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  • Ben Hunt: Direct Personal Action: Covid-19 Masks: (Front Line Heroes)

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    Eric it’s not gonna stop then at some
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    point in this crisis I know things kind
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    of something snapped for you because we
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    got to the point where the government’s
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    basically not doing anything terribly
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    productive I know at one point I was
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    actually following a story where there
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    were paramedics in New York City
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    dumpster diving behind the hospital
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    looking for n95 masks because nobody had
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    their act together they weren’t able to
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    order the right ones at some point
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    something snapped for you and you just
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    heard about this stuff and you said I’m
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    gonna take personal action to get n95
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    masks into the hands of the people in
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    the front line who need them
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    tell us what is front line heroes but
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    more importantly how did it come about
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    and what was your experience I mean
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    you’re you’re a very comfortable finance
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    guy with a great career great reputation
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    I’m sure you never imagined yourself
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    starting a charity before this all
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    happened something happen for you and
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    all of a sudden everything changed tell
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    us what that was like you know what what
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    clicked for me Eric is that
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    I’ve been railing about our our trickle
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    down economy for so long right where
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    where the the policy fiscal policy
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    monetary policy particularly it’s really
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    designed to support what I like to call
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    the the naked sinews of power and it
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    really comes to a head in a crisis where
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    you reveal that this Pleasant skin of
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    democracy and capitalism that that we
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    all believe in and and once so
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    desperately for ourselves and our
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    children it’s it’s just a skin right and
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    then underneath it are all these
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    policies which are designed to prop up
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    and bail out and support the status quo
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    wealth and an economy of the of the very
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    wealthy and the very politically
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    connected and what really clicked for me
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    in this this come in nineteen crisis was
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    it’s the same thing with medical
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    supplies its trickle down its trickle
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    down Eric where the very well-connected
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    the very politically connected the crony
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    capitalism that we see in in our economy
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    it’s the same thing in our health care
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    where you know supposedly we have these
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    millions of n95 masks that are
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    stockpiled and unavailable and yet like
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    you there are there are horror stories
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    of doctors and nurses and EMTs and in
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    firemen and policemen and first
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    responders who are forced to put not
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    only their own lives but when you talk
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    to the to these these heroes right what
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    they’re really concerned about is
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    bringing this risk home to their
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    families and that’s what they are forced
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    to do in this trickle-down system we
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    have not just for wealth but for medical
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    supplies for protecting again we call
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    them frontline heroes the the doctors
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    the nurses the EMTs the firemen who are
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    who are responding who are fighting this
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    war for us so that that’s what clicked
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    you know what
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    snapped in me Eric was was to to find a
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    way not to compete with the federal
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    government and FEMA and the state
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    management authorities right not to try
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    to buy a million in 95 masks and drive
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    up the price and you know do all that
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    which is a real problem but I’ll be
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    damned if I was gonna wait for FEMA and
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    these state emergency authorities to
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    find the time to trickle down masks to
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    the to the people who need them so
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    desperately so that was that that was
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    the I say the inspiration for for our
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    effort and I’m gonna I want to plug it
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    right now right it’s frontline heroes
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    usa.org all one word frontline heroes
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    usa.org and though the way it came about
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    was this is the the crazy world we live
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    in right Eric we’re where social media
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    is both horrible but he’s so many ways
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    but it’s also wonderful at connecting so
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    many people I got a Twitter DM from an
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    epsilon Theory reader who works for
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    Intel and he said you know look we’ve
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    got we’ve got a ton of employees intel
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    does over in China and I reached out to
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    a couple of my friends over there you
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    know they can they can buy these these
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    in 95 equivalent masks they’re they’re
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    pretty they’re plentiful over there in
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    China you know they’re not that
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    expensive and so I’ve had a couple of
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    buddies to go online order some in 95
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    masks ship him over here to me and you
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    know a bag of a DHL bag of like a
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    hundred masks and then I’m giving them
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    to a local hospital or clinic that that
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    really desperately needs them he was
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    calling from he reached out from
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    Portland Oregon where you know obviously
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    the in the early days there was a lot of
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    need for the for this equipment
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    okay so listeners who want to help get
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    personal protective equipment in the
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    hands of our frontline heroes
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    by going to frontline heroes usa.org
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    they can make a donation on the website
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    that directly results in effectively I
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    don’t want to say this too bluntly but I
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    want to anyway bypassing FEMA and all
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    the of the federal government
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    and actually getting the stuff to the
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    people who need it right now that’s what
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    we’ve done Eric we’ve we’ve created an
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    end-to-end distribution system where we
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    are not only able to buy and source
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    these masks where they are plentiful and
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    where they are cheap which is typically
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    over in China we’re getting them in
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    small quantities we like to call it like
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    an underground railroad of PPE we get it
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    over here to the States we get it tested
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    at a at a Medical Center to make sure
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    we’re getting quality merchandise and
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    then we are getting it directly into the
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    hands of the individual doctors and
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    nurses and EMTs who then distribute it
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    to their teams we can’t get ten thousand
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    or a hundred thousand masks to a
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    hospital system that’s not what we’re
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    about
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    what we’re about is getting a hundred
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    masks 200 masks to a clinic in
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    Indianapolis to a hospital in New
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    Orleans all around the country we’ve
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    been able to make these direct
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    connections with these frontline heroes
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    who are in actual urgent need of this
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    equipment to date we’ve raised over
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    seven hundred thousand dollars
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    we have bought and distributed over
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    60,000 in 95 equivalent masks to more
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    than six hundred individual clinics
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    hospitals EMT departments you name it
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    all across the country and I gotta tell
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    you Eric we’re just getting started man
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    we’ve got a lot of entrepreneurs and
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    business people in our audience I hope
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    that your actions will inspire some of
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    them to think about what kind of charity
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    they could create what what words of
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    either motivation or advice would you
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    have to someone who’s considering doing
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    something like
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    maybe they’ve figured out a different
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    way that they’d like to help our
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    healthcare heroes or someone else
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    through this crisis well the the first
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    recommendation I have is just do it just
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    do it right if you’re waiting for
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    someone to organize you if you’re
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    waiting for someone to give you
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    permission you know that’s that’s what
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    we’ve been so ingrained and in custom to
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    that that’s what that’s what government
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    in big corporations that’s what they do
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    to you they make you think you you can’t
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    act unless you are being led or
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    organized by them and so my the first
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    thing and the most important thing I’d
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    say is that’s a crock you just get up
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    and you just do it you just do now when
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    it comes to actually raising money right
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    and it is important I think to operate
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    under the the 501c3 framework both to to
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    take in donations and and have it you
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    know enjoy that that tax advantaged
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    properties of it which is really
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    important but even more so it really
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    enforces and requires an element of
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    oversight and documentation that that is
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    so important when when money’s involved
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    now to establish a 501c3 from scratch is
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    pretty hard takes a lot of it’s not hard
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    it takes time what we were able to do
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    and I think what what many of your
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    listeners will be able to do to to
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    really I’ll say formalize this and to
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    get it started as a as a registered 501
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    C 3 is to find an existing 501 C 3
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    charity and in your community your
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    organization and partner with them to be
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    a program or initiative of that existing
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    501 C 3 organization so somebody who’s
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    already got the IRS letter designating
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    them as a 501 C 3 piggyback on them
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    partner with them and use their IRS
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    letter correct that’s that’s exactly
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    what we did and I think it’s a way to
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    get these programs up and moving more
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    quickly than
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    the delays in the red tape from from
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    getting your own 501 C 3 designation I
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    think it’s important to have that
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    designation and to have the oversight
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    and controls that that requires but I
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    also think that you can move more
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    quickly if you find an organization in
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    your community an existing 501 C 3 that
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    you can work with man I can’t thank you
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    enough for a terrific interview before
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    we let you go your epsilon theory
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    newsletter is one of the most popular
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    and one of the most fascinating in the
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    industry tell us briefly about that and
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    where’s the website and Twitter handle
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    so people can find out more sure well
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    it’s easy to find it’s epsilon Theory
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    comm and on Twitter it’s at epsilon
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    Theory you know it comes from the old
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    investment equation of alpha and beta
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    there’s a third term on there called
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    epsilon and usually you know epsilon is
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    efore error but honestly Eric that’s
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    that’s where all of the behavioral
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    economics lives that’s where all of I
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    think narrative lives we call it the
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    error term but I think there’s a lot of
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    information there so that’s epsilon
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    theory calm and at epsilon theory on
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    Twitter I thought you were gonna tell me
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    the e is for extraordinary monetary
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    policy and fiscal balance sheet
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    expansion a fantastic reading though and
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    in great insights so I highly recommend
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    it to our listeners we’re gonna leave it
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    there
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    Patrick’s our resna and I will be back
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    townsend and Patricks resna eric goes
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    great to have been back on the show what
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    did you take away from the interview
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    well I thought the most important thing
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    that he said which echoes something I’ve
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    said before is the one thing that you
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    really almost have to get at least
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    mostly right in investing is you’ve got
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    to have a view on whether we’ve got a
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    backdrop which is deflationary or
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    inflationary or maybe it’s in between
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    and and you have a moderate view but you
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    got to have some kind of view because
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    the investments and the way you
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    structure your portfolio is either gonna
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    work or not going to work based on that
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    and I think we’re headed for a secular
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    shift that I don’t know Ben doesn’t know
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    none of our guests have been willing to
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    really you know put a stake in the
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    ground and lay out here’s what’s gonna
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    happen
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    because I don’t think anybody knows
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    what’s gonna happen but all the
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    ingredients are there over the next few
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    years for deflation to eventually end
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    and give way to inflation and I think
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    that the politics are gonna play a big
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    role in this we’re seeing all of the
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    different political parties seeming to
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    favor more what effectively is
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    monetization and you know it’s it’s
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    interesting how each of our guests have
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    different views on this we got a few
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    emails about dr. Lacey hunt making such
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    a big deal saying look the Fed doesn’t
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    have the ability to spend money all that
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    they can do is to loan money and provide
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    liquidity into the market and that’s all
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    based on this idea Patrick that when the
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    government engages in deficit spending
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    the Fed is not directly buying that debt
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    instead
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    it’s being sent and there’s you know
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    free market price discovery occurring
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    because a private sector party is buying
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    that debt from the government and that
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    allows the interest rate to be set at
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    market rates and the Fed is not allowed
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    to buy that debt directly from the
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    government well if that’s the whole
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    intention of the Federal Reserve Act but
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    in practice the way it works is that
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    debt has to get sold to a private sector
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    banker who is going to turn it around
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    two days later and sell it to the Fed at
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    a markup that that’s not you know
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    private-sector market price discovery
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    that’s just a sham that allows the
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    primary dealers to mark up what they’re
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    buying and sell it back to a guaranteed
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    buyer of the Fed who’s effectively
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    monetizing I don’t really agree with dr.
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    hunt and other people who say that the
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    Fed can’t spend money there they’re
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    indirectly doing so by working around
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    the intention of the Federal Reserve Act
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    and I think they’re already doing that
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    to a large extent anyway let’s get to
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    the postgame chart book Patrick you put
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    together another terrific chart Dec
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    listeners you’ll find the download link
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    in your research roundup email now if
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    shame on you you can remedy that by just
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    going to macro voices.com and looking
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    for the red button on the homepage that
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    says looking for the downloads Patrick
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    let’s go ahead and dive in here on page
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    two this looks like a chart of the S&P
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    but you got a bunch of other secondary
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    studies around the S&P what’s going on
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    here right so what we had was the sp500
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    we’ve been drawing on analog of what a
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    bear market would look like and going
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    through all sorts of storylines over the
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    last month but what what I really wanted
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    to touch on was what’s a growing thing
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    in the market is that everyone’s
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    focusing on the big behemoth stocks that
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    have been running like Amazon fresh new
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    highs and all these other mega cap
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    stocks that have been running and it’s
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    been driving the Nasdaq and when you
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    look at the Nasdaq which is the black
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    line on there we can see that it we
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    almost approach
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    the pre bear market high and really the
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    bigger question to ask is how did the
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    Nasdaq pull this off and what’s really
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    amazing is is that it’s just a handful
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    of stocks so when you look at the five
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    mega cap stocks the largest market
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    capital I stocks in the NASDAQ and the
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    S&P 500 and they just have a monstrous
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    weighting into the indices so in the
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    sp500 those five stocks make up 20% of
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    the weighting so that means the other
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    495 stocks in that index make up the
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    other 80% and therefore as go those
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    stocks goes the whole market and what’s
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    interesting is that when you look at the
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    indices that don’t have the market cap
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    weighting of those five stocks it paints
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    a much different picture so what I have
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    here is the Dow Jones which is price
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    weighted then you have the London
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    footsie in yellow you have the emerging
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    markets you have the Euro Stock 50 as
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    well as the Russell which is the small
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    cap indices and what you can identify
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    here is that once you take out those
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    five mega cap stocks the indices look
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    incredibly weak everywhere in the world
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    and this is what I continue to believe
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    is giving us the evidence that this is
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    still truly a bear market and a bear
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    market rally just because you have
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    enough market participants willing to
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    crowd into a few of these mega stocks
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    and drive their prices higher is not
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    really reflective of the underpinning
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    conditions from a breadth perspective
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    that of a very deteriorated equity
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    market once you leave those five stocks
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    and so to me it’s still a bear market
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    rally and it’s still rolling over
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    we’ll see certainly next week once we
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    get past the option expiration gamma
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    pins whether or not another round of
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    selling may be coming into June moving
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    on to page three Patrick looking at the
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    euro versus the dollar
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    boy this charts looking a little bearish
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    I guess you could call this either a
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    descending triangle or a wedge depending
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    on how you draw around that that late
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    march bottom there what do you make of
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    this well really you turn this chart
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    upside down and you got the dollar index
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    right and what’s amazing
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    a dollar index still has such a huge
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    waiting into the euro of 57% waiting and
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    so really as goes the Euro goes the
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    dollar index and so what we can
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    continuously see here over the last
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    month and a half every attempt the euro
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    has had to rally and make it stick it’s
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    lasted no more than a week and almost
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    immediately the selling comes back down
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    and and brings it right to the bottom of
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    the range and it’s just such a weak
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    price action now all you need is it’s
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    like a the euros at the edge of a cliff
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    and all it needs is someone to give it a
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    push and if it loses its footing here we
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    could be seeing a euro move down to 105
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    or 103 which would certainly be the
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    underpinning catalyst that will drive
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    the Dixie up towards that 104 target
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    that you’ve often referenced and so this
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    is a the must watch chart in my mind and
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    it has so many global macro implications
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    if it gives out so this is probably a
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    single big the most important chart to
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    watch in my opinion but I really don’t
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    want to highlight further if we go to
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    page 4 when we look at the dollar index
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    it really feels like the dollars been
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    doing nothing but really once you leave
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    the euro and you go and start looking at
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    the rest of the currencies around the
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    world and particularly when you move
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    into the emerging market currencies you
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    can see just how incredibly weak all
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    those currencies have been relative to
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    the dollar whether you go to Mexico
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    Brazil Argentina and the Russian ruble
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    here you have the South African Rand and
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    the Turkish lira all just so incredibly
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    weak and that just continues to support
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    that there is a fundamental US dollar
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    bull market underway and it’s being
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    disguised by the fact that the euro has
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    been pinned which makes the dollar index
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    look like it’s far more range bound but
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    I actually think the US dollar is in
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    full bull trend and in it’s just a
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    matter of time before the Euro gives out
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    and succumbs to that predominant trend
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    Patrick let’s move on to page 5 one of
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    my favorite charts of course is gold and
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    boy look at that breakout we’ve seen
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    just in the last couple of days all for
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    sure and and you were talking about it
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    and this is the big question right when
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    everybody is so convinced gold
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    going higher usually whenever you have
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    that kind of a strong sentiment usually
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    it means that the trade is crowded in a
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    backfills and so that and that storyline
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    makes sense but but you know when you
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    really look at the conditions around the
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    world and the size of the gold market is
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    it possible that it just keeps you know
    75:15
    punching higher and and making fresh new
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    highs I mean we’re right now only a
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    hundred or two hundred dollars away from
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    those 2011 highs it’s it will be really
    75:26
    interesting whether or not gold makes
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    the next push higher first before that
    75:30
    much awaited consolidation kicks in well
    75:34
    and that’s something I’ve been thinking
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    about a lot is maybe that’s the next
    75:38
    move is up to 1922 I think was the the
    75:42
    2011 that’s from memory so don’t don’t
    75:44
    hate me if I got it wrong folks we get
    75:47
    back to the the 2011 high and that’s
    75:50
    where we have a significant technical
    75:53
    correction maybe back down to 1500 or
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    1400 or something from there the
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    problems with this you know look that
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    you couldn’t ask for better long-term
    76:03
    fundamentals you know that the
    76:05
    politicians are gonna debase fiat
    76:07
    currency you know they’re gonna keep on
    76:09
    printing money to deal with the
    76:11
    coronavirus crisis and the next thing
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    after the coronavirus crisis is going to
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    be universal basic income in the various
    76:18
    social programs that some parts of the
    76:21
    the political economy would like to see
    76:23
    in place there’s got so many reasons to
    76:25
    be bullish but the problem is everybody
    76:28
    knows that and what propels a bull
    76:31
    market higher is when something causes
    76:35
    people to make new purchases and a lot
    76:39
    of them what could be the policy impetus
    76:42
    Patrick that causes everybody to say
    76:44
    okay this situation it’s more bullish
    76:46
    than we thought we got to double down on
    76:48
    our gold bets right here at this price I
    76:50
    mean look at what the Fed has already
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    done Patrick literally unlimited
    76:55
    monetary policy accommodation to the
    76:58
    tune of half a trillion dollars a week
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    or at least it feels that way and you
    77:02
    know for a while we were going a couple
    77:04
    trillion dollars a week in new fiscal
    77:07
    spending bills that Congress is talking
    77:09
    about push
    77:10
    you know that they’re going to debase
    77:13
    the value of paper money and it’s got to
    77:15
    be good for gold but how do you top all
    77:18
    of that how do you come up with the next
    77:20
    news report that makes the case even
    77:23
    more compelling it’s already priced in I
    77:26
    think that’s what got us up here so what
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    happens Patrick if the Fed actually were
    77:30
    to show some restraint and maybe
    77:33
    moderate the amount of policy
    77:35
    accommodation and what if we stopped
    77:37
    having two trillion dollar spending
    77:39
    announcements from the government every
    77:41
    week or two then maybe we get you know
    77:44
    the set up so we’ve come on awfully long
    77:46
    ways we’re overdue for a technical
    77:48
    correction I still feel like it has to
    77:50
    come at some point but boy this chart
    77:52
    still looks awfully strong the this
    77:54
    descending triangle if it had resolved
    77:56
    to the downside was the setup for maybe
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    a really significant correction and it
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    looks like it’s not happening we’re
    78:02
    resolving to the upside instead well you
    78:05
    know the one thing I’ll add to that
    78:06
    those I mean you took a very American
    78:09
    approach to that which is like looking
    78:11
    at what the Fed itself is doing in the
    78:12
    US dollar obviously is the world reserve
    78:14
    currency but the whole world is in an
    78:17
    incredibly deep recession and there’s
    78:19
    going to be a lot of currency debasement
    78:21
    in in almost every country in the world
    78:24
    and so why you know even if there might
    78:27
    be a catalyst that may not have that
    78:29
    gold demand from the US you have to
    78:31
    still think that that the the safe haven
    78:34
    element of gold will be incredibly
    78:36
    popular especially in a lot of those
    78:37
    other cross currencies anyway let’s move
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    on to page six where I just wanted to
    78:43
    touch on uranium we don’t talk uranium
    78:45
    too often and rightfully so riga rana
    78:48
    has been a stuck in a bear market for
    78:50
    many many years
    78:51
    and what is interesting is one of the
    78:54
    reasons behind that has been because
    78:56
    there was an oversupply and they needed
    78:58
    to work that through that oversupply
    79:00
    uranium that has caused it to trade
    79:03
    below its actual production cost and so
    79:07
    what what this co vid has done though is
    79:09
    is that it actually shut down a number
    79:12
    of mines and now the catalyst for that
    79:14
    supply to be worked off is actually
    79:17
    there and so we saw a pretty bullish
    79:19
    breakout in uranium and they’ll be
    79:21
    really interesting to see whether the
    79:23
    bull
    79:23
    can not only hold this or whether this
    79:26
    actually is the beginning of a new bull
    79:27
    market in uranium so it’s certainly
    79:29
    something we’re watching and folks don’t
    79:32
    forget Patrick does webinars with charts
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    79:43
    we wrap up the show though why don’t you
    79:45
    give us a quick update on what’s going
    79:47
    on with the kovat 19 you know I don’t
    79:49
    have that much new to add this week as I
    79:52
    continue to learn and read more about
    79:54
    this there’s no you know huge
    79:57
    earth-shaking headline or anything but I
    80:00
    just see more and more evidence that all
    80:02
    piles up to me to say this is gonna take
    80:04
    longer than markets are discounting I
    80:07
    don’t mean the economy is gonna stay
    80:09
    shut down but the expectations so many
    80:11
    people have about a v-shaped recovery
    80:13
    and we’re back to normal like pre virus
    80:15
    normal you know three or four months
    80:17
    from now I just don’t see it happening
    80:19
    there’s no good reason to assume that
    80:21
    there’s going to be a vaccine for this
    80:24
    and there’s so many different variations
    80:26
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    80:29
    if we did have a vaccine it might not
    80:31
    cover all the different versions of it
    80:33
    it could take many years before we get
    80:35
    completely back to normal and of course
    80:37
    we’re going to restart the economy what
    80:40
    we’re gonna get is close to normal as we
    80:42
    can but it remains to be seen how much
    80:45
    of a drag this creates and I I really
    80:47
    love to to get Stan Druckenmiller on the
    80:49
    program to go into more detail on what
    80:52
    causes him to say that maybe this
    80:54
    central bank enabled credit bubble is
    80:57
    finally going to pop and this would be
    80:58
    the catalyst to do it that would really
    81:01
    change everything and we could be
    81:02
    looking at an outright depression so I
    81:05
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    81:07
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