TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - #316: Discussing critical thinking in today's age with Edward Dowd

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Dowd. I'm sitting down with to discuss critical thinking in today's age. Follow Ed Dowd on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl Bitcoin 2022 - use the code TFTC for 10% off Download Fountain Podcasts

All right, freaks, we've got a big episode here. Ed Dowd, former portfolio manager at BlackRock, self-proclaimed Wall Street geek, who's been diving into some very interesting insurance data as it pertains to an injection that's become popularized over the last couple of years. Came on the show to talk about what he's seeing out there, and the data is very compelling.

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This is running through March 31st. Enjoy this episode with Ed Dowd. Ed Dowd, excuse me. Very important episode. Approach it with an open mind. I think we may be being lied to. I think the data is proving that we're being lied to.

Look at the people in the mainstream. Do you think they would ever lie to you? Do they lie about Iraq to you? Do they lie about inflation to you over the years? Do they lie about who killed JFK? Do they lie about Koffa Tonkin? Do you believe these people have the capacity to lie?

And then listen to this episode. Enjoy. Take care. You've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free. When you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. So it's all acting like safe haven. I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. Yeah, it feels like they are trying to sweep this all under the rug. Ed Dowd, what the hell is going on out there? It's insane. It's absolutely just bat-SHIT crazy right now. You know, one thing that I find super interesting is there's really been no one. I was expecting hit pieces.

I was expecting somebody in the establishment to come after me. They're just ignoring me, basically. I was fact-checked by AAP, and I was referred to as Internet Chatter. Internet Chatter. Internet Chatter. I was, yeah, so before we discovered the CDC data, we were doing insurance company analysis with my still anonymous partner, who's an ex-Wall Street number one ranked I.I. insurance analyst. and we were just going over the earnings. And then we found results suggested

that young people were dying at faster rates and that excess deaths were occurring in the second half of 2021. And they fact-checked me and they said, our experts say it's this internet chatter about life insurance companies is not right. And that's it. That's basically the fact-check.

They talked to experts, whoever those are, and they said we were wrong. That was the fact-check. Yeah. And that's why I'm so happy to have you because you actually are diving into the facts. It's been one of the most discombobulating things of the last two years is dissecting data and finding out what is actually good data and what is giving signal throughout all the noise that's being spit into the world right now. And I think the data that you're diving into in the insurance industry is very high signal. It's hard to argue with the excess death data and how it lines up with the vaccine rollout. And so how did you decide to focus in on these insurance claims specifically in relation to excess deaths and the vaccination campaign? Yeah, so, you know, let's go back a little bit in history.

You know, in the 70s, we had a swine flu that came out, and there were 25 deaths, and they stopped the program. Signal came out early, and it was pulled, right? So when this thing started getting rolled out, there were doctors who were seeing the signals, and they were censored, smeared, and deplatformed. And, you know, I've been onto the game of censorship for a while. And, you know, when I see someone censored, I run to them like a moth to a flame. And I'm like, well, they're they must be saying something truthful. They're being censored. And so early on, you know, I personally didn't take the vaccine, not because I knew what I know now, but just, you know, a couple of things. It was experimental technology. It was Operation Warp Speed, which, you know, that sounded to me like a disaster from the get go.

Anytime you speed something up, corners cut, safety protocols ignored. And I also knew it took seven to 10 years for vaccine safety data to be vetted before they launched it on the markets. This was done in six months. So I just said, I'll wait. And I started seeing these doctors, these brave frontline doctors coming forward. And then I started hearing anecdotes and I had an eerie feeling that I shouldn't be hearing anecdotes. And then I heard Steve Kirsch speak, who's also been outspoken on this issue. And he said that from a statistics standpoint, you know, you're going to get some vaccine injuries and deaths in a normal vaccine, but they should be so rare that no, you don't hear a story. You don't have a friend. You don't have a relative. And I started hearing stories from everybody.

Everybody knew somebody where something weird happened. And then either the death directly in your circle or, you know, one degree of separation away. Like, you know, like I didn't have a death in my circle, but I had a friend whose uncle died. And it's like I shouldn't be hearing. So I knew something was up. So, you know, I was super not into this vaccine and then trying to warn people, you know, people that what shocked me was the propaganda and the absolute lies that started coming out. You've got to remember early on in this campaign, it was sold as safe, effective, and prevented you from spreading and getting it. Well, as we rolled through the year, the people who got vaccinated were spreading it, getting it, and then they had to change the definition of a vaccine in September. On September 1st, the CDC changed the actual definition of a vaccine. You can't make this up.

you know used the old definition used to be um a vaccine would prevent the transmission of the disease and lower your probability of getting it and they changed it to basically what sounded more like a therapeutic it would prevent you from being seriously hospitalized i mean that's not what a vaccine is that's a therapeutic um and so so you know just i mean you it just it and then you know i think around that time the efficacy was down to 50 i mean it was just you you saw you've seen the meme where it shows them saying what they said in the beginning and then they kept changing the story yeah 100 effective 95 70 50 70 50 35 uh negative uh with omicron it was actually negative 35 efficacy so you had a more chance there's been

studies in Sweden and other countries that have definitively peer-reviewed studies that show that if you got the vaccine, you were more likely to get Omicron than the unvaccinated person, which I mean, in and of itself, they should have pulled it on that. And then when they started mandating this, and I saw the pressure that people were put under, and I'm a freedom-loving, civil liberties kind of guy and i was horrified uh and i viewed i viewed forced vaccinations and mandates as a form of violence and uh so you know i i prayed to god to be of service and dr malone and steve kirsch came to maui in october and through a series of weird coincidences i got hooked up with them and um i told dr malone early on that i'm going to be watching the insurance and

the funeral home data because I'm a Wall Street guy. So I look for other data sources to verify what's going on. And what horrified me was Steve Kirsch and Dr. Malone were already pointing out the VAERS database. Steve Kirsch had done a ton of work on that and proven beyond a doubt that depending upon the underreporting factor and the 17,000 ways you can calculate it, he came up with 150,000 to 400,000 deaths in and around that time which and which i was gonna say is just fascinating because i mentioned to you we're not showing this on youtube because i don't want another strike but

that's why i got the last strike is because we just highlighted the various database and the fact that these adverse reactions and deaths are being reported in this database and like we didn't even jump into whether or not it was verified every case was verified we just said hey this database exists it seems like there are people reporting adverse reactions and even deaths and we get a strike on youtube which leads me to the question like why are they censoring what are the incentives behind the the overt censorship of any type of discussion like this well so as as we rolled through the year, I came up with a thesis called Metafraud. And I came to the conclusion that Pfizer participated in clinical trial data fraud. The FDA was in on it because of

the institutional imperative, which that institution has been corrupted over time. They get 50% of their budget. So you had the government, you had Pfizer in on it. And then And you ask yourself, well, why would they censor? Well, the tech companies were getting, and the mainstream media at the time I came up with that thesis, was getting advertising dollars from Pfizer, mega, mega amounts of advertising, both Facebook, Twitter, all the social, YouTube, the mainstream media. So I thought it was just Pfizer advertising dollars. But I also figured that they wanted to create a COVID economy where if you're a tech company

like Facebook, or Apple, or YouTube, Google. You want to get in on the future revenue streams of the surveillance of a vaccination passport where you get quarterly jabs. There's a lot of money involved there in the surveillance of this. So I figured it was just good old-fashioned greed and power. And then we found out a couple of weeks ago, I'm sure you've seen the story with the mainstream media, and I'm sure some of the tech overlords received money from the Biden, over a billion dollars in money to promote the vaccine, number one. Number two, not book anybody who had the counter-narrative or any facts that would support the vaccine being pulled.

So the more we learn, the more insane this becomes. I mean, I view this as a fraud in progress. I'm the guy on Wall Street saying, I think there's fraud, I have an investment thesis of fraud, and people are starting to do the work, but it's like when Chanos was claiming Enron was fraud before everybody agreed with him, stock was still 50 bucks, he was the lone guy out there saying it was fraud, everyone thought he was nuts. That's where we are right now. A lot of people think I'm nuts, but more and more people are starting to come around to my point of view because as we roll through this, the sad thing about all this, and this is where myself and my partner come in.

The only reason we're here is because the bodies are piling up and the injuries are piling up and showing up in databases outside of the government, which I guess they've been hiding them from us. And, you know, the frontline doctors are the brave ones. They're the ones whose careers are on the line, who get smeared and deplatformed. They had the signal early. So if this was the 70s, the vaccine would have been pulled, but it wasn't. And here we are today with two ex-Wall Street geeks, you know, having to expose this. And the fact that we're here says that the system of government, watchdogs, regulators is broken down. It's just broken down. And I have no other explanation for it. It's completely broken. That's why this is a Bitcoin podcast. We believe that the central banking and political structure has completely failed the people.

And we need a monetary system that's completely separate from that. But maybe we'll talk about that later. Yeah, we can talk about that later. I have views on that for sure. Love to hear them. You tweeted out earlier this week, you think there's been an active campaign to actually kill people. Is there, and that's the thing I've been juggling in my mind, is this pure economic incentives or is there a nefarious undertone to all this? Well, so when I went out on Steve Bannon's show and coined the term democide, which is death by government, we don't need to figure out whether it was intentional or stupidity. But through the mandates and through the CDC data, we show a pretty clear signal that the millennial cohort, the 25 to 44, had excess deaths accelerating to the mandates. And so I said, that's democide, that's death by mandate.

Now, whether it was nefarious or not, you know, I'm of the opinion something nefarious may be going on. I have no smoking gun proof, but all we know is the government's killed people through mandates. That's just a fact. OK, so, well, we can debate that fact, but the signal is pretty strong and we're going to be we're doing more research. There's more to come on this. um yeah you know like I told you I've been doing I'm new to this media game and I have to balance between doing podcasts and shows and doing research so you know I don't want to get too far away from the research so that's why I'm not doing eight podcasts a day I'm trying to spread

it out and you know I'm grateful that you uh reached out to me because um you come highly recommended so thank you so much for you know being patient and me getting back to you so I appreciate that now ed the pleasure is all mine i mean a mutual friend uh reached out to me and said you have to reach out to ed like i said in dms i told him i was like it's hilarious because i actually reached out to him an hour ago and again like the the the work that you're doing is extremely important and in getting back to the data you said it's you said it could be debated Like step aside from vaccines, like it's undebatable that mandates, lockdown mandates specifically have killed people, increased risk of obesity, suicide, all that. Oh, yeah. So let's talk about that. Let's talk about, let's focus in on the vaccine.

um so the pushback that people could say about the all-cause mortality for all ages was well lockdown suicides fentanyl right when we when my partner the x insurance uh number one ranked wall street analyst went into the cdc database we were looking for something else and he found enough that they aggregated all the data by all ages, but the data set did break it down by age. So he decided to take a look at it by age and create his own baselines from 2015 through 2019 by age. And when he made the chart of the millennial cohort, it was a clear signal. And you've seen the graph that we put out on Twitter. And basically, it shows a peak in 2020 from mostly lockdowns and suicides and what have

you, some COVID deaths, obviously. But then it kind of rolled over a little bit, but didn't go back to baseline and then started to crawl into, started an upward trend into the summer. And then once the mandates hit, it spiked. at such an alarming rate. We focus on the rate of change, the slope of that line. Between March of 2021 and February of 2022, 61,000 millennials above normal trend line died. A big part of that was the spike into the fall, this August, September, October timeframe. With that cohort, It's hard to say a bunch of people decided to commit suicide in a two to three month time frame all at the same time.

It's hard to say that a bunch of people all decided to overdose on opioids and fentanyl into the fall. It's hard to say that a lot of people got cancer and died because they missed their treatments all at the same time. And this is an age group that doesn't really go for cancer screenings. I mean, I remember when I was in that cohort, I don't even get cancer screenings now because I'm healthy, but I never once got a cancer screening treatment. I mean, do you know anybody your age that's going for cancer screenings? No, no, I can't say so. I mean, I have colon cancer runs for my family, but from what I understand, I don't have to start getting a colonoscopy until I'm 40. So I've got some time.

There you go. And so 25 to 44, people weren't dropping dead of cancer. So the only possible explanation that doesn't seem to be allowed to be discussed is the vaccine. But, you know, look, if you look at the full, just the CDC's all-cause mortality chart that they actually post, there was a spike into the end of 2020, which killed mostly old people. Then it rolled over, but then it reaccelerated into the second half of 21, almost went to the same peak with miracle vaccines and what have you. And so the question is, the baseline case is this. It's been an epic failure globally because everybody else's excess death rate curve looks like this as well for all ages. Whatever policies they undertook, they killed as many people in year two of the pandemic

than year one. So that's an epic failure in my mind, right? But when you parse the data, there was a mix shift. So in year one, 500,000 Americans died, OK? Most of those were old with comorbidities. And so we pulled forward a lot of old people into premature deaths. Then in year two, 2021, we had about 500,000 people die. And then we had what we call on Wall Street a mix shift.

It shifted down to younger people. And so COVID's decided to only go after younger people? I don't think so. The variants are all getting less virulent. They're killing less people because that's what the virus does. gets less virulent over time. So the Delta and the Omicron were not as bad as the first one. So you can't tell me that COVID is now only focusing on young folks. So we've had a mix shift in deaths to year two, down in age. And the signal there is it's got to be the vaccine. And it can't be

all fentanyl and suicides and missed cancer screenings. I'm sorry, it just can't. Especially when you consider that the economy started opening up more and people had the ability to flee to states like Florida and Texas. I was one of those people that took advantage of that in Austin, Texas right now. What's weird too is, so I got the Delta variant in June, never got the vaccine, but there was a weird, incessant begging of me to get the vaccine after having natural immunity. So not only are people not allowed to talk about the vaccine as being something that entered the market that may be causing excess mortality rates, but on top of that, if you got COVID and you tried to make the argument for natural immunity, it was this weird and incessant nagging like, no, you need to get it anyway. It's like, I'm not sure that's how virology or immunity works. No, we tossed out normal science and it became this bizarro decrees from the CDC and Fauci. I mean, they went against all known science.

And then there was a public shaming campaign that went on. I don't know if you have relatives close to you that put pressure on you. A lot of, yes. Yeah. And that, I have lots of friends who were, you know, shamed into getting, I know a female here on Maui who got dose one of the two-dose first regimen, and she had an adverse reaction. She decided not to get, you know, the second dose. And, you know, the thing that appeared on her neck went away, thankfully. But then her mother insisted on her getting the second dose.

And then there was talk about her not being able to go to a wedding. I mean, it's insanity what's gone on. But the way that they divided people and convinced some people that if you weren't vaccinated, you were like you had cooties and you were at risk of killing them. And what we're finding and what's going to come out eventually is, no, it's actually the other way around. You're the people that are at risk. you're the ones actually that are the super spreaders because you don't present symptoms

and you're carrying viral load around. I mean, this, this is the biggest S I S H I T show I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to get too dark, but like we're only a couple of years into this mass vaccination campaign. Like, is it something similar to AZT was during the AIDS epidemic? Like, are we reintroducing something like that to the populace, which if you understand what happened back during the AIDS epidemic and how AZT factored into that, it's extremely scary considering the magnitude to which this vaccine campaign has been waged

compared to what happened with AZT. Yeah, so we have the acute deaths. So we have the deaths, right? What are the implications for those who got it that didn't die long-term? and we don't know and there's already studies peer-reviewed studies coming out to suggest it weakens your immunity well you know permanently potentially um and that's why we're hearing about all these weird diseases coming back and syphilis is coming back all of a sudden and lots of

sexually transmitted diseases and lots of um weird things going on okay uh so you know if And there's a new term called VAIDs, Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, that's being bandied about. I'm not going to go there, but I will say this. The injured, the vaccine injured are going to be a real problem. And it's a problem for the insurance companies. It's a problem for the medical system. It's a problem for the labor force.

It's a big problem. and you know we i'm not going to put out an estimate but we're working on an estimate of how many vaccine injured there are in the u.s that have you know serious disability that prevents them from working and i'm not going to say the number right now because we haven't done enough work but it's it's not it's not a small number it's material unfortunately it's material yeah well um so look this is a bitcoin podcast right so we we delve into other topics don't worry all right but this is all it's it's all about human liberty and logic and critical thinking in the digital age and bitcoin's just a part of that bitcoin plays into that um in a big way but

let's let's let's talk about what are the implications of what myself my partner have found and others are starting i mean to see it's coming out that the cdc is now pretending that they coded things wrong and yeah so but you know as we roll through this i'll make some projections of what i say let's assume i'm 100 correct right say my thesis is correct i mean i obviously believe it is but let's say i'm correct what does that what does that mean that means almost every Every institution in this country is about to get blown up and I do not mean like violence wise. I mean, it is going to be the trust in those institutions is going to evaporate and people

are going to demand that these institutions get rebuilt from the ground. So what are those institutions? Well, FDA, CDC, NIH all have to be rebuilt. All of Congress and all the senators on both sides of the aisle, it doesn't matter, there's a couple out there like Ron Johnson and a couple others, but most of these guys have been silent. They're all going to get voted out of office. The current desiccated puppet, Joe Biden is going to get thrown out of office.

It also has implications for the drug companies that may go bankrupt a lot. And the medical profession, no one's going to trust their doctors. Lawyers are going to sue everybody. All the corporations that mandated this are going to get sued. The daisy chain, it just keeps going and going and going. actually mind-boggling like the implications of this and you know what do we do for the people that are injured i mean you know how are we going to take care of them what's going to happen to them you know let's let's talk about the injured right because what's scary to me is that the

lagging the potential lagging effects injured being injured those injured being part of that like with myocarditis specifically like am i right in understanding that like the like yes if you don't die right away, you're not in the clear even. Your life expectancy, your expectancy of death after something like five years is 50%. Take that out a decade, almost 100%. I'm pulling these numbers from memory, but the point I'm trying to make is

if these many people have myocarditis, even though they didn't die right away, we can see in the coming years just waves of deaths that are a product of this injury. Yeah. You know, Dr. Peter McCullough, who's like, you know, one of the experts in this area has, you know, stated that, you know, you get myocarditis, it's a lifelong thing. It doesn't just, you know, the heart doesn't heal from that. It's an issue. Okay. And is it any wonder that soccer players are dropping all over the place? the reason why we haven't seen as many, you know, NFL football players or NBA football players drop

is that soccer is, um, the most cardiac demanding sport. Uh, and that's, and so that's why they're dropping because these are top athletes who are more fit than NFL football players from cardiac standpoint, more fit than NBA players and they're dropping dead. And that's due to like, I mean, We know what it's due to. Climate change. Climate change. Oh, climate change, or apparently cold weather now causes blood clots. Did you know that?

I heard the stress from the Ukraine war is causing these heart attacks as well. Right. So they tried to float the idea that cold weather caused blood clots. And me being the cynic I am and like to create some sort of humor, I said, well, it's a wonder the vikings were able to um ravage their neighbors to the south without dropping dead i mean they also introduced another term called winter vagina i've not heard this one yet oh yeah yeah that's that's in the uk um cold weather can cause blood clots and winter vagina whatever the hell that is yeah winter vagina yeah i don't even want to go there because uh i mean but it

highlights the absurdity that they're taking this to they're trying they're trying to paint it on a climate change winter vagina the the cold weather the hot weather anything but the vaccine and they're they're pushing it through mainstream narratives like leads me to question like how scared are they behind the scenes like you're taking it to such absurd levels such clown world levels that anybody with two brain cells to rub together can see through this like wait like Like you're saying, it's stress from the war, climate change, cold weather, like none of this is computing. Yeah. So, you know, there's a term for that.

It's called gaslighting. So we're at the point in our empire, let's call it the American empire, where the fraud's gotten so big that we're at the point of straight up gaslighting. And, you know, gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse. And literally, they're gaslighting us with absurd stories. What's frightening to me is that there's so many people that still buy off on this nonsense. And they scare me more than the people gaslighting me. It's the ones who wear the two masks, who still social distance and still run out to get their boosters and are scared of me. These people frighten me, and there's too many of them.

they all have ukraine flags in their profiles now it's i know isn't that amazing how we switched uh from um biden um blm flags to um ukraine flags i mean these people do whatever i mean they literally jump when someone says boo and they're not even aware that they're doing it no I mean it's it is scary it is quite frightening and it's I mean it's we've been saying on this show for some time it's just like such a massive sunk cost fallacy that people do not want to admit that they've been lied to they do not they cannot believe that they've been lied to on this scale but again I feel like if you take a step back look at the data it's inarguable and it like that I guess we're at this crazy inflection point in human history and I mean

And if you believe the sovereign individual thesis that the nation state has gotten to an extent where it's so bloated that it's going to implode on itself and is and has been for many would argue over decades since 2008 at least. People just don't want to believe that they've been lied to their entire lives. I mean, there are people my age we've been lied to.

I was born in 1991. We had 9-11 and the Patriot Act in 2001. We had the great financial crisis in 2008. and everything that's gone on the last few years literally my entire life has been filled with lies from from the government and many people my age older younger don't want to believe that that they can be lied to at this scale but in my opinion yeah no that's it's so fascinating you say that because there's so many people who can't wrap their minds around this and that's why i try not to go into the is it a plan is it not a plan i just go into good old-fashioned greed and power

people can wrap their minds around that and i'm trying to put together the case for that and that's i think why i'm getting media play is that it's unviable at this point yeah i'm a little bit hopeful more and more people i mean a lot of professional high-powered people are reaching out to me behind the scenes they just need to go public and start talking um so it seems like there's a quick awakening but the thing that is most concerning for people like you and me is the amount of cognitive dissonance there is you know um if you got the vaccine you don't want to believe that you may have just poisoned yourself you just don't want to believe that so you literally go into this weird you know denial what the four stages of grief denial hopefully we get them to

anger and then from anger we get them but hopefully they skip depression and go straight to acceptance but action acceptance like okay i was just bamboozled i may have been injured long term i want i want something to be done about this but right now they're in the denial stage and you know think about wall street a lot of the people i'm trying to convince to um get negative on pfizer and moderna and and uh understand they were that fraud occurred all were mandated to take the shots yeah i mean all of them well i know on wall street i know a number i mean a number of people my family are in the banking industry and they wanted to get back to work they were told all right get the get your two doses get back in the office and they didn't

want to get it they got it against their will but they were like all right i need to get back to work make all this money and then as soon as they started pushing boosters like what the fuck no so i know that there's at least some critical thinkers on wall street have gotten to that point did the risk assessment like I don't care if I get the jab whatever I need to get back making money

but there was a line there seems to be a line for at least a number of people where it's like I'm not crossing that and yeah

here's the other thing that people need to know it's not definitive 100% but it looks like I'm going to go out and say I'm not a doctor

but I've had doctors tell me that the injuries and deaths are dose dependent so if you get the first two jabs and you're okay

The booster, it's like Russian roulette. You start off with one bullet in the chamber, but when you get the booster, you put two bullets in the chamber, so your odds go down avoiding risk. Then you get the fourth booster, you put another bullet in the chamber. I think I would love for people in these corporations to say, we're not signing up for quarterly jabs until we drop dead. what I'm hoping. There's lots of silent and a lot of pushback

and I'm hoping people that you know in your family that are at these banks hold the line. Because that's what's going to stop this, holding the line. Again, the incessant pushing from Pfizer and the CDC,

they're trying to mandate that children get this, 5 to 12 years old. Again, they're in a cohort that is more likely to die from the flu. in any of this and it's again not only is there going to be backlash the anger stage is going to be somewhat frightening because i i think coming after the kids line that you shouldn't cross and they're crossing it uh shamelessly and yeah i i have friends on wall street that are more in line

with you and me but they have to be quiet about it but they've told me that some of the you know really big proponents of getting you know lining up for the jab in new york um when they started to come to come to the realization that their kids had to get it that's where they said no okay i i did it i did my part but this doesn't affect children no so even some of the people who are big proponents of getting the jabs themselves don't want to see your kids get it now there are those crazy holdouts that you know think this is the best thing since sliced bread want to give their you know newborn um uh want to give their newborn let me just turn this down when they want to give their newborn uh the job so the good news is is that more and more people are waking up

to this um whatever this crazy mass psychosis is that's gone on i mean it's i just i don't know i mean i love talking i have a lot of a lot of people like to give millennials a hard time i have a lot of millennial friends who know what's going on and there's a lot more awake i think millennials are characterized as this woke generation i don't i think that's more of a media um illusion than it's truth i mean i'm sure you know some some that are you know lockstep with this but you have plenty of friends that are you know yeah yeah no i mean again at least i'm 30 we were 10 when 9-11 happened they lied to us about iraq and afghanistan was 17 when 08 happened was like what the fuck is this and then you roll that straight into

like late 20s 10 years later into the covet nonsense it's like all right enough is enough um i mean i i got there much earlier but um there's plenty of us who are calling bullshit on all this and then you get books like the fourth turning and you just do like a historical analysis of these massive changes in society. And it's undeniable that we're living through one. The internet has burst a hole in the power structure that we're currently in the vacuum of reorganizing our society,

at least from my perspective. And this is part of the volatility that comes with that is people having to quickly understand that the incumbent powers are quickly losing power. Yeah, what we're seeing is A dying system of oligarchic control losing its grip on the populace because the lies have become so big, you can't, I mean, they have to resort to gaslighting at this point and threats.

I mean, apparently, I'm a domestic terrorist, according to DHS, because I'm exposing something that may cause someone to lose faith in a government institution. That's their definition. yeah i mean you're talking to a bitcoiner here so i'm on all the list um yeah but let's before we dive in like a bitcoin conversation all that like let's because there are uh a number of narratives out there like what is good data what is bad data and again going back to what i said in the beginning i think the data that you're honing in is undeniably good like you can't you can't refute funeral home uh data insurance like that and that's the thing follow the money

Once the insurance companies, once the insurance companies begin saying, Hey, uh, we've been going along with these vacs mandates, but it turns out it's driving us bankrupt. So we need to come out for the sake of our shareholders and start calling this out or bringing this data to light. So somebody like Ed Dowd can call it out. Well, that, uh, our goal, my goal has just been to expose the data, throw it out in the public, and then, you know, at least give people, I'm

giving people cover to have conversations. And the insurance industry right now is not identifying the vaccine, but trust me, there's conversations going on behind the scenes, and some brave CEOs somewhere are going to come out and say, we were defrauded, and there needs to be an investigation. So the worm's turning there. It's both a humanitarian issue and a financial issue for them. No, but they have to go through their cognitive dissonance. I mean, these insurance companies are conservative, kind of, you know, institutional people.

And when the government said mandated, it's all safe, they said, you know, they told everybody you had to get it. So, you know, they all got it. They're all jabbed. And, you know, I think I think it's just going to take hopefully not too much more time. But stay tuned. We're hoping that somebody breaks breaks the log jam here. And then once once an insurance company says, whoa, that hopefully hits the mainstream media. And then, you know, the cat's out of the bag.

Right now, what we're saying is bubbling under the surface. It's not in the mainstream, but it's spreading. What I've discovered and my partner discovered is spreading like wildfire. It's going everywhere. Yeah. The data is, again, it's a good data. It is the data. Yeah.

You can't deny it. You can do all these peer-reviewed studies about efficacy and spread, but when it comes down to deaths and excess deaths it's like all right these these people are in the ground you can't you can't fake this data so no it's extremely fun you know it's so it's so it's so i'll say it's so fucked up it's foobar fucked up beyond all recognition um you know when we were uh before i went on uh the podcast or the steve bannon show to talk about my discoveries with my partner we were talking about the data and when we first were doing the graphs we did we did the numbers and then i said he said oh the numbers in the millennial

group are too small let's um let's switch it to percentages so we did and it you know looked it looked alarming on the percentage basis but then i before i went on the podcast i went back to him and I said, you know, 61,000 people is a Vietnam war. The millennials just had a Vietnam war. And because, you know, 61,000 compared to 1.1 million seems small, but look, young people aren't supposed to die of COVID. And we just killed potentially, I mean, I'm not, I can't say definitively all 61,000 were due to the vaccine, but a number, a number, let's call it between 40 and 50 millennials disappeared in

mostly the fall and winter of 2021. I mean, WTF? What the fuck? And we're not talking about this? I would love for your generation

to just get super agitated about this. I'm already there. I'm trying to rally the troops. But you compounded it too before the vaccine even got rolled out. The refusal to let treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin be used.

And I had the doctor who got me the strike on YouTube for talking about the VAERS database. That's why he came on the talk was, hey, I've been prescribing hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for over two years, haven't had one patient die. And he threw out a number, like they could have saved,

just not the millennial cohort, But overall, in the United States, probably could have saved 400,000 people, like if they No, so you're, you're, you're totally correct. I meant to say this earlier, but somehow I think I forgot, but the demo side was a two stage process. The first process was denying early treatment. And, and there's evidence coming out that that was actually a plan so that they can make way for the vaccine.

So that that's starting to become vetted. And there's a lot of journalists doing work on that. So stage one of Democide was prevention of early treatment. Stage two is mandates and jabs causing death and injury well above what a normal vaccine would. So whether it was greed, power, or some sort of other nefarious plan, it's clear to me that Democide was this two-stage process, year one and year two. yeah and so you've got a background in finance obviously you're a wall street geek self-described yeah let's not forget so like what blows my mind is like thinking of how this coalesces whether it's uh whether it's um related or not but september 2019 you have the repo spasms you have lockdowns march 2020 and partially to today still in some places, so that you create new facilities during the repo spasm, essentially

open up the Fed's window to allow the FICC to get money from the Fed window. We go into COVID, print trillions of dollars, expand the facilities even further, and now Fast forward to today, we've had all the supply chain issues that we've had over the last couple of years. And we have Russia and Ukraine, commodities markets going crazy because trade is only getting more illiquid as geopolitical tensions rise on the international stage. Combining all these factors, how much of a financial shitshow are we in? I mean, the dollar has obviously been dethroned as the world reserve currency. What's going to replace it? Who knows?

But we just know that due to the actions of the U.S. government over the last two months, there's no way you're going to have a petrodollar slash eurodollar reserve system moving forward. Nobody can simply trust it. And so we're going to have a grand reshuffling in all aspects of life, it seems, in the next few years. ED HARRISON Those of us in finance and Wall Street, who are, I guess, we'd be called forward thinkers and or conspiracy theorists, depending on your pick, have always known, since the great financial crisis, all they did was that bad debt didn't disappear. It went on the balance sheets of central banks.

And then the economy really didn't get kickstarted. So the only way that the economy really got kickstarted globally was through government spending. So central banks propped up the bank's bad debt, printed money to kind of keep this system going, facilitated a debt binge by governments across the globe to stimulate their own economies. And fast forward 10 years, they know that at some point, some country is going to go poof, and it's going to cause a daisy chain of events, right? So when we were trying to speculate, what would they do?

What would happen? What kind of cover or excuse would be trotted forward to usher in the next bubble popping and financial collapse? Well, you talked about the 2019 repo thing. The chatter I heard then was it was basically credit hedge funds are starting to get into trouble. And when the Fed prints money, they don't control where it goes. But a lot of the lending was no longer done by banks.

It was done with junk bond issuance and private equities, lending and wrapping up loans and see a collateralized loan obligation market. So it was another shadow banking situation, like in the great financial crisis, banking without banks being involved. And that started to wobble in the fall of 2019. And the best explanation I heard was the Fed was lending the investment banks and the banks money, who then lent it out to the hedge funds through their prime brokerage business. So the Fed was indirectly propping up hedge funds. And that's untenable from a public policy standpoint, bailing out billionaires. Not a good thing.

It was like .72, Millennium, and Citadel were at the bottom of that. Oh, yeah. All of them. And mostly credit hedge funds, who are not as well-known as the equity hedge funds, but they're all over the place, and they're all over the globe. And all they do is they make spreads, and they charge a lot of money for that. So they were wobbling. There was a credit problem brewing.

And then COVID comes along, right? Now, we can get into whether it was a plan or a convenient excuse. Let's just go with convenient excuse for now. And in that lockdowns and the little blip crash we had, the Fed printed 65% more money year over year, the largest printing press maneuver they've ever made in the history of the Federal Reserve. I mean, you can see the charts. The balance sheet of the Fed was like this, and it goes like this.

And, voila, that problem was solved. And, oh, by the way, we're going to allow ourselves to buy corporate credit. We did that. So isn't that interesting? Yes. Another tell for me that maybe the central banks were using this as a convenient excuse, or new, let's just say excuse for now. uh james bullard from the federal uh st louis federal reserve gets on face the nation on april 5th 2020 april 5th okay and he's being interviewed and she's like how are we going to reopen the

economy with everyone so scared to go to work because of the virus he said well due to technology we can introduce immunity badges and we can make people wear badges and we'll know who got the vaccine when the vaccines come no vaccine wasn't even a thought at that point and then she said she said well then um when we come back and i didn't have the rest of the clip when we come back we're going to talk about all this surveillance technology that could be used to implement that that was floated april 5th of 2020 now a ton of us on twitter known as fin twit which you're a part of fin twit you know um we uh i was vocal but many were vocal that sounds insane that sounds like you know you know like gold stars on your on your shoulder

meaning that what is this right well they were that that conversation was removed from the national conversation never heard about it again so they floated the idea then it disappeared and so in the summer of 2020 if you said that vaccine passports were coming which i did you would call the conspiracy theorist. So here we are. And now, I've seen analysis that the Fed is trapped. And what I mean by that is this rate hike cycle that everyone's talking about, and Powell comes out today and says he's going to raise 50 basis points. I call BS on that. They raised 25. That's because they know if they were to keep, this is all, whatever he's saying is not going to happen.

They're trapped. It's the end. The rate hike cycles ended before it began because the markets have already dictated that. The short-term interest rate market leads the Fed. And that's already, according to analysis I've seen, there's a spread between the three-month T-bill and the discount rate.

And in history, whenever the three-month T-bill goes through the discount rate, that caps the rate hike cycle. well we had that already so whatever they're doing is kabuki theater and so the next move is going to be them printing gobs of money because we're going to be in recession by the third quarter well i mean you talk about the state of food and gas prices here they're going to be writing stimmy checks within the next few months it's pretty um it's good it's going to be pretty politically untenable to not do so even though it's just going to exacerbate the situation

And yeah, you can't unwind a Ponzi. It's all a Ponzi at that level. The reason why no one sees it is because it's a multi-generational Ponzi, right? It started in 1913, and here we are, you know, 100 plus years later, and we're at the end of it. I mean, it's gotten, the Federal Reserve credit creation system needs constant credit creation. In the 70s, they had to go off the gold standard, and that gave us another 60 whatever years since the 70s of life to this. Then they created more bubbles and more debt, and then they moved after the Great Financial Crisis, the money printing moved overseas, and it's in the international, I mean, so

So, you know, there's like, I think, $13 trillion in U.S. dollar denominated bonds and debt. So this is a scheme and it needs constant credit creation to keep it going. And the moment it goes like this and you're at the end game, we're at the end game. I mean, everything's on the balance sheet of the governments and the central banks. So where do you go next? You don't. it's weird how things play out you can predict this for years

what are the exact events that are going to lead to the collapse of this credit bubble that's been blowing for over a century like you mentioned the isolationist policies that are beginning to take root due to this war and this posturing against Russia

I had Luke Groman on last week and he said yeah when push comes to shove people are going to realize they don't want dollars they want stuff that you can eat and actually use to build things and the u.s has found itself itself in a position where we've had terrible energy policy the last few decades we shut down all the or at least trying to shut down all the reliable energy industry that we have here particularly oil and gas we've completely hollowed out our manufacturing base because we needed the dollar to be the reserve currency triffin basically predicted

everything that's unfolded in the 70s and it's coming home to roost and so we're yeah we're at this perfect storm of terrible policy and then international conflicts that is i think again we're at the suddenly phase where where things are are just suddenly going down like we have two inflation prints cpi prints which aren't even official inflation but they're they're under reporting inflation it's still hitting 40-year all-time highs like we're we're in the thick of of the chaos? Yeah, I will say this. It appears to me over the last 12 years since the great financial crisis or whatever, whatever the amount of time it's been, there's been a tremendous inflation in financial assets. So there was some inflation, but it went mostly into financial

assets. And the popping of this bubble is going to deflate financial assets. But like you said, it's going to inflate things we need so it's a one-two punch right um and the other problem that's occurring is the reason why uh most of the money floating into financial assets was because of the wage gap between china and the u.s and so they were still you know you could go buy a new big screen tv you know you know more cheaply every year um and they kept gas prices relatively contained. But that wage gap has narrowed to the point where companies are now going to other countries to take advantage of a wage gap. And so that whole game of money printing and taking advantage of the wage gap is over. And so there's going to be, as financial assets inflate,

people are going to become scared and they're going to want to own real things, like you said, gold real estate food fuel um guns you know you what are something in the physical world that's not in a digit uh digitized uh bank of america portfolio which is going to go down a lot yeah i don't think people are ready people certainly aren't ready no no do you would you count bitcoin in that basket of things people should want Well, so look, in a financial panic, which I think is coming, everything goes down at once. Because I remember this distinctly in the lead up to the great financial crisis. Gold bottomed in 2001, too, at like $220 and went up to like, you know, over a thousand into the into the financial crisis.

and it got sold off too in the panic but then went on to new highs so i because the problem is when in a deleveraging event you sell what you can not what you want so people who who are there's a lot of people levered all over the system and some people some levered players on bitcoin right so when they have to when they get margin calls in other areas they'll be forced to sell Bitcoin to go cover the margin call on the other asset, right? Yeah. So Bitcoin, I think, gets hurt in a panic,

but I think it bottoms out and then probably goes on a new high. So, you know, however you want to trade that, but I don't think you're going to have to worry about it, you know, not going back to highs anytime soon. Yeah, I mean, we're not a big trading podcast. We don't really care about the price. What do you think about Bitcoin as a parallel system?

It's an asset that's going to be around, I mean, no doubt. No doubt. I mean, the cat's out of the bag. I mean, you can see that the regime's trying to criminalize it all of a sudden. They're starting to have all sorts of regulatory bodies look at this. But, you know, I don't think they can put the genie back in the bottle. What do you think? I mean, sitting here with a Bitcoin clock next to me, I'm pretty bought in. I mean, I'm buying up natural gas, abandoned natural gas assets so that I can mine Bitcoin.

I'm accumulating as much Bitcoin as possible. I work for a venture fund that's investing in Bitcoin infrastructure. I think, I mean, if, I mean, I believe what Friedrich Hayek said, like you're not going to take money, you're not going to fix the money until you take it out of the hands of the government

in a sly roundabout way. I think Bitcoin is that sly roundabout way. People talk about reverting to a gold standard, but I think gold's been cucked for the rest of eternity. There's no way that it could be a sufficient, reserve currency in the future due to just how uh how it's been centralized due to its physical nature and the fact that we live in the digital age like bitcoin can do everything gold can do 10 times better um well you know the market's already voted on that um people wondered why

gold hasn't had the run it should have had especially gold mining stocks they tend to go up as well but i would say that you know bitcoin is huge competition for gold and the market's already voted so gold is done the market's already said that in my opinion yeah well gold will be gold but it won't be it won't be there it won't be uh we will not we're not going back on the gold standard no and i feel for my gold brethren out there because i do think we're actually 99% aligned on things particularly sound money is important for society to actually coordinate and price things accurately um there's a lot of gold enthusiasts that just can't um come to grips with the fact that bitcoin does what gold does better um and there's more to sure i agree i

mean the market i mean if you just look at the price of gold versus the price of bitcoin over the last 10 years there's just no comparison um the market's already voted and i believe the market's usually smarter than i am so i don't know the gold bugs it's like a religion and uh you know i'm not religious about anything except except god but i'm not religious i'm not religious about anything in this world yeah that's probably a good perspective to take and people call uh bitcoiners religious too um a certain extent but maybe they are bitcoin uh is early early enough in its in its growth phase that you can be quasi-religious about it but just don't just know that you know 20 30 years from now that something else may come along so

that never never be completely religious but right now being religious hasn't been a bad thing yeah in bitcoin no it has not um no it's fun too and then when you talk about critical thinking and freedom and liberty in the digital age i just that's what drew me to it again being a child of 2001 and 2008 particularly like i went i was lucky enough to be taking an economics elective class by senior year of high school in the fall of 2008 my professor was like gentlemen went to an all-guys school he was like gentlemen like this is all fucked up like go just go to college and know your enemy which is like this weird monetary system and that's when i found bitcoin having at the same time that i was studying the enemy in college studying economics it really just clicked

with me right away like oh this cannot be controlled the way in the the federal reserve system that is controlled by insiders is and i do think it's a it's a very strong driving force for good in the world moving forward which is why i do this podcast yeah i i i um it's what's interesting since i started exposing this data i would i you know managing my social media was like a problem i had no idea what was going on it was growing so fast but a friend of mine who's involved on Wall Street in the hedge fund community and he likes crypto.

He said, oh, a lot of the crypto guys are following me now. I said, really? So apparently, like you said, there's a strong sense of critical thinking and not buying the narrative. And that's, you know,

I welcome all crypto folks to follow me for the truth. And, you know, I'll expose what I find. so yeah well i'm a big fan of of you guys well uh i'm going to correct you a little bit crypto is all bullshit bitcoin is the only thing that matters at the end of the day okay all right but crypto is crypto crypto is a manifestation of the fiat bullshit we're trying to get away from um i will say there's a lot of there's a lot of what do they call them shit coins yeah shit coins yeah yeah which uh there's there's they're all shit coins except for bitcoin it's all about

energy at the end of the day i'll call you bitcoiners thank you um no you can call us whatever you want uh but not to pontificate here i do again talking about buying natural gas to mine bitcoin that's actually where i think the signal is people bitcoin is part monetary revolution apart energy revolution it's going to usher in an energy efficiency renaissance that people simply don't understand or are ready for yet um well if that if it does that, what capitalism is supposed to traditionally do, I applaud that because of the correct price signals.

Yes. We're going to fix the Henry Adams curve, which got off kilter in 1970 when we went off the gold standard. Sure did. Ed, thank you for your time, your work you do. It's extremely important work. I hope that this episode

helps get it out to more people and that we begin pulling people's heads out of the sand because it is due time that people realize that there's some fucked up things going on in the world, particularly as it pertains to the response to COVID and the vaccine mandates. And I think your analysis is going to continue to pull people's heads out of the sand. So thank you for that. Well, and thank you for having me on and giving me the opportunity to plead my case.

um it's alternative voices like yours that are the true heroes of this you know gestapo propaganda bs from the mainstream media so it's guys like you that are uh you know revolutionizing the flow of information so thank you we're gonna win we're gonna win but uh that's a big big saying over here we're gonna win it's just gonna take time absolutely all right thank you enjoy the rest of your day. Peace and love, freaks. Peace.