Episode 2606: Powell Says: Banks Are Strong
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Summary
Pres. Donald J. Trump is being attacked on three coordinated fronts. First, the administration is trying to smear the man who gave us four years of peace and prosperity, the former president. The second front is the grand jury, the third front is down in Fulton County, and the fourth front is in New York.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
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these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
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had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
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in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do
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people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these
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people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to
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save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
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okay welcome it's wednesday 22 22 march in the year of early 2023 uh we've got a lot to get to in
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capital markets the economy how it's going to impact you your community your family your nation
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and the world but first of course instead of getting to the you know important stuff about
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the country the direction of country we got we always have to we always have to pause about how
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the administrative state is trying to tear apart the one individual who gave us four years of peace
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and prosperity we see we wouldn't have any of this other crap uh afterwards we have to deal with i
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got cortez and dr navarro we have to deal with any of this because none of this happened on trump's
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watch right but of course for the great job he did for those four years naturally they have to
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persecute him of course naturally because under no circumstances can they lay him back in the white
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house well hey note to da's in new york and uh jack smith you weird looking dude you know over at
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the whatever you're doing at the j6 uh with the the judges making up law in the middle of the night
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marlo all of it suck on this trump's going to win the primary going it's not even a primary it's the
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thing's over game set match already and he's going to win back the white house okay just just take out
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your number two pencil and write that down right now because he's uniting the country that wants
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order and stability and prosperity and not this mayhem we have uh coming out of moscow beijing
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tehran and of course washington dc the oligarchs on wall street and of course the the continual
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money printing machine of the federal reserve mike davis uh first off am i i'm not a conspiracy
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theory guy but they're no coincidences is the fact that they canceled the grand jury today and looks
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like tomorrow put them on call have anything to do with the judges in the middle of the night in
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the appeals court saying oh now they're leaking abc news that donald trump committed a crime down
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mar-a-lago have they have they told have they told uh the day hey with this made-up law you're
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making up there back off because we got another made-up law we're going to get to trump first and
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since it's a federal charge it'll cover a little heft to it is that am i am i overthinking this
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mike davis well i'll tell you it certainly does not look good what's happening here trump is being
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attacked legally attacked by democrats and three coordinated fronts we have the we have the
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manhattan da alvin bragg who is bringing bogus charges uh and looking to indict him on bogus charges
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trumped up bogus charges in new york that's backfiring badly on democrats the second front
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is special counsel jack smith garland's special counsel who is trying to go after trump for having
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uh having his presidential records at mar-a-lago in the office of former president which he's allowed
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to do under the presidential records act and the third front is down in fulton county uh on on
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president trump uh doing what he's allowed to do under the first amendment which is to pressure
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and strong-arm politicians that that is protected by the first amendment what's going on in the jack
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smith case is very unusual you have these four democrat appointed federal judges in dc who are doing some
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very strange stuff uh first of all outgoing chief judge beryl howell who is supervising jack smith case
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she was also the the judge who supervised the russian collusion investigation the hoax uh had this
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highly unusual order where she ordered trump's lawyer to hand over his attorney notes to president trump
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and on her last day on the job on friday as chief judge she handed over these notes to jack smith
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without giving president trump the opportunity to appeal to the dc circuit it is really really really
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unusual what she did here uh it raises some great suspicions about what's going on here so then
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these three democrat appointed judges on the dc circuit set this extraordinary maybe unprecedented
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uh uh a briefing schedule for the appellate arguments that uh i mean it's it's insane we had
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a midnight and 6 a.m filing deadline today and the dc circuit rushed to rule against president trump today
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i think they were trying to white whitewash uh outgoing chief judge beryl howell's clear legal air by handing
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over these legal notes but there was no there was no need for them to rush and you have to ask why are they
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rushing why are they doing this this highly unprecedented unusual procedural posture this this highly rushed
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appellate process the same week that the the manhattan d.a is looking to indict president trump this is
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it's it's no doubt it's coordinated right the stuff just these things don't happen randomly
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they're all lathered up i mean they're foaming white around the mouth they foaming you know it's
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insane that's all they talk about they never talk about moscow and beijing never talk about the
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economy never talk about the biggest bank failures in american history tour the number two and number
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three never talk about the economy imploding never talk about any of it all you get all you get is
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a brag brag letitia james brag letitia james and then all of a sudden whoa full stop uh not having
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today not having tomorrow and and you have this this over the overnight you know they're doing all
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this i don't even know what they're doing jujitsu in the federal court here it's got to be coordinated
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the federal court guy's saying hey you got to hold up we got we're going to charge him first with a
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real you know a real made-up charge versus a a state or a a borough made-up charge in new york
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am i am i overthinking this brother i have to be careful what i say as an attorney but i will say
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that the appearance here looks very very bad very bad for these four democrat appointed judges
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federal judges in dc the dc district court outgoing chief judge beryl howe and the three
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democrat judges on the dc circuit this is not normal what they're doing here this is highly highly
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unusual i think unprecedented i can't think of a case that's been handled like this and the timing
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of this is so bad so at least the appearance here looks very very bad for these federal judges
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and i'm hoping that the chief justice john roberts who supervises the dc circuit uh may take a look at
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this because this is a very bad look for the federal judiciary it looks very political it looks coordinated i
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can't say that it is it certainly looks coordinated the timing is just the most uh bizarre coincidence
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that we've ever seen in american history okay last thing is is what happened this morning is that going
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to go does trump have the option of taking that to the supreme court for a ruling or at least to
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whatever the justice that oversees this district is that is that a possibility the circuit justice for
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the dc circuit is the chief justice uh you could get uh you could get a ruling from the chief justice
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on this usually when you're doing an emergency appeal to the supreme court on the the emergency docket
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whoever the circuit justice is for that circuit refers it to the full court i wouldn't i wouldn't bet
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that the supreme court's gonna step in here because uh it it's been reluctant to step in on these trump
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cases before i i mean i i think this is what what the biden justice department and these democrat
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da's these george soros funded da's around the country are doing is very very very damaging to
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our country and they are these are politicized and weaponized cases your case i don't think they i
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don't think they care they want to rule the ashes they'll rule the ashes they don't care they don't
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care if the country burns down they just don't care you can tell they don't care anymore the old game
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book the old playbook's throwing them throw it out their new playbook if they get if it's got if
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they got a rule over the ashes the rule over the ashes let me let me ask you are what can be done
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in congress what can be done the house i noticed you've eased up on jim jordan a little bit over the
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last couple of days him and comer what can they can that can the judiciary committee step in immediately
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and get jack smith and uh garland and let's keel haul them publicly can we do that
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i've always been a fan of comer i i gave credit where credit's due to jim jordan for a couple good
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moves that he's made i i do praise him he's having the judiciary committee along with other committees
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send a letter and demanding some testimony here from the manhattan da the special counsel is certainly
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subject to congressional oversight as is attorney general merrick garland and if there is obvious
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evidence that a uh an investigation has been politicized or weaponized congress has an oversight
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responsibility you have to be careful that you're not overstepping and look like you're interfering
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with an ongoing investigation but this is highly unusual we've talked about this since june president
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trump had the legal right under the presidential records act to have his presidential records classified
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or not in the office of former president and mar-a-lago they were guarded by the secret service
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president president president trump uh and his staff had security clearances they had skiffs or
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secure compartment of information facilities these office of former presidents are federally funded he had
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the right to have these and so i i the question i've had since day one there was an office of legal
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counsel opinion a binding opinion on the justice department that says that general you can't obstruct
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investigations into non-crimes if it's not a crime for president trump to have these records
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in mar-a-lago it clearly isn't because he's allowed to have them under the presidential records act
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how is it legally possible under this olc memo during the molar probe to obstruct any investigation
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into this non-crime it was a bogus investigation by merrick garland to get trump notice how notice the
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treatment between trump where they sent in the fbi home raid the unprecedented home raid to go get
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documents and force lawyers to sign affidavits and just chaos and pandemonium versus the biden the
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biden justice department attorney general merrick garland covering up for then for for vice president
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then vice president joe biden's illegally stealing president obama's classified records having them in
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several different locations clearly illegal clearly a violation of the espionage act clearly unguarded
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uh there's evidence that those classified records could have been used for hunter biden's work in
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china and ukraine and the biden justice department covers this up while they try to put trump and his
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lawyers in an obstruction of justice trap this stinks to high hell and i hope that congressional
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republicans keep pushing very hard on this politicized and weaponized justice department the double
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standard here because trump had the absolute let you go though okay but kit but kit okay they've
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subpoenaed bragg and he told him to go put it where the sun doesn't shine they garland can't do that
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why can't we get garland and jack is jack smith immune from coming before people and uh and getting
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keelhauled uh publicly is is he immune to that because he's a special counsel i i don't i'm not a lawyer
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and i don't try to play one what can we get jack smith over in front of the committee and if that
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if that's the case why is that not happening that every person who works in the executive branch
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could be hauled before congress that is their oversight responsibility attorney general merrick
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garland can certainly get hauled before congress and so could jack smith congress has a constitutional
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duty of oversight here and uh you can issue a subpoena you can drag them in and you can force
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them to testify now they could say that that they're not going to talk about the steps that they're
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taking in an ongoing investigation but they can you know certainly talk about prior steps
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can you get them to talk about we got a bounce here but can can we talk can they can you ask them
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about what's this going on with the dc i mean it just seems bizarre you're having these things at
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midnight you gotta have your papers ready at six in the morning no one's ever seen this that's ever
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gone to appeals court or ever appealed anything it just seems so out of the ordinary and it of course
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they're rewriting all kind of laws because of trump so anyway uh mike more importantly how do people
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now that you're a media darling well how do they get to your website we want to see all we want it
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up there so your fans can see all your media hits so what's your social media you're still coming in
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hot on getter and uh and uh twitter but where do people go to find out everything about you every
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every second of the day because now you're doing like 30 hits a day some people have called me other
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things besides media darling there's a different word besides darling but uh it's article three
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project.org article number three uh project.org at article three project at article number three
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project on getter twitter truth and my personal is mrd dmia my initials in des moines iowa mrd dmia and
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thank you steve thank you brother great job you see now i'm angry with myself i told myself i wasn't
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going to take a whole davis is that good you see this is the problem we have massive issues to deal
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with and we take an entire segment opening block of the show to deal with this crap this is what
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they're doing it's all diversionary and it's all to stop okay for everybody just understand something
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if you think the primary is tough and the general election is going to be tough and they are
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although i think the primary is not going to be as tough as it used to be general election
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think about every day of governing think about every day this is going to be every day every day
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is going to be stalingrad short break dr peter navarre steve cortez next in the war room buy gold and
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quell inflation instead we now anticipate that some additional policy affirming may be appropriate
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we will closely monitor incoming data and carefully assess the actual and expected effects of tighter
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credit conditions on economic activity the labor market and inflation and our policy decisions
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will reflect that assessment the budget will advance our efforts to modernize the state department
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that we face michael mckee from bloomberg radio and television you've been very consistent in saying
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that the fed would be raising interest rates and then holding them there for quite some time
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following today's decision the markets have now priced in one more increase in may and then every meeting
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the rest of this year they're pricing in rate cuts uh are they getting this totally wrong from the fed or is
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there something different about the way uh you're looking at it given that you're now thinking that
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moves might be appropriate as opposed to ongoing so we published an sep today as you will have seen
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and it shows that uh basically participants expect uh relatively slow growth a gradual rebalancing of supply and
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demand in the labor market with inflation moving down gradually in that most likely case if that
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happens participants don't see rate cuts this year they just don't i would just say as always the path
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of the economy is uncertain and policy is going to reflect what actually happens rather than what
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we write down in the sep but that's not our baseline expectation very much for having me here today
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all right thank you mr secretary the committee will be in order
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you're supposed to be a diplomat start negotiating you know if you don't like the chinese proposal
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where is your peace proposal the american people want you to negotiate be a diplomat do your job now
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let me let me say what what what i think happened and then i'll come to the questions around supervision
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so at a basic level uh silicon valley bank management failed badly they grew the bank very quickly they
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exposed the bank to significant liquidity risk and interest rate risk didn't hedge that risk
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we now know that supervisors uh saw these risks and and intervened we know that the public saw all this
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um we know that svb experienced an unprecedentedly rapid and massive bank run so this is a this is a
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very large group of connected depositors concentrated group of connected depositors in a very very fast
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run faster than the historical record would suggest so um for as for us
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so for our part we're doing a review of supervision and regulation my only interest is that we identify
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what went wrong here how did this happen is the question what went wrong try to find that we will
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find that and then make an assessment of what are the right policies to put in place so that it doesn't
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happen again and then implement those policies i can't i can't listen i can't listen anymore i can't
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listen anymore just have you guys watch the war and we'll we'll explain it all to you dr navarro uh
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is he giving up did he tell us right there he's not going to go after inflation anymore is there's no
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more rating chris there what this this was the worst gobbledygook uh i've i think i've ever seen
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out of these clowns explain please explain to me sure well that that was the problem uh he said on the
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one hand out of one side of his mouth that there don't be only one more rate cut for the year but
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then he followed that up immediately uh with uh but in the data will determine what we do so here's
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the here's the joke about this it's a tragic comedy and i'll take you back to the oval office
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steve when when when powell first started like just enraging donald trump the problem powell had is
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every time he got up and the fed delivered a decision uh the markets would tank when powell got
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up to explain what they did and the way it went was if there was good news like there always was with
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the trump administration he'd make it seem less good and now when there's bad bad news that might
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be getting better he blows more uncertainty into the market so what he said today was
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he's just going to do whatever the data tells him and so there's great uncertainty the market
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just i mean it was like a freight train straight down off the rails um he contradicted janet yellen
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because unlike yellen who said that the bank crisis wouldn't spill over into the financial markets
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he said it would and right off the bat he acknowledged steve uh what the war room has been
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saying for over a year now that disinflation is not transitory and it's likely to stick around
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uh for a long time so all in all this was a typical jay powell performance it's important
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to understand posse that this man has no economic credentials there's no way in hell this guy should
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ever been appointed to that uh to that position okay okay slow down slow down yeah okay slow down
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last time i looked i'm just going to throw it out there we had kevin warsh and john taylor on the
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short list and president donald jay trump selected jay powell correct so how that happened yes well
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help me out with that how that happened was was steve mnuchin treasury secretary good old steve right
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that the the the smartest dumb guy i ever met this side of larry summers basically he thought that
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powell if he put him in there because the guy didn't have any qualifications he'd be steve's bitch i mean
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let me just say it like as blunt as possible that powell would have to rely on steve's grand wisdom
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and as soon as powell was in there boy he turned on trump and the white house in a new york minute
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and the big mistake steve and this is really interesting given the crisis we're in economically
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the biggest mistake powell made during trump's reign was he wouldn't let the economy grow to its full
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potential we could have easily hit four percent gdp growth a year during powell's reign but he went with
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the traditional view that you can't do that okay based on uh the keynesian kind of perspective on
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this and so what he did i'll um alan greenspan back when he was around is he prematurely started
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tightening credit and that choked off the economy and so he makes every single mistake in the book now
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last thing on this steve is that on the one you know last week with with his full bailout and
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complicity with biden and yellen he engaged in the biggest burst of quantitative easing and loosening
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credit yeah i described it in my my stub stack as a neutron inflationary bomb on the economy so he did
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that yeah and at the same time he raised the interest rates again today so clearly policy is working
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at cross purposes um yeah he's an idiot and i'd rather be uh have the fed ruled by uh cortez uh
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bannon and uh philip uh birch then uh then then jay powell let's have can we get your sub stack how do
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people get your your coordinates yes sir people get to all this now you know i'm i'm all over this
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like white on rice as they say it's peter navarro dot sub stack dot com peter navarro dot sub stack dot
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com what i'm trying to see if you're you're the long form you're the heavyweight bat that goes the
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full distance every time what i'm trying to do with each uh episode of the sub stack and podcast
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is these little jabs these eight minute jabs that come out as a transcript as an op-ed perfect and
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it's nice morsels for the posse and and i think synergistically what we do together is good
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yeah people love all good brother we're gonna we continue to push them okay brother thank you man
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kits everything steve cortez i want you to come in and give me your assessment but the burning question
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i got maybe you make a mistake on the guy first time how did how did biden and all these brilliant
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guys in the white house and on the democratic side how did they re-up j pal sir i miss i don't
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understand he got picked in the first place but how did he get re-upped right look the only thing that
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powell uh is skilled at in life professionally is acting as in maneuvering in the washington sewer
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you know the i will i will give him that credit and that credit only he has no credentials as peter
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navarro correctly cited he has no credentials in economics he doesn't understand the bond market or
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interest rates or the economy he is a lawyer he's a washington lifer and i think he showed that today
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by the way if you actually watched his press conference you know now listen he might sound a bit
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sophisticated because he uses the lingo of central banking okay but the reality is he talked
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continually out of both sides of his mouth and tried to give himself every conceivable angle
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and option as far as policy from here it really reminded me steve of harry truman reportedly said
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i want a one-armed economist and the reason he said that was he was so tired of economists saying
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on the one hand and on the other hand okay so harry truman would not have been very happy
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with jay powell today and let's remember there aren't any good options for the fed right now
00:26:39.120
however the fed and jay powell created this very predicament that they now find themselves in they
00:26:44.500
created this inflationary madness he was finding religion finally at long last it was so blatantly
00:26:50.740
obvious that even he couldn't miss the inflationary madness that was created he was starting to fight
00:26:55.860
it albeit tepidly and now he's trapped because he knows what he needs to do to fight the inflation he
00:27:00.720
helped to create but at the same time doing so that through that fighting he may very well tip
00:27:06.200
the very very vulnerable banking system into an absolute all-out collapse even worse of course
00:27:12.000
than we've already experienced okay we're going to come back we got a we got a chalk talk from you
00:27:18.000
we got some analysis some charts uh mark mitchell's going to be here he's got some polling on this
00:27:22.960
whole bank crisis uh steve real quickly did he since the cruelest tax is the regressive tax of inflation
00:27:29.620
right just going 25 bips today basis points that he basically say hey maga deplorables you're on your
00:27:35.780
own i believe he did yes i really do think he said look in the end we're going to protect capital
00:27:41.300
rather than protect the prosperity of regular americans yes i do believe that
00:27:46.520
okay we're gonna take a short break we're gonna drill down that's the central thesis of today
00:27:52.500
here's the beauty of it baby you're underwriting the entire deal as as pal continues to print money and
00:27:59.280
jam it either through the discount window into the banks make sure they got liquidity these 186
00:28:03.760
walking wounded or opening up the swaps lines to the other central banks you're the full faith and
00:28:10.080
credit you're the underwriter of course he just said hey you're gonna have to help yourself when it
00:28:13.560
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okay mark mitchell's joining us we're going to wedge him in here because he's got a very important
00:29:53.800
poll they put out today about what american citizens think about uh the banking system
00:29:59.960
i'll bring him in now mark walk us through your poll and then i'm going to bring cortez to give us some
00:30:03.960
observations and analysis walk us through these numbers we have a banking system that everybody
00:30:09.640
uses the confidence should be really high we have depositor insurance that now seemingly applies
00:30:15.400
to everybody nobody should be worried about losing their money unfortunately americans really are how
00:30:21.240
confident are you in the stability of the u.s banking industry only 23 percent are very confident
00:30:27.480
now 58 percent are at least somewhat confident and 36 percent are not confident that that doesn't seem
00:30:33.880
good but here's the thing just as we talked about with the silicon valley bank numbers we've been polling
00:30:39.720
about banking crises and bailouts all the way back to 2008 and so if you go back your readers can go and
00:30:46.920
look at the historical numbers if you look at the republican and democrat numbers the numbers now for them
00:30:53.240
or sorry for republicans and independents are almost exactly the same as they were through 2009 2010
00:31:00.360
but democrats confidence in the banking industry is skyrocketed to now 73 percent and they're dragging
00:31:07.320
all these numbers up when thinking about the money you have in the bank how worried are you it'll be lost due
00:31:12.040
to a bank failure 44 percent of american adults are at least somewhat worried 11 are very worried those numbers
00:31:19.160
are identical to the spring of 2009 only six months after the lehman collapse and then finally we asked
00:31:26.760
over the next few years how likely is the u.s will enter a 1930s like depression 49 of american adults say
00:31:34.680
it's at least somewhat likely 19 say very likely only 13 say not at all likely that's another one we've
00:31:42.360
asked quite a few times and these numbers are bad now we don't talk about this often but one of the
00:31:48.680
things that rasmussen reports also does is pull very heavily on economic confidence every month we put
00:31:54.520
out reports on our website we have an index where we've been tracking economic confidence all the way
00:31:59.960
going back to april 2014 last july something crazy happened that didn't we didn't get a lot of news about
00:32:06.920
it but our index for economic confidence dropped the lowest it's ever been even below the absolute
00:32:13.640
height of the covid pandemic now over the last year as inflation's eased off those numbers have ticked
00:32:20.040
back up a little bit but economic confidence is always the highest in the spring when people are
00:32:26.040
getting those tax refunds and so now with the s p one or two bad days from being lower than it was
00:32:34.440
on joe biden's first day in office with people spending through those tax refunds come coming up
00:32:41.080
in april may june and with this banking crisis i'm worried we're going to see another spike lower in
00:32:46.520
economic confidence in this country give me real quickly the one in the depression again the 49
00:32:53.080
about the 1930s just read those numbers again for cortez 49 of american adults think it's at least
00:32:59.720
somewhat likely over the next five years we're going to enter a 1930s style depression 19 percent
00:33:05.560
say very likely mark mitchell where do people get to you give me all the sites your coordinates
00:33:12.760
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00:33:23.720
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00:33:33.640
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you your family community and your nation steve cortez give me your assessment first of the polling
00:34:07.480
you were around uh in 2008 you remember to the spring of 2009 give me your assessment sir of that
00:34:13.000
well you know it reflects that rasmussen polling reflects the common sense intuition and smarts of the
00:34:19.560
american people because even if they're not deeply involved in capital markets they understand that
00:34:24.360
the situation now is dangerous and is very similar in many ways to 08 and 09 i think in some ways perhaps
00:34:30.840
even more perilous and let me show you some capital markets reflections of that that will validate that
00:34:36.200
poll and show you that the trepidation and anxiety that's out there in the country it is in fact
00:34:40.680
evidence-based according to capital markets if we look at chart number two this is bond volatility
00:34:46.760
and without getting too deeply in the weeds here this is essentially the the change in yield on the
00:34:51.480
two-year note and what you want that to be basically is thin okay when you look at that at that line when
00:34:56.440
it starts getting wide it means things are getting wild okay so that chart goes back 20 years and the last
00:35:02.280
time things got wide and wild in the bond market was 2008 2009 this current banking panic is just as
00:35:10.680
volatile as 08 and 09 according to bond markets now let's look at it if we can go to uh chart number
00:35:16.920
three please let's look at a reflection of what happened just today okay uh this is pac west p-a-c-w is
00:35:23.000
the ticker uh it is a west coast regional bank it's a lot like silicon valley bank it's not quite as
00:35:28.760
concentrated in the tech industry but it has a lot of venture capital businesses a lot of venture capital
00:35:34.600
partners or and customers it was down 17 today steve 17 that chart goes back one year and shows you
00:35:43.480
that at last week's lows it had lost 90 percent of its value uh this company reportedly we don't know
00:35:50.440
if it's true but reportedly went out and tried to raise capital tried to get an equity injection into
00:35:55.560
the bank and was rebuffed those are the rumors at least today and it got destroyed and the market
00:36:01.560
fear steve that we have svb but hang on yeah too you got the s you got the silicon valley bank
00:36:08.840
southern division about to pop up on you and these are massive banks right on this bank it's pretty
00:36:15.000
open because they tried to raise equity not doing that they announced with great fanfare they got a 1.4
00:36:20.520
billion dollar loan from uh apollo's distress lender what atlas special partners or something that
00:36:28.120
this is the bottom feeders of the bottom feeders they're essentially leg breakers with cash right
00:36:33.400
so this is like going to the mob this is like going to the mob that's how desperate this bank is right
00:36:37.960
and it's pretty open that they couldn't raise equity so they went and got a they went and got
00:36:41.320
a went to loan that's correct and borrowed some money to get to keep on and keep on they keep on the iron
00:36:47.080
lung is that where we are this another one how many administrations since uh herbert hoover have had
00:36:53.160
three big banks uh blow up in a in in the span of 10 days uh steve cortez right well that would be
00:36:59.480
zero and no you're exactly right so going to get in a line of credit right to sustain them perhaps
00:37:04.760
for a few days is you're exactly correct it's sort of this sophisticated legal way of going to the
00:37:10.120
equivalent of sort of wall street equivalent of going to rocky balboa before he made it in boxing okay
00:37:15.560
when he was still a leg breaker and collecting for for loan sharks that's exactly right and uh but look
00:37:20.920
the reality too and i i really think this is important to me the biggest news event of the day
00:37:25.480
was actually not powell it ended up being janet yellen because the two of them were effectively
00:37:30.040
on stage at the exact same time making pronouncements um and by the way anybody out there who believe who
00:37:36.280
isn't yet worried should be worried from watching what happened today and watching the market reaction
00:37:41.560
because janet yellen and her boss joe biden made it pretty clear the other day if he went even if he
00:37:46.520
wasn't totally explicit made it clear that we're going to back bank deposits her previous comments
00:37:52.040
certainly at least suggested that we're going to back all bank deposits the way we did for the oligarchs
00:37:57.640
in silicon valley bank well she then comes out today and this is the quote not considering broad
00:38:03.960
increase in deposit insurance not considering now let's look at the market reaction to that uh to that
00:38:09.880
comment so this is chart four please and we can pull that up this is the dow jones industrial
00:38:14.600
average but most people watch for the stock market this is only a one-day chart steve this is a one
00:38:18.760
minute tick chart basically of just today for the dow jones industrial average it was basically hanging
00:38:25.560
in rallying small as powell tried to mostly speak dovishly mostly sort of reassure markets as i said
00:38:32.120
powell's really talking out of both sides of his mouth not saying a whole lot then yelling comes out
00:38:37.080
and says oh no we're not considering a broad increase in deposit insurance bam the dollar loses
00:38:43.800
700 points in a matter of minutes after that statement as i show there on the chart steve as i
00:38:50.280
often say price is truth and the truth is right now the only thing holding up financial markets the
00:38:55.720
only thing is the deplorables is the faith and credit of the taxpayers of the united states supposedly
00:39:01.800
backing all of this and the second that that yelling says well maybe that's not such a good idea
00:39:06.920
bam markets get absolutely killed these are the consequences but number one here's here's yeah
00:39:14.360
but i want to make sure the artists understand something they've been leaking this for two three
00:39:19.000
days that they're going to give a a blanket to the 19 trade now we've been hammering them on this show
00:39:24.440
but for her to just show up when all the wall street guys think and says oh no we're not thinking
00:39:28.600
about that i mean that's the type of thing that it's like hitting you with a bazooka right it shows you how
00:39:35.320
incompetent it's malfeasance and incompetence it's a unique in the unique as bad as bush uh you know
00:39:42.120
paulson and bernan and these guys were and they were awful as bad as as obama's guys the guy during
00:39:47.080
these guys in the beginning we've never seen anything you do agree in your professional career from the
00:39:52.360
pits of chicago to uh to the white house and everywhere else between have you ever seen a a collection
00:39:59.320
like pal and yellen no i you listen never seen this level of of incompetence on the economy as
00:40:06.120
well as incompetence on messaging all right um and as somebody who's worked you know deeply in both of
00:40:11.080
those fields you're exactly right the bush team certainly got the policy wrong at almost every
00:40:16.040
turn however i will give them credit that during the great financial crisis of 08 and 09 they're pretty
00:40:21.000
good on the messaging they were pretty good on at least pretending that they were in charge that they
00:40:25.720
were competent uh hank paulson was good at that okay and by the way that matters okay because that's
00:40:30.040
not just a matter of optics it matters because confidence can become self-reinforcing you know as
00:40:35.480
well as doubt the opposite right can become a vicious cycle downward so you have to get both the substance
00:40:40.440
right and the optics and the messaging to be a great leader in this case they're absolutely flailing on
00:40:46.920
both okay so they did back the oligarchs of silicon valley valley bank total failure on the substance
00:40:53.480
policy side and america hard-working american taxpayers the cops and coaches out there
00:40:59.320
people who don't have money for luxuries they have back stocked the oligarchs so they failed
00:41:03.880
powell and yellen and biden they failed on the policy front but now they're also massively failing on
00:41:09.240
the messaging front by not being consistent at all by not apparently remembering what they are saying
00:41:15.240
day to day and not recognizing that in the midst of a crisis and this is a deep economic crisis that
00:41:21.240
we're suddenly in in the midst of a crisis every word matters and it is much better to say nothing
00:41:27.320
if you're not prepared to say something that is intelligent and consistent and coherent we get
00:41:33.080
exactly the opposite from janet yellen all right that is simply the reality and steve it's astounding
00:41:38.280
to me that she has not been fired i mean it's unbelievable to me that she is the inheritor of of the
00:41:44.760
of the of the chair the the secretary of treasury chair of alexander hamilton and and some other
00:41:51.080
incredibly great men by the way in american history uh and that janet yellen this fool this incompetent
00:41:57.320
uh this person right now is at the helm of the united states economy at a fulcrum moment like this of
00:42:04.280
peril for the american economy that should scare the hell out of everyone out there does is there
00:42:10.280
everybody everybody happy that she was over in ukraine a couple of weeks ago laying down the roses and
00:42:14.360
talking about she was going to you know writing five billion dollar checks how does that feel right
00:42:17.560
now does i feel good for you i hope every democrat progressive under 35 you're loving that you're
00:42:21.880
rubbing up on that i hope you love that i hope you embrace that because you deserve it you voted for
00:42:26.760
you got it real quickly before you go to break i don't know would you do you know anybody any level
00:42:32.040
of confidence or gravitas right now that would want to step in and be secretary of treasury knowing
00:42:36.600
that pal was at the fed and he had joe biden wandering around right the white house i mean why would you do
00:42:41.240
that and number two the confirmation hearing would be a bloodbath to get anybody confirmed right now
00:42:46.760
it would be this is why she remember she was supposed to leave steve she's supposed to leave
00:42:50.120
after the midterms right they can't she she's kind of stuck with it now and we're stuck with it and her
00:42:55.240
performance today i'm sure they're going to go back and coach her but it's it's absolutely incredible
00:43:00.440
real quickly give me 30 seconds i'll tell you what i want to wait we're gonna come back you guys
00:43:04.040
but i also want to go back to you said this at the beginning of this a couple of years ago
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patriots i probably don't have to tell you that financial markets have been incredibly volatile
00:45:51.400
in recent weeks as bond markets revolt against biden's inflation some of the worst carnage can be found
00:45:57.880
in the small cap stock sector the small and medium-sized companies that normally drive the american
00:46:04.520
economy but there has been small cap pain ever since joe biden took office why because his policy failures
00:46:12.200
all of them favor the interest of big business of global multinationals over small business and main
00:46:20.280
street let me be specific the created inflation the open border and the needless escalation of the war in
00:46:26.680
ukraine all of those policy failures that either directly benefit big business or big business can manage the
00:46:32.680
risks in ways that small business simply cannot as a consequence you get this massive stock market
00:46:39.160
outperformance of the big guys let me show you since biden took office the s p 500 up four percent now
00:46:45.000
that's a terrible return for over two years time but nonetheless it's at least positive russell small cap
00:46:51.080
index down 18 percent since biden took office this differential right here this concentration of economic
00:46:59.560
and political power it's a hallmark of what biden the democrats are doing to this country and we are
00:47:05.240
going to fix it with our movement of patriotic populism okay steve cordless i want to get breaking
00:47:13.480
news we're going to try to get boards in the six o'clock hour uh new york post is reporting uh juries out
00:47:19.960
chaos at court is trump's grand jury hearing canceled bragg now concerned about indictment and
00:47:24.840
assistant district attorneys are quote shaking their heads unquote complete chaos up in new york uh
00:47:31.800
chaos in the capital markets the country chaos on the southern border we got our worst enemies in
00:47:37.400
human history uniting in eurasia it's uh it's um these are all create i want to go back i know you're
00:47:44.120
gonna jump in this steve but these are all created crises there's nothing in the financial law physics
00:47:49.480
that said this had to happen sir correct no absolutely it's not bad luck it's not the business
00:47:54.600
cycle it's not happenstance okay because you're exactly correct the handoff economically from
00:48:00.360
donald trump to joe biden was an economy that was aggressively reopening without inflation it was the trump
00:48:07.560
boom 2.0 that was unfolding into uh the beginning of joe biden's term and he completely squandered that
00:48:15.400
inheritance how through three specific created crises and i mentioned them there but i can give
00:48:20.600
a little more detail here uh ukraine the border and then this created uh uh crisis of inflation and
00:48:27.160
how do all of them benefit big business to the detriment of small business well if you look at
00:48:31.720
ukraine for example the defense contractors love what's going on okay so there's a lot of big business
00:48:37.000
interests that are very pro-war that are very pro-escalation it certainly doesn't help any main
00:48:41.960
street business here in the united states quite the opposite if we look at the border almost all
00:48:46.760
of big businesses unanimously in favor of open borders why because they want cheap labor because
00:48:51.960
it helps their margins even though it devastates the earning power of regular americans and again
00:48:57.320
harms small business and if we look at inflation overall i'm not saying inflation helps a lot of
00:49:02.360
big businesses but they can manage it and mitigate the risks in ways that small business cannot and some
00:49:08.520
big businesses do absolutely benefit from inflation largely because they are the creator of resources
00:49:14.840
you know the resource markets are dominated by massive conglomerates and in general small business
00:49:21.000
they are the consumers of those resources whether it's energy or agriculture you know whatever it is
00:49:26.120
would uh what generally the creators the producers of them are big business the consumers of them are
00:49:32.200
small business so inflation disproportionately harms small business and again i want to show that in the
00:49:37.480
financial markets because it's not just the opinion of steve cortez it's how capital has been
00:49:41.960
allocated ever since joe biden became president now the markets got smacked today of course as we
00:49:47.240
mentioned largely because of the incompetence of his secretary of state who's contradicted herself
00:49:51.480
several times within the matter of just days but as markets got smacked today down about two percent
00:49:57.320
depending on which index you look at the s p during his tenure is now barely positive and the russell 2000
00:50:03.720
though and by the way that's bad but at least you haven't lost market if you've been
00:50:06.600
investing in the big boys during his time haven't made any money but you haven't lost money if you've
00:50:10.440
been investing in small cap which is way more reflective of where main street is now down as
00:50:14.920
of today's close down 20 percent which of course is the typical historic definition of a bear market so
00:50:20.280
it is a bear market for small business because of biden it is a bear market for main street because of
00:50:26.920
joe biden and steve this crisis we're in the reason it's relevant to today's news is that with this crisis
00:50:32.440
we're in currently if we continue down this path of regular taxpayers bailing out the oligarchs of
00:50:37.880
silicon valley because i think that's coming again i think it's coming in the form of of pack west i hope
00:50:43.000
i'm wrong but uh so far that by the way the stock market has done a very good job when one of these
00:50:47.960
banks comes under attack from sellers when you see a lot of selling in svb uh then in signature bank and
00:50:53.480
first republic so far the market has been very efficient and very correct in sort of seeking out who's
00:50:59.000
next it sure looks like the next one is packed west but my point is this current situation this
00:51:05.160
current created crisis is going to only exacerbate what i was talking about there in that chalk talk
00:51:10.920
this winner take all phenomenon in american life where a very small group of credentialed crony elites
00:51:17.880
reap almost all the benefits and the rest of the masses are thrown to the side and the ruling class
00:51:24.920
of the united states simply doesn't care that there are 24 straight months of declining real
00:51:30.040
wages in this country and that americans are working harder every day to get poorer that's the reality in
00:51:35.800
this country steve uh how do people get to your sub stack now all your content yeah please and please
00:51:43.800
i have a look at my my videos my sub stack everything i you can find me on the twitter i'm at cortez steve
00:51:48.920
cortez with an s steve cortez brother cortez thank you very much honored to have you on here great job
00:51:56.200
you bet thank you sir as cortez says uh they've chosen capital to protect not uh not the people
00:52:03.160
not citizens not the the wage earners because they've made a decision today that they're not
00:52:08.280
going to try to really aggressively fight inflation and they can't they've jammed themselves in the
00:52:12.120
corner because they'll take down the banking system even more than your broad shoulders can support it
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