Zuby is joined by Simon Dixon, a former investment banker, entrepreneur, Bitcoin investor since it was $3, geopolitical analyst and author. When Simon was 19, his father lost everything in the dot-com crash and asked him a simple question: where did my money go? Simon has spent the last 25 years answering it.
Simon breaks down what he calls the "financial industrial complex": how banks create money as debt, how asset managers like BlackRock came to hold thousands of board seats, and how the military, tech and media industries fit into the same incentive structure. Zuby challenges him on the big questions: how much of this is coordinated and how much is just incentives, and what can actually be proven.
They also get into Simon's attempt to launch a full-reserve bank in the UK and why it was blocked, BlackRock's Aladdin AI, why "everything is a psyop" thinking is a trap of its own, what Simon got wrong about the Iran war, and his simple rules for protecting your family in a K-shaped economy.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(03:19) Who really runs the world?
(05:09) How banks create money
(13:15) War as a business model
(24:08) Conspiracy or just incentives?
(46:08) BlackRock's Aladdin AI
(50:00) How much is provable?
(56:12) Why his bank was blocked
(1:06:40) Is anything organic anymore?
(1:19:44) What Simon got wrong
(1:31:00) How to protect your family
(1:43:43) Where to find Simon online