Dr. Alan O'Sullivan

In terms of, back to the US, okay, so I listened to a very good interview that you did with Dr. Roger Black, I think it was, recently.

Yeah, Jeremy Black, yeah.

Jeremy Black, sorry.

And he spoke about how

just like financial markets don't operate in a vacuum, history is always dynamic and it's stochastic, but it's always moving and it's unpredictable.

If then we look at the United States and all of a sudden Donald J. Trump is elected in 2016, but what are the origins?

The origins of Donald J. Trump are...

the neoliberalism of Reagan-Thatcher, I presume, if we go back to that, because I know a lot of people say, well, Trump started, you know, the whole Trump movement was before that, post-World War II, but the manufacturing base actually collapsed during, ironically, during the Reagan, you know, free markets, neoliberalism period, where other countries grew in power.

So just speak, please, Matt, about your interpretation of

You know, the hollowing out of the U.S.

middle class manufacturing and why it's likely, in my opinion, you may differ, that Trump and his ilk are going nowhere.

So that concludes part one of our geopolitical series.

I hope you found it interesting and, more importantly, useful.

It was really fascinating to get the inside track from experts like Dr. Constantine Gurdjieff and Matt Gherkin, who is the BCAA chief economist.

geopolitical strategists.

These people are looking at this on a daily basis and nobody knows it better than them.

Fascinating the way Constantine looked at the shift in global power dynamics, the decline of the US hegemony.

I thought it was very interesting the way he distinguished between the hegemony and empires.

Santina also talked about the socioeconomic decline and the political dynamics underpinning that.

Then the decline in general of liberal democracies.