The Markets

"The Markets" is the name of the former opening segment of the True Capitalist Radio broadcast, appearing throughout the 2011 to 2012 incarnation of the show. The Markets began about five minutes into the show, after Ghost played his intro-jingle and introduces himself, and continued for about a half an hour to an hour.

Segment
Ghost summarized the day in the markets and expanded on the points he finds important. He goes through the major stock entities and continues through the commodities and futures, reading the data from Bloomberg's markets section. Ghost often stopped and ranted on Corn, Wool and Coffee, with each segment having a speech Ghost repeated on a nearly daily basis.

Ghost is known for always claiming to have made money even in bear markets. He usually took time to advocate bottom feeding. By the end of the markets he was often already drinking some form of alcohol. He claims this is Johnnie Walker Blue Label (although it was often switched around with beer such as Spaten, which he usually takes the time to pour into a German-made crystal glass as well). This does not support the cans theory.

Trolls would often began to attempt to agitate Ghost towards the end of the segment by spamming the Chatroom expressing their boredom. Ghost would sometimes lock it down as a cautionary response measure to their frustrations.

The Market rundown's Structure
Ghost's rundown on the Market was usually done in this order:

The Return
Upon his return in 2016, after the Emergency Broadcast, Ghost advised his listeners to withdraw from the market, claiming that he already has, and that a market crash is inevitable. Ghost explained that the markets are now controlled by the Government, that the merger between business and 'big brother government' is too close for the markets to be a safe place for capitalizing. Ghost used this as his justification for ending the segment of True Capitalist Radio.

The show's format has not changed considerably with this decision, as shows are currently only two hours long instead of the earlier three. Ghost claims he will bring the show's original time duration back in June 2016, but has made no mention of resurrecting this segment (and therefore will likely utilize the time originally intended for it to give News Commentary and take more calls).