Peter McCormack is a British podcaster, filmmaker, and football club chairman. He is best known for hosting the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which has over 1.3 million monthly downloads. McCormack is also a vocal advocate for Bitcoin and has written extensively about the cryptocurrency. In 2021, McCormack purchased Real Bedford Football Club, a…
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Chatter #291 – Patrick Lovell on Wall Street & The Fed: It’s Not Rocket Science, It’s Racketeering
Patrick Lovell started in Hollywood balancing working inside the machine while pursuing an Indy writing career. After a TV show he was working on collapsed in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Patrick began to look deeper, eventually going on to produce The Con… In the gripping original five-part docu-series The Con,…
Chatter #275 – Dr Susanne Trimbath – The Splividend: Could GameStop Escape From The DTC/DTCC?
Dr Susanne Trimbath returns to the podcast to discuss the madness that has surrounded the GameStop stock split/stock dividend/splividend. The fuckery at the DTCC/DTC and the apparent wrongful distribution of the shares made me wonder whether GameStop could escape from the DTC and remove their shares from the NASDAQ. So I decided to…
Chatter #210 – Prof John Turner and Dr William Quinn – Boom and Bust: A History of Financial Bubbles
Professor John Turner and Dr William Quinn of Queen’s University Belfast were my guests on today’s show. They are the authors of the recent book, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, which has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, and the Irish Times, and…
Chatter #157 – Professor Antony Mueller On Inflation, Fiat Money, And The Impending Market Crash
Antony Mueller, Professor of Economics, contributor to many economics publications including American Institute for Economic Research and the Mises Institute, and the author of the book series “The Great Financial Crisis of 2008”, was my guest on today’s show. In his second appearance on my show I wanted to get more of his…
MMT It’s Time To Face The Music
Over the past few decades and increasingly more so in recent years, there has been a new economic school of thought emerging on the left: Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT. The idea has been supported by Stephanie Kelton (a former advisor to Bernie Sanders) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in the US and John…
