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Peak Prosperity

Creak! Pop! More Signs That the Everything Bubble Is Getting Ready to Burst

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Investing, Business, Government

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Fed has been a serial bubble blower for my entire adult life. Once again, we’re facing the prospect of a colossal bubble bursting event, this time led by AI delusions having to square back up with reality, as well as house prices having to come back down to reality. Tune in for our weekly discussion of all things financial.

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0:00.0

Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice. It is for educational purposes only.

0:05.3

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0:10.1

If this thing cracks and the government prints enough money to where inflation is sustained,

0:15.8

there's going to be a lot of forced liquidations of portfolios and people of retirements.

0:19.8

The vision that they have

0:20.9

retirement is going to turn into a nightmare because they're not going to have time to recover

0:25.4

from it.

0:26.7

The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com.

0:32.5

Visit peak prosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content such as articles,

0:38.5

discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content.

0:49.8

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of Finance You. We're back with Paul Kiker

0:54.0

of Kiker Wealth Management.

0:55.2

Hey, Paul. How are you doing? Hi, Chris. I'm doing well. Good to see it again today.

0:59.4

Yeah, a lot of it's happening in the markets right now. At the time of this recording, we're seeing Bitcoin is just broken below 90,000.

1:07.8

And, of course, there's some side damage with stocks like MSTR which is a leverage bet on

1:13.3

on Bitcoin so we'll see how that plays out but there's a big rollover going on in AI the AI

1:19.9

story has taken some couple of black eyes these last couple of weeks it was all exciting

1:25.2

and it was all pie in the sky sky Sky's the limit. No limit. Exponential

1:30.9

growth. But I want to talk about that. I want to talk about M2, which is a broad measure of money.

1:37.8

This is exploding globally. I think that explains a lot of the frothiness we've been seeing.

1:42.3

Housing in the U.S. and then layoffs. That's sort of what's on my plate for today. Anything on your plate? No, I'll follow your lead. Well, for most people listening, obviously, you know, whither goes housing is like a big, big thing. Because if you're trying to buy a house, obviously you want the prices to come down, right? That'd be nice. But if you own a house, it's kind of like a little ambivalent, right? Like, you don't want your house to fall in price necessarily, but at the same time, in my case, my property taxes are keyed off of the assessed value. So I actually have a pretty compelling. I want to see my house price fall. I'd like to pay

2:18.1

less property taxes. And so I do think this is going to create some difficulties, but now they

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