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Is World War III already underway? Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus think so — and what’s striking is how every country is being pulled in. The fight, as Catherine frames it, is over the cost of capital, the cost of energy, and the cost of labor. Underneath the shooting war is a financial war, and underneath that, a slow, deliberate bifurcation of the system itself.

Craig Tindale understands how central banking policies have hollowed out Western economies and how decades of outsourcing limit our ability to preserve and rebuild our industrial base, defend ourselves, and thrive as a civilization.

On tax day (April 15), Catherine and John argue the Iran war is really a factional “war on people,” highlighting sharply reduced Strait of Hormuz traffic, rising U.S. gas prices, and global cost-of-living stress while oil companies and Wall Street banks profit from war-driven volatility. 

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Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus dive into economic volatility, exploring the impacts of tariff wars, gold price surges, and ineffective policies while examining global political dynamics and practical measures for financial resilience.

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Catherine Austin Fitts and John Titus dive into economic volatility, exploring the impacts of tariff wars, gold price surges, and ineffective policies while examining global political dynamics and practical measures for financial resilience.

Recent events in Washington, on Wall Street, and in Iran raise many questions—about energy prices, supply chains, and unipolar bullying, among other things—but they also highlight central bankers’ accelerating efforts to build an airtight financial control system. Gold remains an important part of the story.

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