finance columnist Carrie Hannah. You know, I've had a really fun career myself, lots of jigs and Jags. At one point, student Margie yawara, a former accountant who now wants to develop affordable housing, asks hannon about business incubators. And I'm wondering if there might be any that might be geared to our folks going toward their encore career maybe. Yeah, I love that. I actually, I don't know if I wrote about any in the book, but I do have a couple I could point you to. I'm happy to see you Denver's program is part time. A semester costs $3200. More established programs, including Stanford's and Harvard's of full-time, run for a whole academic year and cost at least $50,000. Some smaller schools say they'd like to start on call career programs, but they're a risk, says Mark Canada, Chancellor of Indiana University Kokomo. We need to invest in the future, but it's not something we can just jump into feet first because it's an investment of time and of staff and frankly money. He says in his region, there's limited interest in these midlife programs. For now, still he says. Within ten years, I would be really surprised if there weren't hundreds or maybe even thousands of universities who were doing this. Because he says there are so many older adults who want to keep learning. Bernard Franklin is one of them, a longtime university administrator from Kansas. He's now 69. After losing his wife to cancer, he spent two tumultuous decades, parenting four kids and working right up until 2021. Without a break without stopping to say, what is it I want to do? Last year he was a fellow on Harvard's encore program called the advanced leadership initiative. Even after a career on a campus, he initially felt out of place. Harvard wasn't created for an African American man. And I'm taking in all of the enormity of what that means. But he says exchanging ideas with other fellows and immersing himself in classwork helped him get past that. One class in particular was about reflecting on your personal and professional life so far to help you decide what to do next. I wouldn't have had that at Harvard not giving me an opportunity to step back and to really begin to see that my story has my future purpose in it as well. Franklin now leads a Boston nonprofit called on corner which helps youth involved in gangs, get out of a cycle of violence through education. Franklin's dad is 92. His grandfather lived to a 104, with
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"examiner" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"Economy was up in February, third straight month of gains up just over 1% nationally from the January report, so says the commerce department. But really, it's not like there's one giant real estate market in this country, right? That national number hides some big regional differences. Sales were up in the south and west way down in the northeast. Marketplace is Justin Ho has more on what's going on there. Sales are up in the west and especially in the south because that's where most new homes are being built. The fastest growing cities nationwide are located in the south and west, so builders are responding to that demand. That's Odetta kushi, deputy chief economist at first American. She says it's easier for builders to meet that demand and the south in particular because the region's relatively relaxed when it comes to regulations. Used regulations density regulations, it's easier to build from a regulatory perspective versus a northeast where it's tends to be one of the most restrictively regulated regions. But a bigger issue in the northeast is that homes there have been getting less and less affordable, whether they're new or existing. Like, would you buy the house you have today? Today's price at today's rate. That's Seth Williams, founder of reference real estate, which operates in the Boston area. My personal mortgage would be probably an extra $3000 a month based off the cost in the interest. And I can tell you straight up, I wouldn't be buying that house. As a result, William says a lot of builders there are worried people can't afford new homes. We can only build during the spring summer and fall months, which is when we saw the big uptick last year in mortgage rates. So as people were about to maybe put shovels in the ground last spring, maybe they just didn't dig. Low home prices have been attracting people to the south and the interior west. Charlie Dougherty, senior economist at Wells Fargo says that's heating up those regions economies. Because those regions also have seen stronger employment growth, stronger income growth. And that is what's fueling a lot of the positive economic growth in those regions. That's because when people buy
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"examiner" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"There's a somewhat loaded question that nonetheless kind of has to be asked about the implosion of Silicon Valley bank. What did banking regulators know about SVB and when did they know it? And also, what did they try to do about it? The Federal Reserve is going to release the results of its in-house investigation into SVB by May the first and a lot of that report is probably going to focus on the role of bank examiners. The rank and file employees whose day to today job is to keep tabs on any given banks safety and soundness. So who are those people and what do they do? Day to day. Here's marketplace Matt Levin. Michael Stevens was a bank examiner for the state of Iowa's banking regulator in the 1990s. He's got a favorite story from those days, a bank he was examining was threatening to foreclose on a commercial property lot. And I couldn't figure out why the bank was being so aggressive in the collection. A couple of payments passed due, gets current, goes delinquent again, and all of a sudden the bank is all over the guy. Stevens did some digging and found the reason on his own, but he wanted to hear the banks explanation first. Because we're just tired of dealing with them. And we're going to foreclose and we're just dealing with them. And I said, it doesn't have anything to do with this drawing that I found of your new bank building on this lot. The bank wanted to build its new headquarters on the property. It was aggressively foreclosing on. Stevens is now president of the graduate school of banking at Colorado, a program that helps train bank examiners. He says the job is different than what you might imagine. It's not sitting down going through a bunch of paper making a decision and going home. This is an art business, not a science. Bank examiner's work at the Federal Reserve regional banks, the FDIC, the comptroller of the currency and state agencies. It skews younger with many lower level examiners recently out of undergrad or grad school. A background in finance is common, but not required. Lee reiners joined the New York fed as a bank examiner in the early 2010s monitoring the likes of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. He was part of a small battalion of examiners from multiple agencies physically at the bank four days a week to look at data in near real time. This was pre COVID. So every day, you're going to look at how much the bank gained or lost in overall deposits. And you're also going to flag any particularly large deposits added or withdrawn from a specific client. Reiners would also periodically check the composition of depositors, different types of depositors from different industries would be good, similar depositors from the same industry, vulnerable to the same risk. Hello, Silicon Valley bank. That would be bad. If there was a potential problem, Reiner's first call would typically be to the bank. If you're a hard ass, right, that's not going to necessarily be productive, but you also can't be someone who is totally enthralled with the bank and as leadership and just goes along with everything. With everything they say, if the bank doesn't correct the issue or if the problem is urgent, bank examiners can issue what are called matters requiring attention or the dreaded matters requiring immediate attention. Basically, official warnings telling banks, hey, you gotta fix this ASAP. Silicon Valley bank reportedly received several of those warnings, but you know who didn't get a warning? The depositors. There's a reason for that, says David cottony, former Massachusetts commissioner of banks. So the fear is that if the public were to be made aware of an issue, you or I came to the conclusion that, well, there's an issue here. Maybe I'll just go look at another bank. But if everybody decides to do that, it brings down the bank. In a twist of banking regulation irony, warnings that a bank could be vulnerable to a bank run could trigger a bank run. A lot of what examiners do is reactionary. The bank does something examiner say, hey, that looks problematic. Let's do something about that. Not hey, don't do that in the first place. We underlying assumption of regulation is that you are not telling the bank how to act or not act on every single activity. It's still a private market. A private market that nevertheless seems to consistently need public money to keep from failing. I'm Matt Levin
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"examiner" Discussed on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
"Commit an in any way at this stage. Yeah. Okay, a summery question for each of you, they will be different questions. So deep, first of all, to my question in the open, do you think there is another banking shoe to drop? There are definitely going to be more banks that fail in the coming weeks and months. That's a natural course of where we are in the cycle. It's just going to it's going to have to happen. I don't know that we necessarily are going to have a raging banking crisis out of this. The other shoes to drop that I would actually be worried about are all the non regulated entities out there. The investment funds, the players that could be interconnected in some other way. We haven't even talked about those very much. That's the next thing that could be around the corner. And the thing that they're probably people worrying about right now at the treasury and the fed. We'll talk about it next week. All right, Gina, the question to you, you have just come out with a book on the history of the Federal Reserve. It is called limitless. Let me ask you this. Your publisher comes to you and says, hey, Gina, we need an epilogue about the past two weeks. What's the general theme? Oh, I feel like the general theme actually is the same theme as the overall book, which is the fed gets really creative and shows what it's capable of doing in moments like this. You know, we've seen the fed do some pretty interesting things in the last couple of weeks. And I think we're still kind of waiting to see how those play out and how they work and what kind of precedent they set. So I think TPC because I think we're still deeply in the middle of this situation, but I think I really interesting legacy of it is going to be what it means for the fed's role as a crisis backstop in American society. Deeply in the middle genus smiling, The New York Times to be pretty at Politico, thanks you too. Thanks guys. Have a nice weekend. On Wall Street today, you know, it was kind of bank schmatz. We'll have the details when
WCPT 820
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"NBC News radio, I'm Jim Forbes. The U.S. and Germany are calling on Russia to end its war against Ukraine. President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf scholz at The White House Friday to discuss ongoing support for Ukraine, speaking from the Oval Office, Biden said the two leaders are continuing to put pressure on Russia to end the war, as well as strengthening the NATO alliance. A January 6th riot are accused of attacking a D.C. metro police officers pleading guilty to assault charges. Thomas civic of buffalo, New York is one of several people who attack former police officer Michael fanone during the 2021 riot, civic is accused of stealing fanon's badge and radio during the attack and taking videos of himself on capitol grounds. Civic took a plea deal and admitted he was guilty of assault and theft. The death last year of two men who were drugged, beaten and robbed after leaving gay bars in Manhattan have been ruled homicides. Andrew Whitman has more. The medical examiner found fentanyl and other drugs in the systems of both John umberger and Julio Ramirez leading to the rulings, Ramirez was found dead in the back of a taxi in a separate incident, umberger was found dead in the apartment. He was staying in for work. Video showed both men walking with and sometimes being propped up by groups of unknown men as they left the bars, umberger had $25,000 missing from his bank account, Ramirez's had been drained of 20 grand. Police believe their killers were after the cash and did not target them because of their sexual orientation. And attorneys for Alec Murdoch say they'll file an appeal, defense lawyer Jim Griffin made the comment shortly after the once prominent attorney was sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife and son, Griffin said no deal was offered by the prosecution and there were no negotiations in the case. And that's the very latest. I'm Jim Forbes. Jonas posito
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"Gas prices. He's on his way back to Washington after wrapping up a four day visit to the Middle East before leaving Saudi Arabia, the president said he expects to see adequate supplies to meet global oil needs. The White House did not announce any major breakthroughs on oil production, but the president said the Saudis share a sense of urgency when it comes to increasing supply. The house January 6 committee issuing a subpoena for the U.S. Secret Service, committee chairman Benny Thompson said in a release on Friday that the committee is looking for the relevant texts and any after action reports that are related to the 2021 capital riot. The inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security says that the Secret Service deleted text messages, both the day before and day of the riot. Former president Trump is delaying a rally in Arizona after the unexpected death of his ex-wife Ivana. Today's scheduled rally will be postponed until July 22nd after Ivana Trump passed away suddenly on Thursday, the New York medical examiner's office ruled her death accidental after having blunt force injuries to her torso. I'm Chris crag. And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom. With 461 cases of monkeypox reported in New York City officials are struggling to meet the band for the vaccine. After 9200 appointments released on Friday evening, we're all filled up in just 7 minutes. Mayor Eric Adams says he hopes Washington can do more to get the city the vaccines it needs. We hoping that they are going to hear us and bring in the numbers that we need. Governor Kathy hochul says there are tens of thousands of additional doses of monkeypox vaccine on the way in the coming days. A Rikers Island detainee died Friday, bringing the total deaths among people being held by New York City's troubled jail system to 11 so far this year. We get more about it from Bloomberg's Charlie pellet. The death has spurred another round of calls from criminal justice reform advocates for more accountability and oversight of the city's jails, which face a threat of federal oversight. The city has embarked on a 5 month turnaround plan to try to stem violence and unsafe conditions at its facilities. Bloomberg's truly pellet. Will he be going to the beach this weekend, make sure to be on the lookout for sharks, at least 5 people have been bitten by sharks on Long Island in just the last two weeks. Thursday alone, there were 6 shark sightings at Toby beach in Nassau county. People are urged to only swim when there's a lifeguard on duty. Governor hochul signed a wide ranging no smoking bill yesterday. It prohibits smoking in all state owned beaches, boardwalks, marinas, playgrounds, and recreation centers and group camps. The law exempts the adirondacks and catskills from the smoking ban as well as parking lots, sidewalks adjoining parks and areas not used for park purposes. Those caught smoking in these locations, well, they'll face a $50 fine. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer. This is Bloomberg. You're listening to masters in business with Barry riddles on Bloomberg radio. I'm Barry results, you're listening to masters in business on Bloomberg radio, my extra special guest this week is auntie Oman. He is the co head of portfolio solutions at AQR. He is also the author of a new book, investing amid low expected returns, so let's talk a little bit about low expected returns. We already talked about the impact on fed rates, what else goes into driving valuation factors that can lower future expected returns. So it really depends on what horizon we talk about. So monetary policy macro conditions are very important for short term. But I think I'd like to focus on real focus in the book mainly on long-term expected actors. And then these are being three 5 to ten years, something like that. And yeah, it's interesting. If you go even further, then sort of valuations even don't matter so everything is gets diluted. And then you have to think about what some theoretical longer return. But for ten years ahead, then starting its evaluations are essential. And again, so I think those are very helpful and care for thinking about those returns, even though you can get this very ugly forecast that are like what's happened in the last decade. But when such a thing happens, then it pretty much stores problem for the future. So last decade, as it's rich and it has meant that you are going to have even more problems in those future returns. And I think the only way you can sort of solve the low expected return problem here is at least for risky assets is that there would be this much faster growth. This techno optimism that you would get in some quarters. And I said, could be, but we've had wonderful technology advances last hundred years. And 2% real growth is pretty much as good as it gets. And that's the interesting thing because you talk in the book about very often mom and pop investors, individual investors tend to confuse GDP growth with expected returns, academically, we know there's almost no correlation between the two is that. It's surprising that whether you look at over time in one country or you look at across countries, the relation is very modest and my favorite poster boy of that one is China, which had this 30 years of very fast growth. And for equity investors, it was a really sorry story. Yeah, no, it was a lost opportunity. If you piled into China in 1990, you missed a lot of opportunity elsewhere in the world. It's quite amazing. And there are some stories why that's why that's the case, like basically one logic is a GDP growth doesn't capture how the pie is shared between corporates and so on and that is a different sector composition. There's public versus unlisted sectors. All kinds of questions like this that can then mechanically explain why this happens, but it is a weird result. And it's understandable. And I think it commonly motivates people to look for those fast growing countries and taking it for granted that that's a good investment. So when we're thinking about various asset classes, how does cash work into that allocation strategy is that a legitimate asset class or is it just a drag on future returns, except for years like 2022? Well, even in 2022, again, in relative senses, of course, doing fine, but real returning cash is whatever -5% it just appears to be better than even what is results. And so I think one interesting thing is you need to have some market timing ability, I think, to make cash useful and use it almost as an option. And then it matters whether you have got some interesting yield levels, 20 years ago, you had that three, 4% real return cash, not around in this situation. So I do think that the main story with cash sees, like you said, there's something about the dragon it dilutes, it's not a very great diversifier it dilutes the performance. It would be good if you have got some great market timing skills but let's be humble about it. Often I even say that cash may be best used as a basically on the other side. You want to use it for leverage for some long shot strategies. And so that may be helpful
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"To provide the appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements and will be deported On the issue of mister Djokovic rules are rules And there are no special cases Rules are rules It's what I said to yesterday That's the policy of the government Read the room read the country Let's get to a Sydney bureau chief ainsley Chandler Rules are rules That's the message for anybody entering Australia What do you make of this What's the press making of this Was the country making of this Good morning I think it's really touched in the main we've had a lot of people trying to make at home So two years almost now And we're really strict border rule in place here So I think for him to initially be granted medical exemption There were a lot of people who were questioning that or quite angry about it Given that everyone's been struggling to get home or to say they loved ones during the pandemic now that federal officials have kind of overruled a state exemption that was granted to him People are questioning how did it get to this where he's now in a hotel in Melbourne that sort of a waiting court proceedings I guess this afternoon with potentially being deported tonight how did it get to this How was he granted that these are in the first place It's raising a lot of questions So what now for your veg If you convicted and deported can you ever return to Australia if you get deported from Australia That's not clear I do believe that there is some time period where you can't come back in But he's challenging the decision now So he's in a hotel in Melbourne The corpse proceedings were started about an hour ago and they're about to adjourn briefly and are about to start again now where the paperwork will be filed for this challenge against the decision The judge did ask earlier whether he could not be whether there were tennis playing facilities at the hotel he was in and whether he could potentially be moved to one that had a tennis court So we'll see that we should get some more information about that soon And they could potentially sit into the night on this cell in this case tonight You can imagine the headlines tomorrow they do move them to a hotel perhaps with a little bit more luxurious surroundings I said bureau chief ainsley Chandler there Let's check in on the first word headlines from around the world Julius Sally has those from Singapore juice Madness president badden will mark one year since the deadly capital insurrection by seeking to rally Democrats around voting rights legislation He'll also warn that in action risks emboldening extremist followers of former president Donald Trump.
Reinvention Radio
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"What do you see as the biggest opportunities for brands to leverage this at this club house platform. Thomas is a wonderful question. I would i do. My brand is done A club with the brand name like we have social media. Examiner club and Then when you start thinking about dynamics of what you could do with the club You could just allow customers into the club but you could allow anyone to follow the club and what that allows you to do is have private customer only Brooms if you will By choosing to go live if you will hear Just for members of the quote unquote the club And i think that's a powerful thing to do but a lot of people have asked me about how to brands utilize this and i think you should apply for club in your brand name. Asep because it's gonna take a while for it to get approved and then once it does get approved. Take your logo. Like we've done with social media examiner and if you click on my profile and go all the way to the bottom you'll see the social media. Examiner club bottom laughed on income. See how we do it and then what we do at social examiner is we you know wants to twice a week host a club and say it's just like What steve does here. Welcome to the social media..
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"Year. Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International in 84 in Cutler Bay, it sound 9 32. Local rallies continue across south Florida's folks take to the streets in a show of solidarity, not only with their relatives, but also there are friends and other loved ones who are taking part in political protests in Cuba that started over the weekend. They're taking to the streets to speak up and out for those in need of food, water and other basics on the Communist island. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Cuban American says the rally's keep the situation in the spotlight, which could lead to helping people. Cubans need humanitarian aid in there's got to be a way to get that in without the cover the government taking it over and blocking it. And that's and that's that's also something that needs to be discussed and thought through. At least 140. Cubans have reportedly been detained or have disappeared. Since speaking out Sunday, Internet services have been shut down as well. Wendy Grossman, NewsRadio 6 10 W i o D Now into Florida's new anti riot law, the people who shut down the Palmetto were technically committing a felony, but no police presence as far as dispersing the crowds, Miami police chief Art Acevedo says. While thousands have repeatedly taken over streets like Southwest Eighth Street, his officers Have not had to make any arrests. Most people have been fantastic. They've been great. They've been cooperative. There's always a handful of agitators, but we've been able to gingerly moving along on their way and with the help of our community. No word wine. Neither he nor other officers actually initiated the anti riot law to disperse the crowds. He simply stresses that his department's protecting First Amendment rights There are now 95 confirmed deaths in the Surfside condo collapsed through the ongoing search and recovery efforts are teams have recovered an additional victim. Miami Dade County Mayor Daniel Living Calvary, reiterating the medical examiner's office is facing.
AP News
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"Tonight in Galveston, Texas, the medical examiner is requesting a mobile morgue. When asked why responding that welfare checks on people and freezing homes are not going well. Huston's public works directors warning about treacherous travel, We will begin to see some of those areas where there's the roads are still wet. Will freeze back up and so we need to make sure that people stay off these road. Three people died in the tornado that struck a seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, and a tornado has been confirmed in Damascus County in Georgia. Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson is using an act created to stop the Ku Klux Klan to sue Donald Trump for last month's capital incursion. Accusing Trump of conspiring with far right extremists. Donald Trump has issued a scathing response to criticism he's received from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. President Trump is practically And morally responsible. For provoking the events. But in a statement released by his political action committee, Trump says Mitch is a dour Solan and unsmiling political hack. And if Republican senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again. McConnell made his statement Saturday on the Senate floor after he joined 42 other Republicans to acquit Trump of inciting the January 6th right Mike Rossi, a Washington stocks were mixed today. This is AP News. California's governor, celebrating the opening of two federally operated vaccines centers in Los Angeles and Oakland and says coronavirus cases are coming down. Business is already starting to take shape. Governor.
600 WREC
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"Deal Thanks being with us Welcome into Thursday as former President Trump's second impeachment trial approaches, Republicans find themselves confronting a dilemma. About how closely tied they should remain to the polarizing figure who departed the White House last month. Here with in depth analysis is Jim Antal, politics editor at the Washington Examiner. Jim How do you see it? Album for Democrats to be trying to impeach a president who's no longer in office. While they're trying to do the coded package, and so many other things confirm all of President Biden's nominees. Now they're gonna be spending time on this, but it's a risk for Republicans to and mainly because Former President Trump doesn't seem satisfied with the argument that it is unconscious. Tutu sh inal to use impeachment against a former president. That's a very clean process argument that Republican senators Mostly prepared to make gets them out of having to defend anything. The president's Saturday did on January 6, but Trump doesn't really seem to want to go with that line of defense. He wants something more robust. And possibly something that will relitigate the 2020 presidential election and amplify his claims of voter fraud, and Republican senators are gonna have to decide. Whether they want to go along with that, or even be perceived, is going along with that, or whether they want to risk the ire of the Trump base by potentially voting against Trump on in the Senate trial, I guess it is it really about voting conscience versus Voting with an eye on how to get re elected. Yeah, well, there's definitely an element of that. Now I do think there are some Republican senators who sincerely believe that once Trump left office, the constitutionality of using the impeachment process in this way, went out the window. But obviously that's also pretty convenient way of voting with that gets you to do what is popular with the base and that is vote to acquit Trump. Dismissed the charges against Trump, but at the same time not really defend anything controversial that he's said or done, But there are some senators who do genuinely believe The constitutional question. The trouble is that doesn't sound like it's going to be the case that Trump's legal defense team makes, and he's already replaced one set of lawyers with a new group with the trial coming up really fast. It seems to be more focused on the whole election rigging claims than the constitutional one. We're speaking with Jim Ansel, politics editor at the Washington Examiner. His pieces called still tethered to Trump. Republicans have ample impeachment risks. Is this one of those cases where time heals all wounds like is it better to have the trial now than, say, a month before? The 2022 midterms of the 2024 presidential election. Right it is. It certainly would be a tougher vote before the midterms or before the presidential election. Although obviously the longer you delay it The more people are going to begin to question. Why are you even doing this? At this point Now? That argument I think many Democrats would make is, it gives them an opportunity. Potentially prevent Trump from running in 2024. Uh, but it's you know, if this is a better time, I think for the former President Bennett's the trial was happening. Say on January 7th or eighth. I think some attitudes I wouldn't say that. They've that this totally healed the wounds But some Republican attitudes I think of softened a little bit, whereas people were really angry in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol attack. And I think he might have faced a bigger problem with Senate Republicans that he seems to have at the moment, assuming his legal team doesn't blow it. Will there be drama during the impeachment trial or As the mood changed on Capitol Hill say since the riots and since the election of President Biden I think that there will be drama because it is in the interest of Senate Democrats for there to be drama and to make this as difficult to vote for Republicans as possible. And I think then the question becomes for Republicans is how are they going to react to that? Are they going to push back with a vigorous defense of trump order? Are they going to simply, you know, do the bare minimum that they're required to do. As participants in the trial and then vote too, You know, unmasked to quit with a handful of exceptions. Thanks. Jim Jim Mental politics editor at the Washington Examiner. Thats portion of the program is brought to you by stamps dot com. What would you do if you had more time, But you get outdoors. More binge watch new programs. Let's.
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"examiner" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"Washington Examiner they published now this is an opinion column. So this was on their op ed page. How to fix our domestic terrorist problem Now this is written by a fellows. Name. Name Kevin Peril. Who says here that he worked at as CIA, an army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. Counts of the secretary of homeland security. You know this? This guy is trying to wave around these credentials, so you'll think But he's not a moron. But I can tell you from reading his editorial. He's a moron. I don't care where he worked. I don't care where he served. I don't care what he did. He's not smart, not smart, and as I've been telling you all along. I mean, there's the CIA brand is is effectively nicely. It's been turned into a big joke. Ms. Siya is Is now laughable. How could it not be? You got people like John Brennan running the place? So you think that showing up on Dwork of the CIA is gonna impress anybody? Let me tell you, I know first hand it does not. Nobody cares anymore. But here's what this guy says. I mean, it's some of it is is pretty standard. This got a lot of attention, though, because of just how crazy it is, and that there's somebody who's clearly an institutionalist who's waving around his resume. Listen to me. I'm smart, and I love my country and I worked hard and I did all these things. Just But that doesn't change the fact that the ideas they're crazy. Right there. Plenty of people who Have a have the things on the resume that we're all supposed to believe, somehow makes them Worth listening to, But that's not the case. I think we've all sort of figured that out. Now, more than ever. These institutions that turn people out they don't really mean anything are a lot of reasons. They hire people. A lot of reasons they fire people. A lot of A lot of stuff that goes into it that has nothing to do with merit. And here we go. First he rides bring the heaviest felony charge on his many participants in the insurrection, the insurrection. Of course, that's not an insurrection, you jackass. I and believe it can conflict convict We ruthlessly hunted down foreign terrorist after September 11th and must do the same to their domestic equivalence. This guy's straight up comparing People on Capitol Hill on January 6 to al Qaida terrorists who deploy suicide bombers into crowded markets who drive planes full of civilians in the building's full of civilians and kill thousands of people in one day. This. This is what we This is now what with the intellectual class, supposedly The intellectual class presents to you. For what? How we're supposed to view what happened on January 6th. And I know you could say, But this is crazy. Who would really believe this? Democrats, whether they believe it or not, they're pretending that it's accurate. They're going to go forward and use this as a justification, which is what I told people assume is this thing was happening? I said, this is a nightmare. And I had some very dumb conservatives come after me on that day, and so you don't understand how important it is that we speak out. No, no, no, no. Now you see with the Kevin Carrolls of the world with the barbed wire all over D. C. With the fencing up with the thousands of soldiers. You see how Democrats are exploiting a riot of idiocy. And now they're targeting you. They're targeting everybody. You step in a line. You get fired from your job. You say the wrong thing on social media. You get banned forever. You start talking to people about how you think there was fraud, or you think there whatever it may be. No. They want to sic the FBI on you. Oh, maybe you're one of those Cuban on terrorists or something. This is what they're doing. They're telling you it right now. How's all that? Normalcy feel so? So? We don't have unity? That's for sure. But could we have normalcy? The answer is no. We can't have normalcy either. Second, this guy, writes Kevin Carr. I mean, honestly, that the most the most Astonishingly stupid editorial. I've read in a very long time. And the Washington Examiner Publishing It part of me wants to get angry at them. But I also know I think we should. We should understand how somebody Who's supposed to have a resume that we respect and his impressive and everything could write something so dumb because this is a widespread belief among Democrats. Now they really think that the January 6 riot was the Somehow, the equivalent in some way of the September 11th attacks, they keep comparing them. A second make fire and police departments have their members signed commitments not to engage in acts to overthrow the government. This guy's a. It's This guy's a moron. I mean, honestly, really, really stupid. But this is what he's writing. It was senior counsel. What is a senior counsel, the secretary of Homeland Security's Jackass. Third. Do not worry about section 2 30 of the Communications Decency Act, Ben extremist chatter through government censorship or private, deep platform Ng And use radical chat rooms as honey pots. So the DEA, the FBI, jttf Has done the same way that if don against radical Islamist since 2000 and one we need to draw out our fellow citizens were willing to attack our nation. Yeah, he wants surveillance on on everybody who What is it? A trump supporter. I mean, what are the one of the boundaries here? One of limitations, and it's insane. And he's all for D platform in Of course, deep platform people D platform. People like me for things like questioning. Why schools are shut down. Is that was that was against that consensus, right? That was against that. I was right, though, and they were wrong. But maybe they should have the flat for me for that, because that at one point in time was considered heretical..
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"examiner" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Story continues aside. If you listen to this, it's insane. We think there's this is scary that I'll get that man. It's scary as all get out. Wow. Yeah. Mm hmm. Wow. Wow. Wow, I agree. Wow. Wow. Wow. Producer. David Doesn't that sound like some crack at junkie going? Wow. Let's go back a little Just really good. These air these air Mountain lions. I believe, yeah. Wow. Wow. That's some crackhead. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Whoa! Anyway, is this a mountain lion sound by love Playing over talking. The Mount line mystery is supposedly solved, according to the Dallas Morning News. Mutilated guy, and they say the cause of man's still that is still in dispute is Hood County If there's was closed the case, Tarrant County Medical Examiner blames the man's death on animal tech State. Wildlife says we stand by our investigation, which found no evidence to back that. So they I guess they still for sure. Don't know this man was was missing. He was missing in This'll I pan man. Take his name right here. And I think this this is appropriate music right now. During this time he was missing two which what many people say wow. He was missing. Mr.
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"examiner" Discussed on 790 KABC
"She says. Just credit quoting her. They're looking for consistency, and they're going to be permanently suspending accounts that promote conspiracy theories. And anyone talked about Ewing the election. Okay, so they're gonna be considered. So let's go to this Washington Examiner article which would be in the show notes. This is a must read today. You may want to keep this handy from your friends, especially a liberal friends. Come out you gone? How dare you question What happened in the 2020. How dare you look okay. Not allowed to question what happened in the election. I thought I was supposed to be fired right now for doing that, by amazing how I'm still on the air. So the Washington Examiner article let's talk about who questioned an election. Not my president. How 2020 ones. Inauguration Anger compares to the 2017 Resistance movement. Make a solar Washington Examiner. Twitter says they'll be consistent. If you dare question election. They're gonna boot you off in permanently suspend you. So let me recommend the first suspension in the interest of consistency and principals come up. You know Twitter doesn't have any actual principles. These people left this lunatics. But here's screenshot number one from the Washington Examiner. Peace. Remember, you're not allowed to question an election. Ever ever so this person needs to be kicked off. So let's go to screen shot number one quote Washington Examiner in 2019 when it was asked if it bothers her that Trump rallies chant, lock her up. Clinton responded. She believes Trump is quote an illegitimate president. Right, claiming voter suppression for her look. Oh, my God. What? Just can't get worse, Does it? She wants Hillary Clinton went on. And this is how is she still on Twitter? This is really incredible. Seems like such a breach of principles and consistency, she said. Quote. No. It doesn't kill me because he knows talking about Trump that he's an illegitimate president. Wow. Clinton said. I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they use from voter suppression, no evidence of that voter purging no evidence of that either the hacking no evidence of that either to the false stories. He knows that they were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did. This is fascinating because the Twitter exact, Joe says. They just want to be consistent. You're not allowed to question election or promoted conspiracy theory. Hillary Clinton promotes three conspiracy theories. In one statement while simultaneously saying Trump is an illegitimate president, therefore, by default, questioning an election why is she still on the platform? Because Twitter are lying in Bacile losers? That's why Let me suggest another person who should be banned. If Twitter was consistent as they called in their principles, you're not allowed to question Election, Joe. All right. Well, let's go to screen shot number two. Let's see what Who's up next out, Jerry Nadler. Jerry Nether. With Trump. Less than a week from office. Rep. Jerry Nadler declared that though he believes Trump was legally elected Russian interference in his campaign makes his election a legitimate. I thought that was no bueno. I'm just checking You said you want to be consistent, right? I don't know. Democrats are allowed to question an election. Call the president election religion Democrats, not you. About Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter. We can't ban him. He was a former president. Why not? You said you wanted to be consistent. Check this out from the Washington Examiner. Another doozy here. Jimmy Carter, Cy on. Noted Golden Calf of the left Jimmy Carter quote. There's no doubt the Russians interfered in the election. He's promoting conspiracy theories. I thought he's not allowed on. And I think that the interference although not yet quantified, no, never quite because it never happened. It fully investigated would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. Carter said he lost the election. It was put in office because the Russians interfered on his behalf again. Jimmy Carter magically to does that performs two out of the necessary What four tasks to get kicked off Twitter, and he's magically not band kicked off to another man. If he's on to whatever it is he banned from Facebook or anywhere else. I'm just checking Let's go to one Last one, the ground, um of the Democrat liberal radical lunatic movement, the beloved Golden calf. Nancy Pelosi again. You're not allowed to question election unless you're a Democrat. Here we go in 2017. A day before Mueller's appointment, Special counsel the trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted our election was hijacked. There is no question Congress has a duty to protect our democracy and follow the facts again. I thought you were not allowed to do that. I want to be consistent, forcing the policies really? The Democrats are calling the 2016 election a legitimate promoting a Russian conspiracy. Do not those Total frauds. Dan Bongino show. Have you seen what's happening with the stock market record highs every day? How long could this possibly go on for? By the way, this is exactly what happened right before the 2000 dot com bubbles burst. Remember that protect your savings and retirement by putting them into something safe, like real gold and silver? I'm not talking about gold or silver stocks. But into real gold is over. You can actually.