Hello everybody and welcome to the Ron Paul Liberty Report.

With us today we have a special guest and he's been with us before and he happens to be the top

economist, the Perch Gold Group, and that is Philip Patrick. He's been with us quite a few times,

but Philip, welcome back to our program.

Thank you for having me dr paul well great

there's lots of things going on you know first off you know the politics uh right they're

changing right now you you know we can talk about what we've had what we're dealing with what

the transition is like and we've heard what the promises are

for the next go around, the new president coming in,

the new old president coming in.

And there's a lot of conversation, a lot of changes.

And it's hard to anticipate.

Of course, most people, you know,

on a conservative libertarian side are hopeful

some good will come of all this, and I'm in that category.

But I've also been conditioned to wait and see, and we have to be concerned, and we have

to have an input if possible, and that's sort of what we like to do on the Liberty Report is talk

about the issues that we want to keep out there discussing because obviously perfection isn't

going to occur next week or right after the president's sworn in and I think it's great

that some of these issues have come up. So I think that,

you know, the economy looks like it's going to do well. But I think the proof is in the pudding.

And that is what's it like in six months from now? So we will see. But if it weren't so serious, because I do consider serious,

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