Bloomberg:
By Mathew Carr
Corporate and government corruption go hand in hand in the world’s biggest economy.
If Trump shares the corruption with the ordinary people via this bribe, they are less likely to hold him to account.
Trump is trying to make out the $5,000 will have no consequences but it steals from future generations who will need to service the massive increase in debt.
It’s potentially a $1.35 trillion bribe, surely the largest in human history.
The $5000 will go into bank accounts, boosting banks first….expect JP Morgan shares to rise, for instance.
Trump is pretending he’s for the people when he’s for the banks.
Three days ago (before Trump’s bribe announcement)…this view was broadcast…. it still provides good context on other reasons why Trump might be doing this):
This guy geopolitical analyst Simon Dixon reckons Trump is “asset stripping” the USA for the financial industrial complex (FIC) and the military industrial complex (MIC):
The US is trying to find ways of dumping the debt onto the American people
The banks have been extracting from society far too much for far too long and Trump’s desperate bribe of about $1 trillion is actually boosting the debt of the American people….while pretending to help those very same people.
These related charts from this 2026 book are great context too:
Dixon:
🇮🇱 Most people will see deeper US Israel military integration and say Israel controls America.
I see the opposite.
Israel is a MIC node.
America is already subordinate to FIC. [the banks: CarrZee]
And ultimately MIC is subordinate to FIC because war requires budgets, debt and capital.
US military aid does not simply go to Israel.
Most of it returns to the US MIC through weapons procurement.
Banks can even pay contractors today against future government appropriations.
The taxpayer carries the liability.
MIC gets the contracts.
FIC finances and owns claims on the cash flows.
Now the US Israel relationship is moving from aid towards joint investment, development and production.
Israel is not taking control of the American military.
Israel is becoming more deeply integrated into the US MIC.
At the same time Israel is borrowing more and preparing to sell parts of IAI and Rafael.
The IAI IPO has been delayed because military secrecy conflicts with the disclosure investors require.
That is the important part.
To privatise a sovereign military company the state has to make it compatible with capital market governance.
Public money builds the asset.
War increases its value.
Debt finances the state.
Privatisation turns the MIC into securities.
FIC gains claims on the future profits and greater influence over how the assets are governed.
This is not evidence that Israel rules America.
It is evidence that both are being integrated into the same FIC financed military architecture.
Israel is subordinate to MIC.
The US MIC is subordinate to FIC.
And financialisation is pulling more of the Israeli MIC under that same structure.
The process is not complete.
But the direction is clear.