The Weaponization of Finance

You go about your life, trying to take care of yourself and perhaps your family, by working – at home or at a job, buying things, trying to save some, pay your bills, buy a house and a car and those are the things you focus on at most any income level. It’s kind of the American dream – build you own life, the way you want to, secure in your beliefs, knowing that the ideas or faith you embrace won’t be used against you. It just isn’t a concern. Until now. Increasingly gov’ts around the world are taking a more active role in ‘encouraging’ or even demanding compliance to their political preferences. The means they have used to do that have typically been controlling information and force. But today, there’s a new way of exerting control – the weaponization of finance. Using your own savings, checking, credit card, and other accounts against you if you displease the gov’t. This can often be done by influencing corporate interests – with their strong desire not to incur the wrath of the regulators and insure their own profitability. So tonight we examining the increasing application of the weaponization of finance. What’s coming? What could be the impact on you and your family? Join us for even more rambling on various highlights of the week as well.