0:02 Every time gold prices outpace the stock
0:05 market, two things have happened. Number
0:07 one, something in the economic system
0:09 cracks. And number two, some people
0:11 become incredibly wealthy. And we're
0:13 seeing it happen right now. Take a look.
0:15 In the last 100 years, we've only seen
0:17 gold prices outpace the stock market on
0:19 five different occasions. Number one was
0:21 around the early 1930s, which is of
0:22 course when the Great Depression
0:24 happened. Number two was in the early
0:26 1970s. This was when we saw the great
0:29 stagflation, super high inflation, wages
0:30 that were falling and a deep recession
0:32 for the United States. Number three was
0:35 around the year 2000 when the dotcom
0:36 bubble burst and people were concerned
0:38 about the economy and the dollar. Number
0:41 four was around the 2008 time when the
0:44 entire great financial crisis happened
0:45 when the housing market crashed and
0:46 people were concerned about
0:48 hyperinflation because of all the
0:50 quantitative easing. So, gold prices
0:51 outpace the stock market. And then
0:54 number five started in 2020 during the
0:55 pandemic. And you might say, well,
0:57 dustpre, we already saw that crack. The
0:59 pandemic led to the economy shutting
1:00 down, so people were concerned then.
1:03 Well, here we are in 2025, and gold
1:05 prices are now outpacing the stock
1:08 market. Again, history doesn't exactly
1:09 repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And
1:11 what we've learned is that every time in
1:13 history, gold prices have outpaced the
1:15 stock market, has meant something bad
1:17 for the economy, and some people became
1:19 incredibly wealthy. So my goal in this
1:20 video is to go over what's actually
1:22 happening in the economy and how you can
1:24 find the investment opportunity for
1:25 yourself. Now to really understand what
1:27 might be coming, we have to take a look
1:30 at history. In the early 1900s, we ran
1:32 on the gold standard here in the United
1:34 States, which meant gold was money. But
1:36 that first started to change during this
1:39 time period because we ran into a big
1:41 financial crisis. People were running
1:42 out of money. Businesses were going
1:44 bankrupt. So people were concerned. And
1:46 what did they do? They started to pull
1:48 their money out of the banks. Bank after
1:49 bank across [music] the country is hit
1:51 by panic withdrawals. Depositors
1:53 swarming to snatch out what [music]
1:55 savings they have left before it's too
1:57 late. Banks by the hundreds, by the
1:59 thousands are forced to close. The whole
2:02 financial system quakes and totters.
2:04 >> And again, money was gold. So people
2:06 were pulling their gold out of the banks
2:07 and they were hoarding this gold in
2:09 their houses because they were concerned
2:11 about all the bank runs. Remember during
2:13 this great depression, there was no FDIC
2:15 insurance. So if people pulled their
2:16 money out of the banks, banks would run
2:18 out of money and they would collapse. So
2:19 people were scared. They were hoarding
2:21 their gold. And the United States
2:23 government needed money. They needed
2:25 money to pay bills. They needed money to
2:26 help stimulate the economy. And
2:28 remember, money was gold. So that was
2:29 when the president at the time, Franklin
2:32 D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order 6102,
2:34 6102,
2:36 which made it illegal for you to own
2:40 more than $100 worth of gold. If you
2:42 owned more than $100 worth of gold, you
2:44 were required to sell that gold to the
2:48 United States government for $2067
2:50 an ounce. And if you did not sell that
2:52 gold to the government, you were going
2:53 to go to jail. And fun fact, as soon as
2:55 the United States government bought your
2:58 gold for $2067 an ounce, they
3:01 immediately then revalued your gold for
3:03 $35 an ounce. That way, the United
3:04 States government had more wealth to
3:06 help pay back the bills. After that
3:08 happened in 1933, our money went from
3:10 being gold to being money backed by
3:12 gold. It was a contract that said, "Hey,
3:15 this $100 bill that you have is a
3:17 promise that is backed by $100 worth of
3:21 gold." But then that changed in 1971.
3:22 The United States government now had a
3:24 lot of debts. We had a lot of foreign
3:25 countries that wanted to be paid by the
3:27 United States government because they
3:28 had lent us money and we didn't have
3:31 enough money to pay them back. And in
3:33 order for us to create more money, we
3:34 needed more wealth. And remember, our
3:36 money was backed by gold. So our
3:38 government couldn't just print more
3:39 money because we needed more gold to
3:41 justify printing more money. And that
3:44 was when in 1971, Richard Nixon
3:46 temporarily took the United States
3:48 dollar off of the gold standard. That
3:50 way, the United States government could
3:52 now print an infinite amount of more money.
3:52 money.
3:54 >> I have directed Secretary Connley to
3:56 suspend temporarily the convertability
3:59 of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets.
4:00 assets.
4:02 >> And that's what happened. We printed
4:04 more money. We then paid off all of our
4:06 debts and all the problems were solved.
4:09 Except not really because that then led
4:11 to the inflationary crisis that happened
4:13 because we printed so much money without
4:14 having more wealth which made the dollar
4:16 effectively less valuable causing the
4:18 prices of things to go up while wages
4:20 were not growing and the economy was
4:22 slowing down. And that also led to now
4:25 our dollars no longer being backed by
4:27 gold. Which is why today our money or
4:29 what we call money is not backed by gold
4:31 or any other precious metal. is backed
4:34 by a promise that our United States
4:37 dollar has value because it's backed by
4:39 the strongest economy in the world. It's
4:40 backed by the strongest government in
4:42 the world. And this is why people get so
4:44 concerned when gold prices outpace the
4:46 stock market. Because when gold prices
4:49 go up, it's not because the value of
4:51 gold is going up. It's because the value
4:53 of the dollar that's buying the gold is
4:55 going down. People are buying the gold
4:56 because they're concerned about
4:57 something. Compare that to something
4:59 like Amazon. When Amazon stock price is
5:01 going up, it's generally because they're
5:03 producing more value. It's generally
5:04 because they're trying to make more
5:06 profits because people are excited about
5:08 the future products that Amazon is going
5:09 to create. They're excited about the
5:12 growth that Amazon might have. That's
5:13 why Amazon stock would go up. Why would
5:15 gold prices go up? Because people are
5:17 scared. Now, to understand the concerns
5:18 that people might have, we have to take
5:19 a look at what's been happening with the
5:21 dollar, more specifically the creation
5:24 of the dollar, especially over the last
5:26 few years since this time. Now, one of
5:27 the simplest ways to understand this is
5:30 by taking a look at a national deficit.
5:32 And what that means is taking a look at
5:34 the United States government's spending
5:36 of dollars that they don't have. Because
5:38 remember, the United States government
5:40 has one form of income. It's tax dollars
5:42 from taxpayers, people like you and me.
5:44 But what we've been seeing happen,
5:45 especially over the last number of
5:47 years, is that the United States
5:48 government has been spending a lot of
5:50 money that they don't have. And when the
5:51 government spends money that they don't
5:53 have, they have to borrow that money.
5:54 Where do they borrow that money? They
5:56 can borrow the money from people like
5:57 you and me. They can borrow the money
5:59 from foreign countries like Japan and
6:01 the United Kingdom. Or they can borrow
6:03 that money from our central bank, the
6:05 Federal Reserve Bank. Now, although
6:06 they're called the Federal Reserve Bank,
6:08 they're actually not a bank because you
6:09 and I can't go there to deposit money.
6:11 They're actually not a reserve because
6:12 they're not sitting on any cash reserves
6:14 and they're actually not federal. It
6:16 says so on their website. But what the
6:18 Federal Reserve Bank can do is they can
6:20 print money and lend it to the United
6:21 States government. Now, remember, the
6:22 Federal Reserve Bank would be printing
6:24 money without having more wealth. And so
6:26 when you create more of this money out
6:27 of thin air, what happens to the value
6:30 of each individual dollar? Well, it goes
6:31 down because we're just creating more
6:33 money without creating more wealth. So
6:35 let's go over what a national deficit
6:37 has looked like from 2019 to 2025. And
6:39 I'll talk about now what this means for
6:41 you as an investor because well, it
6:42 becomes very important for you to
6:43 understand this from an investment
6:45 standpoint. And by the way, for those of
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7:18 In 2019, our national deficit was $984
7:20 billion. In 2020, during the pandemic,
7:24 it shot up to 3.1 trillion. 2021, 2.8
7:27 trillion. 2022, 1.4 trillion because
7:29 things finally started to normalize. But
7:31 check this out. By 2023, it jumped back
7:35 up to 1.7 trillion. 2024, 1.8 trillion.
7:37 And in 2025, we don't have the final
7:38 numbers, but it's expected to be
7:41 something around $2 trillion. This is
7:42 where the key thing that I want you to
7:44 understand is that the value of the debt
7:46 is not what's important. It's the
7:48 ability to pay back the debt. And it's
7:50 the real value of the debt relative to
7:53 the value of your assets. Because if you
7:55 have a $100 worth of debt, is it a lot
7:57 or a little bit? If your net worth is
7:59 $2, that's a lot of debt. If your net
8:01 worth is a million dollars, now $100
8:03 worth of debt is not that much. And so
8:05 if the United States government has $38
8:07 trillion worth of debt, the reason why
8:08 it's such an issue right now is because
8:11 number one, our fastest growing expense
8:12 in the United States is interest
8:15 payments because we have so much debt.
8:16 And the second reason why it's so
8:18 important is because our national debt
8:20 is growing way faster than the national
8:21 wealth. And this is where investors are
8:23 getting concerned. And this is right now
8:24 the Trump administration is looking to
8:26 make some changes with gold, looking to
8:28 make some changes with crypto to help
8:30 alleviate some of these concerns for
8:32 investors and to alleviate some of these
8:33 concerns about the economy. Remember I
8:36 said a few minutes ago where in 1933 it
8:39 became illegal to own gold and FDR
8:41 ordered that you sell your gold to the
8:43 United States government for $20 and
8:45 some change. And after the United States
8:46 government seized that gold, they
8:50 revalued that gold at $35, which meant
8:51 the United States government bought gold
8:53 and then immediately became wealthier
8:55 because they changed the value of that
8:57 gold on their books. Well, that could
8:59 potentially happen again. It hasn't
9:01 happened yet, but in August 2025, the
9:03 Federal Reserve government published an
9:05 article on their website revealing the
9:08 idea of doing another gold revaluation.
9:09 What the article said is that they are
9:11 considering quote revaluing the
9:14 government's 261 a.5 million troy ounces
9:16 of gold which is currently valued at 42.22
9:18 42.22
9:20 per troy ounce. So if we do some quick
9:22 math if we have 261 million ounces of
9:25 gold you multiply that at $422 per
9:27 ounce. That means we have 11 billion
9:29 worth of gold on our balance sheet. And
9:30 this is what the Federal Reserve Bank is
9:32 saying. What if we just change the value
9:34 of our gold? In the article the Fed
9:37 proposed $3,300 per troy ounce. So now
9:38 we can do the same math equation. Let's
9:40 assume we have the same amount of gold,
9:41 which hasn't been verified. But if we
9:43 assume that we have the same amount of
9:46 gold, we change this to $3,300
9:48 per ounce. Now we don't have 11 billion
9:50 of gold on our balance sheet. Now all of
9:53 a sudden we have $860 billion worth of
9:55 gold on our balance sheet. We now
9:57 immediately became wealthier by doing
10:00 nothing except changing the value of our
10:02 assets. And hopefully the goal here is
10:05 if we do that, it makes the United
10:07 States look $800 billion wealthier,
10:09 which will hopefully ease some of the
10:11 concerns of investors about our national
10:13 debt. Now, of course, this does have a
10:15 risk, though, because if the value of
10:18 gold falls below this, now investors are
10:19 going to be even more concerned because
10:21 that means now we're underwater on our
10:23 assets. And we know that gold prices
10:24 don't always go straight up. Take a
10:27 look. Between 2008 and 2012, gold prices
10:29 skyrocketed when people were worried
10:31 about inflation and the economy
10:33 crashing. But then in 2012, when those
10:35 fears went away, the economy recovered,
10:38 gold prices crashed, and they didn't hit
10:41 new record highs until 2020, almost 10
10:43 years later, when the pandemic hit, and
10:45 those same concerns about the dollar
10:46 came back. Remember, gold as an
10:48 investment is not producing value the
10:50 way that a stock does. Nike is working
10:52 to produce shoes. McDonald's is
10:54 producing burgers and building real
10:55 estate. Amazon is selling products in
10:58 AWS. Gold is just sitting there looking
11:00 back at you. This is why gold is
11:02 considered a debasement trade. It's
11:04 because people generally buy gold when
11:05 they're concerned about the value of the
11:07 dollar dropping. They buy gold when
11:08 they're concerned about the economy.
11:11 They buy gold as an insurance. And when
11:12 that insurance, that hedge, that
11:14 protection is growing faster than the
11:16 value of other assets. That's where
11:17 people get concerned. We're also seeing
11:18 the Trump administration make some
11:20 changes in the cryptocurrency side of
11:22 the world to help make our national debt
11:25 not look as bad. In March 2025,
11:26 President Trump signed an executive
11:29 order which established a new strategic
11:31 Bitcoin reserve and a broader digital
11:33 asset stockpile. What this meant was not
11:35 that the United States government was
11:36 going to go out and start buying
11:38 Bitcoin. Instead, when the United States
11:40 government were to seize crypto assets,
11:42 instead of selling off this Bitcoin that
11:44 they used to do, they're just going to
11:46 keep owning that Bitcoin. Because now if
11:48 they have this bitcoin on their balance
11:50 sheet and bitcoin goes up in value well
11:52 now the United States government looks
11:54 more wealthy because they have more
11:55 assets on their balance sheet. Now the
11:57 reason why this matters is the
11:58 government says that over the years we
12:00 have seized something around 170,000
12:03 bitcoins which we have sold off but now
12:05 if we didn't sell it off we kept those
12:06 bitcoins it'd be worth a whole lot more
12:08 money because when bitcoin is worth
12:11 80,000 90,000 $100,000 it's worth a lot
12:13 more. And this is where the government
12:15 says, "We're going to start keeping that
12:17 Bitcoin because if Bitcoin continues to
12:18 go up in value, well, that's going to
12:20 make the government more valuable. And
12:22 if our assets are higher, our national
12:23 debt does not look as bad." But of
12:25 course, there's a concern because if we
12:28 keep that Bitcoin and Bitcoin drops in
12:30 value, well, if we value that Bitcoin on
12:32 our books at just say $100,000 a coin
12:35 and Bitcoin falls to $60,000 a coin,
12:36 well, now we look underwater on those
12:38 assets, especially if we've borrowed
12:40 against those assets. Now, what does
12:42 this mean specifically for you? Should
12:43 you buy gold? Should you buy crypto?
12:45 Well, maybe. Personal finance is
12:47 personal. And yes, there's a place for
12:49 gold in a portfolio. There's a place for
12:51 crypto in a portfolio. And you're going
12:53 to have a different ratio and percentage
12:55 than I do. But the real thing that I
12:57 want you to understand here is that the
12:59 trend is not changing. The United States
13:01 government is spending more money than
13:04 we generate from taxes. That has an
13:06 impact because anytime we create more
13:10 money, that makes one person rich. It's
13:12 not the workers. It is the investors
13:14 period. How do I know? Well, we can just
13:16 take a look at the last five years
13:17 because what we've seen is that
13:19 investments have grown way faster than
13:22 wages. We've seen the median household
13:24 income grow by less than 25%. It's
13:26 actually estimated to be around 22% over
13:28 the last 5 years while the stock market
13:31 has grown by around 90%. It's the same
13:33 trend that we've seen for the last five
13:35 decades. So if you want to become
13:37 wealthy in this economic system, you
13:40 cannot do it based off your salary
13:42 alone. Period. I'm not saying it's bad
13:44 to work a job. It's not bad to earn a
13:46 salary. But you got to convert a piece
13:48 of that salary into assets. What are
13:51 assets? Stocks, real estate. And by real
13:52 estate, I don't just mean the house that
13:53 you live in. I mean rental properties.
13:55 It could be crypto. It could be gold.
13:56 There are many places for you to invest
13:58 this money. But you have to own these
14:00 assets because as more money gets
14:02 created, inflation happens. And when
14:04 there's more inflation, consumption
14:06 becomes more expensive. That means you
14:08 go to Amazon, you spend more money to
14:10 buy things. You go to Kroger, you spend
14:11 more money to buy the guac. You go to
14:13 Walmart, you spend more money to buy
14:15 whatever you got to buy. And that means
14:17 more money doesn't just go into the
14:18 hands of the workers because workers get
14:20 a small percentage increase. The more
14:22 dollars go into the hands of the
14:25 investors, the owners. And this is why
14:26 it's so important for you to become an
14:28 investor. And it's going to become even
14:30 more important as we continue to spend
14:32 more money. And what we see is that this
14:34 trend of spending more money is not
14:36 going away. In fact, it is amplifying
14:38 which is why it becomes exponentially
14:40 more important for you to become an
14:41 investor. And I know it's difficult
14:43 during a time where yeah, it's already
14:45 tough to pay your bills. But you have to
14:46 if you want to build wealth in this
14:47 system. Again, if you want more
14:49 resources on how to become an investor,
14:51 I have my free investing master class
14:52 for you down in the description. But the
14:54 whole idea here is you have to own
14:56 assets that are going to benefit from
14:58 money being created. Period. Because if
15:00 you just hold on to your salary, you
15:01 just hold on to your savings, those
15:04 things are losing value. That $100 you
15:06 have in the savings account, the $50,000
15:08 you have in your bank account, it
15:10 doesn't have as much buying power next
15:12 year as it does last year. I just think
15:14 about what you could buy in 2019 versus
15:16 what you could buy today with $1,000.
15:18 It's a pretty big difference. That's
15:20 going to continue happening. It's
15:21 happened for decades. It's going to
15:23 continue happening into the future,
15:25 which is why you have to convert your
15:27 extra savings into investments. That way
15:29 you can protect your wealth but also
15:31 grow your wealth. In this economic
15:32 system, the way you become wealthy is by
15:34 becoming an investor. And unfortunately,
15:35 we were never taught this stuff, which
15:37 is why I've really made it my mission to
15:38 help spread this financial education.
15:40 So, if you got value out of this video,
15:42 the best thank you was a referral. So,
15:43 if you could please share this video
15:45 with a friend, family member, colleague,
15:47 or fellow investor. The Fed just
15:49 announced that they're going to end
15:51 quantitative tightening come December
15:53 1st. In plain English, that means that
15:55 the Federal Reserve Bank wants to start
15:57 printing money and boosting markets
16:00 again as we go into 2026 as a way to
16:02 stimulate the economy. This economic
16:04 shift is going to affect everybody. It
