The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
The Arterburn Radio Transmission is a blend of cutting edge commentary, fused with guests who are the newsmakers and trailblazers of our time. Your host Tony Arterburn is a former Army paratrooper, entrepreneur, and historian. Tony brings his unique perspective to the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet.
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#510 Silver's Hidden Surge: Russia, Bitcoin, and the Exit from Real Estate
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Speaker 1:Veteran of three foreign wars, entrepreneur and warrior, poet Tony Arterburn takes on the issues facing our country, civilization and planet. This is the Arterbor Radio Transmission. You've got to love it when the intro cuts out mid-feed. Well, wasn't happening then. You wouldn't know it was real. Welcome to the art of burn radio transmission.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gents, I am your host, tony arterburn, unscathed, unaffected by the continual technical glitches. When I show up to my either my branson or my texas studio. I, though on the horizon. I'm going to put so much effort into building my Texas studio that maybe nothing will ever happen there. Maybe we'll just split it in half, maybe it'll just be 50-50. But glad to be back. We are live. I've got Beans the Brave in studio.
Speaker 1:We've got more articles than I can cover, which is always good news, and I'm going to jump right into it. Ladies and gents, we've got the headlines of Drudge are meant to, I think, misdirect you and of course, we're going to cover what's happened with the fallout of MAGA. And I want to get into a little bit more on Epstein, because my friend, don Jeffries has an article that's published on lewrockwellcom. But if you look at Drudge and you look at the aggregation of news, which is what I study because I want to see what are you supposed to be paying attention to, right, what do they want your eyes on? And then what do they want you noting? But again, revelation of the method having things available for you to consume. But you were told about it. But let's not exactly go there.
Speaker 1:And I I want to talk a little bit about this notion that trump is going to fire jerome powell, head of the federal reserve. Chairman of the Reserve. And if you go into a search engine, which I've done here in the last hour I was talking to Travis Knight over on the David Knight Show earlier today and we got into this a little bit, because the question arises is not whether or not Trump will fire Jerome Powell, but if you go into a search engine and you just type in can a president and it fills in, it auto-fills the rest can a president fire a Fed chair? Now in this question exposes about 90% of what's wrong with our culture and the West and what happened to our beloved republic, what happened to our society. It's about 90% right there. Just that question alone. Because the magic trick of money which is why I do what I do, why I'm in precious metals, why I'm in Bitcoin and why I do these broadcasts and shows I do these broadcasts and shows.
Speaker 1:If you follow that, if you understand the origin story, like G Edward Griffin wrote the book the Creature from Jekyll Island, it is a creature and that is a true story. November 22, 1910, the most powerful financiers in the world conspired to meet on this island, outside of the coast of Georgia, jekyll Island. You can still go there. You can actually see the room in which they met. But it was an actual conspiracy. It wasn't even talked about for years and years later. And others representing the political establishment, aldrich, senator Aldrich, who married into the Rockefeller family. So the Rockefellers were present at that as well, and it was a design to create a central bank.
Speaker 1:Now we hadn't had a central bank in the country since Andrew Jackson killed the second bank in the United States. He actually wanted that on his tombstone. You can go look this up. He thought that the international banksters were and he knew, just like Thomas Jefferson knew, they were a threat to freedom, they're a threat to free society, they're a threat to a republic because they hijacked the power structure and they do it through stealth. And Andrew Jackson said you're a den of vipers and thieves, I'll route you out. And he did. He routed them out. He would not renew the charter for the second bank of the United States. So we did not have a central bank in this country from 1836 to 1913.
Speaker 1:And when they brought it back because that was always the ultimate goal was to gain control over the money supply. When they brought it back, because that was always the ultimate goal was to gain control over the money supply, when they brought it back, they didn't call it a bank, they didn't call it centralized and do any of that. They were very clever. Language is important, the words you use, because, again, that's why it's magic right? Because that's why words you have spelling when you spell a word. So they used that and the nomenclature came out to federal, and it's not federal, and a reserve and there's no reserve. It's literally just a hijacking of the money supply. And you go back to something that the Rothschild said. The mayor, I'm sure Rothschild, said I care not who sits on the British throne, the person who controls the British empire is the person who controls the British money supply and I control the British money supply. That's a real quote from the 19th century.
Speaker 1:And if you look into modern documents like Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, I mean, there's an esoteric meaning. It's actually a siphoning of energy and you can go down the rabbit hole. It's not just economics, but we get into this modern, you know, political theater, which is more and more apparent. If you're, if you're still plugged in like left right and I pray for you. It's beyond that. I cover politics for the same reason that I cover anything else. It's for the lack of intelligence and that's kind of a built-in joke, but I cover it for the intel. I cover it because Sun Tzu said to know your enemy. So that's what I look at. All of that is baked into the system. That is a trick, if you will, and you have this question popping up. Will Trump fire Jerome Powell? Well, if you go to this article on Zero Hedge, just a few things I want to read. He said what happens if Trump fires Powell.
Speaker 1:Let me put this on the screen because there's a story in here that I found it reminded me I'd read this before, but it'd been. It'd been a while. I was reminded of a story from the 1960s and of course you can go back, and Jim Mars brought this up more than once. But you know he said that JFK and Lincoln were the only two presidents to ever create notes directly from the treasury. You know they lincoln had the greenback and then of course, jfk and I've bought some of these and give them away to family members and others but they in 1963 he was printing five dollar notes direct from the Treasury for the money supply and, of course, silver certificates that weren't Federal Reserve notes. You can look on them and every note today that you have says Federal Reserve note. And Jim Mars brought that up. He said Lincoln and Kennedy were the only two presidents to ever print notes directly from the Treasury and they both were shot in the head in public. That's true and of course, jfk pissed off. Uh, all the right people. You know, um, the cia, the military industrial complex, the israelis, the federal reserve, uh, just about everybody, the mob. So you know. So you'll know them by their enemies.
Speaker 1:Let me put put this up. This is interesting and we're going to get into a little bit of precious metals too. Today, some pair of politics, precious metals. I've got an article from Activist Post. I think it's a sign of the times. I want to go over with you on Bitcoin and then we'll jump into my friend Don Jeffrey's article on Epstein. He's always got a love Don's take on things. It says as DB Jim reads recaps.
Speaker 1:It lasted just under than an hour, but yesterday we got a glimpse of what might happen if the Trump administration removed Powell from office, using probabilities from polymarket. Of course, this talks about the economic fallout. It says in the mid-60 minute between CBS story broke that Trump was considering firing Powell to the qualifying denial, the probability of Powell being ousted by the end of the year increased by about 15 points to 38%. Over this period, the 10-year Treasury bond yields climbed around five basis points. It's interesting you saw that on the heels of this threat to fire Powell, silver jumped up to $39 on spot, which is another thing I'm going to get into here in a minute.
Speaker 1:There's another reason for that, not just the hike and the probability at least the perceived probability of Powell being ousted, but there's a reason why the markets responded that way and the reason is is because trump wants to take the monetary supply and increase it, that's the expansion of the currency through inflation, through lowering rates, because they're just going to dump liquidity into this market. And it is interesting to see this power struggle maybe it is a perceived power struggle between the establishment and the other establishment. It's like the two mafia houses fighting over control, like with the tariffs and other things, because the Fed is at least the perceived hawkishness on keeping rates stable. Now Jerome Powell raised rates faster than any time in history, faster than any other Fed chair, even Paul Volcker, who had him up to the teens at one time in the late 1970s, early 1980s. That was meant to curtail the Nixon shock of going off the gold standard in 1971. We had such massive inflation and Jerome Powell has raised rates faster. Faster I mean 25 basis points at a time. And trump wants to take those down to near zero again, which would just have this red hot effect on liquidity dumping everywhere.
Speaker 1:The problem with that is in the aftermath. We're already you know we've already had the pat past the point of no return on fiscal. I don't want to, you know, I don't want to be too blackfield or, you know, go be too disparaging on that. But there's a reason why I do what I do and talk about the issues that I talk about, because there's no turning back at this point. I mean the dollar, the world's de-dollarizing. They're dumping it. Those dollars will be repatriated and the government will continue to borrow from itself, like a snake eating its own tail and then print and you're left holding the back. They hope that you'll continue to use their product.
Speaker 1:I want to skip around down here on this article, though, and it just had a nice blurb from a blast from the past. It says, then again, all of this is purely a theoretical thought experiment than an analysis grounded in reality. Because of uh, because of this whole political pressure as a myth on whether or not the fed chair can be removed. But he says what's currently unfolding before our eyes has been happening for decades behind closed doors, and this is um, one of the uh jp mor Morgan's equity derivative sales team guys says he draws parallels of President Lyndon Johnson's clashes with Fed Chair Bill Martin in 1965.
Speaker 1:He says here is LBJ literally slamming Fed Chair William McKenzie Martin against a wall and told him to print money. This is from an excerpt from that account. It says there Johnson got Martin alone and did not mince words. According to different accounts, the 6'4 Johnson pushed the shorter Martin up against a wall. It says you went ahead and did something you knew I disapproved of. That can affect my entire team. Here Johnson said, as Martin recalled later in an oral history you took advantage of me and I'm not going to forget it because here I am a sick man. You've got me into a position where you can run a rapier into me. You've run it as Martin. My boys are dying in Vietnam and you won't print the money I need. Well, you see, that's interesting. I bring that up because there's always been a clash, nefarious military, industrial complex goons, and you have the, you know, the brown root and all all that stuff that happened in the texas politics, the dirty, the dirty game, murderous games that that johnson played.
Speaker 1:And that timeline really does sync up, doesn it? 1964 was the last year, of course. That's the year that Johnson ran for president in his own right as president against Barry Goldwater. But that's the year that, the last year that we ran silver in our coinage and of course, had Johnson not won that that election, which is probably built into, he's probably promised that or something you know, for his uh guilt after the fact, or possibly before the fact, depending on what your analysis is on the jfk assassination that was the last year that we ran any silver in our coinage. In 65, it was stripped out. So the quarters, the half dollars and the dimes we didn't run that the world took notice and he's threatening here in this article this is an account from a memoir. He's threatening the then acting Fed chair, you know, to print money.
Speaker 1:So what do you think happened? You know, by 1971, the world understood that we'd inflated our money supply, we'd abandoned the bretton woods agreement in 1944 and that was to. We had to have our currency, had to be backed by gold. It was 35 an ounce, it was the agreed upon exchange rate and the world started to slowly repatriate dollars back through the gold window. So August 15th 1971, nixon takes us off the gold standard because and closes the gold window. And what he said? It was temporary. But the reason is is because we had inflated the money supply, so that's all built into that right there and now it's completely, you know, off the rails.
Speaker 1:But you have to wonder what this power struggle is actually signaling. It's interesting to watch and the thought experiment is not what happens necessarily if Trump fires Powell. But can he? And if he can't, what does that tell you? Because I don't think that he can Not through traditional means. Anyway, the fed chairman is appointed and the president, I believe, can have through their charter, can supposedly select that, but it's it's like anything else. They can select them when they're up for appointment. But you know, it's never happened before. But the threatening and the cajoling and other things that does happen.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see. Should we do? Should we do some? Uh, we're gonna jump into metals first. We should do some metals first. Um, I brought this. I saw this before I went on with tra Knight this morning. Let me put this up on the screen. There was a move on silver this week. Silver jumped up. I was looking at the Twitter feed of Gold Telegraph. Silver did have a $39 run on spot. But this article, I think and that was again I think, in some correlation to the perceived threats of firing Powell, but I think this is a larger reason. I think this is probably the outlier that I saw last year and I thought, wow, that should be much bigger news. Let me put this up on the screen real quick. Yeah, it's hard to you know the laptop. I need a producer and Beans is usually busy during the broadcast just doing security, so bear with me here. Let me put this up here. All right? So this is over on Kitco.
Speaker 1:This Russia's central bank may be boosting silver prices through their undeclared purchases, and remember I told you last year like this was Russia was adding silver as a strategic reserve asset. Silver prices may be benefiting from undeclared but substantial buying from by russia's central bank. According to journalist tim treygold, silver is moving out of a long shadow cast by gold, its precious metal sister. Treygold rolled on a forbes article on tuesday evening with hints of major new buyer, russia's central bank, starting to influence the silver price, which has risen to a 14-year high. He noted that, while Russia data is difficult to come by the silver price has outperformed gold ever since Russia announced at the end of September that it plans to add silver to its state reserve fund for the first time.
Speaker 1:Part of the reason for silver's 30.6% rise since early January, compared with gold's 27.5% increase, is a simple case of silver trying to catch up with gold, which has been a commodity sector star for the past three years, if you remember. So gold has hit its all-time high like 25 times in the last year, and silver's all-time high is still 1980. It's why I tell people I love gold. I mean, don't get me wrong. I think it's a great store of value. It's a monetary metal. It has all the upside things I talk about.
Speaker 1:But truly, if you're long, if you're willing to wait around because it'll exhaust you, because you think you're going to get a quick turnaround, if you'll, if you look at silver and again, its all-time high was 45 years ago, something has to move it. Well, you know, if you're russia and you don't, you're not subject to and nobody's taken this mantle that the reason that silver hit a 52 high in 1980s because the hunt family in Texas, they started running up silver physical delivery and they were deep stated for their trouble. They were bankrupted by the state because it what it showed was there was something terribly wrong with the dollar. So they were shut down and there was a used means of you know contracts and margin calls and other things. But at its high it reached that in 1980, which gosh. That's like $300 today in purchasing power, maybe more who knows it was. It's an it's unthinkable. Uh, if you look at how weak silver has been, to compare it to 1980 prices at this time. But we still haven't reached that in today's dollar term. So I think that it's got so much more room to run.
Speaker 1:Silver has been slower off the mark, lacking buyers with the firepower of central banks or well-funded exchange trade funds and rich private buyers, he wrote. But if the russian central bank is quietly building a silver stockpile, as it seems to be the case, then it's possible to see other banks aligned to russia following its lead. That's true, it only takes one and I think the threat of in the past history, the communication, the lesson learned with what happened to the hunt family in texas is don't touch that. Nobody ever did again and it would have been easy to corner, like you could have had a billionaire could have cornered the silver market and drove that. Then you have other actors like jp morgan chase, who is the largest holder of silver but wants to suppress the price and you kind of want, like, what are they doing? I think it's a long-term play, ladies and gentlemen. I think russia has run the simulations. They're figuring it out too.
Speaker 1:Plus, it's a race for in this, the bricks nations just had their summit and this is a race in the world to get to the most commodities. To get to the most commodities, to get to the most rare earth, minerals, the most precious metals, the most resources, natural resources. And in a fiat world of infinite, that which is finite will win out. Gold will always win, especially, it always has. It will always come back. Um, it's the end game of gresham's law. Gresham's law says that when bad money enters a system, good money goes into hiding. That's basically what that means and that's why it drives out. You don't see. You know in the exchange of things that you don't see actual, real money being used because bad money is in the system. But those things always come back. It's just the natural order of things.
Speaker 1:Tregold suggested that Russia's BRICS partners, including China, india and Brazil, may also be on board with their strategy of precious metals accumulation in order to move away from the US dollar in international trade. Part of the BRICS plan is to accumulate gold as they look for a way to bypass the dollar. Though, with the gold price hovering close to an all-time high, that action has been hugely expensive. He said Silver, which has always been seen as an alternative to gold, even to the point of acquiring an unkind nickname of the poor man's gold, might enable members of the BRICS group to push on with their plan to break free of the dollar. That would be an interesting See.
Speaker 1:Silver might be one of the biggest plays that you could actually make right now as a nation's state, besides something like gold, besides Bitcoin, because it's just got that price. I mean, it's just cheap, it's super cheap and it's not plentiful. The above ground supply last year they had to take from it was it was a 200 plus million ounce deficit. In 2024 200 plus million ounces probably, I think it's 230 million ounces there was a deficit, so they had that's everything that was being mined and produced. They had to go take it from the above ground supply, and that's only increasing.
Speaker 1:The biggest factor at work in the silver market today appears to be the investment demand, with the metal increasingly seen as a gold substitute, along with platinum, another precious metal, with a growing investment following and a rising price. That's true. Platinum is also moved. This is why not everyone believes the goldver ratio is still a useful measure of the relative value of the two metals. He said the entry of a new class of buyer could be significant. There's been no further news since Russia's central bank last year announced that it would add silver to the country's precious metal reserves, dominated by gold and platinum. But the relatively strong performance recently by silver compared with gold could be an indication of increased central bank activity in the central in the uh silver market. I've been thinking the same thing because this is, you know, silver again, monetary metal, industrial metal, the most thermo conductive metal, you should add. That's what that would be an excellent strategic reserve asset.
Speaker 1:The Chinese used to be primarily silver, about silver, about uh, prior to the communist takeover. I fell asleep listening to a, a narrative history of gold that I've had for a while and I just put it on last night I woke up to and it was talking about the, the era of gold, and with Mao Zedong and the communist Chinese, and how strange, how strange they are. The communists always do this. They always acquire the gold and then they stop everybody else from having it. It's funny. They and they'll shame it. It'll do so. It always comes back, but they acquire it first. You know they get of it and they shame or go after people that have it. It's funny for somebody that you're not supposed to care about wealth. I thought you didn't like money. I thought this was all. You know, we're all equally for each, for each his own. You know, whatever the, the Marxian uh edict is, you know for uh to to your own labors and all the things you get rewarded for for just showing up. But yeah, that's an interesting history. He didn't start coming back around until Ma Tse-Tung passed away, until he died, and then they brought that. They definitely brought that. Cho In-Lai, I believe, was his operator and kind of like a Secretary of State. They started looking at bringing gold back and now they have 60,000 gold mines massive reserves, by the way. Okay, well, that's interesting.
Speaker 1:On silver folks, I'll go to the comments here in a second. I want to get into some other articles. But something to watch there's state actors now participating in the accumulation of silver. We have all these other factors. You're going to see more of this movement.
Speaker 1:I've figured out over the years that too many predictions on pricing of silver can get you in trouble. So I try not to make that. But I would be a terrible analyst if I didn't say that I'm really looking for it to do something near its all-time high. Again, don't buy from me because you think it's going to break its all-time high in the next 24 hours or something. But I see that happening. I see that silver doing something moving. I think it's just physics, I think it's just math. I mean, it'll break free of whatever's been holding it back. It looks like some of those forces are no longer able to suppress it. It looks like we're seeing a move here. I think it's pretty historic. So pay attention to that.
Speaker 1:All right, let me go to the chat real quick. And again we're over on Rumble. Yeah, kenny F in power says half dollars were 40% through 40 through 69. Yeah, it's up to 70 and uh, yeah, we do, we do sell some of those. But you know, I I like the 40 percenters. We usually give really good deals on them. But um, I do want a 90 coin. That's the majority of the stuff that I put through wolfpack or sell. Uh, kenny f empowers I.
Speaker 1:Tony, I would love to see you talk with ben hameen from hameen media group. One day he ran a conspiracy horseman for seven years. I I believe we've spoken. I believe I think he's been on um america unplug, but I'll go on anybody's show. Yeah, I see Harps is in the chat. It's good to see. I'm trying to go through all this. Appreciate you guys. Let's see. Oh good, 804 Marty Marty says sounding great on shortwave radio today. Well, I'm glad. So that's one technical glitch. I didn't have to endure that. We're still. We're going out over WWCR.
Speaker 1:Tony, I don't hear many people talking about Senator Lee's move to sell public land. I know he's. I know the latest was stopped in the BBB, the big beautiful bill. Yeah, I've read more into that and you know my take was as far as like, if Americans, like if you could break it up, like where actual American citizens could buy more land and get a deal from the government or something like that automaton for satan or you know, or a foreign national that you know is just here to you know, rip us off of our resources or whatever you know, or gain some leverage or foothold or whatever. I'm against that, obviously. But yeah, until there's clarification, I this, the whole thing just reeks and uh, you should say I mean the amount of foreign. Um, you know we don't get to do that. You can't. It's. It's a hard, hard process to own land and a foreign nation. Only we would invite people to do that, and of course that's our politicians and other things. But yeah, that is a. That's a very alarming thing. That's a very alarming thing, says Tony.
Speaker 1:Kenny F in Paris says Tony always sounds good as strong at calming voice. I can't stand all the hosts that do nothing but shout and yell everything. I know that is a like a vibe. You got to work on it, just like trying to remain calm in the face of everything. Like it's it is. It's unnerving. You know, to live in this world. I've been doing it for a while. As far as this world of what I broadcast into, if you know me personally, I'm not much different off the air, although I might be a little bit more reserved off the air depending on how my mood is. I've been told that I'm the most intense person that people meet and they're like you know, I kind of go. Really, is it that bad? But apparently I'm very intense. But that's good. I like my work.
Speaker 1:Oh, an Australian. What do you call Australian currency Harps. Is it just? Gold is $5,146 Aussie dollars. Yeah, bronxstomper 111 says the Saudis own hundreds of thousands of acres in the US that solely raise alfalfa hay that they ship home, yeah, yeah. And then there's these giant again, even if it's internal, these multinational corporations and giant agribusiness that end up getting their welfare queens and stuff.
Speaker 1:We went to the article last week. It's the Australian dollar. I thought so. The term dollar comes from a Bavarian silver coin that was made, so it's basically German. And that's where you get that derivative of dollar. Dollars. That's a pretty common use. You ever notice that the old dollar sign used to have two slashes through it and then they went to one. Isn't that interesting. I always follow. I look at the old stuff and there's two and then they went to one. I was like, why did you go to? Why not the two anymore? Was that ceremonial? Yeah, let me go to. Let me check the chat over on Rumble too. We're on the Rble, uh, unplug channel. Let me check everybody over here. Oh, birdhouse blue is always good to see birdhouse. Well, he makes some great ai stuff of me and beans and the crew over at america unplugged. It's good to see birdhouse guard goldsmiths in the chat.
Speaker 1:I love the idea of selling the fed lands and tony's point is the key keeping the corporations out of it. Yeah, I'd love to get that into. If you could find a way to legitimately get into the hands of american citizens and people that would do something with it. Uh, that would be great, but we don't have that built in. So it seems like our politicians acting as real estate agents for foreign nationals and multinationals is par for the course. Let's see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, can't wait to see Cecilia 14. I can't wait to see David again. I can't wait to see Cecilia 14,. I can't wait to see David again. I can't wait to see David again. I miss talking to him every week. I get to talk to Travis, but I think my brain will start to atrophy over time. I had to talk to David Knight every like I got to. I got to talk to David Knight every Thursday and it makes you a much better broadcaster.
Speaker 1:Let's see Little Johnny boy. I'm calling you after the show. Tony, 10 silver coins please. Yeah, you can call and give us a call. We've got uh, I got, a sale right now on American one ounce silver Eagles. We're beating everybody and you just got to buy them 10 or 20 at a time. I bought like 1500 over the past few days. So I got tons of american silver eagle. We got a deal going on free shipping and we just uh, and of course you got to pay through the e-check. All right, I'm sorry I can't get to everybody on the chat.
Speaker 1:I want to make sure I get through some more articles. Let's see, let's go. We went, we got anything on. I went through some stuff on gold earlier this morning, but let me X out of this and let's see what else I was able to pull up. There was so much stuff. And then, of course, something I mentioned with Travis today. Let's go and put this is activist post. We'll talk about this and then we'll jump into the epstein article because don's got to. Don has so much great stuff. I can't cover everything that he does, and when he does have an article and happens to land on the day that I'm broadcasting, I want to talk about don. I'm going to go over his uh, his work, for sure, but let's put this up on the screen.
Speaker 1:So many young people have been priced out of the home markets, priced out of everything. I mean it's. I saw an article today and I didn't have time to cover it, but I was. Was going to ask my son about it, but it was noticing the Gen Z stare. These kids, they don't really want to work. They're just like I don't even they don't feel like the same societal constraints that you or I did, or millennials. And I'm Gen X and of course I think Gen X and Gen Z are probably very similar in some respects, more so than millennials. But it's interesting to To see what the and, of course, the kids that were raised with devices and you're seeing that that's going to be. There is something to that with AI and the rise of that. I got a clip. I'll show you guys here in a second after we get through this article.
Speaker 1:It's bizarre With the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab and the singularity. It's like they're training these kids to not be present, which, if you're not present in the moment which I understand, it's very hard to do Like mental health, if you're either living in the past or you're living in the future. It's like something Lao Tzu said If you're living in the past, you're depressed. If you're living in the future, you're like something Lao Tzu said If you're living in the past, you're depressed If you're living in the future. You're anxious, you've got anxiety, you've got to find out how to be in the moment, which is very hard to do if you're doom scrolling or you can't get off your device or whatever, and I have to do so much for my business and be plugged in. It is insane.
Speaker 1:But if you're a kid, I remember actually thinking and dreaming. When I was a kid, I didn't have this stuff. You had TV, but it's not the same, you know. Imagine, just imagine if you're a kid and you just took your TV everywhere and you're in the car with your mom and you had your TV. Imagine just like the amount of TV and interacting with the TV or talking to it or, you know, messaging through it would just is so much, and you're plugged into this thing, this, this black mirror in your hand, much, and you're plugged into this thing, this, this black mirror in your hand, and um. So there's a reason, though, that these kids are feeling so, you know, I think, and it's like there's an economic reason, not just a spiritual reason, why they're feeling so left out.
Speaker 1:Let me put this up, this activist post, by the way, great website. I talked, talked to Charlie Robinson, my good friend yesterday and Wise Wolf is going to be a proud sponsor of Activist Post. So please go over there and subscribe to everything Charlie's doing. It's a great, I mean. It's a fantastic website very clean, uh, not a bunch of garbage over there. I mean I know the owner, I know what, I know what his research level style is and I know what, uh, his values are. So please go support charlie and, uh, share the links around. It's a, it's a great project.
Speaker 1:But says this is activist post. He's reprinted something from bitcoin magazine. Says bitcoin is draining the value out of real estate and regard this is even a. This isn't even about in my mind. I'm not even promoting bitcoin, even though I have a bitcoin company I'm not promoting. I'm just saying this is, this is where we're headed. Because they've been the damage done to the financial system through fiat and through the federal reserve, through the magic trick, that silent weapon for quiet wars, it's made it to where people are exiting the housing market. It says.
Speaker 1:With nearly 400 trillion in global value, real estate is the world's largest asset class, over three times the size of the global stock market and nearly four times global GDP. As more people have put their savings in real estate houses have evolved from shelter to inflation, hedging assets that carry a significant monetary premium. Whether it's San Francisco, london or Prague, residential and commercial landlords keep investing in more buildings despite only earning 3% net rental yield. The reason is very simple Real estate makes for great collateral, this is true. This is where you get into the cyclical way of. That's why the uber wealthy don't fight the tax code, because they like it, because it's it rewards going into debt. You just buy the assets, borrow from the assets and, you know, create the holding companies and you can do that if you, you can live on debt and, um, you know, leave it, leave the uh, the tax code and the the burdens to the plebs is what they think.
Speaker 1:In normal market conditions, banks are always happy to lend against real estate, which is why nearly everyone can get a mortgage. With mortgages, property owners can access liquidity through initial financing, refinancing, second loans and home equity lines of credit. Despite the excesses that triggered the 2008 crisis, this system has largely worked. Mortgages have democratized credit, offering liquidity without giving up ownership, he says. But here's a question why only real estate? Imagine you're a lender choosing between three borrowers One offers gold, another Ferrari and a third is a house. Technically, all can be collateral, but in practice, the house wins every time he says why gold can easily be transferred overseas and cars can be driven away, but real estate is tied to land. As long as the state enforces property rights, the lender's position is secured.
Speaker 1:Well, what if there is a form of collateral that didn't even rely on legal enforcement, that just talks about Bitcoin? That's why I think I've been funny, because I brought this up like a week ago and then it's funny because your mind kind of anticipates the way it works. If you have that time to think and I'll do this when I drive a lot I'll just zone out and you know, know, have no music on, I'll just be me talking to beans or just sitting and thinking and a lot of this stuff will. This will pop up in my mind about people grabbing digital real estate, digital terrain, because, as collateral, bitcoin outperforms real estate on nearly every metric. It's always available, globally recognized, initially and instantly transferable, programmable and secured by cryptography rather than legal systems.
Speaker 1:While selling a property requires navigating local markets, appraisal fees, capital controls and regulatory hurdles, liquidating Bitcoin collateral can be as simple as clicking one button. Liquidating Bitcoin collateral can be as simple as clicking one button. And if borrowing against Bitcoin becomes easier, safer and cheaper than borrowing against real estate, why would anybody store wealth in houses? And it says that. The article says simple, they won't. Well, there's another reason for that too, and it's because they're being priced out of it. And you have these giant conglomerates like BlackRock buying swaths of neighborhoods and outbidding people. Meanwhile, you have things like the big, beautiful bill, or we're going to fire Jerome Powell or whatever, just lower rates and we're going to continue. That inflates it even further. You don't have a necessary. You don't have these necessary setbacks and resets of markets. You just continue to inflate the bubble and you're just leaving people behind.
Speaker 1:So, generally speaking, real estate's value is determined based on the cash flows the property can generate, plus a market driven monetary premium. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is pure expression of monetary value, unburdened by physical constraints of ownership cost. As more capital flows into Bitcoin-backed credit markets, this monetary premium baked into property will inevitably collapse and real estate will return to its utility value. Some indicators suggest this is already happening. Yeah, this is. They've already observed this phenomenon of people flocking to bitcoin outside of property, the ultimate hedge against central banks and the dangers they bring.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't. I say it's a mixed bag. It's not just one thing I like I love bitcoin, but a lot of the bitcoin maxis are like that's everything. I don't think it's everything, but I think it's one of the things. It's in the basket. Put it in the basket. It says Bitcoin is poised to take a significant bite out of real estate dominance. This is not just because it performs better as a store of value, but because lenders will prefer it as a frictionless, programmable and borderless collateral. Yeah, they can hold it like you can just transfer it, and that's a great way.
Speaker 1:It's funny because I was looking at my holdings of bitcoin. I've been able to accumulate over the last four or five years and and uh, you know I wasn't able to keep the Bitcoin I bought when I first started through my first machines. Because I couldn't, because I was. I had every transaction I had. I didn't afford it. It would have definitely changed my world had I been able to keep it. But I was talking to Charlie Robinson too. We were having this conversation and I said you know what I'm going to do. I said I've looked at how much I have and I will ride that into. I will ride that to nothing. I will ride it to zero. Either it's going either it's life-changing, it's going to do something or I'm going to ride it to zero. I will never sell. I'll never sell what I've accumulated ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 1:You can borrow against it and that's tax-free and usually it's about 50%. So if you have like a whole Bitcoin right now, you could get 60K or something like that in borrowed funds. You got to pay it back, but you still own the amount of Bitcoin. So digital territory is the future in a lot of ways. Because of these issues of being priced out of the home market to begin with, it's not just that Bitcoin's a better asset At least it's. The inflationary policies have caused and, of course, excluded, entire generations of Americans. Now, unfortunately and I say that sadly All right, let's jump into this article with Don.
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Speaker 1:Donald Jeffrey's Epstein secrets, lies and videotape. This is after Donald Trump embarrassed himself by berating a reporter with Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein. It seemed likely that he would flip-flop and say something to encourage his now disappointed base, but he did nothing of the sort. Instead, he took to Truth's social media and produced an unfathomable rant. He says the Post deserves to be quoted extensively. He says what's going on with my boys and, in some cases, gals? They're all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 1:We're on one team, maga, and I don't like what's happening. We have a perfect administration, the talk of the world and selfish people are trying to hurt it all over a guy who never dies Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it's Epstein all over again. But why are we giving publicity to files written by Obama, crooked Hillary, comey, brennan and the losers and criminals of the Biden administration who conned the world with the Russia Russia hoax, the laptop from hell and more. They created the Epstein files, just like they created the fake Hillary Clinton Christopher Steele dossier that they used on me. Why didn't these radical left lunatics release the Epstein files? So that's, don is right. After the first time.
Speaker 1:I've read the entire thing all the way through. There's some contradictory statements in there. Within two sentences he says where do we begin to analyze such verbal allegiance? We have come to expect the absurd boast, and having the perfect administration fits in nicely with having the strongest economy in history and most secure border in history. Is the line about epstein never dying an inside baseball remark alluding to the fact that he is alive, as many believe? Trump now accuses Obama, hillary and the Biden administration of creating the Epstein files. If he believes that such things as Hunter Biden's laptop from hell are more important, then why isn't it being investigated by the Justice Department? Then why isn't it being investigated by the Justice Department? That's a great question.
Speaker 1:Remember that that happened during the election of 2020. They just gave them that. Imagine getting a sword like that, like you have the ability, and it was not used. I remember because I covered it on my show and I thought they're not even serious. They're not even using this. They didn't, and it was never investigated. By the way, only the guy who had the laptop was who he left. I mean, it borders on the unbelievable. It's incredulous that that even happened. But that is a weird story, part of something that actually did happen. But that is a weird story, part of something that actually did happen. So did Trump order Kash Patel and or Pam Bonney to investigate voter fraud, particularly the dubious 2020 election? Who has been deposed? Who has been arrested? Why aren't Comey and Hillary at least being prosecuted for Russia, russia, russia. What Trump's delusional, surrealist statement comes down to is a ridiculous defense of not investigating those who abuse the young girls being trapped by Epstein Trumpenstein.
Speaker 1:The actor is now being forced to play an even more buffoonish character, one who seemingly has zero awareness of how the MAGA faithful are viewing his recently statements and his administration's glaring acquiescence to the swamp. To that swamp, he wants promise to drain. He knows that we know. He knows it's like I love that he isn't planning on looking into Hunter Hunter's laptop anymore than he's is investigating or reinvestigating 9-11 or the JFK assassination. Remember, not too long ago, he revealed that he's always thought Oswald acted alone as he released the JFK files. I have to say something on that. If you are like me and you some, I mean you kind of a it's a blessing and a curse, but I don't usually forget any if I've seen any political theater or like a clip it or snip.
Speaker 1:Back in the 2015-2016 primaries, trump was running against ted cruz and rafael cruz. Ted cruz's dad was. He was a Cuban national and there was some questions whether or not he knew Oswald and, um, the national inquirer ran the story or something close to that, and Trump brought that up like on national to live about. You know, I have some questions. You're like, where was his dad, like during the death? Like no, look that up. Like dad, like during the death, like no, look that up, like wow, we are in. We are definitely in um, a new uncharted waters here. All that to get to the point where he goes. Oh yeah, I think I was all acted alone. And why are we still talking about this epstein guy?
Speaker 1:I saw a video on instagram today. Just I don't know why it was delivering to me because I checked the feed in the morning. I want to see what the algorithm wants, because this is something I think is interesting. And it sent me this lady who's, like you know, anti-tucker Carlson. Doesn't understand why is he being so mean to Ted Cruz? It seems like he's lost his mind, he's not on the right side. And then why, candace Owens? And you're like, oh, I understand what you are, you know, and I don't think she was intelligent enough. Sorry, I don't think she understood like enough to be like wickedly deceptive on her viewpoints. I just think that's how she's told, like through the commentators that are on this standard narrative. And, you know, a call went out like we're gonna push back on this and supposedly that happened. A lot of the influencers were told to get back in line to maga.
Speaker 1:The national security state requires as little information as possible to be shared with the unwashed masses. Going back to the Nixon days, there have been constant battles about insiders leaking information. Yes, we cannot have the public learning about what they're really doing. Also, everyone in Washington DC hates leakers as much as they hate whistleblowers. At least a few officials have dared to suggest that the likes of Assange and Snowden shouldn't be prosecuted. The leakers have no defenders. What we were told went on in the Soviet Union back when they were the foreign hobgoblin of choice. You may be starting to get the picture. Imagine if they really audited the Pentagon. Imagine if they even just made the budgets of the intelligence agencies public. They've never been, and none of your representatives are demanding that they be disclosed. If Jeffrey Epstein, dead or alive, had truly been investigated and that notorious list of glittering celebrities had been produced, it would have been the first such case of transparency in my lifetime.
Speaker 1:We've waited over 60 years to force the release of JFK assassination files, which were classified, even though the government and the state-controlled media assured us that this was an act of a lone, demented Marxist who couldn't satisfy his wife. For good measure, the CIA claimed at the end of 2024 to have released the last classified files from World War I. Countless files from World Wari remain hidden from the public. Why that was the good war, remember? What could we possibly have to hide about that? There are files related to roswell, new mexico, that remain classified. You know where something crashed in the desert in 1947. Conspiracy theorists say it was an alien craft. The government says it was just a harmless weather balloon, but it's keeping things secret anyhow, from the time that Richard Nixon first popularized the term national security to justify withholding information during Watergate. Every politician has grown enamored with it.
Speaker 1:This includes all of those elected officials who permitted the southern border to be a revolving door over 40 years now. That's so true. It's a tell, isn't it? The border is a tell. It's a tell after 9-11. It was a tell for COVID-19-84. It's a tell. So it's a tell after 9-11. It was a tell for covid 1984, like it's a tell for national security. It's a. It's a true barometer for what they really think.
Speaker 1:This is a great article. I won't have time to finish all of it, unfortunately. You go to go to don's page. You go to donaldjeffriesmed't have time to finish all of it, unfortunately. You can go to Don's page. You go to donaldjeffriesmedia. You can catch the rest of it. I was hoping I'd have time to get to everything, but we just got an hour, folks, and I'll have to leave you at that. We got a new Paratrooper coming out, possibly this weekend. I've got a great interview. It's going to be on gold and some history, some deep history. You guys want to go subscribe to the Paratrooper podcast, if anywhere podcasts are served up and Ardburn Radio Transmission is on that channel every week too. Please go subscribe to that.
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