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The "What is Money?" Show

Why the World Is Slipping Into Chaos w/ Edward Dowd

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Money, History, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investing, Breedlove, Bitcoin, Rabbit Hole, Robert Breedlove, What Is Money, Education

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Edward Dowd returns to the show to break down the forces driving global instability, financial fragility, and the growing risk of large-scale conflict. Drawing from his background in institutional finance and macroeconomic analysis, Edward explains why markets appear strong on the surface while underlying conditions continue to deteriorate. They explore demographic collapse, the AI investment bubble, the concentration of wealth and power, and why war has historically been used as a mechanism to reset failing systems. Edward also examines the limits of central banking, the distortion of economic data, and how propaganda and narrative control shape public perception during periods of decline. This conversation is a sober assessment of where the world stands today — and why preparing mentally, financially, and socially matters more than ever.

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0:00.0

Russia's advancing. Russia's going to win despite the propaganda here. And they're going to take half of the Ukraine when it's all set and done. And Trump's trying to pull out of that situation because it's no win for us. But what do you see going on in Europe? They're doubling down. Europe has a problem. They got a pension problem. They can't pay. They're done. So they need to cover this up and they're going to go to war. And how do we know they're going to go to war?

0:22.4

Because they are doing crazy things.

0:24.6

You're seeing Sweden talking about war. You're seeing Germany just said they're gonna start a conscription process for young military Germans. War is always planned in stages. I mean, World War I was the same thing. Like, it doesn't happen overnight. It's like, it's like the bureaucracy. Once it starts to get emotion, it goes. And so they need to, like, use Russia as a scapego. So that's hot spot number one. Then we got to China. China is desperately trying to rejigger their economy to export driven. That's going to get them in conflict rejoic. And if things

0:55.2

get really bad in China and you want to, you know, create a demon enemy to blame for the Chinese

1:00.6

woes, which are just self-imposed demographic decline, you create an enemy. So maybe you take

1:05.6

Taiwan. So like we've got China needs a distraction. We've got Europe that needs a distraction.

1:10.6

These people want to hold power. One way to hold powers to go to war. And it's all demographic So like we've got China needs a distraction. We've got Europe that needs a distraction.

1:12.2

These people want to hold power.

1:13.8

One way to hold power is to go to war.

1:15.6

And it's all demographically good. Those in power managing a declining population,

1:19.1

they can't afford the social networks.

1:21.5

And so they need to reboot.

1:23.5

And war is a way to reboot.

1:37.8

Ed Dowd, welcome back.

1:40.1

Robert, good to see you again.

1:43.3

You and I talked right the beginning of this craziness during COVID.

1:49.0

Oh, man. You were really the meteoric star there during the pandemic. I remember my friend Mike Hill referred me to your work originally and just how you were going deep into the data.

1:56.0

And then you ultimately published a book about it, I believe as well.

1:59.0

Yeah.

2:00.0

So what- The epidemic of sudden death in 21, I believe as well. So what?

2:01.1

The epidemic of sudden death in 21, 22, and 23.

2:04.9

We also on our firm's website,

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