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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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The underpinning to many discussions on Money and Markets, I think, is sovereignty. Both nationalistic and individual. This is an interesting explanation about the company “Fossil” closing more stores worldwide but more importantly accepting a bankruptcy settlement in a (foreign) British Court for an American Company.
“Rather than liquidating, the company accepted the U.K. High Court-approved restructuring deal, marking the first time a U.S.-listed firm used an English arrangement plan to restructure U.S. debt, according to Harvard Law School.” What does this say about legal sovereignty?
https://www.thestreet.com/retail/42-year-old-iconic-mall-retailer-fossil-group-quietly-closes-219-stores
I bought $135 of groceries today. I gave the clerk two $100 bills. She held them up to the light. I told her that they were Monopoly money and that all American money is simply Monopoly money. The man behind me in line complained about the high prices. I told him that my father raised a family of 5 at $3/hour. We had real money then. $3/hour is equivalent to $150/hour today. My groceries cost me less than 3 silver dollars. https://www.goldeneaglecoin.com/item/peace-dollars-very-good-to-extra-fine-1000-pcs
June 1968 was when the US moved into Monopoly money. After then, you could no longer exchange a paper note for a silver dollar. Americans will not listen, like the Germans did not listen in 1921.
People stare at me when I tell them that the entire US runs on credit. We have not paid for the War Between the States or any other war.
True, but then we could have just issued Greenbacks. In one sense, the debt and interest is a complete ruse.
Catherine,
New Mexico going after Meta does not impress me and looks more like following the federal government’s legislation meant to push “age verification” aka digital ID. It’s using the same playbook as Congress. “Protect the children from sexual exploitation” so they can destroy anonymity on the internet. Meta has been a very effective way to share and discuss politics among its users. The young are able to share all the information the internet has to offer that counters their teachers narratives and ultimately the government’s. The questions that need to be asked: since when has our government actually cared about children and how did New Mexico not know what was going on at Zorro Ranch?! I call BS on both of these.
Pretty reasonable point of view. However, it does bring out the intentional addiction factor. That is a very big deal.
Using a photo op of interview with Tucker Carlson to garner new members gives me pause:
Please see:
We need to talk about Tucker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe5E5OK_aHc
Tucker is likely struggling between David Hughes’ Camp 2 and Camp 3 media, and likely tilted well toward Camp 2.
Ryan Christian’s TLAV motto “Question Everything” (and everyone) is good counsel.
Yes Carlson has the numbers. That in itself says something.
I have a great deal of respect for David Hughes. I also have a great deal of respect for Tucker Carlson – both his show and how he lives his life. I see how much he has accomplished and the people he has reached. Example – check out his interview with Mike Huckabbe and see how he handled the attempt to hold one of his producers. I also hear a great deal from the people who have found Solari and our work as a result of my conversations with him. And that is a good thing. There is literally no website or commentator who we agree with all the time – but we are glad to align with the people pulling in the same direction. Carlson is one of them. So is Ryan Christian – he is the reason we are a member of the Independent Media Alliance.
I found the Huckabee interview to be namby-pamby at best. I do get that under the circumstances the conversation was most assuredly pre-approved and controlled. But then why do it? As far as his producer, I didn’t find his reaction unusually bold or courageous, and question his use of the incident as being self serving. He has impressed me for quite a while as being controlled opposition. A little scary considering the influence he has.
I did not find it namby pamby. It brought up and hammered the basic plunder lies – and proved them in a way that many evangelicals could start to hear them.
I back off from a line when I think it is going to get me killed. I never published my book in hard copy because I received a threat to my family that I took seriously. Does that make me controlled opposition? I hear or read daily that I am. I am an enterpreneur – I am required to sell it for more than it costs to make it. I challenge anyone to try to do that when 25% + of your annual expense is related to smear, sabotage and harrassment and your life and safety is in question.
We each do what we can do. Tucker has tried to work with the pro-centralization team. I have given up on them. Working with people inside the machines is his background and nature. He believes this is the way through. As the machines has disappointed, he has moved further out. And he wants to stay alive. Within those limits he gets an enormous amount done – and he has given voice to the old line wasps – that voice went quiet and it is sorely missed. He has brought it back for which I am seriously grateful.
Wow, that letter says it all. What’s so impressive is the date it was written, long before the sanction on such thoughts had been lifted.
My first article on 9/11 was published on September 18, 2001, calling the official story bunk. My first speech on the topic was to the congregation of my church on September 13, 2001. The great quote was my cousin’s farmhand and who stopped by my house on September 12, 2001 saying We (meaning the African American community) think it was the Bushes. What do you think? I demurred still not 100% sure he was not earning money as a snitch
TC was full on board with the Iraq war WMD nonsense.
If a nobody who knows nothing, like me, saw through that scam, how did he not? I’m guessing that Catherine was against that debacle from day one. Also his hate-love-don’t-like relationship with Trump is a little bizarre, especially since he had Trump, who has been a lowlife grifter his entire life, nailed before he flip-flopped. His seemingly smooth transition from fox-to-indy rockstar is a flag. Maybe he’s who he’s saying he is at this point, but…Ryan Christian’s mantra: question everything.
Was deeply opposed to Iraq from Day 1. The roll up of central banks was the march into the control grid. Put massive money into the pockets of the people emptying the $21 trillion….FYI
This was the letter that rocketed around the world which I published a year after the Iraq invasion
https://missingmoney.solari.com/whereisthemoney/hotseat/condoleezzarice.htm
It resulted in a poisoning that I believe was intended to kill me. I lived – by some divine miracle which I still do not understand but appreciate. My two cents was Cheney gave the order.
So, yes, I was not on board for the Iraq invasion.
People need to spend some time reflecting on how far they would step out on a limb, then a branch and then the twig when each step could endanger your family (spouse, children, grandchildren, etc).
There’s a difference between stepping carefully and “controlled opposition”. I daresay most of us would step cautiously.
I believe this problem is due to dialectic polarization of western culture. It has to be fully white, if not, its black. No nuances allowed. This sickness is destroying the world and sustains the forever wars to eradicate evil. Tiny problem, not much will be left when all is said and done.
I am so fedup with this bollocks but this weed is persistent. It feels if you pull one weed out, two replaces it! We are all human beings and most of us do good things and sin sadly, it comes with the territory of being human. Some choose purposfully to serve evil and do everything they can thru trickery to pen us in the same box so we choose evil willingly and join them. Lets not let them and grow up fast!
It is a great time to be alive.
I understand that the unredacted files are now available for Congress members to view. Are we going to learn the names of “newsworthy” people that sojourned to Epstein Island? IMO Epstein is not about “activities” on his island, it is mostly about the money laundering arrangements with “newsworthy” and powerful people stashing money in offshore and shadow banks many located on Caribbean Islands near the Gulf of America.
During the Biden years there were 470,000 UNACCOMPANIED children referred to or released by the Office of Refugee Resettlement under HHS. That number may be a little high as smugglers and cartels “recycled” children multiple times to exploit U.S. immigration processing rules that treated family units and unaccompanied children more leniently than single adults. It was a common practice often by a single male previously deported individual to claim (rent) a child as their own son or daughter. Then the child would be sent back to Mexico waiting to be “claimed” again.
DNA testing to verify parent-child relationship to detect fraud and help child trafficking ended in early 2023. Yup, for 2 years there were no DNA testing until it was reinstated in 2025.
What was Congress doing at this time? The Democrats were mute while a few Republican Senators and House members did travel to the border to bring attention to the government processing methods.
Currently there have been two investigations confirming that 70% of the vetting documentation submitted by sponsors was falsified by NGOs directed by Xavier Becerra. Much of this information has been established by interviewing the 35,000 “lost” children that were rescued by Homeland. How many unaccompanied children that became unaccounted in America? I understand the number is 300,000
The question I have is “Did the Biden-Harris administration fed a pipeline of thousands of children into sex trafficking and slave labor in America”? This activity was done in the name of We The People.
Prayer is good, prayer with repentance is better, prayer with repentance and fasting is best.
Time for transparency and accountability, it is way past overdue.
Child trafficking and pedophilia have been going on for centuries. As far as I can tell, no Administration has seriously tried to stop it
Nor has the news media
Hello Greenland. Got oil? That belongs to US.
At time 43.45 Catherine says, “Companies stopped being the client and started being the prey. That’s when it started. … ‘ 86 Tax Act was a big piece.”
What was the 86 Tax Act and what were its ramifications?
Also, any details on the article by Karen mentioned at time 47?