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🔥Reciepts
## Financial Crisis & 2008 Housing Collapse
- **Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)** - Historical housing, banking, and economic data:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
- **Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report** - Official government report on 2008 crisis:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf
- **Congressional Research Service** - Reports on financial crises and bailouts:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/
## Commercial Real Estate & Banking Data
- **Mortgage Bankers Association** - Commercial real estate finance data:
https://www.mba.org/news-and-research
- **Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)** - Bank financial data and statistics:
https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile
- **Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council** - Bank call report data:
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/
## Corporate Debt Markets
- **Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)** - Corporate debt statistics:
https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-corporate-bonds-statistics/
- **Bank for International Settlements** - Global debt and financial stability reports:
https://www.bis.org/
- **Federal Reserve Board** - Financial Accounts of the United States:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/
## Investment Funds & Private Equity
- **BlackRock Investor Relations** - Official fund information and reports:
https://ir.blackrock.com/
- **Apollo Global Management Investor Relations**:
https://www.apollo.com/investors
- **KKR Investor Relations**:
https://www.kkr.com/investors
- **Preqin** - Private equity and alternative investment data:
https://www.preqin.com/
## Small Business & Lending Data
- **Small Business Administration** - Lending and economic data:
https://www.sba.gov/advocacy/small-business-research
- **Federal Reserve Banks** - Regional economic and lending surveys:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/economic-research-data.htm
## Food Supply & Agriculture
- **USDA Economic Research Service** - Food supply chain and reserves data:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/
- **USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates**:
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/
## Strategic Reserves
- **U.S. Department of Energy** - Strategic Petroleum Reserve data:
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/strategic-petroleum-reserve
- **USDA Farm Service Agency** - Commodity reserves:
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/
## Banking Consolidation & Mergers
- **Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis** - Banking industry research:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/
- **Office of the Comptroller of the Currency** - Bank merger data:
https://www.occ.gov/topics/charters-and-licensing/index-charters-and-licensing.html
## Digital Currency/CBDC
- **Federal Reserve FedNow Service**:
https://www.fednow.org/
- **Federal Reserve CBDC Research**:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency.htm
## Market Concentration Data
- **USDA Agricultural Marketing Service** - Meat processing concentration:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/
- **U.S. Energy Information Administration** - Energy sector data:
https://www.eia.gov/
- **American Hospital Association** - Healthcare consolidation data:
https://www.aha.org/
## Fact-Checking & Analysis Resources
- **ProPublica** - Investigative journalism on finance and inequality:
https://www.propublica.org/
- **Center for Economic and Policy Research**
https://cepr.net/
- **Institute for Policy Studies - Inequality Program**
https://ips-dc.org/program/inequality
## Academic & Research Institutions
- **National Bureau of Economic Research** - Economic research papers:
https://www.nber.org/
- **Brookings Institution** - Economic policy research:
https://www.brookings.edu/
- **Peterson Institute for International Economics**:
https://www.piie.com/
**Note for listeners**
: I’d recommend you verify specific numerical claims (like “$2.9 trillion in debt” or “465 bank mergers”) directly through these official sources, as many of the specific figures in the transcript would need verification through current reports and databases. The official government and institutional sources above will have the most reliable, up-to-date data for independent research.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
## Financial Crisis & 2008 Housing Collapse
- **Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)** - Historical housing, banking, and economic data:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
- **Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report** - Official government report on 2008 crisis:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf
- **Congressional Research Service** - Reports on financial crises and bailouts:
https://crsreports.congress.gov/
## Commercial Real Estate & Banking Data
- **Mortgage Bankers Association** - Commercial real estate finance data:
https://www.mba.org/news-and-research
- **Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)** - Bank financial data and statistics:
https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile
- **Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council** - Bank call report data:
https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/
## Corporate Debt Markets
- **Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)** - Corporate debt statistics:
https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-corporate-bonds-statistics/
- **Bank for International Settlements** - Global debt and financial stability reports:
https://www.bis.org/
- **Federal Reserve Board** - Financial Accounts of the United States:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/
## Investment Funds & Private Equity
- **BlackRock Investor Relations** - Official fund information and reports:
https://ir.blackrock.com/
- **Apollo Global Management Investor Relations**:
https://www.apollo.com/investors
- **KKR Investor Relations**:
https://www.kkr.com/investors
- **Preqin** - Private equity and alternative investment data:
https://www.preqin.com/
## Small Business & Lending Data
- **Small Business Administration** - Lending and economic data:
https://www.sba.gov/advocacy/small-business-research
- **Federal Reserve Banks** - Regional economic and lending surveys:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/economic-research-data.htm
## Food Supply & Agriculture
- **USDA Economic Research Service** - Food supply chain and reserves data:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/
- **USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates**:
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/
## Strategic Reserves
- **U.S. Department of Energy** - Strategic Petroleum Reserve data:
https://www.energy.gov/fecm/strategic-petroleum-reserve
- **USDA Farm Service Agency** - Commodity reserves:
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/
## Banking Consolidation & Mergers
- **Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis** - Banking industry research:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/
- **Office of the Comptroller of the Currency** - Bank merger data:
https://www.occ.gov/topics/charters-and-licensing/index-charters-and-licensing.html
## Digital Currency/CBDC
- **Federal Reserve FedNow Service**:
https://www.fednow.org/
- **Federal Reserve CBDC Research**:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency.htm
## Market Concentration Data
- **USDA Agricultural Marketing Service** - Meat processing concentration:
https://www.ams.usda.gov/
- **U.S. Energy Information Administration** - Energy sector data:
https://www.eia.gov/
- **American Hospital Association** - Healthcare consolidation data:
https://www.aha.org/
## Fact-Checking & Analysis Resources
- **ProPublica** - Investigative journalism on finance and inequality:
https://www.propublica.org/
- **Center for Economic and Policy Research**
https://cepr.net/
- **Institute for Policy Studies - Inequality Program**
https://ips-dc.org/program/inequality
## Academic & Research Institutions
- **National Bureau of Economic Research** - Economic research papers:
https://www.nber.org/
- **Brookings Institution** - Economic policy research:
https://www.brookings.edu/
- **Peterson Institute for International Economics**:
https://www.piie.com/
**Note for listeners**
: I’d recommend you verify specific numerical claims (like “$2.9 trillion in debt” or “465 bank mergers”) directly through these official sources, as many of the specific figures in the transcript would need verification through current reports and databases. The official government and institutional sources above will have the most reliable, up-to-date data for independent research.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
One on One Video call W/George
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