John Flannigan is a retired English professor from Prairie State College out of Chicago Heights, IL. He is an expert on local politics, housing and property rates. He is a long time friend of Tom “The Chief” Haugh and graduate of Notre Dame University.
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January 23, 2024
John and Mike talk terrorists and Taiwan and JB Pritzker to Brandon Johnson. Hal joins for the second hour to explain money dams, Chinese real estate, and bitcoin.
Articles Referenced
Pessimists see a collapsing Chinese stock market.
Optimists see a potential massive double bottom. pic.twitter.com/665YsNEcQe— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) January 23, 2024
BREAKING: Bitcoin is officially down over 20% from its post-ETF approval highs, erasing $200 billion in value.
In less than 2 weeks, #Bitcoin prices are down over $10,000 to their lowest since December 4th.
The drop is largely due to underwhelming ETF demand and ETF approval… pic.twitter.com/FtYHJLlAGj
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) January 23, 2024
Today, we convened the @MayorsCaucus Exec Board to discuss strategies for addressing our international humanitarian crisis at the local government level.
Thanks to the leaders responding to calls for federal support of states supporting new arrivals. https://t.co/fyPxbHoQA6
— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) January 23, 2024
NEW: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker reacts to news that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is telling aldermen that the city will stop setting up new migrant shelters.
“I’m deeply concerned … the city has not told the state where they would like us to put our resources to build new… pic.twitter.com/c6YFXuNKBk
— Austin Berg (@Austin__Berg) January 22, 2024
Guests & Co-Hosts
MICHAEL MURPHY
Mike Murphy is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, Stocks & Jocks’ commenter on sports and economics, and graduate of Notre Dame University.
JOHN FLANNIGAN
JOEL ELCONIN
Joel’s introduction to trading was in the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index futures pit at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Also, during his time at the CME, he was involved in Index Arbitrage as well as trading foreign currency futures and options. From 1994-1999 he was a proprietary trader for Olde Discount Corporation. Following his tenure at Olde Discount, he founded the Detroit office of Bright Trading, LLC. His responsibilities included trader recruitment, orientation and education as well as the day to day management of the office. He held this position office until 2003. Since 2003, Joel has been an independent trader researching and developing proprietary indicators and trading systems for the equities and futures markets. In 2007, Joel joined JC Trading Group as a Market Consultant and trading supervisor. He provides daily market commentary at www.premarketinfo.com. Joel obtained his Bachelor of Art in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1985. Also, he is a graduate of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Continuing Education Program. He also holds his Series 7 and 63 licenses and is a licensed real estate broker.
DR. HAL SNARR
Dr. Snarr currently teaches business quantitative methods courses, money and banking, macroeconomic principles and MBA economics and data analysis. He has taught a variety of other courses at Idaho State University, Washington State University, Duke University and North Carolina A&T State University, including college algebra, microeconomic principles, macroeconomic principles, sports economics, intermediate microeconomic theory, elementary business statistics, advanced business statistics, labor economics, mathematical economics, econometrics, money and banking and calculus-based microeconomics.
Snarr enjoys being in the classroom, experimenting with innovative teaching techniques, producing instructional YouTube videos for his highly regarded channel, The Snarr Institute, conducting & publishing research articles, and writing articles for periodicals like the Mises Daily.
Snarr is an active scholar who follows the advice of Mark Twain and Jennifer Egan: “write what you know” or “what you are curious to find out.” He studies the effects of government policy on employment, migration, fertility and participation in public assistance programs. He is skilled at Stata, and uses it to construct panel datasets from the Current Population Survey and policy variables that he codes from various public sources. Snarr recently published his 14th peer-reviewed article, two macroeconomic books, an article in the Mises Daily, and is finishing two books on labor economics. He enjoys sharing his research findings, insights, and policy recommendations in community forums, and newspaper and radio interviews. Snarr is known as Shooting Snarr on Chicago’s Stocks and Jocks morning talk radio show.