Warsh smashes the Fed’s crystal ball, Bessent warns that pulling the plug could blow up the global financial system, and Trump’s Space Academy ends the Dark Age.
Bloomberg says Bessent needs a reset. Susan says the midterms are economic war. Barbara says the C-17 to Moscow was a back channel you don’t put on a phone. Eighty days out — and the fight is the system, not Carney.
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Warsh smashes the Fed’s crystal ball, Bessent warns that pulling the plug could blow up the global financial system, and Trump’s Space Academy ends the Dark Age.
Susan Kokinda frames a “larger war” behind a headline-filled week, focusing on three events: new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast,” and President Trump’s Johnson Space Center remarks. She argues Warsh blamed 65 months of elevated inflation on the Fed and signaled an end to “forward guidance,” which she says benefits financial “high flyers” while harming Americans without financial assets. She highlights Bessent’s warning that immediately sanctioning Iran-linked money laundering could “blow up the global financial system,” portraying that system as dependent on illicit flows and oil control, and notes Treasury targets include entities in Hong Kong. She also cites Trump’s announcement of a major Venezuela oil deal and his directive creating a United States Space Academy, presented as rejecting a “Dark Age” of limits to growth and advancing exploration and freedom.
00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - Dark Age to Golden Age: Trump’s Team Disarms the Lords of Money - August 29, 2026
02:10 The Crystal Ball Shatters
05:45 Bessent Reveals Dirty Secrets
09:55 The Dark Age Ends in Houston
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