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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 am a big fan of Wim Hof, cold showers resets the mind. Life isn’t about waiting on the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

  1. I am a big fan of Wim Hof, cold showers resets the mind. Life isn’t about waiting on the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.

        1. That was Ullie! She first brought his materials to the Hang we did in Stavoren. Then she arranged the interview we did. That was quite a road trip. It all got me to take the cold showers – could not believe I would ever get talked into them. Now would not miss them. Just love Wim Hof!

  2. Howdy Catherine.
    Got a Dolly Parton story I wish to share.
    I have been living in West TN for 30 years and almost everytime a local person learns that I lived in Los Angeles for 25 years their response has been “why would you move from L.A. to rural Tennessee?” My usual reply is “I grew up on a farm in New Jersey and wanted to have land around me.
    But I never shared why I moved to Tennessee when I could have moved to Missouri, Kentucky, Texas etc.
    The reason I moved to Tennessee is because of Dolly Parton. Her husband, Carl, was actively looking to purchase land near the 840 (under construction) west of Nashville. Any place where the proposed 840 was being built should be a good investment.
    Well, to make this story short, I spent almost 2 weeks living in her and Carl’s first home on Glencliff Road, Nashville to look at available properties in greater Nashville. Dolly’s and Carl’s first home was a church that was converted to a home residence. It was Dolly’s special place to go and spend time for inspiration when in Nashville.
    I did find an interesting property near Springfield, but the house need to much attention. Really like the Bell Buckle and Shelbyville area.
    After almost 2 weeks of looking I cast my eyes to the West and happen to find a non listed property in West TN, not far from Nutbush, Tina’s birthplace.
    If you are wondering if I slept in Dolly’s bed, the answer is “yes” Lol

      1. The house on Glencliff was a very charming house with many Dolly touches like having windows stenciled with flower designs outside and inside. Inside was filled with items that her fans sent her including many portraits of her, some that hung on the walls of the stairs. Upstairs was the master bedroom and bath. But the most important items were the writing pads, upstairs and downstair, reachable within a few steps. Always thinking of new ideas, always looking for a “hook” for a song. Having writing pads around the house was a common practice as Dolly also had them at her L.A. home on N. Larrabee. Carl use to visit L.A. during Christmas time and his favorite place to hang out during daytime was the Farmers Market on Fairfax.

  3. If you wanna know that god has a sense of humor…

    You couldn’t ask for better teachers… (to teach you the kinds of people that should not be in charge of the world)…giving you a real life free education in it… every day.

    The joke is that they don’t even know their teaching us that.

    They think their taking over…

    Tomatoe… Tomaato Catherine Austin Fitts

    Where you see a control grid… I see the seeds of their own destruction playing out…

    That can’t do anything but double down… doing more of the behavior undermining the very control they want…

    I have never read Shakespeare, but I’m sure this is how things go in these great stage plays… It’s just human nature…

    When things are not going your way and you think your god.

    You don’t act like murderous psychopaths in public, if things are going your way (of that I am sure)…

    smiles =)

    1. Well, you don’t act like murderous psychopaths in public unless you really are completely in charge and their not…

      There trying hard to pretend to be to satisfy that “god complex”..

      Which is how you know their completely losing…

      You go down to the ocean with a bucket and proclaim you own it… good luck with that…

      Yet people keep trying to do it and thinking… ” no really, this time is different”

      =)

      1. The Robber Barons did take over in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s… they did steal everything and enslaved everyone…

        And spent a 100 plus years spreading war and poverty and misery across the globe.

        Now their grand children are suddenly shocked people don’t want that anymore (as they wake us all up to what they did the first time around)…

        They should have just left it alone (their system)… I have said this on here since Covid… but no…

        Their smarter than us… “supposedly”

        (whatever)…

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