Epstein was involved in setting up the Bear Sterns failure that helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession where so many people lost their homes while a few bankers got millions. After its closure, Bear Sterns was sold to JPMorgan Chase, the bank epstein was closely associated with as part of his sex trafficking and financial dealings
Leading up to the crash epstein also had close contact with putin, xi, and Salman, king of Saudi Arabia, all of whom would have been glad to crash America's economy. They still are, Salman's son being the one effectively in charge for Saudi Arabia now.
Crashing our economy, hacking our elections, causing chaos in every way possible in out government and on our streets, when are we going to wake up to the multiple ways we are letting ourselves be attacked and taken apart?!
We had so many government agencies and not one of them saw that coming? No red flags? Americans financial prowess was being highjacked right under their noses. Hence, THE GREATEST HEIST. I didn't want to dive into it until I had some down time to give it my full attention. Now I'm wondering if my head will explode, figuratively speaking.
I'm feeling like that nightmare I randomly had about a pop quiz I didn't study for is catching up to me.
Well, “the only way out is through.” - Robert Frost.
There were plenty of red flags, but this has been building up over decades. Remember Khrushchev in the 1960's telling America Russia would take us over without ever firing a shot, that they'd take us over from within. (Some Russia apologists are twisting themselves like a pretzel trying to reinterpret this statement) They didn't have the military power, so like a parasite, they slowly wormed their way in, bribes, threats, misinformation, paid assets and traitors, spies, and lies.
Now we have to deal with the result, repair the damage, never get lazy or over confident again, reform all the ways our system got attacked, and yes, get through to a better place.
Actually no. I wasn't even born in 1960. I don't recall learning that in school or that era ever being discussed in class or at home. Some education I have. No one in my life ever discussed government, politics, or economics. Even now, people act like it's taboo. When I try to discuss anything going on in the world so many people either shy away or say things like, "it's too much. I can't talk about it." I do my own research and go to Substack to stay informed.
There's an economist I listen to, his name escapes me at the moment . He is the first person I ever heard tell leaders of other countries to stop relying on the US financially and militarily so they wouldn't have to compromise their country's vision or take heed to the US's conditions. He is so articulate and an expert in his field.
Senate Banking and Finance committee had a great deal to say about who sold to whom during the meltdown. One can only guess how much money was flowing behind the scenes.
After listening to Epstein speak, it reminds me of the Ghislaine Maxwell interviews and TACO's dysfunctional manner of speech. Is it practiced, much like a language twins create? Is it their in case of an emergency speak? It just brings a whole new meaning to incoherent dumbing down. In TACO's case, he doesn't believe in a real education, so I genuinely believe his incoherent speech is due to some illiteracy. All this to say, it makes me wonder how much of 100 hours of Wolff’s interviews are of any value? I'm not trying to cast doubt. Maybe I'm just frustrated with that whole idea and being impatient but, I still wonder.
They assume they’re so much smarter than everyone else and try to baffle everyone with their bullshit. It seems to work on some people, at least. There’s STILL Americans who believe trump is fulfilling the Q prophecy of taking down the worldwide pedophile ring! They somehow haven’t figured out yet that trump is at the centre of that ring.
Bannon sure knows how to wreck an interview. Mr. Bumrush.
Interrupting!!!! Putting words in Epstein's mouth. Feeding in his idea of "facts" that are wrong! Intruding his big ego into the line of questioning. Talk talk talk in such an agressive manner. And totally NOT LISTENING!!!
We all could have learned so much more if Bannon had ever shut up.
Epstein had inside connections to the players. Some of this is coming out in the current release. Take a look at G Beck. At one time she was romantically involved w/Bob Menendez in 2010. See podcast 9/30/2025. Remember Larry Summers - Treasury Sec under Clinton; suspicious activity w/Deutschebank. You might try reaching out to Sen Ron Wyden. He's deeply involved in exposing the money in re to gvt.
Another entity that played a central role in the 2008 crisis was AIG which was the largest provider of conventional insurance, insuring risky bets on MBS and CDO. Hank Greenberg, apparently no relation to Ace Greenberg, was the CEO until being forced out in 2005, I believe. He had been under pressure from regulators and the board due to accounting scandals that artificially inflated AIG's reserves and masked losses. He of course denied it. The role AIG played in 2008 was selling massive amounts of credit default swaps, essentially insurance on mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations that led to huge losses when housing prices crashed. These risky bets, combined with a liquidity crunch from its securities lending program, threatened to collapse the entire financial system. Hank, who was a George W. Bush "Ranger" fundraiser, lobbied aggressively for a bailout, getting $180B to stabilize AIG and prevent systemic failure. When subprime mortgages began failing, the value of MBS and CDOs crashed, causing massive payouts on their Credit Default Swap contracts. When AIG couldn't meet the collateral calls for these CDS, causing a run on the company. The Federal Reserve and Treasury feared AIG's failure would trigger other defaults among major banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, that held its CDS, causing a global financial meltdown. The government stepped in taking an 80% stake in AIG with roughly $180B terminating the CDS contracts and taking the bad assets off AIG's books. AIG did repay the government in full. The bailout showed the risks of complex financial instruments and systemic interconnectedness.
Another thing I remember was that even though FreddieMac and FannieMae were being blamed for the crisis, like Epstein is stating in his interview, I saw that their market share of loans had fallen. That between 2000 and 2007, private mortgage backed securities were increasingly used to fund mortgages made to subprime borrowers. Again trying to blame the government.
Because Epstein hired him to rebrand his circumstances. He needed to stay on the inside of the financial markets in order to operate his multi-national trafficking.
Seems to me, listening to this, Epstein is an intelligent thoughtful well-informed guy. Let's leave aside his morals for the moment. By comparison, Bannon comes across as an idiot nuff-nuff.
I would really have appreciated the opportunity to hear Epstein speak without Bannon messing it up and interrupting his train of thought all the time.
As for character? Nothing excuses the pedophilia and sex trafficking. The fatal flaw.
Epstein was involved in setting up the Bear Sterns failure that helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession where so many people lost their homes while a few bankers got millions. After its closure, Bear Sterns was sold to JPMorgan Chase, the bank epstein was closely associated with as part of his sex trafficking and financial dealings
Leading up to the crash epstein also had close contact with putin, xi, and Salman, king of Saudi Arabia, all of whom would have been glad to crash America's economy. They still are, Salman's son being the one effectively in charge for Saudi Arabia now.
Crashing our economy, hacking our elections, causing chaos in every way possible in out government and on our streets, when are we going to wake up to the multiple ways we are letting ourselves be attacked and taken apart?!
We had so many government agencies and not one of them saw that coming? No red flags? Americans financial prowess was being highjacked right under their noses. Hence, THE GREATEST HEIST. I didn't want to dive into it until I had some down time to give it my full attention. Now I'm wondering if my head will explode, figuratively speaking.
I'm feeling like that nightmare I randomly had about a pop quiz I didn't study for is catching up to me.
Well, “the only way out is through.” - Robert Frost.
There were plenty of red flags, but this has been building up over decades. Remember Khrushchev in the 1960's telling America Russia would take us over without ever firing a shot, that they'd take us over from within. (Some Russia apologists are twisting themselves like a pretzel trying to reinterpret this statement) They didn't have the military power, so like a parasite, they slowly wormed their way in, bribes, threats, misinformation, paid assets and traitors, spies, and lies.
Now we have to deal with the result, repair the damage, never get lazy or over confident again, reform all the ways our system got attacked, and yes, get through to a better place.
I'm not sure why I can't edit my reply, but the Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, economist was the name I was trying to remember.
Good man
Actually no. I wasn't even born in 1960. I don't recall learning that in school or that era ever being discussed in class or at home. Some education I have. No one in my life ever discussed government, politics, or economics. Even now, people act like it's taboo. When I try to discuss anything going on in the world so many people either shy away or say things like, "it's too much. I can't talk about it." I do my own research and go to Substack to stay informed.
There's an economist I listen to, his name escapes me at the moment . He is the first person I ever heard tell leaders of other countries to stop relying on the US financially and militarily so they wouldn't have to compromise their country's vision or take heed to the US's conditions. He is so articulate and an expert in his field.
Senate Banking and Finance committee had a great deal to say about who sold to whom during the meltdown. One can only guess how much money was flowing behind the scenes.
My memory is the George W. Bush was really pushing home ownership prior to the 2008 crisis. Interesting he is pushing the Clinton narrative.
Exactly. I agree with Lev that he’s playing to dump here
After listening to Epstein speak, it reminds me of the Ghislaine Maxwell interviews and TACO's dysfunctional manner of speech. Is it practiced, much like a language twins create? Is it their in case of an emergency speak? It just brings a whole new meaning to incoherent dumbing down. In TACO's case, he doesn't believe in a real education, so I genuinely believe his incoherent speech is due to some illiteracy. All this to say, it makes me wonder how much of 100 hours of Wolff’s interviews are of any value? I'm not trying to cast doubt. Maybe I'm just frustrated with that whole idea and being impatient but, I still wonder.
It’s the narcissism that those 3 have in common.
They assume they’re so much smarter than everyone else and try to baffle everyone with their bullshit. It seems to work on some people, at least. There’s STILL Americans who believe trump is fulfilling the Q prophecy of taking down the worldwide pedophile ring! They somehow haven’t figured out yet that trump is at the centre of that ring.
There are always bits and pieces buried therein
Bannon sure knows how to wreck an interview. Mr. Bumrush.
Interrupting!!!! Putting words in Epstein's mouth. Feeding in his idea of "facts" that are wrong! Intruding his big ego into the line of questioning. Talk talk talk in such an agressive manner. And totally NOT LISTENING!!!
We all could have learned so much more if Bannon had ever shut up.
Epstein had inside connections to the players. Some of this is coming out in the current release. Take a look at G Beck. At one time she was romantically involved w/Bob Menendez in 2010. See podcast 9/30/2025. Remember Larry Summers - Treasury Sec under Clinton; suspicious activity w/Deutschebank. You might try reaching out to Sen Ron Wyden. He's deeply involved in exposing the money in re to gvt.
I just thought about if he was a good person, how much good he could have done. He was brilliant but used it for evil.
Is this on YouTube, Zev?
Another entity that played a central role in the 2008 crisis was AIG which was the largest provider of conventional insurance, insuring risky bets on MBS and CDO. Hank Greenberg, apparently no relation to Ace Greenberg, was the CEO until being forced out in 2005, I believe. He had been under pressure from regulators and the board due to accounting scandals that artificially inflated AIG's reserves and masked losses. He of course denied it. The role AIG played in 2008 was selling massive amounts of credit default swaps, essentially insurance on mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations that led to huge losses when housing prices crashed. These risky bets, combined with a liquidity crunch from its securities lending program, threatened to collapse the entire financial system. Hank, who was a George W. Bush "Ranger" fundraiser, lobbied aggressively for a bailout, getting $180B to stabilize AIG and prevent systemic failure. When subprime mortgages began failing, the value of MBS and CDOs crashed, causing massive payouts on their Credit Default Swap contracts. When AIG couldn't meet the collateral calls for these CDS, causing a run on the company. The Federal Reserve and Treasury feared AIG's failure would trigger other defaults among major banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, that held its CDS, causing a global financial meltdown. The government stepped in taking an 80% stake in AIG with roughly $180B terminating the CDS contracts and taking the bad assets off AIG's books. AIG did repay the government in full. The bailout showed the risks of complex financial instruments and systemic interconnectedness.
Another thing I remember was that even though FreddieMac and FannieMae were being blamed for the crisis, like Epstein is stating in his interview, I saw that their market share of loans had fallen. That between 2000 and 2007, private mortgage backed securities were increasingly used to fund mortgages made to subprime borrowers. Again trying to blame the government.
You have excellent recall. Financial analyst?
Because Epstein hired him to rebrand his circumstances. He needed to stay on the inside of the financial markets in order to operate his multi-national trafficking.
Couldn’t wait to hear your take on the financial collapse parts of this interview, Lev. I know you can connect the dots.
Note Bannon said "Because of the crimes you commit.."
not
"the crimes you commitED"...
Reminds me of Ghislaine Maxwell talking part poor me and sort of hinting that those who were harmed deserved it/liked/it/ sick and so much more
“The world can’t survive without taking rich assholes’ money and looking the other way when we misbehave.”
Treasury Secy. Bessent Testifies on U.S. Economy
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies on the U.S. economy, with a focus on the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
FEBRUARY 4, 2026
Seems to me, listening to this, Epstein is an intelligent thoughtful well-informed guy. Let's leave aside his morals for the moment. By comparison, Bannon comes across as an idiot nuff-nuff.
I would really have appreciated the opportunity to hear Epstein speak without Bannon messing it up and interrupting his train of thought all the time.
As for character? Nothing excuses the pedophilia and sex trafficking. The fatal flaw.
where is Lev petition?