David Stockman Interview: The Global Economy Has Entered The Crack-Up Phase
Transcript of David Stockman’s Interview By Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson: Welcome to this Peak Prosperity podcast. I am your host, Chris Martenson. It’s a central banker world and that world is increasingly volatile, deformed, and full of risks. Today, we’re speaking with a guest I am especially keen to interview, Mr. David Stockman, economic policymaker, politician, and financier. Mr. Stockman represented Southern Michigan in the US House of Representatives from 1976 to 1981 and later served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan administration and was the youngest cabinet member of the twentieth century.
Since then, he has held executive positions in many of the most influential banking, buy-out, and private equity firms including the Blackstone Group and Salomon Brothers. He is author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, which is a blunt and sometimes delightfully and deservedly scathing examination of the various fiscal and policy blunders that have degraded our current and future hopes for prosperity. Be sure to have your blood pressure medication handy as you read it because not only does it detail a litany of regulatory and policy blunders of the recent past, it reads like it was lifted from today’s headlines.
He also runs the popular and excellent website, David Stockman’s Contra Corner, where he both blogs and assembles other excellent economic content for you to read, so be sure to visit it regularly.
Welcome, David. It’s an honor to have you as our guest.
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