Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, 2nd generation money manager, CEO of McAlvany Financial and the McAlvany Group of Companies https://mcalvany.com/, author and host of the popular McAlvany Weekly Commentary https://mcalvanyweeklycommentary.com/, David McAlvany. David's new book self help book, The Intentional Legacy, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Intentional-Legacy-David-McAlvany/dp/1943217432/ David McAlvany has been doing the McAlvany Weekly Commentary podcast about investing, markets and precious metals for a decade now with one new episode each week released on Wednesday. During this interview, Jason asks David about many interesting topics about the global economy including: 1) Central bank balance sheets- Can central banks like the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC meaningfully reduce their balance sheets without crashing asset prices and causing another global financial crisis? 2) Will further rate hikes by the Fed eventually break something? 3) What are the February 2018 VIX spike and the spike in LIBOR spread signaling? 4) Is Warren Buffett a hypocrite for betting a hedge fund manager that the S&P 500 would outperform 5 of the best hedge funds? Warren Buffett- Why is the investor who made billions off market inefficiencies making and winning a bet with a hedge fund manager that indexing will outperform the best hedge funds? Why does Berkshire Hathaway have a record hoard of cash? 5) Carmen Reinhart interview- Do you think the economic and political elites want to hijack block chain technology and use it to implement things like a cashless society and negative interest rates? 6) China credit bubble & China/US trade war- How bad is the Chinese credit bubble and do you expect the US vs China trade war to continue to escalate? 7) 1 year of President Trump- What has he done good? What has he done bad? 8) Gold- Have you ever seen gold sentiment levels this negative in the US among retail investors? Please visit the Wall St for Main St website here: http://www.wallstformainst.com/ Follow Jason Burack on Twitter @JasonEBurack Follow Wall St for Main St on Twitter @WallStforMainSt Commit to tipping us monthly for our hard work creating high level, thought proving content about investing and the economy https://www.patreon.com/wallstformainst Also, please take 5 minutes to leave us a good iTunes review here! We have 33 5 star iTunes reviews and we need to get to our goal of 100 5 star iTunes reviews asap! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/wall-street-for-main-street/id506204437 If you feel like donating fiat via Paypal, Bitcoin, Gold Money, or mailing us some physical gold or silver, Wall St for Main St accepts one time donations on our main website. Wall St for Main St is also available for personalized investor education and consulting! Please email us to learn more about it! If you want to reach us, please email us at: [email protected]