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Speaker 2: So we have eight trillion dollars of commitments to be

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Speaker 1: I think is to try to muddle along. The problem,

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Speaker 1: of course is societally what that happens, what happens to

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Speaker 1: the popular populations of the globe. And one result is populism.

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Speaker 1: If you're in China, China is a you know, a

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Speaker 1: communist country that rules from the top down. They fear

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Speaker 1: their people the most. When I was a black Rock

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, our energy guys came back

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Speaker 1: from China and every everything they said was all the

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Speaker 1: high officials there want to keep max employment so the

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Speaker 1: people have food in their belly because they fear their

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Speaker 1: people the most China, and China has a demographic problem,

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Speaker 1: so china solution to this will be a distraction likely.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're mongoring and that's why you know, geopolitically,

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Speaker 1: these these debt problems and gender wars, it's kind of classic, right,

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Speaker 1: you can't a country is the leadership of a country

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Speaker 1: isn't going to take responsibility, so they'll blame someone else.

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Speaker 1: So that's we think China's at risk of going kinetic

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Speaker 1: sometime in the next you know, five to ten years.

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Speaker 1: Europe has a demographic problem, and we we we have

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Speaker 1: as as bad as our demographics. We're like the best

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Speaker 1: the clean of shirt and a dury laundery. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the illegal immigration did help the economy short term. The

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Speaker 1: problem is societally, it wrecks the social fabric. So there's

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Speaker 1: a trade off, and it's going to be very interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what happens over the next five years. I

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Speaker 1: don't have a crystal ball, but what I can say

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Speaker 1: is volatility and risk are going to continue to be unprecedented.

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Speaker 1: I think the days the fourteen years of low volatility

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Speaker 1: are over.

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Speaker 2: I would agree.

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Speaker 1: I saw this quote.

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Speaker 2: You know more, Buffett just decided to step down after

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Speaker 2: a legendary status over at his company, Berkshire Hathaway. But

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Speaker 2: I saw this chart. Over the past forty five years,

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Speaker 2: Berkshire has returned three hundred and thirty one thousand percent

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Speaker 2: compared to the S and P five hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 2: thousand percent. However, during the same time frame, gold basically

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Speaker 2: kept even with Berkshire. He didn't really beat that, and

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Speaker 2: it really kind of goes into this monetary debasement. And

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Speaker 2: he said, the tendency of government to want to debase

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Speaker 2: its currency over time, there's no system that beats that.

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Speaker 2: You can pick dictators, you can pick representatives, you can

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Speaker 2: do anything, but there will always be a push towards

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Speaker 2: weaker currencies. The natural course of government is to make

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Speaker 2: the currency worth less over time. He seemed to sort

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Speaker 2: of make the case for bitcoin even though he hates

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Speaker 2: bitcoin and he hates gold. I'm curious your take, as

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Speaker 2: you said, sort of this volatile nature that we're going

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Speaker 2: into markets potentially looking very risky risk assets. You called

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Speaker 2: that as this world sort of goes through this sort

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Speaker 2: of breakup, if you will, do you see like a

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Speaker 2: rush to gold and bitcoin assets really kind of taken over.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about gold first. What's interesting about gold

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Speaker 1: is they're making it money again. If you've been following

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Speaker 1: Basil three and July first of this year, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be instituted in the US. Gold will be considered

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Speaker 1: tier one capital and not paper gold, so not the

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Speaker 1: ETFGLD or futures, physical gold. And so banks are going

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Speaker 1: to start and already have been acquiring gold because you

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Speaker 1: can lend against it, you can create money from it.

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Speaker 1: In seventy one, when we DEALNK from gold, they turn

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Speaker 1: it into a commodity. They're making it money. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: so gold, interestingly enough is being re liquefied as money.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's why gold is doing what it's doing. Slowly,

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Speaker 1: I think physical gold I want to I don't want

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Speaker 1: to encourage people to buy paper gold, physical gold. Bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin is a legitimate asset, the only and I missed it,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I'll just say that I did. I

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Speaker 1: did not get involved. Bitcoin at the moment is very volatile,

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Speaker 1: and if you're looking at it as a hedge against

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Speaker 1: a coming recession, just be careful because I'm a math guy,

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Speaker 1: and it's very highly correlated to the nasdack and the

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Speaker 1: NAS deck is a risk asset, so you know, think

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Speaker 1: of it as a part of your portfolio. And you

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Speaker 1: never should have all your eggs in one basket. You know,

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't be one hundred percent gold one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: But bitcoin so and cash is also an asset temporarily

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Speaker 1: because if things are going to deflate. Even though cash

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Speaker 1: traditionally held over long periods of time, it's not a

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Speaker 1: good idea. Look at what Warren Buppet's doing right now.

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Speaker 1: He's hold he's holding he owns four point six percent

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Speaker 1: of the t boll market. Uh, that's cash. Effectively, he's

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Speaker 1: earning four percent on it, four point three percent, and

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Speaker 1: he's making the bet that cash is a good trade

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Speaker 1: at the moment because he's going to pick up bargains

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Speaker 1: in in a in a dislocation. So so cash is

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Speaker 1: also an assets. But but you know, if if someone

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Speaker 1: had to put a gun in my head, and I've

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Speaker 1: been telling people, look, uh, just have some dry powder

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of the volatility that's coming. Don't be

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Speaker 1: don't be over levered, and don't be one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: any risk asset. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was just thinking again sort of looking at Buffett's

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Speaker 2: record and again gold sort of keeping up with what

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Speaker 2: Berkshire did and to the point that you're making, uh

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Speaker 2: maybe with the recession in front of us, but then

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Speaker 2: probably a big uh stimulus print on the back end

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Speaker 2: and not just the US, China, et cetera. And then

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Speaker 2: you think about as the world continues to break apart

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Speaker 2: and do they want to trust US treasuries and so

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Speaker 2: then maybe those are the tailwind sort of catalysts for

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Speaker 2: for bitcoin and gold. But that's that's more longer term.

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Speaker 2: You guys are focused a little bit more shorter term.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Look, if if bitcoin could prove to me

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Speaker 1: mathematically it was delinking from risk assets, that would be interesting.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we need time to you know, see

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Speaker 1: that right now, it's not historically, it's it's it acts

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Speaker 1: like a risk asset, and that's that's fine. You know,

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Speaker 1: it keeps printing new highs over time. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna, if you think of receptions coming and

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Speaker 1: you put all your money in bitcoin hoping to avoid uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, preserving your capital, I'd be lary of that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's all I'm saying. And maybe bitcoin de couples

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Speaker 1: during this recession and holds its value that yet, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, that could prove me wrong. But historically the

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Speaker 1: correlation is it's a risk asset. So until that changes,

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Speaker 1: it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what about I mean in it seems like

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Speaker 2: in times of high inflation, those assets tend to get correlated,

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Speaker 2: which is why like the sixty to forty bond, you know,

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Speaker 2: stock portfolio is dead. They're sort of moving into unison

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Speaker 2: right now. And you know, in twenty eight and twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: when the markets plunged, gold also crashed along with those.

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Speaker 2: So is everything somewhat kind of correlated and tied together

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Speaker 2: at this point?

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Speaker 1: No gold gold gold also, I mean, let's not forget

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Speaker 1: during the Great Financial Crisis, gold went down fifty percent

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Speaker 1: when when the when Lehman crisis hit, primarily because you know,

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Speaker 1: in a in a margin call that's global, you sell

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Speaker 1: what you can, not what you want too, so everything

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Speaker 1: gets hit, especially if it's on leverage. So but interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: gold recovered quite quickly once you're a new high. The

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Speaker 1: US stock markets took longer, uh to do that. So

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Speaker 1: you know, that's why Warren Buffett is probably in T

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Speaker 1: bills because you know, in a dislocation like that where

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Speaker 1: everything goes down, T bills don't go down, and then

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Speaker 1: you you know, you know you have dry powder and

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Speaker 1: then you start scooping up everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think I saw you probably know better.

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Speaker 2: I think it was just off of the treasury allocation.

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Speaker 2: He's making twelve or fourteen billion a year, I think

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Speaker 2: some crazy number like that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, basically he's getting paid to sit to wait

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Speaker 1: what he's he's determined that risk assets are too expensive.

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Speaker 1: He's not trying to time the market, but he's decided

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Speaker 1: he'll wait for a correction and then he'll go back.

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Speaker 1: That's basically what he's telling you.

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Speaker 2: All Right, So in your report, you're projecting, and we'll

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Speaker 2: link to that down below. I people want to check

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Speaker 2: that out. But you're projecting that there's some big recession

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Speaker 2: coming up, you know this year, probably in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: sort of lay that out what people should be watching,

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Speaker 2: paying attention to, and sort of what you think from

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Speaker 2: a big picture, their sort of life raft is through

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Speaker 2: that moment.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, again it's structural, it's endogenous to the

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Speaker 1: US economy being it's a cycle. It's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: and housing is going to be the one that leads it.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, housing has eighteen year cycles. The last one

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Speaker 1: was two thousand and seven. Carlos in his book in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one wrote about a housing crisis appearing sometime

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Speaker 1: in twenty five twenty six, And as we wrote the report,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing it, you know, we're seeing it in real time.

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Speaker 1: It's early indicators that lead new permit. New permits started

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Speaker 1: collapsing in twenty two. That's a leading indicator. So what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing our completions. Once the completions dry up, that's

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Speaker 1: an indication there's no demand. And we're starting to see

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Speaker 1: that new tenant rents have been coming down. That's probably

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Speaker 1: due to the illegals either self deporting or the stop

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Speaker 1: of the flow. And new tenant rens lead all tenant

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Speaker 1: rents which lead home prices, and so it's just a cycle.

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Speaker 1: Government spending is on the margin being cut and that's

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Speaker 1: going to affect the economy and consumption, and we're expecting

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Speaker 1: this to become apparent sometime in the fall. The stock market. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: we have a housing problem and a AI bubble, so

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Speaker 1: we're going to have a deflation of both. We think

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Speaker 1: the AI bubble has already popped and is in process

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Speaker 1: of popping. We think we saw peak spend in Q

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Speaker 1: one and it's downhill from there. And it's it's just

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Speaker 1: classic second derivative stuff and there'll be you know, credit contraction.

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Speaker 1: The money supply I will come down, velocity of money

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Speaker 1: will come down, and it will cause a deflationary scare.

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Speaker 1: And if that'll come in and do what it does,

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Speaker 1: and stock prices will revolt and people will blame Trump people,

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Speaker 1: people will blame tariffs. But it's just a classic cycle.

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Speaker 1: And we go into our reports eighty five pages. We

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Speaker 1: have also a video of us going over an executive presentation,

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Speaker 1: which we also provide, so it comes with three components report,

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Speaker 1: executive presentation, and an hour long video of Carlos and

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Speaker 1: I going over it and It's on our website at

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Speaker 1: finance technologies dot com. It's stilled with a pH and

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Speaker 1: if you buy the report, you'll get free updates as

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Speaker 1: we track this and when we think the bottom is in,

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Speaker 1: we'll get If you buy this report, you'll get that

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Speaker 1: report for free.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's a compelling case. I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: sharing that with us.

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Speaker 1: We'll wait and see.

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Speaker 2: I'm hopeful, but we'll wait and see see how this

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Speaker 2: all plays out.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Mark,