It is illegal for others to assist him. He is accused of spreading propaganda and of appearing on pro-Russian programs.

This comes at the time the Trump Adm. is deregulating banks. (europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/wil...) Financial Times subscribers can read the initial story.
Mickey Mouse was a slow maze-learner.

Anyway, a provocative discussion. I suspect that those who rely on economic analysis will find Todd's assessments, um, epiphenominal.

Following the decline to irrelevance of religion into a zombie mode societies live off the forms that remain from the time religion was a force that shaped society and fostered critical patterns of behavior, e.g., work patterns and family structure.

I associate the rise of financialization with the decline in making things in the US, and also the EU.
Todd also notes the decline of religion as a force that gives coherence to a society.