#162 - Mike Green - The Economy is Collapsing, Time to Prepare
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Are we heading for a mathematical market crash or has the system just been perfectly designed to extract your wealth? In this episode, I sit down with macro-strategist Mike Green to discuss the hidden plumbing of the global economy. Mike explains why the stock market is no longer tied to reality, how the rise of passive index funds has created a dangerous "flow inelastic trap" and why the modern retirement system is forcing a massive generational wealth crisis.
Mike also explains the brutal economic realities of the Middle East conflict, how monopolies have secretly captured free-market capitalism and reveals a new data point: how corporations are actively using AI to eliminate jobs for the younger generation.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - System Feels Broken 00:01:58 - War Hits Your Wallet 00:06:22 - Power And Control 00:10:45 - Retirement Was Rewired 00:15:55 - The Market Tipping Point 00:20:08 - Why Nothing Works 00:24:00 - Capitalism Got Captured 00:33:28 - The Real Problem 00:35:47 - AI Changes Everything 00:44:00 - The Fed Is Trapped 00:51:12 - The Credit Unwind 00:59:47 - What Happens Next
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| 0:00.0 | The key problem that we face is that we have corrupted our system of capitalism to remove the |
| 0:06.2 | enforcements that prevented effectively monopolistic behavior. Corruption is the capture of the |
| 0:12.4 | regulatory and legal framework. It feels like a system that's grossly unfair to just like the normal |
| 0:17.5 | average worker in that those who understand the plumbing and the mechanics |
| 0:22.0 | are able to benefit from the system but those that pay for it are the people who go to work |
| 0:27.4 | trying to fill up their car trying to pay their mortgage the system as it exists today is not |
| 0:31.4 | working for many individuals and increasingly the average UK citizen and US citizen feels that |
| 0:37.3 | their elected representatives |
| 0:39.0 | don't really speak for them. |
| 0:41.2 | They are captured by other entities. |
| 0:44.0 | And their access to remedies is quite limited. |
| 0:46.5 | And these are the conditions that tend to lead to revolutionary or at least populist behavior. |
| 0:52.4 | Instead, it's basically become a system of discipline and understandably |
| 0:56.3 | you chafe under that. People are scratching their heads in the same way that they have every year |
| 1:00.3 | for the past 10 years saying this doesn't make a lot of sense. Our conservative modeling is if we |
| 1:05.6 | cross about 65%, which on our math is about two years out, we hit effectively a point of no return. |
| 1:14.2 | And at that point, it simply becomes a question of when it's going to happen, not if it's going |
| 1:18.8 | to happen. |
| 1:20.4 | So that'll be an unwinding of everything? |
| 1:22.9 | Unfortunately, that's the direction that it leads to, yeah. |
| 1:26.9 | This show is brought to you by my lead sponsor, Iron, the AI cloud for the next big thing. |
| 1:32.5 | Iron builds and operates next generation data centers and delivers cutting edge GPU infrastructure, |
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