Welcome to Crystal Kyle and friends everybody. Today it's just Kyle and friend. And we're going to have a very interesting conversation here. So of course, I'm talking to Ben Norton from Geopolitical Economy Report. Thank you very much for joining me, Ben.

Thanks for having me, Kyle.

It's a pleasure being here. Okay, so I'll just cut right to it. I saw you released a video the other day.

It was, I forget the exact title, but it was something to the effect of the United States is in the biggest bubble in history, biggest economic bubble in history.

And, you know, I'm fairly knowledgeable about the economy and politics and things of that nature. But when I watched that

video, there were like five or six different data points that I was completely unfamiliar with.

That just absolutely blew my mind about how it's true. We may even be in a worse bubble than

1929 when we had the stock market crash and the

Great Depression. So this is a very timely conversation that we're having. We just discussed this off

air, but this is early in the week, guys, as we're recording this, but what just happened today

is that Navidia stock tumbled colossally. Other tech stocks tumbled colossally. And the reason for that has to do

with China and Deep Seek and the fact that they were basically able to make better AI for way,

way, way cheaper. And so the hype bubble in the tech sector in the U.S., the air is now coming out of

it. And so I guess let's just start there. Let's start with, did you foresee this coming?

Because I had no idea.

Like I never know what's going to be the genesis of a crash.

Sometimes I feel, yeah, crash is probably coming.

I never know what's going to be the thing that pops the bubble.

Did you see this coming?

And is this the thing that leads to the big crash?

It could be. I mean, this is the question everyone's asking. This is the multi-trillion dollar question, right?

Now, it's funny because, Kyle, when you originally invited me a few weeks ago, I was busy traveling.

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