Brian Stern

Times I trusted the wrong sources.

Filled in the gaps with my own conclusions.

That's real and that's all on me.

but there is another part of my record that matters because when you step back and you look at the arc, there are moments.

If you've been listening to me for a long time that are hard to ignore in 1999, I spoke about Osama bin Laden and I said, there will be a major terrorist attack on New York city with blood bodies and buildings in the streets.

Two years later, it happened.

In the early 2000s, I warned about our financial system, stressed beyond reason, something that could snap and take the world down with it.

In 2008, it did.

I thought it would lead us to a Great Depression.

I was wrong because I didn't see TARP.

But when I saw TARP, I said these interventions, the bailouts, they're going to stabilize things in the short term.

They'll fundamentally change our system and they will delay a deeper reckoning and that deeper reckoning is still ahead.

It's not a victory lap.

This is a timeline.

I've talked about the ideological movements, the Marxist anarchist Islamist forming strange alliances that nobody said could nobody could say they would ever do.

I was crazy for saying it.

I warned that they would create chaos in the Middle East and then chaos in Europe, and it would lead to massive migration waves that would test the cohesion of all Western nations.

It would come here to America and cause chaos in America, and its plan was to topple the Western world and Western civilization.

That was something that was nuts when I first said it.

It's not really now, is it?