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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty five, the global currency markets were reset

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Speaker 1: through a historic agreement called the Plaza Accord. Now today

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Speaker 1: Trump is a plan to do it again, only this

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Speaker 1: time it won't be a coordinated effort.

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Speaker 2: It'll be economic warfare.

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Speaker 1: And the consequences well, they could trigger a global currency

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Speaker 1: reset that changes everything. Now is this good or bad?

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Speaker 2: Well? Both. So in this video, we're going to.

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Speaker 1: Break down what the original Plaza Accord was, why it's

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Speaker 1: critical to understanding today's economy, how Trump's tariffs are forcing

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Speaker 1: the world toward a Plaza Accord two point zero, and

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Speaker 1: most importantly, how you can position yourself to not just

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Speaker 1: survive this shift, but profit from it real quick. My

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Speaker 1: name is Mark Moss. I make these videos to help

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Speaker 1: you navigate the world as we're going through right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm a partner in a leading tech focused VC fund.

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Speaker 1: I've been writing a financial newsletter for now about seven

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Speaker 1: years called the Quantum Wave Investment Reports, and these are

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Speaker 1: the same things that we're looking at so we can

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Speaker 1: guide our strategies and hopefully it helps you as well.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: All right now, the key to understanding what's going on

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Speaker 1: is in the past. Now, I've always used a lot

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Speaker 1: of history in my videos to help you understand this.

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Speaker 1: That's why I use cycles and things like that. I

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Speaker 1: often get asked all the time like what are the

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Speaker 1: best investing books that I could read, And I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: they're not really good at investing books.

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Speaker 2: Which you really won't want to read is history books.

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Speaker 1: Because the reason why is, you know, if I touch

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Speaker 1: a hot stove, I'll most likely get burned. Now next time,

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Speaker 1: i might touch it with my arm or my leg,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also going to get burned. So it doesn't repeat.

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Speaker 2: But it rhymes.

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Speaker 1: When you understand these lessons of history, you can see

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Speaker 1: how they're starting to shape up again and very similar

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Speaker 1: things could happen again. So to understand plaza a chord

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Speaker 1: two point zero, let's go back just real quick and

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Speaker 1: understand Plaza accord one point zero. This happened back in

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Speaker 1: The reason why that's important to understand is in a

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Speaker 2: But when it doesn't happen peacefully, we end up with

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