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kleinbl00  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Next Financial Calamity Is Coming. Here’s What to Watch.

That was the basis for the creation of Bitcoin in the first place: Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he, she or they may be, saw the bailouts of the markets by central banks to be a "hacking" of the financial system to the benefit of large institutional investors.

I read Bernanke's Courage to Act. The basis of the book is "stupid Americans, not knowing what's good for them, even now that Goldman Sachs is making profits hand over fist!"