Largest Credit Crisis in History with Alasdair Macleod

Interview recorded - 11th of February, 2025 On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Alasdair Macleod. Alasdair is an educator for sound money, economics, geopolitics and everything to do with gold and silver.  During our conversation we spoke about gold going under the radar, geopolitics, EU Bust, Debt bubble, flow of gold to the East and what this means for markets. I hope you enjoy! 0:00 - Introduction 1:07 - What is Alasdair seeing? 3:00 - Gold under the radar 3:44 - Geopolitics 10:47 - US moving away from Europe? 12:51 - China to dominate global manufacturing? 15:34 - EU bust 16:53 - Debt bubble? 19:10 - Pound depreciation 20:41 - No avoiding a credit crash 23:08 - Monetisation of all debt? 26:30 - Flow of gold to the East 30:00 - Gold backed currency 33:20 - Multi-polar world 35:08 - One message to takeaway? Alasdair Macleod is Head of Research for GoldMoney. He is an educator and advocates for sound money through demystifying finance and economics. His background includes being a stockbroker, banker, and economist. Alasdair Macleod started his career as a stockbroker in 1970 on the London Stock Exchange. Within nine years, he had risen to become senior partner of his firm. Subsequently, he held positions at the director level in investment management and worked as a mutual fund manager. Mr. Macleod also worked at a bank in Guernsey as an executive director. For most of his 40 years in the finance industry, he has been demystifying macroeconomic events for his investing clients. The accumulation of this experience has convinced him that unsound monetary policies are the most destructive weapon governments use against the common man. Accordingly, his mission is to educate and inform the public in layman"s terms what governments do with money and how to protect themselves from the consequences. Alasdair Macleod -  Substack - https://alasdairmacleod.substack.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MacleodFinance LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdair-macleod-9494b27/ WTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfn iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4 Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas