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“Pete Bruton's book, which talked about how the whole savings and loan debacle during the 1980s was basically the CIA money laundering with the mafia and supporting the Contras, George H.W. Bush, blah, blah, blah. Well, evidently, they didn'…”
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Your book suggestions are so awesome. And one of you guys, a while back, sent me a book recommendation. And I don't remember, forgive me, whether it was DM or in the comments or whatever. And it's called Belly Up. And it's about the Penn St…
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Pete Bruton's book, which talked about how the whole savings and loan debacle during the 1980s was basically the CIA money laundering with the mafia and supporting the Contras, George H.W. Bush, blah, blah, blah. Well, evidently, they didn'…
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The same setup, except it's in Oklahoma. And there's a lot of nuances to that. So what's interesting, at least I'm halfway through the book. You don't see this guy's, Pete Bruton was such an amazing investigative journalist. He could see th…
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see the big picture. He's very detailed in the information that he provides. But it's amazing that he doesn't see how all of this, what I'm going to refer to as money laundering, wasn't money laundering. He thinks it's just bad banking. No,…
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It's taken place during the exact same time. And it involves a lot of the exact same locations like Colorado and a lot of the people in the same industry, real estate investment, banks in Florida. It's funny that, again, with your Gladio gl…
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it doesn't look new at all. You're like, oh, I've seen this before. So anyway, just thought I'd share that with you. It's not likely a book that we would ever do on the show, although maybe, because it is very interesting, especially on the…
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It relates directly to that book that I just finished. And again, these are just random recommendations from you guys. I had a DM telling me to buy the book, Belly Up, which is about another bank failure. That was tied into the book that we…
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and then read the Karen Silkwood book. And on the last page of the Karen Silkwood book, it tied directly to the Belly Up book. And I'm like, my mind is just completely blown here. And both of those recommendations came from you guys. Both o…
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1980 Savings and Loans Failure Books. Like I'm reading another one called The Inside Job. So I read the Mafia, CIA, and George H.W. Bush, which was about the Texas one. I just finished one called Belly Up, which was about the Oklahoma ones …
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Again, what's really funny about this is that the book that I read, Belly Up, was all about Illinois, the Continental Illinois Bank, like literally all about it. And Penn Square down in Oklahoma, it was the preponderance of the book. And I …
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or owned $100 million of real estate and drilling equipment in Texas and Oklahoma. And this Barbati guy comes up in the stories of the money laundering during the savings and loan thing, just so that you guys are keeping track. All these st…
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were union people working in restaurants and particularly pizza. And so I'm looking at this whole model and I'm going, well, that's the same damn thing they did with the book that I read called Belly Up, where they had all of the banking.…