Talking Kickstarter with Max Keiser

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I was a speak­er at The Atlantic Month­ly’s excel­lent The Econ­o­my 2013 sum­mit in Wash­ing­ton this week, and I took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to drop into New York and meet up with two good friends, Lau­ren Lyster (Yahoo Finance Dai­ly Tick­er) and Max Keis­er (The Keis­er Report).

Max in par­tic­u­lar gave me a plat­form for pro­mot­ing this cam­paign:

I mean “plat­form” almost lit­er­al­ly: Max’s stu­dio on his vis­it to NYC is out­doors, 14 floors above a rail­way junc­tion in Man­hat­tan! That–and con­struc­tion on the rail­way line–is the expla­na­tion for the noise you can hear in the back­ground.

Lau­ren and I dis­cussed the “Rock of Damo­cles” over­hang of $38 tril­lion in pri­vate debt that lurks above the US econ­o­my, and the role of Mar­gin Debt in the ups and downs of the stock exchange.

The Atlantic’s Econ­o­my 2013 sum­mit videos are already avail­able online. In par­tic­u­lar I rec­om­mend watch­ing Richard Vague’s pre­sen­ta­tion.

The cam­paign now has less than 3 days to go, and fund­ing is ris­ing again: we’re at just under $64,000 now. Please pass these links around to your con­tacts and hope­ful­ly the final days surge will take us past the $100,000 mark.