GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the markets, waiting on Jerome Powell to announce the direction of monetary policy.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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1885 NYSE
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915 #Markets: Bullish. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
915-930 #Markets: Drones over the market. Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
930-945 #SYRIA: Pure Al Qaeda. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
945-1000 #Cairo: Not cooperating still. Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
SECOND HOUR
10-1015 #BERLIN: The government falls. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin.
1015-1030 #Berlin: Friedrich Merz, CDU. Judy Dempsey, Senior Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Berlin.
1030-1045 #LondonCalling: Syria go home? @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
1045-1100 #LondonCalling: Andrew Bailey and the Gilts of 2022. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115 1/2: #CANADA: Disorder Trudeau. Charles Burton, Synopsis, Ottawa.
1115-1130 2/2: #CANADA: Disorder Trudeau. Charles Burton, Synopsis, Ottawa.
1130-1145 #US: November 5, 2024 reestablished US supreme command. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
1145-1200 #KING CHARLES REPORT: Andrew and the China agent. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215 #NewWorldReport: Lula's brain. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
1215-1230 #NewWorldReport: Venezuela charm offensive. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
1230-1245 #NewWorldReport: Good News Argentina. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
1245-100 am #NewWorldReport: Promise for Paraguay. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. Good evening. This is John Batchel. The show begins tonight in the |
| 0:34.3 | markets. The markets are not concerned about the reports of drones over New |
| 0:39.6 | Jersey. The markets traded as if that story was as entertaining as it was irrelevant to the markets. |
| 0:47.7 | The markets are waiting for the Federal Reserve to make an announcement in 24 hours that the |
| 0:53.8 | interest rates will be reduced to quarter point or not. |
| 0:57.6 | And the reason for it or not, Mr. Powell will speak, and that will be the end of the year for the Federal Reserve. |
| 1:05.6 | Having raised the interest rate to 5.5% and then having reduced it to if there's a quarter point |
| 1:12.7 | reduction tomorrow, one full point in the year 2024. |
| 1:17.5 | 2025 is an unknown, undiscovered country. |
| 1:23.5 | Syria, speaking to Jonathan Shanzer, |
| 1:31.2 | the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy about Syria. |
| 1:34.7 | Al-Qaeda. It's pure al-Qaeda. |
| 1:37.6 | That's who is running Damascus. |
| 1:41.5 | The State Department and other governments are in contact, according to the reports, with al-Qaeda. |
| 1:49.3 | Our jihad is someone you can trust to govern a nation that's torn apart, where millions of people have fled, |
| 1:57.0 | where the resources are minimal to non-existent. |
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