Can a Market Meltdown Be Avoided?
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Trump’s bold actions could well lead to a recession simply due to cutting off flows of fraudulent, unnecessary, and/or wasteful spending. At the same time inflation is still kicking around, so the Fed is less likely to re-spike the punchbowl. The result? Stagflation possibly, which is the worst outcome for the average person.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice. |
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| 0:10.7 | So the question is, and what I'm hoping, is that Doge pulls out all of these inflationary pressures, |
| 0:18.1 | and Trump actually goes through and allows the consequences, |
| 0:21.8 | unfortunately, that are going to impact all of us to ring this inflation out of the system. |
| 0:26.9 | The question is, is will he actually follow through with that? |
| 0:30.9 | The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com. |
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| 0:53.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Finance You. |
| 0:56.6 | I am your host, Chris Martinson. |
| 0:58.8 | Peak Prosperity, also Peak Financial Investing.com, here again with Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management. |
| 1:04.6 | Paul, so good to see you. |
| 1:06.3 | How are you doing, buddy? |
| 1:07.5 | I'm doing good, Chris. |
| 1:08.6 | It's good to see you, and what a time to be alive. I mean, |
| 1:11.6 | what a time to be alive. We talked last week, which was decades ago in Lenin speak, right? |
| 1:20.8 | So, but there's so much going on. I think everybody needs to be aware that there's both |
| 1:25.9 | opportunities and risks in all of this, |
| 1:27.8 | but here's the subtext. I want to talk inflation today, gold, obviously, because there's been |
| 1:32.2 | some things there to discuss. But in particular, these moves that are happening with Doge, with Trump, |
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