There are many ways in which investors steal from the public, but there also are ways in which they steal from each other — and Ponzi schemes are merely one example of that, but insider trading is another, and there are others as well. However, their biggest thefts, by far, are from the public, and most such thefts are entirely legal and will be described here, by presenting examples of them.
On 4 November 2025, Semafor, a loyal propaganda-organ for the U.S. empire, headlined “Exclusive / As Trump pressures Venezuela, investors see ‘major opportunities’”, and reported:
As President Donald Trump takes an increasingly aggressive approach toward regime change in Venezuela, international investment giants are already eyeing potential benefits that Nicolás Maduro’s ouster would create.
During last month’s IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington, Barclays organized a private meeting to talk investment opportunities with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, two sources familiar with the meeting told Semafor.
The meeting was widely attended by investment firms, hedge funds, and others interested in future business in Venezuela, said Rafael de la Cruz, the director of the US office of Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, who is recognized by the US as the winner of the last Venezuelan election. The opposition leader’s team has also held “informal conversations” with the World Bank, IMF, and Inter-American Development Bank about Venezuela’s future, de la Cruz said.
“We have been in touch with several companies that are showing more and more interest in the possibility of opening up Venezuela for business,” he said in an interview.
In addition, UBS’s chief investment office put together an eight-page memo last month that focuses on “visualizing the day after tomorrow” in Venezuela. The research document highlighted the Trump administration’s “hawkish approach” towards Caracas and noted that “Venezuela’s transition away from Chavismo could unlock major opportunities,” in part because of its oil reserves and “severely underutilized economy.” …
Hawkish Republican lawmakers are cheering on the Trump administration’s efforts against Venezuela. …
“The nice thing is, they’ve got plenty of natural resources,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Semafor, referring to post-Maduro investment opportunities in Venezuela. “In a democracy in Venezuela, their resources are massive, so there’ll be a lot of people who want to invest.” …
On 22 November 2024, I had headlined “How Corrupt America Is at the Top” and gave as an example the following from Wikipedia:
On March 19, 1997, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.[41] Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured him to resign as chairman and CEO.[42] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr.[43] Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million.[44][45][46] The directors had been warned in the company’s annual public reports to stockholders that incentives Columbia/HCA offered doctors could run afoul of a federal anti-kickback law passed in order to limit or eliminate instances of conflicts of interest in Medicare and Medicaid.[43]
During Scott’s 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[47] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors “loans” never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[48][8]
In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[49] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history.[50][51]
That was an example of a mega-thief from U.S. taxpayers; so, obviously, he never went to prison for his mega-theft from the public, and he even became elected by the ones in Florida so as to be able to advocate now prominently for another foreign invasion by the U.S. regime in order to steal for U.S.-and-allied investors the world’s most petroleum-rich (and one of the world’s most gold-rich) country, so that the profits from extracting those natural resources will buy better yachts for U.S.-and-allied billionaires, not better education and health care for Venezuela’s people.
This is imperialistic fascism. (Political ‘scientists’, however, call America instead a “demmocracy.”) U.S.-and-allied billionaires want to do the same thing, steal the lands out from underneath, such nations as Russia, China, Iran, Palestine, etc.; but not only does this rob those peoples — it robs the American public too, because these psychopathic foreign adventures are being paid-for by them.
Truthful Experts Detail Realities the U.S. Empire’s ‘News’-Media Hide- Eric Zuesse
“Putin FIRST STRIKE on Europe? Ukraine Frontline COLLAPSES | Larry Johnson & Col. Wilkerson”
3 December 2025
It’s terrific from the very start, but the climax, for me, is from 55:38 to the end at 91:13, during which Larry Johnson describes Trump’s entirely illegal and even unConstitutional murders, the unprovoked summary killings by Trump’s forces off the coast of Venezuela, of what Trump (acting as the judge, jury, and executioner) labels “narco terrorists,” and which Trump himself then contradicted in his own ‘explanation’ of it (and please note there that that that ‘news’-report refuses even to address the President’s law-breaking, but discusses ONLY his appointee’s law-breaking on behalf of the President — thereby shoving blame down to the subordinates, and protecting the President), and then both Lawrence Wilkerson and Larry Johnson identified as having brought down the U.S. Constitution and initiated the current unmitigated lawlessness at the very top of the U.S. Government, U.S. President George W. Bush and his “War on Terror” or “Global War On Terrorism” (GWOT), so that we now, in effect, live without the Constitution. Whatever democracy we had under the Constitution is gone and has especially been gone ever since GW Bush came into power.
“Jeffrey Sachs to West: “Deal With Putin, Ignore Trump” — Why the US Must Rethink Ukraine Strategy”
2 December 2025
Sachs overrides the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media’s lies that accuse Russia of having started Ukraine’s war on 24 February 2022; he points out that the war started instead in 2014 when the U.S. Government took over Ukraine in order to get it ultimately into NATO, which is America’s anti-Russian military alliance. In fact, the U.S. started Ukraine’s war on 20 February 2014, when Obama’s bloody coup grabbed Ukraine and replaced the democratically elected internationally neutralist Government of Ukraine, and installed a rabidly anti-Russian illegitimate U.S.-controlled government there in its stead, the aim being ultimately to place U.S. nuclear missiles on Ukraine’s Russian border a mere 300 miles away from blitz-decapitating Russia’s central command in the Kremlin. I have extensively documented all of this. Sachs says that NATO’s insistence upon expanding to include Ukraine (the nation that has the nearest border to The Kremlin) “caused this war in the first place” — he says the war’s cause “was an absolutely provocative attempt by the United States to move its military alliance up to Russia’s border.” And this directly contrdicts the U.S. empire’s lying claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 started the war — that Russia’s invasion was an act of “aggression by Russia,” instead of a very delayed self-defensive response by Russia to America’s act of aggression against Russia by America’s grabbing control over Ukraine on 20 February 2014. Sachs is telling the truth and is thereby trashing all of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media and ‘historians’.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
