Hello, everyone. Yes, Chris Martinson of Peak Financial Investing with another episode here of

Finance University. And today, very pleased to have Lawrence Lepard here of Equity Management

Associates out of Boston. He's been to my farm once. Lawrence is a great guy, gold and silver

investor believes in Bitcoin. Kaz his pulse really on all things financial

in the markets out there.

So we're going to have a really good rocking conversation today at a critical time because

of all the popping and creaking sounds going on out there.

Lawrence, so good to see you.

Chris, thanks for having me back.

It's always fun to chat with you.

I really, I love your thread. I love your point of view. So this should be you. Thanks. Thanks for having me back. It's always fun to chat with you. I really, I love your, I love your thread.

I love your point of view. So this should be fun. Good. Hey, for the people who don't know you, just quickly, what's your background? Very quickly. I've been a fund manager my whole life, investment management. Until 2008, I was focused on technology. you know, hardware, software, computers, internet did pretty well with all that.

Kind of retouched. 2008, I was focused on technology, you know, hardware, software, computers, internet did pretty

well with all that, kind of retired in 08, retired actually in 04, messed around for a few years.

And then in 08, the GFC hit.

And I thought to myself, you know what?

I got radicalized for sound money.

I could see what they were doing.

I could see that the Fed was going to print away the value of the

dollar. And so I pivoted and I got into the gold and gold stock picking business because I

envisioned that we would have a decade that looked like the 70s with a lot of inflation.

And in the 70s, gold and gold stocks and oil and oil stocks were the two things to invest in.

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