3/31/23 Mike Swanson on the Bank Failures and the Strength of the Dollar

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Mike Swanson is back on the show to talk about the state of the economy. Scott and Swanson discuss some of the forces behind the recent banking failures and examine how they complicate the Fed’s fight against inflation. They then explore some of the claims being made about the imminent collapse of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Swanson shares his insights on each of these topics and then explains what he thinks is in store for the economy in the near future. Discussed on the show: Wall Street Window Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio Mike Swanson provides investment advice at wallstreetwindow.com and is the author of The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite. He also works with the Neopolis Media Group, a group of historians, educators, authors, researchers, and free speech advocates who endeavor to provide original and engaging content, including The Ochelli Effect, and The Lone Gunman Podcast. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. and he's of course from Wall Street Window.com sign up for his great email list there and learn all about what the hell's going on with the economy.
0:57.5	And for years you heard my ads for his great book, The War State, which is an awesome history of the Truman-Eisenhauer and
1:07.0	Kennedy years there and the dawn of the National Security State after World War II and all that. I just know you'll love it. And then his
1:15.5	latest book is called Why the Vietnam War Nuclear Bombs and Nation Building in
1:21.4	Southeast Asia, 1945 through and I'm so sorry Mike that I haven't read this yet
1:23.0	1945 through 1961 and I'm so sorry Mike that I haven't read this yet but I
1:30.0	really want to I know you believe me because it's true and I would never lie. I just haven't had a chance to stop and change gears to Vietnam in a while.
1:38.8	But one of these days I'm going to take a lot of notes and I'm going to interview you for a long time about that thing. I know.
1:47.2	But anyway, welcome to the show Mike, how are you?
1:50.1	I was great to talk with you. It's, it's, I looked and we last I spoke in October and it's like every six months the
1:58.6	market the economy goes into a hell spin, tail spin that is.
2:04.0	Yeah, well hail too.
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