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About the guest: Andrew Smithers founded Smithers & Co in 1989. Before that he ran S G Warburg’s asset management business for many years (now part of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers/BlackRock). A regular financial commentator and columnist, and author of several academic publications, he co-authored Valuing Wall Street: Protecting Wealth in Turbulent Markets His most […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Over the last six weeks or so, Dave, I think it’s a good rear-view look at what the syllabus, or the style, of the Commentary really is meant to be. We had William White, and we had Goodhart, two central bankers, and obviously, central […]
About this week’s show: Bank reserve assets up over a thousand fold Can the FED prevent hyper-inflation? Where did the Chinese “find” 700 Billion? The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Over the last six weeks or so, Dave, I think it’s a good rear-view look at what the syllabus, or […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Today, David, we’re looking at the political and the geostrategic. You have talked, oftentimes, how the financial warps into the economic, and it affects the economic in a way that it ultimately becomes political, and from the political we move to the geostrategic, and […]
About this week’s show: The Bear is back Germany dependent on Russian energy Russia is never as strong/weak as you think Upcoming McAlvany Briefings in Costa Mesa and Orlando – CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION About the Guest: George Friedman is an American political scientist and author. He is the founder, chief intelligence officer, financial overseer, and […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Central banking, David, raises emotions in a lot of us because we’ve seen, especially over the last decade, how effective, or ineffective, central banking is. It really does have an effect on our lives. We’ve talked to central bankers. John Taylor had the Taylor […]
About this week’s show: Economics is difficult & we’re not very good at it. Fed can’t afford for inflation to rise Don’t believe the conventional wisdom About the guest: Charles Goodhart: Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is an economist. He was a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997 – May 2000 […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: Before we go to our guest, Dave, I think it’s worth talking about the two ways that people look at markets. You have what people would call fundamentalists, who are always looking at the news and saying, you know, the analysis of the news […]