#139 - Simon Dixon - How the Financial-Industrial Complex Runs the World
By Peter McCormack
Aired Jan 8, 2026 · 2h 4m · Last boosted Apr 23, 2026
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Western politics appears chaotic - broken states, endless debt and permanent crisis. Simon Dixon argues it isn't chaos at all, it's structure. In this conversation, Simon lays out how money creation, debt, asset management, and access to capital now matter more than elections, ideology, or national borders. Governments, he argues, have become balance sheets and citizens have become collateral. We talk about how the debt-based system works, why rolling over debt keeps everything alive, how asset managers shape outcomes and why wars, bailouts, inflation, and social breakdown all follow the same incentives. It's about power...
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Strong interview with very interesting points.The fact that financial service providers must always chase higher returns just to keep capital, otherwise it moves to competitors, makes you question whether this system has any real winners. In the end, it feels like there are only two options: no money at all, or money based on debt and controlled through debt. Bitcoin finally offers a way out of this. Thank you, Pete…
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Simon Dixon came out of nowhere for me and I've been listening to his interviews, pretty interesting stuff but also very black pill stuff. If true, it makes me consider changing my life goals a bit.