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Zero-Sum Pump: Grift, Market Manipulation, Tokenized Stocks & the Rising Control Grid | Money & Markets
John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss a “zero-sum pump” casino economy where gains for insiders are subsidized and losses are dispersed through millions of retirement accounts.
They cover Trump’s stock buys before pausing tariffs, the Trump family’s crypto profits and UAE-linked World Liberty Financial deal amid weakened financial enforcement, and contrast this with FBI focus on “anti-capitalist” graffiti. They analyze a SpaceX “pump and dump,” index-fund inclusion shifting losses to workers, wealth inequality, and a historic low share of first-time homebuyers.
They warn of a new rising-rate cycle, elevated Shiller P/E, and argue tokenized stocks and stablecoins could expand 24/7 leveraged speculation to billions, enabling programmable control over stocks, bonds, and deposits. They also cover White Helmets in Venezuela, violence against women in the Army, Presbyterian divestment over Gaza, Ukraine war updates, prediction markets on wildfires, data center subsidies raising bills, de-Googling tips, and Solari updates including Jon Rappoport’s hospice news.
00:00 Welcome and Theme
01:44 Trump Tariff Trade Timing
06:27 Grift Nation and Crypto
13:02 UAE Crypto Deal
15:21 FBI Targets Graffiti
18:02 SpaceX Pump and Dump
22:58 Wealth Gap and Housing
28:46 Affordability and Rule of Law
32:08 Rates Cycle and Debt Warning
38:07 Denninger Praise and Jabs
38:53 Shiller PE Explained
40:22 Bubbles Pumpers vs Value
43:42 White Helmets in Venezuela
48:02 Army Violence Crisis
55:35 Presbyterians Divest Israel
57:32 Ukraine War Reality Check
01:06:36 Tokenized Stocks Pitch
01:09:31 Programmable Money Guardrails
01:15:01 Ponzi Extension via Leverage
01:18:06 Wildfire Prediction Markets
01:22:22 AI Data Center Costs
01:24:20 Trump Meme Coin Losses
01:29:27 Bond Divestment Pressure
01:34:19 Flock Camera Pushback
01:36:49 De Google Your Life
01:44:07 Markets Reset Chart
01:48:06 Jon Rappoport Tribute
01:52:22 War for Bankocracy Update
01:54:51 Student Loan Trap
01:57:34 Hero of the Week
01:59:03 Closing and War Outlook
Latest solari report & ask catherine
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The Charlie Kirk trial has been a disaster for the state. Too bad it’s getting drowned out by other headlines, huh?
It hasn’t. The state has the alt media tuned to all sorts of people that believe it to be important but make people believe they are getting some inside info. If you know there is a genocide in Gaza, a genocide in Ukraine, a great poisoning, massive fraud in the markets – why does the whodunit around Kirk matter. It matter as much as the OJ trial or the Ana Nicole Smith murder mattered. I.e. it only matter to serve to take people’s energy away from doing something about all the bigger issues that do actually matter.
Pluto, the planet representing subatomic transformation, takes approximately 250 years to orbit the Sun. This means that right now, Pluto has returned to the place it was in July of 1776 within Capricorn (which rules hierarchies). In the chart of the United States, Capricorn governs the 2nd house of Values. Pluto’s return to the place it was when the revolutionary ideals of, “God-given rights”, “Liberty” & “Democracy” were woven into the fabric of our great Nation marks a time of fundamental transformation in terms of the values we hold dear. Right now, we have the opportunity to double-down on our original philosophy, realize where we have gone astray, and shift-back into alignment with those ideas of self-government (which imply self-responsibility). We also have the opportunity to become absolutely unrecognizable as a Nation by the time this transit ends. As Benjamin Franklin stated all those years ago: “You have a Republic, if you can keep it.”
Thanks for sharing Mary
It is pretty amazing when you think of it. I never heard of the astrology part, but it coincides with the War of Independence and Martin Armstrong’s Socrates AI Model.
From Britannica, The War for Independence began in April 1775 (Battles of Lexington and Concord) and ended Sept. 1983 (signing of the Treaty of Paris).
Martin Armstrong’s model, for years, has been showing 2032 as the climax of a cycle. Government defaults with restructuring, new political systems and a change in geographical empires. Even. the USA may fracture. Again the chose is ours – reorganize into entirely new decentralized systems or be under authoritarian rule.
Default is impossible. If you can print money out of thin air, it is literally impossible to default. You simply inflate. Default would be a fake politically engineered event.
I’m so sad to hear Jon Rappaport is doing very poorly health wise. I first met him in Mexico
in 2005..also when I met Catherine..and he’s so brilliant and hilarious!! I can still remember
him talking about the ‘Bird Flu’ , on stage flapping his arms like a bird, totally laughing at
how ridiculous the whole thing was. Fabulous presentatiotimn. Also Catherine gave a brilliant,
cohesive talk that, for the first time, I could begin to understand how the economy works.
Still learning so much from you!!
Catherine – rest assured that the “mudfests” are thriving in Missouri, I cringe at good grazing land being converted to mud pits, but the – legal – joy they bring is evident!
Not coincidentally, the rural “kids are alright” – but only if we strive to preserve it and support the city kids that want to grow into it . . . urbanity is only serving to destroy the Republic at this point.
Good to know. Mud pits – did not know the name for them. Was an amazing discovery.
I just opened a webpage for mapquest.co.uk.
Initially I was so happy to find an alternative to bing or google.
Then I saw all these references to “google adservers”.
One small contribution I make to individual freedom, is to block as many google adservers at my firewall. I figure I do what I can to cut down on google’s revenues.
What come up next ?
“Please install the free MapQuest Directions extension for Google Chrome™”
Yuck!
Groan. I never use Google maps. One day was exhausted and did. Had a new computer in the back of the car that I just picked up. Within 10 mins had a stringer on my tail. I knew if I made the next stop the computer would be gone. Drove home kicking myself for letting the intel guys take a free shot.
Dang, Catherine- I cannot even imagine 🙁
Haven’t had a chance to listen to this episode yet, but Patrick Wood does a phenomenal job explaining in his new book how, “You will own nothing”. Iain Davis’s book on Technocracy and it was excellent.
Patrick explains the nuts and bolts of how ownership goes away, as well as the inclusion of the Islamic world( largely unbanked) into the digital system which is sharia-law compliant.
He has been talking about Technocracy for a very long time. In this book he ties together some very important puzzle pieces about the rollout of the beast system. I don’t want to ruin it for those who may want to read it so I will say no more, but highly recommend it.
Howdy Catherine
It has been 10 years ago to the month that I first shared with you that Donald Trump reminded me of a trapper, like a Davy Crocket trapper. But instead of tracking his prey, he sets up camp and waits for the jackals to attack. Have the jackals attacked? Here is a list off the top of my head: Trump towers bugged
HRC feeds the media the Steele report with the support of Comey
White House leakers to news media
Crossfire Hurricane
Impeachment of a Ukraine phone call
Media providing 90% anti-Trump coverage
2017 to 2021 attempted coup
Mueller Report
2021 impeachment over Jan 6th
2020 election coup
Criminal and civil legal actions (lawfare)
91 indictments
States attempting to get Trump off ballots
Social media, Facebook and Twitter censorship
Attempt to bankrupt
Bank accounts frozen
Arrested with mugshot
Raid on Mar A Lago
The attacks were not isolated to Donald Trump, but also his family, cabinet, and staff. Two of his staff were arrested and served 4 months. Rudy G. was targeted and had to declare bankruptcy. John Eastman lost his law license in California. And any lawfirm that represented President Trump most likely lost business.
So over the 10 years as the jackals attacked it seems Donald Trump has gotten stronger and the jackals have become vulnerable as the sunlight is starting to shine on them.
When I step back and look at all these events to take down President Trump I have to ask “was all this co-ordinated with all sources” Were they communicating in a secret fashion so not to be detected. No, I am not speaking of sea shells. What if the jackals thought they had a safe way of communicating, like HRC thought she did with her home server. But, what if the secret method of communicating was hacked exposing their moves?
I’ll go with more “what ifs”. 10 years ago I also shared with you about the analogy of the Harlem Globetrotter bus where the Washington Generals (Mil Intel) got tired of playing second fiddle with the Globetrotters (Elites) and jumped into the seat of the bus to take control. To which Catherine, you replied ” But Bob is the bus on a 3rd rail” Good point.
But “what if” the Washington Generals have been collecting lots and lots of data and hard evidence of the mischief of the jackals. If there is a goal to develop a Grand Conspiracy you are going to have hard evidence on their activities. That includes burner phones, emails, video with voice recordings, money exchanges, etc.
For instance “what if” the Washington Generals knew beforehand on the arrangement of both parties to “create” a resurrection on Jan 6 would they send a team into the Capitol to obtain laptops? Download information off laptops? Plant listening devices in “safe areas” in the Capitol?
So what the hell is Bob trying to say? I am considering we may be witnessing a 10 year long sting. We do have a developing petroleum reserve shortage. What a great excuse to shut down all travel activity and place the military in the streets to start arresting the people who commited treason and sedition.
Yes, I know this sounds way out. But I reflect on Sun Tzu. “Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt”
What a time to be alive, I am blessed.
Prayer is good, prayer with repentance is better, prayer with repentance and fasting is best
Have not checked the following list of Trump family grift. Maybe you want to. Allegations of Grifting, Bribery/Emoluments, Insider Dealing, and Conflicts of Interest
Donald Trump, the Trump family, and Jared Kushner — a research summary (July 2026)
User’s Question
Please list all the allegations of grifting, bribes and emoluments, and insider trading and dealings and conflicts of interest by President Trump and members of his family, including son in law Jared Kushner. List them in categories, including crypto, real estate, stock market, private equity, enforcement and other. Then list your picks for most reliable recent sources on these topics.
Response
These are documented allegations and reported facts, some contested by the White House, which has repeatedly denied any conflicts of interest. This is a summary of what’s been publicly reported, not a legal finding — none of these matters has produced a criminal conviction of Trump or Kushner to date.
1. Crypto
World Liberty Financial (WLF): Family-linked venture (Trump “chief crypto advocate,” Eric Trump/Don Jr. “Web3 ambassadors,” Barron Trump “DeFi visionary”). Trump’s 2025 disclosure reported roughly over $550 million from World Liberty Financial token sales, plus $260 million from selling interests in the business and $196 million from a Stablecoin Holdco equity sale.
UAE stake: A firm linked to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan bought a 49% stake in WLF, paying $187 million to Trump family entities and at least $31 million to Witkoff family entities, raising conflict-of-interest questions since Tahnoon’s chip-access interests coincided with a U.S. approval to export advanced AI chips to a company he backs.
Binance ties: WLF’s USD1 stablecoin relies heavily on Binance; Sen. Blumenthal opened an inquiry into $1.7 billion in USD1 flows to Iranian proxies and Russia’s shadow fleet, and DOJ opened a probe into Iran’s use of Binance to evade sanctions. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was later pardoned by Trump.
$TRUMP memecoin: A New York Times report found nearly 1 million investors lost a combined $3.8 billion on the coin, while Trump reported $635 million from a “Celebration Coins” royalty arrangement tied to the memecoin.
Alt5 Sigma deal: The Trump family was entitled to roughly $500 million from a 2025 crypto transaction in which Alt5 Sigma acquired $1.5 billion of WLF tokens; the stock fell more than 90% afterward, and watchdogs asked the SEC to investigate disclosure issues.
Pakistan deal: Zach Witkoff negotiated a crypto-integration agreement with Pakistan’s finance minister; a month later Steve Witkoff negotiated a U.S.–Pakistan deal on redeveloping a Manhattan hotel Pakistan’s government owns.
Regulatory rollback benefiting the family’s holdings: DOJ dissolved its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and dropped or paused numerous crypto enforcement cases — Kraken, Coinbase, and Gemini cases were dismissed after each donated $1 million to Trump; the Binance case was dismissed after the $2 billion WLF stablecoin deal. Deputy AG Todd Blanche ordered the shutdown while personally holding up to $485,000 in crypto investments, which ethics experts said violated conflict-of-interest law.
Pardons of crypto figures: Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, BitMEX’s founders, and Changpeng Zhao — Zhao had pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering as Binance CEO and served time before Binance became central to WLF’s stablecoin business.
2. Real Estate
Gulf licensing deals: Trump reported $38 million in licensing fees from Gulf real estate projects in Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, including $21.9 million from Saudi developer Dar Al Arkan and $12.5 million from UAE’s Damac.
Qatar golf resort: The Trump Organization partnered with Saudi and Qatari firms (Dar Global and Qatari Diar, funded by Qatar’s government) on a golf and villa project, despite an earlier pledge to make no new deals with foreign governments while Trump is in office.
Qatari jet: Trump accepted a roughly $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family for use as Air Force One, which a Columbia Law ethics scholar called “a pretty textbook case of a violation of the Emoluments Clause.”
Congressional response: Democrats introduced a resolution declaring these foreign real estate arrangements unconstitutional under the Foreign Emoluments Clause because Congress never consented, and demanding proceeds be transferred to the U.S. government.
3. Stock Market
Tariff-pause trading: The day before Trump announced his 90-day tariff pause, his investment accounts made 327 stock purchases worth up to $12.8 million near the market low — disclosed more than a year late. Hours before the pause, Trump posted “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” signed “DJT,” his company’s ticker; Trump Media stock jumped roughly 22% on the pause announcement. Sen. Adam Schiff and others called for an insider-trading/market-manipulation investigation; legal experts noted that because the post was public, a classic insider-trading claim is legally difficult.
Intel: Trump’s accounts bought $250,000–$500,000 of Intel stock four days before announcing a nearly $9 billion federal equity stake in the company, after which Intel shares rose 6%.
Palantir/Micron/Dell: Trump bought Palantir stock while increasing its federal contracts; publicly thanked Micron after it pledged $250 million to his “Trump Accounts” program following a stock jump; bought Dell stock after Dell pledged $6.2 billion to the same program.
Prediction markets / Iran and Venezuela: Oil futures markets saw over $500 million in trades roughly 15 minutes before Trump announced a pause in plans to strike Iranian power plants; Polymarket saw suspiciously well-timed bets ahead of the Iran and Venezuela actions.
GEO Group: Trump’s disclosure shows his investment accounts bought shares of GEO Group, a private ICE detention contractor, starting 10 days after inauguration, increasing purchases as detainee numbers rose.
4. Private Equity (Kushner / Affinity Partners)
Foreign sovereign funding: Affinity Partners, formed by Kushner in 2021, draws its funding overwhelmingly from the Saudi government’s Public Investment Fund ($2 billion), with UAE and Qatar as other major investors; the firm returned no profits to investors through 2024. PIF officials who screen investments objected, but Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally overruled them.
Management fees: Affinity has collected about $157.5 million in management fees from foreign governments, including $87 million from Saudi Arabia alone, despite investing only a fraction of committed funds. The Senate Finance Committee reportedly told DOJ it found “significant evidence” Kushner acted as an unregistered foreign agent of Saudi Arabia under FARA.
Conflicts while serving as envoy: A March 2026 congressional letter found Affinity backed by billions tied to Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari governments while Kushner simultaneously led U.S. Middle East negotiations without Senate confirmation or standard security vetting. The New York Times reported Kushner’s firm met with Saudi officials — the same government he had earlier publicly promised not to solicit funds from during Trump’s second term. Kushner also met with Iranian officials on the administration’s behalf around the same period.
Electronic Arts buyout: Affinity partnered with Saudi Arabia’s PIF on a $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts, with the Saudi fund ending up owning roughly 93% of EA.
Investigations: House Judiciary and Senate Finance Committee Democrats have opened investigations into Kushner’s fundraising while in a diplomatic role.
5. Enforcement / Regulatory Rollback
Crypto enforcement dismantled: DOJ disbanded the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and directed prosecutors to stop pursuing crypto regulatory enforcement, a decision issued by an official (Blanche) who held crypto investments at the time.
Scale of dismissals: Within Trump’s first month back in office, investigations against at least 89 crypto-related companies were dismissed; the SEC also froze a fraud case against Justin Sun after he purchased $75 million of WLF’s token and attended a White House dinner for top memecoin buyers.
Broader corporate rollback: The administration reportedly dropped or paused enforcement actions against roughly 165 corporations in its first year, including about 40 investigations into Elon Musk’s companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink) after Musk’s election spending.
Public Integrity Section gutted: DOJ’s public-corruption unit shrank from 35–40 attorneys to two, and its open cases dropped from about 200 to around 20.
Pardons for donors/allies: Democratic lawmakers sent letters to pardon recipients asking whether clemency followed a “pay-to-play” arrangement; examples cited include Changpeng Zhao (Binance), Trevor Milton (after roughly $2 million in campaign donations), Paul Walczak (tax fraud, mother attended a MAGA fundraiser), and the Chrisleys. Some pardons/commutations also erased court-ordered restitution owed to fraud victims.
6. Other
Government contracts to associates: Stephen Miller held up to $250,000 in Palantir stock around the time ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million no-bid surveillance contract.
Donor favors: Pilgrim’s Pride made a $5 million inauguration donation and subsequently got a salmonella regulation reversed.
East Wing/ballroom donors: Companies with pending government business or regulatory interests — including Google, Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, and Coinbase — contributed to funding the White House ballroom/East Wing project.
USPS gun-shipping rule: Reported allegations that DOJ pushed USPS to reverse a decades-old rule against mailing handguns in a way that would benefit a company Donald Trump Jr. holds a stake in (per Sen. Murphy’s Senate floor remarks — a partisan source, flagged as such in the sources section below).
Michael Boulos (Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law): Reportedly received $100,000 for leveraging Trump family ties to help a Saudi businessman recover assets seized by the Saudi government.
7. The Board of Peace
Structure and financing: Trump chairs the Board of Peace, an international body established alongside the Gaza ceasefire plan, with membership requiring a $1 billion contribution to renew past the first three years. Watchdogs have flagged that this fee structure could create conflicts of interest, though the administration says the effort is about peace, not profit.
Kushner’s dual role: Kushner sits on the Executive Board alongside Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Tony Blair — while simultaneously running Affinity Partners, which is funded by several of the same Gulf governments (Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia) that are Board of Peace donors and members. Kushner has also presented a $30 billion Gaza redevelopment “master plan,” with the Gulf states as the intended source of inflows; as a Board member with billions in Gulf capital already under management, he has been described as “an obvious conduit” for that money.
Financial opacity: By May 2026 the Board had no funds in its official World Bank account despite $17 billion in pledges — the money has instead gone into a J.P. Morgan account with no disclosed oversight.
No stated conflict-of-interest rules: The Carnegie Endowment noted the charter sets out no oversight, auditing mechanisms, or conflict-of-interest rules for how the chairman and Executive Board members manage donor funds, and it remains unclear whether they could withdraw from the account even after Trump leaves office.
Governance concentration: The charter vests most authority in the chairman personally — Trump — rather than in an institutional structure, and does not limit how long he may serve as chairman.
Suggested Sources for Further Reading
Wire services / mainstream outlets (strong fact-checking, quote the administration’s denials)
Reuters, Associated Press, NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN — best for verified individual facts (deal amounts, dates, disclosure filings).
Investigative / nonprofit newsrooms (deep original reporting, some advocacy framing)
ProPublica — pardons, Blanche/DOJ crypto conflicts
Public Citizen / Citizen.org — WLF-Binance-Iran sanctions reporting, government-ethics analysis
CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) — tracks emoluments and conflicts litigation
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Board of Peace financial oversight and governance analysis
Wikipedia’s “World Liberty Financial,” “Affinity Partners,” and “Board of Peace” pages — well-sourced running timelines, good starting points with citations to primary reporting
Primary / official documents (most authoritative, but one-sided by design)
Trump’s OGE (Office of Government Ethics) annual financial disclosure filings — the raw numbers
House Judiciary/Oversight/Financial Services Committee Democratic staff reports (e.g., “Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption”) and Senate Finance Committee letters — detailed but explicitly partisan
White House statements (Anna Kelly, David Warrington) — necessary for balance; the administration’s position is that assets are managed by a “revocable trust” run by his children and that no conflicts exist
Partisan / advocacy sources (useful for compiling allegations, but read as one-sided)
Sen. Chris Murphy’s Senate floor “500 days of corruption” remarks, Gov. Newsom’s “Trump Criminals” tracker, The American Prospect, Truthout — good for surfacing specific incidents, but verify each claim against a wire-service or primary-document source before treating it as established fact.
A reasonable approach: use the committee reports and advocacy trackers to find leads, then confirm specifics against Reuters/AP/NYT/WSJ reporting and the underlying OGE disclosures or court/SEC filings.
It appears President Trump and family are developing a financial relationship with Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. Is any of this illegal? Insider trading? Congress should look into this and maybe look at themselves in a mirror. I think during President Trump first administration his wealth declined one billion dollars.
It has only been 18 months since President Trump took office for his second term. In this short time there has been a sharp drop in illegal border crossing, cut fentanyl trafficking plus a big drop in human and child trafficking. And so far according to Tom Homan 145,000 missing migrant children have been found after the Democrats lost track of 300,000. How in the world do you lose track of 300,000 children? That is the size of Cincinnati. Plus the plane flights of illegals into parts of America has stopped.
I.C.E. is on pace to detain 400K illegal migrants for 2026 many are MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs and so far over 2 million illegals have self deported.
This is just one example of the accomplishments of the Trump admininstration in a very short time. The American people are becoming aware of examples on federal, state, and local levels of waste, fraud and corruption. Look at Minnesota. And we almost had Gov. Walz one heart beat away from the Oval office. I am waiting for the Gov. of Michigan to be finally exposed for all her mischef including with Canada.
It seems we are entering a time of great exposure of treason, sedition, and other crimes committed against We The People.
On April 21, 2026, the 111th day of 2026, President Trump read 2 Chronicles 7:14.
It speaks of the importance of humility, prayer, and repentance. If people humble themselves, pray, seek his Face, and turn from their wicked ways, God will hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal the land. God desires a restored relationship with His people.
As Sam Cook sang “A change is coming” And when there is change , darkness comes first before light.
Your response to that massively long list of corrupt activity, a lot of which is documented, that Trump and pals have been accused of , is “but look at how many immigrants ICE has deported”?
Ok then.