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Jul 15, 2023Liked by Ignatius of Maidstone

Interesting and thought-provoking. Tom Luongo theorizes Jerome Powell is wielding interest rate hikes at the Fed as a means to neutralize and destroy the vast off-shore eurodollar market and “defund” the Sorosian/Old European. Powell was in his life real trader, not an academic like Bernanke. And Jamie Dion is cheering him on.

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Yes, Luongo’s theory is interesting. I am 50-50 on it.

Powell worked in private equity and is a hard money advocate. His monetary tightening could be a way to reclaim U.S. economic independence.

But, it could also be a method to crash the economy to bring about a Great Reset type scenario. The elite Wall Street guys often are globalists, at the end of the day.

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Used to work in corporate finance (on the legal side). Can confirm.

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Really interesting! What percentage would you say have religion?

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Hard to say.

The guys I met are more reluctant to casually discuss religion, even though they’ll start discussing conspiracies within 10 mins of meeting.

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They like conspiracies BC They are one?

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“It’s Gambling.”

Every Trader I ever met.

That’s before 2008 and despair.

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Excellent insights.

Andersson Horowitz

a16z.com

American Dynamism.

These people certainly want to build America back up, although they offer no challenge openly.

More interesting are their allian.. ..er partnerships with DOD and Police.

https://a16z.com/american-dynamism-50/

Such partnerships bespoke seriousness.

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Have a look at the Derivatives, $80T based on mortgages in 2008 broke us all - was settled for $30T in digital Fiat.

It’s now $617T- TRILLION with a market value of $20T. If anyone says Notional to you never trust this person on any level again.

https://stats.bis.org/statx/srs/table/d5.1

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