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The Jordan Harbinger Show

863: Juan Zarate | Waging Financial War on Rogue Regimes

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Treasury's War author Juan Zarate joins us to discuss how the US wields its financial power against terrorism, rogue states, and global crime syndicates.

What We Discuss with Juan Zarate:
  • Why the Treasury Department became part of the intelligence apparatus of the United States post-9/11 — after resisting such integration for years.
  • Sanctions: what are they good for and how do they work?
  • How and why criminals (whether they're of the independent, organized, or state-sponsored variety) need banks and financial institutions for any major crime to succeed.
  • What the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system is and how it's used to disrupt terrorist financing around the world.
  • For better or worse, what role does cryptocurrency play in all of this?
  • And much more...

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