Episode Transcript: #445 - Peter Schiff
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Peter Shipp, how are you, sir?
I'm well, I'm well. Joe, thanks for having me on the podcast.
Please, thank you. Thank you for doing this. I really appreciate it.
I have zero background in economics. I'm a mathematical retard.
And I really appreciate people like you out there that can spell things out
and explain what's wrong with this ridiculous system that we operate under
and what's right about this ridiculous system.
Yeah, you know, don't sell yourself short, though.
Just your common sense might mean you know more about economics
than people who actually have Nobel Prizes in economics.
Well, I would disagree with you, but I saw that movie Inside Job,
and I saw how the whole system works, where they, you know,
essentially set these financial limitations and then wind up getting jobs
after the economics professors set these limitations
and then wind up getting jobs and wind up profiting off of the fact
that they've made it so that these things go through.
You and your video from Occupy Wall Street is one of my all-time favorites.
Thanks.
When you went down there and you said, I am the 1%,