Alex Frangos
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457 appearances
23 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4d ago
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Yeah, they've already sanctioned A7, noticing it very quickly what it's doing.
But there's only so much they can do.
And this is a real sign that the more the US uses its supremacy and international finance through the US dollar and says, hey, we're gonna cut this country off or cut that country off, that's a very powerful thing.
When they did that in 2022, it shook the Russian economy.
But when countries get cut off, they find ways around.
And this is a
classic example of that.
And it's gotten bigger and more sophisticated.
And so it's eroding the influence of the US dollar in a way when you set up this other system to run parallel.
Well, it seems off the bat that the president is using Warsh more as a counselor and someone to chat with about the economy than presidents have in the past.
Generally, a president nominates a head of the Fed, and then the head of the Fed goes off and does their thing, and they have very sporadic stage-managed interactions with the president, all to preserve this idea that the Fed is making independent decisions about interest rates and is not influenced by politics.
But of course, Trump is different and this relationship is different.
And so it seems as if they're having a much more ongoing discussion about the economy.
And he's using him as a smart person, you know, to have around to ask questions of about the
you know, AI, the war in Iran and things like that.
We don't know if there's been discussions about monetary policy.
There's been no public indications that they have been.
No one on either side has indicated that the White House is putting pressure on Warsh, Trump calling him up and saying, hey, don't raise rates.
But we haven't seen that.
Yeah, absolutely.
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