Jan 26 2012
Today’s episode of Coffee & Markets features Darryl Hart discussing his book From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American. PejamanYousefzadeh and I spoke with Hart about how conservatism was being undermined by the evangelical movement, how a post-evangelical community may not necessarily be identified with the Republican party and more.
Jan 11 2012
UPDATE: Sorry, here is a direct link to the podcast.
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by Peter Schweizer to discuss his book Throw Them All Out detailing how politicians get away with insider trading, sleazy land deals and more.
Dec 7 2011
Today’s edition of Coffee & Markets features Daniel J. Flynn author of Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. Pejman and I spoke with Flynn about the very different cultural expectations we experience today, the specialized focus of education, and move away from blue collar intellectuals.
Nov 30 2011
FYI: In today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, I am joined by Pejman Yousefzadeh and Hunter Baker to discuss the eventful and impactful books we read in 2011; including autobiographies of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condeleza Rice; the growth of the church in China; The Hunger Games series and more.
Nov 23 2011
On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and I are joined by James Rickards, author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis. We discussed why the Federal Reserve is wrong to keep interest rates at zero, concerns about inflation, and the need for increased regulation of American banks.
In 2008, Rickards, an investment banker with extensive experience in hedge funds, was invited to participate in a seminar sponsored by the Department of Defense, which examined the safety of U.S. sovereign wealth funds in the case of economic warfare. As Rickards explains, “Sovereign wealth funds are huge investment pools established by governments to invest their excess reserves.” He participated in further seminars that addressed the impact of futures markets, derivatives, and more, on strategic commodities such as oil, uranium, copper, and gold. Rickards’s first book is an outgrowth of his contributions and a later two-day war game simulation held at the Applied Physics Laboratory’s Warfare Analysis Laboratory. He argues that a financial attack against the U.S. could destroy confidence in the dollar. In Ricards’s view, the Fed’s policy of quantitative easing by lessening confidence in the dollar, may lead to chaos in global financial markets. Possible strategies for dealing with such a situation include a return to the gold standard. Though the book will no doubt interest policymakers, even non-experts will be rewarded for their efforts
