To the President of the United States and Members of the United States Congress,
I am writing as a citizen to warn you of a quiet structural threat to the republic that is not foreign, not military, and not theoretical.
It is the way our public stock markets now function.
They were sold to the public as mechanisms for capital formation and shared prosperity. In practice, they have become a casino console for a narrow class of institutions armed with algorithms, high-speed infrastructure, and soon, quantum-level predictive tools. The ordinary citizen is not “participating in growth.” He is the inventory.
Here is the core of the problem.
A hint of a story comes first. Someone with reach surfaces a “concern” or a “theme” about a sector, a company, or the economy. It needs only to be plausible, not proven.
Once that story is in the air, the machines and their owners begin the real work. They operate in windows:
Narrow windows, where ultra-fast strategies skim fractions of a cent in microseconds, thousands of times over.
Medium windows, where price is walked up or down over days and weeks, creating squeezes and “momentum” moves to harvest.
Wide windows, where entire narratives are built around bubbles and busts, guiding retirement money in and out of sectors like cattle in Vermont—through pens.
At every window, different levels of risk and reward exist for the insiders. For the average investor, those windows are invisible. He cannot see the timing, the flows, or the leverage. He only sees what he is told: a story and a chart.
“Independent Media and Legacy Media began to merge this year. There is nowhere to turn or run, no one to trust. This is why we need a Truth in Media Act. A law with teeth to stop the lies and propaganda”
After the lies, the media points back at the price and says, “See, we were right.” The Pelosi triple step.
The story appears to predict the move. In reality, the story created the permission structure for the move, and the move then becomes the retroactive “proof” of the story. This is not an honest feedback loop between reality and price. It is a self-validating script in which the public is always one step behind the cause and one step behind the explanation.
Already, the majority of trading volume is driven by machines and institutional strategies that the public neither understands nor can access. The next layer is coming: quantum-accelerated prediction and optimization. That will not make markets “more efficient” for the average citizen. It will make the gap unbridgeable.
The public must be warned. A return to the basics—a savings and loan.
Once players can see flows, anticipate reactions, and front-run almost every human response before it happens, “investing” for the common person is reduced to a ritual, running a gauntlet of debits. It becomes like a bedtime story we tell to keep his savings inside a system designed to harvest him. A prelude to nightmares.
If this path continues, the outcome is not a mild, manageable unfairness. It is a structural failure.
Given enough time in a rigged game, someone with too much leverage and too much confidence will overreach and people will notice. A big player or a group of them will take too much, too often, off the top. They will push prices, structures, and balance sheets beyond what the underlying industries can sustain. Average people will lose everything. The country will lose its industrial base.
For a flash, it will look like brilliance. Then it will look like uncontrolled gravity, a black hole devouring prosperity.
The largest industries already cooperate to stay afloat, moving money, assets, and unrealized sales revenue between countries and business. All hidden inside layers of meaningless paper.
There will be a moment when industry leaders and ordinary citizens come to the same realization: the price structures resting on these games are hollow. The capacity, resilience, and real capital underneath does not match the digits on the screen. Computer screens will bleed red. That is the “holy shit” moment. When it comes, it will not be an abstract correction — it will be a rush to the emergency exits.
In that rush:
Entire sectors that appeared sound on paper will implode.
Retirement accounts, pensions, and savings will disappear.
Communities will lose employers, tax bases, and services in a wave, leaving nothing untouched.
Already stripped of gold by their governments and financial institutions and threats of BitCoin confiscation, citizens will lose independence and tolerate fear.
Innocent firms and households will be crushed by proxy for risks they did not knowingly take. The people who were told to “ride it out” will discover that the ride was engineered to subject them to a never-ending dreamscape.
You may be tempted to reassure yourselves by saying that regulators exist to police manipulation, that fines and rules are in place. Look at the reality of the pattern honestly:
The process is never halted or even slowed.
Enforcement is slow, reactive, and usually ends in negotiated fines, not prison.
The cost of getting caught is a line item. The profits from pushing boundaries dwarf the penalties exponentially.
The regulators themselves are structurally dependent on the very institutions they oversee, for expertise, future employment, and political donations.
That is not true oversight. It is theater. No ticket to watch or participate is required. Just bring your money.
When a casino discovers that a few players have found a way to consistently beat the house, the game is changed or shut down. In our case, the “house” is not the public. The “house” is the government and cluster of institutions and technologies that now sit between real businesses and the people who think they own them.
“Corporations are not people. Absolutely the dumbest most financially self serving analogy of the Supreme Court in my lifetime.”
If institutions keep winning at the expense of the underlying system — if they can reliably extract more value than real production and real resilience can support — the eventual result is the same: the game collapses. The stock market will either be formally halted or repackaged in another form of corruption.
You are being asked to choose whether you will act before or after that moment. Shut down the corruption, separate “corporation” from “people.” Eliminate corruption by algorithms.
This is what action would look like in principle:
- An honest, public admission that the current market structure no longer serves its stated purpose for ordinary citizens.
- A truly independent commission, barred from financial industry employment or donations, to map the actual power structure of trading, data, manipulation and narrative control.
- A hard pause on further deployment of quantum and advanced AI tools into trading and market-making until everyone, citizen and industry can benefit.
- Real-time transparency of major order flows and positions, and the dismantling of dark money pools and off-exchange venues that hide the real game from the public.
- Personal criminal liability — for corporations and the people running them.
- A serious review of whether any forms of trading and leverage are compatible with a republic at all, including the possibility of intentionally unwinding parts of the current market system and replacing them with simpler, slower, more direct mechanisms for ownership and capital formation.
- Give us back our gold with interest.
- Defend and promote BitCoin.
These are not small questions. They strike at donor networks, lobbying structures, and the comfortable illusion that “the market” is a neutral referee rather than a political actor.
But if you do nothing — if you continue to allow a system in which your citizens are told to trust a market whose microstructure they can neither see nor understand or trust — you are not bystanders. You are sponsors.
I am not asking you to re-tune the machine around the edges. I am telling you that the machine, left to its own incentives, will eventually eat through the very industries, communities, and people it rests on. When that happens, no one will be able to blame “unforeseeable events.”
-Gaylord Livingston, USAF Retired
To the Editor:
Financial-guy Alex Krainer thinks the Powers-That-Be may be about to craft another pandemic—bird flu. Easy to imagine. After all, the Autopen administration already ran a trial run for it.
I think it’ll either be another pandemic, easy-to-label full-blown WWIII, a blowup of the derivatives market, or perhaps—fun, fun, fun—all 3!
I drove past a farm field in Putney on November 30th. It was full of Canadian geese. I’m fairly certain the farm had been sprayed with sh-t sometime in the previous week. At least, I know I saw that horrific truck in town, the one that belches big clouds of black smoke and often leaves a trail of its tank’s contents, wherever it goes. Apparently that truck never has to go through any kind of an inspection. Anyway, I imagine that’s how migrating wild birds get ‘flu’—by landing in and foraging in a field that’s just been sprayed with excrement. Prove me wrong. Try eating excrement with your food. And report back to us all.
I was amazed that a global pandemic narrative was built upon the back of the PCR test in 2020.
This is my PCR analogy: If you use a whole drivable vehicle as an analog for a whole active infectious viral particle and you see a key fob and a tire lying in the rode, would you think “Free car! I think I’ll go for a ride!”? The PCR test can only see the viral equivalent of the key fob and the tire. Or the gas cap and the steering wheel. Or a floor mat and a seat. It can’t tell you if you have a whole active infectious viral particle inside of you or anything that will make you or anyone else sick. In fact, if your immune system is working well, it should be attacking and shredding any foreign bodies that get into you. So, viral fragments could mean your immune system is working spectacularly!
If they begin killing millions of birds soon, as a result of some ‘positive’ PCR tests, it will be, once again, a most horrific crime. And if they try to convince everyone that we’re all going to get bird flu, too, we should take to the streets with pitchforks. For the politicians and the so-called public health people.
References:
https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/the-viruses-are-coming-the-viruses
Kary Mullis [inventor of the PCR technique] Explains the PCR Test
“With PCR, if you do it well, you can find almost anything in anybody. … It doesn’t tell you that you’re sick and it doesn’t tell you that the thing you ended up with really was going to hurt you or anything like that.”
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus
Celia Farber
One time, in 1994, when I called to talk to him about how PCR was being weaponized to “prove,” almost a decade after it was asserted, that HIV caused AIDS, he actually came to tears. …
It finds fragments, nucleic acids. From an email from Kary Mullis, to the widow of boxer Tommy Morrison, whose career and life were destroyed by an “HIV test,” and who litigated ferociously for years, against test manufacturers, Dr. Mullis wrote, on May 7, 2013:
“PCR detects a very small segment of the nucleic acid which is part of a virus itself. The specific fragment detected is determined by the somewhat arbitrary choice of DNA primers used which become the ends of the amplified fragment.” …
-Jacqueline Brook, Putney