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Peak Prosperity

Debt, Dollars, and Dysfunction: The Case for Monetary Reinvention and Regulatory Reform

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Paul discuss the surprising stability of financial markets amid geopolitical tensions, U.S. deficit spending, and potential regulatory reforms inspired by international examples like Argentina.

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0:00.0

Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice.

0:03.2

It is for educational purposes only.

0:05.3

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0:10.2

Thomas Jefferson, I believe it says, if you give the control of the people's money over to a central bank,

0:15.8

first by inflation, then by deflation, they will rob you of all your wealth.

0:21.2

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0:27.0

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0:31.7

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0:45.3

Hello, everyone.

0:47.9

Welcome to this next edition of Finance You.

0:51.9

I am your host, Chris Martinson of Peak Financial Investing here again with Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management.

0:53.5

Hey, Paul, good to see you. Good afternoon, Chrisiker of Kiker Wealth Management. Hey, Paul,

0:59.2

good to see you. Good afternoon, Chris. Good to see you as well. Well, here we are recording this. Looks like it's around November 20th, exactly. And there's some really big geopolitical

1:06.2

tensions going on out there that have been shocking to me, Paul.

1:16.4

We've been talking about them back at peak prosperity, which includes the idea that the peaceful transfer of power to Democrats apparently means say the words, but then lob some missiles into

1:22.0

Russia.

1:22.9

I haven't seen a lot of market response to that.

1:26.0

I'm a little surprised, because I'm old enough

1:27.8

to remember when the prospect of nuclear thermo conflagration was a market moving event.

1:34.2

It didn't really budge the market even slightly. How do you interpret this?

1:40.2

Well, so I see the headlines, markets down coming in, you know, it's being clear about the response that he's going to have. So I come in and we've been testing in the office. I'm like, I'll walk into Dillon's office and mine. And I'm like, okay, we've got headlines. You've got to build, you know, a terrorist attack has happened or whatever. You've got five minutes to build the positions in the portfolio and be ready to liquidate. So we actually came in and built positions just in case the, you know, several things started breaking support levels in case there was a response. And then market opens and then it starts getting a little more strength, a little more strength throughout the day. And then, and then I think we closed positive then of the day.

2:19.5

Yeah, we did.

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