Big Banks are Panicking — Transcript
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- 0:00Just a few months ago, the biggest banks
- 0:02on Wall Street were fighting each other
- 0:04to lend money into the AI world. And
- 0:07just now, one of them tried to sell half
- 0:10a billion of those loans to literally
- 0:13anybody who would take them off its
- 0:14hands. And another just bought insurance
- 0:18in case the AI borrowers go bust. Now,
- 0:22banks don't run from their most
- 0:24profitable business for years unless
- 0:27there is a good reason for it. their run
- 0:30because they've seen the numbers. And
- 0:32they're not the only ones heading for
- 0:33the door. You got Michael the Bur, the
- 0:36investor who saw 2008 coming and made a
- 0:39fortune on it. He just told the world,
- 0:41"Get out of Nvidia before it's too
- 0:43late." And there's a good reason for
- 0:44that. I want to explain that to you.
- 0:46This isn't doom and gloom. But it is the
- 0:48most valuable company on the planet. And
- 0:50it is definitely sitting in your pension
- 0:52fund. It's definitely sitting in the
- 0:54index funds that you've been told are so
- 0:55safe. So, the banks are backing out of
- 0:58the loans. The man famous for calling
- 1:00the last major crash is telling you,
- 1:02well, run away from the thing you all
- 1:05own. And my goal with this video for the
- 1:07next few minutes is to make sure that by
- 1:08the end of it, you understand what they
- 1:11understand and show you one number that
- 1:13made me move real money. So, stay with
- 1:16me. If you're wondering who the heck I
- 1:17am and that was Winston, of course,
- 1:19brains behind it all. My name is Felix
- 1:21Nicholas Pin. I'm an economist, former
- 1:23investor, banker. I'm founder of the PIN
- 1:25Institute. We do research of financial
- 1:27markets. We teach people how financial
- 1:28markets actually work. My mentors teach
- 1:31that. And we take zero sponsorship, zero
- 1:33endorsements ever. And that way I can
- 1:35say whatever I like, whichever way I
- 1:37like to say it. Now, ton of stuff coming
- 1:40up in the next few minutes here. All the
- 1:43numbers, every source, every bank. I've
- 1:45put that into a short report for you.
- 1:47You can read it in 10 minutes. You can
- 1:48keep it. It's yours free. And you can
- 1:51download that at felix.org/banks.
- 1:53links down in the description down
- 1:56below. And honestly, the fact that
- 1:58you're even here trying to understand
- 2:00something as convoluted as bank lending
- 2:02and what the bur is thinking, uh, puts
- 2:05you ahead of almost everybody else out
- 2:07there because people find this stuff out
- 2:09from the headlines. And at that point,
- 2:12of course, it is too late to do anything
- 2:13about it. So, well, done you, he says.
- 2:17Does that sound condescending? It's not
- 2:18meant to. I I genuinely mean that. I'm
- 2:20always impressed how many people watch
- 2:22this. Um, so what happened here? Well,
- 2:25let's start with ING, one of the biggest
- 2:27banks in Europe. And oddly enough, when
- 2:30I started working in banking here in
- 2:31Hong Kong, the bank I was working for,
- 2:33um, Aussie Bank, they bought ING's team.
- 2:36Um, so I was working in ING in a sense
- 2:39for a little while, uh, which was which
- 2:41was quite interesting. Anyway, a year
- 2:43ago, these guys were happily lending
- 2:46into the AI, data centers, chips,
- 2:48anybody who wanted money. Now they've
- 2:50just put those loans up for auction.
- 2:54Half a billion dollars of that and it's
- 2:59tied to not some random micro data
- 3:02center, no startup someone's making in
- 3:05his mom's kitchen. No, it's open AI,
- 3:08Soft Bank, Oracle. And they invited
- 3:11other buyers to bid for this junk,
- 3:13sorry, these highquality loans. And if
- 3:15you think about what that really means,
- 3:18why does a bank sell its best?
- 3:21Well, they do it because they want to
- 3:23get risk of the risk before people
- 3:25figure out what the risk really is,
- 3:27right? Have you watched margin call
- 3:28about 2008? Right? That's what they were
- 3:30doing. And then there is another lovely
- 3:33bank called Barclays and a handful of
- 3:36others actually doing the same thing at
- 3:38the same time. They're buying insurance
- 3:40on their own loans and they pay every
- 3:43month a premium like you would for a
- 3:44life insurance or a health insurance or
- 3:46car insurance and they pay that to
- 3:48companies like AIG
- 3:50chub big insurance companies. So if
- 3:53their AI borrowers cannot pay, somebody
- 3:56else eats the loss. And that again
- 3:58sounds very much like what margin call
- 4:002008 was all about because you remember
- 4:02like American Insurance Group and all
- 4:03these companies, they were like almost
- 4:05bankrupt in 2008 because it insured all
- 4:07this mortgage junk, right? Obviously
- 4:10this time is very different.
- 4:13So the market gave us a little preview
- 4:16of what is going to happen at some point
- 4:17down the road. not necessarily this week
- 4:19or this month or even this year, but
- 4:22$2.5 trillion was lost on the NASDAQ
- 4:25100, America's 100 biggest tech
- 4:27companies in just one day, which is
- 4:29bigger than the economy of, you know,
- 4:31most countries. And you might still be
- 4:33thinking, yeah, but this doesn't really
- 4:34affect me and all that. And I get that
- 4:36we kind of always want to push these
- 4:37things away, right? Stop talks. Tell me
- 4:38about some good news. There'll be some
- 4:40good news. I tell just give me a minute.
- 4:41It'll be good news. Really good news,
- 4:42actually. But if you own an index fund
- 4:44like the S&P 500, which most pensions in
- 4:47the world basically do, you own Nvidia.
- 4:49It's like 8% of that. You own the big
- 4:51tech, you own the exact risk that the
- 4:54banks are now paying other people to
- 4:57take off their hats. So about 8% of your
- 5:00money is in Nvidia if you own index
- 5:01funds, right? And Michael Bur, who's a
- 5:04smart guy, he's not always right. He
- 5:05told people to sell. Why? Not because of
- 5:08the Jensen hangs, you know, can't keep
- 5:10himself to himself sort of thing, which
- 5:12is hugely surprising. Oh my god, a guy
- 5:14who made hundred billion dollars has got
- 5:15girlfriends. Amazing, right? Let's all
- 5:18panic. It's never happened, has it?
- 5:20[laughter]
- 5:22It didn't happen to Bezos. No, it
- 5:24definitely didn't happen to Bill Gates.
- 5:25It hasn't happened to Elon. He's got,
- 5:28you know, 98 children by, you know, 200
- 5:30aliens or something. So, big surprise.
- 5:34That's not what he's talking about. He's
- 5:35talking about the fact that
- 5:38a business like Nvidia, which is one of
- 5:41the greatest businesses on the planet,
- 5:42no doubt about it, that makes a product
- 5:44that is better than, you know, sliced
- 5:45bread. Um, at some point that product is
- 5:49no longer as rare as it once was because
- 5:52of the nature of the system we live in.
- 5:53Other people copy, right? Other people
- 5:55hire some Nvidia staff and then they
- 5:57build something similar and they get
- 5:58closer and closer and therefore what
- 6:00happens? Their prices go down somewhat.
- 6:04they can no longer charge quite at the
- 6:06premium that they're presently charging.
- 6:08And Nvidia, and let me just pull it up
- 6:10for you here in um if I could spell
- 6:12Nvidia, there's something that we look
- 6:14at as sort of, you know, fundamentalist
- 6:17investors, and that is margins. They
- 6:20have a gross margin of 75%. That is a
- 6:23margin you would associate with a
- 6:24software company. Why? Because once I
- 6:27make a piece of software, say you're
- 6:28Microsoft and you know the first
- 6:31thousand users cost you some money that
- 6:331,000 and first user cost you almost
- 6:35nothing at all because you've already
- 6:36built the system, you already got the
- 6:38software and the systems and the servers
- 6:39and everything else. So that one's
- 6:40basically pure profit. And that's what
- 6:42they're doing. And they also grew at
- 6:44105% their sales. And the law of numbers
- 6:50just tell you that this isn't going to
- 6:51continue forever after. So these margins
- 6:53are going to come down. That's
- 6:54essentially what the Bur is saying and I
- 6:57think he's he's right. I think that's
- 6:58just logical to happen to every great
- 7:00business ever in the world especially if
- 7:02they make hard ones. But the real
- 7:04problem is that the fund that you were
- 7:07told is diversified.
- 7:09It is an enormous bet on what the banks
- 7:12are presently run away from. They're
- 7:14protecting themselves and telling you
- 7:16about it. So who's protecting you? Let
- 7:19me show you something. I've pulled this
- 7:20chart up before because I think it's the
- 7:22most important chart in the world. If
- 7:24you only take one thing away from it,
- 7:26take a screenshot of this, please, and
- 7:28post it everywhere in the on the world
- 7:29because people need to understand this.
- 7:31People get this really badly wrong. So,
- 7:33let me slow down for a second. You've
- 7:36been told, I've been told, Winston's
- 7:38been told all of our life that the stock
- 7:40market on average will make about 10%
- 7:43per year. Right? That's what we've all
- 7:46been told. Every financial advisor tells
- 7:48you this. Everyone talks about this, but
- 7:50the trouble is that 10% a year never
- 7:54really happens in any given year. Look
- 7:57at what real returns look like over a
- 7:59stretch of years, right? Not selling
- 8:02your financial product here. Well, if we
- 8:04go back in time, 1928 to 1948, per year,
- 8:09and this is inflation adjusted, the
- 8:11market made 0.6%.
- 8:15Right now from 1949 postw war to 1968
- 8:20the market made 12.7%.
- 8:22Woo. Right then 1969 to 1984 which is
- 8:27sort of the period of you know Vietnam
- 8:29war and and and Nixon and and and all
- 8:31that stuff the market made 0.5%.
- 8:37Right now from 1985 to 1999 we made 15%.
- 8:40Woohoo. uh and then from 2000 to 2012 we
- 8:45made a negative 0.8%.
- 8:49That's a 12 year period. Now for the
- 8:51last 12 13 years we made about 12% per
- 8:55year. So we're all like it's always
- 8:56GOING TO BE 12% FOREVER AFTER this is
- 8:58amazing. I'm going to retire. I'm going
- 9:00to be a squillionaire. It' be great.
- 9:01I'll buy another pitch. Yeah. So the
- 9:04average of all of this is that 10% that
- 9:07financial advisor chuck at you. But if
- 9:09you retired at the start of one of these
- 9:13periods, you did not get what you were
- 9:15promised. You got a lost decade or
- 9:18longer. 10 years of putting money in and
- 9:20watching it set still while you're
- 9:22spending the money because you're
- 9:23retired. So this average up here is
- 9:26marketing bollocks from the fund
- 9:29industry, right? It is not a promise.
- 9:32It's not going to happen. But
- 9:35I can tell you that the smart guys, the
- 9:38trained guys, the skilled guys on Wall
- 9:41Street, they were not sitting from, you
- 9:44know, from 2000. Let me get a pen. You
- 9:46can actually see from 2000 to just 2012,
- 9:51the market made minus0.8%
- 9:54on average after inflation. I can tell
- 9:57you Wall Street did better than that. I
- 9:59can tell you fund managers did better
- 10:01than that. Hedge fund guys did better
- 10:02than that. the traders did better that
- 10:04and plenty of people who simply
- 10:06understood how money moves made a lot
- 10:08more money than that and that's a skill
- 10:11and you probably haven't been taught it
- 10:13which isn't your fault but what if I
- 10:16told you that in that same period 2012
- 10:19so this is the S&P what if I told you
- 10:22that there was a sector an industry that
- 10:25made like 165% in that time period
- 10:29wouldn't you want to know what that was
- 10:30and how people found it because it life
- 10:33changing between like you know living
- 10:35off sardines uh which my cats would
- 10:37quite like but for most of us is a
- 10:40little bit stale. So when the market
- 10:42returns 0% for 10 years you're in
- 10:45trouble unless you learn how to position
- 10:47your money so that this flat ugly 10
- 10:50years doesn't wipe you out and can
- 10:54actually be the making of you. So that
- 10:56is the thing I am most passionate about
- 11:00teaching here. energy went up 165% in
- 11:02that time period, right? 2020 2016. And
- 11:06I'd love to pull you by the ears and the
- 11:09nose and the ponytail and drag you into
- 11:12about a twohour live trading, which will
- 11:14be fun, I promise you, and eye opening,
- 11:17and actually teach you how to prepare
- 11:19for that because the likelihood is, and
- 11:23I haven't got a crystal ball. I don't
- 11:24know what's going to happen tomorrow.
- 11:26Nobody does. People who tell you are
- 11:27just plain out making up. when you
- 11:30have periods that are extraordinary,
- 11:33right? And we've just had a period,
- 11:35we're at the tail end of a period that's
- 11:37been extraordinary. Making money in the
- 11:40market has never been easier. Doesn't
- 11:43mean it's easy, but it's never been
- 11:44easier. Isn't the likelihood that we're
- 11:46therefore going to get another period
- 11:48where just not a lot happens and then
- 11:50we're going to get another glorious
- 11:52period where lots of good stuff happens.
- 11:54But that period here could be the next
- 11:5610 years of your life. So if you want to
- 11:58come and be prepared for that and
- 12:00actually enjoy that period because I
- 12:02certainly will be. Come and go to how to
- 12:05prepare.org. Link is down below in the
- 12:06description. It's also in the pinned
- 12:08comment. We're very efficient that way.
- 12:10And join me on Saturday. I think it's
- 12:139:00 a.m. New York time. It should be
- 12:14about 2 or 3 p.m. somewhere in Europe or
- 12:17London. Uh and and and you know, God
- 12:19knows wherever else you are in the
- 12:20world. Stay up for it because we won't
- 12:22have a replay and we'll do it live and
- 12:23you can ask me questions and I'll
- 12:24actually teach you that. That sounds
- 12:26good. You want to be prepared, write
- 12:29prepared in the chat or just a PP to
- 12:32really confuse people who haven't made
- 12:33it this far on the video. Okay, so now
- 12:35that you know what to do about it,
- 12:36right, come come and learn with me on
- 12:38Saturday because this bank story goes
- 12:41actually a lot deeper than just a couple
- 12:43of loans and a couple of random European
- 12:45or British banks. There is a thing that
- 12:48banks do and it is called
- 12:51structured risk transfer and it sounds
- 12:55technical but it's quite simple.
- 12:57When a bank has one enormous loan to say
- 13:00a single data center, and that loan is
- 13:02just too big, too concentrated to just
- 13:04be really comfortable with, they slice
- 13:07it up. So they keep the safe looking top
- 13:10slice and they push the riskiest crap,
- 13:13the bottom slice, out to
- 13:16private credit funds and insurers
- 13:20because they're a little bit more uh
- 13:22gullible. So the most dangerous part of
- 13:25the AI boom is being posted to somebody
- 13:29else and they're doing it really really
- 13:32quickly so they can get rid of the risk
- 13:34before you know stuff hits the fan. And
- 13:36honestly just think for a second where
- 13:39the risk goes because risk doesn't
- 13:41vanish goes into insurers pension funds
- 13:45because they're run by lunatics who want
- 13:47a few percentage points more yield and
- 13:50don't understand risk. So maybe your
- 13:52bank's going to get out clean, right?
- 13:54But it'll end up in your pension fund.
- 13:57So you're going to get hit with this
- 13:58through a different door, right? The hot
- 14:00potato basically gets passed around to
- 14:02the dumbest lunatic running a fund or a
- 14:06pension fund or something like that. And
- 14:08it isn't just one little random corner
- 14:10of the market. JP Morgan, right, the
- 14:13greatest bank in America, just ask, I'll
- 14:15tell you. They're sitting on about 29
- 14:17billion dollars of data center linked
- 14:19loans. It's their second largest piece
- 14:22of um lending essentially. And then look
- 14:26at the price that the market is putting
- 14:28on this. Coreweave, one of the big AI
- 14:31infrastructure players, has bonds
- 14:33trading at a 16% interest rate. Now,
- 14:38when people pay a 16% interest rate, uh
- 14:41it means it's dodgy as hell because
- 14:45there's no one willing to lend to you
- 14:47at, you know, 7% 8% 10%. And everyone's
- 14:50going, "No, but pay me 16 and some crazy
- 14:54person will lend you money." Right?
- 14:55That's usually the way it works. It's a
- 14:56bit like if you get a credit card and
- 14:58you've got like bugger or credit rating,
- 15:00they're going to charge you 30%
- 15:02interest, right? And I pray to God that
- 15:05you don't have a balance on your credit
- 15:07card at the end of the month. Pay that
- 15:08stuff off. Nothing else you do in life
- 15:10matters if you got credit card balance.
- 15:13But this is basically distress pricing.
- 15:15It's really bloody obvious. But what
- 15:18makes this so dangerous is the way this
- 15:20financial industry now works is that one
- 15:22AI company will invest billions in
- 15:25another and then that one spends money
- 15:27on buying chips and cloud computing from
- 15:30the first company and then from a third
- 15:32and then the third signs a giant supply
- 15:34contract back with the first and on
- 15:35paper everyone is BOOKING RECORD REVENUE
- 15:37GROW. GOD, THE GRACE is amazing. But in
- 15:40reality, it's basically the same pile of
- 15:41money just doing around with a bunch of
- 15:44people. And most people don't understand
- 15:46that circle. They don't want to hear
- 15:48about it. I get it. It's not positive
- 15:49news. But the banks understand it,
- 15:52right? They've helped to build it. They
- 15:54created the circle and the regulators
- 15:58have, you know, done it too. Europe is
- 16:01really great at one thing and
- 16:02regulation, right? Innovation. Nope.
- 16:04technology. Don't know what that is. But
- 16:06regulation, who they are, they are the
- 16:08world's best at that. And they are
- 16:10weighing up a formal review of how much
- 16:12its banks have lent into AI because
- 16:15across the Euro area, it's about 200
- 16:18billion euros, which is the monkey
- 16:20currency that they use in Europe. It's
- 16:22sort of a a dollar, you know, but it
- 16:24makes no sense. Now, the Bank of England
- 16:26is asking its own banks some hard
- 16:29questions about speculative data center
- 16:32loans. And when these guys wake up, it's
- 16:34usually fairly late because they're
- 16:35pretty sleepy institutions, right?
- 16:37They'd rather sit in their wood panel
- 16:38room, swigary, and you know, talk about
- 16:41monetary policy. Uh so if you put all of
- 16:45this together, the banks are auctioning
- 16:47off loans, insuring loans, slicing the
- 16:50loans, and shoving the rubbish out the
- 16:52back door to insurers and other gullible
- 16:55money managers. And the central banks
- 16:57are waking up out of their slumber and
- 16:58going, "Oh my god, really? What
- 16:59happened? What happened? What happened?
- 17:00Someone someone someone do a review or
- 17:02something at least that way we can say
- 17:04we were looking into it right you don't
- 17:07really do this if you think everything
- 17:09is wonderful and hunky dory do and then
- 17:12there is Michael Barry let's revisit our
- 17:15friend now Barry ran a fund called Seon
- 17:19in and in the mid200s what everybody
- 17:22else was saying house prices only ever
- 17:24go up forever after because it's
- 17:26happened like that for the last 10 years
- 17:28right which is the recency bias idiocy
- 17:32that we've all been infected with. Um he
- 17:34said they're rotten and he bet against
- 17:36American housing markets. Brilliant
- 17:38films made on it. It's quite
- 17:39entertaining. And he was early. He was
- 17:41mocked and then eventually he was right
- 17:43and then he made a fortune. And I know
- 17:44he's still mocked but he's got a
- 17:46fortune. So he no longer gives a hoot
- 17:48about what was said. And he just said
- 17:51get out of Nvidia before it's too late.
- 17:53And he gave two reasons for it. Reason
- 17:55number one is Jensen Huang, the boss of
- 17:58Nvidia, Bori basically said he is well
- 18:02an enormous amount of Nvidia's power
- 18:04sits inside that one man lap. Right now
- 18:08we realize since that other people sat
- 18:10in that lap. So um the trouble with that
- 18:13is a lot of these relationships circular
- 18:16financing all this stuff it was done by
- 18:19Jensen the Huang personally. So, you
- 18:22take him out of the picture, which
- 18:23they've just done. Um um they've hung
- 18:26him up, hung him up. Um well, these
- 18:29customers suddenly no longer have that
- 18:31emotional friendship relationship to
- 18:33Envidia. So, maybe they're going to slow
- 18:35down their orders a little bit. Maybe
- 18:36they're going to push back a little bit
- 18:37on price. Maybe they're going to walk
- 18:39across the road to a competitor. And
- 18:42that is a potential problem. Now the
- 18:45second reason is Nvidia has been helping
- 18:49to finance its own customers purchases.
- 18:52Nvidia sells the chips. Nvidia helps
- 18:55provide the money for its customers to
- 18:57buy those chips. So some of that
- 18:59record-breaking revenue is basically
- 19:01Nvidia's own money going out one door
- 19:04and then strolling back in another door
- 19:06and going, "I knew revenue. I knew
- 19:08money." Honest. It looks wonderful, but
- 19:13it's a company lending to itself in a
- 19:15circle and calling it growth, right? And
- 19:17I made a video on that more than a year
- 19:19or two ago. You can look that up if you
- 19:20like. And people were like, "You're
- 19:21crazy." I'm like, "Well, am I?" Um, it's
- 19:24entirely possible, of course, that I'm,
- 19:26you know, self-deifiable. But the
- 19:28lending to its own customers, the money
- 19:30going around between a few giants, the
- 19:32record revenue, the same cash to lapse,
- 19:35right? He's basically pointing to that.
- 19:38And he says that's what the banks are
- 19:40running from. But it's not some random
- 19:42tech company. No, it is the most
- 19:45profitable biggest tech company in
- 19:48company quite frankly in the world. And
- 19:51if you just pull this up here in the
- 19:52Winston app, look at revenue growth,
- 19:54right? Look at that. More and more and
- 19:56more and more and more and more every
- 19:57quarter. Growth rate 106%. Just
- 20:00mathematically there is no business that
- 20:02will keep growing under 106%. because it
- 20:05means you double from one quarter to the
- 20:08previous year's quarter and it's just
- 20:11never going to happen because at some
- 20:13point well you would be bigger than the
- 20:15whole world right so there is a ceiling
- 20:18to growth even if you are Nvidia and you
- 20:20you know make the best thing since
- 20:22sliced bread and you cure cancer which
- 20:25is the anthropic pitch I thought that
- 20:27was quite good anthropic CEO comes out
- 20:29and says we know we're going to cure
- 20:31cancer in just be a few years AI is
- 20:33amazing buy my IPO Okay. Um, this is,
- 20:35you know, obviously the six times over
- 20:38subscribed as I'm recording this, so
- 20:39it's obviously working. Um, I'm not
- 20:42telling you run out and say sell your
- 20:43Nvidia or your tech stocks. It's your
- 20:45decision. It's your money. What I'm
- 20:46telling you is that the guy famous for
- 20:48calling the last crash, he's basically
- 20:50saying this thing Nvidia, be very, very
- 20:53careful. And don't get me wrong, Nvidia
- 20:55will be around in 10 or 20 years. I
- 20:56think it'll be a great business. But the
- 20:58valuation, not so much. And there's one
- 21:01more door that I want to open up for you
- 21:03because it kind of ties together
- 21:05everything I just talked about into the
- 21:07bigger picture and it shows you where
- 21:10the really big money actually sits. This
- 21:12week, America sold about $25 billion,
- 21:17which is quite a bit of money, and they
- 21:20sold basically debt, right? So, it's a
- 21:22it's a loan essentially that people are
- 21:23giving the American government, and it's
- 21:25a 30-year loan, 30 years. and they had
- 21:30to pay borrowers more than 5.4%
- 21:34to take those 25 billion off their their
- 21:37hands. And maybe you think, well, random
- 21:39doesn't sound too expensive. Well, it
- 21:42is, I think, the highest number they
- 21:43paid in a very very very long time. And
- 21:46that number actually matters to you. It
- 21:48isn't some abstract about, oh, the
- 21:50debt's going to get bigger. Who cares?
- 21:52The 30-year bond rate sets the tone for
- 21:56your mortgage, every business loan out
- 21:58there. It's essentially the cost of
- 22:00money on Earth. And if you look at the
- 22:03American housing market, let's tie this
- 22:04back to 2008, it's at the worst level
- 22:06since 2010. So, it's at the stage that
- 22:09it was at after the wreckage of the
- 22:12global financial crisis, which is all
- 22:13about American housing. High borrowing
- 22:16costs freeze the whole thing. Basically,
- 22:20nobody can afford to buy at these
- 22:21mortgage rates. Nobody who already has a
- 22:24cheap mortgage wants to sell and give up
- 22:26the mortgage rate they already have. So,
- 22:29what happens? Well, when housing
- 22:32goes, it tends to drag a lot of stuff
- 22:35with it because so much of most people's
- 22:38wealth in America is tied up in their
- 22:40home, right? And then you've got Scott
- 22:43Bessant, the mighty Treasury Secretary,
- 22:46basically saying, "Well, we can just
- 22:49bend the debt problem. We can um create
- 22:52more growth and we can bring spending
- 22:54under control."
- 22:57Now, that's been promised to us for
- 22:59many, many decades, which is never going
- 23:01to happen. Neither one nor the other. If
- 23:03you stopped spending, you're going to
- 23:06get a huge freaking recession for many,
- 23:08many, many years. You could try to grow.
- 23:11outrun the debt. Yeah, that's not really
- 23:13going to happen either because actually
- 23:15mathematically that's virtually
- 23:16impossible. So the only thing that they
- 23:18can actually do again is print money.
- 23:20And they're doing that at an
- 23:22extraordinary rate right now. So if you
- 23:25zoom out for a second and and let me ask
- 23:27you how comfortable you feel right now,
- 23:28I'll just put it in one word in the
- 23:30comments. The banks are selling AI. The
- 23:32government is paying 5.4% 4% to get
- 23:36people to give it money, which is going
- 23:38to push up mortgages even further.
- 23:40Housing market's already completely
- 23:42frozen over. And
- 23:45the guy who runs the market, the sorry
- 23:48money, he thinks he runs the market, but
- 23:49he just runs the money. Bessent, he
- 23:51says, "Well, we could we could just
- 23:52spend less. We could just cause some
- 23:54real pain on everybody." Um, which isn't
- 23:58going to happen, by the way, but it just
- 24:00shows how little of a plan they have.
- 24:02And then remember that chart I showed
- 24:03you again, you know, the one about the
- 24:05lost decades. It's not a random thing.
- 24:08It happens again and again and again and
- 24:09again. It's part of the system. Um, if
- 24:12you
- 24:14made no money of your investments on the
- 24:16next 10 years, what would life look like
- 24:17for you? What would retirement look like
- 24:19for you? Maybe you'd be fine. Um, but I
- 24:22think there is a way to enjoy every
- 24:25decade. No matter what the market does,
- 24:27there's a way to enjoy every decade. no
- 24:28matter what the politicians do. And the
- 24:31way to get to that, it runs through
- 24:35training. It runs through being a
- 24:37trained money
- 24:39operator because you already operate
- 24:41your money. You already manage your
- 24:42money. You could panic. You can sell
- 24:44everything. You'll definitely lose.
- 24:45Don't do that, please. That's a really,
- 24:46really dumb idea. But what you can do
- 24:49instead, come and learn. And that's what
- 24:51this whole community is about here.
- 24:53We've taught 25,000 people or so the
- 24:55last six or seven years. And it's what
- 24:57me and my mentors enjoy the most. It's
- 24:59incredibly rewarding. It also makes up
- 25:00for the fact that we were bankers at
- 25:02some point which obviously, you know,
- 25:05got a lot of our our maras to say. So
- 25:07come to hydrop.org. Grab yourself a seat
- 25:09and I look forward to seeing you live on
- 25:12Saturday. And if you got some value out
- 25:14of this, if some of this was a little
- 25:16bit of a jolt that maybe you needed,
- 25:18share it with somebody. That the only
- 25:20thing I'd ask and I wish you all the
- 25:22best. Right now, I think we're going
- 25:24through some sort of weird phase
- 25:25transition. And normally when you get
- 25:28bad economic news or you get bad jobs
- 25:31data that people are going to fly to
- 25:33safety into the bond
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