THE BIG MIG SHOW
MARCH 21, 2025
EPISODE 506–1PM
Gold Hits Another Historical High!
Gold pauses for breath after record run on safe-haven demand
"Silver Shock: How Trump’s Tariffs Are Disrupting the Global Market & What It Means for You"
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the globe. So, Jonathan Rose, how are you,
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Sir? I am very excited today, Lance
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and George. You want to know why?
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I do. You got a gold bar for me.
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You know I got a sticky shot. Historical moment Gold surpassed
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$3000 an ounce. I mean, wow, I remember guys, I
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used to work with AIG and they hired me to train their
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financial advisors. I did a tour in Southeast Asia
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and I remember being up on stage.
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This was when gold was maybe six, $700.00 an ounce and I'm
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never giving a speech and I said expect gold one day to quite
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easily surpass $2000.00 an ounce, even 2500.
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And I never forget. There's laughter in the
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audience. People were laughing at me.
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Well, here we are today, folks. He.
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Who laughs last laughs best? Of course I'm excited, George
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Ballantine. But we're going to be talking
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about gold, silver and many other things.
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But man, it's crazy. George caught a big article
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the impact. So, George, how are you,
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brother? I'm good, I'm good.
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But I want to get right into this today because Jonathan's
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got limited time. I appreciate that he's cut out
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some time for us because he's slammed.
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They're super busy over there. And of course, on this show,
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it's bullion to borders gold. Let's get right into it,
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Jonathan. Another historic high.
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I I believe that it hit 3062 or 57, Am I right?
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It was 3 thousand 5721. It actually peaked at.
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Yeah, roundabout there, the prices just seem to be climbing
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and climbing. They seem to hit the hit the
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peak when everyone's sleeping right.
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Overseas in the Asian markets, it's.
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Interesting, right? Yeah.
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Saving opens up over here, but the threshold has been broken
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through that support level. A lot of forecast from big
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banks, UBS, many others now 33 hundreds, the target, the target
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price and we're going to get there, folks.
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I think gold and also silver, which I know we're talking
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about, they are going to do extremely well under this
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continued Trump organization. Not just because, you know,
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we're saying that the Trump office is in power, but just the
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instability in the world. News came out the other day.
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We're still picking up the mess from the previous Biden
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administration. And it's still, you know, slower
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growth for GDP growth for America, slower growth forecast.
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We are trying to President Trump's trying to enact an
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interest rate cut. And we also know that inflation
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is going to continue to climb up.
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So these are all very, very bullish signs for the yellow
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metal. So expect more of the same this
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year. Expect more new historical highs
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for gold. And if you're thinking, oh, am I
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too late to purchase gold, don't look at the price.
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I always tell people forget about the price of gold.
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You don't wait to buy gold. You buy gold and wait.
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And as the world continues to unravel, whether it's our Fiat
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currency, international domestic terrorism that we're facing, or
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whatever civil unrest that's going on in the world, it has a
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direct correlation between the US dollar and the price of gold.
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So again, you know, very bullish signs for the yellow metal,
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especially for the rest of this year and going into the next few
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years. And I've seen that there's an
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upward tick in industrial use right now that the technology
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sector is in an accumulation mode on gold.
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I just read an article about that.
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George, I didn't mean to step on you.
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No, no, because he brought up I think Jerome Powell, like, you
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know, they didn't drop the interest rates, but he came out
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yesterday and said that he goes the Trump administration's like
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sweeping tariff expansions may stall progress on lowering
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inflation this year. But the tariff related prices
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there are increases will be transitory as they work their
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way through the economy. But however, the inflation did
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drop a few percentage points within between now and the last
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few months. So I don't know what he's
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talking about Jerome Powell, but I don't I don't like him.
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I think he doesn't want to see the economy.
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I don't disagree with you. You know, my belief is that we
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should nationalize the Federal Reserve and that would mean that
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Jerome Powell would be out of a job.
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My thought is it never should have been owned as a private
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institution and that's exactly what it is.
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But at the end of the day, it is what it is for now.
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But I I also misquoted. It wasn't 3057 it hit.
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It actually hit 3062 twenty. So I want to stand and give the
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correct information to the audience.
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Of course, I think some of the speculators, you can't blame
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them, are trying to take advantage of the market and some
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taking some of that profit off the table.
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I'm not sure that that's the right move right now.
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A lot of people say the new resistance level is just over
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3100 now. I don't know if that's true or
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not. I had heard it was three 3086.
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I'm not sure where that's going to sit or what that's going to
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mean. I think the traders are pricing
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in the 69 basis points of easing this year from the Fed.
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I don't know if that's the case or not, Jonathan, a bunch of
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people. Here's a quote.
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In our bull case, we see gold prices reaching 3500 per oz by
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year end, underpinned by much higher hedging investment demand
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on fears of US hard landing stagflation.
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And that's the analysts over at Citibank said.
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What do you think is 3500 end of the year?
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Is it maybe sooner? What do you, I mean, I hate to
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put you on the line here, but I'm going to throw out your
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experience and put it to you. Yeah, I think 3500 by the end of
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the year is very feasible. You know when you start talking
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about intraday highs, people ask me what I think about that.
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Again, I don't get bogged down with moving averages.
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I look at a more of a 10 foot looking down view of what's
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happening in the economy and and that's why people are very
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bullish on gold. Now, when you mentioned that
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magic word, there's stagflation, you know, there's one asset that
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has actually done extremely well during stagflation and that's
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been silver. So, you know, silver is, is
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definitely something you should keep your eye on.
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It's been one of the best performing asset classes out
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there, period. And I think that these price
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projections are spot on. You know, George mentioned about
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the tariffs. I didn't even bring that up.
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You know, tariffs will cause higher inflation.
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So Jerome Powell saying inflation's gone down.
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Ask the general public how they feel about that.
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You know, they go and fill up their their cars at the gas pump
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or they go into the local grocery store.
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They're seeing how expensive everything is, granted, you
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know, prices of eggs they're saying have come down somewhat.
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Still bloody expensive if you ask me.
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So the price of consumer goods, CPI index, all, all above where
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it should be. Absolutely.
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And again, if you're going to look at an asset class that you
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make the very solid, very strong argument that that beats
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inflation, you know, gold always wins in that answer.
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So again, it's an integral part of a balanced portfolio.
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But it's very interesting to see Lance and George, you know, what
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happens this year with the markets, because there's so many
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irons in the fire, whether it's market instability, you know,
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we're not even talking about defaults on car loans at an all
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time high, defaults on credit cards all time high.
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You know, then then we start running into Social Security,
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Medicare, running out of money. There's just, there's just a
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plethora of of, of issues. And you want to have that rainy
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day fund, so to speak, to protect you from these events.
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And and again, that that's why I've always been an advocate for
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precious metals. You know, I heard a story about
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the commercial real estate market is facing some of the
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same consequences. People are defaulting on the
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mortgages on commercial, and I believe that may be a much
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bigger story here in the near term.
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A lot of these buildings are sitting empty and they can't
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maintain the properties because people have moved their
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businesses and their employees off site.
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We've seen it across the globe that people have decided after
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the pandemic that they didn't need to have people sitting in
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an expensive property that was leased.
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And of course, a lot of people bought into this, you know,
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residential bubble, in my opinion, that that prices were
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going to continue upwards. And that hasn't been the case in
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every market. We've actually seen a decline in
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some markets. But let's dig into silver it.
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This is interesting. Normally, silver would parallel
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gold. But of course, silver's kind of
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feeling a shock. Trump's tariffs are disrupting
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the global markets and what it means.
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I think it's a buying opportunity is what it means to
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me. Now's the time to jump in there
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and grab some more. That's what George and I
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planning to do. Do you think there's significant
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pressure due to the latest tariffs imposed by Trump?
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And you think this is short term?
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Is it a market overreaction? Because we know demand is going
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through the roof and we know there's obviously a shortage
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because we're hearing it from every industry that they're,
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they're having difficulty getting what they need in the
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tech vertical to supply the silver that's needed.
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And of course, EVs are facing the same issue.
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These supply chain disruptions, I think should cause the price
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to spike. So what are your thoughts on
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this, Jonathan? Yeah, I think you just put it
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very eloquently and and we just need a little bit more time, a
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little bit more runway to kind of feel the pinch and the
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reflection on the premiums of silver.
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I think we may have mentioned this last time that, you know,
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50% of all the silver mined actually comes out of Mexico.
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So as these tariff wars continue to heat up, we're going to see
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silver being imported to the US carry a premium.
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Ultimately, eventually, probably sooner rather than later, we're
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going to see that in in the price of premiums on specific
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coins and bars for people that that are buyers of of the silver
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metal that like to keep it at home.
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Industrial demand, as we said, you know, that's continuing to
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climb. And I think we just need a
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little bit more time to see a breakout.
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Eric Sprott, Sprott Investments, you know, he's kind of the, the
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worm Buffett of the commodities world.
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I mean he, he's been saying publicly on Kitco 200 to $500.00
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an ounce of silver is very feasible.
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And he's a very conservative gentleman.
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You know, I say, I say 50 to $75.00 in the near future.
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What I like about silver is when you look at the silver to gold
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ratio, it's the, the time now is to buy.
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And I think if you're new to precious metals, they may be a
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little bit scared when they see gold prices when it's so
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expensive. But when they see silver prices,
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it just seems a little bit more reachable, a little bit more of
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an entry level. Not to say that gold is bad
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because you could buy small denominations of gold coins.
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Maybe you'll pay a higher premium for something a little
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smaller. But again, as I've told you guys
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before, I'm a big believer now in silver.
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I've reallocated and shifted My Portfolio to 70% silver, 30%
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gold and I think silver has got a great one runway to reach new
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historical highs just like gold is going to do.
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It's just a question of when. We don't have a crystal ball
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guys, right? But we have a pretty good road
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map. So I think it's, I think it's
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coming. Yeah.
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And, and my take is that the market, I mean the, I guess the
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consumers are overreacting. I don't think in any way that
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silver should have taken this downturn.
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I don't think that in my opinion, the tariffs, sure
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they're going to impact in the short term, but in the long
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term, I think it's going to really improve our economy.
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And of course, we can get the US out of $36 trillion in debt.
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That's going to be, I assume that'll strengthen the dollar
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and it's strengthen in every commodity.
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It'll be an opportunity across the globe.
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You know, this isn't financial advice.
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Of course, we always tell you to talk to your financial advisors.
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George, what do you think? Buying opportunity market
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overreaction or you think it's accurate?
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No, I mean, it's listen, it's a, it's a buying opportunity.
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The market's going to fluctuate. I mean, we keep saying that.
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I keep saying that because, you know, the terrorists, you know,
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until they stabilize and actually we feel a full effect.
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When you have businesses coming back in the States, you have
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more, more workers, more money being generated, more money
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being spent. It just, it's an overall great
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effect for this country. But you know, everybody wants a
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complain about Trump putting tariffs, but how come nobody's
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complaining been complaining about there are the deficits
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between like tariffs, like with China, they or EU or even
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Canada, not nobody. It's all right for them to take
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advantage of of us with tariffs, but when we want to reciprocate
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and and try to equal that out, they won't all want to come
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down. I don't understand people.
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They just let us take advantage, keep the money here in this
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country like it's it's, you know, Trump did it the first
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time around. Everything was good.
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He put the tariffs, everything worked out.
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Our economy was great. It'll happen again.
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But you just had four horrible years of the Biden economy.
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And it's, listen, we're 60 days in on his presidency.
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You know, I think great. Time look at the media for what
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they do. They love to paint the US as the
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big bad wolf, whether it's on, you know, kinetic events around
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the globe or tariffs or whether we're not funding their DEI
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programs. You know, I'll huff and I'll
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puff and I'll blow your door down.
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That's the way they like to paint us.
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It's not true. We're just trying to do the
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right thing. We're trying to make America
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great again. All right, let's let's dump into
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this quickly. Man.
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This is the big news for me. The SEC has been has been forced
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to compromise the appeal that they had in place against XRP
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and I feel like against the entire crypto community, because
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I never thought the SEC and Gary Gensler should have done what
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they did, has been dropped. I think this is a significant
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victory for Ripple. I think it's a significant
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victory for XRP and of course, the broader cryptocurrency
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industry. I think everybody benefits from
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this. There's no there's no downside
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to me in the SEC pulling this appeal.
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What do you think, Jonathan? Yeah, absolutely.
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And in fact, before I answer that little off topic, Lance,
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what? Where's the skull?
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I thought something was different today.
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I'm I'm Where's Mr. Skull gone? You know, I swap this out
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sometimes. This is a Chinese hand cast
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bronze vase that I have. I have a bunch of old like Ming
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pottery and tongue horses and stuff that I invested in over
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the years and this was swapped out when I did the Crypto Power
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Hour and I just didn't bring the skull back.
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The skull I've had for a long time, but it's not like there's
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a lot of this stuff you see behind me.
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I don't if you can see it, there's some.
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Tongue inside. Now I say it, Lance.
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Alas, I knew him so well. Listen, I even bought AI, even
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bought a hat for that skull to keep them warm.
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Yeah, there we go. But sorry, I I I digress.
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No, no, it's all good. But I appreciate that you
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noticed. It's interesting that you
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noticed at all. Yeah.
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No, no, I knew something wasn't quite right.
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The equilibrium was up for me. Now I know why.
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So no great news for XRP and Ripple.
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I mean, I mean, wow. I mean, we've all been waiting
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for this news, right? And we've seen such a demand of
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people calling in wanting to invest in in XRP.
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And again, we are just moving in the right direction as a whole
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for the whole crypto community. We already know President Trump
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wants to make America the US capital of the of, of crypto
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land as a crypto revolution going on currently.
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And I think invested, you know, what it is with cryptocurrency
00:19:02
is like people and retail investors just think Trump's in
00:19:06
office, everything's gonna fly to the moon.
00:19:08
And then exactly as soon as it doesn't and it's like everyone
00:19:12
folds like a pack of cards, like it didn't happen.
00:19:14
It's these are it's like building blocks.
00:19:16
It's like Lego, right? And, and we are we are better
00:19:19
off today than we were six months ago in, in this whole,
00:19:23
you know, crypto universe. It's the future, it's the
00:19:26
natural. There's no instance.
00:19:28
Well, listen, hold on you. Gotta be in this for the long
00:19:29
haul guys. Right.
00:19:30
I mean, just tell that to the two astronauts that just came
00:19:33
home the other day. Yeah.
00:19:34
Yeah. They were stuck here for them.
00:19:37
They were stuck in. Outer space.
00:19:39
And Biden had a chance to bring him home earlier and he
00:19:42
declined. I mean, that just shows you like
00:19:45
the difference we get political. Politically motivated, I agree
00:19:49
with you guys. But look, at the end of the day,
00:19:50
you have to be patient. Trump's not going to, you know,
00:19:52
fix your arthritis. He's not going to fix the dent
00:19:55
in your car. It's not going to happen
00:19:57
instantly. Of course, hopefully your
00:19:58
finances get better and you can take care of all that.
00:20:00
But my point is XRP. The big take away here is it's
00:20:04
not a security and that means this sets precedence.
00:20:08
For the wrapped rest of the cryptocurrency market and when
00:20:11
you have precedents like this, legal precedents, it's
00:20:14
irrefutable. The point is, is now we don't
00:20:16
have to worry about the SEC. Of course we don't have Gary
00:20:19
Gensler in place. He's out of there.
00:20:20
That guy was a weasel. I didn't like him.
00:20:22
I felt like all he was trying to do was to dip into the deep
00:20:25
pockets of the cryptocurrency market, applying stock law, you
00:20:28
know, derivatives law, and all these claims he was making.
00:20:31
None of it ever made any sense to me.
00:20:32
It cost XRP literally hundreds of millions of dollars to
00:20:36
defend, I'm sure in legal fees by the time this is all said and
00:20:39
done. But how about the $16 billion it
00:20:42
cost investors? How about everybody that, you
00:20:45
know, bought and held XRP and that market cap went down 16
00:20:48
billion? In my opinion, I think there's a
00:20:50
class action sitting there for what the SEC did because they
00:20:53
damaged the company. They damaged XRP holders.
00:20:56
George, what do you think? Do we deserve a payday as XRP
00:20:59
holders? Because I say hell yeah.
00:21:01
You know, I wouldn't, it'd be nice, but I I don't know, I'm
00:21:06
thinking if all of a sudden we came out, if they came out with
00:21:08
a multi like a lawsuit like that, you know, the SEC can come
00:21:12
back and refile and come up with something different.
00:21:14
Like, you know what, take the take the loss on the chin like
00:21:19
as far as that. But overall it's a win for us
00:21:22
because let's face it, the less the government anything's
00:21:24
involved that that's what crypto's about decentralization.
00:21:27
We don't need them involved. All right, Jonathan, what you
00:21:29
take decentralization, we don't do it.
00:21:32
Or do the XR people holders and Ripple itself need to be made
00:21:36
whole? What does Trump say?
00:21:38
Fight, fight, fight, right? You know, it's a tough one.
00:21:43
Obviously, I wouldn't want to be the person spearheading that.
00:21:46
But, you know, you bring up a good point, right?
00:21:49
And so does George at one point, you know, $16 billion off the
00:21:54
books. It's, it's, it's worth fighting
00:21:57
for. But at the same time, what are
00:21:58
the repercussions? You know, is it going to be bad
00:22:01
press? Is it stop them from moving
00:22:03
forward again? So I, I, I think, you know,
00:22:05
there's some pros and cons to, to look at with that, You know,
00:22:08
gosh, I don't know. I can't, I can't see.
00:22:10
Let me, let me help you. So if you look at, you're
00:22:12
looking at the whole big #16 billion.
00:22:14
But if you divide that among all the XRP holders, how much you're
00:22:17
really going to get it's. It's yeah, maybe not.
00:22:19
It's not worth. Fall back.
00:22:21
Here's my fall back position on that.
00:22:23
If we're not going to get the settlement, then my fall back is
00:22:25
I get 3 minutes in the ring with Gary Gensler.
00:22:29
That's my fall back. That way I get a little bit of
00:22:31
retribution, a little bit of retribution for the XRP holders
00:22:34
and Gary realizes and and knows that he's wrong.
00:22:38
I think he needs to face some consequences for his actions.
00:22:41
But at the end. Of the day either either way,
00:22:43
right? It's great.
00:22:44
It's great for Ripple XRP is, it's great for the community as
00:22:48
a whole. It's great as reclassification
00:22:51
and it's just a little speed bump on the road for them and
00:22:54
it's onwards to greener pastures in my opinion.
00:22:57
Let's play this video. We we, we watched this earlier
00:23:00
and I felt like it needed some amazing instrumentals behind it,
00:23:04
maybe some pictures of the of, you know, Mount Rushmore and
00:23:09
Washington, DC. This is Brad Garlinghouse coming
00:23:11
out. And when I got done, I felt like
00:23:13
cheering almost, because I felt like the guy, you could tell
00:23:16
he'd gone through hell and he I felt like all of a sudden, man,
00:23:20
a weight is lifted off my shoulder.
00:23:21
Let's play the. Video This is inspirational,
00:23:23
this little speech. It is inspirational.
00:23:24
Here we go. As many of you know, just over
00:23:27
four years ago, the United States SEC filed its lawsuit
00:23:30
against Ripple. I'm finally able to announce
00:23:34
that this case has ended. It's over.
00:23:37
Sitting here today and reflecting on four years ago, it
00:23:40
seems very clear to me that this case was doomed from the start
00:23:44
in so many ways. It was the first major shot
00:23:47
fired in the war on crypto. I truly felt like I knew then
00:23:50
that Ripple was not only on the right side of the law, but I
00:23:53
felt that we were also going to be proven to be on the right
00:23:55
side of history. Really, I think sends an ominous
00:23:59
sign for innovation around cryptocurrency in the United
00:24:01
States. Picking winners in general has
00:24:03
not been something the US government should be in the
00:24:05
business of doing. I think the judge realizes this
00:24:08
is not just about Ripple. This will have broader
00:24:10
implications as Mary J White, the former head of the SEC, has
00:24:13
said publicly that she views this as a dead wrong.
00:24:16
And the SEC is dead wrong on this decision.
00:24:19
Ripple is the first company with the resources, determination and
00:24:22
grit to fight back against the agency's overreach.
00:24:25
And today this journey finally concludes.
00:24:28
Today is a victory and long overdue surrender by the SEC.
00:24:33
The SEC under Chairman Gary Gensler went after the whole
00:24:36
industry using the same arguments they used against us.
00:24:40
They weren't out to protect investors.
00:24:42
They were out to intimidate and terrorize the regulator whose
00:24:46
primary purpose is to protect investors.
00:24:48
Went all in on a non fraud victimless lawsuit and wiped out
00:24:53
$15 billion of value from innocent XRP horrors.
00:24:57
The SEC was the market manipulator.
00:25:00
The SEC wasn't seeking justice. They were seeking to win a case
00:25:03
at any cost. Forces inside our government
00:25:06
aligned with the SEC and embarked on a campaign of de
00:25:09
banking anyone associated with the crypto industry.
00:25:13
This was lawfare, a war of legal terror.
00:25:16
Fortunately, the judge rebuked the SEC multiple times in this
00:25:20
journey. First for lacking a quote,
00:25:23
faithful allegiance to law. The SEC was sanctioned in our
00:25:26
case for discovery abuses. The pattern was repeated in
00:25:30
other crypto cases. Well, let's just say they're
00:25:34
trying to confuse you. We won then on every critical
00:25:38
legal point proving that the digital asset XRP is not a
00:25:41
security. That is now the law.
00:25:44
And those wins have laid the groundwork for policy makers to
00:25:46
adopt A set of rules for crypto that are in line with nearly a
00:25:50
century of securities law. With today's news, the warrant
00:25:53
crypto has ended in defeat for those who turned our own
00:25:57
government against a technology in an entire industry.
00:26:00
I'm heartened that we have paved the way for other industry
00:26:02
players to see the value and not backing down and for others to
00:26:06
use our legal playbook to fight back.
00:26:09
We are now closing a chapter in crypto history.
00:26:12
I think we're all stronger for our prior litigation successes
00:26:15
and today's landmark victory progress is worth fighting for.
00:26:20
We won multiple pro crypto victories the ballot box last
00:26:23
year. It's time to make the US the
00:26:25
crypto capital of the world. Thankfully, we have new
00:26:28
leadership and executive and legislative branches of our
00:26:30
government. That leadership is actively
00:26:32
seeking a rational and constructive way forward on
00:26:35
crypto. Let's make the most of this.
00:26:38
This is an incredibly promising moment.
00:26:40
Let's come together. Let's leave the tribalism
00:26:42
behind, but let me make it clearer that my main message,
00:26:45
what Ripple's main message today is about gratitude.
00:26:49
It's gratitude to everyone who stood by us, to every Ripple
00:26:52
employee, to the incredible legal team here at Ripple, led
00:26:56
by the best Chief legal officer in the business, Stu Alda Rodi.
00:27:00
Gratitude certainly to the XRP family, to our customers, to our
00:27:04
partners, thank you. We couldn't have won this battle
00:27:07
without all of you being behind us and working together.
00:27:10
I truly believe we all agree there's immense opportunity with
00:27:13
the largest account in the world finally taking a pro crypto and
00:27:17
pro innovation approach to build this technology in order to
00:27:20
solve real world problems for people around the planet.
00:27:23
This is a fight Ripple never wanted, but one we knew we had
00:27:26
to win. And today, emphatically, we
00:27:29
have. Thank you.
00:27:34
How long ago you think he had that video?
00:27:36
I just want to salute. I just feel like I got to salute
00:27:38
like I'm saluting George Patton there.
00:27:41
I mean, I man, I'm telling you, this guy is unbelievable.
00:27:47
I think who knows George? I'm sure he rehearsed that when
00:27:50
he was laying in bed at night when they were doing superseding
00:27:53
filings and they were just trying to law fair.
00:27:55
And I got to tell you, Stu, who's the head of the also the
00:27:57
National Crypto Association, it just got funded recently by
00:28:01
Ripple and their plan is educating people in crypto.
00:28:04
He's I know a lot about him now that is 1 brilliant son of a
00:28:07
bitch. I got to say it.
00:28:09
He definitely spearheaded that and made it happen.
00:28:11
So it's big stuff. And I know you got limited time
00:28:14
Jonathan, but I want to just go ahead and give you an
00:28:16
opportunity. George, actually give me a
00:28:17
little nudge on this. You want to give us an update on
00:28:20
Block Trust IRA? How are things going?
00:28:22
Maybe explain the product shortly to the clients, our
00:28:24
listeners and subscribers. Some of them may be here for the
00:28:27
first time. Of course, some of them might be
00:28:29
the Bongino Army because they might be flowing over from our
00:28:31
regular show at 11:00 AM now in that Bongino spot, so.
00:28:35
Yeah, absolutely. And I'll just start off by
00:28:36
saying because I've, I've been interviewed by a few people and
00:28:40
and these naysayers about the the crypto industry as a whole.
00:28:44
And I tell those people, my friends, you're on the wrong
00:28:47
side of history. You know, crypto is here to stay
00:28:49
and you can be a part of this crypto revolution or not.
00:28:52
And, and This is why myself and my team, Jacob Diaz.
00:28:57
And are you trying to nicely say that the Big MIG Show does it
00:29:00
best? Is that what you're saying here,
00:29:01
that we're spot on and we know what we're doing?
00:29:03
Is that did you try? I know you English always kind
00:29:05
of reserve your compliments. You're very stoic about I'm just
00:29:08
trying to fish. Are you trying to pay us a kind
00:29:10
of a a veiled company? We're over the target.
00:29:14
You guys are always at the forefront and, and that's what I
00:29:17
love about you too. No, no BS and, and, and you say
00:29:20
it as it is, right? And, and we both have an
00:29:23
affinity for crypto, right? And, and obviously my
00:29:26
background, you know, in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, London
00:29:29
Metal Exchange, I've always been a commodities guy.
00:29:32
You know, things changed for me throughout the years as I saw
00:29:35
that evolution of investing. And you know, when you can marry
00:29:38
the power of AI, which we've done with the technology of
00:29:43
crypto and AI together, you, you have a real winner.
00:29:46
That's what we have. And that's why myself and my
00:29:49
team came out with this platform called Block Trust IRA.
00:29:53
It lets people buy cryptocurrency safely and
00:29:55
securely over 60 different cryptocurrencies.
00:29:58
But what makes us so different? Not just the fact that we
00:30:01
probably have some, if not the lowest trading fees in in the
00:30:05
nation, but we have something revolutionary that nobody else
00:30:08
has that's only been available to hedge funds and institutional
00:30:12
investors. And that's this AI tech derived
00:30:16
by a company called Animus Technologies.
00:30:18
And what this AI tech let's our block trust IRA users do is
00:30:23
invest their retirement account, whether it be an IRA or 4O1K or
00:30:27
maybe just a cash account and they can invest in different
00:30:30
cryptocurrencies. But we have something called
00:30:32
managed accounts, and I'm just gonna briefly explain to your
00:30:35
audience why you want managed accounts.
00:30:37
Because when you talk about cryptocurrency, there isn't an
00:30:40
opening bell. There's not a closing bell.
00:30:42
It's a market that's traded 24/7, 365.
00:30:46
And that basically means that when you're sleeping, something
00:30:49
could be happening on the other side of the globe.
00:30:52
For example, China could be invading Taiwan.
00:30:55
President Trump could be signing a new executive order.
00:30:58
And when that happens, these crypto markets react violently.
00:31:01
And that could be a positive for your portfolio, as we've seen,
00:31:04
or it could also be a negative. So through our AI tech, our AI
00:31:09
tech will bring you from an invested position in Bitcoin or
00:31:13
Ethereum, liquidate you at the top of that market, put you in
00:31:18
cash, and then wait for the market to drop and, and buy you
00:31:22
back in. So classic quick example, after
00:31:26
Trump got in, Bitcoin had a meteoric rise, but we saw some
00:31:29
weakness in the market. Our AI tech sold everyone in the
00:31:33
Iras in cash at 99. We're still sitting in cash.
00:31:37
We're waiting to buy back in. So again, the crypto market
00:31:40
doesn't sleep. Someone watching your crypto
00:31:43
investment shouldn't either. So block trust.
00:31:45
IRA really does let people invest in cryptocurrency safely
00:31:49
and securely, but mitigates that downside risk, which is
00:31:53
something that's never, ever been done before.
00:31:55
All you have is a buy and hold strategy.
00:31:58
We've kind of invented something brand new to the retail market
00:32:02
where you don't have to buy and hold, but you can have something
00:32:04
that manages the risk. So when the market goes down,
00:32:08
you're not in it when it goes down, but you sure can take
00:32:11
advantage of it when it starts to go back up again.
00:32:13
So that's exactly what Block trust Irate does guys.
00:32:16
Jonathan, I have a question from from one of our listeners.
00:32:19
Yes, in a instance like you were just talking about when, when
00:32:24
the AI CS that Bitcoin may go down and they sell the Bitcoin
00:32:28
to get out, what what happened? Do they, do you guys take those
00:32:31
funds and put it in mouse or it just sits there and holds?
00:32:35
Just straight in cash and people, what I love about this
00:32:38
is first of all, there's no leverage.
00:32:39
We, we, we beat the market with no leverage, no lock up period.
00:32:43
So if, if they're in this today, they want to liquidate tomorrow,
00:32:47
bingo, they're out. If we're sitting in a cash
00:32:49
position for them, they want to move their money, they're out.
00:32:52
So there, there there is, you know, no one's their money's not
00:32:55
being held hostage. They're investing in
00:32:57
cryptocurrency. They just have the tools to
00:32:59
manage the downside. Risk, yeah.
00:33:01
So no, I no, I get that. I think they get that.
00:33:03
But so like, you know how you have it in Bitcoin, it's sitting
00:33:06
there, but then you sell it because Bitcoin, there's going
00:33:08
to be a trend where it goes down.
00:33:10
You don't put it in a different cryptocurrency at all, or it
00:33:12
just sits and waits. It's like a whole it stays in
00:33:16
cash and let me tell you why put it into another cryptocurrency,
00:33:21
the time the system needs to buy if you have to sell that coin,
00:33:25
let's say a stable coin, right? So then go to the position those
00:33:30
seconds lost could be potential from, you know, 10s of thousands
00:33:36
to hundreds of thousands of dollars gains in one trade.
00:33:39
You know, as an example, the other day XRP went up 13 some
00:33:42
odd percent right after the ruling came out.
00:33:44
It went up very quickly. And I think that you guys are
00:33:46
right because if you moved it into anything, then you've got
00:33:48
to worry about liquidity too, because there are some crypto
00:33:50
currencies where the liquidity comes into question.
00:33:53
Even though you want to sell, there isn't enough liquidity in
00:33:56
the market to get you out. So it makes total sense to me.
00:33:58
And I think what's dynamic about it is the crypto markets 24/7,
00:34:01
365. There's no way any of us, no
00:34:04
matter George and I, who spend an inordinate amount of time
00:34:07
online and, you know, looking at portfolios, looking at news,
00:34:10
there's no way you can rack. And the fact that we're using
00:34:12
quantum computing, we're using AI to look at so many data sets.
00:34:16
Well, you and I could maybe process this many data sets.
00:34:18
We can look on social media, we can go over to news, we can look
00:34:20
around about some buying news. The news is already late, but
00:34:23
that that AI is literally looking data sets that I can't
00:34:26
even put my arms around because we're talking about thousands of
00:34:29
thousands of data sets as your expert and partner came on the
00:34:32
show a couple of weeks and talk. We need to come back on, by the
00:34:35
way. Yeah, we definitely do.
00:34:36
A lot of people love talking to them.
00:34:37
And I think it's a great opportunity for people to learn.
00:34:39
This is an opportunity because look, let's face it, investing
00:34:42
in crypto is complicated. What these guys have done over
00:34:45
at Block Trust IRA is they've, they've literally simplified it
00:34:48
for you. They've made it easy so that you
00:34:50
don't have to worry about it. And it's clear that by the
00:34:53
reaction and I won't go into any numbers, by the reaction of the
00:34:56
clients calling into Jonathan, clearly it's in high demand
00:35:00
because it makes so much sense. She definitely want to check it
00:35:03
out. Jonathan Rose, I really
00:35:05
appreciate you joining us, man. I know you're out of time for
00:35:07
now, but listen, don't go anywhere.
00:35:08
Global Finance Forum watchers, when we come back, we're going
00:35:11
to be talking about home sales. Actually pretty optimistic.
00:35:14
The February reports in and it's looking pretty good.
00:35:16
We got a lot of other stories to cover.
00:35:18
Stay tuned. Crypto power.
00:35:19
I'll be right back with George Valentin, Lance Miacho.
00:35:21
Jonathan Rose, thank you so very much for the time you had today,
00:35:24
brother. We appreciate you.
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OK, Lance, what's going on? So it's interesting home sales
00:40:05
are now optimistic. the Fed home resales jump much more than
00:40:10
expected despite higher mortgage rates.
00:40:13
I don't know. I was waiting to see if any kind
00:40:16
of interest rates are going to like be lowered mortgage rates.
00:40:20
You know, I'm still waiting for Trump to on his one promise
00:40:23
where he wanted to cap a credit card interest rates at 10%.
00:40:26
I'm waiting on that one. I don't know.
00:40:28
But inventory at the end of February stood at 1.24 million
00:40:31
units and that's an increase of 17% year over year.
00:40:36
Now, the medium price Lance of a home sold in February was
00:40:40
398. That's up 3.8% from the same
00:40:44
time last year. I know that number ain't my area
00:40:47
because no, ain't no medium price houses for that sale that
00:40:50
price. Now this may sound a little
00:40:53
better Looks. Our area either home prices
00:40:55
that, that sounds like almost a bargain, although I don't think
00:40:58
home prices should be that expensive.
00:40:59
It kind of takes home ownership right away from people.
00:41:01
But it sounds like the sales were higher annually in the
00:41:04
highest price categories, which I'm actually kind of surprised
00:41:07
about that everything above 750. So the annual numbers were
00:41:10
higher than that. So, and of course, the inventory
00:41:13
is still higher. Inventory in February was 1.24
00:41:17
million units, which is an increase over 17% of available
00:41:20
units. So, you know, I wonder with all
00:41:23
that stuff, with all those homes on the market, is it going to
00:41:26
deflate prices? I don't know.
00:41:28
Interest rates always impact sales.
00:41:30
Maybe February people were being optimistic and then they had to
00:41:32
close on the House because they already bought it thinking that
00:41:34
Trump was in. We'll have to see what happens
00:41:36
in March. I'm not sure how to read this
00:41:38
though. I don't know either.
00:41:39
I mean, I'm here like it depends on the areas maybe about like,
00:41:44
you know, the home sale price because I know February, I mean
00:41:47
February, oh, Florida, like there's a lot of house for sale.
00:41:50
They're not selling. You know, it depends.
00:41:52
On the area, notice a lot of price changes dropping the
00:41:54
prices lower. Then you have like some hot
00:41:56
areas like Tennessee's, you know, there's it's the market
00:41:59
over there is good. So it's depend on the area.
00:42:02
California's struggling, I think.
00:42:04
Austin's rocking and rolling. They're busy.
00:42:06
As well. Texas.
00:42:06
Texas is doing well. You know, my part in New Jersey
00:42:10
is I'm in north New Jersey. So always does well because you
00:42:13
got a lot of people from New York come coming over to Jersey
00:42:15
because they're tired of the, the crime, the immigration, all,
00:42:19
everything that comes with liberal cities.
00:42:21
But you know, I don't know, they're saying it's up a little
00:42:26
bit. I'm still going to be cautious
00:42:28
because. I keep wondering what the
00:42:30
deportation impacts going to be on these illegal immigrants on
00:42:33
the rental markets and or the house, you know, the buying
00:42:36
market, first time buyers edge back into the market.
00:42:39
It looks like 31% of these February sales compared with 26%
00:42:43
the year before. So 31% of the sales were first
00:42:46
time buyers. But what do you think about the
00:42:47
immigration, George, and the deportation?
00:42:50
I don't mean we're. Talking about 30 + 1
00:42:52
people they're planning on deporting.
00:42:53
They say planning. So right now what they're the
00:42:57
the the amount that they already deported.
00:42:59
It's not going to have no effect on it now, I don't think, I
00:43:02
don't believe that Trump is going to get rid of 30 million
00:43:07
immigrants out of this country. I believe he's going to get rid
00:43:10
of all the criminals first. And then maybe the amount of
00:43:14
people like for the last few years, but you know, people that
00:43:18
have been here that are working and paying taxes, he's not going
00:43:20
to get rid of them because I don't see it happening.
00:43:24
And there's people who are worried because I know people
00:43:26
were talking about it like they have a business, they're
00:43:28
working, they're paying taxes. But even though it's still here
00:43:30
illegally and they're worried, they've been here for like 5
00:43:33
years, 10 years, so. Yeah, yeah, I think, and it
00:43:35
should be probably with this, you know, Tom Holman's not
00:43:37
playing around, that's for sure. I know, but if they wanted to,
00:43:40
they could start scooping them up easily if they wanted to.
00:43:43
But they're not. But then you have all the judges
00:43:45
giving them problems like you're using the alias act.
00:43:50
The judges are operating. But they have no jurisdiction
00:43:52
and it shouldn't. It shouldn't even be ruled upon
00:43:55
like it's. But that's the problem with
00:43:57
lifetime appointments. You get these judges that think
00:44:00
they're above the law. And then?
00:44:01
Regardless of what their ruling is, and most of them were
00:44:04
installed by Obama or Biden, the majority of these judges that
00:44:07
are coming up with these awful rulings, it's law fair, plain
00:44:10
and simple. I think they're they're going
00:44:12
beyond the scope of what they should be allowed to do.
00:44:14
But let's face it, to get rid of a judge, you have to impeach
00:44:16
him. The impeachment process is
00:44:18
lengthy and a pain in the ass. I mean, it doesn't have to be
00:44:23
lengthy. It is.
00:44:25
Lengthy the process cause by the time you you sequester Congress
00:44:29
and you put it in front of Congress and it goes through the
00:44:32
House and it goes through the Senate.
00:44:33
Here's the problem. It shouldn't be necessary.
00:44:35
Let's face it, George, if you were going to get fired, they
00:44:37
don't go through a process. They don't say we've got to go
00:44:39
through all these steps to they walk in and they say, George
00:44:41
Ballantine, you're doing a lousy job, you're fired.
00:44:44
Yeah, So what for the impeachment process, like
00:44:47
Speaker Johnson was just talking about it that he's looking into
00:44:51
streamline the process that the problem is, is when it gets to
00:44:54
Senate, you need a minimum of 60 votes to impeach, I believe.
00:44:59
And let's face it, to the Republicans got what, 54, I
00:45:02
think 55 maybe so they're short. So it's.
00:45:06
But it comes down to this. If somebody's doing a lousy job
00:45:09
and mis misinterpreting the law as a judge is a lousy job,
00:45:13
politically weaponizing the legal system is a lousy job.
00:45:16
They should be able to walk in and say you're fired.
00:45:19
No, you're under, here's the sanctions.
00:45:21
You're going to be investigated and reviewed and you can be
00:45:24
fired immediately if we determine that you did the
00:45:26
following. The truth is there's no, there's
00:45:28
no hold on. There's no neutral oversight
00:45:30
body. Enough's enough.
00:45:32
I don't want any more lifetime appointments.
00:45:34
I don't want any absolute immunity for these judges and I
00:45:36
don't want any qualified immunity.
00:45:38
I want them to face the consequences for their actions
00:45:40
just like any other American would.
00:45:41
They're no better than us, George.
00:45:43
Congressional members are no better than us.
00:45:45
Judges are no better than us. Prosecutors are no better than
00:45:47
us. And the members of the agencies
00:45:49
are no better than us. They don't deserve absolute
00:45:52
immunity and qualified immunity, Sir.
00:45:53
No. So I agree with you on absolute
00:45:55
immunity and qualified immunity. Yes, they shouldn't have that.
00:45:58
Get rid of it. But the point of if saying, oh,
00:46:00
just fire them, that's not going to work because then you can
00:46:03
have any political party also just come fire all the
00:46:06
Republican judges. It has to be a better somehow, a
00:46:10
better process. Maybe there's a middle of the
00:46:12
road, but right now we're getting screwed by these judges.
00:46:15
They're trying to overturn all the rulings.
00:46:16
They're trying to overturn this stuff that Dodge is doing, and
00:46:19
they're doing it not because it's best for the country, not
00:46:21
because it's best for the American people.
00:46:23
They're simply doing it because why does a dog lick his balls?
00:46:27
Because he can. And that's what they're doing.
00:46:29
And that's my opinion. I'm not saying there aren't good
00:46:31
judges. I'm not saying there aren't good
00:46:32
prosecutors. I'm not saying there aren't some
00:46:34
good agents. I'm saying that the majority of
00:46:36
them are not good. So listen, here's a good
00:46:38
question for you and I. And Trump says yes to this,
00:46:41
George, should the Fed cut rates?
00:46:43
Should they not be proactively trying to compensate for some of
00:46:47
these tariffs that are going through?
00:46:49
You know, Trump's saying the Fed should cut the rates, the easy
00:46:51
economies transition into his tariffs, And I agree with Donald
00:46:54
Trump. I have a better idea.
00:46:58
How about we just cut the feds? I get rid of them all along.
00:47:02
Let's nationalize. The Federal Reserve Bank, I
00:47:04
mean, let's. Nationalize the Federal Reserve
00:47:06
Bank. I'm all about it.
00:47:06
Why do you even call them feds? They're not federal.
00:47:09
They're not federal, No, it's neither federal nor is it an
00:47:12
institution that's actually a government agency.
00:47:14
It's it is. It is literally authorized by
00:47:18
statute, but it is not a government agency.
00:47:21
Listen after after this this what must just expose with the
00:47:28
computers 14 computers just generating money the.
00:47:31
Magic the. Magic computers generating money
00:47:34
like how old saying people money money don't grow on trees.
00:47:38
Well, it grows on computers because you got 14.
00:47:40
You should grab that clip and throw it up here.
00:47:42
I'll talk about this story. Let's grab that clip because
00:47:44
that's an amazing clip. When you find out the corruption
00:47:47
of the Federal Reserve and that they have these computers that
00:47:49
basically I could walk in for our listeners and subscribers
00:47:52
out there. I could walk in and say, hey,
00:47:54
I'm going to give my, my subscribers and such and such
00:47:57
name. I want to, I want to send over
00:47:58
$3. There's nothing stopping them
00:48:01
from doing that. And in fact, that doesn't even
00:48:02
mean it's part of the budget. And of course, the Federal
00:48:05
Reserve wants us to waste money and spend money.
00:48:07
They're printing it for free. And then they're charging us
00:48:10
interest on a free asset. It's, it's a Fiat currency.
00:48:14
It's the craziest thing. But look at, you know, Trump
00:48:16
just tried to stay out of the Fed's business for his first two
00:48:19
months in office. He didn't even mention them.
00:48:21
And now he's encouraging the central bank to do what's right
00:48:23
to cut interest rates. But of course, we know that the
00:48:26
Fed and Powell aren't going to want to support this
00:48:28
administration because they supported Biden.
00:48:30
They didn't want this in here. And I sure as hell don't want
00:48:32
them to stop spending. I'm sure they're freaking out
00:48:35
right now about Dodge. Lower rates can combine with
00:48:37
tariffs to stir more inflation is what they're saying.
00:48:39
I disagree. I think it would have the exact
00:48:42
opposite effect. And of course, lower interest
00:48:44
rates would propel lots of things.
00:48:46
And like George said, let's see some 10% credit card rates.
00:48:49
Let's drop that interest across the globe.
00:48:50
All those people will put that money back in the economy.
00:48:53
These, these credit card companies will be getting fat
00:48:55
off the backs of Americans for too long.
00:48:57
It never should have been 21%. And now it's like 29%.
00:49:00
Enough is enough. It's it's a complete theft from
00:49:04
the American people. You can live on 10% fire a
00:49:06
bunch. That's what they should be
00:49:08
doing. George, do you have that clip?
00:49:09
I do. I'm going to play it right now.
00:49:10
Here we go 1. Of the things you told me about
00:49:12
is, is what you call it magic money computers at the very
00:49:17
reason. So tell us about it because I've
00:49:19
never heard of that until you you brought that up.
00:49:21
OK, so you may think that these that that the government
00:49:24
computers like all talk to each other.
00:49:27
They synchronize, they they add up what funds are going
00:49:30
somewhere and it's, you know, it's coherent that, that that,
00:49:35
you know, there's and that and that the numbers, for example,
00:49:38
that you're presented as a senator.
00:49:39
Yeah. Are actually the real numbers in
00:49:42
one would think. One would think they're they're
00:49:44
not. Yeah.
00:49:44
OK. I mean, they're not totally
00:49:48
wrong, but they're probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases.
00:49:53
So I call it magic on a computer, any computer which can
00:49:55
just make money out of thin air, best magic money.
00:49:58
So how does that work? It just issues payments and you
00:50:02
said there's something like 11 of these computers at Treasury
00:50:05
that are that are sending out trillions in in payments.
00:50:08
They're mostly at Treasury. Some are, but there's some at
00:50:12
HHS, some at there's one, there's one or two at state.
00:50:16
There's some at Dodi think we found now 14 magic money
00:50:21
computers, 14 OK. They just send money out of
00:50:25
nothing. Out of nothing.
00:50:28
So where is this money coming from that they're just sending
00:50:31
this money like? Who?
00:50:32
I know where it's coming from. Oh ho ho, it's magic, you know,
00:50:37
oh, oh, never believe it's not. So it's magic, bro.
00:50:43
Total magic. Uh huh.
00:50:45
Where is it? Huh.
00:50:47
It's magical. You just pull the money out of
00:50:48
thin air. And of course, where does it
00:50:49
come out of? Right out of George Valentin's
00:50:51
pocket. Right out of Lance Miliatro's
00:50:53
pocket. Right out of the American
00:50:55
public's pocket. Right out of our government's
00:50:57
pocket. And then what do they do?
00:50:59
They tack a shit load of interest on it for printing
00:51:02
money that literally is backed by nothing, and the Federal
00:51:05
Reserve families get fat and rich.
00:51:07
That's where it's wrong. Is that simple enough?
00:51:09
It is simple enough, but they but I like to know who's who's
00:51:14
allowing it like they you have to be able to.
00:51:17
He's got the computers. If you put in an order to send
00:51:20
money, they got to know where it's coming from.
00:51:23
This is what the problem is like.
00:51:25
And here's my thing actually and hold on.
00:51:28
Find out where it's coming. Start resting them because is
00:51:31
this was this money approved by Congress?
00:51:34
Are they taking it from the feds?
00:51:36
Where what did it? Where is this magically
00:51:39
appearing from? And how come we don't got a
00:51:41
computer like that? I think we should have one,
00:51:45
Lance. Listen, I'm with you.
00:51:47
In fact, I'm typing Elon Musk right now.
00:51:49
Dear Elon Musk, can I please have one magic money computer?
00:51:56
For 5 minutes. Right, Thank you.
00:52:01
You're. I mean, this is crazy.
00:52:03
George and Lance. It's absolute diabolical that
00:52:08
this is allowed like. I'm sending this.
00:52:13
Are they looking? Are they looking into this?
00:52:15
I mean, all we got when he's crazy, how?
00:52:18
Do you have a computer that's not attached to any system
00:52:21
within government that's able to make a payment to who knows who?
00:52:25
Any individual across the globe at the whim of the operator, how
00:52:29
is that operator not going to be tempted to make up some phony,
00:52:33
you know, offshore entity and say it's for some stupid DEI
00:52:37
initiative or for condoms for Haiti or for George wants to put
00:52:42
on a transgender play in the Middle East and he needs $100
00:52:45
million? You know, I'm just making shit
00:52:47
up. The point is, how is it not
00:52:49
going to happen? If you allow a bartender to
00:52:52
steal with no restraints, they're going to steal.
00:52:54
It's going to happen. One of the matter is this is the
00:52:57
same, in my opinion, this is criminal.
00:53:00
They've screwed over the American public and I don't care
00:53:02
what political party you're with.
00:53:03
I'm not defending anybody here on this show.
00:53:06
I'm saying it's not right. People are struggling at home.
00:53:09
How about some magic money for the American people?
00:53:11
If you're just going to print it and make it up, if we're going
00:53:13
to still pay the interest, $36 trillion in debt.
00:53:16
And I think it's not just negligence.
00:53:18
I think it's, I think it's fraud and theft, George.
00:53:21
Yeah, and God help is if nothing ever gets done about this, if
00:53:26
you don't do something even what's this?
00:53:28
What's to stop the next administration from doing it?
00:53:30
Republican or or Democrats, I don't care what they are because
00:53:33
a lot of them are these period. But you know, I got to talk.
00:53:37
I just think about it and it just drives me crazy.
00:53:40
Me too. It's hard not to get angry.
00:53:41
I start thinking all kinds of crazy.
00:53:43
Russia Russia's gold rush Look their reserves Their reserves
00:53:46
hit a record 2.7. No 2.
00:53:51
And 217.4 billion. That's it.
00:53:55
That's a lot. Wow, so gold is now making up
00:53:59
34.4% of Russia's total foreign exchange reserves.
00:54:03
Probably because they're worried.
00:54:04
You know, they always want to back up their with the issues
00:54:06
with sanctions because our government over and over does.
00:54:09
These are record-breaking. It's a shift in strategy.
00:54:12
Are they ditching the dollar? Is this all part of their Bricks
00:54:15
bricks campaign or is there more going on here than meets the
00:54:18
eye? George.
00:54:19
I mean, listen, they're, they're part of bricks.
00:54:22
No, let's face it, Russia would always like to destabilize our
00:54:25
dollar. We know it.
00:54:27
It's nothing new. A lot of countries want to so
00:54:29
there to get away from it. Why not?
00:54:31
They're stocking up on our goal. But you know, you have all the
00:54:35
sanctions going on on them. You have the they say global
00:54:37
inflation concerns, even Geo Geo political instability.
00:54:43
Look, you have the EU and France saying they want to put troops
00:54:46
in Ukraine. Meanwhile we're trying to broker
00:54:48
a peace deal. How is saying you want to put
00:54:50
troops in Ukrainian cities going to help broker a peace deal?
00:54:54
I don't think they want peace. They they want this.
00:54:57
No, because it's just. Funnels more money into the
00:55:01
military industrial complex. That's what it does, I think.
00:55:03
When you break this down, it's pretty smart on Russia's part.
00:55:05
You know, it's a sanctions proof strategy because they're holding
00:55:08
a tangible asset like gold. It's economic sovereignty for
00:55:11
them. Of course, they're strengthening
00:55:12
the reserves in a hard asset reduction, you know, and
00:55:14
dependent kind of a way. They've got inflation protection
00:55:17
because, you know, gold is historically held its value
00:55:19
making a safe haven. I think this is great.
00:55:22
But what I think this means for the gold markets is potential
00:55:25
price surges. There's no way that central
00:55:27
banks, including Russia, increasing their gold purchases
00:55:29
isn't going to with that kind of demand, isn't going to push up
00:55:31
prices, Higher pressure on the US dollar, A rising gold backed
00:55:35
financial system could weaken the dollar's dominance.
00:55:38
We talked about the impact of bricks.
00:55:40
It's a ripple effect on other nations.
00:55:42
I don't think it's a warning sign as much as I think they're
00:55:44
telegraphing and saying Russia is going to continue to do
00:55:48
what's necessary to make Russia great.
00:55:50
We're going to protect ourselves financially and we're going to
00:55:53
protect ourselves on the military front.
00:55:57
Yeah, I'm, I'm, you know, listen, when Russia is up to
00:56:03
stuff, you have to keep an eye on him.
00:56:06
But Russia's going to protect Russia.
00:56:07
You can't get mad at Russia protecting Russia.
00:56:09
Putin doing good for Russia? You can't.
00:56:10
You can't. You know, but.
00:56:11
I got a point point this. I know we don't have much time
00:56:14
left, but I got to give this to everybody.
00:56:15
Did you see the Boston Celkics just sold for $6.1 billion?
00:56:20
This is the highest price ever paid for an NBA team.
00:56:22
I would have never thought that the word be.
00:56:25
I know that there's been other teams that have sold for
00:56:26
billions, but I just never really thought these teams would
00:56:29
be trading for this kind of money.
00:56:30
Did you? Billions yes I don't that high.
00:56:34
I mean the Yankees and and the Cowboys are were worth the two
00:56:39
highest so I don't know where where this puts them but I'm
00:56:42
surprised that Boston Celtics sold.
00:56:45
Why did the owner want to sell? I think it's probably 'cause he
00:56:48
got paid so much. And what's funny about this was
00:56:50
a financial firm that bought it wasn't a private party that
00:56:52
bought it. So here's the numbers just to
00:56:54
tell you so. Boston Celtics 6.1 billion.
00:56:57
These are the top ten NBA teams prices were paid in the last 10
00:57:01
years. Phoenix Suns purchasing 23 for
00:57:04
four billion Brooklyn Nets acquired in 2019 for 3.3 billion
00:57:09
Dallas Mavericks 2023 three and a half billion Charlotte Hornets
00:57:14
2023 three billion Houston Rockets 2017 2.2 billion Los
00:57:20
Angeles Clippers that's 2014 for 2 billion.
00:57:24
Utah Jazz 1.6 billion Minnesota Timberwolves in 21 one and a
00:57:29
half billion. And then the Milwaukee Bucks
00:57:32
purchased in 2014 for 550 million.
00:57:35
Seems like all those guys are sitting on a quite a profit at
00:57:38
this point I guess. Well you know something I just
00:57:40
looked it up because I had to see.
00:57:41
So the Cowboys are are estimated worth at 10 and change billion.
00:57:45
The Warriors are 9 and change billion.
00:57:47
The Knicks are 8 and change billion.
00:57:49
Knicks sucks so I don't even know why they're worth that
00:57:51
much. The Lakers are 8 billion and the
00:57:54
Yankees are are 7.93 billion. So you know what this is going
00:58:00
to do, this is just going to players are going to look at
00:58:04
like Dan, they just bought the team for six, 1.1 billion.
00:58:06
You know, we're the ones that make the team worth that much.
00:58:09
We need to get paid more. This is what's going to happen.
00:58:10
It's going to create a lot of lot of chaos with getting
00:58:16
contracts and stuff. Absolutely.
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