Inflation’s Heat & War’s Profit Surge

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In today’s Finance U discussion, we delve into the disconcerting trend where global conflicts lead to market boons, challenging our moral compass. Amidst this backdrop, recent data reveals the third consecutive month of rising inflation, contradicting the hope of a tapering trend. The need to interpret these signals correctly for understanding our economic future is vital to building our resilience.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Chris Martinson here, and today we're going to be talking about finance
0:03.9	and economics as part of finance you. Remember, anything that you see in this video and all
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0:15.8	advice. This is for educational purposes. Remember, if you have a financial decision, please
0:20.7	consult a financial
0:21.7	professional. We are not attorneys. We're not CPAs. We are not financial managers as well. We do our
0:28.4	best to be accurate and everything we represent is as accurate as we know it to be. Now, let's turn
0:33.3	to our program. Welcome to this finance university. What is it today? It is the 12th of October again back here
0:41.9	with Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management. Paul, so good to be talking with you today.
0:46.8	Great to be talking with you again as well. Yeah. So, hey, let's start here. I think people need to
0:53.3	know about this. A lot of stuff going on. The
0:55.8	inflation just came in a little hotter than expected today. I want to talk about that.
1:00.0	I'm a little disappointed, again, with U.S. markets, or actually it's global markets now,
1:05.7	where war is good for markets, you know, post this conflict, stocks are up, bonds are up, oil is down, markets uh you know post this conflict stocks are up bonds are up oil is down like
1:14.4	everything you would say that doesn't make sense but of course it does when you live in a world
1:18.2	where the authorities feel like they have to massage every moment so that the markets don't send
1:23.5	the wrong signal like what that the people dying is is not to be cheered is that the wrong signal i don't Like what? That people dying is not to be cheered?
1:29.2	Is that the wrong signal?
1:30.0	I don't get it.
1:30.8	It's bothered me ever since, you know, Desert Storm 1, but it's a thing.
1:34.1	I'm just observing it at this point in time, but it feels gross to me, editorially.
1:39.6	That's where I sit on that.
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