Max Keiser Rants About "Financial Terrorism" to College Students
In a presentation given to Erasmus University in Rotterdam on 26 September, Max Keiser totally lost it when talking about "financial terrorism." The impassioned speech started with a student question. "You speak about your fraud that you committed as if it was nothing. I don't know much about your personal life, but did you suffer any consequences from that?" To a background of NXT and Keiser's own BnkToTheFuture project (launched with Russell Brand), Keiser regaled students on the virtues of digital currency and the toxicity of traditional markets. However, at one point, seen below,....
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