underhill justin can you walk exactly through what happened during the early one nine hundred sure well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound is in the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging. from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so that's going up until one nine hundred fourteen so during world war one nine hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant right here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time

underhill so justin what insights can we glean from today's interest rates of the yield curve can give us a lot of information even though it is heavily shaped and create crafted by central banks and the fed has been conducting purchases of long dated treasuries which have been pushing these rates down and with the amount of intervention it's hard to know exactly what the yield curve would look like with market forces driving the prices and currently it looks a little something like this so this is as of yesterday with three months one year five year ten year twenty year at one snapshot in time and it makes sense that a three month olds are lower than let's say ten year yields because lending your money out for a short period of time is usually less risky but when the yield curve doesn't follow the shape there's usually a problem and this is called an inverted yield curve where short term rates are above long term rates and this is actually a snapshot of the yield curve from march twenty second two thousand and seven and this could mean that investors are more concerned about short ter

and stay tuned because coming up next justin underhill interview the xterra woman of the f.b.i. see if she will bear on too big to fail then political commentator sam sachs goes toe to toe with bob inglis on apple's new and though i fully named it i want. one of the great state blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the houses with gardens are laid. the poor are left hopeless the streets are full of angry crowds that are fighting against. the storm the american dream. actually what happened there i don't know. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie polygraph results. innocent people to the police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were taking they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or

underhill so justin what insights can we glean from today's interest rates well of the yield curve can give us a lot of information even though it is heavily shaped and create crafted by central banks and the fed has been conducting purchases of long dated treasuries which have been pushing these rates down and with the amount of intervention it's hard to know exactly what the yield curve would look like with market forces driving the prices and currently it looks a little something like this so this is as of yesterday with three months one year five year ten year twenty year at one snapshot in time and it makes sense that a three month olds are lower than let's say ten year yields because lending your money out for a short period of time is usually less risky but when the yield curve doesn't follow the shape there's usually a problem and this is called an inverted yield curve where short term rates are above long term rates and this is actually a snapshot of the yield curve from march twenty second two thousand and seven and this could mean that investors are more concerned about shor

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underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. i. we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand. they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. and editor of the libertarian republic dot com and we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates ben deflates them austin thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me on let's talk about these jobs numbe

underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. we just celebrated us independent state. let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed considered considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. and editor of the libertarian republic dot com and we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates then deflates them austin thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me on let's talk about these jobs numb

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and stay tuned because coming up next justin underhill interview the xterra woman of the f.b.i. see if she will bear on too big to fail then that political commentator sam sachs goes totally tell with bob inglis on apple's new endo i fully named i watch. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.g.p. question more. looks pretty dominant in the field but while you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans and our. i. i to ensure that banks have sufficient cash on hand that there are requirements for the level of capital that banks need to set aside the bigger the spofforth the better a bank can weather financial turbulence there are different proposals for determining capital requirements one proposal is to use a percentage of a bank's total assets and another is to weight each asset according to risk under current risk weighted assets rules the holding government that is considered to have zero risk earlier i s

channel stuffing written large oh and by the way i'll be talking tesla with justin underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. i . we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. and editor of the libertarian republic dot com we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates then deflates them austin thank

underhill on today's daily duel so. we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. i . we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. and editor of the libertarian republic dot com we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates then deflates them austin thank you so much fo

underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. i i. i. we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. an editor of the libertarian republic dot com and we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates then deflates them austin thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me on let's talk about these job

underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. i i. we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. an editor of the libertarian republic dot com and we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates ben deflates them austin thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me on let's talk about these jobs nu

underhill on today's daily duel so we're going to walk you through it all today so stay tuned for what's in your prime interest. we just celebrated us independent state so let's talk about central bank independence the fed just celebrated its one hundredth birthday it was set up to be a lender of last resort during financial panics over time congress gave it three mandates maximum employment price stability and moderate long term interest rates now you might be scratching your head and saying i thought there were only two but here's why the fed can sit considers stable prices and moderate long term interest rates to go hand in hand so they count these two mandates as one we're going to tell you why the fed is dead wrong about all of this on monday but today we're turning to austin peterson who is chief executive of stone gate l.l.c. and editor of the libertarian republic dot com we're going to talk about the jobs report and bubbles specifically how the fed both creates then deflates them austin thank you so much for joining me thanks for having me on let's talk about these jobs numbers t

underhill so justin what insights can we glean from today's interest rates well the yield curve can give us a lot of information even though it is heavily shaped and create crafted by central banks and the fed has been conducting purchases of long dated treasuries which have been pushing these rates down and with the amount of intervention it's hard to know exactly what the yield curve would look like with market forces driving the prices and currently it looks a little something like this so this is as of yesterday with three months one year five year ten year twenty year at one snapshot in time and it makes sense that a three month yields are lower than let's say ten year yield because lending your money out for a short period of time is usually less risky but when the yield curve doesn't follow the shape there's usually a problem and this is called an inverted yield curve where short term rates are above long term rates and this is actually a snapshot of the yield curve from march twenty second two thousand and seven and this could mean that investors are more concerned about sho

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvency in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers or in order to encourage banks to keep cash parked at the fed and this incentive work to banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access through service and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have access reserves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continued to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars . banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserve payments here is a chart of bank cash balances which

to the great depression for more on this we turn to prime interest producer justin underhill justin can you walk as exactly through what happened during the early ninety's hundreds well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one nine hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant right here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war the english

underhill justin can you walk exactly through what happened during the early one nine hundred sure well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound is in the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging. from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so that's going up until one nine hundred fourteen so during world war one nine hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant right here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war the english central bank wanted to return to the gold standard and remember t

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvent see in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers or in order to encourage banks to keep cash part. at the fed and this incentive works banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access reserves and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have access reserves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continued to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserved payments well here is a chart of bank cash balances which is

underhill justin can you walk exactly through what happened during the early one nine hundred well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line if the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the last. in the les gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one nine hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we showed that the price level of the gold is fairly constant rate here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war the english central bank wanted to return to the gold standard and remember the number of pounds circula

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvency in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers serves in order to encourage banks to keep cash parked at the fed and of this incentive work to banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access through service and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have serves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continue to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserved payments well here is a chart of bank cash balances which

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvency in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers serves in order to encourage banks to keep cash parked at the fed and this incentive works banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access through service and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have serves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continue to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserved payments well here is a chart of bank cash balances which is a

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvency in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers or in order to encourage banks to keep cash parked at the fed and of this incentive worked the banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access through service and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have serves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continue to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserved payments well here is a chart of bank cash balances which

to the great depression for more on this we turn to prime interest producer justin underhill justin can you walk exactly through what happened during the early ninety's hundreds sure well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound is in the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one thousand nine hundred fourteen to one nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we showed that the price level of the gold is fairly constant rate here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time af

underhill justin can you give us an update on the trends we're seeing and where this fed money printing is going well as we've talked about before banks that are members of the federal reserve are required to keep a certain amount of cash on hand and on reserve to ensure solvency in two thousand and eight during the crisis the federal reserve started paying interest on these bankers or in order to encourage banks to keep cash parked at the fed and this incentive works banks started keeping reserves well above the minimum amount required called access through service and this graph goes from two thousand to today and we have excess reserves in the billions of dollars ranging from zero to two trillion and here we have two thousand and eight when the fed started its interest payments and you can see the immediate dramatic response and these reserves continued to climb until today when they total about two trillion dollars . banks are being paid to do nothing with their money so who are the biggest beneficiaries of these access reserve payments long here is a chart of bank cash balances whi

to the great depression for more on this we turn to prime interest producer justin underhill justin can you walk as exactly through what happened during the early ninety's hundreds well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred eighteen england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant rate here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war the english centr

to the great depression for more on this we turn to prime interest producer justin underhill justin can you walk as exactly through what happened during the early ninety's hundreds well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one thousand nine hundred fourteen to one thousand eight hundred england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant rate here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war t

to the great depression for more on this we turn to prime interest producer justin underhill justin can you walk as exactly through what happened during the early ninety's hundreds well we have a graph here of the english economy from one thousand nine hundred through one nine hundred thirty the green line is the value of pounds in terms of gold the lower the line the less valuable the pound the less gold you would receive for each pound the yellow line is the price index ranging from zero to thirty well england was on the gold standard the price level was fairly constant so it's going up until nine hundred fourteen so during world war one thousand nine hundred fourteen to one thousand eight hundred england effectively doubled its money supply causing the price index to increase substantially as we see it right here during this time they also suspended the gold standard as they were too many pounds in circulation to be redeemed for gold so even though we show that the price level of gold is fairly constant rate here you couldn't redeem your currency for gold at that time after the war t

underhill will dig into the nuts and bolts of this two thousand and eight ish development finally we'd be remiss here a prime interest if we didn't mention the winklevoss or is that winkle by twins but they're creating a bit quaint for us so that yes it means a bit coins i.p.o. soon you'll be able to short that coin.

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underhill so justin what insights can we glean from today's interest rates well the yield curve can give us a lot of information even though it is heavily shaped and create crafted by central banks and the fed has been conducting purchases of long dated treasuries which have been pushing these rates down and with the amount of intervention it's hard to know exactly what the yield curve would look like with market forces driving the prices and currently it looks a little something like this so this is as of yesterday with three months one year five year ten year twenty year one snapshot in time and it makes sense that the three month olds are lower than let's say ten year yield because lending your money out. short period of time is usually less risky but when the yield curve doesn't follow the shape there's usually a problem and this is called an inverted yield curve where short term rates are above long term rates and this is actually a snapshot of the yield curve from march twenty second two thousand and seven and this could mean that investors are more concerned about short term

underhill just how are these large corporations able to accomplish this all corporate profits as a share of g.d.p. have risen to all time highs while corporate income tax payments have fallen to lows the x.-axis here excuse me the why. axis is the amount of profits and taxes expressed as a percent of g.d.p. and the x. axis is years ranging from one nine hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve and over most of this period profits have steadily increased especially rising during the nineteen eighties and this at the same time the amount of taxes paid by the very same corporations has steadily declined over time now why don't these corporate taxes increase with profits is not because tax rates are low in fact the us is one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world at thirty five percent but there is something that has changed dramatically over the past thirty years billions of dollars worth of special tax breaks subsidies and ever growing loopholes have been introduced into the tax code and these gifts in the form of tax breaks don't come entirely free they are bought so how doe

underhill justin how are these large corporations able to accomplish this all corporate profits as a share of g.d.p. have risen to all time highs well corporate income tax payments have fallen to lows the x.-axis here excuse me the y. axis the amount of profits and taxes expressed as a percent of g.d.p. and the x. axis is years ranging from one nine hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve and over most of this period. profits have steadily increased especially rising during the nineteen eighties and this at the same time the amount of taxes paid by the very same corporations has steadily declined over time now why don't these corporate taxes increase with profits is not because tax rates are low in fact the u.s. is one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world at thirty five percent but there is something that has changed dramatically over the past thirty years billions of dollars worth of special tax breaks subsidies and ever growing loopholes have been introduced into the tax code and these gifts in the form of tax breaks don't come entirely free they are bought so how

underhill justin howard these large corporations able to accomplish this all corporate profits of a share of g.d.p. have risen to all time highs while corporate income tax payments have fallen to lows the x.-axis here excuse me the y. axis is the amount of profits and taxes expressed as a percent of g.d.p. and the x. axis is years ranging from one nine hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve and over most of this period profits have steadily increased especially rising during the nineteen eighties and this at the same time the amount of taxes paid by these very same corporations has steadily declined over time now why don't these corporate taxes increase with profits is not because tax rates are low in fact the us is one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world at thirty five percent but there is something. it has changed dramatically over the past thirty years billions of dollars worth of special tax breaks subsidies and ever growing loopholes have been introduced into the tax code and these gifts in the form of tax breaks don't come entirely free they are bought so ho

underhill justin how are these large corporations able to accomplish this all corporate profits as a share of g.d.p. have risen to all time highs while corporate income tax payments have fallen to lows the x.-axis here excuse me the y. axis the amount of profits and taxes expressed as a percent of g.d.p. and the x. axis is you. years ranging from one nine hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve and over most of this period profits have steadily increased especially rising during the nineteen eighties and this at the same time the amount of taxes paid by these very same corporations has steadily declined over time now why don't these corporate taxes increase with profits is not because tax rates are low in fact the u.s. is one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world at thirty five percent but there is something that has changed dramatically over the past thirty years billions of dollars worth of special tax breaks subsidies and ever growing loopholes have been introduced into the tax code and these gifts in the form of tax breaks don't come entirely free they are bought

underhill just how are these large corporations able to accomplish this all corporate profits as a share of g.d.p. have risen to all time highs while corporate income tax payments have fallen to lows the x.-axis here excuse me the y. axis is the amount of profits and taxes expressed as a percent of g.d.p. and the x. axis is years ranging from one nine hundred forty five to two thousand and twelve and over most of this period profits have steadily increased especially rising during the one nine hundred eighty s. and this at the same time the amount of taxes paid by the is the very same corporations has steadily declined over time now why don't these corporate taxes increase with profits is not because tax rates are low in fact the u.s. is one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world at thirty five percent but there is something that has changed dramatically over the past thirty years billions of dollars worth of special tax breaks subsidies and ever growing loopholes have been introduced into the tax code and these gifts in the form of tax breaks don't come entirely free they are b