This week Jay welcomes author, geopolitical financial expert, and investigative journalist Nomi Prins to the podcast. Nomi does an excellent job of making complex issues granular and offers valuable insight, not as an external critic, but as someone who’s been in the belly of the beast. Nomi discusses the inspiration behind her new book and the epic size of central bank intervention since the financial crisis. She offers insight into the impact and results of collusion, and the increase in anger...
Oct 03, 2021•35 min•Ep. 13
Lyn Alden is an independent analyst, providing research for retail and institutional investors across a variety of asset classes. Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, she is a powerhouse in macro-finance and financial Twitter, and she joins us today for a crash course in how she allocates her capital, creates her portfolio, and what she pays the most attention to while doing so. The two discuss what to look for in a financial guru or framework, financial media, inflation, rent moratoriums, ...
Sep 26, 2021•51 min•Ep. 12
After interviewing over 200 top entrepreneurs (Elon Musk included), the CEO of Ingenuity and Stanford GSB Lecturer Amy Wilkinson authored The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs. Amy discusses the serious endeavor that is authoring a book of this magnitude and offers insight into popular success stories and failures, including one of the biggest scandals in U.S. tech history with Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Jay gets Amy’s take on how entrepreneurs juggl...
Sep 19, 2021•43 min•Ep. 11
David Rubenstein is a co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms ($276B under management). He has directly advised former President Jimmy Carter, written best-selling books, and interviewed the world's most influential people for his Bloomberg series; including George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Oprah, and Jeff Bezos. David discusses his journey to becoming one of the world's most influential people and shares his thoughts o...
Sep 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 10
Investor, Entrepreneur, Financial Education Advocate, and “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki joins Jay to discuss the impending depression, how the events of August 15th 1971 inspired him to question things, real estate, mining, and the games played in Vancouver. He discusses generational differences and relying on a 401k, and Jay gets his thoughts on the inflation vs deflation debate. The most successful investors know that fortune is made during a crisis and Robert believes that you ne...
Sep 05, 2021•56 min•Ep. 9
Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of the Trends Journal, delivers a scathing criticism of big banks, pharma, tech, politicians, and the military industrial complex. Gerald talks about the death of ingenuity in the US and the rise of China through the rest of this century, highlighting the Belt and Road initiative. Gerald is a political atheist, unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology, or conventional wisdom. He opens up about his physical, emotional, ...
Aug 29, 2021•55 min•Ep. 8
Dr. Christopher Ryan is the author of two amazing and polarizing books: Civilized to Death, and Sex at Dawn. He is also the host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking. Dr. Ryan discusses what motivated him in his books, and if now is really the best time to be alive, like most of us assume. He seeks to understand humanity and the decisions we make through an unfiltered lens. In this episode, Dr. Ryan highlights parallels between the social unrest we’re experiencing today with the evolution from h...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 7
Jay is joined by founder/CEO of The Global Macro Investor and co-founder and CEO of Real Vision, Raoul Pal. Raoul is also the former Head of European Hedge Fund Sales at Goldman Sachs, and former Portfolio Manager, GLG Global Macro Fund. Raoul is one of the brightest minds in micro finance, and this conversation was a real treat. He provides an update on his unfolding thesis, which he says changed because the FED backstopped the credit markets. The two also discuss his portfolio, (at the time 98...
Aug 15, 2021•34 min•Ep. 6
Jay is joined by Chairman of Fiore Group of Companies, co-chair of the International Crisis Group, and founder of Wheaton River (now Goldcorp), Frank Giustra. Frank is a modern-day renaissance man, having founded Lionsgate Entertainment, Modern Farmer, Dominica Fiore, and a long list of other ventures. Frank describes the experience leaving Yorkton Securities to start Lionsgate Entertainment and the challenging years that follow, as well as the core lessons he learned along the way. He opens up ...
Aug 08, 2021•59 min•Ep. 5
In this episode, Jay is joined by Grant Williams who, much to his dismay, has logged over 35 years in finance. During that time, he’s lived and worked in seven major financial centres from London to Sydney, building the kind of network that most can only dream about. Currently, he is a senior advisor to Matterhorn Asset Management AG in Switzerland, and a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore. Grant and Jay cover a variety of topics, including Reddit vs short ...
Aug 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 4
Jay is joined by Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO & Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, a research and analytics firm. A global thought leader on monetary policy, economics, and finance, DiMartino Booth founded Quill Intelligence in 2018. She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America (Portfolio, Feb 2017), a full-time columnist for Bloomberg View, a business speaker, and a commentator frequently featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Fox B...
Jul 25, 2021•28 min•Ep. 2
In this episode, Jay is joined by legendary speculator, libertarian philosopher, and bestselling author Doug Casey of Casey Research. Most commodities, now being under the cost of production, are good value. In Doug's words, "it's metaphysically impossible for everything to be over-priced, but actually everything is overpriced, with the exception of the raw materials of civilization, which is to say, commodities. I’m bullish on commodities in general, that’s the argument in a nutshell." In this ...
Jul 25, 2021•32 min•Ep. 3
For the first episode of The Jay Show, Jay discusses a number of contemporary issues with the Right Honourable Stephen Harper. As Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, Mr. Harper led Canada’s quick recovery from the 2008 depression, and Jay draws on that expertise to shed light on a possible future. Jay seeks his perspective on a number of topics, including the most important decisions/policies he put in place to help Canada make the most of the growth in resource prices through his tenure as PM. Mr. Ha...
Jul 25, 2021•51 min•Ep. 1
Jul 16, 2021•1 min