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Navigating Planet Tollbooth

September 3, 2026

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Money & Markets

Navigating Planet Tollbooth

In this episode of Money and Markets, the hosts frame current events as “Planet Tollbooth,” arguing the U.S. and other powers are increasing friction through tariffs, sanctions, wars, and red tape that burden Main Street while benefiting major corporations. They highlight Iceland’s referendum rejecting even EU accession talks as a sovereignty-driven pushback centered on fisheries and distrust of EU promises. They discuss “Operation Economic Outcast,” describing expanded U.S. sanctions on Iran focused on enforcing compliance by third countries via secondary sanctions and dollar jurisdiction, alongside carve-outs, waivers, and winner-loser selection. The conversation covers claims of U.S. defeat in the Iran war, rising diesel and farm input costs, threats to food and energy systems, a damaging U.S.-Canada trade war that advantages China, falling new-home prices with rising inventory, military leadership ousters, a depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Pentagon-paid social media influencers, EU efforts to move household deposits into equities for a war economy, escalating Ukraine conflict scenarios, AI and Meta as surveillance/control-grid mechanisms, surging RAM prices tied to hyperscalers, Pennsylvania health-code powers resembling COVID-era controls, and a municipal “growth makes you poorer” warning from Post Falls, Idaho.


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  1. I agree that most of the rot running America comes from somewhere in europe, but I was about 9 when I knew America was nothing more then a corruption tollbooth. Had many shouting matches with my parents on this. So many people I knew were mesmerised by America. Never understood this. Nature wise, America must be beautifull, culture wise?? It breaks my heart that sovereign countries wanted an european union just to turn it into an uncultured mess, this I predicted too.

  2. David Icke has been saying for years: The power structure is going to move east.
    I personally would love to listen to a conversation between Catherine and David. I know Whitney interviewed one of his sons during the Lockdowns.

  3. I feel there will be a shutdown of the internet and all things associated with it will be affected. i think food will be the stock market on steroids! I feel assets that you own free and clear will be valuable. AI is not god! meant to spell g small!

  4. Catherine & John, I want to thank you both. Understanding how the monetary system works has been hard for me to wrap my mind around. Thanks to both of you some concepts have FINALLY sunk in and now make sense. Finance has never been my strong suit. On another note, Catherine, would you be willing to comment on David Icke? I recently read John R. interview with him and wondered if you have ever had any interaction with him and your thoughts. Based on something that David Icke claims a source told him (who was working for the CIA at the time) and I believe the President of Chile also asserted during the Covid Pandemic was that people that have been chipped could be controlled (emotions, thoughts, actions etc.). Is it possible that some of these people in positions of power are being controlled not just by control files etc.? Just a thought.

    1. I have read several of David’s books and watched a number of interviews. I find his work useful as he is constantly exploring to understand and digging up lots of good and interesting material. The volume is large and there are a lot of things he says that I simply can not verify or find hard evidence on – given the amount it can make it quite a lot of work to go through this material. This is one of the reasons we try to separate some content out as Unanswered Questions – so we can work with it in useful ways when there is still plenty of uncertainty around all the facts. Yes, I believe that the amount of chipping, including involuntary chipping, including with injections and the global spraying, is being used to make everyone much more susceptible to telecommunications tracking, influence and mind control. In my experience chipping does not always lead to total control.

  5. Thank you for commenting on Canada… as we are so often left out of serious discussion on the global stage, albeit for good reason. I feel like our oil sands are the real Strategic Petroleum Reserve for North America, as I have watched it stay landlocked for decades when we could have been one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. Although I spent the last four decades living in Alberta and British Columbia, I hail from New Brunswick, where Irving Oil has been operating the largest Canadian oil refinery since 1960, using imported Saudi oil. Recently I have heard an internet voice call us a vassal state, and it reminded me that I have been calling Canada the “Africa of the North” for decades. We have been a resource colony for the British Empire since our inception, and the current Prime Minister is an agent of the City of London. Add in the fact that we are the most coddled, comfortable, mind-controlled population on the planet, and you have a recipe for the easiest Globalist takeover in the history of mankind…

  6. Please give a report on the US Government requiring the use of the portal ID.Me (a private company) for payment of payroll taxes by businesses and also for most other transactions with the US Treasury.
    This is mandatory as of Oct 2026.

    Thanks

    1. From our General Counsel” It’s true that Trump’s Executive Order 14247 (Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account, signed March 25, 2025) requires electronic payments both ways, this year, for both IRS and Treasury. Most employers must make payroll tax payments electronically, but they can still make business tax payments through the existing electronic payment system (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System), which is not ID.me. In mid-2025, the government started phasing out this system for individual tax payments but not for businesses. See https://www.irs.gov/payments/eftps-the-electronic-federal-tax-payment-system.

      For individuals, there’s a phase-out of paper/individual EFTPS options. This change points individuals toward Direct Pay (no login required at all) or an IRS Online Account (where ID.me is one of several verification choices, alongside non-biometric alternatives). We covered this earlier.

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