Worsening Wealth Gap To Trigger A Class War? | Peter Atwater
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
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There's an old saying in investing: The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Why is that?
Well, it has a lot to do with how humans make decisions. It's not alway -- or even often -- rational.
And today's expert, behavioral economist Peter Atwater, adjunct professor at William & Mary College, has long affirmed that changes in confidence consistently and predictably impact investor preferences, decisions and actions.
He's out with a brand new book, The Confidence Map: Charting a Path from Chaos to Clarity, that shares a groundbreaking framework for making better decisions -- in investing and in life in general -- by understanding - and mastering - confidence.
We'll also ask him what his key confidence indicators are telling him about the prospects for the rest of 2023.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Peter’s current assessment of the global economy and markets.
4:50 The speed of sentiment shifting.
10:27 Risk of a recession.
17:10 Markets and the lag effect.
24:54 How dependent is the economy on the top?
30:26 How do you think this trend gets reversed?
37:09 How capitalism is vulnerable to protests.
44:03 Vulnerability vs. confidence.
52:22 Where the problems are and where the opportunities are.
57:51 Advice for investors in the markets.
1:01:22 Red hot and ice-cold assets.
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We’re already in a class war.
Why do you think the song “Rich Men North of Richmond” went viral? It’s simply an acknowledgement of the ongoing class war.
My class hasn’t really figured it out yet.
Yes socialism class vs people who give a crap!
We've been in a one sided class war for decades. I quit complaining about a decade ago when I realized that my friends weren't upset because they had no savings. They only had debts. As long as they were allowed to continue borrowing to support a lifestyle they couldn't afford they thought everything was fine. We may have finally reached the end of that road.
Yes but it isn’t called one until the rich are losing.
If we think of our economy as a game of Monopoly, we are at that point in the game where one player has most of the hotels, homes, railroads etc. and that one person is lending money to the other players only to keep the game going a bit longer. However, we know that the game is over.
I've the same thoughts.....along with throwing popcorn at the winner....then a swirly
@@jetstream3528popcorn and swhirlies? Most everybody I know flips the board and scatters it to the wind.
That's right. Until the one seeing the game for what it is and stops playing.
Then it's saying "great game and let's get back to living our lives"
Extremities always return to base, as base always goes to extremes...
The People have choices to make though
@@rickvisser1986 Let me know when the revolution starts.
The game can't be over. I don't have to win but I can't lose.
I'm currently living in the hopelessness. I have no debt I'm penny pinching for groceries and gas. Picking up all the overtime I can at a dead end job. Trying to figure out a way out investments. Trying to figure out a better job. I apply 2 jobs every two weeks nothing for a year. Meanwhile I see people with amazing looking lives. And all I want is a home a family and healthy income. I'll sovel shit with a smile if I can get those three things. For fuck sake when will corporations say they have enough. So some of us can mabe start small business without going into mountains of debt.
Your not alone, trust me. We "the working class" are getting mad about this.
I hear your hopelessness. All I can offer is the concept behind "early retirement extreme" posited by a guy named Jacob. Basically, the idea is extreme efficiency with a modest income as a means to financial freedom. You sound like you have the fortitude to pull it off. Good luck!
@@GuyIncognito764The days when that strategy was effective are long gone. Go ahead, place all the responsibility and blame on the individual, instead of the corrupt
system that has obviously served your patronizing self so well.
Class war has already been on going for 40 years, but only one side has been fighting. That does need to change.
Yours is one of the more cogent comments here, except, I’d recon it’s been closer to 400.
And which side is that? If you are talking about party lines then I’d say both have been partaking in a money grab not caring about the societies that they have destroyed. Congress is just one big money laundering operation that put on a facade as a government body for the people. They mask all the money making schemes that don’t include the very people funding those schemes, the American tax payer. They have use the law industrial complex to remove ordinary Americans access and if access is gained, limit the damage it can do to the money laundering machine. A critical mass of wealthy and power men have lost their moral compass and therefore there will be no righting of the ship to save ordinary Americans from their financial destruction fate.
Warren Buffet said class war is over, and his class won.
50 years ago my parents told me that Americans would only rise up when the middle class was wiped out. We'll see.
Educated parents
Good one, my parents told me the Tooth-fairy puts money under my pillow.
At the same time, the female population never before had so much money in the entire history of mankind.
My parents taught me nothing, to busy being poor and working.
@@Braun09tvThat's because women are raising children alone. So we have been purchasing homes at twice the rate of men. The majority of wealth is in a person home.
Notice the amount of men posting Harley Davidsons online. That's a wealth drain ....
Love a guest with a professional grade mic! 👍
Regarding elon I think he should have kept some of those employees given the distatourous thing with DeSantis and the rebranding among many other issues not least of which is the burning of 27 billion dollars but he's a genius right. Yea him and trump
I am angry that my hard earned salary is being robbed from me by inflation theft of my purchasing power. We have a crime syndicate running the show courtesy of federal reserve, banksters, and politicians in their pockets.
Taxation is how they keep that racket going, by not allowing the workers to feel confident enough to revolt.
Did you protest the helicopter money during the germ scam ?
His point about the Taylor Swift concert tickets is spot on. Nose bleed we're going for $2,000 to $3,000 per ticket. I told my daughters that they would have to wait for her retirement tour in order to see her.
wow, this was recorded before the release of "Rich Men North of Richmond" and when I saw the title of this vid I thought maybe it was titled with that song in mind, consciously or unconsciously. This supports Peter's notion that we are at an inflection point.
@@derek4412 i think about it everyday
Frankly, when the banksters were let off the hook after the 2008 financial crises, I remember a friend and myself discussing how we were surprised there was no violence. Those banksters should have been prosecuted and thrown in prison.
Yeah, I think this is it till 2040 or so.
I agree! We lost our home during that time. The second mortgage we we given was adjustable and not sustainable. We got it because our broker did funny math regarding self employed income. So many people were allowed to act badly and the world (except corrupt politicians & bankers) paid for it!
The class war has already begun! It's the workers vs. team C-suite.
And the workers are getting crushed!
Because no one is doing anything. You have to act not just comment here.
Perfect timing for this conversation,thank you both
I agree. Are you alluding to Oliver Anthony's viral song?
thinking the same@@trailguy
He is a very good thinker. Thanks Adam!👍 I especially appreciate the Thermal Pie chart concept.
You get such good guests Adam. Loved this!
Thank you so much!!
Brilliant interview! Loved Peter's views
Thank you both for a fantastic interview!
There is no 'wealth gap'. There is only opulence, and deprivation.
A tremendously important and poignant discussion. And foreboding.
Whether economically or socially, America is not on a positive trajectory. The difficulty is we somehow became a nation that believes if a small portion of the country is doing well- then very little else matters. This is a wealthy country that could resolve its homelessness, could secure its borders, mitigate the crime in our cities. Unfortunately we became a country where Taylor Swift is more important.
That is the impression USA carries.. it is a wealthy country.... but it is not, services provided to its citizens by Govt are not comparable to its European counterparts; yes, it has a rich corporate world, rich one-percenters, and an enviable standard of living provided by the cheap Chinese labour. In fact, its citizens cannot support their Govt in USA, there would be a civil war (90% people vs Govt) the day USA Govt dares to ask its citizens to pay for its Govt expenses... Govt in USA meets its expenditure through Debt... yes, citizens pay taxes, but only the poor and middle class, rich and super rich pay much less, and the nothing from the one percent... whatever they pay, they take more than that from Govt in one form or another.
Taylor Swift has fuck all to do with it. The problem is the Federal Reserve. The problem is that Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. If a nation doesn't control the issuance of its own currency that nation is a slave nation.
Thanks for bringing back Peter! I can understand his language!
An excellent video. Thank you.
Fantastic interview. I really enjoyed Mr. Atwater, what an intellectual. His cold rain and a strange ride was spot on and kudos to you Adam for the follow up describing the observation with different spectrums, excellent. I truly enjoyed every minute of that conversation.
The cold rain also hit me. It seems undeniable. Signs abound. How the economic machine works in 30 seconds.
AMAZING topics and direction!!!! awesome how the discussion was more behavioral/emotional rather than numbers/statistics
Great show ! I couldn’t agree more .
This guy is solid; great interview
Atwater was very great, satisfying, and encouraging. Thanks, Adam, for this!!
Really fascinating discussion.
I am definitely buying his book.
The more I listen to these experts on behavioural finance/ economics the more I like it. Thanks Welthion for bringing these experts to us in a rather obscure domain where common sense is actually so deceiving!! The 5 Fs theory kept reminding me of Oliver Anthony's song.
Great video right on the point.
Great interview on how our society is deeply affected by economics. Thanx Adam!
This was a very insightful interview. These subjects are probably more important get your head around than the typical dollars and cents topics that are most talked about on this channel.
When you called our system capitalism, it made me think neither of you have read Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith or Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. Our money is no longer free market derived. Government contracting is approximately 17.5% of GDP and there is $4.3 trillion currently on the table for various government programs to be paid out to government contractors. If this isn't a clear-cut result of the merger of State and Corporate powers, as Mussolini characterized as Fascism, I don't know what is. The Fasci, as I like to call the commercial interests, and their crony Hillionaires in the bureaucracy, have instituted over 125 different taxes, regulatory fees, fines, and penalties, making it almost impossible for the average person to get ahead and many stats show this to be irrefutable. It's surely not by coincidence.
As an example, the Fasci, using the MSM and Government Officials, including the WHO have been pushing dangerous and ineffective vaccines, using by force, coercion, and fear on most of the entire world, racking in $billion in profit. This is not capitalism. Have you noticed all the airline pilots that are coming up "unwell" as one MSM outlet called the recent Airline Captain that just died during his flight from Miami to Peru, or the 40% increase in all case mortality in working age 18 to 64 as well as increased disabilities. Between the vaccines, overdoses and suicides, no wonder people filing for unemployment is low and everyone who wants a job has one, and yet companies are still looking for employees.
Incredible podcast !
I'm so glad to finally hear someone talk about all these higher end goods/services and ponder how it stays afloat. For years I've been watching the same thing and wondering who can afford it and what these people are doing for a living. You'd think we were a country with a very strong middle to upper middle class, but that's decidedly NOT the case anymore.
Thank you
Excellent Excellent interview.
Great interview!
Thanks guys! Great show
Peter Atwater super interesting and articulate. Would love to hear more
From him.
Great interview! Thanks
Some good insights here.
Excellent discussion & interesting perspectives and analogies…I look forward to the next one with this guest!
Great show 👊👊👊
Great interview
It was an awesome interview. Thank you Adam and thank you Peter.
Thank you very much...
Adam very enlightening discussion you had with Peter Atwarter. The haves versus the hace nots..
This is hilarious 😆 for the first time, I hear the majority talk about unfairness the way minorities used to.
Great interview. :)
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is still watching this very informative content cheers Frank ❤
Be careful gentlemen,we are living in a time of desperate 🙂 risk
Again timing is powerful
There's a great rage building - and the perpetrators will pay the piper before the end.
Brilliant interview
EXCELLENT
Fascinating
Blessings
Awesome
great interview. :)
You’re right about that statement about appreciation. Just read the book tales of two cities and that tells it all
Do you remember the 99% movement? " Banks got bailed out, we got sold out."
+1 on the "I may as well vote for the guy who gives me stuff". It's going to suck no matter what. We may at least have healthcare, transit and things for the public good as opposed to just praying to god that the 1% some how decides to trickle it down to everyone. The trick is to get it balanced, you need to farm the socio paths for enough to make society better, but still let them create wealth lol.
The sociopaths already have a plan in place to sell you that they will try to convince you does just that. It’s called “you vill own nossing, eat zee boogs, live in zee pod, have no privacy, no individual opinions, etc etc and be happy.” Its everything that Oliver Anthony sang about the Rich Men North of Richmond, “they want to know what you think, know what you do”
there should be a small transfer or sales tax on transactions of stock, which would not have much effect at all on individual investors, would not be punitive to large state retirement holdings that mostly buy and hold, but would be carried mostly by the machine trading systems that go in and skims value off stocks every day, sometimes multiple times per day. Carried interest should end. There are already IRS rules requiring you to claim any money acquired through full time work, as income, not as capital gains. The billionaires do not pay their fair share, and want to dictate social benefits the poor and middle class both pay for and rely on.
That's about to end. People are getting fed up. It's coming. Can't you feel it?
As a real estate person, I know it's important to understand this. Even if things are unsure, learning and being flexible can help us do well in different situations. Nice video!
I've come across several people talking about catering to the top 1%. One was a handyman who I found extremely offensive on how he spoke about the middle class.
A sprinkler biz owner wants $1700 to swap 6 valves that cost $20 each
@@maplenook I run that kind of service business. Here are some of the costs:
-Permit fees and taxes.
-Diesel at $4.90/gallon.
-OSHA and State compliance costs which require accounting fees.
-Attorney fees to ensure compliance with various levels of regulation.
-Insurance costs to deal with the possibility of phony lawsuits.
-Wage costs that are rapidly rising with inflation.
Don't like it? Do the work yourself.
I love the words this guy makes up, "dedeposit",circularity", hillionair"
The hillionair is a great one
I don’t think he made up the word Hillionaire. It’s been in the media lately referring to people like Mitch McConnell and Diane Feinstein.
Yes, I agree with@Tess7798. I've heard "hillionaire" in other podcasts to refer to rich politicians.
They continue to make up rules and words to try and scare Yet they cant play fair They are insecure little BSErs that never grew up
In a high interest rate environment, it makes sense to turn to the big companies with tons of cash. Amazon or Apple don't care if interest rates are 6%! It's the smaller, leveraged companies that are being hit.
How do the markets daily fall limits break or accelerate the speed created by instant communication?
Great bison starling analogy
None sense. We have been in a class war for decades. The working class withheld their labor for better wages and the upper class imported workers. As inflation went up and more and more workers had to ask for wages, the upper class moved over seas. Now, as America is no longer the greatest market, the labor force can no longer buy. The average American knows that if we leave for a different country, we are labeled as a traitor, yet the upper class can move overseas and set up shop in another country without being labeled as traitors. The double set of standards that the upper class has been shown to the American masses and the average sober citizen can see it and we have no faith in the fairness of the system any longer.
Excellent episode and like to see more like this and Fourth Turning!
Hahah “from one frail bony hand to another” 😂 I love it Adam.
I had pointed out the same thing 1-2 years back (on other media outlets) - US uses bonds + taxation model as a model for neo-slavery.
As in :
1) the repayment of US treasury Bonds would be made by the next generation from their labour and taxes, while the present lot is spoilt with spending. And they keep printing and renewing the Bonds repayment date endlessly. The endless renewal is basically exporting slavery, in its most undisguised form. Someone ultimately has to pay for it from their pocket, for the spending they never did.
2) the US is exporting inflation by selling Fiat dollars to the external countries. They simply print and export currency, while the others move their hard-labour goods and services to the US in exchange for printed paper. Leading to shortage of goods and services in their countries. That is exactly what ‘exporting inflation’ is designed to look like.
I am happy that the US media outlets are bonkers at these 2 observations since last several months.
This would not have been the case with a gold-backed dollar. This situation arose because the Fiat dollar is based on “in god we trust” … in other words, it is based entirely on public confidence.
Alas, ‘once fooled twice shy’ goes the saying.
This present capitalist model is precisely at the heart of all restlessness among the common folk.
I agree with this entire statement except that line at the end... this present model is literally not capitalism, it is crapitalism. Capital as defined by the accumulation of real wealth in instruments that have real value has been replaced by the human fecal matter known as T-bills, government debt from a government that has no ability to pay said debt back.
Mises said such nearly 100 years ago
I didn’t know about the work of Mises. I had arrived at this conclusion on my own.
Indeed he did opine on similar lines, it appears. But he still never modeled it on debt slavery.
And I don’t think he spoke about exporting inflation, in any case.
@@ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs - thanks for the feedback. It was valuable.
@@harshavandu Interestingly, Jefferson advocated for a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution in his letters with Adams, based on the idea that each generation is in a sense its own nation and that no nation has the right to take a debt that another nation must repay. I don't recall the word "slavery" specifically, but the idea made was similar.
See also, from 2750 years earlier, Proverbs 22:7 "The borrower is a slave to the lender."
Great! Another book on my must buy list. At least I know why Amazon has bounced. :)
Thank you Adam and Peter for one of the most thought provoking discussions I have seen on UA-cam in a very long time.
Great interview and insight. I really appreciated this interview. Thank you to Mr. Atwater for opening my mind to new perspectives!
Very good. Just the depressing truth.
Correct compliance is more likely
"Though the enemy was approaching Moscow, the Muscovites were not inclined to regard their situation with any greater degree of seriousness; on the contrary; the matter was treated with peculiar lightness, as is always the case with people who see a great catastrophe approaching. At such a time, two voices are always heard speaking loudly in the heart of man: the one, with perfect reasonableness; always preaches the reality of the peril and counsels him to seek for means of avoiding it; the other, with still greater show of reason, declares that it is too painful and difficult to think about danger, since it is not in the power of man to foresee everything or to escape the inevitable course of events; and, therefore, it is better to shut the eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think only of what is pleasant. When a man is alone, he generally gives himself up to the first voice, but in society, on the contrary, to the second. This was the case at the present time with the inhabitants of Moscow. Moscow had not been so gay for a long time as it was that year."
--- from WAR AND PEACE, by Leo Tolstoy
I'm getting better at advancing through these long winded questions to get the valuable content.
Thanks for the work you put into these videos, Adam. I can't wait until the S&P is at $2000, and us Wealthion guys can get into great companies at discount prices!
What’s the title of Peter Atwater’s book?
Adam a great interview. Your programmes are a joy to listen to and help to understand our complex economic environment. Thank you 🙏
function is a powerful word
Spot on about the telegraph scenario I knew this would happen as soon as the Internet came on board just like the pilgrims when something happened everybody in the colony knew it instantly and that’s the way it is today with the Internet and social media
In 2008 there was an uprising of the populous, called Occupy Wall Street. The issue was the elite started introducing racial politics and everyone fell apart.
WEF: you will own nothing and be happy! Their wish is coming true. More corporations will continue to purchase homes and rent them out and increase the rent without renters having a reasonable choice. So done!! 😮
Basically the moral to the story is we have to become energy self-sufficient we have the natural resources to survive on our own We need leaders that perform so let’s do it
I listen to those on the bottom (I used to live in a Violent, Poor CA city)
Increase repetition of the following:
1. Hatred of Capitalism/Tear it down
a) Communism is the answer ( I am sure they are sending their message on a smart phone which would never have been invented w/o capitalism)
2. Hatred of Business
a) Example: People actively in favor of stealing from Home Depot
3. Hatred of people with Money
a) Get rid of all those high end stores in San Francisco so the people on the bottom can take by SF
4. Shoplifting is just fine, because they're just making a living
The market is extremely narrow and bubbled up, suggesting a sharp correction and perhaps a fall. But this is countered by excess investment liquidity and the chase for yield, which suggests an arsenal of funds coming in to buy the dips. A true bear crash will require shock and fear, like a black swan.
very good smart
"if we stand in the cold rain long enough we'll get in the car with anyone." Way to give all those serial killers a new idea to find new victims. 46:20
This guy has a great sixth sense for the market.
Gosh @Wealthion, you've really got to follow up on Peter Turchin. He modells all this stuff mathematically, using historical data
Good
In fact, a 4th Turning as described by Neil Howe.
A grounded view of financial reality. The speed of the forthcoming crash will take 95% of investors off guard. .
Again after this risk , natural leadership,will bring beautiful future
Once you understand the back story of the French Revolution of 1789, you can easily understand ALL of the themes of the last 150, 100, 50, but particularly last 25 years, in America.
You won't have to wait that long. As soon as Americans can no longer afford to drive their cars... Look out.
You should play this interview with Oliver Anthony playing on loop in the background
There is an easy way to rebalance the wealth distribution without confiscating wealth: Tax policy. Phase out all investor tax breaks. Wealthy people do not need them. Over time, the wealth would trickle down to all Americans vs the current handouts to those that are savvy enough to exploit/contrive/legislate tax breaks for themselves. Phase out the capital gains tax rates. Phase out investor tax breaks on home ownership. Level the playing field so that everyone plays by the same rules, rather than wealthy people getting advantaged rules, and non-wealthy people getting punitive rules.