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More moving parts than usual in 2025…For a few new ones, see Everything to Know about Trump’s Use of Executive Orders. The discussion below further elucidates.

During the macroeconomic segment of Round Table Prime’s 2025 edition, participants, among other issues, deliberate the future path of inflation, premature Trump administration assumptions at the Federal Reserve, the hidden but deepening distress of the U.S. consumer, the transformational unknowns of artificial intelligence and an awakening among Americans to their political class having abandoned them. Held Jan. 9 at DoubleLine’s downtown L.A. office. Here is a direct video link.

Here is Part Two.

The winds of change are blowing around the globe.

74 countries representing half of the world’s population held national elections last year.

Many of them — including the US — saw a replacement of the ruling incumbent by the opposition, often one promising a more nationalistic agenda.

With so many new leaders and their accompanying new policies, what is the outlook for the global economy and financial markets in 2025?

To discuss, we have the great fortune of speaking today with Richard Koo, Chief Economist at the Nomura Research Institute as well as author of numerous best-selling books on economics.Here is a direct video link.

For the last 50 years, Americans have flocked to the warm, sunny South. But, as climate change makes extreme heat, hurricanes, wildfire and flooding worse, will that trend ever STOP? Well, some regions might just be showing signs of a reversal, and they hold lessons for what other areas might expect as the world continues to warm. Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare. Here is a direct video link.