How the Iran War Will Cause a Global Financial Crisis (Worse Than 2008)

Six devastating effects of the US around conflict regarding your money.

The US around conflict just triggered probably the biggest money shock since 2008.

So what you have here is a huge but hidden world transfer that you can't ignore,

and I'm going to cover the six main areas of how your money is being affected.

I know this because I've invested for more than two decades of my life.

I've bought around a thousand properties that I've bought and sold.

I cashed in on the last cycle. I've seen more than one full cycle.

I bought dozens of cheap properties and assets in 2008,

and we've got many of those signs happening now, and I'm seeing some similarities.

So let me share with you the six things that are going on right now,

and then I'll detail each one, and I'll save a couple of big ones to the end.

Number one, the around US war will create inflation,

and your money will be worthless, and it seems never ending.

We had double-digit inflation in lockdown and beyond.

Energy's been going through the roof.

The money printing that's been going on in the billions and trillions,

in everything is so much more expensive, and then bang, we have a war.

So oils sold well over $100 a barrel.

It went up 40% since late February.

And of course we have this big issue with the Strait of Hormuz,

which carries 20% of all the world's oil,

and it's partially blocked and it's under threat.

So you've got the shipping attacks,

and this issue in the Strait of Hormuz essentially means it delays,

supply chains, it delays, goods being sent around the world,

so you get insurance spikes,

and you're probably going to get 10 to 20% higher prices on pretty much everything

from electronics to clothes,

and you're going to get global trade disruption

on top of inflation, on top of inflation.

Petrol is already way up in the UK.

It's up £3.60 a gallon in many places just in recent times.

Food, food transport, and supply chains, plastics,

heating, etc.

We'll have to go up again having already gone up

with this US around war.

Historical patterns in, say, the Middle East conflicts.

You see inflation jump up to 1% often very quickly,

and this is just with the energy shocks.

The full conflicts, you can get 7 to 8% or more spikes in inflation

in the following year because it has like a knock-on effect.

For example, in the 1970s or post-911,

so your savings are quietly being robbed.

Your cash and fixed rate stuff is getting wiped out the most,

so you've got to protect your cash,

you've got to protect your money in the bank,

and you've got to protect your spending power.

Number two, this US around war will cost billions,

if not trillions of taxpayer money,

which of course will push taxes up even further.

So the US has already requested $200 billion extra from Congress

just at the start of this operational war.

Then you add in the UK's support costs,

refugee migration fallout, all the rebuild.

It's tens of trillions historically, even more.

This could be the same level of extra taxpayer money required,

which means either all the taxes will go up,

or trillions of extra money will be printed,

which will cause massive inflation,

or loads of government borrowing from other countries around the world,

and there are already trillions in debt,

so it is a vicious cycle in many ways.

Post-911 cost America 8 trillion and 12 to 15% of their GDP

in total financial burden.

And now this one in US and Iran is escalating fast

who knows where it's going to go,

who knows if it will become global.

So governments will have to print money to fund it,

which will cause more inflation and more taxation.

So expect higher income tax, VAT corporation tax,

war levies, you name it, you're paying for it.

Either way, one way, two way or three ways,

either through your pay slip,

or through a roaded purchasing power,

or through government borrowing.

And this is scary, and this is real,

but there are solutions, there's always solutions in my content.

Number three, golden silver will probably keep going up.

Now this is an upside,

because generally when you have war and conflict

and geopolitical issues and lack of trust of governments,

watch real and physical and tangible,

and you can keep,

and a replacement for VAT currency usually goes up

and golden silver, these are the most trusted and proven over.

Hundreds of thousands of years, actually.

Gold has existed longer than our planet.

Now, gold has already smashed way through $5,000 an ounce in 2026,

amid all the chaos.

It was up 22% from Jan to March, 2026,

and silver's been following.

And in past tensions like the Gulf War,

Iran, Israel, gold jumped 15 to 25% in a matter of weeks.

In full-blown conflicts, it can be 30 to 50%.

And the reason is it's the only real form of money

when currency and systems wobble,

and inflation actually pushes gold and silver

up, whereas it pushes the value of money.

It's in your control, they can't print it.

It's a relatively scarce supply,

and paper assets are becoming more and more worthless

so people look for alternatives.

So I'm not giving you financial advice,

I'm just giving you financial experience,

but I do expect gold and silver to go up more.

Number four, the stock market will probably continue to correct.

Now markets have already dropped sharply

since these strikes began, the Dow, the S&P,

the FTSE are all down.

Obviously, oil's gone up a lot and that oil uncertainty.

And historically, you get 6% to 10% drop in conflict

like the Middle East Wars, for example,

was around about that figure.

But Ray Dalio thinks it's even worse.

And he's warning that this debt-heavy environment

could mean 20 or even 50% corrections

if this keeps dragging on, which will affect your pensions,

your ices, your stocks, your future money,

your future spending power.

It's all going to take a beating.

And we certainly got to expect in the next few months or years

that volatility is the new normal.

Number five, then, bonds the dollar

and the pound will likely to be trusted less.

Now, short term in these conflicts,

dollar can strengthen a little bit as a safe haven,

but I think more and more people now trust the dollar

less they trust the pound less.

There's people like Ray Dalio saying that maybe we're at the start

of the end of the dollar as the global reserve currency.

Things maybe China might take it over,

then add these wars and this massive spending and this printing

and this division and all this eroded trust.

So people might be less inclined to lend the US and the UK money.

And so the UK gilts and the pounds

they face exactly the same pressure,

the higher yields mean the lower bond prices

and then sterling weakens against these hard assets

like gold and silver.

I still like real estate in the UK because it's solid

and it's needed and prices have actually corrected a lot

so that could be a good upside opportunity.

But investors are already moving out of paper promises

into real stuff.

Thanks are even moving out of cash and holding a lot more gold

in the vaults and of course central banks will be printing

like mad to fund these wars which will destroy our currencies.

Do you know the average currency only lasts about 27 years?

So the dollar and the pound maybe we're coming towards the end.

And then number six, the banks will continue to make it harder

and harder for you to access your own money

because all these fears and tensions when inflation looks like

it's going up a lot you might want to move money out of the bank.

BlackRock, we're seeing a lot more panic withdrawals now.

So BlackRock, they basically withheld billions of dollars.

There was a 1.2 billion dollar ask which was 9.3% of the fund.

They only paid out 620 million.

They had a 5% cap and essentially they gated the rest.

You can use another word for gated if you want.

When you do your research they don't like you to use the word

withheld or refused but they gated 580 million dollars.

That sounds like a run to me.

Now when you get one of these you get multiple and you can create all this fear

and then you get these runs and then the banks gate and they stop the

redemptions or they demand notice or they just hit you with loads of

anti-money laundering questions to drag out the process.

Then people lose trust and faith in the banks because they don't

feel safe anymore.

We saw a run on Northern Rock in the UK in 2008.

We've seen banks go bust around the world in Japan, in Europe, in America

and now we have wars on top.

So what you've got is the central banks are a bit trapped

and they have many paradoxes and one of them is interest rates.

Higher interest rates or more inflation.

So the Fed and the Bank of England they can't just cut rates down now

because inflation is already on the increase because of this.

So therefore you should expect the interest rates will stay quite high and

sticky for longer which of course means your mortgages and your borrowing

remain high yet inflation is in your income.

So you've got relatively high rates increasing your

loan repayments and then you've got high inflation eating the value of your money.

So it does feel like you're getting hit from all sides.

And then finally the billionaire is the big corpse.

The contrarian investors maybe you could clean up because every major war

creates also huge transfers of wealth.

It's a bit like if you had a farm and you

know you farmed all the crop and then you've got the

the new fertile soil to replant the next crop.

So this is happening and you always get the contrarian investors who

observe the masses and do the opposite who agree to when others are fearful

and fearful when others agreed.

So smart money is already being moved into gold and silver.

Some are still predicting that Bitcoin is cheap and will go up a lot.

Real estate, properties crash, not just corrected but crashed in many areas.

Some commodities are distressed, stocks have been beaten down.

So great opportunity to come in and be a buyer and a contrarian.

Most people in these moments actually panic because of all the fear

and then they sell or they get trapped by the high inflation because they don't

have inflation beating physical assets.

The wealthy, the contrarians, the educated.

They've got cash, they're liquid, Warren Buffet has a record amount of cash.

Many of the big contrarian investors like the big short guy.

He's shorting the market again and usually when you see these guys loading up

with cash that means they want to buy because they don't just want to sit on

cash because of the inflation.

It means they're getting ready to pounce and history shows that more

millionaires are made in recession than in any other time in the cycle

and the aftermath of these events and wars and crashes.

Not during the chaos but after it is when massive wealth is generated.

And then have a final tip for you which is crypto and decentralized

and personalized sovereign assets are the new hedge.

Bitcoin if you still believe in it, self-custody assets in your possession,

not manipulatable by banks and governments, gold, silver,

Rolex, Daytona's all in steel, your own cash flowing businesses, real estate,

anything that might be deemed as digital gold even though Bitcoin

stored a bit recently some would deem that it's cheap.

Anything that is away from governments and banks where there's a lot of disruption

going on right now.

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Now a few of you have asked as well, where do I get my golden silver?

Well, if I told you I'd have to kill you, but I do use direct bullion, I think they're really good.

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Remember to invest for freedom, choice and profit.

And if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

These are disruptive times, but it is also the greatest time to be alive

and the greatest opportunity.

Certainly that I've seen in 20 years.

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