Category Archives: Banking

Where will this Economic Chaos lead to? (With Kevin Lynn)

Baby Boomers, Banking, Barack Obama, California, capitalism, China, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Environment, Federal Reserve, George Bush, Globalization, Immigration, income inequality, Independent Political Candidates, James Howard Kunstler, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kevin Lynn, Leftism, Libertarianism, Oil, Oligarchy, Peak Oil, Peter Turchin, Peter Zeihan, Police Corruption, Police State, Political Parties, Politics, Progressives for Immigration Reform, Republican Party, Ross Perot, Russia, Silicon Valley, Taxation, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Urbanism, Wall Street, War, Water, Wealth, Zoning

Robert Stark talks to Kevin Lynn about the dire implications of economic data and trends. Kevin Lynn is executive director of Progressives for Immigration Reform and founder of US Tech Workers. Follow Kevin on Twitter.

Topics:

Examples of gaslighting on the economy,  Redefining the definition of recession and declaration of a “Vibecession”
How the economic bullishness and bear rallies in stocks show the degree of disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street
The “Baking” of the Jobs numbers report and inflation data
The beginning of mass Tech layoffs
The super bubble to end all bubbles
Kevin’s article If You Thought the NIMBYs Were Bad – Meet the YIMBYs
Revisiting the pandemic stimulus and how only a fraction of stimulus went directly to the people
Federal Reserve policy, Biden’s “Inflation Reduction” Act,” and vulnerabilities of the dollar
Speculating worst case economic scenarios (deflationary depression, long-term stagflation, real estate crash, and debt crisis)
Geopolitics crisis, supply chains issues, global conflicts and civil unrest
The Fourth Turning theory and Peter Turchin’s method of measuring cycles of crisis
The political implications of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar a Lago
Kevin’s observations from attending the recent CPAC conference in Texas on the political currents

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Poolside Over Politics with Anatoly Karlin

Afghanistan, Africa, Alt Center, Anatoly Karlin, automation, Banking, Basic Income, censorship, China, conformity, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, coronavirus, Corporations, Crime, cryptocurrency, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Human Bio Diversity, Immigration, income inequality, India, Islam, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Republican Party, Ron Unz, Russia, Transgender, Vladimir Putin, War, Zoomers

Robert Stark talks to Moscow based blogger Anatoly Karlin about his resignation from the Unz Review, current events, geo-political trends, and revisiting political predictions from past podcasts. Check out Anatoly’s new Substack: Powerful Takes and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

The Last Reaction: Why Anatoly is returning to his roots as an independent blogger
Anatoly’s assessment of Biden’s presidency
The continuation of countering China as part of  the US foreign policy consensus
The post-pandemic economic recovery, the inflation scare, and risk of crash due to financialization
The pandemic as a test run for UBI and zoomers demanding higher wages
The pollicization of vaccinations (anti-vaxxer Red Tribe in America and Anti-Putin Communists in Russia)
The minimal impact of covid lockdowns on fertility trends and why Anatoly predicts that Germany will have a higher fertility rate than India by 2050
The US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Why Anatoly embraces The Great Reset but thinks its overhyped
What to expect out of the Woke Culture War
Why Anatoly predicts Biden vs. Trump in 2024, with a Biden victory
Why American politics  are no longer of a concern since Anatoly returned to Russia

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Robert Stark interviews Apex about Systems & Agency

aesthetics, Afghanistan, Alt Center, Alternative Right, American Culture, Apex, Architecture, Banking, capitalism, Cities, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Consumerism, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Distributism, Diversity, Donald Trump, Economics, education, History, Immigration, Imperialism, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Managerialism, Marxism, materialism, Morality, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychology, Radical Center, social capital, Social Isolation, social trust, Socialism, Third Way Economics, Urbanism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark and Apex talk about Systems, Pan-Enclavism, and the Alt-Center. Apex is a former leftist from a landless North Eastern Native American Tribe, and loosely part of the Post-Left/Post-Right sphere. He describes himself as the “Cartographer of the Simulation and the Architect of Post-America.” Subscribe to Apex’s Substack and follow him on Twitter.

Topics:

Why the Left are Hyper-capitalists
How we can embrace certain leftwing social policies while rejecting the philosophical framework
Systems and Agency
Why All Politics are Identity Politics
Robert’s Proposal for a New Alt-Center which offers a counter-argument to the slippery slope fallacy and O’Sullivan’s First Law with core philosophical principles
Why There is no such thing as a “Private Company” and why The Right is No Home of Mine
Distributism, Adam Smith’s critique of absentee ownership, and why market power matters more than supply and demand
The huge and confusing gap in theorizing power structures
The viability of alternative institutions such as in finance and education
Pan-Enclavism: the case for communal self-determination as a bulwark against mass homogenization
Post Americanism: embracing America as an internal empire
Politics as a cope: The LARPing will continue until morale improves

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Robert Stark interviews Jose Luis Feliciano

aesthetics, Alt Center, American Culture, Architecture, Art, Banking, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Cities, Class, Conservatives, Corporations, Crime, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Elon Musk, Futurism, Immigration, Jose Luis Feliciano, Mass Transit, Millennials, National Futurism, Nationalism, New York, Police, Political Correctness, Politics, Prison, Race Relations, Radical Center, Republican Party, Retro Futurism, Silicon Valley, social capital, Suburbia, Taxation, technology, the New Right, Transhumanism, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Jose Luis Feliciano about his new Radical Centrist Futurist Political Platform. Jose Luis Feliciano is a New Right Labor Nationalist, Futurist, Space Nerd, and Marine vet of Puerto Rican decent. Follow Jose on Twitter.

Topics:

Political polarization and the need for a pragmatic forward thinking big tent vision
Jose’s Grand Plan to build walkable aesthetically pleasing communities: “life should be exciting and beautiful”
Funding the arts for a new American Renaissance
The decline in fertility and Pro-Family Pro-Natalist solutions
Rightwing multi-culturalism with Platinum Plans for all
Hispanics Souring on BLM?
The need for economic policies that foster innovation with a return of manufacturing, progressive corporate taxation, debt relief, and school choice
Criminal Justice Reform
Jose’s long term plan to create a political caucus and grassroots organization for the platform
The political barriers to populism, the establishment’s corrosion of both Trump’s and Bernie’s movements, and Jose’s winning strategy

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Robert Stark interviews Pinky Culture

2020 Riots, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alt Center, American Culture, Andrew Yang, automation, Banking, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, censorship, Class, Coach Black Pill, Communism, coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Despair, Donald Trump, Economics, Gender, Huey Long, Immigration, Incels, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Loserdom, Media, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, New York, Oligarchy, Pinky Culture, Police, Police Brutality, Police State, Political Correctness, Politics, Radical Center, Sexuality, social capital, Social Isolation, Social Media, social status, Socialism, The Black Pill, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Wall Street, Wealth, welfare state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to New York based vlogger Pinky Culture about GameStop, social and economic trends, AstroTurf politics, and populism. Check out Pinky Culture on YouTube and Twitter.

Topics:

Pinky’s political compass.
What the GameStop short squeeze exposes about our economic system
How the Great Reset is just late stage capitalism
Patriot Act but woke
Jimmy Dore calls out AOC
Andrew Yang’s campaign for New York mayor
The Black Pill philosophy
Tucker Carlson on the incel economy
Pinky’s videos on the racepill and agepill
Populist icon Huey Long

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Robert Stark interviews Dutch Vlogger Faust

aesthetics, American Culture, Archeofuturism, Architecture, Art, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automation, Baby Boomers, Banking, Basic Income, Black Lives Matter, Calvinism, capitalism, censorship, Cities, Class, Classical Liberalism, coronavirus, Corporations, Culture, democracy, demographics, Distributism, Donald Trump, Economics, England, Eugenics, Europe, European Nationalism, Faust, Free Trade, Freedom of Speech, Germany, Globalization, History, Identitarianism, Immigration, Imperialism, income inequality, Middle Class, Millennials, Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Netherlands, New Urbanism, Oligarchy, Police, Police State, Political Correctness, Political Parties, Politics, Psychology, Retro Futurism, Skyscrapers, social capital, Socialism, South Africa, Steampunk, Suburbia, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, Urbanism, Wealth, welfare state, Zoomers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Dutch Youtuber Faust about Dutch politics, economics, and geo-politics. Faust has an English language political channel, a Dutch language channel Dietse Bazuin, and you can follow him on Twitter. Faust is the publisher of an arts and history magazine that is also called Dietse Bazuin.

Topics:

Advocacy of a Germanic Union as a geopolitical alternative to the EU
The historic rivalry between the British and Dutch
The debate about the origins of capitalism (the Germanic Rhine model of capitalism vs. Anglo/American shareholder capitalism)
Thoughts on Dutch populist figures Geert Wilders  and Thierry Baudet
Faust’s critique of the welfare state and advocacy of building up social networks and economic niches as the solution to economic problems
The impact of American Imperialism on Europe and why Faust wants to disassociate from the American movement
Thoughts on the civil unrest in America, the politics of crisis, and America’s slide into neo-feudalism
“Ok Boomer” – a right wing meme turned left
Faust’s Dutch video on South Africa: Solidariteit met Afrikaners
Archeofuturist Architecture
The impact of architecture and urbanism on psychology and social capital

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Robert Stark interviews Presidential Candidate Brock Pierce

automation, Banking, Basic Income, Brock Pierce, censorship, coronavirus, Corporations, Drugs, Economics, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Independent Political Candidates, Politics, Prison, technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Brock Pierce about his campaign for president. Brock Pierce is a former child actor, cryptocurrency and technology entrepreneur, and humanitarian. You can also follow him and his campaign’s updates on Twitter.

Topics:

Why Brock is running for president
The recent independent presidential debate at the Independent National Convention.
How the system is rigged against independent candidates
How Brock would handle the pandemic and economic crisis
Proposal for a Universal Earned Income
Economic innovation, alternative lending solutions, and de-centralized finance
The dangers of the US losing it’s World Reserve Currency Status
Regulation of big tech and censorship issues
Blockchain voting
Re-legalize nature, end the war on drugs and for profit prisons
Ballot access and long term political plans

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Robert Stark talks to Ron Unz about America’s Fall

2020 Riots, American Culture, American Exceptionalism, Banking, Black Lives Matter, California, capitalism, censorship, China, Class, College, coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, education, Elections, Globalization, Healthcare, Immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, Media, Millennials, Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Peter Turchin, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Ron Unz, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, War, Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Ron Unz about how the pandemic exposed America’s deep-seated corruption and how we might witness the nation’s fall. Ron Unz is a theoretical physicist, and editor of the Unz Review, and a past candidate for California Governor in the 90’s and more recently for  US Senate.

Topics:

Recap of Ron’s Top Issues in past California U.S. Senate Race
The Unz Review as a big tent of important, interesting, and controversial opinions from both the left and right
The abysmal handling of the public health crisis
The looting of the treasury by politically connected corporations under the CARES ACT bailout and loan guarantees
How America could lose it’s status as the World’s Reserve currency, which would expose how poor Americans have become
The irrationality of our nation’s leaders provoking a conflict with Russia and China
The end of meritocracy and Culture of Corruption in the US
The iconoclastic cultural revolution as a product of our elite universities
The debt crisis and siphoning off of wealth from our economy
The contrast of America’s inefficiency with China’s handling of the pandemic and infrastructure projects
Woke Capital
Why California has avoided the worst of the civil unrest impacting much of the nation
Tech Censorship: how The Unz Review was banned from Facebook and de-ranked from Google
Ron’s thoughts on the motives for tech censorship

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Robert Stark interviews Scott Tungay

2020 Riots, Academia, aesthetics, Africa, American Culture, Architecture, Banking, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, capitalism, China, Christianity, Cities, Class, Classical Liberalism, Conservatives, Consumerism, coronavirus, Crime, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, education, England, Environment, Globalization, Healthcare, Immigration, Leftism, Liberalism, Libertarianism, localism, Media, Nationalism, Nature, Neoliberalism, New Urbanism, Overpopulation, Political Correctness, Politics, Race Relations, Religion, Scott Tungay, social capital, social trust, Socialism, South Africa, Southern Agrarians, Suburbia, The American South, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Urbanism, Usury, Wealth, Wilderness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Scott Tungay about the current situation in South Africa, the ongoing riots in America, and his views on social capital, land use, and wealth. Scott is originally from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and immigrated to Kentucky to be with his American wife. He blogs at Department of Winning, has a Youtube channel with his wife Kelli, and is also on Twitter.

Topics:

Scott’s background, like many English South Africans, growing up believing in the Rainbow nation narrative and classical liberal values
How immigrating to America lit a nationalist spark
Scott’s passion for homesteading and Permaculture
Scott’s admiration for conservationist Wendell Berry and the Southern Agrarians
How Scott is currently stuck in South Africa which has one of the most draconian Lockdowns in the world
How the lockdown could be used as a power grab by the ANC, with businesses foreclosing, and a planned expropriation of White property
Why South Africa will fall, like Yugoslavia | With Scott Tungay by Willem Petzer
Different scenarios for South Africa, including a partition into smaller nations, Chinese intervention, and why a Rwandan scenario is unlikely
How most White South Africans are looking to emigrate
The ongoing riots in America, and why Scott thinks America is 20-30 years away from where South Africa is now
The media narrative about race relations, divide and conquer strategy, and long term un-sustainability due to economic breakdown
The failure of conservatism, and opportunity for a Third Position that is localist, anti-usury, and anti-globalist
The missed mashup that could have happened between Bernie and Trump
The Back–to-the-land movement and New Urbanism as alternatives to the commercial squalor that destroyed small town Americana
How the lockdown proves the value of family and community over the corporate rat race
Economic Class Dynamics: The significance, slave, and survival economy
The importance of aesthetics: how beauty elicits care
The limits of meritocracy: how future economic survival will depend upon one’s In-group

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Robert Stark talks to Paul Tripp about his proposal for a Green New Right

Africa, Alternative Right, American Culture, Asia, automation, Banking, capitalism, China, Cities, Class, Conservatives, coronavirus, Culture, demographics, Donald Trump, ecofascism, Economics, education, energy, Environment, Eugenics, Feminism, Gender, Global Warming, Globalization, Immigration, income inequality, IQ, Leftism, Liberalism, Literature, Nationalism, Nature, neo-tribalism, Neoliberalism, Overpopulation, Paul Tripp, Post-scarcity economy, Richard Dawkins, Socialism, Suburbia, the New Right, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Urbanism, Usury

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Stark talks to Unz review writer about his proposal for The Green New Right. Paul is also the author of Psionism.

Topics:

Paul’s critique of the Left’s handling of environmental issues
The focus on carbon emissions and the degree to which climate change is responsible for habitat loss
The Left’s focus on the West while ignoring ecological devastation in the developing world
The Left’s lack of concern for overpopulation in the developing world while telling Westerners to reduce their birthrates
Mass immigration’s impact on ecological footprints
Education, IQ, and Fertility
The need for rural revitalization for the new green economy
How sustainable agriculture would need a much larger and higher skilled workforce
The mainstream right’s neglect of environmentalism
How economic nationalism and tariffs would help end the exploitation of resources by global capitalism
The environmental origins of the coronavirus pandemic
The problems of a consumption based economic model
Why profits should be based upon reciprocity
One-Third of American Workers Pay Is Being Stolen. Here’s How
The decline in workers’ purchasing power
Why the Financialization of the economy is a bigger issue than labor supply
Paul’s book Psionism about rejecting an imposed mono culture in favor of neo-tribalism

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