Each book examines the financing and the contributions made by Wall Street by international bankers to the development of that specific form of socialism. Antony C Sutton: interview 1980, ‘The Best Enemies Money Can Buy’, Youtube 39.59, 2012
The Soviets were supplying the North Vietnamese 1972 … The Gorky plant which was built by the Ford Motor Company … We were supplying equipment to the Gorky plant … I thought this was morally wrong. ibid.
The original financing of Hitler in the years 1922 came only partly from Germany. One of the most prominent Americans concerned with financing Hitler was Henry Ford. ibid.
Amongst the corporations that transferred money to Hitler I find not only I G Farben, which is quite widely known, but also German General Electric, AEG, which is under control of General Electric in the United States … Osram … Standard Oil … ITT … American corporations financed Hitler through their subsidiaries. ibid.
In practice the German General Electric plants were not bombed. ibid.
The Ford plant in Cologne should have been a prime military target. ibid.
Every single Russian industry was rebuilt or restarted by foreign corporations. ibid.
Averell Harriman came out of the Soviet Union financially with a profit. ibid.
Any kind of man-made of other disaster that affects planet Earth adversely may be viewed the opposite way for those who are trading the markets. Planet Finance I: Nature of the Beast, VPRO 2023
There is a world made up of numbers. A world where you have to be the smartest or the fastest. A world connected by radio waves and fibre optic cables. A world where you can make money if you think you know what the future holds. A world of fear and desire. Where you can win. Or lose. I call this world Planet Finance. ibid.
How can the interests of Planet Earth and Planet Finance be so different? ibid.
‘It’s just a construct so that people can make money.’ ibid. floor trader
So it was a market place where buyers and sellers would meet. In the 1970s their bids were still chalked on to the so-called Book. ibid.
Around the turn of the century exchanges across the globe become electronic. ibid.
So it’s about playing with risk. ibid.
Oil is always in demand. And the price is always changing. But at the start of the pandemic there aren’t any takers. The world’s oil supply is floating around at sea. The crews are stuck on their ships for months. Planet Finance II: Free Oil
It is Planet Finance that determines the price of many raw materials. It does so on the so-called Futures Market. ibid.
Lower point: minus $40.32 20th April 2020. ibid.
The market feels like a vast ocean. What an adventure it can be to set out on it. For fortune-seekers navigating this market is not without danger. Planet Finance III: Fortune Seekers
Mrs Watanabe is a household name on Planet Finance. Japan now has one and a half million of them. And they all want to earn from their savings. Mrs Watanabe is a collective name for Japanese retail traders. ibid.
Since the pandemic tens of millions of new traders have jumped into the market worldwide. ibid.
‘To me the market is a thing of great uncertainty. Although there is uncertainty, in the end it’s about human emotions.’ ibid. Forex guru
Wandering around Planet Finance, I arrive at the most renowned of all financial markets, the Stock Market, in a place where you wouldn’t immediately expect it – China. Planet Finance IV: The Biggest IPO Ever
Who is going to set the rules of the game? China or Planet Finance? ibid.
And so on the day of the IPO [New York], the Alibaba share price immediately goes up. ibid.
Ant Group: If something seems too good to be true, it usually is too good to be true. ibid.
I wonder why Beijing put so much pressure on its own tech companies. ibid.
In the old days, say pre-1990s, capital was king or queen. You called the shots. Now capital is a burden. Planet Finance V: Catastrophe For Sale
On Planet Finance there is a market for nearly everything. Even for a future disaster. A disaster that hasn’t happened yet. A disaster that might never happen. There are people who spend all their time calculating the minimum chance of such a disaster happening. And above all, the extent of the damage. ibid.
Cat bonds that should cover the damage of future disasters. ibid.
What if everyone jumps into the market? Planet Finance VI: Bubbles & Crashes, VPRO 2023
On Planet Finance so-called short sellers are often compared to these carrion birds [vultures] – they live off other people’s mistakes. They win when others lose. ibid.
Germans buy Wirecard shares en masse. For our short sellers that hype is the first red flag … Our short sellers pass on their research to the Financial Times. ibid.
The extent of the anti-Wall Street sentiment among this new generation of traders. And how this generation wants to try to beat Planet Finance with its own mechanisms. ibid.
BlackRock Inc is now officially everywhere. It owns everything. Sadly for us however the creepy corporate claws of the BlackRock beast aren’t content simply to clutch on to a near plurality of shares in every major corporation in the world. No. BlackRock is now digging its talons in even further and flexing its muscles, putting that inconceivable wealth and influence to use by completely reordering the economy, creating scamdemics, and shaping the course of civilisation in the process. The Corbett Report: How BlackRock Conquered the World, 58.48 2023
But it was the global financial crisis of 2007/8 that catapulted BlackRock to its current position of financial dominance. ibid.
It’s a very strange company. Companies are being set up. Money comes in, money goes out. That is totally spooky. Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard, insider, Netflix 2022
A growing scandal involving a Germany digital payments company Wirecard. ibid. US news
Money laundering, gambling, porn, helping terrorist organisations … It looked like a bank but it was actually a robbery. ibid. man in the know
We’re a software company with a bank as a daughter. ibid. company to Financial Times journalist
Part of its business is money laundering for criminals. ibid.
Yes, so I started shorting the company. ibid. UK short seller
I was very aware that Wirecard were spying on us. ibid. Financial Times journalist
The whole thing is fake. None of it is real. They came up with this deep fake. ibid.
Japan’s SoftBank to invest 900 Million Euros in Wirecard. ibid. online news April 2019
The press conference that night was like The Muppet Show. ibid. observer
When Wirecard collapsed in June 2020 investo losses exceeded 20 billion Euros. ibid.
On a quiet night in 1982 Italian banker Roberto Calvi is on the run. He has spent a lifetime working for Banco Ambrosiano, a bank whose biggest customer is the Vatican. But now he’s fugitive, desperately trying to escape the long arm of the law. The Vatican Financial Empire: A Hidden History, Youtube 50.27, 2024
‘The body of missing financier Roberto Calvi, the central figure in a $790 million bank fraud scandal, was found hanging from a London bridge Friday, the police said.’ ibid. US news
For centuries the Catholic Church has been a monumental figure of human history … But it is also a powerful financial institution with the world’s largest real estate collections and vested interests in a vast number of corporations. ibid.
The Church reaches out to an unlikely financier – the Rothschilds … The Rothschilds lent the Vatican 40 million Euros in today’s money. It becomes a lifeline the Church desperately needs. ibid.
The Vatican Bank: It’s a perfect vehicle to hide and launder money. ibid.
Working with [Michele] Sindona is one of the worst mistakes the Church has ever made. ibid.
Within just a few short years, Calvi and Sindona have grown their own financial empires bigger and faster than almost anyone. ibid.
By 1982 Robert Calvi realizes that his financial schemes cannot be sustained any longer. ibid.
The Church agrees to pay $244 million in a legal settlement involving Banco Ambrosiano. ibid.
‘Michele Sindona, one of Italy’s most successful financiers whose empire collapsed amid charges of fraud and murder, died today in a Voghera hospital of cyanide poisoning.’ ibid. US news
Despite being implicated in the massive financial scandal surrounding the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, [Archbishop] Marcinkus manages to avoid legal consequences. ibid.
In the 1990s the Vatican Bank faces unprecedented scrutiny and scandal. ibid.
A crisis is brewing, one that will expose a darkness far greater than any financial misdeeds. ibid.
Allegations of corruption, financial mismanagement, power struggles and internal conflict within the Vatican hierarchy. ibid.