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• Market Pain as Economy Crashes with Michael Oliver

  Interview recorded - 13th of March 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Michael Oliver. Michael is the founder of Momentum Structural Analysis.During our conversation we spoke about the current risk of a recession, what this means for markets, why there could be a long bear market, gold, the commodity super cycle and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:17 - Thoughts on markets?6:13 - How do you define a market?10:51 - Surprised about market strength?20:51 - Dollar to come down22:11 - Recession24:41 - Gold32:26 - Commodity super cycle?J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton’s International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park.  He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton’s Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX.In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis.  He learned early on that orthodox price chart technical analysis left many unanswered questions and too often deceived those who trusted in price chart breakouts, support/resistance, and so forth.In 1987 Mike technically anticipated and caught the Crash.  It was then that he decided to develop his structural momentum tools into a full analytic methodology.In 1992 the Financial VP and head of Wachovia Bank's Trust  Department asked Mike to provide soft dollar research to Wachovia.  Within a year, Mike shifted from brokerage to full-time technical research.  He is also the author of The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism.Michael Oliver - Website - https://www.olivermsa.com/Twitter - https://twitter.com/Oliver_MSAWTFinance -Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes -https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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• DOGE Crippling the US Economy with Dr Steve Keen

  Interview recorded - 15th of March, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming on Dr Steve Keen. Steve is a critically acclaimed economist who is looking to debunk traditional economics. During our conversation we spoke about the current state of the global economy, why economists have everything wrong, why Trump should not be cutting the deficit, what this will lead to and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:19 - Overview of global economy3:24 - Why is cutting the deficit wrong?6:26 - Government spending sustainable?20:19 - UK poor example21:01 - Best deficit?23:46 - Interest rates not an issue30:31- Financialisation39:46 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific, and empirically unsupported.Keen was formerly an associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney. In 2014, he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He has since taken retirement and is crowd source funded to undertake independent research as well as being a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy Resilience & Security, University College London.Steve Keen - YouTube -  @ProfSteveKeen  Substack - https://profstevekeen.substack.com/Website - https://www.stevekeenfree.com/free-book7X - https://x.com/ProfSteveKeenWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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• Unravelling of the Western Hegemony with Alex Krainer

  Interview recorded - 14th of March, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming on Alex Krainer. Alex is has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. He is the founder Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend following. During our conversation we spoke about the geopolitical overview, why the world order is shifting, whether the US is different to the West, restructuring of the economy, the uniparty, impacts on the market and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:39 - Geopolitical overview3:47 - Why is world order shift being ignored?5:44 - When did shift begin?9:17 - US different to the rest of the West13:26 - Corporate colonialism17:07 - Restructuring of the economy18:47 - Can the West rise again?24:07 - Uniparty 27:57 - How does this impact markets?34:42 - One message to takeaway from conversation?Alex is the founder of Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend Following. He has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. Alex was born and raised in a socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. As a 17-year old he joined a student exchange program and took up his university studies there, ultimately transferring to Switzerland on a scholarship where he completed a degree in Business and Economics.From Switzerland his path led him to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis in 1994 when 9 of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt. The same year he returned to Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence. In 1996, upon discharge from the military, Alex took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco. In 1998 he became the head of risk and CEO in 2000. Alex had originated the firm’s research and development program in market analysis and application of neural networks and artificial intelligence in trading of financial and commodities markets. By 2007 Alex launched his own investment management business and was among the small minority of managers who generated positive investment returns (+27%) during the 2008 financial crisis. Over the following six years, his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index of Blue Chip commodity futures trading funds. In 2011 Alex Joined Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth to manage the firm’s inflation hedging strategy. In 2019 Alex created Altana Wealth’s systematic portfolio allocation strategy designed to bridge the gap between technology and finance. In more recent years, Alex also busied himself as an author. He published his first book “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading” in 2015. In 2021 this book was selected as #1 on Financial-Expert.co.uk’s list of “The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders.” In 2017 he published “The Grand Deception” which is available exclusively from the RedPill Press. In 2021 he published “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible.”Alex Krainer - X - https://x.com/NakedHedgieI-System - https://isystem-tf.com/Substack - https://alexkrainer.substack.com/Trend Compass - https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/WTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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• The Coming Economic Reset in 2025 with Edward Dowd

  Interview recorded - 11th of March, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming on Edward Dowd. Edward is the Founder of Phinance Technologies and author of Cause Unknown.During our conversation we spoke on his current views on the markets, why the economy is struggling, Mainstreet vs Wallstreet, Biden immigration policy, shift from capital to labour, economic reset, which assets to perform and more. I hope you enjoy!Economic Outlook -https://phinancetechnologies.com/Product_USEconomyOutlook2025.htm0:00 - Introduction1:34 - Current view of markets?5:55 - Why was economy struggling?8:56 - Biden immigration policy11:14 - Mainstreet vs Wallstreet13:42 - Government spending, regulation, spending16:02 - Shift from capital to labour?18:00 - Global Economy22:00 - Force Powell to cut rates?23:12 - Secular shift?25:20 - System leverage27:22 - Which assets to perform?30:07 - One message to takeaway?Edward Dowd is currently a founding partner with Phinance Technologies. He has worked on Wall Street the majority of his career, most notably at Blackrock as a portfolio manager where he managed a $14 billion Growth equity portfolio for ten years. Edward's book Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden death in 2021 & 2022 propelled him as an alternative voice during the pandemic and the economic implications that continue to plague us today. Phinance's unique alternative macroeconomic analysis of the global debt crisis and what may unfold has given many a deeper understanding of the global nature of our problems today.Edward Dowd:Website - https://phinancetechnologies.com/Home.aspX - https://x.com/DowdEdwardWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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• An Economic Demolition is Imminent with Gregory Mannarino

  Interview recorded - 27th of February, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back  @GregoryMannarino . Greg is known as the "The Robin Hood Of Wall Street".During our conversation we spoke about 0:00 - Introduction1:09  - Current overview?2:50 - People are struggling10:51 - Imbalance from savers to creditors17:17 - The system delays change19:47 - The never ending refinancing bubble26:02 - Opportunities during crisis?31:52 - One message to takeaway?Also known as "The Robin Hood Of Wall Street," Gregory Mannarino is an active/full time trader of the capital markets with a world-wide following.Born on July 22, 1965, he became interested in "Wall Street," like many others at the time, in 1987 after seeing the movie Wall Street with Michael Douglas. Around that time he was able to get an entry level position, then subsequently to the trading floor,  at the now defunct bank Bear Stearns, but within a relatively short time realized that working on Wall Street was not like the movies and moved on. He went on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant beginning in 1996, now retired from practice. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieutenant. He has even published a book on casino Blackjack strategies years later, and was banned from playing the game in Las Vegas casinos.Gregory Mannarino -YouTube -   @GregoryMannarino  Website - https://traderschoice.net/WTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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