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The Real Reason You Can't Afford a House…or anything else
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The data says young people were sold one deal and delivered another. "Do well in school, work hard, follow the rules, climb the ladder — and the American Dream is yours." Then the number that makes the lie undeniable: the suicide rate for Americans aged 10–24 rose 62% from 2007 to 2021. Not because they're soft. Because the deal was renegotiated behind their backs — in 1971.
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00:00 – The system is rigged, just not the way socialists say
03:43 – The same economy priced in dollars, then in gold
09:54 – This isn't because you go to Starbucks too much
16:22 – What happens to men with nothing left to build
20:12 – Every chart breaks in the same year
23:25 – Nixon, the French battleships, and the end of gold
28:40 – From 20 hours of work per share to 185
42:16 – Keynes on how to destroy a country quietly
51:28 – The dollar milkshake: it breaks by getting too strong
1:00:04 – Restoring sound money, and the pain it brings
1:05:47 – Rebuilding without central planners
1:14:26 – How my daughter bought her first house at 21
1:19:10 – You are not powerless
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