Guests: Lou Michels
Post-Traumatic Stress
May 24, 2016
Lou Michels is in-studio discussing the effect robotics will have on U.S. jobs, mass incarceration due to drug offenders, big pharma fraud and much more. Brent Slava of Benzinga talks quiet markets during a holiday week. Kenny Polcari, Director of NYSE Floor Operations at O’Neil Securities and a contributor to CNBC, discusses Get Head Strong, the charity organization he’s involved with who’s working to help veterans with PTSD.
The Federal Reserve Hits Overtime
May 19, 2016
Lou Michels is in studio with The Chief to talk about The Federal Reserve/ Government and just how much power they have in today’s economy. Do the feds have a constantly increasing amount of power in 2016? Next, we touch on the new changes to the overtime law that will take place in December of 2016. Chief and Lou have a great discussion regarding a new patent law that is going into effect this week.
We finish off the show by talking about Russia’s new doping allegations, and other use of performance enhancing substances throughout other sports and other leagues.
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The Future of Labor
May 12, 2016
The Chief and Lou spend the first hour of the show discussing the presidential election. Lou describes why the super delegates were put in place and how they prevent party outsiders like Bernie Sanders from winning the primary. The Chief is concerned with our country’s election practices and thinks we should be shifting to a more democratic system like France. The second hour starts off with Chief’s in-depth analysis of the job numbers which leads to a discussion that takes a close look at our labor practices. The two debate the perks of reinstating a military draft or establishing a volunteer corp draft, as well as whether we’d be better off going to a single payer healthcare system.
Politics Ain’t Beanbag
May 5, 2016
Lou Michels joins The Chief on the show to discuss the latest election news now that Trump is the sole GOP candidate. The Chief wonders how Trump’s harsh New York-ness hasn’t turned the country off from his charms. In the first hour Lou and the Chief rekindle their debate over Uber and discuss the national deficit as well as the average American family’s debt. Later they discuss how the US broke the Russian economy and how we’re not in a war right now but one seems inevitable within the next ten years. In between talking about politics and markets, The Chief and Lou find time to discuss gym etiquette and women’s hairstyle fads.
Draft Day
April 28, 2016
Lou Michels joins the Chief to follow up yesterday’s conversation about Japanese markets before breaking down ESPN’s dismissal of Curt Schilling. Robert Raiola, taxman to the stars, joins in for his insight on the NFL Draft and a discussion of athlete residency and how it plays out during tax season.