Do do that voodoo that you do so well
by Not Sure
3 August 2025
What’s the world coming to
when an economist has over 400,000 subscribers on Substack? Below is a
screenshot of Paul Krugman’s Substack, and because it’s just a screenshot, you
cannot click on the ‘subscribe’ button. But now you know, and you can hurry over
and click ‘subscribe’ and swell his numbers.
I did not do that, but I
confess, I enjoyed his article he posted today on Trump’s tariffs, and I might
explore his site a little more before I move on.
The Economics of Smoot-Hawley 2.0, Part I
But first, I’ll back up.
Often, I’ve said, “I passed through the living room, and my brother was
watching…” but this is not true. I would never pass through the living room
when he is watching the television as I would have to pass between him on the
couch and the big, black screen. I would never do that because it would be
rudely unnecessary when there’s another entrance to the kitchen.
What happens is that I walk
down the hall into the kitchen and from there I can hear the big, black screen
and decide if I want to socialize with my brother. It’s not easy to socialize
with someone watching television, but I manage this by listening attentively to
the boob tube (name derived from idiots watching an image generated by a
cathode ray tube, which is ancient tech and now we’re HDTV, LED/OLED/QLED. Same
boobs, no tube.) Whilst sincerely and attentively listening and watching, I can
inject humorous and sarcastic commentary that makes my brother laugh. See? I
socialized.
The other day, my brother
was watching Tucker Carlson interviewing a German economist named Richard
Werner. I decided this was worth socializing over. I could not stay too long,
but the next day on our walk, I asked my brother a few questions about it, and
some general questions on the topic of inflation.
Many years ago, and fresh
out of university, before my brother chose a different career path, he enrolled
at the University of Chicago to pursue a master’s degree in economics. Milton
Friedman taught there, and he and George Stigler were associated with the
Chicago school of economics, that rejected Keynesianism for
monetarism that emphasized the importance of policy-makers in determining the
amount of money in circulation. After one year there, my brother decided that
economics was not for him, and he left Chicago.
Regarding Tucker Carlson’s
interview with Richard Werner, my brother said, “Werner just isn’t that bright.
He was really struggling to succinctly say where money comes from, how it is
added into the economy, and he doesn’t seem to have a grasp of basic accounting.”
He then gave me a brief lesson on money, and I asked a few general questions.
My brother said, “Nothing interesting has come out of economics since the 19th
and 20th century thinking of the Austrian school of economics.”
Later I wondered why Tucker
Carlson was interviewing Werner. There seemed to be nothing special about his
thoughts on credit creation and the role of banking. He had no new book to
promote. It was only later when I saw that the World Economic Forum had selected
him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” at Davos in 2003, that the penny (which
the U.S. Treasury vows to stop producing next year) dropped.
Now this former Global
Leader for Tomorrow has turned whistleblower and has been making the rounds
with a variety of exciting topics that are custom made for an audience that
feels misled and even burned by mainstream fare.
Richard
Werner Exposes the Evils of the Fed & the Link Between Banking, War, and
the CIA
Former WEF Member Turned Whistleblower Warns About
Globalists Plan To Microchip People
One thing that leapt out at
me during Werner’s interview with Carlson was his description of how popular
his lectures became. For three years he was a professor at Goethe-University
Frankfurt. Frankfurt, Germany is the seat of the European Central Bank, and a
city littered with banks. His humble class audience grew from a couple dozen to
more than four hundred, and we assume this is because he was a rock star
amongst economists, pacing the stage like Mick Jagger, enthralling young men
and women with his ground-breaking ideas.
Werner holds a First Class Honours B.Sc. in
Economics from the London School of Economics and a doctorate in Economics from
the University of Oxford. He has also studied at the University of Tokyo. Until
February 2019, Richard was for many years a member of the ECB Shadow Council. A
European Commission Fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Economics and
Statistics, and he is credited with coining the term 'quantitative easing' and
advancing that concept in Japan in the mid-1990s. Nowhere on his lengthy and
impressive bio does he distance himself from the World Economic Forum and the
honor they bestowed on him, nor proclaim himself a whistleblower.
At the end of this article,
I will link to several Alan Watt audios where he discusses quantitative easing.
Other thinkers have referred to Quantitative Easing (QE) as conjuring growth in
voodoo economics.
Put plainly, Werner is an
‘influencer’, placed on the right shows at the right times for reasons which
I’ve not time to fathom out. I was stunned that an economist could have 12,000
Substack subscribers, but that was before I stumbled upon Paul Krugman.
How I even knew to go
looking for influential economists was by doing keyword searches for ‘academic influencers’. Just as scientists and Silicon Valley tech
entrepreneurs are promoted as stars we need to follow and worship, academia
promotes its own.
Earlier in the week, while
on the hunt for commentary about America’s AI Action Plan released by the U.S.
government last month, I discovered an influencer by the name of Joe Allen. I
don’t think he has been interviewed by Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson, but he was
interviewed by Steve Bannon, something I learned on one of my pass through/not pass through the living room,
as my brother watched TV.
Here is Joe Allen’s bio on
the Coast to Coast website from when he was a guest of
George Noory:
Joe Allen is an author and
blogger who writes on the future of humanity, artificial intelligence,
transhumanism, and other technology-based topics. He has written for
Chronicles, The Federalist, Human Events, The National Pulse, Parabola, Salvo,
and Protocol: The Journal of the Entertainment Technology Industry. He holds a
master’s degree from Boston University, where he studied cognitive science and
human evolution as they pertain to religion. As an arena rigger, he’s toured
the world for rock n’ roll, country, rap, classical, and cage-fighting
productions.
I read that without
financial aid, a year at Boston University is nearly $80,000, so rigging a
cage-fight or pontificating on the future of humanity could make a dent in that
debt.
I’ve entitled today’s Redux
of Alan Watt, "Don’t devalue yourself as an individual, whatever you
do" but when it first aired in February of 2014, its title was:
Alan said, “I’ve always said
the people must think for themselves. You’ve got to think for yourself. You
have a mind to use. You have your own world experiences to use. You will
definitely be contaminated – that’s the term that’s
used even by the communist system. Yuri Bezmenov and other writers talked about
the contamination of their indoctrination. You will believe, especially if you
go through university and college, in all the social causes, and global
warming, and anthropogenic global warming, it’s man-made
global warming, too many people, too many of the wrong kind of people as
George Bernard Shaw said. And you will believe it all because it’s presented
with the omission of any other parts of any particular story.
That’s how you lie to people, from the top. Not by just basically lying, but by
omission and then you will be led to a conclusion that was preplanned by those
who gave you that limited one-sided information. And yet they come out of
college and university thinking they know all there is to know, taught by the best
professors, who are part of the act of course. Because some of the top
professors that teach all this stuff are members of the same organization, the
CFR/Royal Institute of International Affairs and various other names for the
umbrella group. So they know what they’re doing. They,
again, will say it’s okay to deceive the people, and the students, for the
greater good.”
Deception is all around us,
and nowadays deceivers are often called influencers. It can take years to
prepare an influencer for public consumption. They are groomed and prepped for
a distant mission, not unlike sleeper agents of the spy world. They’ll come out with lots of knowledge on an
area that seems pressing, even necessary for the survival of humanity. They are
credible, their information is factual. But then there’s the spin, the rat
poison. The spin is different in every case. It might be something like,
“Geoengineering is real and has been going on for years and we need have open
discussions about, and consider other options, and by the way, anthropogenic
climate change is a fact.” Or it might be, “We’re run by a technocratic cabal,
hellbent on our destruction. It might be time to give Marxism a fair shake.”
Let me say that sometimes
the spin may not be intentional. It might come from a place of genuine concern
but lacking the foundation of a deep understanding of the architects of this
ancient agenda of control of the many by the few. But alas, it’s still rat
poison.
Quoting again from this Alan
Watt talk: “The idea, too, is to stop you thinking as an individual…You
see, the idea is to get you working collectively and to eradicate the
individualistic quality that you have. You will only grow through being an
individual. You will only get wise or some wisdom by being an individual and
pondering everything for yourself, not by anybody else’s. And you don’t have to
go into the philosophers, that are quoted like gods, and that was the purpose
of them, especially in the 1800s and so on. They were all put out there and
funded by special interest groups, generally often just one at the time, to
eradicate the old order of things where the old religions, as they call them,
had run the world for a long time, and to replace them with the scientific
elite, you see, those who are logical, rational and all the rest of it,
etc. etc.”
‘Thinkers’ and ‘academics’
and ‘experts’ work on our mind in especially damaging ways because we are
trained from birth not to value our own minds, our unique thoughts. We seek for
our thoughts to be guided and In-Formed. Alan said, “…if you worship philosophers...
and you worship them for what? For being an individual? Well, why don’t you be
one yourself? without quoting them or following what they said?…Why
don’t you do that rather than have to quote them and
quote them like they’re some kind of gods?”
The insidious quality of
this kind of influence on our minds makes the recent promotion by the Catholic
church of ‘hot priest’ influencers seem clumsy and laughable. Evidently,
bodybuilding priests are going to swell the numbers of the faithful. It’s all
about pecs and tats now.
© Not Sure
Alan Watt discusses
quantitative easing: