When he pulled into work in the morning, a hard-rock version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” thundered from the speakers of his red pickup truck. As with any book like this, the later you read it the more out of date it is, but found this very accessible, and invaluable for understanding ongoing financial news stories. An example of how this censorship is hampering democracy can be found on my Planet Ponzi Twitter account, which has been largely shadow-banned and censored for years. I was quite shocked at the amount the USA pays for healthcare, bearing in mind it is a private system unlike our own NHS. After Greece was admitted to the EU (thanks significantly to Goldman Sachs fudging figures to make Greece pass the EU entry criteria - no mention of this in the book) the cost of borrowing fell hugely and only then did Greece go on a borrowing binge.

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Just three days before the raids, he was wearing black sequins and partying with Pitbull at the DC Solar holiday party, as if being Jeff “Mother Fuckin’ ” Carpoff for one more night trumped the grubby unknowns of a lifetime on the run.

In Planet Ponzi, Mitch Feierstein tells you what’s happened, what will happen next and how to protect yourself and your family. Carpoff, meanwhile, traveled to the motorsports mecca of Daytona Beach, Florida, where he contacted a high-end real-estate agent and presented himself as a wealthy entrepreneur in the market for a mansion (in truth, he was close to broke). But, as Feierstein contests, perhaps that day of reckoning is still to come because we're not out of the woods yet. He does not touch much on the causes of the irrational risk taking that took place before the financial crisis, but is excellent on describing the behavior itself.

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Feierstein stood as a Brexit Party candidate in the 2019 UK General Election for the Reading East constituency. The world is under attack from a well-organised and well-funded group of anarchists who have launched an ideological cultural revolution to further globalism.

It’s like investing in a start-up,” one of the firm’s tax-credits partners said of this push to lead clients, rather than to follow them. The plan had many hallmarks of a classic Ponzi scheme, but with a twist: The American taxpayer would subsidize the scam.