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🌟$85 Silver - He WARNS "It Will be a CHALLENGE " ⌛ - (Gold Price Update) · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD Meme Coin Investing & Global Economics

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Today we're joined by our friend Peter Grandage and he has
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something very important to say and he wants to say it to this
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guy. Over my right hand shoulder, the
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gold bear who was recently unblindfolded when gold hit
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$2500. Peter, what is it you want to
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say to that bear? I told you, we get you.
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You know, Ronnie, in all seriousness, there are some
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people I like in the business and there's a handful that I
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love and you're one of the guys that I love.
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You're you, you, you, you do this out of love 1st and you
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know, and there's always going to be a few naysayers and they
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can say stuff. And you and I, when we met, I
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think gold was under 2000. As you know, I three years ago
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I, I was so bullish that I said sell stocks and bonds, the old
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goal. So getting to that 2500 and
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actually it hit my target of 2536, which I've had for three
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years. It's nice to see what his blinds
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off. Yeah, yeah.
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And a little guy behind you is going to be a challenge for $85
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silver. But I feel very confident that
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we're going to get to 50. So I don't know if we'll be
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taking his blind off. I will tell you this, Ronnie, if
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we have $85 silver and what's happening in the world, I don't
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know if I want to be living in it, buddy.
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It'll, it'll, it'll be interesting.
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And gold and silver have been on a tear, right?
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I mean, I think like you said, when you and I first met, gold
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was under $2000. Obviously now we've reached this
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$2500 milestone. Can you for the, for the benefit
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of our, my audience or our audience right now, Peter, are
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are, are we to expect some pull backs?
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What are your, what are your general thoughts as we look out
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maybe through the end of the year and into next year?
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Yeah. So when we hit our target about
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a week or so ago, I talked about a much needed and desirable,
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although markets a lot of times don't do what we think is best
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for them, Ronnie. But I felt the a corrective
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consolidation phase now for several weeks in the gold market
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with may be a worst case scenario of 2350.
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There's tremendous support at that level and trading to the
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highs, you know, approaching 2600 would be really healthy
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going into the brick meetings, as you know, and I don't want to
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sidestep, but it's important to me.
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The bricks is a huge, major impact for for starters, I think
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gold only got the 2500 because central banks became major
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buyers. And they became major buyers
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because they recognize what's happening on the world stage.
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And they also recognize that gold is going to play a major
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role in the new way that many countries throughout the world
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are going to trade. I'll say it again, I believe
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that. And I said this a year ago, so I
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said the three to five years from there, when the bricks are
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all said and done, what they will have done to world commerce
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will rival what the Industrial Revolution did to world
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commerce. And goal's going to be a
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significant part of it. So it's it, it, it's when you
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have such a move that we've had in the price, it's OK to
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consolidate. There's nothing wrong with that.
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But keep this in mind, Ronnie, in this, this will play into it.
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It will get down to where you and I like to play our
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playground. The majors are now going to be
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in their second quarter where they're looking at $2500 gold
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and a total cost hundreds of dollars below that.
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So the free cash flow that this is going to generate, even if we
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just sit here, forget about going higher, is really going to
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make the major stronger and stronger.
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And that will filter down to emerging producers and the
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junior resource market. Yeah, it it, it's interesting.
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I was reading this morning, Peter, an article on Kitco,
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which said, yes, of course we all know the central banks and I
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consider the central banks to be the most sophisticated investors
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in the world. Like they're kind of the
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insiders, they, they control pull out of the strings.
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But now we're starting to see bullish positioning in the
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metals by the hedge funds. And it got me thinking like is
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this a four step process where it starts with the central
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banks, the hedge funds who are probably the next most
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sophisticated investors are starting to get into the metals
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And then is it the general investor, the third step and the
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4th step, could that be the masses right the the, the
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taxicab drivers? Any thoughts on that?
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Well, first of all, we're going to be selling when the taxicab
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guy, the show, they're far still from there.
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So let's go back a couple years, Ronnie, this is important.
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The Bank of International Settlements in a sense the
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clearing house for central banks.
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The central banks central bank made a change a few years back
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and upgraded gold to a tier one investment to join bonds.
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Why they do that? Well at that same time, dozens
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of countries began a repatriation of their gold from
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the United States back to their country.
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Why then on top of that, record amounts of purchasing of central
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banks will remember not too many years ago, 15 or so, they were
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big sellers of gold. They're not doing this for a
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trade, Ronnie. They're not speculating.
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They're doing it because they foresee the change that is
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coming. The handwriting is on the wall
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to them. And on top of that, Ron, gold
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has now outperformed bonds. Ron, I, I'm, I'm in my 5th
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decade of being in the financial service industry.
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I remember from my first day in 84, a sales manager would say,
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yeah, the stock market's somewhat risky, but if you want
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safety, you put your people in the bond market.
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Oh, gold has outperformed that. And so it's not a surprise at a,
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we've seen that. It's not a surprise that we've
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seen the hedge funds recognizing that and remind you this is
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steel, not something that are, that's on the average investor's
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mind. You know that I'm part of a
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major planning group here that we deal with US clients and
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businesses. Still Ronnie, not one out of 10
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people that come in with the show us her portfolio have any
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real representation towards gold, especially physical
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bullion. A couple may have a couple
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mining stocks. And so we still have a long ways
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to go in the cycle of ownership. And you were very thoroughly
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with your question. All right, central banks for
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buyers. Now the hedge funds are coming
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to buy. The next thing will be the major
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institutions and, you know, big players.
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And then finally, when the public shows up and the public
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starts talking about some junior resource stock when you're
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getting your haircut or getting in an Uber car, maybe then we're
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sellers. But not before.
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Not, not before that, you know. And I also read yesterday, the
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gold is now the second most popular reserve asset in the
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world. I think it surpassed the euro,
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which had been at #2. And and I heard someone say
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something that I've never thought of, Peter.
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And that is that if if you're a central bank somewhere in the
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world at this point, you basically have two options.
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It's either the dollar or gold and there's really no other
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option out there. You mean people aren't
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necessarily going to put their, their, the, the reserve assets
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into the, into the Russian ruble or the Chinese yuan?
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That it's really become a battle, a battleground between
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What's real interesting isn't and this this will when this
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gets circulated, I'll get my usual hate emails from the the
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the absolute cult wall cuts. They call it Bitcoin.
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I call it Bitcon, the audacity. And I seen some very smart money
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managers, one in particular I think of who's a big believer in
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Bitcoin to talk about it as a reserve currency.
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First of all, you can't have a reserve currency that has swings
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of 10/20/30 percent in a day, let alone go up and down year
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after year. That isn't a reserve currency.
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You can't be dependent on that. So that's just hogwash that that
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someday is going to be made into a reserve currency.
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It's the most hyped. It is so hyped that tulips and
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Bernie Madoff and hell must be jealous.
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I mean, I've never seen, you know, just an exorbitant amount.
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Just always going to now with some people that were talking
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about a $5 billion price. I mean, it's just insane.
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But that group will be the group that will come later into this
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when they realized and, and and look at the last two years.
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We really what has transpired when this talk, remember 2-3
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years ago, gold's a relic. That's what you used to hear
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from a Bitcoiner. Bitcoin's the new gold.
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How many times did you hear that?
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Well, what's gone up? Bitcoin has gone nowhere.
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In fact, it's in a just major distribution pattern and gold
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has gone from sixteen, 1700 to 2500.
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I'll I'll just say that the central banks recognize that
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they're not going to load up on Bitcoin.
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That's why they've been loading up on gold and this fall, I
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suspect because they've already kind of put it out in drips and
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drabs. We're going to see that they
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have a major plan on how they're going to eventually trade among
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themselves, which is going to include a unit and that unit is
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going to be as much as 40% gold. So I'm I'm extremely bullish
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steel, even though we need a corrective and it's healthy.
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I know people want to see something go straight up.
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We'd be better off of 2-3 months of sideways action here than
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going up to 2650 or 2700 now and then setting up for a major
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fall. So I'm OK with the gold price
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where it is, and if it stays here for several weeks, I don't
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have a problem with that. OK, thank you.
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Thank you. So my next question is will come
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in two parts. Peter, we know that there are
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challenges in the US economy right now.
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We know that that, that we could be seeing some challenging times
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ahead here in the United States. You talk about this idea of
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people building a financial ark. You know, Moses built an ark to,
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to, to, to deal with what was an oncoming calamity, to, to save
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himself and the animals and everything else.
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I think you meant Noah. Noah did it.
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What did I say, Moses? Moses.
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I did say Moses did. Moses just did a small thing.
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He parted the Red Sea. But that's OK, Go ahead.
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I'm in big trouble, Peter, because I went to Catholic grade
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school, high school and college. So Noah, that's right.
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Noah built built the ark to avoid the calamity.
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What do you see happening? You know, when I, when I, you
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know, since we'll stay on the boat analogy, it feels like to
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me the US economy's similar to the Titanic, right?
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When the Titanic sunk, there were people on board who kept
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partying away and saying, oh, everything's great, everything's
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great. As the boat was slowly sinking.
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Is it? Is it an appropriate time for
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people to be doing what Noah did, which is build an ark?
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Well I will never begin to think that I am being been blessed
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that's God bless Noah to to give him the information to build his
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ark. But I am certain even Noah, when
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he started building that off, the weather was sunny and 80°.
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And like I've heard from a lot of people who laugh at the
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thought of me building this financial outgoing, a idiot.
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What are you doing that for? I'm certain Noah heard that too.
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The, the, the, the premises and, and you've been very kind to say
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the word challenging. If it was just challenging, I
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wouldn't be so worrisome. But there are a lot of life and
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death things happening. So there's five key ones for me
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and I'll just name them. And if you want to discuss any
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of them, that's fine. Ronnie.
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The 1st and the biggest and remains is the deficit and debt.
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I just don't think people understand what $35 trillion is
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and to there's not even a chance that they could ever be a major
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principal payment back of that, let alone see it paid back.
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But the problem now is we're getting multi trillion dollar
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yearly deficits. Listen, in four years, the debt
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increased by $11 trillion. Now, that helped the stock
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market because there's money swashing around and all, but
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eventually, if you keep putting on too much weight, you get sick
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from the weight. And that's where we're at now.
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So the biggest concern is are we going to be able to make
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interest payments when the Congressional Budget Office
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who's now up to up their target to $54 trillion by 2034, the
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debt and in their forecast, Ron, they don't have any major
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recession in it. So if there's a recession or two
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within those period that that's going to come up higher or
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become more abundant faster. So how do you pay interest on
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that when 65% of the public is working paycheck to paycheck?
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Hadron, you have something. Yeah, because because I'm, I
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have a degree in accounting, so I follow that closely.
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I agree with you 150% or 130%, which is now our debt to GDP
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ratio in this country. But I think it's important also
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to point out that that that with interest rates having gone up,
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the interest expense is becoming increasingly higher in that
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higher interest expense then gets fed back in to the overall
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national debt, which like you said is also from another
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perspective being increased because of the deficits.
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And somebody pointed this out to me the other day.
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I'd never thought about this, but that debt is, is increasing
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at a compound level, right? I mean it's, it's just like when
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you and on the other side of the equation, if you invest money
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and you grow your money on a compound basis, well that debt
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levels also increasing on a compound level.
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So, so think of this, Ronnie at 50 trillion and a 5% interest
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rate, which is not a lot because eventually you have to refinance
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this debt. You can't pay it off.
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So you have to keep borrowing in a sense of Ponzi scheme to pay
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the old debt. That's $2.5 trillion in an
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interest expense. Our best year ever as a
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government was 5 trillion, 300 billion in income.
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So let's just say that gets gets up to six trillion, almost half
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of the interest is that is going to go to pay the interest
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expense. So how does the government
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operate on their remaining part? It can't.
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So one thing is for certain, taxes are going to go up a lot
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and the ability to service and provide the services that
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government has been producing. And here's what really drives
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people when I when I speak to them, they're so shocked.
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I said, remember, now you may either, if I'm talking to
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seniors, you're expecting your Medicare coverage, you're
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expecting your Social Security check.
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Hey folks, that's not in that number.
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They still have to come up with the payroll services.
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They have to borrow for that to do it.
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It's not sitting in a bank somewhere where they pull it at
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all. Then Ronnie, let's throw this
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out before we even get to the other four.
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You got state debt. Think about the people in
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California, how they going to balance that budget.
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I can't wait to see that trick. Then you have corporate debt and
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then you have consumer debt, which just continues to rise.
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Do you know the bottom 50% percent of Earnest the, the, the
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bottom half of earners in the United States right now, almost
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50% of them now are using credit cards just to pay for food, just
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to pay for rent, just to pay for gas.
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That's basically one out of five people right now.
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Talk to anybody that runs a food bank.
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They'll tell you they tripled or quadrupled the number of people
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showing up. And the people of earnings of
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income have increased dramatically or showing up.
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We haven't even got to #2 which is retirement and and aging
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crisis #3 the immigration issue #4 the bricks, which we briefly
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discussed. And #5 and that's probably the
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most important one to discuss, Ron, because this is where
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everybody's going to turn to when one or more of these
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problems become acute and apparent to everybody.
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Political paralysis in our country right now, Ronnie, the
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Democrats and Republicans, and I don't care which one you are,
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they can't even go in a room together right now.
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And the division that is between them now is as bad as it
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probably was going into our civil war.
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And what's compounding that issue is each party has a
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fragmentation happening. For the Democrats, they're
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moving more left, and for the Republicans, there's a segment
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that's moving more right and political paralysis at a time
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when eventually they're going to have to deal with them because
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all people going to do is turn the government, say you got to
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fix this. Whether you suffered because of
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the debt pressures, whether you're retirement, you can't
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retire. You can't get good housing.
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The immigration, which no one wants to talk about because
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remember, every day more and more people coming in and all
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those people coming in, Ronnie, the vast majority coming just
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with their clothes on their back.
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So for quite a while, they're going to be a liability.
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I'm not talking about them becoming voters for Democrats.
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I'm not talking about terrorists.
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I'm not talking about crime. The simple fact is the masses of
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those people, many of you were coming just for a better life
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from where they left, are a liability.
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They're not an asset and throw that on to the logs of fires of
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you and I know we haven't even talked about the crime issue,
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unfunded pensions, we can go on and on and on and on and all of
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those things are getting worse, not better.
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Yeah, it just, it just doesn't seem to work.
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And it if we if I step back to point number one that you made,
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the math just doesn't work. And maybe the only way it works
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is by a significant dilution in the value of the US dollar.
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I mean, which is kind of what see feels like they've done over
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the last several decades, continue to, you know, print
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money and, and create money out of nowhere.
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But at the end of the day, you know, I guess on paper that may
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work. But in real terms, I think it
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just feels inevitable that the American public is really asleep
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to what they might be facing. I mean, I think, you know, and I
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know, and, and if we're even half right, the general American
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public I think is going to be in for some serious shocks in the
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that. And forgive me law, for what I'm
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about to say. Can't believe I'm saying it
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wrong. The Democrats are actually right
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that you have to raise taxes. Believe it or not.
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We are going to see, if not in this election, we will see in
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our time. Taxing unrealized capital gains,
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we're going to see taxes probably eventually on
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insurance, which right now passes tax free.
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When they look and see that, my God, a trillion dollars is going
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to pass from this generation to the next because they have
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insurance policies. We got to attack that.
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All these things are coming and on a state level and on a local
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level and it's all because of sins that both sides have
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committed for decades. Ronnie, I entered the business
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40 years ago. We never used the word trillion
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for anything because there wasn't no need to.
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There was no trillion dollar deficit.
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There was no trillion this or that.
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And let's face facts, what took 200 and something years to get
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to the past couple of governments in 10 years
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surpassed all of that. I mean, we basically have
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doubled since Obama became president.
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The level of debt, it's unsustainable.
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You're in a Cassie, you understand that the public don't
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understand that we cannot continue at this route and we
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have shortening the lifespan of how long that can continue
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before it breaks. And it's just an amazing
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phenomena that the vast majority of financial service people, the
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people who you would think should have an idea about this,
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have no real concept about this and don't understand or can't
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explain when I asked them, how do we service this debt?
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How could you keep expecting the government to have the lights
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on, to have the roads working, to have a military and
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everything, when over half of our money is going to pay just
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interest on? Yeah, yeah.
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Well, it makes me think of a a saying my mom used to share with
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me when I would do something wrong.
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She would say you made your bed, now you get to sleep in it or
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the hens eventually come home to roost.
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And I agree with you if it's hard to put it into words, but
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from a, from a, an analysis perspective, the, the situation
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is getting increasingly more dire and it's happening at a
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faster and faster pace. I mean, it's just there's, I, I
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feel like I'm the, the sky is falling, but but it's just
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really the reality of what's happening right now.
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We're not alone in this, Ronnie. When we Look North to our great
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neighbors to the north, still two big trading partners.
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Canada's has a lot of similar issues.
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Look at Japan. Look what's happening right now
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because of that debt, even in China because of their real
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estate exposure. You know, if I may, and I know
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what you you at least allow me. I don't incorporate my spiritual
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life too much into my secular work.
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But whether you look at the Holy Bible as the word of God or just
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a bunch of people that got together, made-up a lot of crap
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or somewheres in between, one thing that's evident throughout
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that book, there's not a positive verse about debt.
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In fact, there's dramatic warnings about debt.
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And to me, that book alone demonstrates that debt is the
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dirtiest 4 letter word in our life and it's been going on for
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a long time. Our parents and grandparents,
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they never needed all the stuff that everybody that we had, we
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had smaller dwellings. There were no Public Storage
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facilities. 3 generations of families live together.
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They weren't living in some assisted living place or what
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have you. And all of these things in a
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generation or two has LED us to a brink.
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And that brink is a lot closer than most people even realize.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, I made a video the other day where I talked about how to
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be rich and I said, well, basically the first thing you
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need to do is get yourself out of debt.
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Unless you're using debt to to start a business or make some
23:53
type of, you know, let's say apartment built, whatever.
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I don't like that period. But get yourself out of debt and
23:59
then spend. This is a foreign concept.
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Spend less than you earn. And and then with that excess
24:07
capital, you can make some investments, right.
24:10
Gold or silver, whatever you, you want to do.
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And I think a lot of people are, are mistaken.
24:17
They think that just buying more and more stuff on credit cards
24:20
is going to make them happier and happier.
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And I, I don't think that that really works.
24:23
I think people would find that if they actually that you can
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live just as well a little bit below what you're earning and
24:30
that freedom that you get when you're out of debt is worth way
24:33
more than, you know, the latest and greatest iPhone or whatever
24:37
the case may be. So our model of my planning
24:40
group, and I've lived there for half of my career.
24:43
First half I was like everybody else, less is more.
24:47
I could have a bigger dwelling, but I'd have to extend myself.
24:51
I could have a fancier car, I'd have to extend myself.
24:55
What's lost in that is not only the financial end and as an
24:58
accountant you'd appreciate that, but one thing the
25:01
financial service is horrible at and I was horrible at it for
25:05
myself and in the first part of my career, and that is not
25:09
appreciating mental anguish. Now we have learned mental
25:13
anguish because we own junior resource stocks, but in a
25:17
serious manner, putting your household in order, like you
25:21
said, spend only what you have, not what you can borrow against.
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Live within a means. What I hear from everybody that
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ever listened to me in the last 20 years that reduced debt or
25:34
eliminated, not one person came and said boy that was a big
25:37
mistake. Life has really turned bad ever
25:39
since I did that. No, you hear the opposite.
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And we as a country and have lived that way for a generation
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and as if there's no penalty to pay for it.
25:50
And that penalty is very, very close.
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Now. It's within almost everybody
25:55
that's watching this Ron's lifespan and lifetime that we're
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going to see those dark days. We talked earlier about your
26:05
concept of building this ark like Noah did.
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Is that the ark getting getting yourself out of debt, living a
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little bit below your means being.
26:14
Capital preservation, it is now more important than capital
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appreciation, Ron. We had a lot of easier markets.
26:22
You know, all this again because of COVID, we put $7 trillion
26:26
into the economy and of course the stock market went up it it.
26:30
People forget that the original QE going back to the previous
26:34
financial crisis, the 2008 mortgage crisis, remember when
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Ben Bernanke and Obama stood there and they created QE one,
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What was it supposed to be used for?
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We're going to put it into infrastructure, rebuild America,
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and that'll get us out of it. The money never made it to Main
26:53
Street, Ron. It stayed mostly in Wall Street.
26:56
All the money that was given to the banks and so forth.
26:59
And then QE two came and three. And we've been living this
27:03
ability to think that every time there's an issue, the Fed steps
27:07
in. The Fed put as it's commonly
27:09
known and turns things around, we run out of that.
27:14
We can't add another 5 or 10 or 15 trillion in another crisis.
27:18
And believe it or not, they will do that when all the pressures
27:23
come. That's why anybody thinks
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inflation is dead or even if the current inflation numbers are
27:29
correct, which I don't believe they are, I think inflation is a
27:32
lot higher than we're told, just as the employment was a lot less
27:35
than we were being told. But we are within now reach of
27:40
that very danger zone. This is not something that's
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still 10 or 20 or 30 years off that we shouldn't.
27:46
So I think preparing for it now come less dependent on
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government, more self-sufficient positive cash flow.
27:56
Live within your means and recognize that with all this
28:00
extra stuff that now exists, think about when you were a
28:04
child, you played with sticks and maybe you got a little
28:08
rubber ball and somebody took a broomstick and you and you play
28:11
the game. Now kids have to spend hundreds
28:14
if not thousands of dollars on things that they look at and
28:17
play through on their machine. There's no innovation happening.
28:21
And what did all that stuff do Didn't make us any happier.
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Every mental study shows we're more of a mess now than we've
28:28
ever been. You know, there's only three
28:30
types because I'm sorry, there's only two types of people in the
28:32
world, Ronnie. Those who are a mess and know it
28:35
and that's a blessing, or those who are a mess and don't know it
28:38
or don't want to know it. The blessing is to know you're a
28:41
mess and to recognize that now before it's too late and to
28:45
become become leaner and meaner, so to speak.
28:49
And I don't mean mean in in a vicious way, but just be
28:52
healthier again. I've never yet met anybody that
28:56
repaired their lifestyle and and lessened the debt and the
28:59
burden. Look, there was a number you
29:01
talk about reading on Kiko, a number came out the other day
29:05
that almost half the people now are not putting any money
29:08
towards retirement because they needed sustain life right now
29:13
and they are for stalling that problem.
29:15
But what's going to happen when they come to retirement?
29:17
They're not going to live that beautiful commercial that the
29:20
financial service, they'll run that you just come to us and you
29:24
get to swim and play golf and live in this beautiful community
29:27
for the rest of your natural life.
29:29
And all these things are coming to a point that are much closer
29:34
now and that most people will be impacted by.
29:37
Yeah. The, the, the hens will come
29:39
home to roost. And when I and when I think
29:41
about when you touched on this, I think when the Fed or the
29:45
government is faced with this decision, when things really
29:49
start happening, I think they'll be faced with the decision of do
29:53
we let the system implode? Do we let the economy implode or
29:57
do we print more money and, and try to kick the can?
30:01
But the can is, and I want to get your thoughts on this.
30:05
And I know we're running long, so I wanted maybe just get a few
30:07
more minutes of your time. But the can, you know, maybe
30:11
back during the tech bubble burst was a, was a empty beer
30:14
can. Then it became a empty paint can
30:17
the next time. And then maybe, you know, during
30:19
the GFC, it became like a 5 gallon bucket.
30:22
And during the, the, the, the, the COVID crisis, it became, you
30:26
know, a bigger bucket. But now it feels like the can is
30:29
becoming like, you know, one of those 55 gallon steel drums,
30:32
they, they can't kick the can far enough.
30:34
And it's going to take much more effort, much more printing to
30:37
kick this can. And it's, it's, it's scary to
30:41
think what can happen in, in A and I'll tie that back to
30:44
something else you said, which is inflation.
30:46
And I think Americans are unprepared.
30:50
I think it's just impossible that we don't see further waves
30:56
of inflation hit us as the value, right.
30:58
I mean, because inflation by definition, I would think is, is
31:01
the value of our dollar going down in value.
31:05
And I can't imagine a scenario where in real terms, right, not
31:09
this DXY, you know, prettiest horse at the horse factory type
31:13
thing, but in real terms where the dollar doesn't continue to
31:17
lose value. First Mining Gold is a
31:20
development company advancing two of the largest gold projects
31:24
in Canada, Spring Pole in Ontario and Duparque located in
31:28
Quebec, each already has 5 million ounces of gold reserves,
31:33
but exploration initiatives are underway at both projects to
31:37
find even more gold. First Mining is well financed,
31:42
has zero debt and owns an interest in four additional
31:46
Canadian gold development projects.
31:48
Let me close with this, Ronnie. It goes back to because I
31:52
really, really like you and the work that you do in your honesty
31:56
and the emotion that you tie into your work.
31:58
So you and I are meeting 20 years ago.
32:01
We're having lunch, something we know each other the way we know
32:04
each other. And I say, hey, Ronnie, did you
32:05
hear about this country down in South America and all that?
32:07
You go, what's that? Yeah, The guy that was once
32:10
president, who they impeached twice while he was president.
32:13
And as soon as he was out, they started charging him with all
32:16
these criminal charges. In fact, they found him guilty
32:19
on on one of them. And then as he started to run
32:22
again, he was almost killed by an assassin.
32:24
And the other side of that, the guy that was president that some
32:28
people question about how he became president and wasn't fair
32:31
and all. And then throughout his
32:33
presidency, his family and all were charged with all sorts of
32:36
criminal actions. And then he gets duly elected to
32:39
be the next nominee for his party only to in a sense of coup
32:43
to happen and they replace this other person in with him and
32:47
all. And you would go to meet Pete.
32:48
What South American country are you talking about?
32:51
And now I have to tell you that South American country or third
32:54
world country is the United States.
32:57
It's a Banana Republic. And what did?
32:59
No seriously, what did those Banana Republic it's do when it
33:03
came to their money issues? They printed money until it
33:06
became so cheap, highly inflationary.
33:09
And that's the road America is going down.
33:12
It is the 21st century issue comparison to what a Banana
33:17
Republic was, that those of us that were around and remember
33:20
what it was like in the 70s into the 80s for a lot of those third
33:23
world countries, that's what we become, yeah.
33:26
Yeah. Well, it's going to be an
33:28
interesting ride. You know, Peter, at the
33:30
beginning of our talk, you said some very nice complimentary
33:32
things to me. And I want my audience to know
33:36
that that I hold Peter in the highest of regard.
33:39
You have a lot of knowledge, but you also have a lot of courage
33:44
to speak your truth and, and the way you see things.
33:47
And, and I think a great example of that is when you talk about
33:50
the current political situation or the situation of the country.
33:54
I don't feel this like heavy bias towards one where like you
33:57
are doing your best and you may lean one way or the other, but
34:02
you're doing your best to look at it from an objective manner
34:06
and to kind of share with people what you see.
34:08
So I do hold Peter in the highest regard and and and
34:12
that's just one reason. Why?
34:13
Well, Ronnie, I'll, I'll super close with this.
34:16
There's only two types of devices in the world.
34:18
They really are those who say what they think, those who say
34:21
what they think. You want to hear.
34:23
And it sells. I've always been in the former.
34:26
I've never been part of the ladder.
34:29
I, I've been a contrarian by nature, and I've been super
34:32
objective and quite frankly, sometimes too much so because I
34:35
tie my faith into my work. And that does pee off some
34:38
people. But I, I remember what Mark
34:41
Twain said. He said if you always tell the
34:43
truth, you never have to remember what you said.
34:45
And when you get old, you have trouble remembering what you
34:47
said. So it's more important now to be
34:49
like Mark Twain than ever. Yeah.
34:51
Yeah. Well Peter, you put out a blog
34:54
post on a daily, almost daily basis which I enjoy getting.
34:58
If people want to learn more about you, they go to
35:02
petergrandage.com. Is that correct?
35:04
Petergrandage.com will tell you the whole history is a blog
35:07
there. A lot of my commentary now is on
35:09
X slash Twitter. And of course, I still do
35:13
YouTube interviews like this. I'm blessed by people like you
35:17
who who are trying to do the right thing and in a world where
35:20
there's not a lot of right things done in the financial
35:22
services industry, Ronnie. So the mutual love fest that we
35:26
have for you, brother, is real. And it was easy to say to that.
35:30
Bear his blinds off. It's going to be a challenge to
35:33
get to that guy there, but I wouldn't be surprised before we
35:36
see our last breath that we're taking off his blind to Ron.
35:40
The the, the $85 silver blindfold will come off
35:44
Absolutely. Peter, thank you on behalf of
35:46
myself and our viewer who I know has learned a lot.
35:50
Don't forget guys, go to petergrantich.com.
35:53
You can sign up to get the the daily e-mail blog post.
35:56
And Peter, we'll look forward to seeing you next time.
35:59
Thank you very much, Ronnie. God bless all the good work that
36:02
you're doing, buddy.