The PDF for Solari’s comprehensive report titled Plunder is now available to Solari Report subscribers!

Plunder—or warfare by economic means—is an ancient story. However, as detailed in this report, rapidly evolving technologies—including AI, satellites, and weaponized cryptocurrencies—are emboldening plunderers in ways that would have been unimaginable a century ago. Plunderers may now direct their activities at everyone from individuals to localities to regions to countries to the entire planet.

The report includes:

• An introduction by Catherine titled “Plunder: Financing the Panopticon,” describing some of the ways in which technological innovations are allowing plunder to blossom.
• “Case Studies in Plunder Capitalism,” which provides a framework for understanding plunder capitalists’ toolkit and presents seven 20th- and 21st-century examples of plunder (in Latin America, Russia, Kenya, Greece, Cyprus, Nigeria, Ukraine, and Gaza).
• “Plunder Capitalism: Land Grab Tactics,” which looks at the playbook that plunderers use to acquire real estate and land, whether by targeting property owners or implementing policies that favor plunderers.
• A summary of Catherine’s important 2024 interview with economist and banking expert Richard A. Werner on “The Profits of Economic Shock,” which considered six case studies (post-WWI Germany, the East Asian Financial Crisis of 1997–1998, Japan’s “Lost Decades,” the “Rape of Russia,” the squeeze in Greece and Cyprus, and the misleading push for gold-backed currency).
• Four other looks at various aspects of plunder by Catherine: “Is the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Trial Balloon the Next Step in the Great American Land Grab?; “The Plunder of Private Equity Billionaires and Two Books on Plunder”; “An Editorial Comment on Private Equity”; and “If Plunder Comes Your Way: Considerations and Action Steps.”
• Finally, in a section on Movies and Documentaries, Nina Heyn provides a counterexample to plunder by highlighting films that show positive forms of leadership.

Once you understand that the assaults on property and fundamental productivity “threaten to shrink the pie for one and all,” you can take individual and collective action to prevent plunder’s depredations. As Catherine notes, understanding that there are 1000 flavors of plunder provides 1000 more reasons to use cash!

Digital+Print subscribers will receive their hard copy of Plunder in the mail after it goes to print. Digital-Only subscribers can download and/or print the PDF (see links below) or order hard copies when they become available at the Solari Shop.

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