How The Financial System Controls Governments | Simon Dixon
By Danny Knowles
Aired Jan 5, 2026 · 1h 48m · Last boosted Jan 13, 2026
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Simon Dixon joins the show for a conversation on money, power, and why Bitcoin exists at all. Drawing on decades inside investment banking and monetary reform, Simon explains why modern capitalism is not capitalism at all, how debt based money guarantees systemic collapse, and why governments are not the real locus of power. We trace the origins of central banking, fractional reserve lending, and the financial industrial complex, and why attempts at reform were always destined to fail. We then turn to Bitcoin as both an exit and a battleground. Simon lays out the real attack vectors...
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Hell of a conversation, but about halfway in, I ran out of tinfoil. Simon is either Nostradamus or had a big laugh after recording stopped.
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Fantastic rip for those on the journey to find out “how the world actually works”.
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Very interesting.
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A lot of people think it's the other way around, but most of the time the government is the one being manipulated through lobbyists.
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Might just be my non-British ears, but Simon sounds exactly like Pete with a cold.