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

With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.

Daniel, good to see you this morning.

Good to see you, Dr. Paul. How are you doing this morning?

Doing well, thank you. Doing well.

We have several subjects.

This morning I was looking at the news and I saw a lot of subjects that we could iron out.

But we have to be satisfied with a limited amount of solutions that we're going to provide for the world.

And we'll make an effort at least to do that.

But before we do this, I want to mention a little bit about the economy, because the economy,

you know, is pretty instrumental in everything that we do, whether it's foreign policy or

monetary affairs, the whole works. And this morning, there were some news that should stir up the markets a bit.

Housing starts were down and they made a mistake or they revised them,

but they were really down 122,000.

That's a pretty big error.

And, of course, gold was down sharply today.

I think that's because people like to make profits on occasion,

because the fundamentals haven't changed. I relate the assessment of gold as an assessment

of the dollar value and the dollar value I assess from how much money the government is pretending

to spend. Fictitious money then backed by the whole

economy. So this has been going on for a long time. We're still spending. It's out of control.

And I think a big economic event coming up is here in the next couple months when they have to

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