Hello, everybody, and thank you for turning it to the Liberty Report.

With us today, we have Chris Rosini, our co-host.

Chris, welcome to the program.

Happy Friday, great to be with you, Dr. Paul.

Oh, this is Friday.

Oh, that's right, end of the week.

But I imagine all the problems of the world will continue on weekends.

They never take a break.

Commerce is taking a break.

The politics was getting too hot where they didn't know what to do.

So let's go home.

And maybe things will be better when we come back.

We'll take an early vacation.

But that's a complicated issue because

it's just typical of what Washington's always involved in. But, you know, the gold markets have

been jumping all over the places lately has been skyrocketing, and they're still very, very high.

I think in terms of when I look at gold for the last few years since 1971, I would say

gold over $3,000 is pretty astounding, and yet it still has a long way to go.

But today it was taking a rest.

It's down a bit.

It makes people nervous. But what is not down is the spending.

The spending is continuing. And what is not down is the deficit and the pretense that there was a

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