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“Whoever controls oil, controls much more than oil.” John McCain Is the US losing its ability to control oil? Watch us on YouTube Visit our website for all our resources

This week on Looking Backwards: Japan stuck in the past, housing market downwards, Google: headwinds, and Paul (Nancy) Pelosi selling its stocks a month before antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant This week on Looking Forward: the US and China in trade wards - Chip vs. Solar, Fed rate decision today, oil's silent price increase Watch us on YouTube Visit our website for all our resources

A look at California's historical weather Watch us on YouTube Visit our website for all our resources

This week on Looking Backwards: New Zealand PM quitting, and the protests in Peru. This week on Looking Forwards: threats that could hinder China to become a superpower, the US hitting the debt ceiling, and Brazil-Argentina discussing creating a common currency.  Watch us on YouTube   Visit our website for all our resources

Robert Duvall is Hollywood Royalty. It's true.  

This week on Looking Backwards: Alibaba's investment plan in Turkey, Biden's handling of classified documents, and Brazil riots. This week on Looking Forwards: Lignite mine demonstrations in Germany, South Korea selling arms to UAE, and Japanese bond market turmoil.  Watch us on YouTube For all our resources, go to cthomasprinter.com

Who is in control? The FED? Or the bond market? C Thomas walks us through two opposite views of Jeffrey Gundlach and Zoltan Pozsar.   This week's financial tip: Buy a piece of capital that you could use for its utility.  On this date in history: US Airways flight 1549 flew into a flock of Canadian geese  Also born on this date: The original lead vocalist for the southern rock b...

These days on our planet: the US House finally having a speaker, the Japanese increasing their support for nuclear, declining European inflation, US December CPI Inflation awaited, and Silvergate being hit with $8bn in crypto withdrawals. Listen to our LBLF (Looking Backwards Looking Forwards) show right away because we want you to be the most informed person in your room. YouTube

“You Americans, how can you understand horror?  To you, horror is having a bathroom outside the house.  You’re from a country so rich.  Even your wars are rich wars, big guns, big airplanes.” Here we talk about how relative money and wealth, and even inflation is, and therefore our word of the week is perspective.  Financial tip: pay off your credit card debt from Christmas spe...

These days on our planet: Biden accusing oil companies -again-, Brazil markets sinking, Australia house prices tumbling, Tesla missing market estimates of quarterly deliveries, California combating with natural disasters, low-income households of UK to receive new cost-of-living payments.   Listen to our LBLF (Looking Backwards Looking Forwards) show right away because we want you t...

A perspective on what awaits us in the new year: Elon's empire on the brink, oil price-supply&demand, geopolitics in China-Taiwan issue, other regional hostilities: Belarus-Ukraine, Kosovo-Serbia, and India-China, another potential hotspot: Ghana defaulting on its debt, and finally the big question mark: housing market. And a final look into last year: 2022 - Bubble of genius.

"We got a long way to go and a short time to get there".  Our perspective on the new year continues: $545bn in interest in the $1.7tn congressional bill, $31tn US federal debt, pension funds at risk, and threats to the US Dollar's reserve currency position.

Join us as we go through the news of the year's last week: Bank of Japan surprising the markets, Biden bailing out a pension fund through pandemic response package, the House failing to ban stock trading for the Congress, Uruguay's global ambitions shaking up Mercosur, China and Covid hitting headlines again, and housing market softening in the boom locations. 

We would like to thank you all for tuning in each week whether on our blog or here on the podcast and hopefully we have been a positive addition to your lives in the past year. Your C Thomas Printer Cooperative Podcast 2022 wrap , brought to you with love.

Somewhat muted news flow this week. But we still found news that make C Thomas angry. EU's gas price cap, US Midwest mayors looking for Chinese investments, Toyota president saying silent majority questioning EV-only push, ESG fund managers' frustration with the regulators, Big Short Burry seeing similarities between crypto and 2008 crisis, US Senate banking chair floating possibility of banning c...

Jerome Powell's difficult task: taming inflation in the midst of a record deficit. 

This week we discuss $30bn Saudi & Chinese deal, US & Russia prisoner swap, UK approving a new coal mine, Italy, Japan, and the UK teaming up to build a fighter jet, and British government looking to ease financial rules. Head to our blog cthomasprinter.com for these selected news details.  

Our traditional Sunday episode is being released on Saturday this week as we talk about today's Army-Navy Football Game and the notion of honor. 

This week we talk about Indonesia putting 100-island archipelago up for auction, and wanting to create an OPEC-like organization for Nickel, Xiaomi aiming to sell 10 million electric cars annually, China's comprehensive relationship with Latin America, and nuclear energy gaining popularity. 

The transition from the gold standard to the petrodollar. Thank you, US military. 

Argentina, the land stretching down the east side of South America and conjuring images of cosmopolitan cities, grass fed beef, Malbecs, the flat Pampas, and the mountainous Andes. It is a country full of abundant resources yet for the last century Argentina has been an interesting case economically because it could be argued that they have lost their way.  In this final part, we talk about s...

News that caught our eyes this week were Russia claiming there has been another sabotage attempt to its gas pipelines, Ghana planning to buy oil with gold instead of US dollars, Norway postponing oil and gas licensing round, China's covid zero protests, rail strike in the US, yield curve inversion reaching an extreme. 

We continue our discussion on the US Dollar's future as the reserve currency. On this episode we mention world's previous reserve currencies, how they started and ended. We then once again talk about the decision to stop the US Dollar being backed by the gold. 

This week we look at Elizabeth Holmes, Trump running in 2024, Bobs of Disney, Cap on Russian oil prices, how far Fed would go, and the World Cup. 

We remember executive orders and government acts that demolished gold from being the backbone of the US currency. The question we now have is what if BRICS countries decide to turn back to gold, what happens?