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Dauntless Democrats and Crazy Conventions
July 28, 2016
The Chief kicks off Thursday’s show with Audrey Johnson to talk the real estate market as it stands today. What is the next hot trend when building new houses?
Gregg Rzepczynski, Chicago attorney, rounds out the first hour and continues the real-estate discussion but more on the legal side.
Wayne Madsen kicks off the second hour – as he calls in from the DNC in Philadelphia. Where are Bernie voters going? How inaccessible is the DNC? How are they handling the big crowds? It’s a wacky election year. There’s no arguing that.
Gregg and The Chief finish off the show to discuss just what the markets are doing because of this upcoming election? Will it stay steady until November?
Nothing Soft About Softball
July 27, 2016
Kevin O’Neill and The Chief kick off the show telling war stories from some intense softball games before touching on the election and the DNC.
We touch on the Olympics and the Russian national team ban along with the historical evolution of PEDs in sports. Fari Hamzei of Hamzei Analytics joins us for his usual heated segment talking markets. He and the Chief touch on ‘hacking’ and how it become a problem we hear about on a near weekly basis.
David Andalman of PTI Securities & Futures finishes off the show with his call for the day and a bit of a recap of the effects from the recent Brexit vote.
Chief’s Political Revolution
July 26, 2016
The Chief and Nick Isasi kick off the show to talk about the Democratic National Convention that kicked off last night. Nick, Chief and Joel Elconin of Benzinga touch on the Chicago Cubs blockbuster trade to acquire Aroldis Chapman before talking some markets.
Kenny Polcari, Director of NYSE Floor Operations at O’Neil Securities and a contributor to CNBC helps Chief make sense of these earnings reports that are slowly starting to creep in. Chief Drafts Kenny to his newly minted political party before Brooke Harrington joins us on the phone – and is the calm, soft spoken voice of reason we sometimes need on the show from a real economist.
Chief admits to not knowing one French person and Brooke pledges to translate for him if he ever comes to France. Yes, really.
Suspended Game
July 25, 2016
Chief and Matty Weber preview the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, talk baseball history and much more. Chris Manns of PTI Securities & Futures talks $SLV, government corruption and Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo. John Neal of PTI Securities & Futures’ Peoria, AZ office discusses portfolio protection. Finally, David Andalman of DACS Research shares his thoughts on America’s need for a third political party.
75 Minutes or Less
July 22, 2016
John Neal starts the show and reviews the Republican convention and the Trump speech. How it will effect the markets and if he is a viable candidate. Professor Dan Katz of IIT returns to the show. Dan was last on the show May 13, and recently cohosted the Janders Dean & Chicago-Kent College of Law Legal Horizons Conference on July 14, and spoke on the launch of Law Lab, Chicago-Kent College of Law’s research center focused on legal innovation and technology. Dan is a professor of law at IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law and is preeminent in the fields of legal informatics, quantitative modeling of litigation and jurisprudence, quantitative finance, computational legal studies, big data and the law, ***economics of the legal profession***, technology aided access to the law, and more.