Well, our panel was on banking. And we had three small businessmen on talking about their troubles getting banked because they were in unfavored industries like guns or like fossil fuels, which have been shut out of the market, shut out of the banking business by the likes of JP Morgan and Bank of America. And that’s a big issue for us. But our conversation quickly turned to something that we all agreed was a much bigger threat, which is the looming implementation of central bank digital currencies. Now, that’s a mouthful, but what it means in essence boiling it down, is instead of your checking account with the bank you have now, which is problematic in some cases, you are instead banking with the Federal Reserve or an agency that we set up to manage this currency system.

So much to talk about. Bill, I just wanted to pick up where we left off a moment ago with Trevor Loudon who was warning us of this phenomenon of elite capture. And it has been particularly evident and I would argue devastatingly effective in your old stomping grounds, Wall Street. Your thoughts on the importance as this new select committee in the House of Representatives gets underway with hearing tomorrow that it be fully able to focus on the problem of people who have well, been working for and arguably betraying our country too, the Chinese Communist Party, whether it’s among the masters of the universe class or elsewhere in the financial sector.

I want to start by talking to you a little bit about a phenomenon that has taken your old universe, Wall Street, by storm. Thanks in no small measure to the industrious efforts of a fellow by the name of Larry Fink, the Street CEO I believe of BlackRock. It’s called ESG for short, Environment, Social, and Governance. And it is having, it seems, profound effects on the financial sector of our economy, the businesses that it obviously owns and influences. As well as diverting our attention, it seems, to the so-called, well, I think of it as at least climate change cult, instead of much more serious and imminent threat that Larry Fink actually is contributing to. Can you walk us through this?

So let’s talk first of all about the balloon, Bill. We’re taking stock with all of our regulars about what you make of what went down last week, besides of course the balloon itself at long last.

Well, again, to come back to the Apple situation, to talk about how… To give you an illustration of how deep these ties go, Apple had every single day, 50 business class seats booked from, I think it was San Francisco to Shanghai every single day. And they had their engineers over there for months and months working with the Chinese engineers and developing all their products.

Bill, we were talking about the hijacking, the capturing, the manipulation, the exploitation of climate change. One of the sort of entities that has benefited massively from this kind of practice has been the whole green energy agenda.