Recorded on May 13, 2021 It’s been ten months since we dropped an episode, and the world looks very different than the last time we sat down with Rinaldo S. Brutoco, Founding President & CEO of the World Business Academy to hear his take on the politics, society, and the economy. Many of our long-time listeners have expressed their sadness over our break, and so we are bringing you all this special edition of New Business Paradigms! On this episode of New Business Paradigms, we focus exclusively...
May 18, 2021•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded July 18, 2020 On the final episode of New Business Paradigms, Academy Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss: What Congressman John Lewis stood for, and why his passing represents the end of an era.The danger of Trump acting like a proto-dictator by sending unmarked federal troops to arrest protestors in Portland, Oregon and the administration’s shocking lack of urgency about the rising number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States.The recent hacking of twit...
Jul 22, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded July 11, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Academy Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss: How to make the post office cash-flow positive in three not-so-massive steps.Global signposts focusing on Israeli annexation plans, recent explosions that caused major setbacks to the Iranian nuclear program, future failed states in Africa due to COVID-19, China’s leap backward with the new Hong Kong security law, a new crop-picking program in Britain, and...
Jul 14, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on July 4, 2020 In this episode of New Business Paradigms, Producer Benjamin Schwartz and President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss the positive actions the business community has gotten behind lately via the recent announcement from the Business Roundtable on the urgency of police reform and the widespread boycott of advertising on Facebook. Rinaldo contrasts these positive examples of businesses being responsive to the shifting mores in society to the old-school story of Bayer paying billions...
Jul 08, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on June 27, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Academy Chief of Staff, Kristy Jansen, and Academy President, Rinaldo Brutoco discuss how an effective federal government ideally would offer economic support to help states get back on their feet. Rinaldo touches off his discussion of how we might dig ourselves out of this economic collapse by comparing his perspective to one recently expressed by Paul Krugman. Rinaldo notes that he agrees with Krugman about the absolute neces...
Jun 30, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded June 20, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss the state of the economy, and Rinaldo’s long-term predictions about increasing gold prices, even in the midst of “a depression wrapped in a pandemic, which is all compounded by the effects climate change.” When, “Oops,” and “He was just joking,” are the standard response of a federal administration to try to explain away overtly racist actions...
Jun 23, 2020•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on June 14, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss the fast-paced nature of the news that has resulted in New Business Paradigms shifting from once a month, to bi-weekly, and most recently to every week during the COVID-19 crisis. The show begins with predictions of how certain industries – such as the airline industry – must get leaner to survive following the end of the government bailout...
Jun 17, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on June 6, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss how proud they are of the peaceful protests occurring around the United States as well as their incredulity that the POTUS would continue to fan the flames of violence so callously. Rinaldo makes the important point that these protests may finally have taught Mr. Trump that he is not above the law. The show then turns towards econom...
Jun 09, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on May 30, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy President and President Rinaldo Brutoco is joined again by Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen to discuss the roadmap to get America healthy and functioning again. The conversation kicks off with an analysis of critical shortcomings of the current health care industry that make it imperative that the country transition to Universal Healthcare. Both Rinaldo and Kristy lambast the lack of leadership in the present ...
Jun 02, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded May 23, 2020 On this Episode of New Business Paradigms, Podcast Producer Benjamin Schwartz and Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss options for healing an economy despite an incorporate federal administration and an increased number of infections as states reopen too early. Rinaldo makes it clear, that between a failing economy and the COVID-19 pandemic, the strain from climate change will be even less manageable than in prior years. The second half of the show covers the COVID-19/...
May 26, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on May 16, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Academy Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss the ways in which the failing airline and hotel industries are a facet of the changes that are part of the new reality we are living in. Rinaldo considers prominent retailers that have gone bankrupt in the past two weeks as untenable levels of debt have become crippling in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic (think JC Penny and Neiman Marcus) and ex...
May 19, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on May 9, 2020 “We are going to keep doing this until we either fix it or the system collapses.” – Rinaldo S. Brutoco On this episode of New Business Paradigms Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen focus on underlying economic problems that were bandaged, but left untreated after the Great Recession in 2008, and are now being exposed anew by the COVID-19 pandemic. The disconnect between the buoyant stock market and the historic and outrageous unemployment nu...
May 12, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on May 2, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic devastation in the United States. Despite rising infection rates, ongoing shortages of adequate testing and personal protective gear, and consistent failure of coordinated response at a federal level, some states and smaller jurisdictions are pushing to reopen economic act...
May 05, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded April 25, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen, and Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco pick apart a couple of laughable moments from the past week: the President’s questionable suggestion that injecting disinfectants into humans might cure them of COVID-19 and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggesting it’s a good idea to allow the states to go bankrupt. Digging into other unbelievable ideas, Rinaldo also explains why another Tru...
Apr 28, 2020•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on April 18, 2020 On the episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy president and founder Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss the state of the US economy in the shadow of the Coronavirus pandemic... Links referred to on the show: Worldometer - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Gold ETFs: 1. State St. Gold Mini Shares - https://www.ssga.com/us/en/individual/etfs/funds/spdr-gold-minisharessm-trust-gldm 2. Granite Shares Gold Trust - https://www...
Apr 21, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded April 11, 2020 On this Holiday episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss the state of the U.S. economy, as well as addressing questions from interested listeners (keep them coming!). Rinaldo begins by challenging a New York Times article that discusses the stock market’s recent rise – questioning the claim that institutional optimism boosts the market artificially. Whatever lifted the markets ...
Apr 14, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on April 4, 2020 On this weekly edition of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss the rapidly growing economic impacts of the public health shutdowns. The show addresses questions that the team have been fielding about how to stay a smart investor in this volatile economic climate. We also discuss the Small Business Administration loan program that launched last week as a part of the CARES act, review economic in...
Apr 06, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on March 28, 2020 In this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Busines Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss why the United States Government would be better off creating a long-term strategy to get COVID-19 under control than prematurely restarting the economy. Flattening the curve by slowing the number of people getting sick is essential, and the best way to get Americans back to work starts with better testing. The United States ha...
Mar 31, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on March 18, 2020 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco discuss the global fallout from the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) and the downside of the sluggish response by the U.S. government. Rinaldo discusses how the United States is more closely following the frightening trajectory of countries like Italy – which has now become the country with the highest death count from the Coivd-19 disease, largely due ...
Mar 20, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on February 26, 2020 Join us for the World Business Academy's monthly podcast featuring Academy President Rinaldo S. Brutoco in conversation with Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen. Our monthly podcast covers the latest macro-economic trends as well as in-depth analysis of politics, business, and society. On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Kristy and Rinaldo paint another bleak picture of the Trump Reality Show and the broader global economy. As the noted reality TV star and US Presid...
Feb 28, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on February 11, 2020 Join us for the World Business Academy's podcast featuring Academy President Rinaldo S. Brutoco in conversation with Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen. On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Rinaldo and Kristy discuss worrisome signs of a lagging economy that is ill-prepared to lift itself back up when it inevitably stumbles. The GOP’s so-called “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017” gave away as much as possible to the top 1% and Wall Street corporations to the detriment o...
Feb 19, 2020•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco sits down with Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen to review the first month of the new decade, and muse on some of the biggest headlines of the day. It's off to a rocky start with the economic fallout of the 2018 tax cuts becoming evident, along with the uncertainty infecting the markets around the coronavirus that threatens global health, and other tenuous situations around the globe. Rinaldo revie...
Jan 31, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded December 9, 2019 On the final episode of New Business Paradigms of 2019, Academy Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President Rinaldo Brutoco discuss why the economy went sideways after a week of nonstop positive economic news. Rinaldo makes the comment that the fundamentals of the economy are wrong – much like air leaking from a tire that tears a bigger and bigger hole over time. We mourn for Paul Volcker who passed on December 8th, 2019, and discuss his contributions to monetary...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded November 20, 2019 What happens when you put up barriers of entry in a “free” market? On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss the lack of economic mobility in the modern United States before a quick riff on impeachment. After the first public impeachment hearings, Rinaldo’s take away is simple – the process has put the chaos of the Trump White House (i.e. the emperor has been caught with no clothe...
Nov 28, 2019•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on November 25, 2019 FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights & Heaven on Earth… Can we fix capitalism without first tearing it down? On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen and Academy President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss why capitalism must be reformed in order to avoid a future of chaos and violence. The show begins with a conversation about Bernie Sanders provoked by a listener question (Thanks John!) and expands into a broader discussion about the ca...
Nov 28, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on October 30, 2019 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, World Business Academy President, Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen discuss some of the latest economic reporting on Elizabeth Warren’s plans to re-make American capitalism. The Economist and the Week both featured Senator Warren on their covers during the last week, and while both publications trend towards economically conservative values, Rinaldo was surprised by how much they seem to agree with Warren’s po...
Nov 01, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on October 5, 2019 On this episode of New Business Paradigms, Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco and Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen talk oil. Rinaldo riffs on why, following the bombing of oil refineries in Saudi Arabia, the global oil markets appeared unfazed by the loss of 5% of the world’s refined oil. In combination with the fact that we are using less oil on a per capita basis and renewables are overtaking fossil fuels – especially when considering carbon pricing – oil pri...
Oct 09, 2019•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on Sep 23, 2019 On this Episode of New Business Paradigms, Rinaldo Brutoco (World Business Academy President and Founder) and Kristy Jansen (Chief of Staff) discuss just what the “repo” (repurchasing) market is, and just what led the Fed to begin injecting billions of dollars into it to stabilize the market last week. It turns out that the perfect storm was brewing, in part because the Chair of the Fed continues to bow to political pressure – Rinaldo describes Fed Chair Jay Powell as ha...
Sep 26, 2019•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on September 1, 2019 Welcome to our new format of New Business Paradigms: 30 minutes on the intersection of politics, society, and the economy. On this episode, Chief of Staff Kristy Jansen, and the World Business Academy’s President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss recent events and how to interpret the latest from the “Trade Wars”, shooting sprees, and other chilling headlines. Rinaldo speaks passionately on how the recent spate of mass shootings belie a deeper culture of violenc...
Sep 06, 2019•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recorded on August 10, 2019 On this new, shorter version of New Business Paradigms, Assistant Producer Benjamin Schwartz and the World Business Academy’s President and Founder, Rinaldo Brutoco, discuss the ways that the trade war has completely knocked the US economy off any normal yo-yo rhythm it usually follows. Currency values, revised jobs number, monetary policy, oil prices, and other indicators all continue to suggest tough times are ahead of us, so make sure to keep your investments safe ...
Aug 14, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
