Alasdair commenced his career as a stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange in 1970. In those days, trainees learned everything: from making the tea, to corporate finance, to evaluating and dealing in equities and bonds. They learned rapidly through experience about things as diverse as mining shares and general economics. And quite frankly learning in my view, an on-the-job education is far more helpful in understanding how the world really works than in gaining a PhD. from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge or Oxford. Alasdair is Head of Research for Goldmoney where you can read some of his articles. But he is also a prolific writer on Substack where paid subscribers get far more value than they pay.
Alasdair has been on of Turning Hard Times into Good Times’ favorite guests over the years. In my interview with him taped on October 1, 2024 some of the topics we discussed were the following:
How KGB infiltration into U.S. Universities in order to enact “ideological conversion” of America’s youth to convert them to hate traditioanl christian capitalist ideals. The use of all manner of propaganda was employed during the 1960s using university professors in brainwashing programs not only in the U.S. but in France, England and Germany. The result is now plain to see as the radical left wing of the Democrat party is doing all they can to eliminate the values and structure of the U.S. government to enable the executive to rule over Americans and remove personal freedom of the masses. Alasdair’s comments were based on an interview in the early 1980s with a KGB defector to America named Yri Alexandrovich Bezmenov. You can watch that interview here describing the KGB's ideological anti-west subversion via propaganda in American universities.
A discussion of American propagand regarding the Ukraine as wella s Putin’s plans to expand throughout Europe. Alasdair offers his views on why he thinks expansion of that war may soon be contained.
The resolution of the U.S. debt trap. With neither political party in the U.S. having any desire to stop America’s out of control spending, will American lethality take the form of a hyperinflationary crack up boom or might there be a massive equity market decline that results in a deflationary implosion?
This and more topics are discussed in my 46 minute interview with Alasdair. I hope you enjoy and profit from Alasdair’s insights.
Best wishes,
Jay Taylor
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