Well, thanks for coming here. I'm really excited to talk to you.

Thank you. I, as I said, I really enjoy your show. So, so for people that don't know, can you kind of give us a summary of your background in the government, working with the Bush administration, and then getting into like finance and all this stuff?

So I grew up in Philadelphia and I got very interested as a child on, I got very interested in money and why everybody was destroying everything on the theory that somehow that made the money.

And so I decided I was going to understand how all the money worked in a neighborhood.

And what I didn't understand until I went to Wall Street is you literally have to know how all the money on the planet works to understand how the money in a U.S. neighborhood works.

Because it's organized.

It's very centralized and it's organized so that you know so if you and i

go to the white house and say here's how all the money works on housing here's how all the money works

in military but it doesn't say here's how the money works you know in west philadelphia so you can't

now with relational databases you you could and i've worked on that but anyway so I went to Wall Street because I wanted to learn how all the money

the planet works.

And I went from sort of department to department to department learning all the different

markets.

And then I figured out, you know, it's all being rigged from Washington.

It's the Treasury and the Fed.

So I got to go to Washington. So I went to Washington.

I was a partner at a firm called Dylan Reed. And in fact, I have an online book called Dylan

Reed and the aristocracy of stock profits about sort of, it's a case study in the intersection

between organized crime and Wall Street and Washington. Anyway, so I went to Washington in the first Bush administration to be Assistant Secretary

of Housing, and it's the Federal Housing Commissioner, and that's the person who oversees all the

mortgage markets, both the credit, most of the credit, and then the rules and regulation.

So, and I ran smack into all the mortgage corruption because a lot of the black budget

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