James Thompson

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987 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Aug

James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Money Café with Alan Kohler · There's No Place Like Home · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Well, Scott Besant – I mean, part of the reason markets rallied is the Treasury Secretary, the U.S. matched

Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, came out and said, we'll have a deal today or tomorrow. matched

And everyone went, beauty, oil fell, you know, went back below 80 bucks a barrel US. matched

So, I mean, he was almost immediately contradicted by Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, who said, oh, well, yeah. matched

Look, the big deal, which is the one that we need to do with Iran, that's still a bit of a – Iran on nuclear denuclearization. matched

That's a long way off. matched

But, yeah, maybe we'll get a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or open it further in the next little while. matched

But, you know, Rubio sounded a lot less definitive than Besant. matched

But, look, can you believe anything that's coming out of the White House on all this? matched

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Yeah, yeah. matched

I mean – and the market just eats all this up. matched

The market, which is so sceptical about everything, just wants there to be – the market just wants this to be over. matched

And so every sniff of a deal is sort of a cause for oil to fall, stocks to rally and bond yields to fall. matched

Then within – sometimes within hours, usually within days, we're back to square one of – matched

Yeah, yeah. matched

But I mean, whether the fee is called a, you know, a toll or a tariff or an environmental protection... matched

charge, there'll be some sort of fee. matched

I mean, it's just hard to see what the alternative is. matched

I mean, the remarkable thing, we've all sort of been forgotten, but didn't we have a memorandum of understanding that was signed in the Palace of Versailles like six weeks ago? matched

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