Navigating the Market Storm: A Day of Volatility and Big Questions
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
4.7 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Chris and Paul discuss market volatility due to Trump’s tariff pause, bond market reactions, gold’s resilience, and potential economic impacts.
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| 0:10.6 | Did he back off because of the stresses and the underlying credit market and the liquidity |
| 0:16.2 | that this was causing and maybe just trying to buy some time to help the underlying components of the market. |
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| 0:47.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of Finance You. By the way, we've got a really big |
| 0:51.7 | show today. Trump just announced a pause on some of the tariffs, not all of them. We'll go through all of that, creates lots of volatility in the stock markets, which we define is up or down. Obviously, that puts us in something of a minority where volatility only is supposed to mean when stuff goes down. As well, we're going to have to talk about gold a little bit. We've got to talk about what's happening in the bond market and a little bit about oil, |
| 1:14.5 | maybe. |
| 1:14.7 | We'll see if we get to that. So Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management, good to see you, Paul. Good to see you as well, Chris. Happy Bipolar Day. Thank you for happy bipolar day. Last time I saw you, you were wearing big, big waiters. |
| 1:27.8 | And so was I. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, what a wonderful trip that was. Last time I saw you, you were wearing big, big waiters, and so was I. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes. |
| 1:29.6 | Oh, what a wonderful trip that was. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, so I was really worried having everybody in because we had tons of rain the day before. |
| 1:38.2 | But I decided it's worth it. |
| 1:40.4 | It'll either be a great day or it'll be a terrible day, but I think we'll catch |
| 1:44.2 | some fish and it ended up being a great day. So it was fun time. It was a great day. |
| 1:50.9 | Let's turn now to this. You know, are the tariffs war, are the tariff wars over? Markets seem |
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