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When is this guy coming back? One of the best evaluations of the economy I heard on this channel and I have watched this program very often. He was phenomenal!
Debt is borrowed labor. The US has wrung up 34 Trillion is borrowed labor or productivity. Think about the immorality of stealing the future labor of the people.
Always great guests, but Matt is probably my favorite. Knowledge, presentation, interaction...he is fantastic. He needs to be on more often. Ke3p up the good work, Adam.
This interview with Matt was profound, intense and riveting. Combine this with the content of the recent Fred Hickey interview, and you really have the true economic conditions and status of the U.S. Cannot say enough about these two interviews. So many Wall Street experts continue to put their heads in the sand and live in denial.
I wish to encourage young people out there struggling. I have worked two jobs for 50 years but despite the poor salary I will be able to retire at age 75 this year. I look forward to about 7 years of retirement so it still is possible to retire.
Yes but because of housing they will never have children and there will be no one to care for them in old age. They will be in a much worse situation additionally because there will be no social security left by the time they are your age. Not trying to be dramatic but we will be a second world country by the time a person who is 20 now turns 75…. If they live that long under the stress and depression of their estate.
I'm 69, retired and "comfortable" ... own my house, low debt .... I was always a positive, see a way out type ... but each day I see no progress on this debt bomb .... I don't see this ending well ... I'm glad I bought gold and silver back in 2012 ... when I saw this coming ... I knew a couple of wall street guys who survived the crash of 1929 ... people forget that before the crash ... "everything was fine" .... leveraged to the hilt, overpriced, and damn the torpedo's
Then your spouse is diagnosed with cancer and it all unravels and your living in a camper: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HpnycehXFP4.html&t
Most people don’t want to do what is necessary. You have to get rid of your debt. If you have debt on your house sell it and buy a cheaper house. If you have debt on your car… same thing. Then wait for the ridicule, the pressure from family the self doubt as it all Kees going up.
Piepenburg is one of my favourites. The country I reside started a per capita recession Jan 23. June will be 6 consecutive quarters of per capita recession. Rates on hold since November 23. I expect to remain on hold all of 24 due to Fiscal/ monetary impasse. Some frogs have boiled, some are cooking and some are sunbathing on a log.
Right? As long as the Fed is the 4th arm of the government and they are in cahoots with the government the melt up can keep going….until during and around election time.
I've been a longtime follower of Adam Taggart, but something's bugged me about his guests. Most seem isolated from global realities. They acknowledge America's overspending on the world stage, but cling to the belief that U.S. dominance will persist. I predict a harsh wake-up call for Americans in the near future.
I agree. So many people keep saying that the US is the largest economy in the world. I think that is a very dangerous delusion and it hasn't been true for over 20 years. If you said that anywhere in Asia, the people would laugh at you.
The BRICS nations will be the biggest economy if the American people 😢 don't come together and fight/push to build a parallel economy. Those in the BRICS countries don't or like eachother. But they're coming together to preserve / build a stable economy.
If we could reroute all the money that's out towards electing all those idiots we might get somewhere with that and with the debt. People are paying to keep this debt going, and they're paying for the opinions people have about it, which is what gets the same people elected year in and out. We could be out of this debt problem in as little as 2-4 years, but we'd have to make some serious internal enemies for that to happen. Talking about sequestering military for a few years; nationalizing big pharma and the insurance companies; and maybe some austerity for those that laughed off with the benefits and cream of the status quo for the last 50 years. $40 trillion was made off from the middle class. That money is still around in plain sight, as well as some of it off shore. The problem is that we want these problems, we've been trained to want them. It's very cheap to manipulate the masses. We're gonna be like UK is today in 20-30 years, maybe sooner. We might as well start outsourcing our government to foreign countries.
The current election process requires $$ multi-millions and thus only the wealthy can apply. Otherwise, you must compromise to get enough money to run a campaign.
I am a PhD economist who studied inflation early in my career and will tell you that this is a phenomenon which has no coherent theory. As with the stock market level there is a psychological aspect that interacts with the push-pull fundamentals that makes it unmodelable.
The fact that not one of the economists drawing huge paychecks sitting at central banks saw what was coming in 2008 tells me all i need to know. These guys would not be able to predict which way an apple goes (up or down) if it fell from a tree. They put out sound bytes at press conferences telling people what is already obvious after its already past.
Yes, it's very tough to model economic psychology, and probably impossible to model it confidently enough to plug into any predictive model. But I do believe there is a coherent theories on inflation as a monetary phenomenon. All this push-pull nonsense confuses the fact that inflation reflects the relationship between the supply of credit and the supply of goods and services. Just hard to measure until after the fact.
There's an investor dichotomy being presented here between wealth preservation and wealth creation or Old World vs. New World. Matt works at wealth preservation and gold is a haven and hedge against currency depreciation. Most Asians and Europeans and So. Americans have experienced historical currency debasement many times and thus are focused on preservation. But most investors in the US are trying to grow their wealth as well as preserve it and gold is really not a good option for them until there's some kind of collapse. It's a hedge, not an investment. As Warren Buffett explains, do you want to own all the productive assets in the US or a big hunk of metal? Matt is serving his clients well by preserving their purchasing power but the better comparison for the purchasing power of the US$ is not a house, but relative to a share of AAPL or MSFTor NVDA stock. This does not preclude an asset price crash or further debasement of currencies, but one still wants productive assets to grow one's wealth. Select US land, housing, or equities are even better than gold.
Right but those are the popular assets anyway and the American investor is so entitled and apathetic, believing that due to global reserve currency and the 40 years of affluence they’ve just enjoyed, that the hedge instruments (gold/silver) are half of one percent of portfolios. I don’t think he argues for not owning cash generating appreciating assets besides just gold … …but these guys’ voices are necessary out there bc American education went completely dark on the subject of gold in 1974. 50 years now of nobody being educated on the topic.
Right but those are the popular assets anyway and the American investor is so entitled and apathetic, believing that due to global reserve currency and the 40 years of affluence they’ve just enjoyed, that the hedge instruments (gold/silver) are half of one percent of portfolios. I don’t think he argues for not owning cash generating appreciating assets besides just gold … …but these guys’ voices are necessary out there bc American education went completely dark on the subject of gold in 1974. 50 years now of nobody being educated on the topic.
@@robynopenshaw5268 Yes, but my point is that they are popular for a reason. It may be 'exuberance' to overpay for US housing stock, but it's not irrational if you don't trust the currency to buy real assets denominated in that currency. The entire global economy is in the same boat as the US - they are all subject to fiat currency mismanagement, but US$ assets are relatively valuable for so many reasons: democracy, political stability, military security, legal institutions, written constitution, natural resources, natural defenses, etc. Many societies have few or none of these advantages, which is why people with wealth to preserve still buy US bonds, US land, and US equities. Gold is nice, but it gets buried in the backyard. Monetary education certainly is necessary, but gold is only part of that. Most people don't understand what money represents and thus are vulnerable to money illusion. The Fed and UST are engineering money illusion to mitigate their debt problem.
only thing you could say is if you took that $5000 in 1920 and invested it in the dow at that time apx value of (72) you would have a shit load more money (apx $2.8 million) than if you kept it in gold coins.. . a shitload.. now im a gold bull but lets be honest here...
I haven't check your numbers even though markets crashed several times by 50% and went 25 year stretches without reaching previous highs... but assuming $2.8 is right... what you have forgotten is inflation. You have lots of $$ but everything costs more $$. Gold isn't for investing. Gold holds value...
That's by the design of their puppet masters with the purse strings. Doesn't matter who you put into Washington until those lines are cut and we leave those people with the purse strings out in the cold. We need FDR energy and monopoly busting. Austerity for the rich and we could be out of this in like 36 months. It's actually a really small problem. Convincing people of that is the hard part. It was done before, it can be done again. But what did it take last time? The depression...
@@linmal2242 At its December 2021 meeting, the Fed's policy-making committee, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), signaled that most of its members expected to raise interest rates in three one-quarter percentage point moves in 2022. 4.25% in raises in 2022. So no, he wasn't even in the ball park.
I'm going to have to watch this a few times - so many gold nuggets from Mr. Piepenburg. I've used the phrase "the Emperor has no clothces" many times regarding the lies about inflation that we keep hearing from our leaders, so I laughed out loud when I heard it...
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Wow, appreciate this guest, his insights and candidness! Mr. Pipenburg is very well spoken and really appreciated what he had to share! I know little about monetary policy, but have learned a lot by watching your show, as this debt crisis is affecting all of us in one way or another. Thank you for having this guest!
Adam you are my favorite RU-vid channel both for your wisdom, and the quality of your guests. I wish more people would step out of this fallacious financial system and prepare themselves for the inevitably painful future
Some extremely salient points and, while admittedly talking his book, an outstanding discussion on credit devaluation risks. His firm is clearly dealing with those upper echelon types that really don’t face the issues of the common man.
Adam, you are providing a great to us all. I have heard Matt several times and think he has a solid grasp of financial markets. I previously managed a small family office and now direct a PE debt fund. I began my career in 1971 and have seen the evolution of financing, interest rates, financial markets. Matt understands as few do these days. Thank you for your service.
Powell is inflating and monetizing the debt away because it can’t be repaid Janet Yellen is issuing short term bonds and fiscal spending by Congress and JB has gone haywire.. big trouble in big US
He's doing no such thing, Fed policy remains relatively tight. There is no monetary inflation right now. Both M1 and M2 have dropped in the last 2 years.
Matt always provide great analysis and insight into what is happening below the surface and what is the implications on asset markets. I love his session. Now as it is becoming increasingly clear, gold will be a the most important asset to hand in anyone's portfolio, it would be nice to have a session on gold and other precious metals - specially on how retail investors approach these hard assets to add to their portfolio. thanks
We own our home plus a residential lot, 2 Toyotas paid off, no credit card debts, being paid off monthly. I guess we should start buying silver and more land.
Fun fact (if the fact presented here is correct) - Assume in 1929 despite the Great Depression, an average person managed to earn $1,300 yearly, and have an annual saving rate of 0.4 or $520, it would take the person about 9.6 years to save money to buy 250 $20 face-value gold coins.
Thank you, Adam and Matt. I’ve long been interested in metals. In my early 20’s I began playing with buying silver. Bought my first gold at $1K/ounce. Picked up several ounces at $2K/ounce. It makes sense, between the on shoring trend and likelihood of politicians choosing inflation as the least unpleasant option to solve the US National debt problem.
Okay, but Apple's shares have gained 142,537% since their IPO in 1980. Even Warren Buffett capitulated to that reality. Gold is a good diversification hedge, as is real estate, but neither will ever match productive capital as an investment.
Government bonds have good yields at the moment because they have halved in price in the last 3 years. The negative correlation between equity and bond prices could hold. For example if we have a recession, equity prices could crash, while bond prices go up, driven by lower inflation and lower interest rates that a recession would give us. How does gold give me a retirement income? Can we have a recession and high inflation at the same time?
He's right! I've got to agree with everything Matt said, I think his analysis is pretty good Fantastic guest Good to hear from Mike and John too Thanks all
Their rivers will dry as well as burst their banks before ours. And if push comes to shove, most of the world's economies will turn their back on Chinese goods. Trading out American hegemony for Chinese is a bad call this decade, or for the next few for that matter.
Why doesn’t someone look back 4 years at what cpi measures and take 100 different factors and compare prices from then until now including compounding factors and determine if cpi was really between 3-9% or if it has really been much higher? It seems we can determine without a shadow of a doubt with just taking prices from then and now and doing some quick math so that we can say for sure with confidence they have been lying significantly??
Fear and scarcity feed on deceit and hypocrisy, turn people into game, vs love and abundance yields more love and more abundance for everyone. It means the sweat of your labor is golden not an icecube.
Matthew made an example if you put $5000 worth of gold in a box in 1920, it would be worth $500,000 today. If you would have deposited that $5000 into the bank at 6% in 1920, you would have 1,700,000 in 100 years. So, it outperformed gold almost 4 to 1. It diminishes his point.
He keeps talking about how the East sees things differently than we do. He's talking about a tiny number of immensely wealthy people in the East who only need to preserve their wealth.
Almost all assets are very high now. Personally (middle class) my goal is to preserve my retirement capital. I will take a safe 5% all day long. I am extending that by buying one, two, three year treasuires since the Fed is supposedly going to lower interest rates at some point. bye buye 5%. Sold a lot of equities in Jan. 2022 (by luck) and reinvested later that year. Just sold some again. Safety first!
People are just lemmings. They follow mindlessly, and they fantasize rather then deal with reality. How many thousands of people have gone into a casino with the thought that they just knew that a seven would come up next on the roll of the dice. They end up broke and wander outside of the casino with big dark rings around their eyes because they have lost everything. Another example: We have a captain and crew who are anything but responsible, and doing anything but minding the ship. The ship hits an iceberg and is sinking. The captain announces to the people that they should not worry, as the ship will keep them safe as they sink to the bottom of the ocean. Believe it or not, there is a large portion of the passengers that would follow and believe the captain and ride the ship to the bottom! It's just the way a percentage of our population lives and goes through life.
Waving goodbye to the Beveridge Report "Welfare State". Govts might be smarter to say "Be happy with 2-5% yields on funds". Whereas everyone has been used to 10-25% returns last 20 years. That was all the last gasps of the 1950s era. Better off investing in family with homes so they don't starve as jobs get shed shortly.
I don't want to hear anyone preach austerity that is not agreeable to experience the same amount of pain. It's called having skin in the game. Dissolve all assets and return to the "bank" and start over (like Monopoly Game). Everyone starts out again with the same amount of money. Of course the Elites that always preach austerity would never agree to that. The suffering is for the other people, Not for them.
It’s very counter intuitive to trust corruption ,counterfeiting and policy’s written by our loving caring representatives that are contrary to the constitution
I don't know if gold will be the ultimate answer. The world will keep turning no matter what. So, hedge your gold bets. However, things will change because the current situation is not sustainable. So, be in a situation to be able to move quickly, freely! We don't know what is going to come at us, but we need to be able to respond to whatever it is.
Financing the runaway government spending is the top priority of all of Washington, including the Fed. The guests statement that they will do QE one way or another is spot on. The way it is being done right now is to let the wall street gamblers speculate on bonds, just so that they can get them sold. They will go with this as long as they can, since the alternative the central bank buying the bonds again. So, let the idiots buy!
well, at least you're not in the debt to gdp scenario that Japan is. 263% of gdp in 2023, there. and that is just their public debt. (43% of that debt is held by the bank of japan) u.s. it is 123% or so? living beyond our means. it's an interesting concept. the point being that, it has obviously been within 'our' means to provide the goods and services in exchange for Debt.
the truth is none of these guys really knows what is going to happen,, There is so much risk in the financial system It is best to hold liquid assets collecting interest waiting for an opportunity..
One thing you can really admire about the New Harbor guys...they aren't flip floppers! Unfortunately I think just as they do, so I guess I'll go down with the ship with them!
