Money & Markets Report: August 13, 2026
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In this Aug. 13 episode of Money & Markets, the hosts frame the week’s news as “hegemon cracking,” citing Trump’s openness to declaring a national emergency to impose voting changes, ongoing Iran tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, and Pentagon pressure to accelerate weapons production amid depleted munitions. They discuss how the U.S.–Iran war has shifted Asia’s oil and LNG sourcing, with the U.S. and Russia benefiting while key U.S. allies lose, and describe Japan considering Palantir/Anduril systems that deepen military integration with the U.S. They cover U.S. euro sales to support the yen, foreign Treasury holdings versus the Fed’s $4.5T, Greenland drilling tied to Trump-linked interests, Venezuela oil revenues held by the U.S. Treasury, a new Colombia president aligned with Trump, labor’s record-low share of GDP, EU use of interest from frozen Russian assets, EU cash-payment limits, a major cold-wallet Bitcoin theft mechanism, and pushback including a New Mexico Meta judgment and a lawsuit for unredacted Epstein files, while warning the bond market near 5% yields is the weak link.
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C’mon billionaires can’t write? Billionaires Got Talent! Do we we get to vote? Or just those 4 celebrity judges…
`The ones that are used to front as not as talented as you might think.
You’re both absolutely spot on about The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
Both were hijacked.
Interestingly, the largest early funders of the Tea Party was the Katz Family (a father and two sons, all of whom made their fortunes in the student loan business). I estimate that the family made far more, even, than Albert Lord in the business.
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs//C00540898/donors/2014
Conversely but similarly, OWS did not start as a left leaning movement. It was a populist movement that was hijacked. A very shady student loan activist group started there, for example, that would never disclose where their funding came from to pay for their staff of 25 people, and was later found to be business partners with the student loan industry. They put on a great show of being ultra-liberal, sporting blue hair, nose rings, and spouting Marxist rhetoric constantly.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the same people funded both of those efforts. Both sides.
Divide and Conquer.
It drives me crazy when most everybody talks about the Iran conflict going on for 47 or even 50 years. It’s been going on since at least 1953. By my count that’s 73 years. Our international boorishness has aroused three full generations of righteous Iranian anger against us and, as someone who will share in the pain, I’m afraid we deserve every bit of what we will get.
Excellent point – yes, it has been going on for a long, long time.
Test Trading of Tokenized assets across Wall Street.
Patrick Wood
https://www.technocracy.news/jpmorgan-goldman-and-38-others-test-trading-of-tokenized-assets-across-wall-street/
I am a long-time viewer of Money & Markets as I love the coverage and insights of international news and subjects – as well as reviewing events that I may have missed or been unaware. But about a year ago, it got to the point that I was so exasperated with John’s arguments which – to me – he just did not get the essential point, especially in finance, but would carry on debating anyways. Should I stop watching?
Then I had a eureka moment and decided to turn the table – to watch and to listen to how Catherine handled the arguments. Using the CAF-method, I stay calm and focused on the subject at hand. I have learned how to manage points of discussion with people who start pontificating on subjects on which they are off the mark. My knowledge and ability to discuss a range of topics has increased tremendously.
Point-counterpoint. Yin and yang.
Many thanks to both Catherine and John!
Always be respectful, patient, and considerate. Avoid argumentative, division langauage. And don’t speak about violence and dstruction. Doing this will open the ears of the listener
🙂
Hi Catherine
Can you share the name of the book you suggested in this interview about the skill of Entrepreneurial Mindset?
Deep Survival by Lawrence Gonzales https://solari.com/deep-survival/
I’d like to hear Money and Markets discuss Josh Shapiro, former IDF volunteer, current governor of PA, recently in the news apparently lying about an infant’s death. Looks like he may be in the front of the line for dem candidate for president.