Gold Fell on War News. Here’s Why That’s Bullish

This is Peter Schiff with the

Schiff Gold Friday market

wrap.

And the week didn't go the way

a lot of precious metals

investors may have believed

following the launching of all

out war against Iran.

But before I discuss what

happened in the week and

precious metals and the market

let me just point out that I am

not going to use this podcast

to get into the details of this

war.

My opinion on the war, the

unconstitutional nature of it,

the betrayal from Trump and the

fact that he's decided to launch

the war, I got into all of that

in the podcast that I did on

Tuesday on my main YouTube

channel.

So I would encourage everybody

who has not already watched that

podcast after you finished

listening to the market wrap.

Go and check it out on my

main YouTube channel.

It's the war that breaks the

dollar.

I think that's what we titled it.

Let me take a quick look.

Yeah, the war that breaks the

dollar, that's it.

So it's the last podcast video

on my main channel.

It's the war that has about 620,000

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But anyway, so let me go back and

talk about what happened during the

week because precious metals,

gold and silver and the mining

stocks actually were the biggest

losers on the week.

Gold finished the week down about

3%, and silver was down what

about about 5%, 5 and a half

percent, something like that.

They closed out the week on a

positive note.

Gold was up almost 90 bucks looks

like it closed around 5170.

So still comfortably above 5,000.

In fact, with all the selling that

happened earlier in the week,

gold never even got below 5,000.

So there is a lot of support there,

which is what I've been telling

everybody.

Silver closed up over $2 on the day,

and still ended the week above 84.

It looks like about 84, 33.

So these are still good prices.

They're much higher than we

ended last year and way higher

than we ended at 20, 24.

But they're down on the week.

And even bigger losses in the

mining stocks, the GDX and the GDXJ

were both down over 11% on the week,

including small losses today,

even with the rise in gold and silver.

So the question is why, right?

Isn't war supposed to be good for

gold and silver?

Why didn't people buy gold and silver?

After all, oil, soared on the week.

Up about 35%, we closed around $91

of barrel.

This is the biggest weekly gain in oil,

I think since the mid 1980s.

And in fact, on the year now, oil is up 65%.

Because we were already rising before the war.

Now, some of that rise was probably

in anticipation of the war.

We were already building a war premium

into the oil price before the war broke out.

And that, I think, is the main reason

that gold and silver sold off.

I think it was a buy the rumor sell the fact.

Because I think that there was some

speculative buying in gold and silver

in anticipation of a war where they ran.

And the Trump administration had made it pretty clear

that this was going to happen.

We just didn't know exactly when.

I mean, we knew it would happen over a weekend.

We just didn't know which weekend.

Trump likes to move when the markets are closed.

But we had already moved a lot of our ships

and personnel into the region.

So, it was pretty clear.

And gold was going up.

I mean, gold had gotten pretty high at the end of last week.

And so, when the bombs started to fall on Saturday

and gold initially opened for trading on Sunday night,

it got near 5,500.

That was around the high.

But because gold couldn't really break to new highs,

I think the people who had bought

an anticipation of the war sold on the news.

You buy, what is it?

Another especially, the trumpets and you sell on the cannons

or whatever.

But we sold on the actual war.

The traders took profits and gold and silver went down.

And of course, gold and silver stocks that may have also been bought

for the same reason.

People bought those stocks thinking, hey, if we have war with Iran,

that's good for gold.

I'm going to buy some gold mining stocks.

And then when gold went down, when the war broke out,

a lot of those traders sold their gold stocks.

And that caused that big drop.

And if you recall, this has been how the mining stocks

have acted for the entire bull market.

Because the investors have got one foot out the door.

They've always been skeptical of the rally.

They think gold's going to collapse.

So they overreact to every down move.

And you can see that overreaction most profoundly

in the gold and silver mining stocks.

But I think this is a head fake week.

I think that the war is going to be very good for gold and silver.

And ultimately, the market is wrong not to recognize that now

and buying these metals.

But I think by next week we should be, I think off to the races,

I think you're going to see a big recovery in the stocks.

I mean, part of the reason too now is I think the world is overly optimistic,

particularly Americans, on this war.

I think people still think it's going to be short and sweet,

you know, a quick mission accomplished.

And it's not going to be that disruptive.

And in fact, maybe people are optimistic that we're going to have peace

in the Middle East after this.

We're going to have a friendly Iran.

They're going to play nice.

Everything's going to be Kumbaya.

Kumbaya there in the Middle East finally.

I think these are all fantasies.

I have no reason to believe that the outcome this time is going to be any more successful

than our other adventures into that region, whether it's Iraq,

whether it's Afghanistan.

I think it's going to be a mess.

I don't think it's going to go as smoothly as people hope.

I think it's going to be drawn out.

I think, you know, we're going to have a lot of problems.

I don't think what we're seeing in the oil market is just a temporary blip,

which is another thing that people are hoping for.

And so that's, I think, also tempering some of the enthusiasm for gold.

And the mining stocks is that people are still too optimistic on the way this thing is going to play out.

And in fact, I remember earlier in the week because on the first day, on Monday,

people was up, but it wasn't up that much.

You know, five percent, whatever.

And I was listening to the financial shows, particularly on Fox News like Larry Cudlow,

where all they do is cheerlead for Donald Trump and just kisses his ass for the whole show.

And everybody that comes on kisses his ass.

And he could do no wrong.

He walks on water as far as these guys are concerned.

And they were so excited that oil prices, you know, didn't even really get the $70.

And they were saying, you see, this is how great President Trump is.

It's all drill, baby drill.

The Middle East doesn't matter anymore.

We're self-sufficient, we're exporters.

So we don't have to worry.

It's different, different this time, thanks to Donald Trump and his fantastic policies.

And we have all this oil production now.

And, you know, none of this matters.

And all of that was a bunch of BS.

Because now, a, oil just went up every day after that show.

And now we're over $90 a barrel.

It's a huge move.

So it isn't different this time.

And we'll probably be over $100 a barrel by next week.

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And by the way, I checked the numbers.

And oil production in 2025, which is the first year of drill, baby drill.

Because Trump became president in January.

Oil production in 2025 is not even 3% higher than 2024.

That's it.

And there's no evidence that that's attributable to drill, baby drill.

I mean, it may have been the same even if Harris had been elected.

It's not that big a move in oil production.

Certainly nothing to say, oh, it's a game changer.

And now we're self-sufficient.

It's not that much more than we were producing before Trump was elected.

So we're just as vulnerable.

And by the way, and now this one is not on Trump.

But we sold like half of our strategic petroleum reserve when Biden was president.

Now Trump had an opportunity when oil was cheaper before he launched this war of choice in Iran.

Trump could have tapped into the oil markets and refilled the strategic petroleum reserve.

So we have a greater reserve now going into this war.

So that was a mistake, they talked about doing it, but they never did.

Because the only thing Trump really had to hang his hat on as far as how great the economy was,

or that he had beaten inflation, was cheap gas prices.

Which, yes, they had gone down, but not nearly as much as Trump claimed.

He kept talking about $1.99 somewhere in some station that nobody could find.

But Trump didn't want to start buying more oil for the strategic petroleum reserve,

because that would have moved up the price.

Well, now the price has gone up anyway, we don't have anymore.

So I would say that the odds that we can tap into it again are kind of remote.

So we're in a very vulnerable position where the reserves are so low,

and there's now a war where you got the Straits of Femuse shut down,

and you got missiles going all over the Middle East,

because you know, Iran has to attack our bases in other countries like Saudi Arabia.

Because America is operating from all over the Middle East.

We have a presence everywhere, but Iran now, when they retaliate,

these missiles are going all over the place.

And of course, this also is angering the countries that are hosting American assets,

and now they have missiles going into their country.

You know, some of them may miss.

You know, they could hit civilian targets.

There's going to be collateral damage on both sides.

But this has the potential to really escalate and involve other Middle East countries,

and maybe even countries outside the Middle East.

So I think all these polyanna of views about how easy this is,

how quick it's going to be.

I think at some point, the markets are going to start pricing in a much more realistic,

which is also a much more pessimistic, a forecast for how this is going to be disruptive

to the markets, to the economy.

And of course, politics, this is a big thing.

And I actually forgot to mention this on the other podcast that I just told you guys about.

But it's very frustrating to see all the Republicans pretty much coming out and supporting Trump,

forgetting about the fact that he promised not to do this.

Nobody is saying, well, he broke his promise and, you know, we're having another war.

But you have all the Democrats who are criticizing.

Again, not all.

There are some who are supporting the president.

But the vast majority of Democrats opposed the president and the overwhelming majority of Republicans supported.

But I guarantee you, had Kamala Harris done the same thing.

If the circumstances were identical, all these Republicans would be condemning this act.

And the Democrats would be supporting it.

And in fact, there are a lot of Republicans who are supporting Trump who, you know,

were opposed in the past in military intervention by the other party.

So I don't like the fact that this war gets politicized.

And it's all about party loyalty, not about what you think is right or your conscience.

Because I think any objective look at this would say that this was a mistake, right?

And there was no imminent threat to the United States at all.

And there's no way I ran was about to attack us like the president said.

But again, I already went into this in the other podcast.

So make sure and check that out.

But I think as the markets start to take a more realistic outlook, you're going to start to see a bigger impact, like in the stock market.

The stock market was barely down on the week, barely down.

I mean, the Dow Jones closed it around 47,500.

So now we're about 2500 below 50,000.

And of course, Donald Trump was bragging about 50,000 and taking credit for it.

We may end up being a lot lower than 50,000 by the time the midterm elections come around.

Which is, it's going to be a big problem.

I think Trump has got a huge problem.

I'm going to get into the economy in a minute.

But with the war in Iran, I think this is going to be an even bigger political blunder than George Herbert Worker Broche read my lips, no new taxes.

And then hiking taxes, promising to end wars, and then starting one, criticizing prior presidents for their actions in Middle East.

And then doing exactly what you criticized your predecessors for doing is not going to go over well.

Especially when the economy is in the toilet, which it will be.

But anyway, let me get to the stock market.

So that was only down about 2%.

On the week, S&P held up even better, down about one and a third.

And the Nasdaq was only down about half a percent.

Not much of a reaction at all.

Now, individual stocks, I think the financials got hit pretty hard.

And I think they're going to continue to get hit.

But overall, the market held up.

The weakest of the indexes was the Russell 2000, down three and a half percent or 3.3 percent.

But also, that's the most sensitive to the US economy.

The dollar rose about 1%.

That's not much.

In times past, when the bombs start dropping, there would have been a much bigger rise in the value of the dollar than 1%.

And the dollars 1% rise is one of the reasons I think that gold dropped by 3%.

But I think in the scheme of things, a 1% rise in the dollar is negative for the dollar.

The fact that it didn't get a bigger bid than that.

And I think the bid won't last.

I think the dollar is going to fall, which is going to complicate this war.

But it's also going to be very bullish for gold and silver and oil.

Surprisingly, Bitcoin.

Bitcoin was up 3% on the week.

I know a lot of the bitcoins are like, aha, you see, gold was down.

Bitcoin is up.

This is the turn we've been waiting for.

This is the big rotation.

You know, we're going out of gold into Bitcoin.

That's all wishful thinking.

This is a dead cat bounce in Bitcoin.

It rose with risk assets after things didn't crash.

Immediately after the war.

And you got some short covering.

You got some buying.

The same thing happened in Bitcoin.

But look, Bitcoin is barely above 68,000.

You know, it got above, I think 72,000 on this bounce.

But now we're back at 68,000.

Bitcoin finished the week on a down note, like the opposite of gold on an up note.

And again, Bitcoin is trading almost in the mirror image of gold.

And so if I'm right, that the war is going to be bullish for gold,

it's going to be bearish for Bitcoin.

And the reason the war is bullish for gold is not because of the war itself,

but because of the way we pay for it.

The way we're going to pay for this war is by creating more inflation.

And that's what's bullish for gold.

We are going to run bigger deficits because of the war.

Now, we were going to run bigger deficits anyway because of the weakness in the economy

and because of rising rates as a lot of our low yielding debt matures

and it has to be rolled over at the market.

So we were already on an upward trajectory.

But the war is going to weaken the economy.

It's going to lead to higher long term interest rates.

And by the way, yield bond yields rose about 14 basis point.

The yield on a 10-year treasury closed the week at about 413.

It was just below 4% at the end of last week.

So people, maybe they bought the dollar, but they didn't buy treasuries.

They sold US treasuries.

So Bitcoin, to me, at $68,000, it's just going lower.

This is the same reaction that we had in the stock market as we had as Bitcoin.

There wasn't nearly enough pessimism.

But getting back, what I was saying about the deficits and the war itself is going to be expensive.

And you know that, just look at these defense stocks.

They were the strongest stocks plus the energy stocks.

That's where I made money this week.

My second biggest personal position in my portfolio is energy.

And so my oil stocks did well.

And I think they're going to do better getting more in the weeks to come.

But it wasn't enough to offset the losses I had in my mining stocks,

because that's overwhelmingly my number one position.

But I'm not concerned about that.

In fact, if we're lucky enough to get a bigger drop, I might have to buy more.

But I doubt it.

I don't think we're going much lower.

And I would recommend that people watching the video just buy them on Monday.

The first chance you get before reality sets in and people realize just how high the gold and silver price are going to go.

And by the way, I would buy again over the weekend, right?

Didn't work last weekend.

Now, it looked like it worked.

The people who followed my advice last week and bought gold on Friday and Saturday morning probably thought they, you know, they were,

Jesus is right when they saw the war and gold started to run.

But then it turned around.

But this week could be the mirror image of that.

So I would go to shift gold and I would buy this weekend.

I would not wait for Sunday night again.

To me, we could be at $6,000 gold very quickly.

And silver could be back above $100 an ounce very quickly.

As, you know, oil prices are going to be over $100 a barrel.

But the other thing that's going to be driving this.

Oh, I get it.

I forgot.

On the cost of the war, Donald Trump has already made it clear.

Not only are we going to pay for this war.

Oh, I mentioned the oil, the defense stocks going up.

Why are they going up?

Because they're going to get a lot of orders.

Because we're blowing up all the stuff that we bought from them in the past.

And now we have to buy new stuff so we can blow that up.

So the military industrial complex is going to make a ton of money off of this war.

They always do.

And that means the US government is going to be out of ton of money.

We're going to have to pay for the war.

Where are we going to get the money?

Trump is not going to say, you know, we got to raise taxes.

We need a wartime tax to pay for the war.

Of course not.

They're just going to run bigger deficits.

Where's the money going to come from?

The Fed.

Fed's going to crank up the presses.

That's why wars are bullish for gold because they're financed with inflation.

Because the politicians don't want the public to have to pay for the war.

Then they really won't support it.

They want them to think they get the war for free.

But it's going to cause more inflation.

But not only do we have to pay to destroy Iran, we now have to pay to rebuild it.

Donald Trump has now committed that we're going to fight until we get unconditional surrender

from Iran so that we can come in there and take over the country.

And then we're going to rebuild it.

Make Iran great again.

I mean, at one point it was great, I guess a long time ago.

But now we got to make Iran great again.

What's that going to cost us?

How much money are we going to spend building Iran?

I mean, I guess we're going to build it better than it was.

So how much is that going to cost?

Where's that money going to come from?

I mean, we're talking about hundreds of billions, probably an excess of a trillion dollars

to destroy and rebuild Iran.

So this is very inflationary.

So it's bullish for gold, it's bullish for silver, it is bearish for the dollar.

But the other thing that's bearish is the economy.

The economy was already weakening and we got more data today to prove that.

And this may be one of the reasons again for this war.

I mentioned it to the other podcast, you know, kind of like wag the dog, that movie.

But it's a distraction, it's an excuse.

Trump knows that he even thought that Obama might have used a war over the Rand, started

a war over the Rand, you know, because he was in trouble politically and he needed a distraction,

he needed something and obviously Trump needed something, not just because of the Epstein

files.

But the economy was weakening, he had the big loss in the Supreme Court with the tariffs.

So everything was kind of fallen apart.

And this whole idea that we had this hot economy was about to blow up because the numbers

don't bear it out.

The economy was weakening, inflation was strengthening before we launched a war against

Iran.

But now Donald Trump will be able to blame all this bad stuff that would have happened

anyway.

Yeah, now it's going to happen even worse.

But it was going to happen and it was going to be bad.

But now Trump can say, well, it's because of the war.

Like everything was great, but unfortunately my back was to a wall because Iran was about

to attack us.

I had no choice.

So we had a preempt, you know, that we had to go first.

And now we're stuck in this war, this noble war that we have to fight.

And so the cost of this freedom is going to be well, we're going to have to have a recession.

We're going to have to have some higher inflation, but it's going to be worth it in the long

run.

And then everything is going to be great, right?

It's just another excuse that could be a scapegoat for problems.

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So let's look at the jobs numbers.

We got the February jobs number that came out today.

And again, I don't even put any stock in these numbers because we know they're going

to get revised lower once twice, three times over the course of the next year.

It's usually the initial estimate that is the highest and then it just goes down from

there, which is particularly bad news, considering how bad the initial estimate was.

So the consensus was for 60,000 jobs to be created.

And the prior month was 130,000 jobs.

So they were looking for a slow down.

And 130,000 jobs is nothing right home about, it's not a big number.

That was revised down to 126,000 jobs.

But the February number came out at 92,000 minus a loss of 92,000 jobs.

Nobody expected that.

The range of estimates went from plus 35,000 to plus 125,000 minus 92,000.

This is the worst initial report that the labor department has put out in like five years.

So you have to go back to the prior Trump administration.

So at no point when Biden was president, then we get a jobs number this week.

Now as it turns out, it's not the weakest in five years because they revised the October

number so many times, October 2025, that the October number is actually weaker than this

number.

We had a bigger job loss in October 2025.

Now of course, we haven't finished the revisions.

I'm sure by the time they revise the February number, it's going to be bigger than the number

that we got in October.

But that number and I'm scrolling through because I put it, I posted it on X when I initially

saw these jobs numbers.

And yeah, so it was 105,000 loss in October.

That was pretty big, but that was also under Trump.

In fact, today they went back and they revised December 2025 from an initial report of

plus 48,000 jobs to a loss of 17,000 jobs.

So now if you look at the last five jobs reports, three of them were negative.

We lost jobs in three.

This labor market is a disaster, right?

There's no way that we have the hottest economy in history and the coldest labor market at

the same time.

Now a lot of people are just saying, well, it's because there's a productivity boom because

of AI.

No, there's not.

I mean, maybe there will be in the future, but companies are not that much more productive

now because of AI.

What's happening is we're having a massive investment in building out AI.

That's what's goosing the GDP numbers.

It's not that we're so productive from using AI, we haven't even really rolled it out

yet.

I mean, yes, I use it and people are using it.

But it hasn't moved the needle significantly yet.

I mean, it's moved it a little bit and I think it will move it a lot over time.

But right now we're just making the investment and then we're counting that as the GDP.

But we actually have a week of economy and I expect a lot of these GDP numbers are going

to get revised lower and a lot of the rosy forecasts are not going to pan out.

So I think the labor market is weak because of the economy is weak.

It's not weak because of strong productivity.

But it was not just the headline of this number that was weak.

Look beneath the surface, private sector accounted for 86,000 job losses of the 92.

That's 93.5% of the jobs we lost were in the private sector.

It's not government jobs we're losing.

I mean, we lost some of those, so that's good news.

But most of the jobs that we lost were private sector jobs and a lot more jobs are going

away.

Manufacturing had a bad month.

We lost 12,000 more manufacturing jobs.

So add those to the total and listen to labor force participation, which had been improving

slightly tanked all the way back down to 62 from 62 and a half.

That is a big move.

That is a mass exodus of people out of the labor force.

So that is a weak economy.

And then we got some other economic news.

We got retail sales, which were down and again, they're not adjusted for inflation.

They were down 0.2%.

Now they were looking for a down 0.4.

So I guess it wasn't as bad as they thought, but it's still a decline and the prior month

was unchanged.

So retail sales are a weak, especially when you consider prices are up.

By the way, a couple of days ago, we did get the import export prices for, yeah, it was

January.

And we got that we got the year, year over year numbers that came out.

And import prices or export prices were up about 3, 3.3%.

And import prices were slightly negative year over year by about 0.2%.

And what that does is confirms exactly what I've been saying.

And that is that Americans pay the tariffs.

The foreign producers are not paying the tariffs because there's only one way that foreign

producers could absorb the tariffs because they don't actually pay them, right?

They get paid by the importer.

The US importer writes the check to the government, not the foreign producer.

But the idea that was thrown around by Trump's economic advisors was that in order to maintain

their market share and keep their American customers happy, foreigners were going to

slash their prices so that they sold us the stuff at a lower price so that when you add

the tariff to the lower price, it would end up being the same.

And that's how foreigners were going to eat it.

It was going to be a combination of price cuts and currency debasement.

So their currencies would go down, that would offset some, and then they would rate prices.

But the net effect of a strong dollar and price cuts internationally would mean that our

import prices would go way down.

And so even though we paid a tariff, we'd be paying it on lower prices.

And it would be our training partners that would end up eating it.

They would have lower profits in order to continue to do business with America.

Well, the fact that prices, import prices are basically the same as they were before

the tariffs means that that didn't happen.

We're paying the same price and we're paying the tariffs on top of it.

Now I think what did happen is prices might have gone up and maybe some of the foreign

trading partners were reluctant to jack prices up given the tariffs.

So they held off a bit.

And so it is probably true that but for these tariffs, import prices would have gone up.

Maybe buy about the same as our export prices.

So maybe they would have gone up 3% or so and instead they were flat.

So we probably did get foreigners to pick up some of the tariffs indirectly in that way.

But that's not going to continue.

They're going to push it all through.

They're going to start raising prices, especially now with costs going up, energy costs are

going up.

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Is you're going to be looking at a landslide victory for Democrats in the midterm elections.

Because what is the US economy going to look like come on November 2026?

Well, we may still be at war with Iran and believe me, the war is going to be a lot

more unpopular if we're still fighting it in November of this year.

But if the war is still going on in November of this year, we're oil price is going

to be $125, $150 a barrel easily.

You think we're not going to be in recession if oil prices are that high?

Given how weak the economy already was before we even started the war, when oil prices

were still low, no, we're going to be in a recession.

A lot more unemployment, the cost of living crisis affordability is going to be much

worse.

Real estate is going to be in the tank.

Real estate prices will probably be a lot lower if the war continues.

Stock market will be a lot lower.

So Americans going to be a lot poorer because their stocks are going to be down.

Their real estate is going to be down.

If they got crypto, that's going to be down.

So they're going to be poorer.

But everything they need to buy is going to be a lot more expensive.

And a lot more people are going to be unemployed.

So who do you think they're going to vote for, right?

They're going to feel very betrayed by Trump who promised to lower the cost of living

and set it skyrocketed.

He promised to end wars instead.

He started one.

I guess the guy is over at the Nobel Prize Committee.

I guess they feel pretty good now that they didn't give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was so upset that he didn't win it.

They probably would have asked for it back if they had given it to him.

Although I don't know if he started the war out of spite because he never, he was saying

that one of the reasons he was thinking about invading Greenland was because he didn't win

the Nobel Prize.

What Greenland had to do with it, I don't know.

But that's what he said.

But maybe this is really out of spite.

That I'll show them.

They don't give me the peace prize.

I'm going to go start a war then, right?

Who now knows with Trump?

But the voters are going to be very upset.

And the only way that they can take it out on Trump because he's not going to be on

the ballot is to take it out on all the Republicans who are.

So normally, the party that's in power loses some seats in Congress in the midterms.

But I think this could be one of the worst on record.

I think there's no question that the Democrats are going to take back the House.

But it looks now likely that they're going to take back the Senate.

I don't know how you unscramble this egg.

I don't know how Trump's going to get out of this.

Unless he can get a quick victory, which again, as an American, as a human being, I hope

the war is over quickly.

I hope we could win it, whatever the hell winning means.

But history is not on our side for that.

I just don't see any precedent in that.

And the government lies to us all the time.

I'm sure they're lying to us about the war.

Remember, they lied to get us into the Iraq war with the weapons of mass destruction.

They lie about the economy.

The government lies about everything.

So why should they be honest about the war?

They're not.

I'm sure we're getting misinformation there.

I'm sure they're lying to us about why the war started.

And they're going to be lying to us about how great it's going.

Now I hope it is, but I just don't trust it.

And so all of this, having the Democrats get back in is going to be bearish, especially

if it lays the foundation for the Democrats to win in 2028, which is my forecast.

My forecast is we get a Democratic president in 2028 with a Democratic House and a Democratic

Senate, the worst possible situation.

And so if you thought the government was spending a lot of money when the Republicans

controlled it, and you were right because they are, it's going to be even worse when

the Democrats control it.

And if you thought the multi trillion dollar deficits that are going to hit all time record

highs, Trump is going to break the record again.

He's going to have more debt than any other president in history, you know, first term

and then his second term.

He's going to beat Obama.

He's going to beat Biden.

But the Democrat that follows Trump is going to be Trump.

That record will not stand.

Trump will set it and the next Democratic president will break it.

And who knows where gold and silver are going to be by then, up in the stratosphere.

People will look back at these low prices, you know, $5200 gold or $85 silver, whatever,

$82 now.

These prices are going to look cheap when you have the Democrats controlling everything.

So I would just be loading up on it now.

Unfortunately, you know, you can hope for the best, but you better be prepared for the

worst because our track record is pretty clear as to how this is likely to unfold.

So in the meantime, you know, go to the shift goal website, buy yourself some gold and

silver and take advantage, take advantage of the big sell off in gold and silver mining

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Go to my, your your pack website, your pack.com, you can get information there on setting

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We have accounts that specialize in mining stocks, but we also have broader strategies.

You know, the emerging markets also got hit this week, pretty hard.

They have been doing well this year, but I think emerging markets are going to be some

of the biggest winners from the D dollarization trade, which is going to continue in earnest

as this war progresses.

So you can look into those strategies, our foreign dividend pair strategies, other than our

mining stocks, a lot of our stocks held up pretty well, despite the fact that the markets

were lower and the dollar was higher.

So I think we're going to start to see more capital fleeing US financial assets moving

into the overseas asset.

So you can talk to the representatives of your Pacific asset management.

I have five mutual funds that can be bought no load at most of these, you know, discount

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