Why Is Everything So Expensive Now?
Ken McElroy Show
Ken McElroy
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They printed the money. |
| 0:03.4 | Now you're paying the price. |
| 0:05.4 | So today we're going to be talking about the big print that Ken has been reading and kind of breaking that down because it's a very telling book for these times. |
| 0:13.9 | Well, Kiyosaki gave me the book and he started reading it. |
| 0:17.1 | And then I actually already read it. |
| 0:19.0 | Now I'm starting to reread it because, you know, I don't know about you, but I start reading books. And then I actually already read it now I'm starting to reread it because you know I don't know about you but I start reading books and then I forget what I read like you know even a page |
| 0:26.3 | sometimes not you though I see you're you're totally focused all the time I'm listening to like 10 |
| 0:33.7 | podcasts yeah so what I do is I I am now reading the book with a highlighter and a pen and and and earmarking |
| 0:42.2 | dog ear, whatever they call it, certain things because it's actually extremely good. |
| 0:48.2 | It's a, it's a history of money. |
| 0:50.7 | And, you know, kind of he, he lays out a pretty good case here. |
| 0:55.4 | And I really... |
| 0:56.7 | He's for what? |
| 0:57.5 | Because people don't know... |
| 0:58.4 | Well, he's saying that we have a broken monetary system and that inflation is basically |
| 1:04.5 | hidden tax that will never go away. |
| 1:06.3 | It's always going to crush the middle and lower class. |
| 1:09.2 | And that is the truth. |
| 1:10.5 | And that's kind of the |
| 1:11.5 | basis for it. And what he, what he did is he says it all changed in 1971 when the U.S. went off |
| 1:17.9 | the gold standard. And the U.S. was able to print. And if you take a look at the chart from that |
| 1:25.2 | period of time, you can see that the actual money supply, |
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