John, thanks for joining the Guelahara Geopolitics podcast.

You were a financial trader and analyst.

You currently write for various publications and are the author of numerous books, the latest

being The Money Bubble co-authored with James Turk.

Is there anything that I'm missing?

Well, hi, Professor Moritz.

It's great to talk to you.

And no, no, you're not missing anything.

There are a few other things, but that's enough to make the point that we'll be talking about,

kind of gloom and doomy stuff today.

And you run dollarcollapse

dot com as well yes yes um so let's see the last time we tried to talk the power went out and

today you were having problems but finally uh we're here um you know i was really impacted by

the money bubble which was a book I introduced with my students.

And it's really great because it was written in a concise way that was to the point, very easy to understand.

And I read a number of economic texts and some are just torturous.

So I thank you and James for providing this great analysis.

Well, thanks. I'm glad. I'm glad it was useful for you. Yeah. Our goal was to make it as accessible as possible.

And you're right, it's not always easy to do that. A lot of these concepts are really hard to explain without bogging down

in technical terminology. And so that was our challenge, is how to get a lot of us across without

throwing out so many words that are unfamiliar to the average reader that they just put the book down.

I think we do have a couple of chapters in there that had that effect,

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