Max and Stacy are joined by Alasdair Macleod of Goldmoney.com for his hard money pitch as a solution to many of the global economic and monetary woes causing societal unrest (from Occupy Wall Street to the Yellow Vests) and despair (like the more than 75,000 annual opioid overdoses in the U.S.). They discuss gold as a unit of account and what that would look like. They also examine the newly popular Modern Monetary Theory whereby the government can print money for the people rather than just for bankers, and why this could lead to more problems requiring urgent solutions. They also discuss an end to globalization and how that might restore national economies.
Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist.
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall Street where he began working after graduating from NYU.