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Wells Fargo Analyst Matthew Akers Was Purposely Wrong: When bankers are more dangerous in the world than Hamas

There’s a very public case going on right now that I’m in the middle of, and all this is on public record so that people can judge for themselves the contents.  But when I have to explain it to people —many thousands of people —the only thing that comes to mind is pirates.  People who rob other ships at sea and kill the crew and steal all the wealth on the ship.  The case I’m referring to involves a huge bank, Wells Fargo.  But as I have learned, what they are doing in the finance world is very common, not unique to just them.  We have a lot of plundering pirates in the finance and legal world, who, to put it mildly, steal wealth for all kinds of radical reasons.   And they have grown so large over the years that they have turned to piracy as their mode of operation.  The system we have allowed to exsist has created pirates in the finance industry that are completely stealing the kind of wealth that Trump is trying to unleash and based on my experience, because none of these people will ever admit any of this in court, it all comes back to politics and radicalism of human beings who have been allowed by law to get too much power over industry standards.  In the case I am talking about, Wells Fargo published an analytical opinion in April of 2025 that indicated the aerospace industry was going to suffer through a tough year.  This opinion appeared in multiple trade publications aimed at investors, and, to make a long story short, the intent of the opinion and its publication across multiple fronts was to depress the aerospace industry as a whole.  The comment by Wells Fargo analyst Matthew Akers regarding the poor performance of the aerospace industry was way off the mark, and I knew it then.  But the reason for the comment is that the piracy begins there, and is no different than the robbery we know occurred on the high seas in 1690, or in the finance industry in 2025. 

Banks like Wells Fargo did not get to be so big by their own power, there is a whole corrupt story that involves BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, and the Federal Reserve pumping a lot of printed money in the system that essentially gives public companies like Wells Fargo a pirate ship to attack the finance industry, while appearing to a media they largely control through advertising, to dress them up as good vessels.  Pirate ships used to perform this trick all the time: they would pretend to be a normal merchant vessel, then, just before they pulled up alongside another boat, they would hoist the Jolly Roger flag to scare the inhabitants of the ship they were trying to attack into surrendering.  And from there, the boat would be plundered for all its worth.  I see that happening to a lot of companies these days, especially after Trump was put back into office, which, based on the case I’m involved in, appears to be the motivating factor behind Matthew Akers’s statement.  I could have easily told him all about the aerospace industry and that he was incredibly wrong about his forecast in April of 2025.  But he wasn’t looking for the truth.  He was putting up a friendly flag to look helpful to the industry, to pull up alongside unsuspecting vessels to rob them.  That was the apparent purpose of his statement to the investment media.  And they thought they’d get away with it cleanly because they have for years, and have acquired more power, they believe, than our court systems can process.

There are a couple of strategies for why Matthew Akers and the people at Wells Fargo would make this prediction, knowing it was not the case.  2025 was projected to be a big year for the aerospace industry.  Trump was back in office.  The economy was poised to be red-hot.  And when people are happy and spending money, they fly to places.  Knowing a lot of people in this finance industry who are Democrat rats in disguise of pirates wearing suits, I would bet a lot of money that the purpose of the Wells Fargo statement to the industry was to attack the aerospace industry as a whole because they wanted to depress the incoming Trump economy.  If the Autopen president were still in office, I think the Wells Fargo forecast would have been the opposite.  And this is one of the primary reasons so many businesspeople are wishy-washy about politics.  They don’t want to be targeted by pirates who try to take over their business and industry.  So by depressing the industry, a large bank like Wells Fargo thinks it can actually shape politics.  And we see the same behavior wherever significant money is controlled by political radicals, such as in the pharmaceutical industry.  Only in aerospace, if you want to attack the military that Trump was to have access to, and the free flow of money into commercial aerospace because you want to protect the earth from the carbon footprint of a lot of new airplanes being built, you would if you could seek to tank the stock and harm the supply chain so that the industry would meet the expectations of a forecast that was not measured in real market value, but the strategic intent of the pirates involved at the front of the lending practices. 

Even worse than the political motivations is the ability to actually steal value.  In the case of the Wells Fargo April analysis, the mention was on the impact on Boeing stock, which a large bank’s opinion could greatly influence.  Such negative news could easily spark a mass sell-off and lower the price.  Only to have BlackRock, which owns a lot of Wells Fargo, sweep in and buy up all that stock for a very low cost.  And that money came straight from the Federal Reserve.  So we have a terrible game going on here that is really restricting a positive American economy and a global aerospace industry critical to Trump’s goals in the world.  In the case I’m involved in, the pirate ship is being fought; it was recognized well before they raised their pirate flag.  And the intention is to sink that pirate ship and bring disaster to all who are on it.  Ruthlessness has to be the means of proper conduct when its necessity is discovered.  But this practice isn’t unique; it’s common, and it is shocking how many court cases are spawned from this very behavioral practice.  These big banks have way too much confiscated power.  And Matthew Akers at Wells Fargo obviously is abusing that power for all kinds of political and financial reasons.  And the biggest threat to the American economy isn’t coming from foreign attackers, but from the banking industry that is entirely way too politically radicalized.  They keep their pirate flags lowered until it’s too late.  They pretend to be friends and helpful merchants.  But they are ruthless pirates by their conduct, and they intend to do anything to destroy positive financial growth in opposition to the politics they disagree with.  And in the case I mentioned, they went too far.  I know a lot more about the business of aerospace than Matthew Akers does.  So being wrong revealed a deeper problem, and it was easy to see in this case.  But often, nobody figures it out until it’s too late.  And if we want to have a good economy, we can’t let our bankers be more dangerous than Hamas. 

Rich Hoffman

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What’s Behind the $55 Billion Electronic Arts Deal: Fighting the new method of empire building by investment firms

War never went away; the idea of conquering another nation, or its inhabitants, in the way that Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler, or even the modern communist movement did, persists.  All that really happened was that the nations of the world were neutered; however, the desire for conquest went underground and has since emerged in the finance industry.  Why did Napoleon invade Russia?  Because he wanted to rule over the largest empire the world had ever seen.  And so it is the same desire that a modern bank looks at a good, privately owned company and seeks to raid it, destroy it, and collect its assets for its own use.  Why did the Vikings raid other territories and kill all the men, and rape their women brutally?  To show conquest over them, to capture them, and rule over them.  And in the communist movement, the way to destroy capitalism as the world understands it is to control the means of production.  So, when people want to know why Electronic Arts suddenly wants to go private after being public for so long, and everyone is scratching their heads over the $55 billion deal, the largest of its kind ever, I’m saying this is a trend to prevent invasion, rather than to conduct innovative business.  Publicly traded companies have been vulnerable to radical leftist politics, which ultimately destroy their brands, so the trend of tomorrow is to maintain good old private ownership.  And this is something I am all too familiar with.  And most people don’t see it until it’s too late because the invaders are the types of people who work outside the rules of good business conduct.  And those rules are usually defined by what happens within the four walls of a business.  But the invaders are just as aggressive and malicious as any empire seeker ever was, and that power and desire for control starts with companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, investment firms that run majority stock options to control the conduct of large companies that, in turn, control vast amounts of the population and their income. 

For instance, large banks like Wells Fargo have Vanguard, the investment firm, owning about 8% of their stock, BlackRock owns 7.9%, and State Street owns 4.1%.  Add them all up, and those huge progressive investment firms control a significant number of banks like that. We have seen very aggressive, woke policies embed themselves into those banking practices.  BlackRock isn’t shy about it; they are very aggressive about progressive politics, and when they own more shares of stock than the average 401K investor, they control the essential direction of the company, who they hire, and how they conduct themselves.  And it is that kind of menace that has essentially destroyed Disney as a company.  And they are doing the same to all large companies.  For instance, GE Aerospace has a nearly identical stock management portfolio, with Vanguard at 8.7%, BlackRock at 7.8%, and State Street at 4.2%.  See a pattern?  That translates to Vanguard controlling $27.4 billion, BlackRock $24.6 billion, and State Street at $13.2 billion.  Where did those investment firms get all that money to be able to buy up all that stock, and control that much of so many huge companies and banks, and to set policies of woke politics to steer them all in anti-American ways?  For Disney, it’s the same formula: Vanguard at $16.7 billion, BlackRock at $13.2 billion, and State Street at $8.2 billion.  Among the three, the same pattern emerges, and from there, power and control flow into every aspect of the industry.  The purpose of their enterprise was to control the means of production as Karl Marx envisioned it, and the method of achieving this was to be publicly traded. 

The crime of the century essentially started with the 2008 banking crisis, where the Fed began buying up a lot of bad debt. Through quantitative easing, the printing of money, they infused it into Wall Street, allowing people like Larry Fink to clean it up by buying up large companies.  To sustain the perception of value, they would clean up their portfolio by acquiring other companies and integrating them, attempting to conceal the inflationary trend of printed money that would lose its value on the open market.  It might look good on paper for everyone’s 401K plans, but what was lost as they imposed themselves on their conquered assets was the companies themselves.  This has become grotesquely obvious at Disney, where the public has rejected the new money-driven company in favor of Uncle Walt, who represented Main Street USA.  That vision was attacked by these big globalist bankers and investors who had the same motivations of invasion as any tyrant the world has ever seen.  However, the form of battle remains the same.  For those big companies mentioned, the conquered management hires people who facilitate the invading culture. Because of the nature of people to appease the powerful, they don’t question their reality so long as they can get a paycheck.  Who controls the paycheck, then controls the individual people.  But how did Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street get all that money?  Because they printed it by gaining control of governments, such as the United States, through the Federal Reserve.  Whoever controls the money supply can theoretically control the world, on paper. 

I’ve been dealing with this kind of thing very up close and personal myself, and I’ve had to explain it to many hundreds of people over these last several weeks.  And most people don’t understand it because the invasion is happening on a vast scale that is even bigger than the management at those investment firms.  Larry Fink is aware of what he’s doing, to a point.  But it’s even bigger than him.  However, it’s no surprise that a giant video game developer would want to step off the publicly traded treadmill and seek to go private, where it can have better control over its management.  EA has been successful for a long time, but it’s challenging for a company to maintain its momentum once it matures, showcasing flashy PowerPoints and spreadsheets that demonstrate the kind of profit that keeps investors engaged.  And the big firms and their radical leftist politics need that cover of publicly traded companies to hide their influence over all these big firms.  So, it’s no surprise, especially now that the trend is emerging to see huge companies like Electronic Arts stepping away from the publicly traded scam.  This all became very clear to me as I watched an enormous bank do some really dumb things that made absolutely no fiduciary sense, but in the context of conquest as outlined by those top three investment firms and their global objectives.  It’s not the value of the companies themselves that they are after, but the need to hide their efforts behind real manufacturing that has not yet become encumbered by woke politics, and can still produce tangible goods.  Because those large firms are dealing with fake money printed by an out-of-control Federal Reserve, the value of the money means nothing to them.  But what that phony money can buy under the assumption of publicly traded companies does give them power that nobody else without that kind of access to the money supply can fight off.  At least for now, until more and more companies do as Electronic Arts is doing, and that is to step back into private ownership so that they can hedge away the influence of the liberal monsters of Wall Street, these practices will be a danger to any economy.

Rich Hoffman

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Strive Asset Management: The woke pirates took over our finance industry, and now we’re taking it back

I consider it the most critical aspect of the strategy of modern politics, stopping the means of attack that progressive ideologies have inflicted on our nation through the back door of finance. We have seen nothing less than an attack from foreign investment into the critical infrastructure of America. The attack, in many ways, was much more insidious than when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack against our country from the realm of finance has been much worse and was everything that President Jackson and President Jefferson were concerned about regarding centralized banking. When the Federal Reserve was eventually created, many were concerned that it would get out of control, which it has. The unholy alliance that emerged in the Federal Reserve in the wake of the 2008 housing bubble burst with Larry Fink of BlackRock has been absolutely detrimental and fulfilled the worst fears that anti-centralized bank critics could even imagine to utter. The situation is so bad that many people can’t comprehend the magnitude of the problem. We are seeing now, with Jerome Powell stating that the Fed would continue to raise interest rates until inflation was under control, how vast the problem really is. But what many don’t know is that Ben Bernanke moved to a plan to print endless amounts of money, which Larry Fink then used to drive BlackRock up to 10 trillion in asset control, which they then used to buy up most of the prominent corporations in America, so to leverage them to change the way they measure success, from profit-based companies to ESG score management, which has been insidious. 

Within a short time, really, over the last decade, the big three asset management companies in the world, BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, have moved to convert every company they deal with into progressive political advocates, essentially using stock buys to control their board of directors. This is how woke politics have emerged into just about everything we interact with, from the products we buy to the companies we work in for our means of income. I often compare it to a group of pirates who pulled alongside a massive galleon full of people, treasure, and big guns with a little schooner flying a peace flag. Then, before it was too late, they ran up the Jolly Roger to show they were pirates, and before the big ship could react, the pirates climbed abord and took over the ship. No longer are the pirates harassing shipping lanes with a little schooner; they have their own galleons and are now a threat to the world’s navies. What Larry Fink did, as a vital member of the Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum, was to capture American industry and use it as a military acquisition to impose progressive politics on all Americans and destroy any concept of national sovereignty government by the American Constitution. That is why they and the Biden administration do not care about the Constitutional rules of our nation, because in their mind, they already control our economy, and there is nothing at this point that we can do about it. We can protest, but they’ll ignore us because they don’t believe we have any power to resist them.

That is until Vivek Ramaswamy, Peter Theil, and several others made the media rounds to discuss the leak from The Wall Street Journal about the money management option that is coming in the 3rd quarter of 2022, Strive Asset Management. I’ve known about this for a while now and was asked not to talk about it. I have some very dear friends who are working directly with Vivek to make this happen, and their goals are nothing less than to take on BlackRock and recapture all that looted market share. It is, in essence, the equivalent of tricking the pirates with a schooner of our own and getting close and taking back over that ship and running the pirates out of our sea lanes to secure commerce politically free once again. I would say that this is more important than the 2024 election, bigger than CRT in public schools, and far bigger than any considerations happening in Ukraine, China, or Russia. What Strive Asset Management is “striving” to restore capitalism to its value-based measurements and give people who do not like having their 401K plans sabotaged and used for progressive politics an off-ramp for their investments that they currently don’t have. Presently, the money managers are entirely controlled by woke progressive politics, which is why things have turned so chaotic recently. These policies have occurred beyond the political reach of any elected politicians, so the attack vector was one we weren’t prepared for as a nation. We can have a military to be ready for war. We can all own guns in our homes to prevent a domestic invasion. But this invasion came through finance, through our Federal Reserve, through Wall Street, and it came from foreign investment that controls over 20 trillion dollars, more than America’s entire GDP per year. Jackson fought the banks hard during his presidency to prevent this very kind of problem. We understand why because we see it in all its ugliness today.

This is why a few weeks ago, I took my copy of Vivek’s book Woke, Inc to him, where I was at an event he was at and had him sign it. I do not care about celebrity. I’ve met Vivek several times; I like him quite a lot. Just his autograph doesn’t do much for me, personally. But as the years pass and we look back on this time and want to remember it, I want the kids of my kids, kids to know when they see that book on my bookshelf just how important it was at this time and the lessons we all had to learn from it. Very few people saw how dangerous the progressive attack was on our corporate institutions, and Vivek was the first to see the Jolly Roger flag go up on the ship because he wasn’t looking at the flag mast; he was looking at the pirate standing in the ship which was preparing to run it up. And while the damage to our economy has been tremendous, I think we got the alarm out in time. Strive Asset Management is the first significant step into taking back our country. It takes people like Vivek, Peter, and many unnamed people working behind the scenes to make it happen, some of whom I know personally. These are the kind of people who can walk straight into Hell and freeze it over just with their presence. So Strive Asset Management is the place to go with your money. At the same time, the world will realign to the powers of capitalism, rejecting the insurgents who have hijacked all our lives, our governments, and our corporations through the most hostile takeover in world history. And they thought they were going to get away with it and that we’d have no other choice but to bend the knee to their stolen power. That is until Vivek came along and spotted the threat, and the rest is history. Its for that reason, I wanted his signature in my book. Its history now, and I never want people in the future to second guess the role finance plays in a good country the way many criticized President Jackson and his war with the banks without context. Now we know better, and we can never let it happen again. 

Rich Hoffman

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