This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altature Show. I'm a real optimistic person. I remember in the depths of the Great Recession in 2008, 2009, I was, I would go on

NBC and I was just super optimistic and see NBC was almost disgusted with me

that I was so optimistic. That's how optimistic I was because everyone else was saying

capitalism is dead and after 9-11 was really you know I lived about three blocks from the

World Trade Center I had breakfast at the World Trade Center that

morning and of course it was very horrible for many many people there much

more horrible than anything I experienced but at the same time out of that, even though it just seemed like the worst

thing in the world, there were still reasons for hope.

Like America had come together and don't forget, we were in the middle of a bare market then it

was the dot-com bust and now there was this terrorism on US soil there were a

lot of reasons to be depressed and in fact the market itself didn't recover for another almost year and a half

after 9-11 and I lost my home during this point because I didn't yet know anything

about investing or trading and just made a lot of bad decisions and

but I still had hope that when the dust settled things would get better and I was very excited

about my own opportunities and right now we're in a situation

where it's pretty scary because I don't know what it is like right now we're in

more wars than ever and they're all proxy wars it's not like oh the US

declares war on so and so and so now we're at war like as much as I hate the war against

Afghanistan and the war in Iraq The US was fighting for something. But right now these are all

proxy wars. So you know US involvement in Ukraine and Israel versus Hamas and Hezbollah.

This is all about, you know, obviously Russia and China

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