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The only connection I can immediately see is Epstein's relationship with benefactor "Les Wexner". (Wexner was Epstein's biggest client when he acted as a money manager.) Wexner gave Epstein a mansion in New York. It's only hearsay, but there's an alleged Pentagon whistleblower who said, "Epstein's death was a message to a group of Jewish billionaires, including Ron Lauder, Edgar Bronfman, Les Wexner and Maurice Greenberg".

It was interesting that they grouped both Wexner and Greenberg together.

• Footnote: An interesting book is "Giants," by Peter Phillips. He writes about the global power elite and shows you how they're all related and "all know each other". He says that their numbers are so small and that they all attend the same clubs and sit on the same boards. As a result, they hobnob and have surprisingly close relationships. So it wouldn't be at all surprising that Wexner and Greenberg were connected: https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Global-Power-Peter-Phillips/dp/1609808711

https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Global-Power-Peter-Phillips/dp/1609808711/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Here's a recent book titled "Giants: The Global Power Elite." by a prominent Sociology Professor which really runs down the major financial elites, their various organizations, how they fund their agendas, etc etc.

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One of things it hipped me to was the 180 on Russia coinciding with Putin being too insular for global financial interests, Crimea tipped the scales then the Trilateral Commission published "Engaging Russia; A Return To Containment" circa 2013.

http://www.trilateral.org/download/doc/TF_Russia_for_WEBSITE_final_15_May_2014.pdf

not a communist, but advocates of debt repayment, interest, and think tanks promoting markets in ways not to benefit society, but to "provide maximization of revenue to the firm".

here's a list of fewer than 200 individuals

but the IMF I've never seen advocate for debt forgiveness (but YES for Greek Austerity and Raising Gasoline Tax on Haitians), and the BIS might actually be worse than the other Davos Billionaire advocacy groups.

Point being if you sum up the total of these Capitalist Organizations you're still looking at less than ~4000 people.

People who shape international diplomatic policy with "recommendations" about "Stability in the Region" and entail special envoy status about how best to allow government-funded defense contractors to acquire resource rights in traditional lands.

So the next time you read an op-ed in the Washington Post or New York Times from a Liberal, that Liberal is most likely taking cues regarding fiduciary responsibility from the above mentioned talkingpoint factories.

Read:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century

https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Global-Power-Peter-Phillips/dp/1609808711/ref=nodl_

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032019.Bad_Samaritans

And don’t talk about this again until you have.

Books

Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion


Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance


The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis


Giants: The Global Power Elite

Videos

Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve



9/11 Trillions: Follow The Money


How & Why Big Oil Conquered The World


The Money Masters

Links

Missing Money Solari


The Money Masters Links

Quotes

"It doesn’t take an economist to understand the importance of money. Deep down we all know that the wars, the poverty, the violence we see around us hinges on this question of money. It seems like a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle just waiting to be solved." - James Corbett


"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough." -Andrew Jackson


“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time." ~ Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. Constitution


"The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests." - Andrew Jackson


"In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables." - The Bible - John 2 - 14-15

>at the heart of this, is that loans are merely promises. So any "supply" isn't based on material goods, but a reserve requirement.

Yes, but there is more to the story. The Reserve Requirement Ratio and the actual supply off funds from investors/savers has a direct effect on the loanable rate. I am not sure what you mean by a "promise". All currency is based on a "promise" by the government.

>More sway does not mean sufficient sway.
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>it kinda does

I mean, if you'd like to contest that rich people have influence over the economy as a whole that is fine, but we are discussing the influence of hefty shareholders over loanable rates.

>If any bank makes a "health inquiry" on its assets' likelihood of default, they can raise rates or lower them based on that inquiry. Or sell them to a "poor sucker" bank if they're likely to go under.

I believe you have this backwards. The raising ad lowering of rates necessarily has effects on available capital and future available capital which can make them appear artificially strong or weak.

>The scandal arose when it was discovered that banks were falsely inflating or deflating their rates so as to profit from trades, or to give the impression that they were more creditworthy than they were

You are right and I missed a key aspect of the scandal regarding the alteration of the Libor metric itself to improve creditworthiness. But regardless, the Libor scandal seems to include rates only "altered" not drastically increased. Thus, the profit comes from the facade given by rates, not by the rates themselves.

I just bought this book:

Giants: The Global Power Elite