Investing in an Age of Uncertainty
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Between the unpredictable impacts of the world’s worst energy shock and the sudden loss of so many high salaried jobs to AI, what’s an investor to think (let alone do)?
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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 | Please hit pause and read this disclaimer in full. |
| 0:10.6 | You know, if you have exit points in a risk-managed strategy inside your portfolio, maybe you're |
| 0:16.0 | wrong. Okay, you miss some opportunity in the short run. But where we are right now, you're better |
| 0:20.8 | off to have a fence at the top of a cliff, |
| 0:23.0 | then you are in ambulance waiting for you at the bottom. |
| 0:26.7 | The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com. |
| 0:32.5 | Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content, |
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| 0:50.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of Finance You. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm your host, Chris Martinson, |
| 0:55.1 | back with Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management. How you doing, Paul? I'm doing good, Chris. |
| 1:00.7 | We've had a nice little cold snap that come through after we were teased about warm weather, |
| 1:05.2 | so I'm looking forward to spring. Well, today we're going to talk about two big things. |
| 1:10.2 | We have to talk about the AI impact on jobs. Nobody knows how this is going to pencil out. We got to talk about that. But first, we're going to have to talk about this inflationary impact that's coming because of the Iran War, which editorially was a war of choice. And now we're going to have to live with that. |
| 1:28.7 | So I think that could have just enormous implications for all things related to investing. |
| 1:34.6 | So I really wanted to talk about this, because we talked about this last time, Paul, |
| 1:38.2 | it's really investing in an age of, and I'm being kind here, uncertainty. |
| 1:42.1 | You're being very kind. |
| 1:43.6 | Yes. |
| 1:43.8 | We could use some stronger terms in there, right? Yes. Maximum uncertainty. Unprecedented uncertainty. Something like that. Yeah. So, I mean, of course it begins with an attack on February 28th. That night starts March 1st, so we can date this. We're recording here on the 18th, now 18 days into this war. |
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