104 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two in a world of self-seeking egoists—whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals—when there is no central authority to police their actions. The problem of cooperation is central to many different fields. Robert Axelrod re- counts the famous computer tournaments in which the ‘cooperative’ program Tit for Tat recorded its stunning victories, explains its application to a broad spectrum of subjects, and suggests how readers can both apply cooperative principles to their own lives and teach cooperative principles to others.” In a series of computer simulations, Axelrod discovered that a player adopting a “Tit for Tat” strategy emerged the winner. In a “Tit for Tat” strategy, a player always cooperated unless aggressed upon, at which point he or she would counter aggressive- ly. However, if given the option to cooperate, the player would return to cooperating. The reason that the “tit for tat” player won over time was that he or she attracted the highest quality players as potential partners. A necessary condition to the success of this practice of cooperation was trans- parency. The general society or market had to be able to clearly identify the various players. They needed to be able to understand the historical record of the players— those who cooperated productively and those who did not. In other words, the market needed information to be able to sort the ethical, competent players from the pack. Which brings me to the point of writing this article. If those who engineer fraudulent inducement of debt can be socially acceptable given the source of their wealth, then there are no solutions. Whether moral or legal—crime pays and crime that pays is crime that stays. If the dirty players are consistently presented to the market as ethical, competent play- ers, as “winners,” then the market cannot choose. Ultimately, the enforcement that counts in our society is who is honored, who is ac- cepted and who is shunned. This is why transparency of government money, credit and regulations that impact the general economy is essential. Facing that fact while learning what is happening to the young people of America is part of facing the intimacy of the evil with which we are all struggling—as neighbors, family and friends continue to believe that it is socially acceptable to create financial wealth for themselves by poisoning our food system, originating debt bubbles, destroy- ing our ecosystems and building a global surveillance and war machine. As a professional investment advisor, I find it challenging to invest in an economy in which so many powerful people are financially dependent upon human failure. Worst among them are those who are financially vested in the failure of our young people, for that is ultimately the failure of the future itself. Catherine Austin Fitts, “The Financial Hit Man of Student Loans” Right now, the majority of Americans choose to support, admire, and follow the very people engineering the machinery that is harming their families and themselves. Until that changes, our society will remain “married to the mob.”