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The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, we are joining you today in Argentina. Argentina is a country that has shown the extremes of some of the things that we may be facing today. They have shown the extremes of debt default. They have shown the extremes of inflation. They […]
A Look At This Week’s Show: Argentina was once an engine of economic prosperity that destroyed itself with debt and worthless currency (multiple times). The United States will not outright default on it’s debt but can and will print it’s way to the same outcome. The current debt market crises cannot be isolated from the […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, this is the week of our 40th anniversary. I told my wife I was sad, I forgot to buy a cake for the office. David: August 15th, 1971, good Richard Nixon was giving a speech and telling us all the problems that he […]
About This Week’s Show: It’s a myth that speculators run up the price of oil. Only 20% of the oil is hedged at one time. The concept of “Peak Energy” is currently non-existent due to the abundance of coal and it’s many uses. Real inflation is running at 9.6% (Using the index from when Volker […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, the Federal Reserve chairman spoke yesterday, and I guess he gave some hope to the markets, but let me back up a little bit. The last couple of days, the Dow was down 634 points, and then, of course, we got our 429-point […]
About This Week’s Show: How the downgrade of U.S. Treasury Debt will cascade to Mortgage Backed Securities, Fannie & Freddie as well as Municipal Bonds. I scream, you scream we all scream Double Dip! Old habits die hard: Americans get scared due to downgrade in bonds and then run into the same (recently downgraded) bonds […]
The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Kevin: David, today we have a guest, Dr. Chris Martenson, a pathologist, and a fascinating guy. He probably brought to light more understanding of the exponential function than anything that I have ever read. I have read a lot of math, but this guy actually […]
A Look At This Weeks Show: Exponential growth is different from linear growth. We naturally think linear yet the current situation is exponential. Growth and prosperity are also different. You can have growth or prosperity, but not both perpetually. Problems and predicaments are different as well. A problem can be solved to avoid a certain […]
