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But if you'll wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by and now here's your ralph cramden of the airways eric my texas hey folks welcome to the show uh it's a fun variety

show with singing and different acts but today i'm just going to be interviewing a friend of mine, Michael Wilkerson.

Mike, you write frequently, I guess weekly now, at stormwall.

Stormwall.com.

Stormwall.com.

I want people to know out of the gate, stormwall.com. But you've written a book called Why America Matters, the case for a new exceptionalism. I want to talk to you a little bit about that. We've talked about it in the past. It is a magnificent achievement. I have read every word of the book. And it really is an extraordinary book. It's called Why America Matters,

the case for New Exceptionalism. But before we get into that, I just want to talk to you about

some of the things that are going on right now, most of which I don't understand. I hear there's a banking crisis.

I hear that there are problems in the crypto world. Help us understand what you see happening.

You know, absolutely, Eric, by way of background, I spent over a decade on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions advisor, as an investor for another decade, led a public company.

And through this time, I've been watching very closely what's been happening in the economy, what's been happening with money, something that most of the time we don't talk a lot about.

But we're at this critical

inflection point in our history where funny things are happening with our money around the

world. What do I mean by that? We're at a point in time where you recall the 2008 financial

crisis. That was really a crisis where households, individuals were over levered they had too much debt they were in trouble

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