(#401) The $20 Trillion Elephant in the Room

As posted to the David Stockman YouTube Channel on 9/15/18

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David Stockman is interviewed at the 2018 Sprott Natural Resource Symposium to discuss the great $20 Trillion elephant in the room which he explains is the Balance Sheets of all of the Central Banks of the world “in excess of what it probably should be in a rational, stable, historically prudent world”.


David Stockman is a former businessman and U.S. politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan and as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan.  He is the author of a number of books including “The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America” and, most recently, “Trumped! A Nation on the Brink of Ruin . . . and How to Bring it Back”.  His current content can be found at davidstockmanscontracorner.com,

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