Dana El-Kurd

I'm looking over the script.

Miraculously, this isn't.

Oh, wait, hold on.

I think I cut the part where people blow up school buses.

There was legitimately a segment in here that I might put back in.

What a crossover event.

Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.

The Saudis really good at that shit.

Turns out.

OK, OK, but let's get back to the topic at hand, which is what is shadow banking and why does it matter to all of us people who live in the normal real world and not in fake finance world?

Does it have anything to do with shadow wolves?

Unfortunately, no.

What about shadow facts?

Sadly, actually, there probably is a connection between the financing for the Lord of the Rings movies and shadow banking.

I'm just too tired to work it right now.

What is shadow bank?

Okay, so the good news, the good news, this is the first, it's not the last piece of good news we're going to get this episode, but, comma, the definition used by most non-academics is actually not that bad.

there's a pretty good, it's very wishy-washy because it's a congressional report.

And so it's specifically not supposed to be taking a stance in either direction on anything because it's the congressional review office and they're supposed to be neutral, et cetera, et cetera.