As a "CryptoBro" he's really missed the mark on what he thinks people who buy Bitcoin. We buy it so one day - we won't NEED to sell it for dirty Fiat. It makes sense to sell it in order to buy at a lower price in order to accumulate.
Also missed out one crucial matter in Japan. For the very first time in decades Japan just gained 3.6% inflation which means for the first times companies have increased prices a.d wages which means crawling out of Stagflation. The debt trap would depend on how BOJ stimulate the economy including overall foreign and defense policies
The value of the USD in gold terms has gone down by an average of 4% In as much as I am a strong bull on the dollar, I'm glad to have sold off at premium.
Our constant need to accomplish things on our own has put us in a perilous financial position. Do I accept the sale? Not really! Why? Well, in spite of the current economic crisis. Basic knowledge of how the market functions and delegating are essential. Technical and initial fundamentals always have more to them. I have been able to learn at my own pace and generate up to $50k in return on a $100k investment by following Yvonne annette Lively instructions.
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who would of guessed bitcoin would bounce back 40% sure get a feeling its luring 😅nto a false sense of security is it going up only to take a real crash ?
Actually, all that Governments need to do is to buy enough gold to match their equities/assets. Once they have that, their fiat currency is actually safe because they can give guarantee that if you use their currency, they will match it with gold. Problems will occur if the country is dirt poor and there are rich people in it. These are the ones who will be wiped out.
It's only educational if you believe the exact opposite of what he's saying. Most of the countries he's listed are facing demographic and economic collapse.
I work in a Factory, as does my two younger brothers and my younger sister's husband, we all work in the same factory. My point is, or should be clear, people who work in factories aren't exactly considered wealthy. Since we're not "wealthy" I think we make a pretty good example in that we purchase gold and silver bullion on a bi weekly basis, or every payday. 1 gram bars or gold and or silver maple leafs. Last payday was 5 X 1gram bars of gold, shipped through the Canadian Post Office because I prefer the Federal Government taking responsibility for our shipments rather than some guy in a truck. Of course they are shipped in plain boxes with different companies listed on the shipping receipt, such as "Jerry's Stone Cutting Corp", that's not it by the way but close enough so you get the point. At the end of April I cashed out all the above family members pensions, RRSPs, etc and we purchased bullion, a lot of bullion. In conclusion, yes you can, purchase bullion, no matter who you are, I also hit the local pawn shop in my small town. What has happened to our collective wealth in the last nine months? Nothing, nothing has happened to our collective wealth this last year, meanwhile, plenty of people we work with lost a lot on those pension/RRSPs through our collective provider. Worse yet for those hit with the crypto/bitcoin bug, but our wealth is still sitting here collecting dust, which is perfect. Keep in mind, if gold is revalued or the currencies collapse, my answer is "what gold"?, "what capital gains"? Good luck folks.
blue collar maintenance-plant worker aka same my grandparents both are farmers/ranchers and community wise USD ( gold ect was and note's wouldn't work as hard minted gold coins was expected backed by a government/banks/3d-party in rural 🇺🇸/farmers ect as gold notes and bank issued notes/IOU weren't trustworthy as they lived/remembered the 1870-1940's aka bad note's and bad banks ) wasn't king in tell about 1985, also a problematic now day's as my family in my teens tried to buy a new-COPO 2006 jeep with a 10 or 20 peace 🇺🇸 gold coin-or-coins minted in pre-1910 aka real gold and legally tender backed by the federal government and no dealership ( or store, and if they did all all it was 5usd lolz im sure it's worth more than that by a lot as melt for a 20 is pasted 50usd now days ) would accept gold anything ( 🇺🇸 usd yep there happy to take check's/iou's wonder why? also not keen on taking it in person in cash 💵? id rather not do check's ect given the choice as i know it's risks aka iv gotten a bad/bounced check before ) aka in 2023 good luck directly spending it, convenientcy wise something like phone apps ie cash app or apple pay are easier to live with spending wise but also isn't a end all be all as it's got it's problems with it, other wise yes im a silver/gold guy spending/earning wise as worldwide it's accepted as $$ at the same amount as arbitrage cannot happen as much vs usd, ect be mindful that the 🇺🇸 ( and Europe governments like the 🇬🇧 ) government has taken gold OZ away from people as in war time/at will, it was illegal to own anything bar/storage/coins metallic wise aka we/government stole it/all not just taxing it. part of the reason im not bullish for buying gold also the government's keep's track of it and doesn't do a good ish job of tracking USD as they printed so much sense the 1970's also during Nixon's presidency made illegal to have OZ/gold so explain that risk as my grandpa and grate-grampa's had to hide out-staying outside of jail as overnight made into outlaw's and or dance around trying to keep the land/farm from the government in the 1970-1990
@@richardprice5978 hey, I think you have really good points here, but it’s really hard to follow as it’s like one big run on sentence. It would be good if you could post your thoughts on comment sections of these sorts of videos, but take the time to read back through for understandability before you post it. Were you saying that gold was made illegal and they couldn’t spend it, thus they had to hide it?
Agree with your take on gold. Half agree with your take on geopolitics. Totally disagree with your take on Bitcoin and crypto. I think it's obvious where your expertise is and it's not with Bitcoin or digital assets. I did find this discussion valuable and it motivates me to keep stacking gold, silver and commodity stocks.
seems like the world's banks are in it, together. they all print like there is no tomorrow. Maybe we just don't know it, it is intended for all commoners to be poor. Select few will live well beyond their means, with billions in wealth.
I like Alasdair and his analysis. I also like and hold gold, but I disagree with his comment that everyone that buys BTC is just hoping to sell it for more fiat. EXACTLY as most people that buy gold care about its fiat price (just watch the news or even this channel), most people that buy BTC do so for fiat. But a lot of people also buy it to hold for when/if things get crazy
Agree. I think of it as a replacement to offshore accounts. He's wrong about tracking previous movements to your wallet. Wallets are anonymous. Also I got the impression he thinks Russia is losing the hot war. That's far from accurate too. But dead on about the financial war.
In regards to counterparty risk; what is to prevent the current regime from making private ownership of gold and silver illegal? It’s not like it hasn’t happened in the past. More AM please!
The Rooselvtian confiscation relied on the naivete of the population to comply. Its a different world. No one will be turning in their bullion this time. The only way to enforce compliance would be to go from house to house. Not going to happen. If it does, well, its a big continent. --- One could conceal one's 'stash' behind a wall, or in the attic, or in the dog house, or buried beneath a hedge/bush. No compliance this time.
Allister, your amazing explanation of the Roman Law in reference to crypto is absolutely essential for folks to become aware of , your description of a painting being stolen and bought in good faith by a buyer and your comparison to someone steeling money from your wallet and then purchasing something from a store , is just so special in terms of your simple explanation, you are a true genius in your unbelievable portraying of the various situations
Absolutely. Yet Allister had skipped the part whereby nobody has truly identified who Satoshi Nakamoto is. He also failed/avoided to mention that if the old/original owner(s) (or proof/evidence) is gone, then the new owner(s) will often be treated as the "real/true" owner(s) or "be allowed" to keep/own the property. This is one reason why many descendants of (America & Oceania) natives couldn't (or have a very time to) claim back the lands stolen/taken by the (European) colonists/invaders.
Yes ... but he might be wrong about Putin. Who might perform a certain "stunt gone wrong" tomorrow. Putin has no strategy but tanks being blown up by Javelins.
Agreed, BUT, having listened to him for years now, NOTHING he says ever comes true or becomes the current state of things. That being said, he is certainly not alone in that status.......
Great interview! I agree with most of the analysis. Gold is not an investment but actual money so allows you to keep purchasing power in the long run against fraudulent fiat currency.
@@bddollen7384 fingers crossed. How much of a percentage of gold? So if I bought gold with fiat don't I lose value if a ton of new gold is mined? If all countries (bricks example) become gold/asset backed, why buy gold now? Will it revalue lower?
if it gets to bad you cant eat gold so not many will want it because you cant eat it right now looks like best investment is buying hoarding up on eggs lol
Imagine a panel with Macleod Zulauf and of course our beloved Pomboy. If you could pull that one off Adam, your are a first round ballot entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The rest of us would then simply become unworthy! 😂
If you follow this guy you will get cleaned out. China is in a depression as we speak and the dollar milkshake will kill everything. When everyone needs dollars to buy food and gas but their economies are crashing they will be forced to sell their gold because you can't eat it!
Certainly, now is not the time to sell gold. But even Peter Schiff has admitted that the day will eventually come when bullishness on gold is so over-the-top that there's no one left to buy; but we're a long, long way from that point.
Thank you for some real thought provoking words and possible directions in the financial world. I feel your projections for the US dollar are spot on as this country continues to lift its debt ceiling instead of taking physical actions to control spending. The world around the US is starting to question this continued shedding the US debt onto the world
Gold is expensive to move. It can be stolen physically and hard to confirm quality by lower class. It seems that inevitably for the sake of use gold gravitates towards the need of easy ways to transfer. What will we use to trade? Bitcoin combines tracibility of gold with ease of payment of cash.
If times got bad enough, even gold would become worthless, gold is a medium for goods and services. Goods and services are the actual commodity. Everyone needs to understand that we only give gold it's value because of societal agreement.
And we invest in gold because it has been money for five thousand years. We convict criminals because they hurt society. Don't reinvent the wheel. Sorry you are broke and cannot buy gold. I can and do for the future of my family.
@@DBEdwards You do realize when you get down to it, the only value of gold is its use in computers, we only assign as much value to it because we use it as a medium for work, just like any other currency. Gold can become just as useless if enough people decide they no longer want to use it as a medium for work. Hard assets that can be used, food, oil, lithium and other such things will invariably become the bedrock of currency, as what the BRICS nations are doing, they are trying to get rid of the fiat currency. No reinventing the wheel, it's just the way it is, whether I am broke is irrelevant.
As an economist who understands the current situation, I think there is no one better than Alisdair. I believe his military analysis is way off the mark, but I go elsewhere for that.
😂😂😂🤣🤣👍👍👍👍 spot on.. The Ukraine War is pushing US and Europe into deeper inflation, higher energy cost, supply chain disruptions and manufacturing flight from Europe to other countries like China. Ukraine will be destroyed and become a wasteland. Getting his news from the mainstream media is all he got, that's why Ukraine crisis is his weakness. 😂😂 The reality has not sung in yet. He even ignored why US sabotaged the Nordstream pipelines.
Brilliant ☀️ Someone Finally Talking The Truth 🙏 Information I Have Known For Years And All In Precious Metals… But Did Not Talk About Going To Digital Assets And The QFS Blockchain And The Worlds Markets Going To Zero With The Fiat Currency Default
For me with these pundits it's not so much whether they are wrong or right in their predictions but that they highlight various points that might otherwise be overlooked or not considered.
Excellent, although with my experience in the special forces and maritime security one thing is certain here. On the topic of Ukraine, Russia didn't seek a blitzkrieg but a wear and tear war to weaken resources and dry out NATO so that the East can take it's part elsewhere. Russia has a slow start but it's a long game that Putin is playing on that front. Yes, economically it will be a problem but the commodity boom in the next while will favour Russia and its allies.
MacLeod seems to be trying to be objective, but obviously lacks an accurate, in-depth understanding of the military situation in Ukraine. Brian Berletic, Col. Douglas MacGreagor and Scott Ritter are better sources for realistic military analysis on Ukraine.
... and Germany is probably the more interesting piece on this chessboard... Question: "what did make America great in the first place?" WW1 & WW2 destroying Germany & Europe ...
@@davidwestwater2219 really? show me the numbers, because from what I'm seeing Russia's exports increased and is well positioned in the long term where commodities explode in prices to be in one of the leading countries. Obviously it took a huge hit, but Russia can absorb must harder because their GDP debt ratio is not enormous, it has tangible assets and is invested in world mining places and drilling places. Russia has secretly spread all over the world, so no it's not fucked. Drop the US koolaid.
Excellent discussion and I’ve learned more than I knew and all the concepts I’ve never thought of. I love the analogy in the end. We’ve never been taught this in school or college in my day. My mind has been expanded by this discussion! Thanks both of you for the great questions and the great answers!
I'm confused...on Saturdays lance says quit thinking the world is going to end, it won't be in our lifetime. Then these guest make me want to hunker down in the next 6 months.
Clear king’s college diction and equally clear logic backed by experience, modesty and honesty. Like gold these UA-cam posts are rare. Thanks, Alistair, it took so much wandering to discover you.
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The amount of inflation we have accumulated over the last 50 years generally speaking is about 10 times the cost of many things the price they were back in 1974,some things are less than 10 times as much,some more.Inflation is like time, day to day is not much different,in 50 years you wonder what happened? 😅😊😮
Enjoyed the conversation very much, but I do feel he has a horse in the race, given his position. One thing he fails to mention, is that if you buy coin, say a 1oz Britannia@£1600, the Government can turn around an legally demand it back at face value £100... In a total fiat collapse, this will almost certainly happen, as they'll need the 'real money', and heck £100 wouldn't buy you a slice of bread! Other than that concern, I like what I heard....heck Govt. can steal what it, he who makes the rules, and all.
Thank you, thank you for saying this! I’ve been trying to figure my way through this! Do you have any thoughts for the best thing(s) to invest in (or have on hand) if this is the case? Besides things like having debts paid off having animals, food stashed and stocking barter items. I spent hours yesterday trying to figure this one out, to kind of come down to that I couldn’t really come up with anything really good. I would so appreciate your reply!
No one really knows what will happen. I learn from my grandfather and late father, get out of debt ASAP, no credit card debt, live way below ones means, no flashy cars, Have some gold, Have some silver, buy products that you use a lot, i.e., toilet paper, dishwashing soap, cooking oil, beans, dried goods, have your own small vegetable garden and refine ones diet. IMO
No, The ability to confiscate BTC (Regardless of History) if on cold storage is incorrect. They cannot obtain it without the private keys. They can intercept transactions on exchanges and prevent a transaction but they cannot confiscate it unless they have the private key.
and also if “they” regulate it into oblivion as seems likely, your “cold storage” bitcoin with your “private key” is still absolutely worthless. But they can regulate my hard coin gold all day long and if I hide it or bury it well enough, and they are not able to confiscate, it will still always have REAL monetary value even if “they” were to “outlaw” gold in the same way that “they” are going to try to “outlaw” and-or centralize the very very good aspects of bitcoin and decentralized digital currency. And that, my dear good sire, is why I have never yet invested in bitcoin or any other supposed decentralized digital coin. And certainly, such is my own loss for such decision, in theory.
yet also, the fact that you have bitcoin emblems in your channel/title picture is suspiciously indicative that you will neither believe my opinion nor give it any sort of thought whatsoever. And that, is totally ok, no problemo, my fellow libertarian bro.😅
@@gordion1 its certainly genocidal, criminal, unethical, soaked in financial tyranny. it may be gold backed stable coins are future. you can go back to that system right now if you choose. dont let the boomers tell you that it cant be done. im waiting for meld.
The value of the USD in gold terms has gone down by an average of 4%, annualized since 1950. So if you held dollars paying 4% interest you would have exactly the same gold equivalent, assuming you had no cost of holding gold. 4% is about the average return for treasury bonds, and half the return of the SP500 in any multi decade period, but with much less timing risk since gold tends to swing wildly off the mean for long periods of time.
But you're describing the past and there will be no more Western bull market, especially not SP500. Small time investors cannot easily access Chinese or Asian markets. Just recently all investing on the Moscow exchange got frozen for ever.
Your so right, imho I can see this too. If gold becomes the asset backed new treasury note (and it looks like it will because the Fed in now dead having been placed in the treasury by Trump). Then there will not be more swings in gold prices. Just the doom and gloom portrayed in these podcasts. 4% isn't bad.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....Tax paid? Run a DCF Also....the next 20 years will NOT look like the past 50 to 70 years.....You assume USD dominance no matter what the foreign debts and deepening military weakness.
I have watched and listened to many of these UA-cams on gold ,silver and currency. Your guest has explained a treasure chest of information on the right mind set . You should study every word that this guest is saying.
Has he mentioned CBDC'S? A gold-backed digital dollar? A blockchain or ledger type system? Financial people are Fed oriented and look to that system to solve our problems, when a lot of bank custmers think differently on that.
I agree. A crypto currency (blockchain, to limit the amount) would crash their gravy train. I mean nothing can stop them from printing as much debt money as they wish now. I could see them use it only for international settlements. Trade settlements between nations? It creates its own problems. Miners would crank it up and use a significant amount of energy. Hashing the massive blockchain would become cumbersome. Wouldn't it?
That would be just the same system we have now. There's no way to verify the backing when the keys to the vault are with the same person holding the buttons of the printing press.
I don't even know how this is an issue for storing your wealth. Your wealth shouldn't be in cash anyways. If it's in real estate or stocks or anything else really the value of the currency means nothing. It means something for day to day transactions which there's no way you'll carry out in gold or silver anyways.
Day to day transactions were made in gold and silver until silver was removed from US coins in 1965. Does it seem so farfetched that you might pay for lunch with a silver coin rather than a fiat $20 bill?
The level of complete utter delusion in the UK about the situation in Ukraine truly is something to behold. Last time something like that happened was in 42-43 in Berlin and it did not end well for the deluded ones.
Ukraine is getting destroyed by Russia. Casualty ratio is around 8-10 Ukrainians for each Russian casualty. Russia will bring this to an end before this summer.
I agree with the financial analysis of Alasdair completely but I am afraid he is not in sync with the realities of the Ukraine war. Western military analysts like Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas McGregor and several others all believe that Ukraine is indeed losing the war and the Western alliance is getting increasingly desperate. It is a matter of time when the West will eventually give up in Ukraine.
The delusion of ithers is your opportunity to get to eacape velocity. Right now I'm scanning wide and planning narriw. Managing to stay ahead of the situation for now. Food is this year's serious problrm. Energy will be soft q1 but roar back. Fed will pivot too soon and inflation will come back harder. A view.
I don't follow the part about the claim that the US constitution said that gold is the only legal money. I can't find that anywhere. Am I missing something?
Disagree about the Ukraine war, Russia knows the longer the war goes on, the more painful it becomes for the collective west. Russia is fighting NATO, not Ukraine.
Thank you both for this excellent interview. It is such a pleasure. Thank you Alasdair Macleod for sharing your knowledge. Of course, I am sitting in front of my screen screaming: This is a political problem, not an economical problem. Alasdair pretty much said that the Western fiat currencies are dead in the water. There is no way that the west's debt can be redistributed such that the economy survives. This, of course, is a major major issue. Politically, it is the only issue that matters, because it threatens the survival of the western political system and by extension the western political establishment. The economy forces political action and the key for successful investment is to understand what is going on in politics. My argument is that things will change dramatically, but it will not be catastrophic. Quite the contrary. And Alasdair is correct of course, owning gold is a very good idea in the current circumstances. In a nutshell, people look at Saudi Arabia leaving the dollar sphere, leaving the US with insurmountable debt (it never intended to pay) and fear a rerun of Germany 1923 on a "global" scale, e.g. a "hyper" inflation. Few seem to notice the alternative is Germany 1948, a "Wirtschaftswunder". Both cases started from roughly the same situation: A destroyed economy. But different political strategies where employed. I am confident that our current situation resembles Germany 1948 much more than Germany 1923. The reason is that the "fall of the dollar" is in itself a political decision. That is, the dollar has "always" been protected by force. The force in question is the US military. It is the only military that can project force world wide. Applying force to keep the dollar system intact was mandatory, because breaking the dollar system in a chaotic manner would have had catastrophic consequences. The reason we see BRICS+ forming and growing now is that "someone" decided not to stop it. This is a political decision. It means BRICS+ is supported by the US military. And since not to destroy the world remains imperative, we need to conclude that the people that supported the old dollar system in the past decided to transform and reconstruct the world financial system, without breaking civilization in the process. Things can be a bit bumpy, of course. There are many signs that suggest this reading of reality is correct. The Ukraine war being one of them. A full discussion is too long for a simple comment. Roughly, the Ukraine war has been setup (2014 latest) to project the very force that keeps Russia in the dollar system. It should have been an easy and deceive victory for "the west". It did not go that way, since in February / March 2022 Washington did not send troops. A political decision. And Putin knew beforehand, otherwise he would not have invaded the way he did. It is impossible to comment on the Ukraine war right now, since the available information is unreliable. The one thing we know is that Washington's main concern seemed to be money laundering via the Ukraine war (see FTX). It is not hard to imagine that both Ukraine and Russia understand the situation and profit from it. Much more could be said. The situation needs to be understood on a political level. Economic pressure is just a tool. We are in the middle of a grant transition and it is really going to be good.
Seems that BOTH political parties have Catchers Mitts to capture all those Benjamin Notes tossed about irrespective for the Health of the American citizens. I digress. The native internal marxists are engineering for the downfall of our beloved America.
Mr Mcleod, thank you again for your fine exposition. I suspect you crystallised the more extreme fears of many and more ominously compelled them to realise that their fears were not so extreme at all. Re protecting one's purchasing power would not buying big gold mining equities produce the same effect? What an excellent "channel 'these podcasts are. Bravo.
I believe you'r right. And I believe some if not most pay a dividend. And if you speculate on smaller miners, they may be bought out by the bigger ones. ++++++ And the gov may take your Gold in a crisis. It has happened.
Excellent analysis. I can say that Gold prices in any currency will be up by 30 % by Nov 2023. There are astrological reasons also in addition to the economic reasons. Buying & storing gold in physical form will be a very big security.
@@1solo2mercedes May be. That's your opinion. But one thing is also true that " the stars will be shining too bright in front of eyes of some persons, who will be at the hard receiving end "
The big wrinkle in the Gold story is that it may protect you as a store of value from declining dollar but realizing that protection results in a taxable event.
Our world has 4 fundamental practices that are problematic. If we dont understand the causes of a problem we will address the symptoms or actors, not the causes. 1st Large private and Central banks have obtained the Exclusive franchise to create ALL new Currency as Debt, at interest. An increasing population needs an increase in currency, but it is ALL created as debt bearing interest. This indebts the whole world, every person, every government, in totally unpayable debts, enslaving us all to bankers through personal debt or ever increasing oppressive and unjust taxation, permits, licences, registrations, regulations, rates, duties, fees, fines, levies, surcharges, adinfinitum, of which an increasing volume goes straight to the debt creators, who created it for free. (At zero cost to themselves.) 2nd. Virtually no limitation plus fractional and recirculating fiat currency allows banks to effectively create massive new Currency volumes as DEBT, blowing massive bubbles (in housing/stocks) which devalues everyone's savings, work, pension by raising all prices. We call this inflation, but it's really devaluation. (Shrinkflation adds to our reduction and desolation. ) The fix ? Go back to Sound Metalic Money and stop all banks and financial institutions loaning out more than they have on deposit, but further, DO NOT ALLOW ANYTHING BUT Metalic Money TO BE CALLED AN ASSET OR COLATERAL. Real Estate loans have been classified as collateral. This allows the bank to call the loan an asset, and sell it, or loan against it, which helps blow real estate bubbles. Today >80% of Bank loans are for Real Estate, 40 years ago > 80% was for industry. Return currency creation to national treasury departments with a zero Inflation policy. This will not create inflation like some bankers/economists would have you think. It is not WHO creates currency that drives the constant devaluation of your work & money, it is THE VOLUME per population/ productivity. The banks increased the base currency supply by over 65 % since March 2020 & 300% since 2008. This is multiplied as real estate bubbles lever up equity to underwrite new loans. You can't spend it off planet, and we've had no increase in population or productivity. How can this not devalue all our savings, wages and retirement funds by a similar % as it enters the economy ? 3rd. Fiat currency whether paper OR DIGITAL has no intrinsic value, thus it cannot be used as a long term store of value, particularly in an ever expanding fiat system. In fact taxation and the 'legal' currency label attached to fiat creates artificial demand for fiat currency. The fix ? Return to Silver, Gold, Copper & Nickel currency, designated by weight, not cents/dollars. These will find their own local value. These can't be printed to oblivion, have intrinsic value, and are a safeguard against bankers counterfeit loans. Continue to keep the manufacture of Gold & Silver rounds by private mints & foundries to help keep the government mints honest. Do not allow bankers and economists of the current system to con you into believing there isn't enough Metalic Money. There is a lot of the peoples Gold sitting in every Central Bank doing nothing. Monetise it now. You mix 1% gold, 99% copper or Nickle and you have Gold backed currency. Same with Silver & Nickle. Mint 10th ounce, 2 10ths, 5 10ths and 1 ounce. Or grams in similar weights. Never give it a 'value number,' which is a lie. Give it its weight & purity, and let the market decide what it will buy. Call it 'slow money," like 'slow food.' It's slower for sure, but it's 10 times better for you. Probably necessary to nationalise mines & pay shareholders out in metals. We are aiming at a more just, more perfect union, and that requires we treat shareholders justly and make them whole while preserving a mining and exploration industry. So gently, thoughtfully, carefully on this one. 4th The 'world bank' and IMF are your friendly international arms of the Federal Reserve, who loan worthless US currency invented at zero cost to enslaved nations of people to purchase necessities, when their own commodities or worthless currency would do just as well. This ensures the indebtedness of nation's simply to survive. Correct these 4 Principles and >80 % of a nation's problems would disappear. Do not allow your masters the Debt slave creator's to tell you it can't be done. They are not seeking your best interests, but theirs. It is easily done within 3 years if a Global effort was made. Beware. The FED, IMF, WEF wants you totally enslaved with Digital currency. Convert your garbage fiat currency into Gold and Silver or prepare for destruction. Come to think of it, you better prepare for destruction anyway. The bankers motto is : 'Preserve your Capital at all costs.' The bankers are buying Gold. We the people can afford Silver.
It's only taxable if it is converted to dollars, like selling a car. Alasdair is making the case that gold can legally be used as money because the good or service is *priced* in gold. That's not a taxable event
It’s not a taxable event if you’re not liquidating your gold first. That’s how barter works. If the governments currency isn’t being used then they’re not part of the transaction.
He makes me feel like I'm not a crazy conspiracy theorist! I have been looking into the issues of the dollar, CBDCs, BRICS, and bootleg currency. I went on a rampage talking about it on Thanksgiving. I felt like I sounded like a crazy person. 😄
@@petergozinya6122 Ya thats usually what my elderly family members say 🤣. I could argue and win. But i honestly hope you don't buy any btc. Go buy gold and custody it with a 3rd party ya smarty.
@@TheChewbaca69 You’re probably right. Any “asset” the was invented by an anonymous person or organization using an alias, that has no physical form and exists only in cyberspace must be legit 👍 Take a loan out on the equity in your house (assuming you own one) and go all into to crypto 💰💰💰
To get the free guide on HOW TO BUY AND STORE GOLD & SILVER that Adam mentioned, go to wealthion.com/howtobuy
Link his twitter. pls thanks
As a "CryptoBro" he's really missed the mark on what he thinks people who buy Bitcoin.
We buy it so one day - we won't NEED to sell it for dirty Fiat.
It makes sense to sell it in order to buy at a lower price in order to accumulate.
I sell fiat to suckers ;)
Also missed out one crucial matter in Japan. For the very first time in decades Japan just gained 3.6% inflation which means for the first times companies have increased prices a.d wages which means crawling out of Stagflation. The debt trap would depend on how BOJ stimulate the economy including overall foreign and defense policies
Everyone should hold some of their own gold. I document some on my channel
The value of the USD in gold terms has gone down by an average of 4% In as much as I am a strong bull on the dollar, I'm glad to have sold off at premium.
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Heard about her, she’s kinda pricy but averages a whopping 8% roi monthly. There’s this other guy Matt j Damon but I kinda call scam on that
@Huey Morello. Her record sure does look detailed. It’s a 10% not 8% roi. I got in touch earlier. @Matt 100%
Thanks Adam. It's always a pleasure to listen to Alasdair. Cheers from the Netherlands.
outstanding guest. I always love Alastair's points - they ring true and are insightful to me. Thankyou Adam.
Please I need someone to help me trade or invest the forex or crypto market because I'm tired of trading in losses myself. I've blown my account twice and it's frustrating..
@Martha Rodriguez do you have a link ; i cant find her on youtube
who would of guessed bitcoin would bounce back 40%
sure get a feeling its luring 😅nto a false sense of security
is it going up only to take a real crash ?
Most important message...it is the loss of purchasing power that impoverishes people.
Fiat currency is the that particular govs way of getting you to buy into their/that system !
"We need inflation" - the biggest lie ever.
This indeed is not only one of your best interviews but one of the most educational interviews to prepare us for the year! Thanks ,great guest.👏👏👏
He has no idea on the UKRAINE situation.
The Ukraine army is crushed
The media is lying to you
Actually, all that Governments need to do is to buy enough gold to match their equities/assets. Once they have that, their fiat currency is actually safe because they can give guarantee that if you use their currency, they will match it with gold. Problems will occur if the country is dirt poor and there are rich people in it. These are the ones who will be wiped out.
It's only educational if you believe the exact opposite of what he's saying. Most of the countries he's listed are facing demographic and economic collapse.
I work in a Factory, as does my two younger brothers and my younger sister's husband, we all work in the same factory. My point is, or should be clear, people who work in factories aren't exactly considered wealthy. Since we're not "wealthy" I think we make a pretty good example in that we purchase gold and silver bullion on a bi weekly basis, or every payday. 1 gram bars or gold and or silver maple leafs. Last payday was 5 X 1gram bars of gold, shipped through the Canadian Post Office because I prefer the Federal Government taking responsibility for our shipments rather than some guy in a truck. Of course they are shipped in plain boxes with different companies listed on the shipping receipt, such as "Jerry's Stone Cutting Corp", that's not it by the way but close enough so you get the point. At the end of April I cashed out all the above family members pensions, RRSPs, etc and we purchased bullion, a lot of bullion. In conclusion, yes you can, purchase bullion, no matter who you are, I also hit the local pawn shop in my small town. What has happened to our collective wealth in the last nine months? Nothing, nothing has happened to our collective wealth this last year, meanwhile, plenty of people we work with lost a lot on those pension/RRSPs through our collective provider. Worse yet for those hit with the crypto/bitcoin bug, but our wealth is still sitting here collecting dust, which is perfect. Keep in mind, if gold is revalued or the currencies collapse, my answer is "what gold"?, "what capital gains"? Good luck folks.
That's simply brilliant and well done.
Those "guys in a truck" do a great job.. The Canadian government is now a tyrant
blue collar maintenance-plant worker aka same my grandparents both are farmers/ranchers and community wise USD ( gold ect was and note's wouldn't work as hard minted gold coins was expected backed by a government/banks/3d-party in rural 🇺🇸/farmers ect as gold notes and bank issued notes/IOU weren't trustworthy as they lived/remembered the 1870-1940's aka bad note's and bad banks ) wasn't king in tell about 1985, also a problematic now day's as my family in my teens tried to buy a new-COPO 2006 jeep with a 10 or 20 peace 🇺🇸 gold coin-or-coins minted in pre-1910 aka real gold and legally tender backed by the federal government and no dealership ( or store, and if they did all all it was 5usd lolz im sure it's worth more than that by a lot as melt for a 20 is pasted 50usd now days ) would accept gold anything ( 🇺🇸 usd yep there happy to take check's/iou's wonder why? also not keen on taking it in person in cash 💵? id rather not do check's ect given the choice as i know it's risks aka iv gotten a bad/bounced check before ) aka in 2023 good luck directly spending it, convenientcy wise something like phone apps ie cash app or apple pay are easier to live with spending wise but also isn't a end all be all as it's got it's problems with it, other wise yes im a silver/gold guy spending/earning wise as worldwide it's accepted as $$ at the same amount as arbitrage cannot happen as much vs usd, ect
be mindful that the 🇺🇸 ( and Europe governments like the 🇬🇧 ) government has taken gold OZ away from people as in war time/at will, it was illegal to own anything bar/storage/coins metallic wise aka we/government stole it/all not just taxing it. part of the reason im not bullish for buying gold also the government's keep's track of it and doesn't do a good ish job of tracking USD as they printed so much sense the 1970's also during Nixon's presidency made illegal to have OZ/gold so explain that risk as my grandpa and grate-grampa's had to hide out-staying outside of jail as overnight made into outlaw's and or dance around trying to keep the land/farm from the government in the 1970-1990
@@richardprice5978 hey, I think you have really good points here, but it’s really hard to follow as it’s like one big run on sentence. It would be good if you could post your thoughts on comment sections of these sorts of videos, but take the time to read back through for understandability before you post it.
Were you saying that gold was made illegal and they couldn’t spend it, thus they had to hide it?
@Denise Foster yes I'm sure he had some good points bc he took that much time to write, but I don't have time to sift thru that many words.
Agree with your take on gold. Half agree with your take on geopolitics. Totally disagree with your take on Bitcoin and crypto. I think it's obvious where your expertise is and it's not with Bitcoin or digital assets. I did find this discussion valuable and it motivates me to keep stacking gold, silver and commodity stocks.
They print it up like Monopoly money. What could possibly go wrong?
seems like the world's banks are in it, together. they all print like there is no tomorrow. Maybe we just don't know it, it is intended for all commoners to be poor. Select few will live well beyond their means, with billions in wealth.
No shit, Sherlock
Ya...if u keep printing paper notes,it is then worth only the costs of paper plus ink...🧐🧐🧐🤑💸💰🫢🫢🫢
in Monopoly, money is finite.
The US general public has no idea what’s going on
Yes,if they are not open up to read other alternative medias which the politicians are blocking, censoring, making creative narratives etc...👀🧐😳👀🧐😳🫢
I like Alasdair and his analysis. I also like and hold gold, but I disagree with his comment that everyone that buys BTC is just hoping to sell it for more fiat. EXACTLY as most people that buy gold care about its fiat price (just watch the news or even this channel), most people that buy BTC do so for fiat. But a lot of people also buy it to hold for when/if things get crazy
Agree. I think of it as a replacement to offshore accounts. He's wrong about tracking previous movements to your wallet. Wallets are anonymous. Also I got the impression he thinks Russia is losing the hot war. That's far from accurate too. But dead on about the financial war.
You can’t get it more realistic than this. Thank you
Alasdair is a lovely man, wishing him well in the new year! God bless us all.
In regards to counterparty risk; what is to prevent the current regime from making private ownership of gold and silver illegal? It’s not like it hasn’t happened in the past.
More AM please!
The Rooselvtian confiscation relied on the naivete of the population to comply.
Its a different world. No one will be turning in their bullion this time.
The only way to enforce compliance would be to go from house to house. Not going to happen. If it does, well, its a big continent. --- One could conceal one's 'stash' behind a wall, or in the attic, or in the dog house, or buried beneath a hedge/bush.
No compliance this time.
Could listen to Alasdair all day👌👌👌
I agree with you completely 👍
He is great but he gives me the chills because his ideas are doomsday narrative. Great work 😊😊😊
10 years of fear porn....same message over and over
@@LibertarianRF , yeah who would want Rubles or Yuan because they are even shader than the United States 🇺🇸 government.
And like gold, the message is (still) immutable, constant, and everlastingly valid.
A most excellent interview! Thank you for this fine guest.
Great informative work “well informed… full disclosure” and educational for financial growth.
Allister, your amazing explanation of the Roman Law in reference to crypto is absolutely essential for folks to become aware of , your description of a painting being stolen and bought in good faith by a buyer and your comparison to someone steeling money from your wallet and then purchasing something from a store , is just so special in terms of your simple explanation, you are a true genius in your unbelievable portraying of the various situations
Absolutely. Yet Allister had skipped the part whereby nobody has truly identified who Satoshi Nakamoto is. He also failed/avoided to mention that if the old/original owner(s) (or proof/evidence) is gone, then the new owner(s) will often be treated as the "real/true" owner(s) or "be allowed" to keep/own the property. This is one reason why many descendants of (America & Oceania) natives couldn't (or have a very time to) claim back the lands stolen/taken by the (European) colonists/invaders.
@@user-DongJ as soon as i heard that name satoshi - i was like ye banking cartel
@@melvinp1324 Lol 😂 Cartels can be greedy or cold-blooded but at least the cartels don't look as bloodthirsty as the Romans 😄
@@user-DongJ have you ever seen the federal reserve building and the logo. Ironically it doesnt get more aesthetically roman than that. 🤣
Alasdair is so well spoken. I could listen to him all day.
Yes ... but he might be wrong about Putin. Who might perform a certain "stunt gone wrong" tomorrow. Putin has no strategy but tanks being blown up by Javelins.
Agreed, BUT, having listened to him for years now, NOTHING he says ever comes true or becomes the current state of things. That being said, he is certainly not alone in that status.......
Great interview! I agree with most of the analysis. Gold is not an investment but actual money so allows you to keep purchasing power in the long run against fraudulent fiat currency.
- THE NEW AMERICAN “ GOLD-BACKED DOLLAR IS NOT FIAT. WILL IT REDEEMABLE FOR GOLD THROUGH- OUT..??
Bingo!
@@bddollen7384 fingers crossed. How much of a percentage of gold? So if I bought gold with fiat don't I lose value if a ton of new gold is mined? If all countries (bricks example) become gold/asset backed, why buy gold now? Will it revalue lower?
if it gets to bad you cant eat gold so not many will want it because you cant eat it right now looks like best investment is buying hoarding up on eggs lol
@@j.l.daltoin2238 - PRICES WILL FALL . DON’T buy anything you don’T have to right now - FINANCIAL SWITCH TO GOLD STARDARD HAPPENING NOW. BUY GOLD ⤴️
Alasdair is the best. I always enjoy his take on things. Thanks so much.
Excellent interview. Love ❤️ Alastair !
I agree, but I am always wrong.
What a gutsy prediction, and very misleading.
It's now Dec 2023, and USD is still standing instead getting cut in half.
Amazing to see the channel hit 200k👏!
Imagine a panel with Macleod Zulauf and of course our beloved Pomboy. If you could pull that one off Adam, your are a first round ballot entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The rest of us would then simply become unworthy! 😂
Absolutely great interview…pure gold!
.9999 purity
& platinum & palladium. Note the huge rise in gold prices over the past two months ...
@@d.lynncarmichael9240
Why is palladium dropping…
Fantastic interview with Alasdair as always! I am also very happy that Adam is referencing past interviews and claims/forecasts! Well done Adam!
If you follow this guy you will get cleaned out. China is in a depression as we speak and the dollar milkshake will kill everything. When everyone needs dollars to buy food and gas but their economies are crashing they will be forced to sell their gold because you can't eat it!
this dude has the best grasp of the metals market... love your analysis and insight alasdair
Alasdair, you're a brilliant financial mind...take it easy on the geopolitical analysis :)
My favourite guest on your channel by far!
Wonderful content, very informative, excellent guest, thank you.👍👏
Who would sell gold if you knew the old money is devaluing money??
Certainly, now is not the time to sell gold. But even Peter Schiff has admitted that the day will eventually come when bullishness on gold is so over-the-top that there's no one left to buy; but we're a long, long way from that point.
Exactly
@@dlukton If no one is left to buy then how do you sell?
@@ottohavasvolgyi2448 it's nonsense, there are always buyers especially for gold altho it may not be the price one would expect.
Most of the west don’t understand gold… it’s not in our culture like Asia countries… India etc. that will change maybe overnight
Thank you for some real thought provoking words and possible directions in the financial world.
I feel your projections for the US dollar are spot on as this country continues to lift its debt ceiling instead of taking physical actions to control spending. The world around the US is starting to question this continued shedding the US debt onto the world
not everyone that buys bitcoin is trying to increase their fiat position... some are trying to change the system for good forever
Yes... unfortunately he lost me on Bitcoin...
Bitcoin is not and won’t be the answer unfortunately.
The combination of idealist and fool makes for tragedy
Gold is expensive to move. It can be stolen physically and hard to confirm quality by lower class. It seems that inevitably for the sake of use gold gravitates towards the need of easy ways to transfer. What will we use to trade? Bitcoin combines tracibility of gold with ease of payment of cash.
Thanks God that the Dollar is Rapidly Devalued , By God this Evil Dollar Global Economic System have to End
If times got bad enough, even gold would become worthless, gold is a medium for goods and services. Goods and services are the actual commodity. Everyone needs to understand that we only give gold it's value because of societal agreement.
You are the fool. If ever the day comes when gold won't buy food and shelter we'll be wearing sheath skins and throwing stones to survive.
And we invest in gold because it has been money for five thousand years. We convict criminals because they hurt society. Don't reinvent the wheel. Sorry you are broke and cannot buy gold. I can and do for the future of my family.
@@DBEdwards You obviously missed the point
@@DBEdwards You do realize when you get down to it, the only value of gold is its use in computers, we only assign as much value to it because we use it as a medium for work, just like any other currency. Gold can become just as useless if enough people decide they no longer want to use it as a medium for work. Hard assets that can be used, food, oil, lithium and other such things will invariably become the bedrock of currency, as what the BRICS nations are doing, they are trying to get rid of the fiat currency. No reinventing the wheel, it's just the way it is, whether I am broke is irrelevant.
As an economist who understands the current situation, I think there is no one better than Alisdair. I believe his military analysis is way off the mark, but I go elsewhere for that.
Nice
😂😂😂🤣🤣👍👍👍👍 spot on.. The Ukraine War is pushing US and Europe into deeper inflation, higher energy cost, supply chain disruptions and manufacturing flight from Europe to other countries like China. Ukraine will be destroyed and become a wasteland. Getting his news from the mainstream media is all he got, that's why Ukraine crisis is his weakness. 😂😂 The reality has not sung in yet. He even ignored why US sabotaged the Nordstream pipelines.
Definitely an interesting interview, looking forward to hear his takes on CBDC
So happy you saw it fit to have a sequel. My multiple views of Alastair's previous episode may have been what pushed it to record levels.
Please get Alasdair Macleod back on real soon and ask him about the CBDCs
This man is a genius of our times!! splendid!!
Brilliant ☀️ Someone Finally Talking The Truth 🙏 Information I Have Known For Years And All In Precious Metals… But Did Not Talk About Going To Digital Assets And The QFS Blockchain And The Worlds Markets Going To Zero With The Fiat Currency Default
Deep dive into the state of money and credit. Thanks Wealthion and Mr Macleod.
Very valuable conversation! Thank you Adam.
The momentum of desperation for gold is a very interesting point. A massive trade is coming in after this two year consolidation.
I love Alasdair MacLeod!!
I just wish he was correct more often . . . .
I am listening to him for about 20 years. He said a lot of BS :)
@@mischa1880 Remember that BS is very healthy. Like this Guy there are a lot withh fantasies. They like to live in a swimming pool of BS.💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩🤮🤮🙉
@@mischa1880 you love your charlatans. Good for you
For me with these pundits it's not so much whether they are wrong or right in their predictions but that they highlight various points that might otherwise be overlooked or not considered.
Excellent, although with my experience in the special forces and maritime security one thing is certain here. On the topic of Ukraine, Russia didn't seek a blitzkrieg but a wear and tear war to weaken resources and dry out NATO so that the East can take it's part elsewhere. Russia has a slow start but it's a long game that Putin is playing on that front. Yes, economically it will be a problem but the commodity boom in the next while will favour Russia and its allies.
MacLeod seems to be trying to be objective, but obviously lacks an accurate, in-depth understanding of the military situation in Ukraine. Brian Berletic, Col. Douglas MacGreagor and Scott Ritter are better sources for realistic military analysis on Ukraine.
... and Germany is probably the more interesting piece on this chessboard...
Question: "what did make America great in the first place?"
WW1 & WW2 destroying Germany & Europe ...
Dude the Russian economy is completely and totally f*****. It's nothing more than an absolute disaster
@@davidwestwater2219 really? show me the numbers, because from what I'm seeing Russia's exports increased and is well positioned in the long term where commodities explode in prices to be in one of the leading countries. Obviously it took a huge hit, but Russia can absorb must harder because their GDP debt ratio is not enormous, it has tangible assets and is invested in world mining places and drilling places. Russia has secretly spread all over the world, so no it's not fucked. Drop the US koolaid.
@@HerrschmannNachmann Germany destroyed itself and went against Europe twice! So no surprise there either.
Thank you. Excellent advice., God bless and protect you and your family 🙏
Excellent guest. He brings up new points & discussions not heard elsewhere. Another good job Adam.
Excellent discussion and I’ve learned more than I knew and all the concepts I’ve never thought of.
I love the analogy in the end.
We’ve never been taught this in school or college in my day. My mind has been expanded by this discussion!
Thanks both of you for the great questions and the great answers!
Amazing thing about gold is the purchasing power saved in a gold coin 2000 years ago is still there today aside from any historical value of the coin
Very informative! Thanks for another great interview:)
A special thanks to Alasdair McLeod for all what he did for the community in the last years.
Well said. Knows his onions
Can you site your source for the $100 house in Berlin? This is the second time I've heard this but I can't find anything to back it up.
I'm confused...on Saturdays lance says quit thinking the world is going to end, it won't be in our lifetime. Then these guest make me want to hunker down in the next 6 months.
my thoughts exactly
Opinions are like sphincters -- everybody has one.
@@charlesbrown9213 Lol! I had that same thought
Great interview with Alastair as always! Thanks Adam
An excellent interview. Thank you.
Clear king’s college diction and equally clear logic backed by experience, modesty and honesty. Like gold these UA-cam posts are rare. Thanks, Alistair, it took so much wandering to discover you.
Looking very much forward to this definitely high quality interview
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The amount of inflation we have accumulated over the last 50 years generally speaking is about 10 times the cost of many things the price they were back in 1974,some things are less than 10 times as much,some more.Inflation is like time, day to day is not much different,in 50 years you wonder what happened? 😅😊😮
I am thrilled to hear this! Greetings from Serbia and I hope we wont get pulled into toxic western hegemonic titanic!
Sage advice from Alasdair! Thanks Adam for a great guest. ✌️
Brilliant guest and great interview again Adam. The concept of bitcoin fraud and redemption was really interesting.
How would a CBDC involved in fraud and the subsequent redemption be more paletable than with bitcoin
GREAT INTERVIEW watch it several times
Excellent interview .. thank you gentlemen.
Excelent!! Explains what's happening in this crazy world perfectly!!
Enjoyed the conversation very much, but I do feel he has a horse in the race, given his position. One thing he fails to mention, is that if you buy coin, say a 1oz Britannia@£1600, the Government can turn around an legally demand it back at face value £100... In a total fiat collapse, this will almost certainly happen, as they'll need the 'real money', and heck £100 wouldn't buy you a slice of bread! Other than that concern, I like what I heard....heck Govt. can steal what it, he who makes the rules, and all.
Thank you, thank you for saying this! I’ve been trying to figure my way through this! Do you have any thoughts for the best thing(s) to invest in (or have on hand) if this is the case? Besides things like having debts paid off having animals, food stashed and stocking barter items. I spent hours yesterday trying to figure this one out, to kind of come down to that I couldn’t really come up with anything really good. I would so appreciate your reply!
Governments can take back all gold in private hands. The US confiscated gold in 1933.
@@petersinclair3997 there could be a lot of boating accidents involving precious metals 😅
No one really knows what will happen. I learn from my grandfather and late father, get out of debt ASAP, no credit card debt, live way below ones means, no flashy cars, Have some gold, Have some silver, buy products that you use a lot, i.e., toilet paper, dishwashing soap, cooking oil, beans, dried goods, have your own small vegetable garden and refine ones diet. IMO
Well done Adam... another informative post.... love Alisdair
Using a microscope to look at an elephant. Cherry picking data while ignoring an entire mountain of conflicting data.
Ive been waiting for this since late 2007. I have my doubts.
A good real world analysis on financial tangible fact. Thank you.
No, The ability to confiscate BTC (Regardless of History) if on cold storage is incorrect. They cannot obtain it without the private keys. They can intercept transactions on exchanges and prevent a transaction but they cannot confiscate it unless they have the private key.
I think what he's saying is they could imprison you for having coin that is the proceeds of crime etc
and also if “they” regulate it into oblivion as seems likely, your “cold storage” bitcoin with your “private key” is still absolutely worthless. But they can regulate my hard coin gold all day long and if I hide it or bury it well enough, and they are not able to confiscate, it will still always have REAL monetary value even if “they” were to “outlaw” gold in the same way that “they” are going to try to “outlaw” and-or centralize the very very good aspects of bitcoin and decentralized digital currency. And that, my dear good sire, is why I have never yet invested in bitcoin or any other supposed decentralized digital coin. And certainly, such is my own loss for such decision, in theory.
yet also, the fact that you have bitcoin emblems in your channel/title picture is suspiciously indicative that you will neither believe my opinion nor give it any sort of thought whatsoever. And that, is totally ok, no problemo, my fellow libertarian bro.😅
Where is a reliable location to purchase gold or silver from & is it too late to do so?
Always a pleasure to listen to Alasdair 👍
Very Educational about the Gold/Silver Ratio to back a nation's currency.
Great show as always!
A gold salesman warning about the end of fiat/the world as we know it. A classic that never gets old.
idk boomers like shiney rocks
@@dallyuk Wasn't the introduction of fiat currency a criminal act foisted on the world by the US after defaul of their gold holdings?
@@gordion1 its certainly genocidal, criminal, unethical, soaked in financial tyranny.
it may be gold backed stable coins are future.
you can go back to that system right now if you choose.
dont let the boomers tell you that it cant be done.
im waiting for meld.
@@gordion1 dont let the slavers IMF hear us say these things, with the rules based financial order system
Well it’s a October and the dollar is stronger than ever
BIG. Thanks To Adam and. Alasdair. As Always. Brilliant information Alasdair is a True. STAR. 👍👍👍👍🥈🥈🥇🥇🥇
Love Alasdair! What a true gent and someone that knows alot in regards to real money. The real question is how many ounces of Gold do you own?
The value of the USD in gold terms has gone down by an average of 4%, annualized since 1950. So if you held dollars paying 4% interest you would have exactly the same gold equivalent, assuming you had no cost of holding gold. 4% is about the average return for treasury bonds, and half the return of the SP500 in any multi decade period, but with much less timing risk since gold tends to swing wildly off the mean for long periods of time.
But you're describing the past and there will be no more Western bull market, especially not SP500.
Small time investors cannot easily access Chinese or Asian markets. Just recently all investing on the Moscow exchange got frozen for ever.
Your so right, imho I can see this too. If gold becomes the asset backed new treasury note (and it looks like it will because the Fed in now dead having been placed in the treasury by Trump). Then there will not be more swings in gold prices. Just the doom and gloom portrayed in these podcasts. 4% isn't bad.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm....Tax paid? Run a DCF Also....the next 20 years will NOT look like the past 50 to 70 years.....You assume USD dominance no matter what the foreign debts and deepening military weakness.
Gold and silver prices have been manipulated so badly since $ is decoupled from Gold.
Achem...Golds valued by the dollar.
I have watched and listened to many of these UA-cams on gold ,silver and currency. Your guest has explained a treasure chest of information on the right mind set . You should study every word that this guest is saying.
The value of gold will become what people will be willing to pay for it in their currency.
Great guest. Very knowledgeable, factual and scientific.
Has he mentioned CBDC'S? A gold-backed digital dollar? A blockchain or ledger type system?
Financial people are Fed oriented and look to that system to solve our problems, when a lot of bank custmers think differently on that.
I agree. A crypto currency (blockchain, to limit the amount) would crash their gravy train.
I mean nothing can stop them from printing as much debt money as they wish now.
I could see them use it only for international settlements. Trade settlements between nations?
It creates its own problems. Miners would crank it up and use a significant amount of energy.
Hashing the massive blockchain would become cumbersome. Wouldn't it?
Totally agree
That would be just the same system we have now. There's no way to verify the backing when the keys to the vault are with the same person holding the buttons of the printing press.
Want to hear how he thinks the CBDC system will be different with fraud and criminality than he predicts with bitcoin
35:37 “Gold is something you own when you want to ??? get out of the ??? risk or fear of a fiat currency.” I think that’s what Alasdair said.
I don't even know how this is an issue for storing your wealth. Your wealth shouldn't be in cash anyways. If it's in real estate or stocks or anything else really the value of the currency means nothing. It means something for day to day transactions which there's no way you'll carry out in gold or silver anyways.
Day to day transactions were made in gold and silver until silver was removed from US coins in 1965. Does it seem so farfetched that you might pay for lunch with a silver coin rather than a fiat $20 bill?
We needed more option for a long time, welcome BRICS as an option for the rest of the world.
The level of complete utter delusion in the UK about the situation in Ukraine truly is something to behold.
Last time something like that happened was in 42-43 in Berlin and it did not end well for the deluded ones.
Ukraine is getting destroyed by Russia. Casualty ratio is around 8-10 Ukrainians for each Russian casualty. Russia will bring this to an end before this summer.
I agree with the financial analysis of Alasdair completely but I am afraid he is not in sync with the realities of the Ukraine war. Western military analysts like Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas McGregor and several others all believe that Ukraine is indeed losing the war and the Western alliance is getting increasingly desperate. It is a matter of time when the West will eventually give up in Ukraine.
I guess you are mixing something up here.
Lol look at the support for what the zionists are doing in Palestine. That’s even more delusional
The delusion of ithers is your opportunity to get to eacape velocity. Right now I'm scanning wide and planning narriw. Managing to stay ahead of the situation for now. Food is this year's serious problrm. Energy will be soft q1 but roar back. Fed will pivot too soon and inflation will come back harder. A view.
I don't follow the part about the claim that the US constitution said that gold is the only legal money. I can't find that anywhere. Am I missing something?
Disagree about the Ukraine war, Russia knows the longer the war goes on, the more painful it becomes for the collective west. Russia is fighting NATO, not Ukraine.
Excellent guest! Truly appreciated and enjoyed this show.
Thank you both for this excellent interview. It is such a pleasure. Thank you Alasdair Macleod for sharing your knowledge.
Of course, I am sitting in front of my screen screaming: This is a political problem, not an economical problem. Alasdair pretty much said that the Western fiat currencies are dead in the water. There is no way that the west's debt can be redistributed such that the economy survives. This, of course, is a major major issue. Politically, it is the only issue that matters, because it threatens the survival of the western political system and by extension the western political establishment. The economy forces political action and the key for successful investment is to understand what is going on in politics. My argument is that things will change dramatically, but it will not be catastrophic. Quite the contrary.
And Alasdair is correct of course, owning gold is a very good idea in the current circumstances.
In a nutshell, people look at Saudi Arabia leaving the dollar sphere, leaving the US with insurmountable debt (it never intended to pay) and fear a rerun of Germany 1923 on a "global" scale, e.g. a "hyper" inflation. Few seem to notice the alternative is Germany 1948, a "Wirtschaftswunder". Both cases started from roughly the same situation: A destroyed economy. But different political strategies where employed. I am confident that our current situation resembles Germany 1948 much more than Germany 1923.
The reason is that the "fall of the dollar" is in itself a political decision. That is, the dollar has "always" been protected by force. The force in question is the US military. It is the only military that can project force world wide. Applying force to keep the dollar system intact was mandatory, because breaking the dollar system in a chaotic manner would have had catastrophic consequences. The reason we see BRICS+ forming and growing now is that "someone" decided not to stop it. This is a political decision. It means BRICS+ is supported by the US military. And since not to destroy the world remains imperative, we need to conclude that the people that supported the old dollar system in the past decided to transform and reconstruct the world financial system, without breaking civilization in the process. Things can be a bit bumpy, of course.
There are many signs that suggest this reading of reality is correct. The Ukraine war being one of them. A full discussion is too long for a simple comment. Roughly, the Ukraine war has been setup (2014 latest) to project the very force that keeps Russia in the dollar system. It should have been an easy and deceive victory for "the west". It did not go that way, since in February / March 2022 Washington did not send troops. A political decision. And Putin knew beforehand, otherwise he would not have invaded the way he did.
It is impossible to comment on the Ukraine war right now, since the available information is unreliable. The one thing we know is that Washington's main concern seemed to be money laundering via the Ukraine war (see FTX). It is not hard to imagine that both Ukraine and Russia understand the situation and profit from it.
Much more could be said. The situation needs to be understood on a political level. Economic pressure is just a tool. We are in the middle of a grant transition and it is really going to be good.
Seems that BOTH political parties have Catchers Mitts to capture all those Benjamin Notes tossed about irrespective for the Health of the American citizens. I digress. The native internal marxists are engineering for the downfall of our beloved America.
Yowza...your talking loco..and I think I like it🎉🎉
Wow , very good information.😮
Mr Mcleod, thank you again for your fine exposition. I suspect you crystallised the more extreme fears of many and more ominously compelled them to realise that their fears were not so extreme at all.
Re protecting one's purchasing power would not buying big gold mining equities produce the same effect?
What an excellent "channel 'these podcasts are. Bravo.
I believe you'r right.
And I believe some if not most pay a dividend.
And if you speculate on smaller miners, they may be bought out by the bigger ones. ++++++
And the gov may take your Gold in a crisis. It has happened.
Excellent analysis. I can say that Gold prices in any currency will be up by 30 % by Nov 2023. There are astrological reasons also in addition to the economic reasons. Buying & storing gold in physical form will be a very big security.
You don’t need to look at the stars to figure this out😂
@@1solo2mercedes May be. That's your opinion.
But one thing is also true that " the stars will be shining too bright in front of eyes of some persons, who will be at the hard receiving end "
What astrological reasons, I'd like to know? What transits.
Astrological reasons are as good as any to punt gold since they're aren't any fundamentals whatsoever underpinning it. At least you're honest.
The big wrinkle in the Gold story is that it may protect you as a store of value from declining dollar but realizing that protection results in a taxable event.
Our world has 4 fundamental practices that are problematic.
If we dont understand the causes of a problem we will address the symptoms or actors, not the causes.
1st Large private and Central banks have obtained the Exclusive franchise to create ALL new Currency as Debt, at interest. An increasing population needs an increase in currency, but it is ALL created as debt bearing interest.
This indebts the whole world, every person, every government, in totally unpayable debts, enslaving us all to bankers through personal debt or ever increasing oppressive and unjust taxation, permits, licences, registrations, regulations, rates, duties, fees, fines, levies, surcharges, adinfinitum, of which an increasing volume goes straight to the debt creators, who created it for free. (At zero cost to themselves.)
2nd. Virtually no limitation plus fractional and recirculating fiat currency allows banks to effectively create massive new Currency volumes as DEBT, blowing massive bubbles (in housing/stocks) which devalues everyone's savings, work, pension by raising all prices. We call this inflation, but it's really devaluation. (Shrinkflation adds to our reduction and desolation. )
The fix ?
Go back to Sound Metalic Money and stop all banks and financial institutions loaning out more than they have on deposit, but further, DO NOT ALLOW ANYTHING BUT Metalic Money TO BE CALLED AN ASSET OR COLATERAL. Real Estate loans have been classified as collateral. This allows the bank to call the loan an asset, and sell it, or loan against it, which helps blow real estate bubbles. Today >80% of Bank loans are for Real Estate, 40 years ago > 80% was for industry.
Return currency creation to national treasury departments with a zero Inflation policy.
This will not create inflation like some bankers/economists would have you think. It is not WHO creates currency that drives the constant devaluation of your work & money, it is THE VOLUME per population/ productivity. The banks increased the base currency supply by over 65 % since March 2020 & 300% since 2008. This is multiplied as real estate bubbles lever up equity to underwrite new loans. You can't spend it off planet, and we've had no increase in population or productivity. How can this not devalue all our savings, wages and retirement funds by a similar % as it enters the economy ?
3rd. Fiat currency whether paper OR DIGITAL has no intrinsic value, thus it cannot be used as a long term store of value, particularly in an ever expanding fiat system. In fact taxation and the 'legal' currency label attached to fiat creates artificial demand for fiat currency.
The fix ?
Return to Silver, Gold, Copper & Nickel currency, designated by weight, not cents/dollars. These will find their own local value. These can't be printed to oblivion, have intrinsic value, and are a safeguard against bankers counterfeit loans. Continue to keep the manufacture of Gold & Silver rounds by private mints & foundries to help keep the government mints honest.
Do not allow bankers and economists of the current system to con you into believing there isn't enough Metalic Money. There is a lot of the peoples Gold sitting in every Central Bank doing nothing. Monetise it now. You mix 1% gold, 99% copper or Nickle and you have Gold backed currency. Same with Silver & Nickle. Mint 10th ounce, 2 10ths, 5 10ths and 1 ounce. Or grams in similar weights. Never give it a 'value number,' which is a lie. Give it its weight & purity, and let the market decide what it will buy. Call it 'slow money," like 'slow food.' It's slower for sure, but it's 10 times better for you.
Probably necessary to nationalise mines & pay shareholders out in metals. We are aiming at a more just, more perfect union, and that requires we treat shareholders justly and make them whole while preserving a mining and exploration industry. So gently, thoughtfully, carefully on this one.
4th The 'world bank' and IMF are your friendly international arms of the Federal Reserve, who loan worthless US currency invented at zero cost to enslaved nations of people to purchase necessities, when their own commodities or worthless currency would do just as well. This ensures the indebtedness of nation's simply to survive.
Correct these 4 Principles and >80 % of a nation's problems would disappear. Do not allow your masters the Debt slave creator's to tell you it can't be done. They are not seeking your best interests, but theirs. It is easily done within 3 years if a Global effort was made.
Beware. The FED, IMF, WEF wants you totally enslaved with Digital currency. Convert your garbage fiat currency into Gold and Silver or prepare for destruction. Come to think of it, you better prepare for destruction anyway.
The bankers motto is : 'Preserve your Capital at all costs.' The bankers are buying Gold. We the people can afford Silver.
It's only taxable if it is converted to dollars, like selling a car. Alasdair is making the case that gold can legally be used as money because the good or service is *priced* in gold. That's not a taxable event
It’s not a taxable event if you’re not liquidating your gold first. That’s how barter works. If the governments currency isn’t being used then they’re not part of the transaction.
Gold in the UK isn't subject to capital gains tax but silver is.
@@nmdale78 Interesting. Do you know why?
And here we are
He makes me feel like I'm not a crazy conspiracy theorist! I have been looking into the issues of the dollar, CBDCs, BRICS, and bootleg currency. I went on a rampage talking about it on Thanksgiving. I felt like I sounded like a crazy person. 😄
LOL... you are not alone... many CT folks get the look when they start talking about it all.
I get the same reactions when talking about bitcoin at family dinners lol.
Bitcoin is the official currency used by the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Bigfoot. 🤣🤣
Just kidding, it’s actually a pyramid scheme. @@TheChewbaca69
@@petergozinya6122 Ya thats usually what my elderly family members say 🤣. I could argue and win. But i honestly hope you don't buy any btc. Go buy gold and custody it with a 3rd party ya smarty.
@@TheChewbaca69 You’re probably right. Any “asset” the was invented by an anonymous person or organization using an alias, that has no physical form and exists only in cyberspace must be legit 👍
Take a loan out on the equity in your house (assuming you own one) and go all into to crypto 💰💰💰