Who Really Owns America (It's Not Who You Think)

"And now, the Fed has lowered the reserve requirement to 0%. Meaning, there's no reserve requirement for banks. They can lend out the maximum amount of everything you deposit."

"At the end of last year, in 2024, the United States had over $36 trillion in gross federal debt, which is roughly 120% of something called the GDP, which means more than a full year's worth of all goods and services the US makes, we are now in debt."

"Now out of that 36 trillion though about 80% of the debt was held by public investors with the rest of the 20% recorded as intergovernmental debt. Of the 29 trillion held by the public, foreign investors in other countries owned about 8.5 trillion or 30% including 1.8 trillion split between Japan and China."

"In reality, the single biggest holder of public debt is the Federal Reserve with over $6 trillion on its balance sheet."

"Can the US sustain itself on this path forever? Most economists say no. The US is on US federal debt is on an unsustainable path. It's not at an unsustainable level and no one really knows how much further we can go. you know, we're running very large deficits at full employment and uh this is a situation that we we very much need to address. Sooner or later, we'll have to and and sooner is better than later."

"In 2024, for example, 100 billionaire families spent a record 2.6 billion in federal races, about 16th of total spending."

"The top 50 individual donors gave out $2.5 billion with Republican leaning contributions outpacing Democrats about 2 to1."

"Add 1.9 billion in estimated dark money spending by nonprofits and shell groups that conceal their donors, and you get the idea."

"George Soros's super PACs spent a ton of money. His Open Society foundations spent at least 140 million into organizations in 2021 on top of more than 170 million he contributed personally during the 2022 midterms. And in the 2024 cycle, the Soros family funded groups like the Texas Organizing Project got 600 grand and state Democratic parties in Wisconsin and Ohio got 250,000 each from Soros's affiliated entities."

"In 2017, a famous Boscot painting sold for $110.5 million...Bitcoin was worth about $2,000 a coin, which meant the buyer could have spent 55,000 bitcoins to buy this painting. But fast forward to July 2025 and Bitcoin is now $117,000. That same $110 million painting would only need $941 bitcoins."

"From 2016 to 2024, the average house went up over 50% relative to dollars... But relative to Bitcoin, it lost 99%. In fact, from 2020 to 2025, the average house again lost over 80% of its value."

"Bitcoin is draining all of the premium out of those assets and it is sucking it up as more and more money realizes that this specific form of energy is superior for the purpose of protecting economic energy. And that's why every asset class will continue to depreciate when measured against it. And as more and more money understands those benefits, it will continue to tell that same story."