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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 964: Henry Kaufman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Dr. Henry Kaufman. He is an economist. As senior partner, chief economist, and director of research at Salomon Brothers, then the most profitable investment bank in the world, his fame extended well beyond the financial industry and into popular culture, and enjoyed the nickname "Dr. Doom."

The topic is his book The Day the Markets Roared: How a 1982 Forecast Sparked a Global Bull Market.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Financial Markets
  • Low Interest Rates
  • Henry Kaufman Warning
  • Federalism and State Control

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

0:10.9

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

0:21.2

I am your host, Michael Coval.

0:24.0

Not filtered, raw, honest.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.4

My guest today is Henry Kaufman.

0:35.4

He's an economist, formerly of Solomon Brothers, known affectionately by the name Dr. Doom. He is 93 years young. Today we discuss his book, his new book, where he's talking about his call that he made in August of 1982, which then went on to be a massive bull market

0:57.9

from that point in time.

0:59.7

I always enjoy the opportunity on this podcast to bring on historical figures.

1:05.4

Now, we don't get a full hour with Henry today, but still, he does have one particular warning or insight for all of us that we may

1:15.6

want to consider.

1:17.1

Look, Henry and 93 has seen a lot of cycles and a lot of different types of markets.

1:22.7

So I find his warning especially, let's just say concerning.

1:27.8

Without any further delay, let's jump right in with my conversation with Henry Kaufman.

1:44.1

Let me take you back, though, in because you've got this cool new book out that I have in

1:48.7

front of me. You've got a lot of experience. We're talking decades on Wall Street. In my limited

1:54.0

time with you today, what I want to, in fact, I almost want to start at the end, because when I look

2:00.6

at the very last paragraph of

2:02.9

your book, you're kind of given ominous warning to all of us. You say very clearly that we

2:10.1

could be perhaps moving from a capitalistic type America to a statist America. Let me let

2:16.9

you start right there and why you would say something like that.

2:19.9

Well, this is because the federal government and the central bank, the Federal Reserve,

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