Ann Pettifor

And Mrs. Thatcher gets wind of this and thinks, oh, why don't we do that too here?

And BlackRock comes along and scoops up our pensions and says, leave it to me.

I'm going to invest your pension in, I don't know, the US dollar, which never falls in value.

And all, you know, in whatever gold or silver or whatever I think would make you more money.

And we say, fine, here it is.

So we're extremely vulnerable.

So the point of the book is to say this system impacts on you, dear reader, on a daily basis.

Your pension, the price of your food, you know, all these agricultural goods that are traded.

Yeah.

And energy.

These are key things, not to mention house prices.

That open door means capital can flow into your country and inflate the value of your properties and render you homeless.

And because we're ignorant of that, we blame our neighbours, we blame supply and demand, but we don't blame the system.

What's really bugging me at the moment, Nish, is that none of the big media outlets are focusing except for the Financial Times.

And Jim Pickard must get real credit for this.

Nobody's focusing on the fact that this is a Wall Street story.

This is a banker's story.

And they wanted to attack the post-crisis regulation.

Now, we were watching all this from here.

And there was something called Dodds-Frank where finally the government said after the great financial crisis in which millions of people lost their homes, their jobs, they suffered divorce, they committed suicide.