Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice.

It is for educational purposes only.

Please hit pause and read this disclaimer in full.

If you're a company that's got to get out there and drill and put all this cost into accessing these supplies, but you can't allow prices to rise in a normal market environment

without the President of the United States threatening you,

then one incentive is there to go drill, drill, drill, drill.

Am I missing something there?

The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com.

Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content,

such as articles, discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of Finance You.

I'm your host, Chris Martinson, and with me today, again, of course, is Paul Kiker of

Kiker Wealth Management.

Paul, so good to see you again today.

Good to see you today as well, Chris.

Well, we have so much to talk about because this last week was such a bizarre week. We almost went into World War III. Did we? Didn't we? Who won? Somebody won? We don't know. Had a lot of big market impacts. But I have a feeling that while a lot of people, Paul, were paying attention, rightly so, to what was going on in the Middle East. There was a lot of other stuff sort of sliding by economically. I want to make sure we cover that today because there's some cross currents to be generous back there.

Housing, the budget deficits, what's going on with gold and silver, hoping to get to all of that.

But I just want to make sure that we're still focused on what's really important in the markets while there's so much

distractive things out there, which are like shiny keys in front of a three-year-old while you're stuffing a rabbit in the hat, you know?

Well said, they sure are.

All kinds of distraction to take, you know, the market's been a great distraction for people in the midst of everything that's taken place and under the surface.

Like I'm sure you're going to talk about some of the data. Everything's changing.

...