So one of the remarkable things after the 2008 financial crisis was the supposed restoration of the financial system that we created in its aftermath

actually just created and sewed the seeds for even worse in the future, not in the form of financial crises,

but in the form of financial policies that permanently I would say gutted, or at least since then,

ever since then, have gutted the essence of American capitalism itself.

The first thing we did was we ushered in an era of easy money in this country, money

raining from on high like Manna from heaven from the Federal Reserve that was supposedly a short-term stopgap measure to pump liquidity into the markets on the back of the

08 crisis in the middle of that year became Q-E-1 and then Q-E-2 and then operation God-know-what that

actually continues year after year to create what really was a culture in this country that disincentivized work that resulted in a

maldistribution of wealth. You don't get trickle down economics from Ronald Reagan's

era when economic growth is really just driven by

artificial paper being printed from the top, only planting the seeds for possibly the next financial

crisis, which as we have this conversation today, maybe in the early stages of unfolding,

in part because of self-inflicted behavior

from the Federal Reserve

on the back of the 2008 financial crisis.

You saw the rise of the ESG movement, the politicization of capital markets, a sort of dowry that was paid for the arranged marriage between big business and government as effectively a price, a delayed price for the 2008 bailouts on the back of the

08 financial crisis.

So what do we learn?

We learn that these crises are occasions to actually plant the seeds for quite possibly far more damage done over a longer period of time that follows,

but as a justification for a response to that crisis. So let's learn that lesson now as we enter the modern banking instability

that we appear to be entering right now. What are we going to see on the back of potential bank failures in the United States of

brokered marriages between large banks absorbing small ones? We're having this conversation

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