Kenneth Rogoff on the Dollar, Stocks Laugh at Tariffs, Starbucks and Amazon Earnings

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

News, Business, Business News, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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On this TCAF Tuesday, Downtown Josh Brown sits down with Kenneth Rogoff, an economist, Harvard economics professor, and chess grandmaster, to discuss his new book "Our Dollar, Your Problem". They also dive into the current trade war, the dollars dominance, Bitcoin, an independent Federal Reserve and much more! Then at 57:16 hear an all-new episode of What Are Your Thoughts with Josh Brown and Michael Batnick! This episode is sponsored by Betterment Advisor Solutions and Rocket Money! To learn more about Betterment, visit ⁠http://Betterment.com/advisors⁠ Cancel your unwanted subscriptions today by visiting: ⁠http://rocketmoney.com/compound Sign up for The Compound Newsletter and never miss out! Instagram: https://instagram.com/thecompoundnews Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecompoundnews LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-compound-media/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thecompoundnews Investing involves the risk of loss. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be or regarded as personalized investment advice or relied upon for investment decisions. Michael Batnick and Josh Brown are employees of Ritholtz Wealth Management and may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this video. All opinions expressed by them are solely their own opinion and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholtz Wealth Management. The Compound Media, Incorporated, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, receives payment from various entities for advertisements in affiliated podcasts, blogs and emails. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. For additional advertisement disclaimers see here https://ritholtzwealth.com/advertising-disclaimers. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information. Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. See our disclosures here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/podcast-youtube-disclosures/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	Okay, huge show.
1:06.7	This is the busiest week for earnings reports.
1:10.3	And we're going to run down everyone who reported so far and a little bit of a preview
1:15.8	about some of the companies still to come later this week.
1:19.8	Starbucks was reporting while we were recording.
1:22.6	So that one we react to live.
1:25.3	But before we go to, what are your thoughts and all those, all those earnings
1:29.9	reactions, we have a very special guest in the A block. We talk to Professor Ken Rogoff.
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