Bankers & Wall St.

President Woodrow Wilson saw a horrible danger to his country, looked it in the eye, and decided that instead of trying to decentralize and dismantle that overarching power, he would hope against hope that greater cooperation among leaders of nations would bring sanity and peace and freedom of the individual. Of course, he was wrong. Wilson knew he was entangled with those very powers that were destroying the best of what American stood for. Nevertheless, no modern President has made more revealing comments on the existence and nature of the shadow government, the real rulers of America.

WikiLeaks published a previously tightly-held and secretive draft of a trade document that, if enacted, would give the world’s financial powers an even more dominant position to control the global economy by avoiding regulations and public accountability. Known as a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the draft represents the negotiating positions of the U.S. and E.U. and lays out the deregulatory strategies championed by some of the world’s largest banks and investment firms.
Banks say they are the pillar of the modern society – ruling the streams of money across the globe and keeping a tight grip on the world’s economy. What happens in the offices of top level management is kept secret. Even governments are afraid to get confront the enormous financial giants. But today we talk to a man who single-handedly fought the corrupt banking system, with no one behind his back: whistleblower Everett Stern is today’s guest on Sophie&Co.