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- 0:01Major doom ahead. We're headed for some very
- 0:04difficult times. But don't you worry, silver and
- 0:07gold investors, basement dwellers, everything is going to
- 0:11be good for silver and gold. As a matter of fact, that doom
- 0:15could turn into a major boom for US silver and gold investors.
- 0:20We're going to hear from a couple billionaires.
- 0:22We're going to hear from the Swiss expert about what's really
- 0:27going on right now in the world of press precious metals.
- 0:30But let's start by talking about why Rashad thinks we can see
- 0:34$10,000 gold and see it sooner than opposed to later.
- 0:38Let's go check on Rashad right now.
- 0:40One of our favorite analyst in the world of precious metals and
- 0:44Rashad says this. The war in Iran should not have
- 0:47resulted in a 23% decline in the gold price.
- 0:52The recent military attack on Iran did not fix any of the
- 0:56fundamental economic issues and problems in the USA.
- 0:59In fact, everything that happened should have benefited
- 1:03gold, right? Yeah, we agree.
- 1:05But we witnessed a completely opposite unjustified scenario.
- 1:10The recent smackdown will go down into history as a small
- 1:14blip when we look back in a year or so with the gold price around
- 1:19$10,000 per within one year. And at this point, what
- 1:25everybody's telling me about why gold went down, why silver went
- 1:31down, a lot of it had to do with big money, big banks in the
- 1:35Middle East that were facing a liquidity crunch.
- 1:38They're not selling any oil. They hold a lot of precious
- 1:42metals, in particular gold. And that that flooded the market
- 1:46with gold and temporarily put the price down.
- 1:49I had long conversations this morning with not one, not 2, but
- 1:54three executives from large Canadian gold companies.
- 1:58All three of them said the same thing.
- 2:01The fundamental reasons why gold and silver did well in 2025 are
- 2:06still in place right now. As a matter of fact, those
- 2:10reasons that drove silver and gold higher if you have even
- 2:14become more accentuated. So we are in good shape, but
- 2:18there's big doom. I'm, I don't want to scare you,
- 2:20but we are going to talk about some scary situations, reasons
- 2:24why we need to be very cautious about what could be coming in
- 2:27the Western economies. Possibly, I think more than
- 2:31possibly, but you can be the judge for yourself.
- 2:34Let's talk about silver. Interesting.
- 2:36With the silver beat down to around $70, we're going to run
- 2:39out and take a look at the silver price.
- 2:41But something very interesting now happening on the retail
- 2:45side. Here we are at Kitco looking at
- 2:49the spot market. Gold up 70, $5.
- 2:52That's good. Silver up about 93 at 7279.
- 2:58Let's not forget, right, that one year ago we were sitting
- 3:02around less than $35 per oz in this time zone, right?
- 3:06We would have been jumping for joy to learn that today we have
- 3:10$72 silver. As a matter of fact, three
- 3:13months ago right now, the silver price was right around where it
- 3:16is right now today. Had you told us three months ago
- 3:21that silver would have stayed at $70 three months into the
- 3:24future, maybe built a strong base of new holders, I think we
- 3:29would have been very happy. But let's talk about something
- 3:33very interesting that's happening in the retail silver
- 3:36market here in the United States.
- 3:39And the reason why we want to pay attention to this is that
- 3:42retail premiums are the best gauge, the best metric, the best
- 3:47data set that we can look at to gauge a retail demand for silver
- 3:53in the United States. And the reason why that's
- 3:56important is because retail demand for silver in the United
- 3:59States has been pretty cruddy, right, especially given the
- 4:04explosive price moves that we had.
- 4:06So when retail starts to come back, that could be the secret
- 4:10weapon. And let's look at why we can
- 4:12have some optimism in that regard.
- 4:15And this comes from sorry guys, There we go.
- 4:20Silver trade Silver Eagle premiums spike the $18.00 per oz
- 4:26over spot at the major online retailers as investors by the
- 4:31debt. So while spot prices dropped by
- 4:33nearly 50% from the January 28th pink peak, premiums on Silver
- 4:38Eagles have risen to 25% of the silver spot price in the face of
- 4:43increased Western demand. And these are just a couple
- 4:46examples. This is pretty much across the
- 4:48board, but at at Max you, you can see when the price was about
- 4:53$69.00, they were charging $87.00 for American Silver
- 4:59Eagles. And if you go to JM Bullion,
- 5:02there's the silver ask price. And again, I'm not, I'm not
- 5:07pointing them out in particular. This is across the board and I
- 5:10don't know specifically, this was probably yesterday, but
- 5:14nonetheless at a $70 silver ask price, the lowest, I'm sorry,
- 5:20the highest for one to 1988 dollars.
- 5:23So again, what's important about that is premiums.
- 5:28Retail premiums are the best gauge that we have for retail
- 5:32demand for silver in the United States.
- 5:34And when retail demand comes back from wakes up from
- 5:38hibernation, you know what I'm about to do, right?
- 5:42When those other people, those other 98% of people in the
- 5:46United States wake up to the fact that they need to get
- 5:49themselves some silver, we call them the herd and we
- 5:52affectionately refer to them as the the sheeple.
- 5:58That was a good sheep noise, right?
- 6:00When they wake up, it's going to be like a flood.
- 6:02It would be it would it if it happens, I think it will when it
- 6:06happens, it could be like a flood.
- 6:08That's one of the one of the demand sources for silver that's
- 6:12been absent, hasn't really shown up yet.
- 6:15So be prepared and we know right And we're going to talk about
- 6:18the Comex and the LBA and all that.
- 6:19There's no the silver's silver's going bye bye.
- 6:23It's disappearing on us right before our very but Speaking of
- 6:27being tough, we listen to the billionaires.
- 6:30Charlie Munger, who was really the brains behind Warren
- 6:32Buffett. I think Charlie died.
- 6:34He was a super smart guy with Berkshire Hathaway.
- 6:37He said something that relates directly to the silver market.
- 6:42And this one, I'll say it with and Ronnie Stoufferly put this
- 6:46out. Ronnie Stoufferly is, you know,
- 6:48again, one of the gurus super respected in silver and gold.
- 6:51He has a Charlie Munger quote quote.
- 6:53If you can't handle a 50% drop, you deserve a mediocre result
- 6:59from Charlie Munger. This should be written on a post
- 7:02it note for every mining and out of silver mining, gold mining
- 7:07and silver and gold physical owner out there.
- 7:10But guys, volatility is part of the process.
- 7:13And don't forget when we look back at what happened during the
- 7:16Weimar situation in Germany back in the 1920s when gold and
- 7:21silver absolutely sky. People were buying like houses
- 7:25for like a 100 ounces of silver, right?
- 7:28That was back just what, 100 years ago in Germany.
- 7:31But when you look at a chart of the volatility of the metals,
- 7:35when you look at a chart of the price, it looks like it just
- 7:38went like a skyrocket, right? And and and the German currency.
- 7:42But when you look at a monthly chart that charts the monthly
- 7:46volatility of the price, it looks like AI don't know, is it
- 7:49like a person having a heart attack or something?
- 7:52I mean, the price just went. So what we're experiencing right
- 7:55now is not out of line with other periods in history when
- 7:59the price of precious metals went exponentially higher.
- 8:02And we got people telling us we got Rashad $10,000 gold.
- 8:06We got, we have, we have people who are highly respected telling
- 8:11us that we could have $200 silver by the end of the summer,
- 8:14that we could have $500 silver. I mean, you know, and you know
- 8:18my predictions, I don't want to get in trouble.
- 8:21I think I think we're in for some good times.
- 8:24I'll leave it at that. OK, look, we're going to go to
- 8:26the Swiss expert. Got a little video from the
- 8:29Swiss expert that's going to make a lot of this confusion
- 8:33going on in the precious metals market make much better sense.
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- 10:20Always do your own research and if you don't understand, consult
- 10:23a professional. Now let's listen to this Swiss
- 10:26expert because he's got some very interesting things to say.
- 10:30This is about a minute and a half long, but it is full of of
- 10:34gold and silver Nuggets. And let me get the right screen
- 10:38up. We're going to put them on full
- 10:40screen. This is premium strategy
- 10:44partners Dieter Luscher. And I've heard people talk about
- 10:49this guy like he's a smart one. He's in the know.
- 10:52And let's listen to what he has to say about what we can expect
- 10:57in these markets. All right, without further ado,
- 11:00I give you Dieter. Gold and silver are crashing
- 11:04right now, but it's not the war, it's the quarter end trap.
- 11:09Commercial banks and shorts are slamming prices lower with
- 11:13massive short positions and options expiring in just nine
- 11:17days. Their goal?
- 11:20Make those options expire worthless so they pocket maximum
- 11:24profit. The low is coming fast, maybe
- 11:27already today even as war escalates.
- 11:31This move is 100% technical, driven by futures and expiry.
- 11:36Once that window closes, the real bid returns with force.
- 11:41Meanwhile, the power is shifting East India just announced its
- 11:45gold and silver ETFs will price at local Indian spot from April
- 11:51first, not LBMA. China is pushing yuan
- 11:56denominated gold hard. Comex inventories are collapsing
- 12:00while physical demand is chaotic.
- 12:02Mines shipping silver straight to producers, bypassing
- 12:06exchanges entirely. Physical metal has 0
- 12:10counterparty risk, exactly what nations and investors now
- 12:14demand. This engineered dip is the final
- 12:17gift by the physical metal. Now, while the paper
- 12:21manipulators still control the price, the bull market is about
- 12:25to resume and pricing power is moving permanently east.
- 12:30OK. What do you, what do you think
- 12:32of that Woof. He dropped about 8 bombs during
- 12:36that one, right? This is 1/4 in trap.
- 12:38A paper driven smashdown in the price of gold and silver that
- 12:43we've endured feels like it could be stabilizing and maybe
- 12:47building a launchpad for future major, major price increases.
- 12:52He talks about the East, this big deal with India, right?
- 12:55The India, there's two, there's big things, three big things
- 12:58going on with India. They're not using the LBMA price
- 13:01anymore. They're using their own domestic
- 13:03market price for gold and silver and their ETS.
- 13:06But they also have this deal that what is it like in six
- 13:09days? They're like major like pension
- 13:12funds, retirement funds are now going to be able to invest into
- 13:16silver and gold. That's a massive potential wave
- 13:21of new buyers for the metals. And there was something else
- 13:24about India. I don't know, I'll remember here
- 13:26in a little bit. But what else did he say?
- 13:28Chinese, right, are pricing the gold and yuan.
- 13:32Everything's moving to the east. And then as he points out, which
- 13:35we don't talk about, but it's a big, there's a big reason why
- 13:38this is important. Like mines in Mexico are now
- 13:41shipping silver right, directly to the east, directly to China.
- 13:46Samsung recently made a big investment in directly into a
- 13:50silver mine in Mexico. So things are getting very, very
- 13:54interesting. Oh, let's look at the Comex.
- 13:57If you notice that the COMEX, the paper exchange futures
- 14:01market here in the United States, right, But owned by the
- 14:04CME or I don't know, whatever is the Nymex owned by the CME
- 14:08anyway, right? The registered inventory, which
- 14:11is the important inventory that they have, That's the inventory
- 14:14that's actually available to back up all these paper
- 14:18contracts they have out there. It is going down, down, down.
- 14:21Let's get the latest. I think Bullionaire Bob shared
- 14:24this one with us. Bob the Bullionaire registered
- 14:27silver down another 2.65 million oz at the COMEX.
- 14:33The balance is now 76,000,000. Wow, look at that.
- 14:38There's the proof. But here we go.
- 14:40Here's what it looks like. The doors are closing.
- 14:43Stop pushing. We all need to get it.
- 14:47All right. All right.
- 14:47OK, so from there. OK, let's talk about doom and
- 14:51gloom. I promised you doom, but let's
- 14:54talk about this is facetious. We like to have a little fun.
- 14:57I want to emphasize the next thing that I'm going to show you
- 15:00was a joke, but it actually has a strong message embedded in it.
- 15:05Apparently one of the wrong 1. Hold on here.
- 15:09Hold on. Got you on the right screen.
- 15:12Where is it? There it is right there.
- 15:17One of the Iranian leaders, I believe, put this out about oil
- 15:21to begin with, but then I guess the silver Dijon decided to
- 15:26modify it and make it make a statement about silver, he says.
- 15:30We are aware of what is happening in the paper silver
- 15:33market, including the firm's hired to influence silver
- 15:37futures. We also see the broader
- 15:39jawboning campaign, but let's see if they can turn that into
- 15:43actual silver at the dealer or maybe even even print silver
- 15:48Adams. And again, if I have this
- 15:50correct, this was actually a post that he put out, but he was
- 15:54talking about oil silver. Dijon decided to to make it
- 15:58about silver. But is that really all that far
- 16:01off? Because let's look at what
- 16:03happened, what's happening in the aluminum market and compare
- 16:07that to what we know is also going on in the silver market
- 16:11right now. It's the oil market, it's the
- 16:13silver market, it's the aluminum market.
- 16:15Let's just Dario shares with us 9 days ago.
- 16:19Aluminum shortage is incoming today, right?
- 16:22Yes, car. This was yesterday.
- 16:24Car makers panic buying aluminum to secure supply similar to
- 16:28other commodities. Paper price has been suppressed
- 16:32in the past week, creating a disconnect in the physical
- 16:35world. There's a shortage in the
- 16:37physical world, but for some reason, the price of aluminum's
- 16:41going down. Commodity exchanges credibility
- 16:44is evaporating. All right, so there's the chart,
- 16:48right? There's an aluminum shortage.
- 16:50But as you can clearly see, the price of aluminum somehow, some
- 16:55way is going down. Does that sound familiar?
- 16:59Another metal that starts with the letter S and ends with the
- 17:03letter R. Now let's go here.
- 17:06And there's the headline from the Financial Times.
- 17:08Car makers rush to secure aluminum as the Middle East war
- 17:12hits supply. All right, I've skipped over 1.
- 17:15Hold on one second here. OK, we got another one.
- 17:19Another powerful one from David Bateman.
- 17:22Why do we listen to David Bateman?
- 17:24I'll tell you why. He's the new Hunt Brothers.
- 17:26This is the billionaire guy who learned about silver, it seems
- 17:30like about a year ago, maybe a little over a year ago, or
- 17:34that's when he we started learning about him.
- 17:37He, he owns like 15,000,000 ounces of silver.
- 17:41OK. I mean, the guy has just, I
- 17:44think it's his stack of silver might almost be as big as yours,
- 17:48right? But seriously, the guy's a
- 17:49billionaire. He's very smart.
- 17:51He laid out why he's buying silver all that we pay attention
- 17:55to him because he's not buying silver futures, by the way, he's
- 17:59not buying paper silver. He's buying the real hard metal.
- 18:04And let's listen to what he said because there could be a little
- 18:08more than an atom of truth in this when he says if you want to
- 18:12afford gasoline in 2027, you should be buying precious metals
- 18:19right now. All right, we're going to move
- 18:21on now to some real serious subject, which could be economic
- 18:26difficulties that a lot of us in the West.
- 18:28You guys are from all over. Oh, by the way, thank you for
- 18:31joining me in upstairs, Susie. We love you guys.
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- 18:51Never expected. Upstairs, Susie chimed in.
- 18:54Let's check in with her. Everybody say hi, Susie, I'm
- 18:57here. Oh, I was letting you know
- 19:02you've got a super chat. Oh, cool.
- 19:02All right, we got a super chat. That's awesome.
- 19:05Thank you for your generosity. I'll pull you up a little bit
- 19:08later. Don't you worry, because we got
- 19:10to talk about something scary and serious right now.
- 19:13And that is what a lot of people including this people believe
- 19:18that we could be going into some very challenging economic times.
- 19:22OK and let's look at some some of the reasons why that big can
- 19:26be going on right now. The first is interest rates and
- 19:31hold on here. Here we go.
- 19:33This comes from the highly respected Kobesi.
- 19:36Kobesi letter. Absolutely incredible. the US
- 19:39and I'll tell you why this is a big, big, big deal. the US 20
- 19:44year note yield is now back up to almost 5%.
- 19:47Let's run out here. Hold on and see where it is real
- 19:51time. OK, there you go.
- 19:54At CNBC 20 year treasury is at 4.9%.
- 19:58Let me just show you how much it has gone up.
- 20:02If we just look at a one month chart, as you can see right the
- 20:06I don't need to draw a line on there for you, you can see that
- 20:09the the 20 year treasury is really.
- 20:13Oh, gone up here's it's real easy to see here.
- 20:17This is about when the war started and as you can see, it
- 20:21shot higher. Pulled back a little bit in the
- 20:23last few days, but still really high.
- 20:26OK, less than 20 bars after President Trump said that peace
- 20:32talks were underway, the threat of a 7% mortgage, and I'm
- 20:36hearing that you're probably hearing that as well.
- 20:39And $4.00 gas prices has become a reality.
- 20:42Bond markets say this war is not sustainable and that level of
- 20:47interest rate is not sustainable for our country because we've
- 20:52got almost $10 trillion of our 40 trillion in debt that we have
- 20:58that needs to be refinanced this year alone.
- 21:03Nobody's going to want to buy it, OK?
- 21:05I mean, the only way people are going to buy the US debt is that
- 21:08the interest rate becomes more and more and more attractive,
- 21:12but the government can't afford to pay those higher rates.
- 21:16Do you understand what I'm saying?
- 21:17Like 10 trillion's a lot of money.
- 21:20That's a ton of money. That's what's a trillion is
- 21:231,000,000 * 1,000,000. We got 10 trillion that needs to
- 21:26be refinanced in the next 12 months.
- 21:29If the if the only way we can, who's going to buy it?
- 21:32The only way we can get people to buy it is if the rate goes
- 21:35higher and higher, right, to induce them or seduce them or
- 21:38whatever to get them to buy the rate the, the, the, the, the
- 21:42debt. But we can't afford to pay 678
- 21:46percent rate on a, on a ten, $10 trillion.
- 21:50So what's going to happen? the Fed is going to monetize it.
- 21:54That means that our old friend Jerome Powell or wash, whoever
- 21:58at the Federal Reserve is going to have to boop, press the old
- 22:02printer button and, you know, magically create trillions of
- 22:05dollars that they can then use to go into the market and buy
- 22:10the debt. They'll be the bid, they call
- 22:12it. They'll be the ones buying this
- 22:14debt, but they're going to be doing it with printed money.
- 22:17Now, look, I can't guarantee that's going to happen, but it
- 22:20sure seems like the only plausible scenario under which
- 22:26they can get interest rates down lower.
- 22:28We are in a debt spiral at this point.
- 22:31It's unfortunate. I don't like it.
- 22:33I live in the United States. I'm just calling it the way that
- 22:36I see it. I could be wrong, but since I
- 22:39know how to work a calculator right, and you don't have to be
- 22:42Albert Eisenhower to figure this out, it really is most likely
- 22:46the most plausible outcome. But wait, there's more.
- 22:49Because when we look at oil, this is shocking.
- 22:52That also tells us we could be heading for a very difficult
- 22:56period in the economy. This comes from MSB Intel.
- 23:00Every. Am I sharing it?
- 23:02Yeah. Every major oil shock in
- 23:05history. Every major oil shock in history
- 23:09triggered a recession. Every single one.
- 23:14This, the one we're in right now, is the largest ever
- 23:18recorded by 4X. And look at that chart.
- 23:22So remember all these oil shocks, 197919731990?
- 23:28Every one of these triggered a major recession.
- 23:32The one that we're in right now, the big red bar at the top is 4
- 23:36times bigger than any of them. Maybe they've got some magic, I
- 23:41don't know, right? Who knows, but based on history
- 23:44and common sense, that's what we believe we can expect.
- 23:48And then Kabasi has this below the the the International Energy
- 23:54Association. I think that is anyway, they're
- 23:56like the energy people. For the world has issued a
- 23:59warning stating that the Iran war is the greatest threat to
- 24:04global energy in history. OK, we won't even go through the
- 24:08details. You know what all that is.
- 24:10But wait, there's more. But wait, there's more.
- 24:15Because you probably remember the 2008 financial crisis.
- 24:18Most of you are about my age, I'm 56, right.
- 24:22And what triggered the great financial crisis crisis?
- 24:24mortgage-backed securities, right?
- 24:26Like kind of like private lending, big fees, excuse me,
- 24:31being made by the big financial companies and they kind of look
- 24:34the other way that a lot of these mortgages weren't all that
- 24:38high quality. Well, guess what, the almost the
- 24:41exact same thing is happening now, but it's called private
- 24:46credit, right? These private credit companies
- 24:48that put together all these debt pools and they, they were, they
- 24:52were, they would, you would give them your money, they would loan
- 24:55your money out, right? And then they would kind of
- 24:58pocket the difference. They would make huge fees.
- 25:01I talked to some people in the know yesterday that said, Oh
- 25:04yeah, it was like the most lucrative thing going.
- 25:07It was big money, private credit, you know, private
- 25:10equity, whatever, right? But what happened was they would
- 25:14own that money out. Some people speculate maybe to
- 25:19not the the best companies that may not be able to pay it back.
- 25:24So now that's all that's going on.
- 25:26All these massive private equity, private credit companies
- 25:30are saying we can't give your people want their money back.
- 25:33You maybe you gave them, I don't know, 100,000 of your money and
- 25:37you call them up and say, you know what?
- 25:38I think I want my money back. And it's all we can't, sorry,
- 25:41Mr. Brown, we can't give your money back, right?
- 25:45And they don't have to like mark this stuff to market,
- 25:48apparently. Look, I'm telling you what I
- 25:50understand digging for yourself, but they don't have to like like
- 25:53market to what the market value really is.
- 25:58Remember that that happened during the mortgage-backed
- 26:00security thing. They called it mark to market.
- 26:03Like, oh, you know what, whatever, right?
- 26:05I call it Disneyland accounting, right?
- 26:08Like make believe, you know, it'd be like if if I bought
- 26:12$10,000 worth of a stock and it went down, it was only worth
- 26:165000. And Susie asked me how the
- 26:18stocks doing. I said it's doing great.
- 26:20It's 10,000. We're not.
- 26:22We don't have to mark it down until we sell it.
- 26:26Well, it's down by 50%. Anyway.
- 26:28I digress. Big, big trouble in the private
- 26:30equity arena. Let's go.
- 26:33By the way, Susie, I know you're listening.
- 26:35That's not the fact. OK, Crypto Rover, this guy has
- 26:381.5 million followers on. Yeah, on X.
- 26:43Big warning. Banks are now betting against
- 26:45the private credit market, and that tells you something is
- 26:48breaking under the surface. Private credit funds are facing
- 26:52heavy pressure. Oh, thank you, Susie.
- 26:55Here we go. I love her.
- 26:57She's the best in the whole world.
- 26:59Thank you, Susie. Crypto Rover.
- 27:01Big warning. Now you can see it.
- 27:03Banks are now betting against the private credit market.
- 27:05And that tells you something is breaking under the surface.
- 27:09Private credit funds are facing heavy pressure right now.
- 27:13Investors are pulling their money out.
- 27:15It's kind of like a bank run. I've heard some people say funds
- 27:18are limiting withdrawals. Sorry, we can't give you your
- 27:21money back. Excuse me?
- 27:24And defaults are starting to show up, especially in software
- 27:27companies because they loaned a lot of this money out to
- 27:30software companies that weren't making any money.
- 27:33I read somewhere like 40% of them are cash flow negative.
- 27:38The main issue is simple. Over the last few years, a lot
- 27:40of unprofitable software companies borrowed money from
- 27:44private credit funds. Now with slower growth and
- 27:47pressure from AI, many of these companies are struggling.
- 27:51JP Morgan estimates that around 30% of private credit loans are
- 27:55linked to software. And for further evidence that
- 27:59this is a problem, we have this right, a quote from Bloomberg.
- 28:04Apollo Asset Management caps private credit fund withdrawals
- 28:09as requested, 11%. Apollo Debt Solutions
- 28:13withdrawals also capped at 5% next quarter.
- 28:17The cracks in the financial system are widening.
- 28:21And you may ask, who is Apollo? Well, I did that work for you,
- 28:24don't you worry. Apollo manages just $900 billion
- 28:30worth of assets, of which 500 billion is in private credit.
- 28:38Yeah, man, it is getting ugly out there.
- 28:42You want to hear what Ray Dalio has to say?
- 28:45Give me a second. OK, give me one second.
- 28:47I forgot to pull this up. I'm going to bring you back to
- 28:50the here. You know what?
- 28:50I'll put you here. I'll park you here.
- 28:52You going to watch the gold and silver?
- 28:54What's going on? Silver's only have $0.10.
- 28:57That's a bunch of bunk. Hold on one second.
- 28:59But we'll we'll listen to what Ray Dalio says.
- 29:03Hold on. Here we go, I'm going to be back
- 29:06in countdown from 1098765. Here it is.
- 29:14Let's listen 46 seconds of Ray Dalio.
- 29:17Why do we want to listen to Ray Dalio?
- 29:19Because Ray Dalio started in his apartment, right, and built the
- 29:25world's biggest hedge fund. And Ray Dalio doesn't pull any
- 29:30punches. Ray Dalio is a is an American
- 29:33citizen like I am, loves the country, all that, but calls
- 29:37things like he sees it. And let's listen to what he
- 29:40calls right now because it's not pretty.
- 29:44Here we go. Here's Ray.
- 29:46It's the beginning of the end of the monetary system as we know
- 29:52it. It's not just the US dollar,
- 29:54it's the Fiat monetary currencies.
- 29:57So the UK, the euro, Japan, China all have similar debt
- 30:03problems and so on and are dealing with the same
- 30:06interrelationships, which is the reason you're seeing gold being
- 30:10chosen by the central bank. They want a a currency.
- 30:15Gold has always been the main currency and it's the only non
- 30:19Fiat currency. In other words, not the currency
- 30:22that can't be printed that they want.
- 30:25And so that's why you're seeing central banks move and sovereign
- 30:29wealth funds move to gold. And that's the nature of the
- 30:32shift of the monetary system. OK, Mike dropped by Ray.
- 30:37Oh, hold on here. I'm coming.
- 30:39Here I am. Now we're back.
- 30:40There's Ray. There's Ron.
- 30:42And Ray. And Ron, we agree.
- 30:46Every Fiat monetary system in the history of the world has
- 30:50gone kaput. Goodbye.
- 30:51OK, hundreds, thousands of paper money Fiat systems have come and
- 30:58gone. You can collect stacks and
- 30:59stacks of all types of printed money from all around the world
- 31:03from all throughout history. That's all become worthless.
- 31:06I want to run out and say thank you, Thank you, thank you.
- 31:10It's thank you time. We got a super chat from Hey
- 31:14Brian 6790. Thank you Ron and Susie for
- 31:16carrying us through this difficult time.
- 31:19I don't, I didn't need any more silver right now, but how can I
- 31:22resist this one? It's so cheap.
- 31:24Hey, your mate in Sydney. Wow, cool.
- 31:27That's what, $14.99 from Australia?
- 31:33And for the record, Susie and I did go to Australia.
- 31:36We loved Australia. It was like, well, probably
- 31:38about 1720 years ago. Wow, time flies.
- 31:41Thank you guys. Thank you.
- 31:43Thank you. Thank you, Bryant, for the Super
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- 31:53Have a great day. And I'll see you.
- 31:56And yeah, I see you. I'll see you next time down here
- 31:59in the basement. Thank you.