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  1. 0:00Just a few months ago, the biggest banks
  2. 0:02on Wall Street were fighting each other
  3. 0:04to lend money into the AI world. And
  4. 0:07just now, one of them tried to sell half
  5. 0:10a billion of those loans to literally
  6. 0:13anybody who would take them off its
  7. 0:14hands. And another just bought insurance
  8. 0:18in case the AI borrowers go bust. Now,
  9. 0:22banks don't run from their most
  10. 0:24profitable business for years unless
  11. 0:27there is a good reason for it. their run
  12. 0:30because they've seen the numbers. And
  13. 0:32they're not the only ones heading for
  14. 0:33the door. You got Michael the Bur, the
  15. 0:36investor who saw 2008 coming and made a
  16. 0:39fortune on it. He just told the world,
  17. 0:41"Get out of Nvidia before it's too
  18. 0:43late." And there's a good reason for
  19. 0:44that. I want to explain that to you.
  20. 0:46This isn't doom and gloom. But it is the
  21. 0:48most valuable company on the planet. And
  22. 0:50it is definitely sitting in your pension
  23. 0:52fund. It's definitely sitting in the
  24. 0:54index funds that you've been told are so
  25. 0:55safe. So, the banks are backing out of
  26. 0:58the loans. The man famous for calling
  27. 1:00the last major crash is telling you,
  28. 1:02well, run away from the thing you all
  29. 1:05own. And my goal with this video for the
  30. 1:07next few minutes is to make sure that by
  31. 1:08the end of it, you understand what they
  32. 1:11understand and show you one number that
  33. 1:13made me move real money. So, stay with
  34. 1:16me. If you're wondering who the heck I
  35. 1:17am and that was Winston, of course,
  36. 1:19brains behind it all. My name is Felix
  37. 1:21Nicholas Pin. I'm an economist, former
  38. 1:23investor, banker. I'm founder of the PIN
  39. 1:25Institute. We do research of financial
  40. 1:27markets. We teach people how financial
  41. 1:28markets actually work. My mentors teach
  42. 1:31that. And we take zero sponsorship, zero
  43. 1:33endorsements ever. And that way I can
  44. 1:35say whatever I like, whichever way I
  45. 1:37like to say it. Now, ton of stuff coming
  46. 1:40up in the next few minutes here. All the
  47. 1:43numbers, every source, every bank. I've
  48. 1:45put that into a short report for you.
  49. 1:47You can read it in 10 minutes. You can
  50. 1:48keep it. It's yours free. And you can
  51. 1:51download that at felix.org/banks.
  52. 1:53links down in the description down
  53. 1:56below. And honestly, the fact that
  54. 1:58you're even here trying to understand
  55. 2:00something as convoluted as bank lending
  56. 2:02and what the bur is thinking, uh, puts
  57. 2:05you ahead of almost everybody else out
  58. 2:07there because people find this stuff out
  59. 2:09from the headlines. And at that point,
  60. 2:12of course, it is too late to do anything
  61. 2:13about it. So, well, done you, he says.
  62. 2:17Does that sound condescending? It's not
  63. 2:18meant to. I I genuinely mean that. I'm
  64. 2:20always impressed how many people watch
  65. 2:22this. Um, so what happened here? Well,
  66. 2:25let's start with ING, one of the biggest
  67. 2:27banks in Europe. And oddly enough, when
  68. 2:30I started working in banking here in
  69. 2:31Hong Kong, the bank I was working for,
  70. 2:33um, Aussie Bank, they bought ING's team.
  71. 2:36Um, so I was working in ING in a sense
  72. 2:39for a little while, uh, which was which
  73. 2:41was quite interesting. Anyway, a year
  74. 2:43ago, these guys were happily lending
  75. 2:46into the AI, data centers, chips,
  76. 2:48anybody who wanted money. Now they've
  77. 2:50just put those loans up for auction.
  78. 2:54Half a billion dollars of that and it's
  79. 2:59tied to not some random micro data
  80. 3:02center, no startup someone's making in
  81. 3:05his mom's kitchen. No, it's open AI,
  82. 3:08Soft Bank, Oracle. And they invited
  83. 3:11other buyers to bid for this junk,
  84. 3:13sorry, these highquality loans. And if
  85. 3:15you think about what that really means,
  86. 3:18why does a bank sell its best?
  87. 3:21Well, they do it because they want to
  88. 3:23get risk of the risk before people
  89. 3:25figure out what the risk really is,
  90. 3:27right? Have you watched margin call
  91. 3:28about 2008? Right? That's what they were
  92. 3:30doing. And then there is another lovely
  93. 3:33bank called Barclays and a handful of
  94. 3:36others actually doing the same thing at
  95. 3:38the same time. They're buying insurance
  96. 3:40on their own loans and they pay every
  97. 3:43month a premium like you would for a
  98. 3:44life insurance or a health insurance or
  99. 3:46car insurance and they pay that to
  100. 3:48companies like AIG
  101. 3:50chub big insurance companies. So if
  102. 3:53their AI borrowers cannot pay, somebody
  103. 3:56else eats the loss. And that again
  104. 3:58sounds very much like what margin call
  105. 4:002008 was all about because you remember
  106. 4:02like American Insurance Group and all
  107. 4:03these companies, they were like almost
  108. 4:05bankrupt in 2008 because it insured all
  109. 4:07this mortgage junk, right? Obviously
  110. 4:10this time is very different.
  111. 4:13So the market gave us a little preview
  112. 4:16of what is going to happen at some point
  113. 4:17down the road. not necessarily this week
  114. 4:19or this month or even this year, but
  115. 4:22$2.5 trillion was lost on the NASDAQ
  116. 4:25100, America's 100 biggest tech
  117. 4:27companies in just one day, which is
  118. 4:29bigger than the economy of, you know,
  119. 4:31most countries. And you might still be
  120. 4:33thinking, yeah, but this doesn't really
  121. 4:34affect me and all that. And I get that
  122. 4:36we kind of always want to push these
  123. 4:37things away, right? Stop talks. Tell me
  124. 4:38about some good news. There'll be some
  125. 4:40good news. I tell just give me a minute.
  126. 4:41It'll be good news. Really good news,
  127. 4:42actually. But if you own an index fund
  128. 4:44like the S&P 500, which most pensions in
  129. 4:47the world basically do, you own Nvidia.
  130. 4:49It's like 8% of that. You own the big
  131. 4:51tech, you own the exact risk that the
  132. 4:54banks are now paying other people to
  133. 4:57take off their hats. So about 8% of your
  134. 5:00money is in Nvidia if you own index
  135. 5:01funds, right? And Michael Bur, who's a
  136. 5:04smart guy, he's not always right. He
  137. 5:05told people to sell. Why? Not because of
  138. 5:08the Jensen hangs, you know, can't keep
  139. 5:10himself to himself sort of thing, which
  140. 5:12is hugely surprising. Oh my god, a guy
  141. 5:14who made hundred billion dollars has got
  142. 5:15girlfriends. Amazing, right? Let's all
  143. 5:18panic. It's never happened, has it?
  144. 5:20[laughter]
  145. 5:22It didn't happen to Bezos. No, it
  146. 5:24definitely didn't happen to Bill Gates.
  147. 5:25It hasn't happened to Elon. He's got,
  148. 5:28you know, 98 children by, you know, 200
  149. 5:30aliens or something. So, big surprise.
  150. 5:34That's not what he's talking about. He's
  151. 5:35talking about the fact that
  152. 5:38a business like Nvidia, which is one of
  153. 5:41the greatest businesses on the planet,
  154. 5:42no doubt about it, that makes a product
  155. 5:44that is better than, you know, sliced
  156. 5:45bread. Um, at some point that product is
  157. 5:49no longer as rare as it once was because
  158. 5:52of the nature of the system we live in.
  159. 5:53Other people copy, right? Other people
  160. 5:55hire some Nvidia staff and then they
  161. 5:57build something similar and they get
  162. 5:58closer and closer and therefore what
  163. 6:00happens? Their prices go down somewhat.
  164. 6:04they can no longer charge quite at the
  165. 6:06premium that they're presently charging.
  166. 6:08And Nvidia, and let me just pull it up
  167. 6:10for you here in um if I could spell
  168. 6:12Nvidia, there's something that we look
  169. 6:14at as sort of, you know, fundamentalist
  170. 6:17investors, and that is margins. They
  171. 6:20have a gross margin of 75%. That is a
  172. 6:23margin you would associate with a
  173. 6:24software company. Why? Because once I
  174. 6:27make a piece of software, say you're
  175. 6:28Microsoft and you know the first
  176. 6:31thousand users cost you some money that
  177. 6:331,000 and first user cost you almost
  178. 6:35nothing at all because you've already
  179. 6:36built the system, you already got the
  180. 6:38software and the systems and the servers
  181. 6:39and everything else. So that one's
  182. 6:40basically pure profit. And that's what
  183. 6:42they're doing. And they also grew at
  184. 6:44105% their sales. And the law of numbers
  185. 6:50just tell you that this isn't going to
  186. 6:51continue forever after. So these margins
  187. 6:53are going to come down. That's
  188. 6:54essentially what the Bur is saying and I
  189. 6:57think he's he's right. I think that's
  190. 6:58just logical to happen to every great
  191. 7:00business ever in the world especially if
  192. 7:02they make hard ones. But the real
  193. 7:04problem is that the fund that you were
  194. 7:07told is diversified.
  195. 7:09It is an enormous bet on what the banks
  196. 7:12are presently run away from. They're
  197. 7:14protecting themselves and telling you
  198. 7:16about it. So who's protecting you? Let
  199. 7:19me show you something. I've pulled this
  200. 7:20chart up before because I think it's the
  201. 7:22most important chart in the world. If
  202. 7:24you only take one thing away from it,
  203. 7:26take a screenshot of this, please, and
  204. 7:28post it everywhere in the on the world
  205. 7:29because people need to understand this.
  206. 7:31People get this really badly wrong. So,
  207. 7:33let me slow down for a second. You've
  208. 7:36been told, I've been told, Winston's
  209. 7:38been told all of our life that the stock
  210. 7:40market on average will make about 10%
  211. 7:43per year. Right? That's what we've all
  212. 7:46been told. Every financial advisor tells
  213. 7:48you this. Everyone talks about this, but
  214. 7:50the trouble is that 10% a year never
  215. 7:54really happens in any given year. Look
  216. 7:57at what real returns look like over a
  217. 7:59stretch of years, right? Not selling
  218. 8:02your financial product here. Well, if we
  219. 8:04go back in time, 1928 to 1948, per year,
  220. 8:09and this is inflation adjusted, the
  221. 8:11market made 0.6%.
  222. 8:15Right now from 1949 postw war to 1968
  223. 8:20the market made 12.7%.
  224. 8:22Woo. Right then 1969 to 1984 which is
  225. 8:27sort of the period of you know Vietnam
  226. 8:29war and and and Nixon and and and all
  227. 8:31that stuff the market made 0.5%.
  228. 8:37Right now from 1985 to 1999 we made 15%.
  229. 8:40Woohoo. uh and then from 2000 to 2012 we
  230. 8:45made a negative 0.8%.
  231. 8:49That's a 12 year period. Now for the
  232. 8:51last 12 13 years we made about 12% per
  233. 8:55year. So we're all like it's always
  234. 8:56GOING TO BE 12% FOREVER AFTER this is
  235. 8:58amazing. I'm going to retire. I'm going
  236. 9:00to be a squillionaire. It' be great.
  237. 9:01I'll buy another pitch. Yeah. So the
  238. 9:04average of all of this is that 10% that
  239. 9:07financial advisor chuck at you. But if
  240. 9:09you retired at the start of one of these
  241. 9:13periods, you did not get what you were
  242. 9:15promised. You got a lost decade or
  243. 9:18longer. 10 years of putting money in and
  244. 9:20watching it set still while you're
  245. 9:22spending the money because you're
  246. 9:23retired. So this average up here is
  247. 9:26marketing bollocks from the fund
  248. 9:29industry, right? It is not a promise.
  249. 9:32It's not going to happen. But
  250. 9:35I can tell you that the smart guys, the
  251. 9:38trained guys, the skilled guys on Wall
  252. 9:41Street, they were not sitting from, you
  253. 9:44know, from 2000. Let me get a pen. You
  254. 9:46can actually see from 2000 to just 2012,
  255. 9:51the market made minus0.8%
  256. 9:54on average after inflation. I can tell
  257. 9:57you Wall Street did better than that. I
  258. 9:59can tell you fund managers did better
  259. 10:01than that. Hedge fund guys did better
  260. 10:02than that. the traders did better that
  261. 10:04and plenty of people who simply
  262. 10:06understood how money moves made a lot
  263. 10:08more money than that and that's a skill
  264. 10:11and you probably haven't been taught it
  265. 10:13which isn't your fault but what if I
  266. 10:16told you that in that same period 2012
  267. 10:19so this is the S&P what if I told you
  268. 10:22that there was a sector an industry that
  269. 10:25made like 165% in that time period
  270. 10:29wouldn't you want to know what that was
  271. 10:30and how people found it because it life
  272. 10:33changing between like you know living
  273. 10:35off sardines uh which my cats would
  274. 10:37quite like but for most of us is a
  275. 10:40little bit stale. So when the market
  276. 10:42returns 0% for 10 years you're in
  277. 10:45trouble unless you learn how to position
  278. 10:47your money so that this flat ugly 10
  279. 10:50years doesn't wipe you out and can
  280. 10:54actually be the making of you. So that
  281. 10:56is the thing I am most passionate about
  282. 11:00teaching here. energy went up 165% in
  283. 11:02that time period, right? 2020 2016. And
  284. 11:06I'd love to pull you by the ears and the
  285. 11:09nose and the ponytail and drag you into
  286. 11:12about a twohour live trading, which will
  287. 11:14be fun, I promise you, and eye opening,
  288. 11:17and actually teach you how to prepare
  289. 11:19for that because the likelihood is, and
  290. 11:23I haven't got a crystal ball. I don't
  291. 11:24know what's going to happen tomorrow.
  292. 11:26Nobody does. People who tell you are
  293. 11:27just plain out making up. when you
  294. 11:30have periods that are extraordinary,
  295. 11:33right? And we've just had a period,
  296. 11:35we're at the tail end of a period that's
  297. 11:37been extraordinary. Making money in the
  298. 11:40market has never been easier. Doesn't
  299. 11:43mean it's easy, but it's never been
  300. 11:44easier. Isn't the likelihood that we're
  301. 11:46therefore going to get another period
  302. 11:48where just not a lot happens and then
  303. 11:50we're going to get another glorious
  304. 11:52period where lots of good stuff happens.
  305. 11:54But that period here could be the next
  306. 11:5610 years of your life. So if you want to
  307. 11:58come and be prepared for that and
  308. 12:00actually enjoy that period because I
  309. 12:02certainly will be. Come and go to how to
  310. 12:05prepare.org. Link is down below in the
  311. 12:06description. It's also in the pinned
  312. 12:08comment. We're very efficient that way.
  313. 12:10And join me on Saturday. I think it's
  314. 12:139:00 a.m. New York time. It should be
  315. 12:14about 2 or 3 p.m. somewhere in Europe or
  316. 12:17London. Uh and and and you know, God
  317. 12:19knows wherever else you are in the
  318. 12:20world. Stay up for it because we won't
  319. 12:22have a replay and we'll do it live and
  320. 12:23you can ask me questions and I'll
  321. 12:24actually teach you that. That sounds
  322. 12:26good. You want to be prepared, write
  323. 12:29prepared in the chat or just a PP to
  324. 12:32really confuse people who haven't made
  325. 12:33it this far on the video. Okay, so now
  326. 12:35that you know what to do about it,
  327. 12:36right, come come and learn with me on
  328. 12:38Saturday because this bank story goes
  329. 12:41actually a lot deeper than just a couple
  330. 12:43of loans and a couple of random European
  331. 12:45or British banks. There is a thing that
  332. 12:48banks do and it is called
  333. 12:51structured risk transfer and it sounds
  334. 12:55technical but it's quite simple.
  335. 12:57When a bank has one enormous loan to say
  336. 13:00a single data center, and that loan is
  337. 13:02just too big, too concentrated to just
  338. 13:04be really comfortable with, they slice
  339. 13:07it up. So they keep the safe looking top
  340. 13:10slice and they push the riskiest crap,
  341. 13:13the bottom slice, out to
  342. 13:16private credit funds and insurers
  343. 13:20because they're a little bit more uh
  344. 13:22gullible. So the most dangerous part of
  345. 13:25the AI boom is being posted to somebody
  346. 13:29else and they're doing it really really
  347. 13:32quickly so they can get rid of the risk
  348. 13:34before you know stuff hits the fan. And
  349. 13:36honestly just think for a second where
  350. 13:39the risk goes because risk doesn't
  351. 13:41vanish goes into insurers pension funds
  352. 13:45because they're run by lunatics who want
  353. 13:47a few percentage points more yield and
  354. 13:50don't understand risk. So maybe your
  355. 13:52bank's going to get out clean, right?
  356. 13:54But it'll end up in your pension fund.
  357. 13:57So you're going to get hit with this
  358. 13:58through a different door, right? The hot
  359. 14:00potato basically gets passed around to
  360. 14:02the dumbest lunatic running a fund or a
  361. 14:06pension fund or something like that. And
  362. 14:08it isn't just one little random corner
  363. 14:10of the market. JP Morgan, right, the
  364. 14:13greatest bank in America, just ask, I'll
  365. 14:15tell you. They're sitting on about 29
  366. 14:17billion dollars of data center linked
  367. 14:19loans. It's their second largest piece
  368. 14:22of um lending essentially. And then look
  369. 14:26at the price that the market is putting
  370. 14:28on this. Coreweave, one of the big AI
  371. 14:31infrastructure players, has bonds
  372. 14:33trading at a 16% interest rate. Now,
  373. 14:38when people pay a 16% interest rate, uh
  374. 14:41it means it's dodgy as hell because
  375. 14:45there's no one willing to lend to you
  376. 14:47at, you know, 7% 8% 10%. And everyone's
  377. 14:50going, "No, but pay me 16 and some crazy
  378. 14:54person will lend you money." Right?
  379. 14:55That's usually the way it works. It's a
  380. 14:56bit like if you get a credit card and
  381. 14:58you've got like bugger or credit rating,
  382. 15:00they're going to charge you 30%
  383. 15:02interest, right? And I pray to God that
  384. 15:05you don't have a balance on your credit
  385. 15:07card at the end of the month. Pay that
  386. 15:08stuff off. Nothing else you do in life
  387. 15:10matters if you got credit card balance.
  388. 15:13But this is basically distress pricing.
  389. 15:15It's really bloody obvious. But what
  390. 15:18makes this so dangerous is the way this
  391. 15:20financial industry now works is that one
  392. 15:22AI company will invest billions in
  393. 15:25another and then that one spends money
  394. 15:27on buying chips and cloud computing from
  395. 15:30the first company and then from a third
  396. 15:32and then the third signs a giant supply
  397. 15:34contract back with the first and on
  398. 15:35paper everyone is BOOKING RECORD REVENUE
  399. 15:37GROW. GOD, THE GRACE is amazing. But in
  400. 15:40reality, it's basically the same pile of
  401. 15:41money just doing around with a bunch of
  402. 15:44people. And most people don't understand
  403. 15:46that circle. They don't want to hear
  404. 15:48about it. I get it. It's not positive
  405. 15:49news. But the banks understand it,
  406. 15:52right? They've helped to build it. They
  407. 15:54created the circle and the regulators
  408. 15:58have, you know, done it too. Europe is
  409. 16:01really great at one thing and
  410. 16:02regulation, right? Innovation. Nope.
  411. 16:04technology. Don't know what that is. But
  412. 16:06regulation, who they are, they are the
  413. 16:08world's best at that. And they are
  414. 16:10weighing up a formal review of how much
  415. 16:12its banks have lent into AI because
  416. 16:15across the Euro area, it's about 200
  417. 16:18billion euros, which is the monkey
  418. 16:20currency that they use in Europe. It's
  419. 16:22sort of a a dollar, you know, but it
  420. 16:24makes no sense. Now, the Bank of England
  421. 16:26is asking its own banks some hard
  422. 16:29questions about speculative data center
  423. 16:32loans. And when these guys wake up, it's
  424. 16:34usually fairly late because they're
  425. 16:35pretty sleepy institutions, right?
  426. 16:37They'd rather sit in their wood panel
  427. 16:38room, swigary, and you know, talk about
  428. 16:41monetary policy. Uh so if you put all of
  429. 16:45this together, the banks are auctioning
  430. 16:47off loans, insuring loans, slicing the
  431. 16:50loans, and shoving the rubbish out the
  432. 16:52back door to insurers and other gullible
  433. 16:55money managers. And the central banks
  434. 16:57are waking up out of their slumber and
  435. 16:58going, "Oh my god, really? What
  436. 16:59happened? What happened? What happened?
  437. 17:00Someone someone someone do a review or
  438. 17:02something at least that way we can say
  439. 17:04we were looking into it right you don't
  440. 17:07really do this if you think everything
  441. 17:09is wonderful and hunky dory do and then
  442. 17:12there is Michael Barry let's revisit our
  443. 17:15friend now Barry ran a fund called Seon
  444. 17:19in and in the mid200s what everybody
  445. 17:22else was saying house prices only ever
  446. 17:24go up forever after because it's
  447. 17:26happened like that for the last 10 years
  448. 17:28right which is the recency bias idiocy
  449. 17:32that we've all been infected with. Um he
  450. 17:34said they're rotten and he bet against
  451. 17:36American housing markets. Brilliant
  452. 17:38films made on it. It's quite
  453. 17:39entertaining. And he was early. He was
  454. 17:41mocked and then eventually he was right
  455. 17:43and then he made a fortune. And I know
  456. 17:44he's still mocked but he's got a
  457. 17:46fortune. So he no longer gives a hoot
  458. 17:48about what was said. And he just said
  459. 17:51get out of Nvidia before it's too late.
  460. 17:53And he gave two reasons for it. Reason
  461. 17:55number one is Jensen Huang, the boss of
  462. 17:58Nvidia, Bori basically said he is well
  463. 18:02an enormous amount of Nvidia's power
  464. 18:04sits inside that one man lap. Right now
  465. 18:08we realize since that other people sat
  466. 18:10in that lap. So um the trouble with that
  467. 18:13is a lot of these relationships circular
  468. 18:16financing all this stuff it was done by
  469. 18:19Jensen the Huang personally. So, you
  470. 18:22take him out of the picture, which
  471. 18:23they've just done. Um um they've hung
  472. 18:26him up, hung him up. Um well, these
  473. 18:29customers suddenly no longer have that
  474. 18:31emotional friendship relationship to
  475. 18:33Envidia. So, maybe they're going to slow
  476. 18:35down their orders a little bit. Maybe
  477. 18:36they're going to push back a little bit
  478. 18:37on price. Maybe they're going to walk
  479. 18:39across the road to a competitor. And
  480. 18:42that is a potential problem. Now the
  481. 18:45second reason is Nvidia has been helping
  482. 18:49to finance its own customers purchases.
  483. 18:52Nvidia sells the chips. Nvidia helps
  484. 18:55provide the money for its customers to
  485. 18:57buy those chips. So some of that
  486. 18:59record-breaking revenue is basically
  487. 19:01Nvidia's own money going out one door
  488. 19:04and then strolling back in another door
  489. 19:06and going, "I knew revenue. I knew
  490. 19:08money." Honest. It looks wonderful, but
  491. 19:13it's a company lending to itself in a
  492. 19:15circle and calling it growth, right? And
  493. 19:17I made a video on that more than a year
  494. 19:19or two ago. You can look that up if you
  495. 19:20like. And people were like, "You're
  496. 19:21crazy." I'm like, "Well, am I?" Um, it's
  497. 19:24entirely possible, of course, that I'm,
  498. 19:26you know, self-deifiable. But the
  499. 19:28lending to its own customers, the money
  500. 19:30going around between a few giants, the
  501. 19:32record revenue, the same cash to lapse,
  502. 19:35right? He's basically pointing to that.
  503. 19:38And he says that's what the banks are
  504. 19:40running from. But it's not some random
  505. 19:42tech company. No, it is the most
  506. 19:45profitable biggest tech company in
  507. 19:48company quite frankly in the world. And
  508. 19:51if you just pull this up here in the
  509. 19:52Winston app, look at revenue growth,
  510. 19:54right? Look at that. More and more and
  511. 19:56more and more and more and more every
  512. 19:57quarter. Growth rate 106%. Just
  513. 20:00mathematically there is no business that
  514. 20:02will keep growing under 106%. because it
  515. 20:05means you double from one quarter to the
  516. 20:08previous year's quarter and it's just
  517. 20:11never going to happen because at some
  518. 20:13point well you would be bigger than the
  519. 20:15whole world right so there is a ceiling
  520. 20:18to growth even if you are Nvidia and you
  521. 20:20you know make the best thing since
  522. 20:22sliced bread and you cure cancer which
  523. 20:25is the anthropic pitch I thought that
  524. 20:27was quite good anthropic CEO comes out
  525. 20:29and says we know we're going to cure
  526. 20:31cancer in just be a few years AI is
  527. 20:33amazing buy my IPO Okay. Um, this is,
  528. 20:35you know, obviously the six times over
  529. 20:38subscribed as I'm recording this, so
  530. 20:39it's obviously working. Um, I'm not
  531. 20:42telling you run out and say sell your
  532. 20:43Nvidia or your tech stocks. It's your
  533. 20:45decision. It's your money. What I'm
  534. 20:46telling you is that the guy famous for
  535. 20:48calling the last crash, he's basically
  536. 20:50saying this thing Nvidia, be very, very
  537. 20:53careful. And don't get me wrong, Nvidia
  538. 20:55will be around in 10 or 20 years. I
  539. 20:56think it'll be a great business. But the
  540. 20:58valuation, not so much. And there's one
  541. 21:01more door that I want to open up for you
  542. 21:03because it kind of ties together
  543. 21:05everything I just talked about into the
  544. 21:07bigger picture and it shows you where
  545. 21:10the really big money actually sits. This
  546. 21:12week, America sold about $25 billion,
  547. 21:17which is quite a bit of money, and they
  548. 21:20sold basically debt, right? So, it's a
  549. 21:22it's a loan essentially that people are
  550. 21:23giving the American government, and it's
  551. 21:25a 30-year loan, 30 years. and they had
  552. 21:30to pay borrowers more than 5.4%
  553. 21:34to take those 25 billion off their their
  554. 21:37hands. And maybe you think, well, random
  555. 21:39doesn't sound too expensive. Well, it
  556. 21:42is, I think, the highest number they
  557. 21:43paid in a very very very long time. And
  558. 21:46that number actually matters to you. It
  559. 21:48isn't some abstract about, oh, the
  560. 21:50debt's going to get bigger. Who cares?
  561. 21:52The 30-year bond rate sets the tone for
  562. 21:56your mortgage, every business loan out
  563. 21:58there. It's essentially the cost of
  564. 22:00money on Earth. And if you look at the
  565. 22:03American housing market, let's tie this
  566. 22:04back to 2008, it's at the worst level
  567. 22:06since 2010. So, it's at the stage that
  568. 22:09it was at after the wreckage of the
  569. 22:12global financial crisis, which is all
  570. 22:13about American housing. High borrowing
  571. 22:16costs freeze the whole thing. Basically,
  572. 22:20nobody can afford to buy at these
  573. 22:21mortgage rates. Nobody who already has a
  574. 22:24cheap mortgage wants to sell and give up
  575. 22:26the mortgage rate they already have. So,
  576. 22:29what happens? Well, when housing
  577. 22:32goes, it tends to drag a lot of stuff
  578. 22:35with it because so much of most people's
  579. 22:38wealth in America is tied up in their
  580. 22:40home, right? And then you've got Scott
  581. 22:43Bessant, the mighty Treasury Secretary,
  582. 22:46basically saying, "Well, we can just
  583. 22:49bend the debt problem. We can um create
  584. 22:52more growth and we can bring spending
  585. 22:54under control."
  586. 22:57Now, that's been promised to us for
  587. 22:59many, many decades, which is never going
  588. 23:01to happen. Neither one nor the other. If
  589. 23:03you stopped spending, you're going to
  590. 23:06get a huge freaking recession for many,
  591. 23:08many, many years. You could try to grow.
  592. 23:11outrun the debt. Yeah, that's not really
  593. 23:13going to happen either because actually
  594. 23:15mathematically that's virtually
  595. 23:16impossible. So the only thing that they
  596. 23:18can actually do again is print money.
  597. 23:20And they're doing that at an
  598. 23:22extraordinary rate right now. So if you
  599. 23:25zoom out for a second and and let me ask
  600. 23:27you how comfortable you feel right now,
  601. 23:28I'll just put it in one word in the
  602. 23:30comments. The banks are selling AI. The
  603. 23:32government is paying 5.4% 4% to get
  604. 23:36people to give it money, which is going
  605. 23:38to push up mortgages even further.
  606. 23:40Housing market's already completely
  607. 23:42frozen over. And
  608. 23:45the guy who runs the market, the sorry
  609. 23:48money, he thinks he runs the market, but
  610. 23:49he just runs the money. Bessent, he
  611. 23:51says, "Well, we could we could just
  612. 23:52spend less. We could just cause some
  613. 23:54real pain on everybody." Um, which isn't
  614. 23:58going to happen, by the way, but it just
  615. 24:00shows how little of a plan they have.
  616. 24:02And then remember that chart I showed
  617. 24:03you again, you know, the one about the
  618. 24:05lost decades. It's not a random thing.
  619. 24:08It happens again and again and again and
  620. 24:09again. It's part of the system. Um, if
  621. 24:12you
  622. 24:14made no money of your investments on the
  623. 24:16next 10 years, what would life look like
  624. 24:17for you? What would retirement look like
  625. 24:19for you? Maybe you'd be fine. Um, but I
  626. 24:22think there is a way to enjoy every
  627. 24:25decade. No matter what the market does,
  628. 24:27there's a way to enjoy every decade. no
  629. 24:28matter what the politicians do. And the
  630. 24:31way to get to that, it runs through
  631. 24:35training. It runs through being a
  632. 24:37trained money
  633. 24:39operator because you already operate
  634. 24:41your money. You already manage your
  635. 24:42money. You could panic. You can sell
  636. 24:44everything. You'll definitely lose.
  637. 24:45Don't do that, please. That's a really,
  638. 24:46really dumb idea. But what you can do
  639. 24:49instead, come and learn. And that's what
  640. 24:51this whole community is about here.
  641. 24:53We've taught 25,000 people or so the
  642. 24:55last six or seven years. And it's what
  643. 24:57me and my mentors enjoy the most. It's
  644. 24:59incredibly rewarding. It also makes up
  645. 25:00for the fact that we were bankers at
  646. 25:02some point which obviously, you know,
  647. 25:05got a lot of our our maras to say. So
  648. 25:07come to hydrop.org. Grab yourself a seat
  649. 25:09and I look forward to seeing you live on
  650. 25:12Saturday. And if you got some value out
  651. 25:14of this, if some of this was a little
  652. 25:16bit of a jolt that maybe you needed,
  653. 25:18share it with somebody. That the only
  654. 25:20thing I'd ask and I wish you all the
  655. 25:22best. Right now, I think we're going
  656. 25:24through some sort of weird phase
  657. 25:25transition. And normally when you get
  658. 25:28bad economic news or you get bad jobs
  659. 25:31data that people are going to fly to
  660. 25:33safety into the bond

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