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I think we're on the precipice of like a
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10 trillion wipeout.
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>> Whoa. Really? Tell all.
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>> By the way, I get this wrong all the
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time. This is not financial advice, but
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I don't think it's from Iran. It's from
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what comes after Iran. This is the chain
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reaction here. I think oil is not going
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to be at 150 bucks, but it's going to be
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elevated through the rest of the year.
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And inflation in some markets reignites.
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I think corporate earnings are really
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impaired as consumers stop spending
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because some of them will be paying five
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bucks a gallon for gas and their 401k
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will start to decline and Q2 earning
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season becomes bad and then what CEOs do
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when things are sort of bad is they
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throw in the kitchen sink and they'll
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make it look like a blood bath just to
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get all the bad out. But the real
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contagion uh here is going to be from
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emerging markets. I think there's a
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decent chance that Pakistan and Egypt
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default and as well as Sri Lanka and
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Bangladesh. Dollar denominated debt,
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very energy dependent, very fragile
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economies. There's this domino effect in
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those markets because they can't afford
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oil imports and their dollar denominated
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debt just becomes unpayable.
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And then the real downward spiral
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starts. European banks holding that
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emerging market debt start announcing
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write downs. foreign banks, Deutsche
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Bank, BMP, Pariba, all hugely exposed.
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Credit spreads blow out and we get sort
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of an '08 style which bank is next
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moment. Except this time it's happening
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while the US is fighting a war we
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started for no reason.
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>> It's an excursion, Scott. It's an
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excursion.
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>> By August, the narrative shifts shifts
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from transitory war shock to holy
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we may have broken the global financial
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system. The S&P is off 20 to 40% from
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its peak. Bitcoin goes to like 30,000.
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And quite frankly, the only thing that
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probably goes up is canned goods and
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ammunition.
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>> Well, that's a scenario.
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>> The prediction is the following. The
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contagion is going to start in emerging
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markets that can't afford oil and their
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debt is dollar denominated. It's just a
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toxic cocktail.