Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.

Today, Friday, we frequently have a special guest, and what's more, we do, the economists from

our friends at Birch Gold, and that's Philip Patrick.

He's here once again, and Philip, welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me, Dr. Bull.

Well, Philip, we should have a few things to make, you know, comment on about the Fed meeting.

And they're solving all the problems and sometimes contradictions that were pointed out this week.

One policy's doing this to push rates up, the other one's pushing it down.

And I always like to make the point that in a true sense of the word, they're trying to rig the price of interest rates, which is impossible, and therefore there's confusion.

And I think it'd be safe and therefore there's confusion.

And I think it'd be safe to say there's confusion with the Fed going on these days.

But I saw something today, Philip, in the news that affects the prices.

And people are concerned about prices, and they might not think about exactly where does

the price increases come from.

But there's an article on Zero Hedgedy and said oil spikes on reports of U.S. military on

the Venezuela infinite.

And those prices going up, you know, is significant.

It may cause the consumer to be hurt.

But that's a little bit different.

There's a lot of things that make prices go up.

Droughts, floods, storms, and whatever.

But the main thing that I've been interested over time has been the way the value of the dollar goes down.

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