#213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Monday”: Financial Repression is Here
Published: September 18, 2026
Duration: 1:14:45
Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural debt resolution.
In this episode, we discuss the mechanics of "financial repression" - how Western governments use subtle regulatory mandates to force pension funds into negative-yielding sovereign bonds, effectively stealth-taxing savers to inflate away unpayable public debts.
He explains how risk-free assets have lost up to 78% of their real capital value, while revealing w...