Money & Markets Report: July 17, 2025
Money & Markets
Mask Off
In this explosive episode of Money & Markets, Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus dive deep into their “Mask Off” theme as institutional deception becomes impossible to hide. Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted 12 points in a single week following his administration’s refusal to pursue Jeffrey Epstein prosecutions while simultaneously appointing Epstein-connected officials to key positions.
John and Catherine expose a coordinated financial coup in progress, from the Fed’s surveillance of anti-ICE protesters to private equity firms like Blackstone and KKR gaining access to Americans’ 401(k) plans through new executive orders. Meanwhile, the stablecoin push represents a desperate attempt to maintain dollar hegemony as the BRICS nations accelerate de-dollarization efforts and China calls out Washington’s latest currency manipulation scheme.
From Moderna’s targeting of vulnerable children with new vaccine approvals to restaurants surveilling customers’ social media, the episode reveals how surveillance capitalism and organized crime tactics have become standard operating procedure. Catherine issues a rare storm warning about the scale of plunder coming, while John tracks the front-running of Trump’s trade announcements and the complete abandonment of financial market integrity.
Key topics include: Trump-Epstein connections destroying public trust, 401(k) private equity raids, stablecoin dollar imperialism, BRICS resistance strategies, Bohemian Grove decision-making, Thomas Massie’s Epstein files discharge petition, and why this represents the most dangerous phase of the ongoing coup.
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Sean Reynolds of NRP (News for Reasonable People) reports that criminals 1st Portland’s largest building, “the big Pink” sells for 88% less! Predicts financial disaster for blue, criminals 1st cities and states. 30 minutes approx.:
https://youtu.be/VLtR9uGUTaI?si=FQa0qvUgaTccL06H
Sandra, wow super interesting. The “news for reasonable people” host made a point to talk about the lack of security. Technocrats of the early 1900s were not unsympathetic to communalism, using the socialist/communists, which would pave the way for the authoritarianism that generally follows. We are seeing agitators recommending that other democrats, even elected ones, take one (bullet) for the team. Who is paying for the agitation would be a question I’d ask. Especially as the buildings are devalued substantially in Portland which will eventually change how tax receipts are generated. Either the city’s budget will be amended to address the shortfall or the other sources of revenue will have it be extracted. As Catherine would say, “jurisdiction matters.” Thank you for the post.
There is something brewing in the world of AI that is converging to create a massive burst of the commercial AI bubble. And basically, the bubble hasn’t burst yet but there are sign of massive fraud emerging, this is something many people who have tried to use the LLM AI systems have found but everyone keeps getting gaslit that “other people” are somehow getting fantastic productivity gains.
One of the first big claims that coincided with the release of ChatGPT was that coders were see ten fold increases in productivity and that with AI a Jr. coder could code at a Sr. level overnight.
The reality: when actually tested in the real world, coders using AI felt 20% more productive, yet when performance was measured, they actually were 19% LESS productive – yet had deceived themselves.
The actual study:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
and 5 min video on the study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96j1cIMYV1U
The next claim is that AI agents can automate all kinds of basic office tasks. I have even heard claims that an AI agent is like a PhD level intern.
The reality: In a Carnegie Mellon Study, many models fail over 90% of the time. The best model (which was the Google Model) fails over 70% of the time. Would you hire a worker who only does their job correctly 30% of the time?
The research paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14161
a short video on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ELXACQ6aMo
Then you have this Gartner study that found: “only about 130 of the thousands of agentic AI vendors are real.” Yet over 60% percent of the companies they had surveyed had invested in these AI agents.
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027
Damage from the hype has already been done, especially in the tech sector. I know many people who lost jobs due to layoffs because managers all thought they could get away with fewer staff. But what are the financial consequences to companies that went in on the hype only to find their coders are 20% slower or their agents screw up 90% of the time? The damage from the snake oil will be considerable. Unlike the dot-com bubble, it is not just the tech companies that will fail – they may bring down their clients.
One last item – a short video of the head of AI at Oxford saying LLMs are just a “hack” but have no inherent problem-solving ability.
https://youtu.be/7-UzV9AZKeU
Great content,thanks for that. Finally I can see some numbers on the performance improvement or rather lack of it. Imagine working with someone that has zero understanding of what they’re doing, that’s AI
AI is a fancy name for a basic parser. I started using ChatGPT and it has a wonderful gushy “personality” designed to encourage. However, when I asked how it parsed math expressions, the “personality” became that of a humorless old engineer, “7th root of X” or log_b. Irrespective, later I used Claude, equally interesting. I was reading the generated code in the second window, typed in how amazing to generate a few days worth of code in a few seconds. Claude, stated it needed to restart the chat with a new one; and did so, second panel was removed. It is possible to envision some use of this as a tool. My general concern is the use by children, easily impressionable. However, how much of the auto code is replacing tech is hard to know.
The Solari report noting suggested time lines, those seemed reasonable. The newest cars who are assisting the driver are not ready for prime time, what is depressing is we the consumer will be expected to pay for the development and resolution of these digital assistants. Just think about the last time you called and a bot was unable to verify you and so you eventually found a human if lucky (I’ve been hung up on multiple times calling my company’s help desk.). In all the sledge you get to “train” the bot.
If we think in terms of the “inventors dilemma” we realize that each technological leap is met with a slow grinding end to that technology before it’s replaced with something else. Then another significantly new novel technology has to be developed to notice a leap. Much of the digital space may have reached saturation. Think in terms of a small town and restaurants. For each new one, it’s highly likely one close. There is only so many hungry people looking for food. A 20 something who spends 109 days on their screen only has so much time to surf and is surfing one thing at a time. Unlike “back to the future” when Marty McFly turned on the wall screen and had multiple tv channels as if he could process this much data. Great post. I will check out your links.
Good news to report. Talked with a buddy today in Pennsylvania. He told me his daughters, mid 20’s, professionals in the medical field have ditched their smartphones. Their dad, my buddy who can’t seem to break the addiction told me his kids, and their friends ditched their smartphones for simple flip phones they leave off most of the time. When they go out together, just one carries a phone for emergencies. And is left off unless needed.
If I see someone wearing a device in their ear, wrist, back pocket. They get a polite 3 minute earful from me of the dangers from those devices, if they stay to listen. For years nobody stayed and most people would just walk away, laugh, or say things like; I can’t live without my phone, or my whole life is in this phone, what if…
That has changed. People stop and listen now and others gather. This happened again just the other day when some guy in Ace Hardware made a disparaging comment about smartphones, and I chimed in and we started talking. The next thing you know there are 4 other guys just listening. Not laughing, not telling us to shut up…
One nice lady said the other day. You know, your right. I get two calls a day. Why do I leave this thing on all the time, and she shut it off right there.
My emf meter is out on loan constantly these days where in years past, nobody was interested when I offered. When they return the meter now, they aren’t wearing their iwatch anymore either.
This is big news to me, some of the best news all year. We can blind the bastards if we get rid of smartphones and turn the simple ones off when not in use. I need to stop forgetting my Faraday bag when I leave the house.
Thanks for sharing this!
I miss the edit button.
dumbwireless, lets get dumb together.
https://dumbwireless.com/collections/phones
E-ink is very easy on the eyes and no glare in the sun.
Payment processors were already harassing, but it shows that CAF warning prediction on a total digital payment system that would regulate every aspect of your life is very much on globalists mind.
Payment Processors Are Now Censoring Steam Games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhrSQCEQ0jo
I just bought an annual subscription today. I need to know as soon as I can, the steps to purchasing XMR (Monero) and on what platform, etc.
Please and thank you in advance!
Kevin Vogl
Catherine, have you heard about a vaccine trial starting in Leuuwarden, Netherlands?
I believe charges are against Gates, Von Der Leyen, Burla and others.
Yes. I am listed as an expert witness.
What Joyce Benatti said! Ditto!
Awesome, praying for you!