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Kantro v King: 2025 Market Outlook

Kantro v King: 2025 Market Outlook

Piper Sandler’s Michael “Kantro” Kantrowitz was ranked 2024’s number 1 portfolio strategist by the widely followed Extel survey. Matt King was head of global strategy for Citibank for two decades and now runs Satori Insights. Kantro and King debated live for ZeroHedge Premium subscribers their takes on market outlook for 2025.

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Modern Monetary Theory V Austrian Economics Showdown

Modern Monetary Theory V Austrian Economics Showdown

Is the debt a “ticking time bomb” or do we “owe it to ourselves”? Are deficits little more than ledger entries between the Fed and the Treasury or do they have the power to make civilizations rise and fall? Questions like these form the rift between the Austrian School of economics — Hayek, Mises, Rothbard — and the Modern Monetary Theorists — Mosler, Wray, Kelton — and are the focus of this evening’s ZH Debate.

Free Speech, Musk, And X

Free Speech, Musk, And X

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in late 2022 caused a media shit storm with calls for imminent bankruptcy, the infamous ADL shakedown, and disinformation alarm bells in the beltway think tank community.

2025 Outlook Debate: Bull Vs Bear

2025 Outlook Debate: Bull Vs Bear

When Christmas comes and every analyst breaks out their 2025 predictions, what good is it if you can’t challenge the thesis? Rather than letting someone talk their book, we are bringing a new format.

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Where Is The Oil Price Headed? Strategists Face Off

Where Is The Oil Price Headed? Strategists Face Off

Expert oil and gas analysts will debate the future of the energy sector in a live, premium-only event only on ZeroHedge. Join us for a deep dive, featuring two highly respected strategists with contrasting views: Paul Sankey, the bear, and Josh Young, the bull.

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Gold Standard

Gold Standard

Gold was money for thousands of years, and while many governments tried unburdening themselves from its fiscal constraints, none has been more successful than the U.S. government. Other than governments wanting to spend more… why did we rescind gold’s redeemability into gold?

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Historians Debate Ukraine War As WWIII Risk Mounts

Historians Debate Ukraine War As WWIII Risk Mounts

Despite Trump’s promises to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine by negotiating with Russia, the war has escalated to a dangerous inflection point with long-range U.S., British, and French missiles being deployed deep in Russian territory and talks of deploying NATO troops in Ukraine.

Abolish Income Tax

Abolish Income Tax

Debating whether that trade — income tax for tariffs — would be desirable as well as the optimal role of a government are two PhD economists: former Bloomberg columnist Noah "noahpinion" Smith and the Mises Institute's Peter St Onge, moderated by host of Dad Saves America podcast John Papola

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Trump Cabinet Debate

Trump Cabinet Debate

Blumenthal & Beattie Clash Over Trump Cabinet Appointments. A debate with Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal and Revolver News founder Darren Beattie, moderated by the Judge Andrew Napolitano.

Climate Change - Economics of Green New Deal

Climate Change - Economics of Green New Deal

Steve Keen, while primarily an economist, is well-versed in the research and a firm believer in the danger climate change poses. Dave Collum, chemistry professor at Cornell, believes much of the science to be bogus. Legendary short-seller Bill Fleckenstein was kind enough to shepard them along.

BRICS Debate

BRICS Debate

To better understand the shifting trends, we’ve gathered two exceptional yet oppositional macro minds — Simon Hunt of Strategic Services and Michael Green of Simplify Asset Management — to flesh out what will likely occur in the latter half of the decade.

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What is the Superior Money: Gold or Bitcoin?

What is the Superior Money: Gold or Bitcoin?

We gathered two Austrian economists, Peter Schiff and Robert Breedlove. Men who understand money’s history, the properties from which it derives value, and how governments weaponize it… but who disagree on what is the best money.

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