Money & Markets Report: April 24, 2025
Money & Markets
The Quicksand Presidency
In this episode of Money & Markets, Catherine and John delve into the chaotic landscape of the ‘Quicksand Presidency.’ They discuss Trump’s tumultuous handling of interest rates, the Federal Reserve, and his scapegoating of Jerome Powell for economic troubles. They scrutinize insider trading allegations involving Trump’s sons and the volatile firings within the Department of Defense, highlighting the recurrent theme of internal dissent and messy optics in Trump’s administration. They also cover geopolitical tensions, specifically around Ukraine and Iran, and how policy decisions are being made with less regard for effective governance and more for political theater.
They also discuss the tragic ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and their far-reaching implications, painting a picture of an administration fraught with challenges both at home and abroad.
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Love you Catherine! I am 72 years old and trying to navigate technology! My love to you!
The new website is absolutely beautiful!!
Thanks!
Concerning your analysis of misallocation of capital, comparing the stock market to the gold price – you are not including dividends and other income provided by the companies in the stock market. I agree, that there is too much money going to the bankers and other people manipulating the financialization of assets, but the analysis is too simplistic in my view.
Dividends and income would not have changed it. Much of the capital I was referring to is an extraction model. Meantime, I agree, the piece could have been much better if I had invested the time to drill down and provide the statistics and graphs on the key points. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to do it. I still decided to go ahead as it was important to frame the concepts. Appreciate your comments.
Excellent discussion once again. On the topic of the chart that compares S&P 500 performance vs gold over 20 years, some thoughts.
I’ve worked at 3 of the 500 firms during those years and none were immune to the sort of corruption frequently noted in the broader society and government on Money and Markets.
Indeed, investing in gold is quite literally burying talent in the Scriptural sense. Yet in the past 20 years the ethical purity of gold has had an outsize allure in an increasingly corrupt society which has the synthetic nature of fiat currency as arguably its most significant root cause. The very fiat currency that serves as the numeraire of the chart!
Did you see this=
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/24/wef-launches-investigation-into-founder-klaus-schwab
Yup. Looks to me like they wanted to move in someone more dangerous.
What shocks me is, that many in my neighborhood believe the lie that Europe is bringing democracy and freedom in the world. The American alliance “little check” method seems very much inbedded here too!
That the American alliance is flailing about like a wounded animal the rest of the world is smelling, seems succesful contained and hidden from the public at large. If a majority doesn’t wake up to reality we are going to find out CAF’s red button story the hard way! I think the rest of the world is sick and tired of the corrupt wild west tactics of plunder the West is specialized in!
The West is run by vampires and sadly infected or subdued the multitudes. The big question is, stands the other side for anything better? Momentarely, I see only an effective Jedi – Sith dialectic to bamboozle the multitudes in busy work leading to personal destruction which is worlwide slavery.
Least but not last Catherine, the new site is beautiful.
🙂
WHERE IS THE LIST OF STORIES?
Just click on the links button below the video!
Under the links banner above in the right🫶🏻
I’m also wondering where this is.
Click on the links banner under the video.