The Zach Foust Show

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  This State has a HUGE problem w/ Michael Smith | ZFS 105 19.09.2026 1ч 35мин

  Send us Fan Mail Delaware has a problem and it comes down to three things. Housing, jobs, and retirement. Today I break all three down and then sit with Michael Smith, Democrat candidate for Delaware State Treasurer, to ask him what he actually plans to do about it. Here is where we are. Bloomberg just named Delaware the rising number one retirement state in the country and nobody told the people who already live here. Sussex County population is up 17% since 2020, growing five times faster ...
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  Gas & diesel prices just SOARED, what happens now??? | ZFS 104 18.09.2026 1ч 20мин

  Send us Fan Mail Gas is at $4.44 nationally, up nearly 50% since this war started in February. Diesel just hit a record $6.40, up 77 cents in the first two weeks of September alone. In California diesel is already at $8 a gallon. Sean, Joe and I break down exactly why this is happening and why I do not think it comes back down anytime soon. Here is what most coverage misses. Crude oil is not the story. Diesel is. Diesel is the single most universal tangible input in the American economy, it m...
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  The Buyers are GONE...What Happens Next? | ZFS 103 08.09.2026 1ч 15мин

  Send us Fan Mail The buyers are gone. Not just in housing, not just in cars, everywhere, across every major purchase in this country and honestly across the globe. Sean, Joe and I dig into why, and it all comes back to the same place. We start with the August jobs report. 162,000 jobs created, way above expectations, with June and July both revised upward by a combined 55,000 jobs. Sounds great, right? Except the stock market fell and bond yields went up the second the number dropped. That t...
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  Will Housing Ever Become Affordable? | ZFS 102 01.09.2026 1ч 28мин

  Send us Fan Mail Will housing ever become affordable? Sean, Joe and I dig into what it would actually take for home prices to come down, and why the answer is a lot more complicated than everyone screaming crash on TikTok wants it to be. We start with the number that should stop you cold. The qualifying income for a starter home in America right now is $103,584 a year. That is just to get your foot in the door. Then we play a clip of Trump saying he does not want housing prices to come down b...
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  They Are Buying Their Own Debt Now | ZFS 101 28.08.2026 1ч 15мин

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 101. Sean is back on the boards, healthy and happy, and we are digging into the trickery happening over at the Treasury and the impossible position the Federal Reserve has put itself in. Here is the setup. The July Treasury statement shows $334 billion came in and $766 billion went out. That is more than double. A $432 billion deficit in a single month. Scott Bessent's answer is that we will grow our way out of it, mostly through tariff revenue. So we ran the math. Ou...
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  5 Ways to THRIVE in a TOUGH 2027 economy | ZFS 100 22.08.2026 1ч 50мин

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 100. Thank you for being here for every single one. Sean is out sick so Joe is on the boards, and today I am giving you five things you can actually do to not just survive but thrive in what I believe is going to be a very tough 2027 economy. First I walk you through the setup. We just passed 40 trillion in national debt, and the interest on that debt is now over 1.1 trillion a year, more than our entire military budget. That has never happened until seven months ago....
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  A WARNING FLARE WENT UP.....what happens next? | ZFS 99 16.08.2026 38мин

  Send us Fan Mail A warning flare just went up in the currency markets and almost nobody is talking about what it actually means. The United States just bought the Japanese yen for the first time in over a decade, and I want to walk you through why that quiet little intervention is a much bigger deal than it looks. I break down the yen carry trade in plain English on the whiteboard. How investors and governments borrow cheap yen at around 1% and buy US bonds paying 4% to pocket the difference...
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  What's next for America? | ZFS 98 13.08.2026 1ч 1мин

  Send us Fan Mail This one is different. No graphs, no headlines, no breakdown. Just me and the mic asking a question I have not been able to shake. What is next? For this country, and for me. I have spent four and a half years calling out what is broken. The banking system, the housing crisis, the corruption, the wars, the surveillance state going up on every corner. And lately I keep asking myself whether calling it out is still the work, or whether it is time to start calling people in ins...
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  The AI Bubble Is Being Funded With Fake Money | ZFS 97 12.08.2026 1ч 35мин

  Send us Fan Mail Everybody is talking about whether AI is a bubble. Almost nobody is talking about how it is actually being paid for, and that is the part that should scare you. Sean, Joe and I follow the money all the way down. I walk through the four ways the hyperscalers like Meta, Google, Oracle, and Nvidia are funding this AI buildout. First capital expenditure, which jumped from 18 billion a quarter in 2019 to 130 billion a quarter today. Then domestic corporate bonds, which exploded fr...
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  Morocco, Israel and the Strait Nobody Is Watching | ZFS 96 04.08.2026 1ч 27мин

  Send us Fan Mail Is the Strait of Hormuz really open? Is the war really over? And why did 60,000 to 80,000 migrants flood a tiny Spanish territory two weeks after we quietly sent Morocco 40 million dollars? Sean, Joe and I connect the dots. We start with the Iran deal that Trump touted on Fox News, the 41st time he has declared this thing basically over. The stock market is at a new all time high, oil is finally dropping, and the Iran Oman plan to reopen the Strait would still hand Iran full...
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  This Crash Indicator is FLASHING RED | ZFS 95 31.07.2026 51мин

  Send us Fan Mail Nobody taught us how bonds work in school, so I am going to teach you today, because the 30 year Treasury bond just hit a 19 year high and almost nobody is talking about it. I am broadcasting from the producer chair and breaking down the one signal that cannot be spun by either party. The bond market. I walk you through what a bond actually is, what a yield actually means, how the Dutch auction sets the rate, and why when these long term bond rates climb, your mortgage rate ...
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  The Rothschilds Are Mentioned 12,000 Times in the Epstein Files | ZFS 94 29.07.2026 1ч 30мин

  Send us Fan Mail We are still talking about Epstein because it still is not resolved. Sean, Joe and I pull up the corruption map again and go name by name through the people we believe should be investigated, arrested, and tried, not gallivanting through NBA finals and FIFA World Cups while the victims get doxxed. We start with the number that stopped me cold. The Rothschild name appears 12,056 times in the Epstein library. Trump's name appears 5,317 times. So why is one of those the only one...
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  The Epstein Cover Up Is Falling Apart | ZFS 93 24.07.2026 50мин

  Send us Fan Mail I did not want to make this episode. I have been trying to bring positivity into this space, but there are no good updates on the Epstein files and I owe you the truth. We have 6 million files. Only 3 million have seen the light. Todd Blanche and the DOJ just told a federal judge they will not release or unredact the rest, including at least eight email exchanges about a torture video, interviews with a woman who says she was abused by Trump as a minor, and the records tied t...
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  Could Housing Crash? | ZFS 92 22.07.2026 1ч 23мин

  Send us Fan Mail Everybody on TikTok is telling you the housing market is collapsing. 227,000 foreclosures. Homes crashing 80 to 90%. A $1.5 million house selling for $300,000. I went through the three most viral clips making these claims and I brought something none of them did. Math. Here is what is actually happening. Those 227,000 are foreclosure filings, not completed foreclosures. There is a massive difference. Back in 2010 there were 1.65 million filings and most of them never became ...
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  Headlines good? Reality bad? | ZFS 91 15.07.2026 1ч 9мин

  Send us Fan Mail The White House posted a graph this week saying prices are falling. I need to be very clear about something. Prices are not falling. Inflation came in at 3.5% for June which means everything you buy is 3.5% more expensive than it was this time last year. That is not deflation. That is not prices coming down. That is propaganda posted at a convenient moment before the war started back up again. I walk through every major headline hitting the economy right now and tell you what...
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  What Made Housing so EXPENSIVE? | ZFS 90 08.07.2026 1ч 13мин

  Send us Fan Mail Before Covid I got sandwich makers into homes. Deli workers. Campus security guards. Single airmen fresh out of basic training. Sub thousand dollar mortgages every week here in Delaware. That world is completely gone and I want to walk you through exactly why. In this episode Sean, Joe and I break down the real causes of the housing crisis from the ground up. Median home prices. Rental increases since 2015. The $4 trillion the Federal Reserve printed in 2020 and where that mo...
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  House Bill Breakdown and Inflation Update | ZFS 89 03.07.2026 1ч 22мин

  Send us Fan Mail Three things on the table today. The Road to Housing Act, the jobs numbers, and Trump enriching himself from office. I walk through the housing bill section by section and give you my honest take on what is actually good, what is a grant nobody will fund, and what is missing entirely. The corporate ownership cap has no divestment clause. That is a problem. The manufactured home chassis requirement removal is one of the best ideas in the whole bill. I break it all down. On job...
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  Are they selling America for parts? | ZFS 88 29.06.2026 1ч 23мин

  Send us Fan Mail I just finished laying 204 feet of fencing. No producer, no notes, no script. Just me in the basement with something on my mind that I cannot shake. I think the tech bros are winning. And I do not mean that as a compliment. I spent two hours in Afghanistan in 2013 working alongside an intel contractor who had a blimp camera 400 yards in the air that could read a name tag from two miles away in 10K resolution. That was 2013. Now Flock cameras are going up in Milford Delaware r...
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  Would GEN Z survive the 2010 economy? | ZFS 87 24.06.2026 57мин

  Send us Fan Mail The government says cumulative inflation since 2010 is 52.72%. I think that number is a lie and I have the receipts. I spent time building out what I am calling the Real Inflation Tracker. I took real items that real 25 to 34 year olds buy every single week and I looked at what they cost in 2010 versus what they cost today. A McDonald's meal that was $5.29 in 2010 is now $16.79. That is not 52%. That is over 200%. A pack of bacon, ground beef, dish soap, car insurance, health...
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  How much have prices REALLY gone up? | ZFS 86 23.06.2026 1ч 3мин

  Send us Fan Mail The government says cumulative inflation since 2010 is 52.72%. I think that number is a lie and I have the receipts. I spent time building out what I am calling the Real Inflation Tracker. I took real items that real 25 to 34 year olds buy every single week and I looked at what they cost in 2010 versus what they cost today. A McDonald's meal that was $5.29 in 2010 is now $16.79. That is not 52%. That is over 200%. A pack of bacon, ground beef, dish soap, car insurance, health...