We had a few technical problems, but we are going to get into a very interesting interview with somebody who has written a recent book on gold.

And of course, we're very interested in gold.

And the whole world has always been interested in gold.

The person we're going to be talking to today is Chris Whalen. I've met him many years ago.

And guess what? We talked buy gold back then, too.

So, but Chris, welcome to our Liberty Report today.

Well, thank you, Doctor.

And you're correct.

In my new book, Inflated Money, Debt in the American Dream, we do spend a lot of time on gold.

Why?

Because it is slowly returning to center stage as the monetary asset of choice.

People don't realize that the dollar as a reserve currency after World War II was kind of an anomaly.

Everybody was broke.

They looked at Washington.

Washington had lots of money. And so we decided

to peg everybody's currency, paper currency, to another paper currency called the dollar. But ever

since the Chinese got very much back into the gold market about 20 years ago, and particularly

with the opening of the Shanghai Gold Exchange,

we're seeing nations start to buy gold pretty much indifferent to price.

They're buying volumes, and they're doing this as a reserve asset to back up their paper

currencies.

So I think gold is coming back, Doctor. I think, you know, it took us a few decades to get there,

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