Money & Markets Report: November 6, 2025

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November 6, 2025

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AI-pocalypse Now

November 6, 2025

Money & Markets

AI-pocalypse Now

In this episode of Money & Markets, Catherine and John explore the precarious status of AI and its impact on the financial markets, drawing parallels to the chaotic scene in ‘Apocalypse Now.’ They discuss hints of economic crises, the dismissal of legal and ethical concerns surrounding AI, and the looming disaster as companies rush towards full-scale AI integration. The conversation also highlights the alarming trend of AI-powered drones, initially used in Gaza, now surveilling American cities, raising significant privacy concerns as they get interwoven with law enforcement operations nationwide.

The discussion shifts to scrutinize the growing financial instability marked by rising P/E ratios and the proliferation of private credit, citing fears of another crisis akin to 2008. They cite numerous cases of government and corporate cronyism, excessive spending on AI, and the expansion of private lending as factors exacerbating financial risks. They also touch upon the adverse effects on Main Street, including soaring auto loan defaults, job losses, and the pressures faced by truck drivers amid regulatory changes and decreased freight volumes.

Furthermore, Catherine and John examine global geopolitical manoeuvres, highlighting the significant military buildup near Venezuela and dubious financial activities in Argentina, as well as LGBTQ oppression in Dubai. They address rising skeptism against surveillance technology in American cities alongside the importance of local activism. The episode concludes with a look at the expansive influence of tech giants like Nvidia and a rallying call for community action against the encroaching digital control grid.


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  1. Can Solari promote a practical solution to correct the privately owned Central Bank dilemma. Can the Central Banks be nationalized and the new money that needs to be created be spent into existence rather than borrowed, then gradually used to pay off the existing debt, and bring our spending back into balance.

    1. The next step is to preserve cash and outlaw programmable money. Before you correct the privately owned central bank dilemma you need to get the $21 trillion + back. So the next step on the central bank is to do a complete audit of the NY fed accounts for DOD, HUD, Treasury and the ESF and all transactions from 1998 on with the BIS. As a political matter have to get the states willing to escrow or put strictures on federal taxes to enforce the law – see the taxation wrap up.

  2. There is a strange part of the AI story that now involves Oracle. Frankly I was wondering why Larry Ellison is suddenly so rich. If you know anything about building modern software, I can see why anyone would pick using an Oracle database which is an old creaky database dating back decades and modern databases run faster and are free to implement. But it looks like all the rails of the new control grid are being built on Oracle with Ellison’s wallet being the main beneficiary. This partly makes sense as likely many of the US gov databases date back to when Oracle was the hottest thing. I consider this somewhat good news as the control system is running the latest and greatest but something old, creaky and difficult to use. I am also not sure the technical talent on people being able to support all this Oracle stuff exists. And the company is so monopolistic that it makes sure it systems do not play well with others forcing users onto it services. I can’t imagine actually working inside Oracle as bright person. Would a bright young person be motivated by Ellison?

  3. Still in the process of watching this episode, but I just had to comment on the idea of how they will make the distributed ledger “cool” just like how people tried to make the covid vaccine look “cool”. A little bit before covid, a number of fashion and lifestyle bloggers had gone from blogging to Instagramming (following the opportunity to get sponsored posts, etc.). Suddenly, within a one or two-day time period when the vaccine rolled out, I saw many of them with videos showing how frumpy and unhappy they were before the vaccine and then showing a quick time lapse of how cool and happy they were after the vaccine. After the second post like this, I realized that something was up and I quickly unfollowed all of them. It was disgusting.

    Somewhere around this time there was also a lot of talk about how many of these bloggers-turned-Instagrammers were also doing numerous sponsored posts and not disclosing that it was a sponsored AKA paid post or that they had been gifted an item. It was all really sad and disappointing, especially to see the lacking authenticity that used to be there.

    1. Yes. we have been watching this dynamic in many areas. The latest is the flood of recent money funded by the Israelis. Bob Sullivan has a new substack out – 10% of Facebooks revenues are coming from Cybercrime/fraud.

  4. During WW2 my grandfather and great uncle had their massive fortunes and nationally recognized hard work swept away by the Nazis immediately after the war started. Their money did not protect them. They were taken to concentration camps and the forest to be killed. I recently learned I can access 500 digitized documents on what the Nazis did with my grandfathers fortune from day 1 of it being seized. We identified his art gallery collection being sold on the internet by unknown people. My daughter bought a painting but could not have it shipped to the U.S. because of Trumps tariffs. My fathers inheritance was stolen by private individuals and government. What is happening now is no different than what happened in WW2. It will never be about the money as an answer. We can work on developing our deepest consciousness to serve us for eternity. It takes a lot of letting go of this world, but is worth the effort.

    1. Thank you for the post. I had a Russian tutor who performed for the last Tzar. Alas, this was the early 1980s and he seemed ancient to me a high school kid at the time. He was one of the voices on “Living Russian a complete language course” (vintage record set 1950s?). He once said, “They can take everything away from you, but they can’t take your education.”

    2. Thank you for sharing the story of your family. How painful and Dave that must have been to live through. It helps to bolster the thinking I have had for over a decade now- the more we let go of “worldly things” the more we see what is real and eternal and we can make a real difference to the younger generation. When we know what is REAL fake falls away easily and does not entrap us.

  5. Catherine, you talked about the wealth of knowledge the older generation passed on to you. I so agree. My dad lived thru the Great Depression and served in WWII. He told me thru the years of what life was like, blessed I am to have that passed on to me. They were share cropper’s, thereby at times little food, water gravy when the cow went dry, 2 pairs of over hauls and one pair of shoes per year, Christmas was an orange and 2 pieces of peppermint candy as examples. He also told me of when the banks just closed and there was no money. I am like you this time it will be worse. Human Winter is upon use, I hope people have and are listening to you. Human Winter will spend all its energy and then in several years Human Spring will come, the sun will shine again as it always does in regular winter spring. Many Well Wishes to all.

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