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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: It is about to get ugly between Macron and J.D.
- 0:05SPEAKER_00: Vance.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: We already know that they don't like each other.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: I think they've both made that very plain,
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: especially with the comment of Macron being a wet blanket.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: Which he is.
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: But this is where it's really heating up today then.
- 0:23Macron has just dropped a bombshell in retaliation to what he
- 0:29feels is a failure by
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: the EU to actually go after President Trump and J.D.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: Vance over these tariffs.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: He said that we should have fought them.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: We should have got together and fought them off with these tariffs.
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: Good luck with that.
- 0:46So he's just dropped a massive bombshell and he said that the
- 0:49EU should now fight
- 0:52or strike back against the US and go after the big tech firms
- 0:57and their profits.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: And here's something I prepared earlier for you.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: This is where it gets pretty crazy.
- 1:05So let me tell you some of the things that he has proposed
- 1:09then,
- 1:10what he says we should do.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: We, they, should do.
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: Hefty fines of 10 to 20% of global annual turnover.
- 1:21Forcing structural changes like breaking up services like
- 1:25WhatsApp from Meta.
- 1:27Blocking or suspending services then if the EU companies don't
- 1:33comply or the
- 1:35SPEAKER_00: American companies in the EU don't comply.
- 1:38digital taxation France has already pushed for a digital
- 1:41services tax on revenues
- 1:43of these US companies these are that are operating in Europe
- 1:48basically the EU
- 1:49doesn't want these US tech companies in Europe because they're
- 1:52not making a lot of
- 1:54profit from them so this is what this is really about they're
- 1:58talking about a wider
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: digital tax to roll out on American firms
- 2:03SPEAKER_00: And the irony is this is 90% of the tech firms are American.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: So it's going to be hit hard on Americans.
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: Data and privacy then.
- 2:12They are looking to tighten the rules on data transfers outside
- 2:17of Europe.
- 2:19SPEAKER_00: And this could just cripple the US firms.
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: They won't be able to move data back and forth.
- 2:24And remember that they find Google 8 billion already and
- 2:29they're now looking to go
- 2:30SPEAKER_00: after the App Store,
- 2:32SPEAKER_00: Microsoft,
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: Amazon's marketplace,
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: all sorts of other things here that is what they're looking to go after.
- 2:40SPEAKER_00: Now,
- 2:40let's go over to the shared screen and let's pick up on what
- 2:45the media is talking
- 2:46SPEAKER_00: about with this.
- 2:47So here we go,
- 2:48Macron wants the EU to target US big tech after the Trump
- 2:52tariff threat.
- 2:53SPEAKER_00: Look at this guy, isn't he a tough guy?
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Oh, so strong.
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: Paris,
- 2:59Macron has told ministers that the EU should consider these
- 3:03retaliatory measures
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: against the US digital sector.
- 3:08This is after President Trump threatened additional tariffs
- 3:11over tech regulation and taxes.
- 3:14So this week he said then that Europe should not exclude taking
- 3:19a look at the digital sector.
- 3:22A person close to Macron confirmed that exploring a possible
- 3:26retaliation against US
- 3:28SPEAKER_00: digital players was indeed his stance.
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: So they're not even denying it, this is his stance.
- 3:34Trump threatened on Monday to impose further tariffs on
- 3:38countries whose digital
- 3:39SPEAKER_00: rules discriminate against American companies.
- 3:43So I think we can say with pretty clear intentions here that
- 3:47this is going to heat up.
- 3:49SPEAKER_00: I know J.D.
- 3:50Vance is going to be,
- 3:51because he's the tech guy for Trump,
- 3:53because of his background in tech.
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: So he's going to be looking at this very heavily.
- 3:57SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure he is not.
- 4:00I mean,
- 4:00this is just going to be a battle between these two,
- 4:03Vance and Macron.
- 4:04SPEAKER_00: Not much of a battle.
- 4:05SPEAKER_00: It'd be good to see them in the octagon, actually.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: I think it would probably last a few seconds and...
- 4:11tap him out he'd probably cry cry to his wife cry to his uh dad
- 4:18someone anyway
- 4:20let's carry on france has long been at the forefront of
- 4:24european calls to take a
- 4:25tougher line against trump on trade however a majority of eu
- 4:30countries lack the
- 4:31SPEAKER_00: appetite to launch a full-scale trade war
- 4:35SPEAKER_00: And remember,
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: they've still got this bazooka,
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: as they call it,
- 4:38SPEAKER_00: the anti-coercion instrument that they said they were going to use.
- 4:43SPEAKER_00: We're going to use this against Trump.
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: Did they use it?
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: No, they didn't.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: This could,
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: with the support of most member countries,
- 4:51be used to restrict IP rights of US tech giants or bar them
- 4:56from the EU entirely.
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: So what did Ursula von der Leyen said then?
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: All instruments are on the table to respond to Trump,
- 5:06but she shied away from taking a hard line to keep him engaged
- 5:11in efforts to end
- 5:12SPEAKER_00: the war in Ukraine.
- 5:14SPEAKER_00: If you believe that, you will believe anything.
- 5:17SPEAKER_00: The bottom line is they don't want this war to end in Ukraine.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: That's why they're ramping up all the weapons manufacturing.
- 5:24SPEAKER_00: They're making a fortune, these politicians.
- 5:26SPEAKER_00: Don't take my word for it.
- 5:28SPEAKER_00: Look into this for yourself.
- 5:29SPEAKER_00: They're making a fortune because they know what they know.
- 5:34It's a bit like Nancy Pelosi,
- 5:35the world's,
- 5:36the history's best stock investor.
- 5:39SPEAKER_00: Incredible, incredible, considering she's not actually a stock investor.
- 5:43SPEAKER_00: She's a politician, but somehow she managed to beat Warren Buffett.
- 5:48SPEAKER_00: You know, these people, they're just unbelievable, aren't they?
- 5:50SPEAKER_00: So they don't want this war to end.
- 5:51SPEAKER_00: That's the first thing.
- 5:54SPEAKER_00: So he's said that Macron's the French president.
- 5:58SPEAKER_00: Is he actually president still?
- 6:00SPEAKER_00: He seems to be like lingering like a bad smell.
- 6:03SPEAKER_00: I'm not exactly sure if he is the president at the minute.
- 6:06SPEAKER_00: Prime Minister, President, we'll have to check that.
- 6:10SPEAKER_00: But he said that, you know, this was not good enough, what they did.
- 6:14And he's now expected to raise the issue with German Chancellor
- 6:17this week during a
- 6:19SPEAKER_00: two-day stay in Macron's summer retreat.
- 6:22SPEAKER_00: Oh, very nice.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: Very nice.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: I'm sure we all wish we had a nice summer retreat like that.
- 6:30SPEAKER_00: But he's got bigger problems, I would say.
- 6:32The French government is on the verge of collapse,
- 6:36raises stake of a planned national shutdown.
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: Yes,
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: ladies and gents,
- 6:40SPEAKER_00: if you didn't know this,
- 6:41SPEAKER_00: the French government is borderline about to collapse right now,
- 6:46SPEAKER_00: any day.
- 6:47It can happen probably around the 8th to 10th of September,
- 6:50but it is very close to collapsing.
- 6:52SPEAKER_00: So
- 6:54SPEAKER_00: Let me just think this through.
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: I'm him.
- 6:56SPEAKER_00: I'm Macron.
- 6:57SPEAKER_00: My government's about to collapse.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: What am I more concerned with?
- 7:01SPEAKER_00: That or getting into a tit for tat with Trump and J.D.
- 7:06SPEAKER_00: Vance?
- 7:08SPEAKER_00: Let me think here.
- 7:11SPEAKER_00: I mean, does this make any sense to you?
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: What are they saying there?
- 7:17SPEAKER_00: They are very close to, here he goes, here's France's prime minister.
- 7:21SPEAKER_00: So maybe he is the president still.
- 7:23A major test looms for France following the likely collapse of
- 7:27the government on September 8th.
- 7:30Increasing numbers of people appear to be heeding the cause of
- 7:33a murky leaderless
- 7:35SPEAKER_00: crusade for a national shutdown on September 10th.
- 7:38SPEAKER_00: Interesting, and September 13th, of course, is a key day in the UK.
- 7:43SPEAKER_00: The movement,
- 7:43initially made up of a constellation of anonymous
- 7:46anti-government accounts of
- 7:47SPEAKER_00: varying political affiliations,
- 7:50SPEAKER_00: began earlier this summer,
- 7:52SPEAKER_00: reaching the general public good as anger grew over this phenomenon.
- 7:59$43 billion from the 2026 budget and slash to bank holidays
- 8:04without offering wage compensation.
- 8:07SPEAKER_00: Yet the French are not going to settle for that.
- 8:09SPEAKER_00: You try and take their bank holidays, you're in big trouble.
- 8:12SPEAKER_00: If people still show up in large numbers,
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: however,
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: Macron will be left to deal with the aftermath.
- 8:19SPEAKER_00: So they just did this poll then,
- 8:20SPEAKER_00: it was commissioned by RTL,
- 8:23showed two in three respondents voiced support for shutting
- 8:26down the country on
- 8:28SPEAKER_00: September 10th,
- 8:29including an overwhelming majority of voters on both the left
- 8:32and the right.
- 8:34SPEAKER_00: Goodness me, getting the left and right to agree on something.
- 8:37SPEAKER_00: That's impressive.
- 8:39So he could become the second of Macron's prime ministers to
- 8:42fall in less than a
- 8:43SPEAKER_00: year if he loses next week's vote.
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: Look at this.
- 8:47SPEAKER_00: Look how tough this guy.
- 8:48SPEAKER_00: Look at these photos.
- 8:49SPEAKER_00: He's powerful.
- 8:50SPEAKER_00: I had a haircut like that when I was about 13, actually, funny enough.
- 8:55SPEAKER_00: So calls for Macron's resignation extend beyond the radical left.
- 9:00SPEAKER_00: It's also the right as well.
- 9:02SPEAKER_00: And everyone's coming out in support.
- 9:04of his resignation yes Macron must accept that the French
- 9:08people no longer want him
- 9:10and act like a statesman that is indeed true please drop a
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- 9:26So then,
- 9:27France may need an IMF bailout,
- 9:29they're now saying,
- 9:30warns the finance minister.
- 9:31SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is going from bad to worse.
- 9:34SPEAKER_00: This is,
- 9:35France has got some big issues and yet they're poking their
- 9:39nose into America's
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: business.
- 9:41SPEAKER_00: So they're seeking a bailout from the IMF, the International Mafia Fund.
- 9:47SPEAKER_00: And by the way,
- 9:48once you go there you are in big trouble you have got to do
- 9:53pretty much whatever
- 9:54the imf this three-letter globalist organization tells you as a
- 9:57country look at
- 9:59greece they've still never recovered these i mean how long have
- 10:03these these summer
- 10:04riots gone on in greece now over these imf pro they've been
- 10:07going on forever
- 10:09SPEAKER_00: You never get out under the thumb with the IMF.
- 10:13SPEAKER_00: And if you ever want to know, where does their money come from, though?
- 10:17SPEAKER_00: How can they bail out a whole country?
- 10:19SPEAKER_00: Where does that money come from?
- 10:22SPEAKER_00: That is a mystery indeed.
- 10:24SPEAKER_00: It is.
- 10:24I wonder if anyone's ever done an investigation into that on
- 10:28this channel here.
- 10:30SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
- 10:32SPEAKER_00: So yes, they're on the brink of collapse.
- 10:35SPEAKER_00: The long-term borrowing costs hit the highest level since 2011.
- 10:38SPEAKER_00: This is the second collapse within a year, possibly.
- 10:43SPEAKER_00: And what else have we got?
- 10:46SPEAKER_00: Budget deficit is on course to hit 5.4% of GDP this year.
- 10:49SPEAKER_00: He's admitted that
- 10:53SPEAKER_00: that asking the IMF to intervene is a risk that is in front of us.
- 10:57SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'll say it's a risk.
- 10:58SPEAKER_00: Good luck getting out of that from a loan shark like the IMF.
- 11:04SPEAKER_00: France has never received a bailout from the IMF,
- 11:07but the collapse of its government would leave the country in a
- 11:09precarious position
- 11:11SPEAKER_00: with a record debt of 3.3 trillion euros.
- 11:15SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: And here's the forecast.
- 11:18SPEAKER_00: Good luck getting out of this.
- 11:19SPEAKER_00: They are in a debt spiral now, ladies and gents.
- 11:23And once you go into a debt spiral,
- 11:25it's very,
- 11:25very difficult to get out of that debt spiral.
- 11:27SPEAKER_00: The country...
- 11:29SPEAKER_00: I mean,
- 11:29SPEAKER_00: Macron,
- 11:30SPEAKER_00: he's got his summer villa and he's got all of his,
- 11:33SPEAKER_00: you know,
- 11:34SPEAKER_00: expensive things and he's got all of his money.
- 11:36SPEAKER_00: He...
- 11:38SPEAKER_00: He isn't going to care, right?
- 11:40SPEAKER_00: All of these people, the politicians, they're not going to care.
- 11:42SPEAKER_00: It's the people,
- 11:43SPEAKER_00: the citizens,
- 11:44who are going to be on the hook for all of this debt and trying
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- 11:55we've talked about this a lot with the gold and silver stuff
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- 14:11SPEAKER_00: And where were we?
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: Okay, we got to the GDP, the debt levels here.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: The bonds as well, this is a big one.
- 14:18This has now sent the 30-year French bonds up three basis
- 14:23points to a 14-year high of 4.42%.
- 14:27This is the highest level since March here,
- 14:30but this is really high,
- 14:324.42.
- 14:33SPEAKER_00: The government can't afford that sort of a rate.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: It's going to have big problems.
- 14:38Increased volatility and pressure is what's expected on French
- 14:41bonds in the coming days.
- 14:45SPEAKER_00: France's mountainous,
- 14:47SPEAKER_00: look at that for a word,
- 14:48mountainous debt pile currently eclipses the size of its entire
- 14:52economy with the
- 14:53SPEAKER_00: IMS latest forecast suggesting it could hit 116% of GDP this year.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: There's no way out of that.
- 15:00SPEAKER_00: If you're going into debt by that amount every year, there's no way out.
- 15:04SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: Now, a lot of the French banks as well have been hit badly.
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: BNP Paribas was down 5%.
- 15:11SPEAKER_00: Soviet General shed more than 6%.
- 15:15SPEAKER_00: The CAC 40, actually, let's pull that chart up.
- 15:20SPEAKER_00: You can see since, where are we?
- 15:22SPEAKER_00: Friday here was at 7954.
- 15:26SPEAKER_00: It dropped all the way down to 7681.
- 15:27SPEAKER_00: So it's not doing well on the charts at all.
- 15:32And then for everyone going,
- 15:33oh,
- 15:33thank goodness,
- 15:34it's not Britain for a change.
- 15:35SPEAKER_00: Actually, sorry, ladies and gents, but it is.
- 15:38SPEAKER_00: Britain is racing towards an IMF bailout as well.
- 15:44SPEAKER_00: This will be insane.
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: If Britain does an IMF bailout alone, wow, wow.
- 15:51SPEAKER_00: They're saying then that this could be a possibility.
- 15:55SPEAKER_00: The bond market has heard the message.
- 15:57SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 15:58SPEAKER_00: So we just showed you the French bonds.
- 16:01SPEAKER_00: Well, this dark blue chart here, that's the UK bonds, 4.7%.
- 16:08SPEAKER_00: So it's actually above Italy and France here.
- 16:13SPEAKER_00: So this is obviously a little bit backdated as you can see too.
- 16:17um august here but you can see the principle of what's going on
- 16:21debt then the uk's
- 16:22pile of public debt is sitting at 96 of the size of the economy
- 16:27it's the fifth
- 16:28highest in the developed world i thought this was quite funny
- 16:31although it has not
- 16:33SPEAKER_00: recently been getting any worse oh well thank goodness for that then
- 16:37SPEAKER_00: And here's the GDP debt to GDP ratio by country.
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: Here's France here, Italy, really bad.
- 16:45SPEAKER_00: It's obviously getting worse every year.
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: The UK, 104%.
- 16:50SPEAKER_00: But there's Greece that everyone always talks about.
- 16:52SPEAKER_00: It's actually been getting better.
- 16:54SPEAKER_00: Greece is reducing while the UK is increasing.
- 16:58And this ratio will obviously get worse if the government needs
- 17:01to borrow more.
- 17:03SPEAKER_00: And that will happen if the budget deficit keeps getting bigger.
- 17:07SPEAKER_00: I think they should say when the deficit keeps getting bigger,
- 17:11SPEAKER_00: because it's obviously going to get bigger.
- 17:13SPEAKER_00: Now,
- 17:13SPEAKER_00: even if either government wanted to increase taxes,
- 17:15SPEAKER_00: both are already squeezing the pips of their economies.
- 17:20Britain's tax take as a share of GDP will reach a record 38% in
- 17:232027 to 28%.
- 17:28SPEAKER_00: And France is already at 46%.
- 17:31Hopes for spending cuts are complicated by the fact that both
- 17:33leaders have already
- 17:34SPEAKER_00: told President Trump that they will lift defense spending.
- 17:39SPEAKER_00: Yes, defense spending is the way they are going.
- 17:46I just wanted to say as well,
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