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  • Episode #262 -- Marty Bent and Bitcoin on the Advent of Agentic Money
    Bitcoin Entrepreneur and host of TFTC Marty Bent completes the 'home and home' podcast conversation. I was recently on Marty's show to discuss the bigger political and financial picture (link below). Marty joins me for a talk about the 2026 growing...
  • Episode #261 -- Brent Johnson and the Ratchet & Pendulum of History
    Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson returns to the podcast for a forward-looking chat about where we are in the flow of economic and politcal history on the eve of the mid-term elections in the US. Brent's got an insightful take on the tug of war going...
  • Episode #260 -- Blaine Holt - EM Burlingame and the Great Escalation
    Ret. General and host of Dangerous Intellectuals Blaine Holt joins author EM Burlingame me for a open forum discussion on the current state of play as we head into the end of September and the eve of the escalatory season for the US mid-terms. ...
  • Episode #259 - Matt Dines and the Post-Mortem on America's Message to the G-20
    Matt Dines of Mine Print Hash returns to the podcast fresh from his inaugural outing as a financial 'journalist' to giive us his observations and thoughts about what went on at the G-20 conference in Asheville, NC this past week. Show Notes...
  • Episode #258 - Chris Sullivan and Decoding the American Economic Path
    Hyperion Decimus CEO Chris Sullivan returns to the podcast for a talk about what's goinng on in capital markets as it pertains to digital assets and where the US is moving the needle to change the rules of the old game. Show Notes:...
  • Episode #257 - Dexter White and Why All Politics Are Still Local
    Dexter White is back to give his detailed account of Florida's primaries and what they portend for both the mid-terms and beyond for not just Trump but the GOP. We work through what these primaries both uncover for the national political situation...
  • Episode #256 - Peter St. Onge and Correcting the Market's Signal Chain
    Austrian economist, pragmatist, and market commentator Peter St. Onge returns to the podcast to do a wide ranging talk about the state of markets, the economy and their relationship to the upcoming mid-term elections here in the US. We cover the...
  • Episode #255 - Larry Lepard and the Paths to the Big Print
    Author, financial commentator and hard money advocate Larry Lepard joins the podcast for the first time for a meeting of the minds on the paths forward for the global monetary system and what options lie in front of not just our leadership but we as...
  • Episode #254 - Dexter White and Leaving the Silos Behind Us
    Dexter White returns to the podcast for a chat about information silos, separations of facts from fiction, and why we really need to put on our big boy pants and remember what living in a plurality of perspectives looks like. Show Notes:...
  • Episode #253 - Gen. Blaine Holt and Cutting Through The Smoke on the Water
    Host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast and Ret. Brig. General Blaine Holt joins me to do and up to the minute look at the situation with the state of US foreign policy objectives, how that ties into the larger war in process, and who really...
  • Episode #252 - Matt Dines and The Pincer Move on Europe's Bond Markets
    Bond trader and publisher of Mine, Print, Hash Matt Dines joins me for a technical discussion of how the movements in money and bond markets are giving us definitive signs of where central bank policy around the world meets with the actions of the...
  • Episode #251 - Vince Lanci and the Return of Real Money
    Raconteur, trader and now author of the new book As Good as Gold: The Return of Real Money Vince Lanci rejoins the podcast after a lengthy hiatus on my part to kick start the second half of 2026. We discuss who the book is for, why it exists, and...
  • Episode #250 - Brent Johnson and the New Dollar Story
    Brent Johnson from Santiago Capital returns to the podcast so we can compare notes on what's happening in the US's quest to redollarize the world while Donald Trump remakes the map of the Middle East and rewires global trade. I asked Brent to come in...
  • Episode #249 - Susan Kokinda and the Return of the Real World
    Promethean Action's Susan Kokinda returns to the podcast after too long a break to do a strategy session on what Trump has to do from here to secure the mid-terms and beyond. We cover everything from his upcoming trip to China to her time during the...
  • Episode #248 -- Vince Lanci and Why America Must Solve the Oil Problem
    Vince Lanci is back in the house as we try to unpack the strategic play President Trump is making with his bombing Iran and the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. Show Notes; https://vblgoldfix.substack.com https://x.com/sorenthek...
  • Episode 247 - Blaine Holt and the End of Willful Ignorance on Geopolitics
    Fmr. Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt is in the house to discuss the state of strategic play concerning Iran. We recorded this on March 5th, but it doesn't matter. It's all still very relevant today. Given how fast the world is changing, that's saying...
  • Episode #246 - Peter St. Onge and the Importance of Higher Data Quality
    Economist Peter St. Onge comes back to the show to discuss the recent spate of encouraging economic numbers coming out of the US and what they mean in the context of Trump's attempt to turn the US economy around in the face of titanic political...
  • Episode #245 -- Susan Kokinda and the War for the American System
    Promethean Action's Susan Kokinda returns to the podcast to give a lively chat about the journey through another side of the American political experience from the decidedly anti-British Empire perspective. Show Notes: https://x.com/sjkokinda...
  • Episode #244 - Caitlin Long and Watching the Old Order Hang On
    Caitlin Long returns to the podcast to flip the format on its head as she is want to do (and I'm happy to oblige) and quiz me as to where things stand. We recorded on January 14th, before Trump's visit to Davos. Show Notes...
  • Episode #243 -- Xoaquin Flores and Trump's Signal to Noise Ratio
    Xoaquin Flores returns to the podcast to discuss the ins and outs of Donald Trump's recent moves in Venezuela and Iran. We try to unpack what Trump's agenda really is and go over the mechanisms for how he advances it. Given Trump's mercurial but...