Trump Goes After Fed Chair, Markets Pull Back, and A Tribute To Scott Adams - This Week In Capitalism
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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This week in capitalism, Trump goes after Jerome Powell. Could this be related to the capture of Nicolas Maduro? The stock market threatens a pullback, and we lost friend of the show, Scott Adams. We cover it all in This Week In Capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't watch the news to stay informed. I watch the news to look for trends that will affect my |
| 0:05.2 | money and my business. And this week, the president went after the head of the Federal Reserve. |
| 0:11.1 | The S&P 500 hit record highs fueling speculation about a possible AI bubble. And we lost one of our |
| 0:18.0 | friends here at capitalism.com. We'll talk about all of this and more this week in capitalism. |
| 0:23.6 | This week, the U.S. Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, |
| 0:28.6 | and they actually threatened indictment over some testimony that he gave over the budget of some renovations to the Federal Reserve building and the reason why you |
| 0:40.0 | should care about this is because as capitalists who take ownership over the results |
| 0:46.4 | that we create in our lives we should be concerned about the government meddling |
| 0:51.1 | with markets I don't mean to get all political on you, but let's talk |
| 0:54.4 | politics for a second. I happen to be one of those who voted for Donald Trump. I voted for him |
| 1:01.0 | twice, actually. And Jerome Powell was Donald Trump's nominee. And Jerome Powell, say whatever you want |
| 1:09.1 | about him, oversaw a lot of chaos and, in my opinion, has done a fairly |
| 1:15.4 | good job at getting inflation under control. Now, I happen to be a crazy libertarian who remembers |
| 1:21.8 | getting chills on my arms at Ron Paul rallies when people would chant end the Fed. I am not a fan of the Federal Reserve. |
| 1:31.1 | But the reason why this matters is because if you stand for limited government, if you are a |
| 1:37.2 | pro-capitalist thinker, then there should be some concern over the executive branch seizing control of financial markets. |
| 1:47.3 | Overall, you and I believe that we are in control of our financial futures. |
| 1:52.0 | What we do with our money, what we do with our businesses, says way more about how successful |
| 1:58.8 | we will be than what any government does. And so this is why we should |
| 2:04.2 | be concerned when there is an increase in government control, whether that is coming from the |
| 2:08.9 | Federal Reserve or that is coming from the President. But when the executive branch starts to |
| 2:13.3 | meddle with other branches of government, and I would consider the Federal Reserve, the fourth |
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