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- 0:00We have some very interesting developments in the gold market,
- 0:03in the silver market, but in particular with what is going on
- 0:08at Costco and China. And we're going to talk about
- 0:12that in this video. Thank you, Justin, for letting
- 0:15me know that we have super chats.
- 0:17Thank you. Thank you.
- 0:19I was just wondering if it was still available.
- 0:21So I appreciate that. All right, everybody, hold on.
- 0:24We're going to start over and we're going to have the best
- 0:26live stream in the history of the universe, you and me.
- 0:30And we're going to do it right now.
- 0:31I'm going to stay on track and I got some very interesting things
- 0:35to talk about. Silver and gold investors, you
- 0:39need to pay attention to what's going on in China.
- 0:43Also Costco, there's some super interesting developments.
- 0:48I heard something new about the Costco situation that I found
- 0:52fascinating last night. Now we know Costco in their most
- 0:55recently completed three month period quarter, they sold 100
- 1:01million ounces of gold. We know they've started selling
- 1:04American Silver Eagles, Canadian Maple Leaf Silver and it's been
- 1:10sold out, sold out. I appreciate so much all the
- 1:13messages I get from you guys with updates on this Costco
- 1:16situation. But I heard something that I'd
- 1:19never thought about regarding Costco and people that are
- 1:23buying precious metals from Costco.
- 1:25People are buying boatloads of precious metals from Costco.
- 1:31And what was said that made so much sense and it's big news, a
- 1:35big idea, something we need to consider right is we're
- 1:38considering where the silver price, where the gold price are
- 1:41headed. Is this most people?
- 1:45This does not include you and me.
- 1:46We're the silver and gold enthusiasts.
- 1:48You know how to go to a local coin shop.
- 1:50You know how to go online and buy yourself some silver or
- 1:54gold. But 99 out of 100 people, or
- 1:57heck 199 out of 200 normal people out there, they don't
- 2:03know how to buy gold and silver. They don't feel comfortable
- 2:06going to a local coin shop. A lot of people, you know, are
- 2:09apprehensive. They don't know where to buy
- 2:11gold or silver online. But when Costco, they trust
- 2:15Costco. When Costco says, hey, we have
- 2:17gold, we can sell you, we have silver, what are we seeing?
- 2:21We're seeing a wave of people buying silver and gold.
- 2:25Not that the typical look. I don't think that most basement
- 2:29dwellers, you and I, are the people that are buying silver or
- 2:32gold from Costco. These are your neighbors.
- 2:35These are new stackers. These are new people joining us.
- 2:40And it's a big, big deal. It's something we can be very
- 2:44excited about. Hey, you know what?
- 2:46If somebody buys their first round of of a tube of American
- 2:50Silver Eagles from Costco, more power to them, you know?
- 2:54But eventually we're going to have to tell them that they need
- 2:56to check out channel sponsor Pimbex Pi, MB EX.
- 3:00They're an online bullion dealer.
- 3:02That's where I buy my silver. And what I found is that their
- 3:07prices are always the best, their selection is more than
- 3:11adequate and their customer service is second to none.
- 3:15So when all these Costco people, once they get the real bug and
- 3:18they want to buy some real silver, real gold, and have a
- 3:21real big selection, you know, I I hope they at least consider
- 3:26checking out Pinbex. That's what I did over a year
- 3:29ago, thanks to you basement dwellers telling me about Pinbex
- 3:33and I think Timbek's is best. I think those Costco people are
- 3:37going to figure that one out as well.
- 3:39But let's talk about China and gold.
- 3:42And when we talk about gold, we're talking about silver as
- 3:47well. We're having a growing number of
- 3:50YouTube commentators, top analyst as well, talking about
- 3:54this gold situation. Is China putting in a floor for
- 3:59gold at $2000? Because look, guys, with the
- 4:04with the, with the situation, with the interest rate
- 4:07situation. Thank you, Wendell.
- 4:08Thank you for that super chat with the economic situation
- 4:12where it is right now. Gold should really, had you told
- 4:16us two years ago that we would be where we are right now with
- 4:19interest rates, with everything else.
- 4:21I got bad news for you. Gold should be 1500.
- 4:24Sixteen $100.00 an ounce. If you'd plugged all that data
- 4:28in two years ago, that's where we should be.
- 4:31But we're not. And why not?
- 4:34Well, everybody's talking about China.
- 4:36We've talked about this, but we've got some critical things,
- 4:39critical concept that we need to understand about what's going on
- 4:43in China. Thank you Andy Oakley for being
- 4:45here at the at the drop of a hat.
- 4:48We're getting ready to take off for a few days.
- 4:49So I'm doing an early live stream, but what's going on with
- 4:53China? Here's and and and Bald Guy
- 4:55Money put out a great video yesterday.
- 4:58We talked about some of these concepts earlier in the week.
- 5:00Other people are talking about this as well.
- 5:03Bald Guy Money has a very comprehensive analysis of this
- 5:07situation in China. But what we need to consider,
- 5:11Imagine yourself a Chinese person, OK, we're you and me,
- 5:14we're living in China. They don't get YouTube, OK, So
- 5:18they can't watch us over there. But we're in China.
- 5:20We're normal, average Chinese people.
- 5:23What are we going to do with our money?
- 5:25OK, #1 Chinese people generally have a little bit higher level
- 5:31of distrust for their banking system.
- 5:34OK, so they're not going to want to store their money in the
- 5:37bank. They're not going to want to
- 5:39store their money in paper, right?
- 5:42Unicorn fart dust? Chinese yuan?
- 5:45No. You know why the yuan has been
- 5:48going down in value If you look at a chart of the yuan, the
- 5:52Chinese currency. Hopefully I'm pronouncing that
- 5:56correctly. Nonetheless, you look at a chart
- 5:59of their currency, it's near A5 year, low against the US dollar.
- 6:02Their currency has been losing money.
- 6:04They don't want to put it in the bank because the interest rates
- 6:07they get aren't attractive. So that takes away the option of
- 6:10storing wealth in the bank. Well, what about their real
- 6:13estate? You know, right?
- 6:14Unless we've been all underneath a rock.
- 6:17The Chinese real, they have ghost cities, right?
- 6:20They've overbuilt people. Were you think our real estate
- 6:24market is screwed up? We're kind of getting close to
- 6:27China, but nonetheless, the Chinese real estate market,
- 6:30that's where people over the last maybe 10-15 years, they
- 6:33were investing their money into real estate.
- 6:37It's crashing. It's in bad, bad shape.
- 6:40So you're not going to put your money in the bank, You're not
- 6:42going to put your money into real estate.
- 6:45But then what about the stock market?
- 6:47You know, the stock market always goes up.
- 6:48Here in the United States, we have the Magnificent 7.
- 6:51It just all you have to do is give your money to your broker
- 6:55and it just goes up and never goes down.
- 6:57Well, in China, they have a different situation.
- 7:00Their stock market right now, depending on which index you
- 7:03look at, they're down anywhere from 20 to 40%.
- 7:07They are way, way off their all time highs and you think they
- 7:11don't trust their banks in China, they don't trust the
- 7:14stock market at all. So you're a Chinese person,
- 7:17you've got some money, right? You've worked, you've earned
- 7:21some money. What are you going to do with
- 7:23it? You don't want to put it in the
- 7:24bank, you don't want to put it into real estate, right?
- 7:28That's crashed and you don't want to put it into the stock
- 7:30market because that's not done well either.
- 7:33OK. So thank you for the happy
- 7:36birthday wishes, guys. That's a big deal.
- 7:38I do appreciate it. But remember we're, I'm, it's my
- 7:41Chinese birthday. What's our Lunar New Year or
- 7:43whatever it is right now. But it's my birthday in China.
- 7:46We're all hanging out in China, right.
- 7:49We don't know what to do with all these yuan we have.
- 7:52Again, thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim M, mad buddy.
- 7:57Jim M thank you Jim. And not just Jim, but you.
- 8:02Think about this, guys. We're in China, the second
- 8:05biggest economy in the world. We got, we made some money.
- 8:08We got, we're trying to figure out what to do with it.
- 8:11No bank. No, we don't trust that.
- 8:13No cash, no real estate, no stock market.
- 8:16What do you think the answer is? Who can tell me who can put it
- 8:18into the. Who can put it into the chat,
- 8:20huh? Who can put it in there?
- 8:23A goat? Yeah, I bet it's called a goat.
- 8:25And that's a compliment. I didn't realize what that
- 8:27meant. Then.
- 8:29Excuse me. The greatest of all time.
- 8:31That's a bit of an overstatement.
- 8:33Almost said understatement. Thank you for the Super chat.
- 8:36Thank you. I'm gonna talk to you guys
- 8:37briefly about my birthday and why it's a significant thing for
- 8:40this channel at the end. Because I don't wanna torture
- 8:44you now. No, They're gonna put their
- 8:46money into gold. They're going to put their money
- 8:51into silver. And are we seeing that right
- 8:54now? Are we seeing that right now?
- 8:57Listen, I've got some data for you, OK?
- 9:00Look, this is from the World Gold Council, written by Ray
- 9:06Jai. He's the World Gold Council's
- 9:09research head for China. Here's some highlights.
- 9:12He said wholesale gold demand saw the strongest January ever,
- 9:19271 tons Okay, boosted by stock replenishment ahead of the
- 9:24Chinese New Year. But January?
- 9:27That's last month, Okay, January, the highest wholesale
- 9:31demand ever for gold in China. Chinese gold ETFs, OK, they're
- 9:37gold ETFs. Like we have GLD here in the
- 9:40United States, which has been having an SLV for silver, has
- 9:43been having major outflows in China.
- 9:46They attracted 113,000,000 additional dollars, lifting
- 9:50their total assets under management to an all time high.
- 9:54There's more money in Chinese gold ETFs right now than any
- 9:59other time in history. The PBOC.
- 10:02We know the PBOC. The People's Bank of China.
- 10:05PBOC reported 15 consecutive gold purchases in January,
- 10:11adding 10 tons to their gold reserves and lift, lifting the
- 10:15total to 2.2 or 2245 tons. The Chinese central bank?
- 10:2115 consecutive months of gold purchases.
- 10:25OK, 2024 New Year holiday gold consumption could see us trying.
- 10:31Looking ahead, basically the wholesale gold demand, the
- 10:36demand for gold in China is crazy right now.
- 10:41That's a big. So why let's just let's put this
- 10:44together. Let's not forget what we started
- 10:46with. We started with talking about
- 10:47Costco in gold, crazy demand in the United States.
- 10:51And the big key thing for us to remember about Costco is those
- 10:56are gonna be new stackers. Those are people who were afraid
- 10:59people will ask me, and I'm always kind of like, do you find
- 11:03this? People will ask you like, how do
- 11:04I buy gold? How do I buy silver?
- 11:06I'll say you can go. And I'll tell them the local
- 11:08coin shop if you want to go there and you want.
- 11:10And they're like, afraid to go. And I'm like, oh, well, you can
- 11:13buy online. You can.
- 11:15There's all kinds of big online bullion dealers.
- 11:17We already talked about Pinbex, right?
- 11:19The sun shining on them right now.
- 11:21If you can see that the sun always shines on Pinbex, huh?
- 11:25People are afraid There's a certain level number of people
- 11:29like, I don't I'm gonna get ripped off.
- 11:31Whatever. But they trust Costco, right?
- 11:33And as they get their foot in the water, they'll start to
- 11:36trust other companies as well. That's a big deal.
- 11:39But what about China? The average people, right?
- 11:43Not just their central bank, but the average Chinese person they
- 11:47look at. They get their menu right?
- 11:49And they get their menu to look at.
- 11:50What am I gonna do? Why no bank, no real estate, no
- 11:53stock market. There's not much else left.
- 11:56I don't know. What are you gonna invest in?
- 11:58Right? Right.
- 11:59And China is the world's second largest economy.
- 12:03This is a big deal. Remember guys, remember when
- 12:07we're talking about silver and gold?
- 12:10OK, this is beautiful. This is the one of the beautiful
- 12:13things that we need to remember. We're talking about a a a store
- 12:18of value money that has been not only timeless, OK?
- 12:23Money from the beginning of time when there was money 4000 years
- 12:28ago, 5000, right? Silver was actually the original
- 12:31money. Silver was used as money before
- 12:33gold, but nonetheless, silver and gold are timeless.
- 12:37But on top of that, they are universal.
- 12:41The Chinese know that. The people in Buenos Aires know
- 12:45that. The people in Fiji know that the
- 12:47people, any corner of this planet in the middle of the
- 12:52jungles of Africa, you know, in the, in the, in the frozen
- 12:57tundra, gold is that it's universal, universally
- 13:02recognized as value. What am I, kids?
- 13:05You know, where else it's this is crazy, 'cause people talk
- 13:07about old kids or so. My kids play all these games.
- 13:10This is interesting. All these games they play, not
- 13:14Roblox and whatever it is, whatever it is, Fortnite,
- 13:18whatever, these games are, every time there's some type of gold
- 13:22coin, silver coin oriented into the game, it is ingrained in
- 13:28that. You know, people say, oh, it's a
- 13:29worthless rock, it's a pet rock and it's all gone.
- 13:32And you know, it's the past. No, no, you know, you take 5000
- 13:38years and you just take the last 40 or 50 years that we've really
- 13:42in a certain, to a certain degree, moved away, moved to
- 13:45paper, Unicorn fart dust, whatever you want to call it.
- 13:48Money. That's just a blip on a long
- 13:51scale. And here's something, I mean, I
- 13:53don't know. Am I wrong about this?
- 13:54I know people say, well, the last 50 years the United States
- 13:57hasn't been on the gold standard, the dollars, the
- 14:00world, the world reserve currency, the hegemony, blah,
- 14:03blah. Well, didn't we go through
- 14:04periods? Didn't the Roman Empire and the
- 14:06Dutch and the Spanish? Didn't they all, at the end move
- 14:10away from backing their currency with gold and silver?
- 14:14So the fact that we've temporarily moved away, right,
- 14:18And that kind of put, think about it this way, I mean, kind
- 14:21of put like gold and silver, like a bear, a big powerful
- 14:24force, right, that hibernates and it kind of put gold and
- 14:28silver. It didn't die.
- 14:29It didn't. It just kind of kind of got
- 14:32scooted over, not completely right.
- 14:34It's still there. It can still wake up any time
- 14:37you disturb it. And right now I believe silver
- 14:41and gold are waking up from their hibernation.
- 14:43OK, the Chinese, I I did write some notes for you, so let me
- 14:47read this to you. This is my own writing, OK?
- 14:49And like I said Bald Guy Money did a video really focused in on
- 14:54this Chinese situation and he has his own unique take and we
- 14:57love bald guy, so you can go watch that as well.
- 15:00But the Chinese have always loved gold and silver, but now
- 15:03even more as it's the last good looking item on the menu.
- 15:07Why is this always happen over history young Chinese people,
- 15:11this is a big deal. Have you heard about the gold
- 15:14beans right in China, the young Chinese people, the millennial
- 15:18generation, there's this, this like fad and not necessarily a
- 15:23fad but a craze that's going on with gold.
- 15:27And the young people in China, they buy these little one ounce
- 15:31gold beans and a lot of them try to buy one a week, one a month
- 15:36and then they collect them in little jars.
- 15:38And when they when you talk to these these young Chinese, when
- 15:42they interview them, they say that's the way that I'm storing
- 15:45my wealth, that's the way I want to hold my wealth.
- 15:48They don't want to go into the banks, they don't want to go
- 15:49into the stock market, They don't want to go into real
- 15:51estate. They've seen what can happen
- 15:53there. No, right.
- 15:55It's so we've got the young people in China buying gold hand
- 16:01over fist. Are they putting in a new floor?
- 16:06Is does that explain we know the Chinese central banks buying
- 16:09tons of gold. We know the Chinese people are
- 16:12buying, buying gold. Have we seen a new floor?
- 16:15Is that why gold often trades at a big premium in China?
- 16:20I think it could certainly be an explanation.
- 16:24OK, All right, hold on one second.
- 16:27Let me have a drink. Coffee.
- 16:32And no discussion about China is complete if we don't talk about
- 16:36our friends in India. OK.
- 16:39I was at one of my daughter's basketball games last night.
- 16:42I talked to one of the fathers who's from India.
- 16:45I've talked to him many times and he's told me, Whoa, man.
- 16:50Mr. Cut, thank you for that super chat.
- 16:52Happy birthday to me. Thank you my friend.
- 16:56But but India and you talk to people from India, ask them
- 17:01about silver and gold. They love their silver and gold.
- 17:04So we're talking about China. India's doing the same thing and
- 17:07and India is silver is unbelievable.
- 17:10Over the last two years, the amount of silver they have
- 17:14imported into India. Now a lot of it has to do with
- 17:18jewelry, a lot of that has to do with investment, but probably a
- 17:22lot of it, most of it has to do with in industry.
- 17:27OK. And it's on.
- 17:31I'm just going to give you a little, a little tease here.
- 17:35The amount of silver, I think now they're saying 20% of the
- 17:39world's silver production this year was used in solar panel
- 17:42manufacturing. The new technology called top
- 17:46con uses up to 50% more per panel guys.
- 17:51And that's just, we're just now transitioning into into into
- 17:54these top con solar panels, OK. They're going to use 50% more
- 17:59silver per panel even if solar panel manufacturing were to be
- 18:04flat, right? The new panels are going to be
- 18:06using more silver. There's not enough silver to
- 18:09satisfy the demand. I mean, I want to bang the
- 18:13table. We cannot forget, right, China,
- 18:171.4 billion people, India 1.4 billion people.
- 18:22India in particular has a quickly expanding economy, a
- 18:26quickly expanding middle class. Demographically, we've got a
- 18:30wave of God, who knows 300 million people in the next 5 or
- 18:3410 years entering the middle class in India.
- 18:38And they're gonna, they're in the same situation as the
- 18:41Chinese, right? They don't trust their currency.
- 18:44They don't trust the banks. They don't want to put their
- 18:46money in the stock market. They don't know.
- 18:48I don't really don't know a lot about the real estate market in
- 18:50India, but I imagine it's not good either.
- 18:52Indians love precious metals. So the future looks really,
- 18:58really bright. Excuse me.
- 19:04So that's the deal guys, as we pull all this together, right,
- 19:07This Costco situation and something we hadn't thought
- 19:10about. These are new stackers.
- 19:12These are people who we're confused about how to buy silver
- 19:16and gold, right? And the fact that we're seeing
- 19:17record sales there is a good thing.
- 19:19China silver. Gold.
- 19:21Crazy. Don't forget, with China silver
- 19:28inventories on the Shanghai Gold Exchange right drained way down,
- 19:34China's Shanghai Gold Exchange is a physical market.
- 19:38China's Shanghai Gold Exchange is being increasingly recognized
- 19:43as the go to price throughout Asia.
- 19:47OK. China's Shanghai Gold Exchange
- 19:50often has a silver price that reflects a 10% premium or more
- 19:57to what they're claiming. The price is on the Kovacs and
- 20:00the London Bullion Market Association, the LBMA over there
- 20:04in the LME over in London, England.
- 20:07Hold on, I'm going to get a drink of water and we're going
- 20:09to, we're going to. I got to tell you a few more
- 20:11quick things, guys. OK, so big picture, big picture.
- 20:23We need patience. Patience, patience.
- 20:26In the interim, we're sitting on an investment, whether it be
- 20:30silver, gold or even precious metal mining stocks that have
- 20:34limited downside and really unbelievable opportunity for
- 20:39upside potential as well. I want to say thank you to you
- 20:42guys. Yesterday is my 54th birthday.