How Will Financial Scams Affect Big Business in 2025?
A Live Video Conversation with Matt Stoller during the Substack Market Forecast Summit this Friday at 3:30 pm ET
This Friday, January 31st, at 3:30 pm ET, I'll be joined by
of in the Substack app for a live video conversation as we discuss scams and big business in 2025. From self-dealing in the private equity realm to cryptocurrencies to monopolies to TikTok to big tech censorship, how will commerce operate in the second Trump term?This is part of the Substack Market Forecast Summit, which is bringing together finance and business figures, writers, and commentators for a daylong virtual event on Friday, January 31, directly within the Substack app. The virtual summit will explore the trends, challenges, and opportunities that may shape the year ahead through back-to-back live videos throughout the day. You can see the full schedule below, and if you’re unsure how live video works, check out the FAQs at the bottom of this page.
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Will this be viewable after the fact? Love the Substack Live format, but they seem to vanish after broadcast.
Maybe the biggest scam going is "mental health." We're all suddenly sick, just because we're bummed about silly little things like climate breakdown, the takeover of human by higher-intelligent beings, ever-nearing nuclear war, and the loss of our democracy. Now Big Pharma has found a real vein of gold here. And even as SSRIs and other antidepressants are being exposed as no better than placebos, we still have the head of the American Psychiatry Association telling us how wonderful they are. How expensive they are, is what Big Pharma likes. And yay, insurance covers them! Meanwhile, Big Therapy can be relied on to send "patients" to shrinks whose job is no longer helping people with real and still mysterious psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia, but prescribing meds to perfectly healthy people who happen to be having a bad day. I am not a heartless crank. I've had my own "mental health challenges." At the end of the day, most "mood disorders" are treatable only by a disciplined effort to keep busy and not let your mind stray into dangerous places. This can be done without drugs.