Ed Elson

What would that recessionary moment look like?

And how much better would it be compared to, say, 2008?

Okay.

Yeah, equal parts encouraging and also quite worrying at the same time.

We'll probably have to do another episode on this digging deeper.

I'm sure we're going to see a lot more head.

You have to redo your monologue again.

Steve Eisman, host of The Real Eisman Playbook.

Steve, always appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Well, we've already discussed the insider trading scandal as it relates to Trump and Iran, the fact that $2 billion worth of oil and S&P futures were traded 15 minutes before Trump announced he was in talks with Iran, and the fact that we likely won't see any retribution because Trump has essentially gutted the SEC, the agency whose job it is to go after these crimes.

We've discussed all of this.

But I think we should also just take a moment to put this specific insider trading scandal into context and acknowledge the fact that actually this isn't the only one we've seen.

No, we have seen plenty of other insider trading scandals during this administration, which Anthony correctly highlighted.

But each time it happens, and after we've expressed a little bit of outrage, we seem to forget about it.

And then we just move on to the next thing.

So let me just remind you of a few of those scandals.

Let's start with the tariffs, for example.