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Speaker 1: And the reason why why my faith never wavered was

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the math man. I mean, it is what it is,

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and we're now thirty seven and a half trillion dollars

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in debt. It's not getting any better. Carry This last

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government for August was released and it was per month

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three hundred and eighty billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Carrie Lutz.

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Speaker 4: Well, it is now October ninth, and price of gold

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looks like it's getting ready to spike again, but more

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importantly the price of silver. We were at thirty two

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almost thirty three dollars silver. Let's get the absolute insider

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take on this. Craig Heepke TF Metalsreport dot Com is

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with us now. If you've got a question comment for

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Craig myself, email kl at Carrie Lutz dot com.

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Speaker 2: Craig, So, where are we now?

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Speaker 1: Well, we're for now at least, we're just at another

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higher low part of the chart. You know, a bull market,

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particularly in the Comax golden silver futures, is almost always

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defined by higher lows and higher highs.

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Speaker 2: You know, where you're just kind of stare stepping up.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of where we are now, and not

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only in gold or silver, but also the mining shares

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are doing the same thing. We'll see where we go

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from here. I'm optimistic that we can take another run

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know, if you'd ha.

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Speaker 1: Told me back in January, with all that we knew

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that was coming, you know, the I mean everybody was

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factoring in like six or seven raid cuts, you know,

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on New Year's even last year, and we knew that

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wasn't going to be the case, so we figured it

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was gonna be kind of a tough year at least

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to start.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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Speaker 1: So if you'd told me back, you know, first January,

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that even if we ended up here near twenty six hundred,

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we'd have a thirty percent year, I just said, that's aokay.

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Speaker 2: And in terms of silver, I was I.

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Speaker 1: Was looking at a chart earlier this week that Ronnie

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Sterfelop put out that showed silver gains or losses every

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year since two thousand and nine, since you know, the

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Great Financial Crisis, when everything changed across all currencies, all

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nine major FIAD currencies. And one thing that stood out

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to me is the three prior periods where silver had

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a really big year. All three of those were followed

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by another big year still, the most recent being twenty

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nineteen and twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: And so silver's up by the same percentage as gold.

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Speaker 1: Leaves me kind of optimistic that we'll be able to

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extend this into twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I think, so, huh so hold the course, huh, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have people on my site, I remember

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getting this three four years ago, but I still get

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this occasionally. People on my side they're like, thank you

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for getting me to stay with this, because man, it

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was a pretty lonely sojourn back in twenty thirteen and fourteen.

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I remember the summer of twenty fifteen. It was a Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Did they even do that anymore? Carry? I don't even

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know Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 4: The weekend edition that was like that was like a

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fun show for a while while alive.

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Speaker 2: They used to put out an actual hard copy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I was staying at a hotel as at a

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wedding with my in laws and my father in law

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comes up and slaps it down on in front of

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me because there's an article there about.

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Speaker 2: Gold is just a pet rock, and.

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Speaker 4: That's what what's his name, Jason's wag Buffett said, we

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spend all this money digging out out of the ground,

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then we dig a new hole, bury it, and we

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spent all this money guarding it, right.

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Speaker 2: Right, Zach barbarous a relic?

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Speaker 1: So you know that was gold was maybe eleven hundred

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next Sunday night and it's pretty ugly, but we hung

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in there. And the reason why why my faith never

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wavered was the man man. I mean, it is what

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trillion dollars in debt. It's not getting any better. Carry

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hedge fund managers and you know these home office multi

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billion dollars and just kind of shook them by the

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lapel and said.

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Speaker 2: You see this three hundred and eighty billion in a month.

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Speaker 1: That's a Bank of America research, the most recent one

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they did, seventy one percent of global financial advisors have

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less than one percent or zero percent of their client's

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assets allocated to the precious metals. In the ninety six

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seventy one percent another twenty four percent have less than

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five percent, So this, I mean, it won't take much.

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bitcoin prices because it's so volatile.

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Speaker 4: They change so quickly. But right now, for this particular

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instant in time, it's sixty two thousand, one hundred eighty

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five bucks. You know, for something that really has no

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intrinsic value, it has a lot of value it does.

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Speaker 2: Up sit there doing the math. What is that?

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Speaker 1: My cost basis on the little bit of bitcoin I

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trying to do the math on what is that ten

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one hundred thousand percent.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: I and so, And I've never understood this thing about

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never never made any sense. Yeah, are they are alternatives

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to your fiat dollar? And why wouldn't you know? And

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talked about before there's will be a third year in

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a row of record global central bank gold demand.

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Speaker 2: Well what are they doing.

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Speaker 1: They're taking their dollar reserves that they've accumulated and they're

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diversifying some into gold. Well that's all I've ever suggested

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for the individual person. Take some of your dollar reserves

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and diverse fying a gold That's I mean, this is

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not complicated.

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Speaker 4: If if people like automatically bought gold, it would force

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the world's central banks and the world's governments to stop.

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Speaker 2: What they are doing. Yeah. Think about that.

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Speaker 4: If every person out there had a gold and silver

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account and they added to it monthly because they wouldn't

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be able to control the prices then, right, because you'd

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have worldwide demand swamping the algorithms basically right. Yeah, So

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it would legitimately price these metals at their true worth

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in currencies, and then you know, the canary and the

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gold mind, the cat would be out of the bag.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: You know you think about who hates gold the most, right,

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the bankers and the politicians and why And I should't

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you say bankers, bankers, politicians and anybody in financial that

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benefits from the unlimited creation of the dollars and the

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debt from which the dollars come. And if that's the

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system that your company, that your net worth whatever relies upon,

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you're going to bash all the alternatives all day long.

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Speaker 2: And that's what they do. You'll never hear.

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Speaker 1: Anybody talk about this kind of stuff on CNBC because

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their beak is dipped by the financial services, mutual funds

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and everybody else.

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Speaker 4: Right them and get pharma. I mean, but stop taking

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drugs and buy gold, right, you know, that would nail

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to the system. Stop taking drugs by precious metals.

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Speaker 1: It's really and really that's a good, good analogy. It

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really about the same thing here. Here's what I gave

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you something though that I think is a really good

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present day example for people to understand. Even within this

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pricing scheme that relies upon on all these alchemic alternatives,

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you know, futures contracts and unallocated accounts and ETFs and

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but not the real thing. Even within that pricing scheme,

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we can look at because and this is just something

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that I think people can really grasp. You know, the

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you know, the four ordered ounce bars a goal the

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London bars, Right, everybody's seen those things. They see someone

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holding one and it's like, oh wow, the racks of them,

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you know in the vaults. Four hundred ounces is a

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London good delivery standard. When Nixon closed the gold window

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back you know whatever, now fifty three years ago, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to believe one of those.

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Speaker 1: Bars was exchangeable or cost fourteen thousand dollars. Okay, twenty

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five years later in the late nineties, one of those

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bars cost one hundred and ten thousand dollars well as

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the spot price of gold moved up through twenty five

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hundred dollars about six weeks ago. With five hundred times

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four hundred, one of those bars is suddenly a million dollars.

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What better illustration because the gold is just sat there, right,

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That bar from nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Seventy one is still that bar.

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Speaker 1: You can't make you know, the argument your house or

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the word that they eat eeronic, donic, medonic adjustments. There's

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no hedonic adjustment to a bar gold. Right, here's your bar,

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same bar from nineteen seventy one, but the price is

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a million dollars rather than fourteen thousand.

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: What better example or illustration is there of the destructive

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power of the FEMA fiat evaluation in that?

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Speaker 4: And that's why you owned al Hey. You know, Ludwig

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bad Masis said only government can take a valuable commodity

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like paper and make it worthless by putting ink on it.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of wild, and you might have

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to dust off that bar because you haven't done anything

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with it. It's just been sitting there collecting dust. Craig,

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Speaker 2: I did it like fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 4: I wrote about it on the site on Financial Survival Network.

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Speaker 2: But you know there was all this gold. Well.

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Speaker 4: One thing that impressed me was that in order to

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handle the gold, you had to put these magnesium tips

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on your shoes because it covered it because if you

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drop the bar, it would crush your foot. They had

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to wear these special things. But you know, it's just

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it's kind of shocking, but it isn't because look, the

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man's nature is always to try to get something for nothing, right.

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You know, some people call it investing in the stock market,

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but they want to like create all this money, give

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it to people, Give everybody what they want, whatever it is,

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no matter how stupid it is. If it's a degree

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in puppetry, an advanced degree in puppetry, or you know,

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medieval French lesbian studies, whatever it is, they want to

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give it to everyone. And when money was real, they couldn't.

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But now that money doesn't really exist, only in your mind,

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only in the bank of a computer on the disc.

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Now they can do this, Craig, You know, it's it's alchemy,

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like you said, financial engineering at a level that nobody

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and I mentioned that math, you know,

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the certainty of the math, the compounding of the math, right,

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the compounding. You know. You see when we went twenty

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five years, even under this pricing scheme, from basically ten

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thousand to one hundred thousand, other twenty five years from

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hundred thousand to a million, another twenty five years, what

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are we talking ten million?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: Okay, twenty five thousand dollars goal. And again what that means,

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Speaker 2: Know if the system's going to continue for a t

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another twenty five years. I don't know nob it'll make

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another twenty five I have no idea.

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Speaker 1: While we're in this kind of crack up boom phase

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that you're describing, there are going to be all kinds

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of get based financial assets that go great. You know,

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I make all kinds that their gains exceed the rate

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of inflation the rate of devaluation. Right, So nobody should

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ever like cash out everything and put it into gold

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or silver or something like that, because you can't know

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when the thing you know finally implodes under its own

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weight and their opportunity costs along the way of waiting.

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But what you definitely have to do is invest yourself

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in a way that your gains keep up with inflation

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and gold just in that you know, segment of your portfolio,

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that part of your asset allocation certainly has proven that

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over time.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's no question. And it's not like we're the

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stop clock brigade here, you know, it's not like we're one.

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We're right, every once every ten years, This ongoing process.

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Like you said, it's been going on since nineteen thirteen,

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but really picked up steam in seventy one when the

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gold window was closed, when the dollar broke its final

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connection to gold. And it's pure math, It's really that simple.

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And they can they can slow it down, maybe they

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can hide it. Maybe. You know, we have these busts,

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these financial crashes, which we're probably due for one now

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because every seventeen years in real estate you get a crash. Right,

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we're probably due for one now, and certainly the stock

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market we're probably due and then we begin to process

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a new right that is I mean I believe all that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the cycles that are definitely in play. The only

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thing you wonder about is how long you know, the

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plates can keep spinning and they can keep the balls

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in the air. You know, when you have everything run

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by computer, right, I mean you look at it like,

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for example, look at the VIX index.

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Speaker 2: And how many.

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Speaker 1: Got buy programs automated HFT the algorithmic programs are based

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off of that. If the VIX is going down, then

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risk is coming out, so we should be in risk assets. Well,

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then if you can just simply control the VIX, then

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you can get the computers to do what you want

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them to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no that I mean not that so like to think.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm the guy I probably called ten

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of the last one stock market crashes, and so I'm

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not I just don't. I just prefer not to fiddle

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around with it, you know, and you know carry everybody

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that I should. How do I want to phrase this?

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There are so many interests aligned in keeping that afloat.

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I mentioned CNBC and like you know and how they're

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always on the lock. Now, maybe it's good for ratings

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every once in a while, Mark it crashed join us

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tonight at seven o'clock, you know that kind of thing.

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But everybody's got their their beacon, the trough, and they

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have an interest in keeping it going. You know, all

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the way down to the economic data that we get,

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you know, it's it's all designed and put out to

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influence the EY. It's like all of those job report

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Fridays that were oh magically beat expectations, Wow, through all

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these different seasonal adjustments and the.

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Speaker 4: Like, excert surprised, right, And they come back and then

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they come back last month and they say, you know what,

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we we overstated things by eight hundred and fifteen thousand.

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Speaker 2: Well do they then, you know, do they then.

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Speaker 1: Have they then overstated what the stock market did on

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those twelve fridays or that do we get to reprice

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gold for all the beatings that it took on those

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fridays on the fake news?

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Speaker 2: No, so everything. There's so many.

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Speaker 1: Forces aligned to keep the plates spinning that you don't

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really want to get in the way of that freight train,

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and you don't want to completely avoid, you know, certain

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sectors because you're just waiting. You know, you don't know,

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you don't know when the end is coming. All you

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can do is prepare for and that's you know where gold,

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silver too, have a part in your portfolio.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm looking at I like to follow the housing

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stocks because to me, yeah, they know what interest rates

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are going to do before the Fed nose. You know,

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you just look at them and guess what. I looked

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at five or six of them. They're all trading at

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or near they're all time highs. That are tall brothers kV. Holmes.

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You know, the whole group is trading at these all

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time highs, and that could only mean that interest rates

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are going down. And what happens when the next fifty

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basis plate. Yeah, rate cut the next fifty basis go

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and then you know the market will go crazy, right or.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it won't.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we'll get to the point where it doesn't care anymore,

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where it sees the underlying collapse that we're approaching. I mean,

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at some point the plates, you know, I would say

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in seven and eight, the plates were all spinning, but

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the guys spinning them had to sneeze and a couple

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of hit the grounds. You know what happens when that

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guy has a heart attack this time and all of

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the plates come crashing down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that moment will certainly come. And then where

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do we go from there? I mean, look at China.

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ago and everything shot up, some of the biggest days

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in Chinese stock market ever. And then they closed for

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a week for their you know, their glorious anniversary of

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the founding and the you know, the.

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Speaker 2: Communists worthy of celebration looking on the hill.

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Speaker 1: And when they reopened, boom, it goes right back down

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ten percent. And now they're talking about what are they

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going to do this next week? They're apparently there's some

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big meeting announcement coming on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: What are they going to do? Even more so, you

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getting to that point where the men's scheme moment, right,

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isn't that the men's scheme mode?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And you're kind of just pushing on a string at

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some point, you know, you just you can't keep up,

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and that'll come.

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Speaker 2: It'll come here as well. It's just good.

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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't matter who wins the election, they're

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going to be for tough sledding next year, you know that.

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Speaker 2: You think about here, even in what was.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly this strong economy, the US fiscal year just ended

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on September thirtieth was pretty close to a two trillion

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dollars annual deficit. What's going to happen in the next

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fiscal year in a contracting economy where government revenues and

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tax receipts and anything else fall by a trillion dollars

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and government spending picks up with stimulus and we're starting

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sudden are running three.

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Speaker 2: Four or five? Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: Well, I did a useless exercise just for the fun

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of it, because I had.

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Speaker 2: Some time to kill.

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Speaker 4: I had chat GPT balance the budget without attacks increase,

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and I said, give me a list of one hundred

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agencies we could just shudder and never even know they

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were closed. And some of these agencies, Craig, you never

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even heard of them. It were so obscure, like the

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I can't even remember them now this is a few

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months ago. But hey, if Elon Musk gets in there

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and he actually can do anything, Elon Musk will be

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the equivalent of the Grace Commission.

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Speaker 2: Remember the Grace Peter R.

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Speaker 4: Grace from the Grace Chemical Company, which was long since acquired,

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and in the nineties they had the Grace Commission and

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he showed them how to balance the budget.

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Speaker 2: But you know, you know how far that way.

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Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, like get real, or who's paying our salary?

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It's not you, Grace, it's these interests, big pharma, big chemical,

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big oil, big Agra, you know, all these things. Hey,

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I want to touch on one thing though, that I

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knew you were concerned about, and that made me think

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twice that maybe this election might have a little more significance.

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I'm not talking about the economy. I'm not talking about

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the dollar, interest rates, whatever. Rfk Junior deplorable character person

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I know, I know him personally, despise him, but he

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did one thing, which was make America healthy again, that

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we are the most unhealthy nation the world has ever known,

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and that this is a national crisis. So for that alone,

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I can forgive him all his sins, and they are manifold,

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you know, because the health, all the gold, all the

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money in the world than going to do anything for

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you if your health is down the tubes.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you know, curious, this won't surprise you. But

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I'll turn this back to Golden the Fed as well.

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You know, anybody could pull up all the charts to

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show income inequality and wealth inequality all begin diverge back

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in nineteen seventy one, and what happened in seventy one Again,

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they're wealthy of gotten wealthier. You know the old line

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from You Too Got Part two nineteen eighty eight. The

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rich stay healthy and the six stay poor, right, And

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it's just the gap just keeps widening. And so it

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is the lower income people that don't have any money

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that have lost their good jobs. So they're working three

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part time jobs. You can see that in the jobs report.

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They're doing everything they can to make ends meet, and

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they're shopping and eating the crap that's sold by Dollar General,

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you know, and in the grocery store the most everything

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that's got all the seed oils and the preservatives and

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all that stuff. Because they can't afford to eat any better,

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or they live in the city and they don't have

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any alternatives to eat any better, and so they just

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get fatter and sicker and more drug depend carry.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you one more thing. Everybody they talk about,

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Oh it's just so great.

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Speaker 1: Look how great the economy is yesterday, Like this haircut.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got it. I just got a haircut yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I've driving through a kind of a neighborhood to get

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to where the place is where the guy cuts my hair,

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and all of a sudden, there's fr after.

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Speaker 2: Car bumper to bumper parked along the side of the road.

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I'm like, it isn't weird.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like and then I see a church coming

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up about a block away, and I'm like, she's who died.

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Must be some you know, big shot funeral here. Now

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I get to the church food pantry this way, Oh

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my god, there must have been in this serpentine thing

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a hundred cars wrapping around the neighborhood going up one

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block over one and back up all to just get

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and so I'm like, holy crap. So I can come

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back to my house the same way and there's still

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a hundred car that maybe down a few seventy five.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Wow, well of sanely single women, you know, moms that

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you know, just trying to feed their family, that kind

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of stuff. All just wait, just begging for you know what,

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twenty dollars worth of groceries. Yeah, gomment, robust, everything's great,

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give me.

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Speaker 4: Break, just lies. I mean, when you see that, it

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really brings it home. And like you said, people running

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three jobs, you know, to try to make ends meet.

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And oh but the employment numbers are great. Crowd stock

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market went up one percent today.

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Speaker 2: Just makes me sick. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, hey, we'll leave it on that note. But you know,

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make sure you go over to craig cite TF Metals

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Report dot com and get to subscribe to it, because

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I think with inflation, I don't think of inflation adjusted

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your subscription prices at Starbus it's been four years. Our

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Bucks just raised the price of my damn latte from

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five sixty two to six thirty seven.

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Speaker 2: Here you go, well, about about two of those lattes

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with tax will get you a month at tfm R.

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How's that?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 4: So so at least there is a place on this

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planet where inflation is not driving up the cost. So

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