Why Passive Investing Is Dead: Navigating the New Financial Chaos
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
What a time to be alive. If we’re right, the dollar regime is now on its last legs, which makes pre-positioning your portfolio for this shift is a must-do activity. Further, we’re going to have to be both nimble and humble, because much of what will happen next cannot be predicted. It will emerge.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing in this program should be considered investment advice. |
| 0:03.2 | It is for educational purposes only. |
| 0:05.3 | Please hit pause and read this disclaimer in full. |
| 0:10.5 | Look, I'm the type of person I would rather get the pain over with now. |
| 0:14.1 | Let's deal with it now before it festeres into something greater, but our politicians are too weak to do that. |
| 0:20.9 | The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com. |
| 0:26.7 | Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content, such as articles, |
| 0:32.7 | discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content. |
| 0:44.2 | Thank you. and exclusive subscriber-only content. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Finance University, Finance You with Paul |
| 0:48.6 | Kiker, Kiker Wealth Management, back with us today. |
| 0:51.8 | Paul, welcome, and we have some stuff to talk about. Oh, we do have a lot to talk |
| 0:57.2 | about. It's amazing what's going on, or under the surface, around the surface, all over the place. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, so the first thing I want to talk about, though, just to set the stage for this is, |
| 1:08.1 | I don't know what's happening, Paul, and neither do they. I spend a lot of |
| 1:13.1 | time in my life listening to lots of different people, and I gather lots of great viewpoints, |
| 1:17.9 | but I have to say for the first time, I've started to, well, not for the first time, you know what, |
| 1:22.2 | I stopped following people who were giving me gold technical charts. Once I determined that it wasn't really following |
| 1:29.9 | technicals. It was doing something else that felt like it had some undercurrents of manipulation. |
| 1:34.4 | So a technical chart is an assessment of what all the humans are doing. Yeah, if you can trust |
| 1:40.5 | that the humans have normal human motivations, right? If you don't, it breaks down and people be like, oh, it's going to do a fib retration. |
| 1:46.7 | I'm like, why? Why would it? |
| 1:47.8 | Somebody's setting the price for this stuff. |
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