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

With us today, once again, we fortunately have our favorite economists here, Philip Patrick,

who is the economist for Birch Gold, knows all you need to know about precious metals.

He's been thinking about precious metals almost as long as I have been. And so he will be

our special guest bed. We will go to the details in a few minutes. But, Philip, welcome to the

program. Thank you so much for having me, Dr. Boylton, honor as always.

Okay, very good.

You know, I think one of the first thing we want to do is one of the top issues, you know,

the weekly report that I do with Daniel, we usually look at what are people really thinking about.

And it's been several days now and it's still still up in the air, is, you know,

there's the potential of the militaristic approach to our foreign policy may accelerate. Because,

you know, this week, our president said, and he gives us his justifications, he says and he says well I think we should

bomb Iran maybe but I'll let you know in two weeks so the first thing is Philip is I

don't think that is the best approach for diplomacy.

But I know you've thought about this because you're an economist

and you're interested in the precious metals and you're interested in our safety and security.

What have you been thinking about this thing because it isn't getting better because we

already noticed it has affected oil prices?

You're absolutely correct.

I would tend to agree with you.

I don't think it's the best style of diplomacy, but it is very Trump-esque.

We'll have to wait and see. I didn't think he had at all the

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