Economic Chaos as Markets Stall with Clem Chambers

Interview recorded - 30th of May, 2025

On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I have the pleasure of welcoming back Clem Chambers. Clem is an author, journalist and founder CEO of A New FN Europe’s leading stocks and markets website.

During our conversation we spoke about the overview of the economy, why the markets are crazy, Trump TACO trade, you should be cautious, government spending trajectory, end of US exceptionalism and more. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 - Introduction

1:02 - Overview of economy and markets?

6:04 - More confidence in markets?

10:35 - Trump always chickens out (TACO) trade

12:37 - Cautious

15:32 - Institutional money on the side-lines

23:46 - Government spending trajectory

27:26 - US exceptionalism over?

31:23 - Dollar down, US stocks down?

36:08 - Mercantilism

40:43 - One message to takeaway?

Clem Chambers is an author, journalist and founder/former CEO of ADVFN, Europe’s leading stocks and markets website. He is General Partner of Ylem Capital clem@ylem.capital. A sought after media commentator, Clem is a regular guest on major television networks including CNBC (US, Europe, Asia, Arabia), Al-Jazeera, BBC, BNN and Fox News.

The author of non-fiction titles including ‘Letters to my Broker’, ‘The Death of Wealth’ and the investment guides ‘101 Ways to Pick Stock Market Winners’ and ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Value Investing’, Clem writes for Seeking Alpha, Forbes and Engineering and Technology magazine and has written Nikkei BP, the Gulf News and The Scotsman as well as specialist trading and business publications Risk AFRICA, Traders and Your Trading Edge. He has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, which described him as a ‘Market Maven’.

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