Use Common Sense and Avoid the Echo Chamber

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Stansberry Investor Hour, Dan and Corey welcome Chris Irons to the show. Chris started writing about finance back in 2013 under the moniker Quoth the Raven and was a speaker at the 2019 Stansberry Conference.

Chris kicks things off by addressing tariffs and shares how nominal prices will continue to rise regardless of what we do. He says the cycle of crashes and money-printing has continued to accelerate and create bigger distortions and drops. And he discusses passive bids that pile into the S&P 500 Index and cause valuations to become stretched. He warns against overexposure to the fund due to potential drawdowns in any of the "Magnificent Seven" that could take the index down with them. (0:00)

Next, Chris states that the market has gone "all in" on options instead of equities, creating a state of leveraged gambling. And he predicts that things have changed so much that despite the beliefs that there will continue to be government bailouts or other solutions, this cannot continue. Something will break eventually. However, it's not all doom and gloom. Chris says you just have to find where there's good value. (24:06)

Finally, Chris shares advice on how to hedge any large market crashes based on his own strategies. He also cautions against buying into assets in blind hope of reaching a bottom. If a company is burning money without generating any cash, there won't be a bottom to bounce off of. (42:19)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Stansberry Investor Hour. I'm Dan Ferris. I'm the editor of Extreme Value and The Ferris Report, both published by Stansberry Research.
0:10.1	And I'm Corey McLaughlin, editor of the Stansberry Daily Digest. Today we talk with Chris Irons, also known as Quoth the Raven on substaff.
0:19.2	Chris is a very smart guy, and he's a salty old dog, so get ready for that. But get out your pens and pencils. He's got a lot of great ideas about what is happening in the world right now that I want you to hear. You need to hear them in my opinion, and you need to hear them in a different way. And this is that way, so let's do it. Let's talk with Chris Irons. Let's do it right now.
0:42.7	All right, Chris Irons, welcome to the show, apparently for the first time ever. I thought you'd
0:50.5	been on before, but I guess not. Happy to be here.
0:54.8	And as I said before, I thought my half-life with ever being invited back to anything, Stansberry,
1:01.0	after my 2019 on-stage performance in Las Vegas was much longer than six years.
1:07.0	I thought it was going to be at least, at least 20 years.
1:10.2	But, you know, it's great to be back six years later.
1:13.5	I'm not surprised it took so long.
1:16.7	Well, you know, so you know how people are.
1:20.9	You know, they hear a little salty language and they get all flustered.
1:26.4	Yeah, well, I appreciated the invite and, you know, happy to be here.
1:31.3	Yes.
1:32.3	And you're putting too much stock in our planning as well.
1:35.3	If you think that that was an issue for us, yeah.
1:40.3	Hey, I enjoyed myself.
1:42.3	I, you know, I get invited to these like conferences and things, which I don't really do too many anymore. I do still get invites and my thought process is like, you know, if I go, I go. If I don't, I don't. I'm not, you know, I'm just going to go and say what I want to say and that's going to be it. And if don't get invited back you know that's okay I remember the guy
2:01.4	at your at your stage show you know because everybody it was like very professionally done
2:06.8	professional sound professional everything great crowd you know it was like oh yeah do you want to wear
2:12.2	a jacket I remember he asked me like you want to wear a suit coat because I had a tank top on because
2:16.9	like about
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