Hello, everybody. Chris Martinson here, and today we're going to be talking about finance

and economics as part of finance you. Remember, anything that you see in this video and all

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we do our best to be accurate. And everything we represent is as accurate as we know it to be.

Now, let's turn to our program. You know, the great taking is about, you know, it's not a finance book. It's not an

investment in the book. This is about something that is ultimately a spiritual dilemma that we face.

It's so awful. Welcome everyone to this finance university podcast. I'm your host,

Chris Martinson, and I am so pleased to bring back David Rogers Webb to the program

to more deeply explore his truly

groundbreaking book called The Great Taking. Look, it's such an important work that, and one that

clearly comes with no small measure of personal risk, that I consider David Webb to be, well,

he's a modern hero to me and to everyone.

The details of how the legal machinery has been carefully installed over the decades to

separate each of us from direct ownership of our own financial and even real estate assets,

oh, it's been going on for a while.

And this dematerialization, as it's been called, it's been sold to us, is offering a lower

cost and easier execution of stock trading.

Yeah, listen, that's true.

But it's also come with some downsides that we need to explore and we need to understand,

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