# Why gold and silver crashed & Trump’s Fed Chair pick

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick.md
Podcast: [The Econoclasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002)
Published: 2026-02-04T00:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/these-times/episodes/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trumps-fed-chair-pick
Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/e/69823524c0f83f827c2d69df/media.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-econoclasts-6347002/episodes/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick
Duration seconds: 2012

## Resource

Following a historic price crash for gold and silver after President Trump picked Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dismantle the orthodoxies surrounding the slump and connect the dots between Warsh’s Mar-a-Lago family ties, the toxic legacy of Quantitative Easing, and the inevitable shift toward fiscal dominance, exposing why the crash is a symptom of a dying central banking era and a warning of the dollar debasement yet to come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-econoclasts-6347002/episodes/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/why-gold-and-silver-crashed-trump-s-fed-chair-pick.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.