Where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better than that cold sand its nice and warm down here so were going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes of what we got right what we got wrong we didnt get anything wrong so. We definitely got right heading down to the Southern Hemisphere for christmas but the big themes ive been weve been looking at over the past few over the past decade it was this a few decades it feels like weve been doing this show for decades but its just spent 10 years this autumn we got right lobel is a sion and d. Dollars a show and those are the 2 big themes and they are really really really reaching across the headlines around the world and its undeniable to anybody now
So last year at this time of course the markets were tumbling and everything was kind of chaos and everybody thought its all over and the fed stepped in so that was the end of another thing weve always been talking about and that was that you cant taper a ponzi and the fed stepped in and theyve been intervening more more all year long it started with them just stopping raising rates member they ended the year John Williams at the fed had said that they were going to he only saw like one or 2 more Interest Rate rises and 2019 of course they couldnt do that and theyve been cutting rates and theyve been intervening in the repo markets heres a tweet 2019 was the opposite of 2018 a global rally lifted every boat long strategies made money through most of the year stocks bonds and commodities had positive returns only in Industrial Metals and 0 song game of spot currencies did major assets post. Last. Cant taper a ponzi scheme thing and the fed stepping in to flood the market with cash to ke
Where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better than that cold sand its nice and warm down here so were going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes of what we got right what we got wrong we didnt get anything wrong so. We definitely got right heading down to the Southern Hemisphere for christmas but the big themes ive been weve been looking at over the past few over the past decade it was this a few decades it feels like weve been doing this show for decades but its just been 10 years this autumn we got right lobel is a sion and d. Dollar is a sham those are the 2 big themes and they are really really really reaching across the headlines around the world and its undeniable to anybody now we
Host this is the chief washington correspondent for Kaiser Health news to talk about a theme that emerged from the debates. Medicare for all versus public option. How would you decide those things . Option. How would you decide those thinks . Guest medicare for all, which is what some democrats have been running on for years, would basically take the Medicare Program that is popular. It serves 60 million seniors and expanded to everyone. In practice, that is not what it would do. It would create a more Generous Program that might or might not be called medicare and extended to the entire population. Is idea of medicare for all the government would pay the Nation Health bills. A public option would create a Government Program like medicare, medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet qualifications to get into the Government Health provided programs. A public option would make it easier for people to get into government paid health care. For democrats debating of the issue
All the government would pay all the nations bills and everybody would have Coverage Area and a public option on the other hand would create a government type program like medicare like medicaid and more available. Right now you have to meet certain qualifications to into any of the government provided health programs. A public option would makeit much easier for people to get into government , government page. For the democrats debating on these issues, why are they so firmly advocating for these two positions. I guess what im asking, whats wrong with the Current System . Everybody agrees the Current System is not working well. People are paying too much, most people have insurance but substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their insurance because they have multithousand dollar deductibles so everybody agrees that we need to fix whats broken. How you do that, democrats generally agree that everybody should have hea