Alternative Visions

What's behind Japan and the US Treasury intervening to buy Yen? Will Japan join China in dumping US Treasury bonds? Who'll make up the loss this time? What it means for the US deficit and Fed interest rates.The AI bubble: more evidence of fragility as competition intensifies internally and from China. How China's openAI and Deepseek AI model is destabilizing the AI market. Show concludes with...

A Greater Eurasian War? + latest US GDP and AI bubbleWhy the Iran and Ukraine wars are leading to a merging of the conflicts and a 'greater Eurasian war'. Iran and Ukraine 2026 are not unlike Spain and China 1937. Today's show discusses at length the latest developments in both the Iran and Ukraine conflicts and why they are both escalating. Why Iran and Russia have given up on negotiations with...

Scenario for US Economy 2026-28 + Updates on Iran and Ukraine Escalations Today's show focuses on likeliest scenario for US economy under Trump's remaining term, including Pentagon and total US war spending, non-defense spending cuts, deficits, national debt, interest payments on the debt, tariffs, inflation, Fed interest rates, financial markets, real GDP and wages, and likely forecast of...

Today's show focuses on the Neocon/Trump strategy to escalate the war with Russia. Why the August 2025 Anchorage agreement between Trump and Putin was just a PR event. And why Trump's MOU with Iran last month was also just a tactical deception as well. The Empire's two forever wars now continue. What's behind the recent gains by Social Democrats in recent Dem party primaries and how both the Dem...

Today's show reviews the recent 'deal' announcement for ceasefire in the Iran war. What's a 'deal'. This is just an MOU, an outline of items to be negotiated over next 60 days. A framework for negotiation. Is it the beginning of US retreat from middle east? Why did the regime change fail. How do regime change ops succeed? Why not Iran. Takeaways from the 'deal'. Economic fallouts for US:...

A detailed look at the latest May inflation and jobs reports. What's behind the legacy media headline reporting? What US oil CEOs are saying about global oil supply and prices. August jobs adjustments coming. Hourly wages trends. AI and stock bubbles' volatility continuing. AI threats to cyber security. Latest GDP forecasts. Updates to Iran and Ukraine wars deteriorating

Our update on the instability of the private credit financial markets continues as concern spreads to insurance industries now. Regulators start looking at it. Meanwhile, credit card debt rises to $1.25 trillion. How credit cards are linked to private credit. The real unemployment rate after the collapse in the labor force participation rate is considered. Trump's new tariffs. A radical Fed...

Today's show starts with review of latest US GDP, inflation and income numbers showing inflation accelerating and GDP slowing sharply in latest 2nd GDP numbers. Rest of show focuses on dangerous new events in the Ukraine war as Europe pushes drone attacks deep inside Russia and Russia public opinion demands more aggressive action by Putin. Russia warns 'get out of Kiev' as something big coming...

What's happening to bonds in US and global as interest rates surge to 2007 and 2023 levels precipitating financial crash events? Bond markets way bigger and more important than stock markets. Iran war re-escalation expectations by investors, with more inflation and Federal Reserve expected to start raising interest rates again. Consequences for stocks, especially AI bubble. What's impact of...

Trump and an entourage of 2 dozen big US corp CEOs, mostly big Tech, went to China this week. What was it about? (Not Iran or Taiwan!). New York mayor, Mamdani, falls in line with the Democrats. Why no big tax increase on the rich as he promised. Latest on Trump's plan for Cuba regime change. Why Russia may extend war to Europe war production. Inflation vs. wages latest data. US gerrymander wars...