Buck Brief - Here's What the Trump Economy Looks Like with John LeFevre

The Buck Sexton Show

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Here's What the Trump Economy Looks Like with John LeFevre

Buck Sexton is joined by political strategist and author John LeFevre for an in-depth discussion on the current economic landscape. John explores the challenges facing the markets, including real estate struggles, inflation, and the optimism surrounding stocks and crypto. As Trump prepares to return to office amid a looming financial crisis, they examine the balance of headwinds and tailwinds and the potential for a market reset. John and Buck reflect on the impact of figures like Elon Musk, plus the risks posed by the national debt.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Konnikova. And I'm Nate Silver. And our new podcast, Risky Business, is a show about making better decisions. We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players. And that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show. We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions. Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself. And of course,
0:22.2	we'll be talking about the election too. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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0:36.1	subscribe to the podcast on the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:41.1	Hey guys, welcome to the Buck Brief.
0:42.5	First time on the show, John Lefev is with us.
0:46.3	Now, he is a bestselling author of Straight to Hell.
0:49.2	He's a former Wall Street insider.
0:51.9	I think anybody who works on Wall Street when they go into media, John,
0:54.4	is considered an insider. So there you go. And the man behind the Goldman Sachs Elevator Twitter
1:01.2	account, which I'm going to tell you, John, I started in media out of the CIA in 2011. Goldman
1:08.8	Sachs Elev-and I was a New York City kid. I grew up in the city. All my friends worked in finance. My dad worked on Wall Street. So Goldman Sachs Elev, and I was a New York City kid. I grew up in the city, all my friends
1:11.9	worked in finance, my dad worked on Wall Street. So Goldman Sachs Elevator, original account was, I think,
1:18.4	one of the first like five Twitter accounts that I actually followed. So here we are many years later.
1:24.8	How do you come up with it? Yeah. So the short version is I was in Hong Kong
1:30.4	working in banking and we post-crisis, we'd set up a capital markets advisory firm, kind of a
1:38.4	hybrid between advisory, trading, private equity and traditional capital markets traditional capital markets, fundraising, whether it's
1:47.7	bonds or loans or anything between. So it was a nimble, flexible boutique that operated across
1:55.0	Asia and Europe. And I left in 2010 to join Goldman Sachs.
2:01.6	They gave me an offer I effectively couldn't refuse to run their Asia syndicate business.
2:07.6	And a month into my gardening leave, which is the period that you have to sit out of markets if you possess material,
2:14.6	market sensitive, non-public information, You're not allowed to work if you go from
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