MarkZ Morning (Uncut) 04-16-2025

Coffee with MarkZ, joined by Andy Schectman. 04/16/20525

This is a test. Good morning all. How is everybody this morning? The news is going to come hard and fast.

We have a lot of news to get through. We have Andy Sheckman joining us this morning for his illustrious return after his sabbatical. Let’s make certain I sent the link.

I did, just double checking myself. Now, before I forget, let’s see. Losing my mother, Ronnie Pearl, just saying, please keep me and family in prayers.

Mom will be gone soon, but we’ll get to Jesus for Easter. That has got to be a tough one for you, Ronnie. Prayers of comfort headed that way for you.

Much more rested, feel considerably better. Just reading a few of these, we’re going to jump into it. Good word.

I have no idea where this is coming from at all. Zero notion, so I’m guessing some podcaster, guru, whoever out there spreading something. That’s my guess.

Good weed just said, Mark, please tell us that three blue states can’t stop this reef. How do you know? It’s a worldwide thing. Three states aren’t going to stop it.

That’s just, yeah, no. Yeah, three states can’t. We’re talking about a treaty, hundreds of countries.

Yeah, no, just no. They will be drug along with it. Let’s see.

Well, I guarantee you, none of our traditional banks want this to happen. They lose their ability to create wealth out of thin air. Oh, wait a minute.

Mark Meyer said, tell Andy I have an autographed guitar here. Oh, okay. We like autographed guitars.

Let me stay with it. Let’s get through it this morning. We got a lot to cover in a short amount of time.

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What is up, Ted? Robert, so I’m just reading some of your comments this morning. A little sidetrack, Judy. We’re totally going to talk about Miss Letitia James.

Bye, Letitia. Not looking good. Really not looking good for her.

And the funny thing is it’s what she was falsely claiming Trump was guilty of. All right. Let’s see.

What did Robin say? Birthday’s 22nd. I’d say there’s an excellent chance we could see it by then. I mean, what else do you guys need? Kay Fresh.

I don’t know if that code still works for the plug-in power saver or not. Don’t know. Where did I get myself distracted again? Oh, let’s see.

Trump in a meeting just this past week was like, yes, it is time to reset. Says reset over and over. Barron Trump makes a comment that even people at the state and county level need to be worried that we have major change coming.

Let’s see what else. Out of Iraq article earlier this week that they one of their best choices to deal with oil and changing values to do their projects in their budget is to go ahead and do their revalue that they’ve been preparing for. Sudani.

Sudani said before this term is up, we will have restored the doll. Excuse me. The NAR to be the father of the dollar will return to return it to his former glory.

He made this promise. What going on two years ago? Guess what? We’re getting ready to have those elections, which means he’s got to do it now if he’s going to keep that promise. There’s so much positive for anybody that hasn’t seen it is because you are willingly at this point choosing to put your head in the sand and not read the articles that we continue to share with you.

Mongo just said no one knows the date of the RV. That is true. RV is coming, but it’s all attached the reinstatement back to forex.

Well, that’s where you’ll see it. This is a byproduct of all the reforms. Iraq’s now being methodically pieced back together in the goals to have a booming economy.

My guess, and this is only a guess, is that when this Iranian issue is resolved, we can expect wonderful things to occur. I’ll keep my guess with yours. I can buy that one and we will.

I’ll hit birthdays fairly early, so we will be ready so that we will be ready. All right, let’s get to it. Mike is celebrating a birthday.

Tanya K. said, I wish my husband Mike or Patrick a happy and blessed 64th birthday. Happy birthday. We also have Jackie celebrating today.

Writing those down while I see him, I’m going to miss a lot. Mods try to keep up because we are. I’m going to be going at a fast pace this morning, so we’re ready for Andy.

For those who have lots of questions to ask, I’ll try to answer some of them in chat. There will not be much time for questions and answers today because there is so much information coming at you. Just a heads up, you’re probably going to waste your time asking them now.

Andy does a great job getting carried away on a tangent, which are really cool tangents and great information. I’m going to try to answer some directly in chat during that time. All right, get to it.

An upcoming meeting between Baghdad and herbal to resolve the file exporting Kurdistan oil. We’re getting so close to this stuff being finally resolved. Specifically, they are going to have a meeting on Sunday of this weekend.

They have a few technicalities and things of paperwork before then, but they are giving us the time so that they can get through it. They’re talking about the political, where they’re at in the process, how they’re excited to get it done. We’ve got another good one from Barzani in here.

We’ve got some very interesting comments in the news this morning coming out of Iraq. Let’s see. Somewhere in here, they’re telling us.

Let’s see. They revealed today an important meeting will be held next Saturday. I misreported, guys.

It is this coming Saturday, not Sunday. We hope to have the last of any issues that they will be pumping oil out of the Kurdish region. Here we’ve got Barzani.

Kurdistan’s progress is a great force in Iraq. They want to tell you just how great it is and how they have enjoyed working with Sudan and how they have the same vision for Iraq. I love this one because we’re getting ready to go into the election cycle, and you’re going to see more stories on this one today and in the coming days.

He explained the vision of Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani is resolving the differences between Baghdad and Erbil. He called for activating the Kurdistan parliament and speeding up the formation of their regional government. But he also talks about integration and following the – well, in other articles this morning, following the constitution and their belief in it.

All right. We’ve got another one coming out. Here’s the – Nineveh Governor Tanina.

The entry of Korean companies will contribute to the development of the local economy. I think this is another important one. Korea – what is one of the things Korea is most renowned for around the world? And that would be manufacturing of durable goods.

Hyundai – think Hyundai Motors, large power, land-clearing equipment, one of the largest manufacturers in the world. Korea is famous for top-level – from their ship fields – excuse me – shipyards to heavy equipment to cars. And they are looking at making some serious investments in manufacturing inside of Iraq.

That’s what we call international. And they would not be going there if they did not believe it was stable. You don’t invest millions and billions of dollars in manufacturing plants and facilities if you’re never going to see the dollars out.

So that one’s a big story for you economists. Financial debts cause liquidity crisis in government and pension fund. What are we going to do? There’s not enough liquidity.

We have the cash. We’ve got to get into the bank. Change your value fixes your problem.

They are discussing what will fix their problem, what their problems are. Sudan – I will run for the upcoming elections, which is an opportunity to support a reform project for Iraq. They’ve come a long way.

They’re doing reformations, increasing their economy, their size, their output. Sudan – again, he said he would make it the father. He would increase.

He would restore it. And we see those elections coming. They’re going to keep talking about the projects from reconstruction.

Revolution to the ballot box. Will Sudanese continue his project despite the obstacles? They want us to know just how wildly successful it’s been and how he is changing the face of politics in Iraq to one of getting it done and doing it officially. And he is, of course, working – wait a minute – with Barzani.

It’s good stuff, guys. We’ve got more here. Let’s keep going.

I will run for election. Sudanese – the Syrian president was invited to attend Arab Summit in Baghdad, becoming the rock of the region. Iraq, the rock.

You see where we’re going with this one? Running again. Remember, his promises were to lift the purchasing power of all Iraqis before his government goes to elections again. He’s telling us, guys, they are screaming.

Who don’t we have talking about the reset right now? And isn’t the timing just nuts? Kevin, thanks for all the help you’ve given me tracking down these articles. China discovered the world’s largest gold deposit. Alarming markets.

China’s discovery of a massive gold deposit in Hunan province worth 83 billion. That’s a new global record. Shakes up the gold markets.

This story breaking yesterday of these massive gold reserves. Isn’t it crazy how we just keep suddenly finding – when we’re going into an asset or a commodity super cycle, and we just keep finding these things that are necessary to make it happen? Really is curious timing, isn’t it? And we’re going to keep going. Let’s see.

Baja girl, they make a huge difference. What difference does any article or story make with Iraq or even Andy? Just get it done. I know we all want it just done, but those are the important fundamentals so you can track that we are truly getting it done.

It’s the progress that you can touch, taste, see. Makes a huge difference if you’ll just follow the fundamentals. All right.

We’re going to – now we’re going to hit just a couple more quick ones. I am moving quickly so that we can be ready for Andy. March deficit unexpectedly tumbled to a five-year low as Doge cracked down on Democrat money laundering schemes.

Five-year low and the difference between what we bring in and what we send out making a huge difference. We’re talking about a 30 percent reduction already. These are the kind of numbers we need in order to balance a budget.

One month ago, when looking at the latest U.S. Treasury income and spending, or as is better known, the deficit data, we found something shocking. The last months of the Biden administration were marked by spending unlike anything ever seen before. In fact, spending in the first six months of fiscal 2025 surpassed even the crisis of 2020 and 2021 when the U.S. injected trillions into the economy.

Remember what I told you guys in the first 20 days before the inauguration and replacement of Biden? He had already spent over one-third of the budget for 2025. They went on a massive spending spree, so for this to be reduced as much as it is is huge. They have kicked in cutting spending, all that fraud, all that wasted dollars that Doge has been finding.

And trust me, if they weren’t fighting the government, they’d be finding more and fixing it faster. So they’re fighting an uphill battle and have already made a five-year debt, biggest debt in five years to that reduction. You can look for more in the coming months.

They’ll break it down here in depth for you if you would like to read about it. Trump announces free flights, possible stipends for self-deportees. I’ve been telling you it was coming.

Here we go. It finally makes the news. Pay for your plane ticket.

Here’s a stipend. Here’s 1,000, 1,500 bucks, whatever it is. Go home and here’s your ticket.

Go home, change your country, change your life. You’re not welcome here unless you come legally. I love it.

I told you this was coming because it was a cheaper, better, easier way. And people would start self-deporting because it’s a whole lot easier to lose. I mean, excuse me, to leave when they’re saying, hey, here’s your free ticket.

Here’s some extra cash. You go back a winner. That way, everybody feels like they win.

The U.S. government spent exponentially less dollars than they would have fighting it, going through the process, still flying them out. Just basic common sense, and it works. Basic common sense, and it works.

So she was claiming all kinds of stuff so she could get better loans. Fewer bedrooms, higher value, less money she’s got to put in. Seems everything that she claimed Trump was doing, which we later learned in appeals, he wasn’t doing.

She was actually guilty of, according to this criminal referral. Now, she has not gone to court, so you still have innocent until proven guilty, or at least that’s the premise of our legal system here. It’s really how it works with mainstream media at the helm.

But we have a criminal referral being filed against her over real estate fraud, inflating values, etc. Not going to be lovely, because I can guarantee you they will go after her now that they have an official criminal referral. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Poulton sent the missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, claiming that in late August of 2023, weeks before she launched her civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization for inflating the values of its properties, in 2021, James also purchased a five-family Brooklyn property, but has consistently misrepresented the same properties, only having four units in both building permit applications and numerous mortgage documents and applications.

The letter stated, loan secured from this property could have reduced her mortgage interest rate by as much 1%. So everything she was claiming on Trump, bam, karma. I’ve heard it’s a, leave that one right there.

Yeah, YouTube’s definitely limiting, definitely limiting us. But that’s okay, because it is crazy, guys. When I do Rumble only, I do three or four times the views.

YouTube is definitely, definitely restricting us. Happy birthday, Miss Jackie. Arkansas and Indiana request soda and candy be removed from the food stamps.

What do you guys think? I’m a huge fan of this one. If the government’s going to pay for it, you need to eat healthy food. Now, that sounds like, yeah, right? The big food companies do not like this.

They make a lot of money off things like candy and processed foods. So when you see Arkansas and Indiana requesting this, they are bucking the system. They’re bucking the system hard.

The big food companies are going to fight it. They will try to whip people up about how people, just because they’re limited income, are being looked down upon, maybe, or told they can’t have candy and sodas. And what do you guys think? I think it’s a great idea.

One, we know it’s horribly, horribly unhealthy for you. Two, if you’re taking government dollars, one, you may have paid in. Many folks that use it do, and it should be a hand up, a step up.

It should be to help people get on their feet. But I’m all about this requiring it to be healthy food. This is part of why people voted for Trump and RFK Jr., to make America healthy again.

I love that states are finally getting aggressive on this one. Love it. Love it.

Residents Report, I want your thoughts on this one. It started in fringe media. It has now become a conversation in regular media, including podcasters and influencers in China, which are risking their freedom and their families’ freedom to get these stories out.

Residents Report, overcrowded crematoriums and empty neighborhoods in China. We have some reporting on nearly empty cities. Epoch Times finally tackling a story on this one.

Now, do remember, guys, they have tremendous resources inside of China. They have sister publications that operate out of there. They have people on the ground.

I would consider them almost activists for the Chinese people in a positive way, not a negative way. Chinese residents across the country continue to reveal on social media and the Epoch Times and to the Epoch Times that amid ongoing respiratory infections and overcrowding at local hospitals and crematoriums, China’s villages, towns and even streets in the big cities are looking eerily empty. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in China’s Wuhan, a wave of mass respiratory infections has appeared across China almost every year because they won’t put off their masks.

What did we did we not learn anything from the Spanish flu? Nothing. Germ theory, all of it. I guess we didn’t learn a stinking thing because they still they still embrace them and give themselves pneumonia.

That’s my take on it. A lot of science, data studies, historic studies to support my opinion. Be glad to share them if you want them.

So let’s see. Mr. Chen, a truck driver from Wuhan province in southeast China who only gave his last name for safety reasons, told the Epoch Times that in the past two years, many people he knows have died. He said he has heard from many of his acquaintances the situation is similar all over the country.

What does this mean? China is already trying to do stock buybacks, flood the market, try to convince people that their economy is doing better than it is. The trade doesn’t. They have a real pride problem going on there.

Instead of admitting a problem, they’re just going to pretend it doesn’t exist at all. Falling population. To me, it’s a scary time when you look at China.

Which way are they going to go? Are they going to admit their problems and work on them? Are they going to try to invade Taiwan as their last great opportunity? What do you guys think? What do you see China doing? Do you see them finally coming, I don’t know if I’d say jumping on board with the reset? Do you see them fighting it? CCP? Can they ever admit it? Can they let the people govern themselves? What do you, I’m very, pride cometh before the fall, Dr. Hare. That’s exactly what I think. Manhattan-born, I know how they want to, but doesn’t change what the word is.

That’s the way I look at it when I look at people call it epic times, but it’s spelled epoch. They should have spelled it epic. Tulsi Gabbard drops two huge bombshells.

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. I guess I could have done this one right here. I thought I had it over at Modern Tea so that they get credit for their article.

Two huge bombshells. I’ve got a long list of things we’re investigating. We have the best going after the election integrity being one of them.

All right, so we got two big bombshells. One of them being they are indeed investigating. Beheesy reporting.

Breaking. Tulsi Gabbard just announced at the cabinet meeting that her office has obtained evidence of massive vulnerabilities on voting machines that allow hackers to flip votes. Whoa.

We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers. Yeah, you can’t make all this up. Isn’t it just interesting how it’s coming about? Everything we’ve been screaming about and we are finally seeing it happen.

The investigations. Now, how many people do we see go to jail? This is an important one. People are starting to lose faith because the arrests haven’t started.

Once again, a reminder, you have a new legal team. It takes time to button up the cases so that they don’t get thrown out. It’s called due diligence.

They are doing their due diligence. I know nobody wants to hear be patient, but we need to be patient. We are watching it happen.

We’re watching it right in front of us. The investigations are happening. People are resigning.

The documentation is being collected and verified. It is happening. You are getting the cleanup that you have always wanted.

Bonds. I just have been told that bonds are still moving very, very well. I don’t have an update since yesterday, David.

Lots of corrupt judge. They have so much to work through. I’m actually getting more faith, not less faith, as I watch this process.

They are dotting their I’s. They are crossing their T’s. If they did it any other way, it would call massive uprisings.

I think they are doing a solid job right now. Will I be happier when we see more arrests? Absolutely, I will be. But that takes time.

They have only been at it for a couple of months. Not even three months yet. The way our legal system works, they would have had to have the case, file the court dates, all of those things.

They would have had to have everything done on day one. That is an impossibility because they weren’t in the positions to have everything done on day one. A lot of people are worried they may not be able to get it done.

We don’t know. We are going to find out. But I do love how Barron Trump’s comments on X pointed out that there is a lot happening.

You are about to start seeing it even at the state and local government level. Massive change. We keep hearing about it.

He believes this is actually that time of that change. One, we know he is bright. Yes, he is young.

There could be some naivety in there. But he also is very connected in this process. When he is saying we are about to see it, it is the first time we have heard anything like that from him.

He is telling us we are about to see it at that level. That gave me some warm and fuzzy. Have any of you seen that one? Let me see if I can get it to you if you haven’t.

His comment is shown on. Let me get it for you. So you guys can make up your own minds.

You can make your own decisions. Hold on, guys. Trying to find it in here.

I have got to move it from the phone to an email to the platform. In order to be able to share it with you folks. All right.

Now we just wait for it to pop into the news. Jimbo, no, I am just having fun. I have got my Trump garbage truck up there.

And my Bara doll hiding out in the cat tree. Just thought it was fun. Gold hit 3,337.

Yeah, this is definitely one of those where I wish I was still in the mining industry. You have got fuel coming down. Metals going up.

You have got a magical time if you are a miner right now. Or magical potential right now if you are a miner. All right.

Let’s see if we can find this one so I can share it. This is just one of dozens. Dozens of people reporting on this one.

And I am going to move it over here. I am going to share it. We should have Andy popping in at any moment, guys.

Here is your link for the different platforms. I am even going to get it over to kick. Hello, Karen May.

Good to have you in the house. Yeah, I know there is a lot of videos saying the IQD has already changed. They have certainly discussed it.

They have talked about the revaluation. But it has not already occurred yet. Not officially.

There are a lot of gurus jumping the gun now. The news looks phenomenal. But they are jumping the gun.

Just a little. Polly Collie, I think you are right. I think Arizona is about to come into play next.

I think that is going to be a big one. I think Arizona and Pennsylvania are coming into play next. I very much think they are.

Earnest, I appreciate that super sticker. Feeling much more rested. Eggs or gold, they are both going up.

Let’s see. I am all caught up with Gold Rush. They dropped three episodes at one time after the basketball tournament.

There we go. Wait a minute. Before I let Andy rip.

I know we are going to probably go long. I am guessing. We have missed him for so long.

I don’t know where he is at. He has a great background today. I want to sing happy birthday.

We have Jackie, Mike, and others. They tell me it is your birthday. Happy birthday, darling.

May you live, may you love. May all your dreams come true. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. To all those celebrating happy birthday.

If I didn’t catch you, put your name in chat so your friends can say happy birthday. Now we are going to have a little bit of fun. Wherever you are at, it is pretty.

I am in my backyard. There is a lot of stuff going on inside. I can’t even focus with all the craziness going on in there.

I figured I would sneak out and hide out in the back. I like it. How are you, my man? Good to see you.

You too. Since you have been gone, you had to be enjoying the time with your daughter. You had to be enjoying it at the same time.

You were missing one of the biggest gold runs in recorded history. It is crazy. Not only that, the price fell by 200 bucks while I was there.

It went way up and way down. The whole thing was crazy. I have been saying for a long time, let’s just make it super easy.

It is like, if the biggest money in the world, or if the most powerful bank in the world reclassified gold tier one in 2019, and we have seen the most sophisticated money in the world and the most well-informed money in the world go on a buying spree for the past five years, that being the central banks, and then repatriate it all. Then the United States become a net importer of it. Then calls even from our own senators to revalue the price of gold.

All of these things together in and of themselves are pretty relevant. The US has taken in 60 million ounces of gold since November. Who is buying it all? They always say it is for a customer.

4 billion delivered by JP Morgan for a customer. Who is that customer? All of these things together are significant. But if you put them together, something big is happening with it.

It is blowing through any type of conventional wisdom and technical resistance, where there really isn’t any at this point. I don’t know. Silver will have its day too.

Whatever is going on with gold is far bigger than the mainstream is letting on people to believe. Far bigger. Trump, how many times in the past two weeks has said reset, reset.

They are resetting the market. Watch gold. Something is coming.

Even if it is just the fundamentals of the market forcing the changes, something is coming. Even if there is not a bigger plan, something is coming. Right.

The whole thing that is going on with the tariffs has me kind of conflicted. I don’t know how to think about it. When you just hear one side of the story and see that we are being tariffed across the globe by a lot of these countries on certain products, it doesn’t seem fair.

I think that the other side of the argument is every bit as important. This goes into a reset. The same countries that we are imposing tariffs upon are keeping our system afloat by buying our treasuries and using the dollar as a global reserve currency, which keeps rates low, which keeps our asset prices high and goods cheap.

Obviously, the trade gap looks ugly on paper, but is it really when you look at the other side? By doing all of these provocative measures, this is what created the BRICS to begin with. You are getting to a point now where you have all of these Asian countries getting together. The acronym, I believe, is ASEAN or AESAN.

Let me just read this to you real quick. The People’s Bank of China has announced its digital RMB-Renminbi cross-border settlement system is now fully connected to 10 ASEAN countries and six Middle Eastern countries. The development enables approximately 38% of global trade to bypass the traditional SWIFT system.

This is Enbridge, but they are now calling it Enbridge because of what the BIS did. It is highlighting how blockchain technology is fundamentally altering the global economic framework. The interesting part about it was this part.

In practical terms, China’s digital currency bridge has significantly reduced cross-border payment processing times from the typical three to five days associated with SWIFT to approximately seven seconds. For instance, a pilot transaction between Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi demonstrated that a company could pay a Middle Eastern supplier using digital RMB, eliminating the need for multiple intermediary banks and achieving real-time settlement with a 98% reduction in handling fees. This stuff is the type of behavior that is incentivizing these countries to join on.

Indonesia just became a full member of BRICS. Don’t forget about the BRICS. They’re just not going to tell us what they’re doing anymore because BIS in essence betrayed them, which is a Western institution.

I think gold will continue to go higher. These countries are using gold as their de facto settlement currency. They’ll trade in local currencies or in the RMB and they will settle any differences, whether it be in currency or in trade imbalance with gold.

That’s really what is happening right now. I think we can see gold going much, much higher. I think we will, actually.

It’s the only way to fix the problems, is to revalue gold and gold needs to be higher to fix any problems. For me, it’s pretty obvious to watch and you look at the manipulation, it’s going to correct itself always. Where are we at in the market now? I’m going to take a quick snapshot because we were expecting only down 199 points.

China just made a major gold discovery claiming one of the biggest discoveries in the world. I don’t know if you saw that. China has discovered the world’s largest gold deposit, alarming markets.

I think the markets would eat it so quickly it would be a blip and you’d never notice it. I don’t even know how much I believe it. Part of me thinks that they’ve been accumulating.

They’ve said that again recently. This is the second time they’ve made a big discovery. They are the largest producer in the world.

Part of me doesn’t believe it in the respect that they haven’t reported accurately the amount of gold they own for a very, very long time. This would give them the ability to say when they do revalue gold, we have these two big discoveries and look at all the gold we’ve found. The numbers that we told you are way lower than what we actually do have.

Alistair McLeod was thinking they had 38,000 metric tons a few years ago, which would already be five times what we have. That was a few years ago. I don’t know if I believe it.

I don’t think more gold is being discovered. There are discoveries, but there’s just not enough. When you take the amount of gold mined since Genesis, it doesn’t amount to as much money as the United States created in the last few years.

It’s a limited supply. Yes, they continue to mine it, but at a ratio that is far less than money creation. This is the idea behind it.

I wouldn’t worry about that at all. Which explains why the gold supply continues to rise as does its price. The supply is going up, but the price is going up.

I don’t know. That just means the demand is higher than the supply. I would challenge that statement that supply is going up.

In fact, I would challenge it vehemently. I don’t have the numbers in front of me. Maybe you can pull it up, Mark.

The gold supply is not going higher. There have not been any significant… If you want to take China’s word for it and El Salvador’s word for it with no substantiation at all… I don’t know if that’s a word. Nothing has been substantiated.

That’s fine. But as far as I know, the amount of gold has been trending down gold discoveries over the last several years. Yes, I’m reaching.

Demand in 2024 only rose 1%. Supply didn’t keep up with it. It looks like demand is simply outstripping the increasing supply.

Yes, supply is increasing, but not nearly as quickly. Where do you show supply increasing? Right now, I’m just in the beginning stages. I haven’t had a chance… I don’t think supply is increasing is what I’m saying.

I don’t think you’re going to see that. I’ve got to go back through it to see. Of course, they count in on that.

Recycling, when they go, and then they re-hallmark. Getting to the bottom of these numbers may take a little bit because you’ve got to get rid of the static and the noise to get to the truth. You still have to replace all the paper gold before it even matters what supply and demand is.

Supply could greatly outpace it, but you’ve still got to replace all the paper where you’ve got artificial demand because it doesn’t even exist. Artificial supply, I think, is a more accurate term. That’s exactly what is happening.

For example, in London, where they have roughly 36 million ounces of gold standing behind 280 million ounces of spot contracts. This is why the LBMA, which has been bled dry, has gone from a T plus one settlement to a T plus eight weeks, citing a shortage of trucks and manpower. That’s insane.

It’s a lie. That doesn’t add up to me in any way. Right.

Well, that’s just it. They’ve realized that they’re facing an existential threat on some of their biggest institutions. They originally thought that the West was playing nice and just doing the tariff thing and things would go back and forth.

That’s not what it is. It’s obviously something much bigger than that. You have some of these banks that are naked short.

If the trend for requesting delivery continues, this is when things get completely and totally interesting. Then you’ve got China, who is doing a test with five or six of their biggest insurance companies allowing them to put one percent of their money into gold. There’s talks of expanding it to the entire insurance industry.

The demand is extraordinary. I would feel better if they put most of it in gold. This is why they’ve been telling their people for the last several years.

This is why you see the number of gold drawn out of the Shanghai Gold Exchange continuously. They are telling their people through state-sponsored savings programs to take possession of gold. Strategically, they think in terms of years and decades and we think in terms of days.

This is why we are being misdirected by price and false narratives all the time. When the rest of the world understands the new system will be not about promises, it will be about transparency and commodities. It has to be.

For people to have faith in the system, it needs to be based on something that’s real and fundamental and tangible. A thousand percent. Otherwise, how are you going to have faith? Once your government breaks that faith, how do you restore it? The only way is through transparency and tangible things.

None of us have faith in the monetary system anymore. We don’t have faith in our government. Therefore, if our government represents our monetary system, how do we have faith in our monetary system? That’s it.

It’s the end of pretend. That’s what it’s all in. We have $6 trillion worth of U.S. Treasuries that mature in just over a month.

How do you pay for that? We have $28 trillion that mature in total by 2028. That’s three years. We take in $15 trillion in tax revenue over that roughly $5 trillion a year.

He wants to reduce taxes. $15 trillion gets you halfway to what we owe. That doesn’t take into account anything else.

None of the deficit spending that we’re doing this year, next year, and the following. We’ve already cut deficit spending per month 30% in the first full month with Doge kicking in. We’ve cut our deficit spending.

We’ve dropped a five-year low in that spread since right before COVID started. We’re starting to see those things. They just announced a $1 trillion defense spending program, which is discretional.

That means it has to be borrowed. Exactly. That’s what I’m getting.

In other words, we’re making moves, but we need to be making much bigger. In other words, there needs to be more pain in the tightening of the belt. We’re dealing with fundamental systemic problems.

Sooner or later, you’ve got to deal with them or it breaks. I would argue it’s already broken. I think it is.

I think it is already broken. It’s a system, unfortunately, that too many people aren’t getting out of the way of because you look at how the retail public, which is in deep right now in the equity market, is the opposite of what the institutional money is doing. They’re all leaving.

Hedge funds have the lowest exposure to the MAG 7 in 26 months. You have the insiders selling at a 6 or 7 to 1 clip. You have all of the big money like Bezos and Zuckerberg and, of course, Warren Buffett on the sidelines in cash or in short-term treasuries.

The public is missing this completely and totally. At the same time, the markets… Let me put it to you this way, man. Hang on one second.

The dog’s going to rip the door off. He just wants to come visit you. I’ll give him a short break.

If you would have told me, Mark, that gold would be $3315 an ounce and would have no attention whatsoever in the mainstream, I wouldn’t believe it. It’s crazy. We’re a long way from this run being over.

The retail public is completely asleep. This is all being driven by sophisticated money. For me, mainstream media is not asleep on this one.

They are purposely ignoring the story and trying to bury it. Some people believe wholeheartedly in Bitcoin. I’m not a Bitcoin basher at all.

To me, it serves a purpose, but it doesn’t replace gold. No, it doesn’t. I wouldn’t bet my future on it either.

At least gold has a 5,000-year track record. Bitcoin’s barely a teenager. Not to bash it.

What do I think silver will be valued at once everything breaks loose from the corruption? The price ratio, the average, in the last 100 years or so, is roughly 42 to 1. I think you have Goldman Sachs saying they could see gold at $4,500 an ounce this year. Goldman Sachs just came out and said that yesterday. They’re calling for $3,700, I believe.

Which would make silver $107 historically. Right. Then take that number and divide it by seven.

That’s the current geological ratio. You’re $500, $600, whatever it is. Could that really happen? I don’t know.

If you took $3,500 and you divide it by seven, that’s $500 an ounce. I’m not saying that’s going to happen. But at some point, doesn’t the geologic ratio have to equal some semblance of reality? I think silver has a tremendous amount of room to run.

It’s been held back due to the military-industrial complex. Think of it this way. We’ve gone over on your channel forever how much silver is needed in high-tech weaponry.

Who owns all of the weapons companies? The military-industrial complex and BlackRock. All of them. From Raytheon to all of the big military companies that benefit from making this high-tech weaponry.

The military-industrial complex is very powerful and they need copious amounts of silver. We’ve documented that ad nauseum. 500 ounces in the tip of a typical Tomahawk cruise missile.

They need silver cheap and forever they’ve been able to keep it low because they’re the ones that are involved in supplying munitions around the globe for all the wars. Half of them that we fund and or back and or start and are participating. You get the military-industrial complex and BlackRock making the high-tech weapons and owning the companies that do only to blow up the countries that we are supposedly standing behind so that BlackRock can get the contracts to rebuild them.

They get the contracts to make the bombs, to feed the soldiers, to arm the soldiers, to rebuild what they destroy. This is one heck of a business. That’s the point.

They’ve been able to keep silver low through that suppression. The world’s smart now, caught up with them. They understand what’s happening and they’re using it against them.

This is why you talk about the BRICS Metals Exchange that’s being built. It’s about control. The West controls the price right now.

That’s going to change. These countries understand it’s the long game that matters. I’ve been screaming on your show for two years now that the exchanges are being bled dry, and they are.

And that deliveries are happening, and they are. I was, let’s just say, spot on with gold and I will be right with silver too. The formation technically is off the charts.

It’s just that the importance to the people pulling the strings of silver is more so than gold, even to the detriment of the US dollar value. It’s because silver is their meal ticket, which is slowly being pulled from them. At least it’s inelastic, meaning little bits of silver for each thing, but when you talk about it in the military, it’s not.

So they’ve had to keep it suppressed. You can only manipulate the market for an extended period of time by pushing it in the direction it’s going. And when the rest of the world is accumulating it, it’s a sucker’s game.

It’s a very, very, very sucker’s game, very much a sucker’s game. And this is why they’re trading 2.9 billion ounces of silver per day in trades on the LBMA with only 265 million ounces of silver behind it. That’s a problem because these countries have exposed it and have slowly, methodically, not too fast, but slowly enough to not raise the red flags to drain the exchanges over the last several years of massive, massive amounts.

And then you got China, the second largest producer in the world, flying all around the world, buying dorian concentrate and refining it back in China. Why would the second largest producer in the world do that? Because they’re beating us at our own game and it disintermediates the market. So those of you that have held silver and are somewhat bummed out about its lack of performance, I get it.

It’s counterintuitive as shit. But the fundamentals, the technical fundamentals, the logic behind it, the history that gold goes first and silver goes further, everything. And the deliveries.

50 million ounces were delivered into COMEX on day one of the March contract. 50 million. I mean, so big money is telling you.

Don’t look at the price. It’s easy to say now, but we’ll have this discussion at some point in silver. We’ll have blown people away by its performance and it’ll just be a test of your patience until then.

Here’s a great one for you. So many people out there right now because they think the market’s going to take off. They’ve got their fear of missing out.

So they keep putting off or in their minds justifying staying in the market instead of going into metals because they’re all there’s that fear of missing that next big bounce. To me, metals have a bigger upside than the market right now because they’ve been so suppressed. The market is risky.

Peter Schiff just saying, hey, it’s getting ready to really implode. But poor Peter hasn’t got much right in the last few years, no matter how hard he’s tried, other than the general direction of the metals market. I do think the bubble is bursting.

I just think it’s being slowly bled off instead of being allowed to crash. I think that’s exactly what Trump’s doing through his comments and just dumb luck, maybe two, although I think it’s more calculated than that. I don’t see why people aren’t running, taking their retirement running towards metal.

This is me looking at from the outside because it if the market crashes, it at least maintains its value. But if the market crashes and history follows, then it greatly increases. On top of that, we’ve got all the manipulation and suppression.

It’s like a no-brainer to me. It’s a generational deal. It’s easy for me to say that.

I sell metals. But I believe it in my soul and I invest accordingly and live my life that way. But anyways, yeah, it’s crazy.

Right now, is silver still gaining? Not disappointed. Well, that’s good. I’m glad to hear that.

Yeah, a lot of folks made the move and have been very happy. If nothing else, they don’t have to worry each day whether who said what or Powell got up on the wrong side of the bed or somebody misrepresented the tariff story and now the market’s gone to pieces. Probably has a lot of peace and comfort.

Just know when you’re good and safe. What’s Jim Rickards saying? I think Jim Rickards is saying gold could go as high as $24,000 an ounce. Rickards has been saying that, but there’s some videos, some AI videos with Rickards or the AI Rickards talking, posting a much uglier picture.

You don’t even need those videos. Just watch actual Rickards ones or articles that he wrote and that should be enough for you. There are a lot of them out there where he’s… A lot of videos out there, I’m sure AI done with you saying things to get people to run to other people.

It’s unbelievable how scary that is, man. It’s crazy. Yeah, but no, Rickards very much has been looking for some time.

He’s like, when it all comes apart, you’re going to see over $2,000, $24,000, $30,000 gold. It’s the inevitable backlash from a correction that’s way overdue. We’ll see what it really turns out to.

I think the commercial banks have been trying hard to get on the other side of this. It’s interesting. They still had a fairly significant short position recently.

The other side of that would be the managed money, the hedge funds that went long, who don’t have the pain tolerance that the commercial banks do because of their pocketbook and their investment protocol. When I was in Europe, the price of gold got clobbered by $200 and when it did, 28,000 contracts closed out. They covered.

The hedge funds said, oh shit, we better cover. If you take 28,000 times 100 times 3,300, that’s $9,240,000 worth of gold closed out that immediately the price goes up $300. In silver, the open interest fell by 15,000 contracts.

That’s a 10% flush in one day of the number of contracts. But if you take 15,000 times 5,000, the number of ounces in a contract, that’s 75 million ounces of silver. Is that right? I believe that is.

Times 33, that’s $2,475,000. They are flushing out all the managed money. In other words, the commercial banks do.

When they drop the price down, the hedge funds have to sell those long contracts. When they sell them, the commercial banks buy them. Now the commercial banks own all those contracts long, and the price goes straight up.

Look at gold. It’s up again today by $80+. It’s interesting how the commercial banks flush the managed money.

One of these times, they’re just going to let it run. They’ll be on the right side of it, and the price is going to go. I don’t know, man.

What does Richard say? It’s like trying to catch the fallen knife. Yeah. When they close out the contract, when you go short or when you go long and the price falls against you, you get a margin call.

You have to cover by buying, in essence, buying back or selling your position because you have to post the margin, post the margin, post the margin. At some point, you just say, I’m out. You lick your wounds and take your losses and sell the contract for what it’s worth at a loss.

You’re selling it back to the commercial bank who will buy that long contract, and up it goes. Just some questions. I see people throwing at you this one.

While in Europe, when prices of gold changed in USD, how much did the price change in Swiss? That’s just totally a conversion. I can tell you. I think.

It got as low when I was there as low as 2,543 Swiss franc. Today, it’s 2,696. What is it? It’s up 150 Swiss franc.

About 5%. There’s the chart right there. This one, that’s just it.

Gold really isn’t that abundant. Not in economically large enough amounts to justify getting out of the ground. There’s lots of ground out there that just doesn’t have enough gold in it.

By the time you pay for labor, material, fuel, you lose money getting it out of the ground. Chinese have been mining uneconomic gold for 20 years or longer. They take our trade imbalance and say, screw it, mine the gold.

Who cares if we’re losing on it? We’re winning on the trade imbalance, so we’ll take it. Someday, because we play the long game, gold will go much higher. Exactly.

The Chinese have been playing the gold game all along. They’re just, hey, it costs more to get out of the ground now, but it’s going to be worth it long run when gold’s worth two or three times more money. It’s just simple economics.

They’re just thinking more long-term than we are. Just like the scrapper guy out there that keeps collecting copper wire, and he just doesn’t sell it until the market goes up. He knows sooner or later his patient’s rewarded.

That’s exactly correct. Somebody had commented about Robert Kiyosaki thinking silver’s going to outpace gold. To me, that’s just pure insanity because gold is better than silver.

It doesn’t tarnish as much, corrode as much, it’s more conducive. As those prices get closer, gold’s just going to get used instead of silver because it would make more economic sense. I could see it getting much closer, but I don’t ever foresee silver being worth more than gold.

Am I just seeing things in a funny way? There are other people who say that. The only other person I know who says that is Bix Weir. He thinks it’ll go one-to-one and then beyond.

You could make the argument… In fact, I think you go way back to historical times it was one-to-one price-wise, or close to it. You can make the argument silver is more valuable than gold because of its utility. I don’t really buy that argument, but you could make it.

That ratio should get a lot tighter. It will outperform gold on a relative basis. That I’ll run with.

For me, if it takes two pounds of silver for the electronics and a missile, it probably only takes one pound of gold. If they get closer, gold would just make more economic sense. It would be used more.

Those would be some really expensive bombs. Exactly. But if silver goes that much more expensive… $2 million a missile.

Meanwhile, we’re fighting against people who are building missiles for $2,000 or $3,000 a missile. If you just do the math, it doesn’t work. Let’s see.

YouTuber SalivateMetals says the US is importing gold heavily right now. Right off the London Metals Exchange. We’ve become a net importer since November.

About 60 million ounces have been delivered. Most of it from the London Metals Exchange. What’s crazy about that is, as I said earlier, they are a T plus one exchange.

Meaning if you do a trade, that’s T. Plus one is the settlement day. On the third day, the metal should be moving to you. All of that metal has come from the London Metals Exchange.

The majority of it. Some has come from other places. Switzerland, Singapore, and other places.

In general, the majority has come from London. I think that they believed and I said on every one show that they will not tariff gold, but the threat of tariffs was what they used to have it all sent back. I think it was a ruse to reshore the gold as much as they could.

Now London’s caught on. Guess what? We don’t have enough trucks or manpower, so we’re now going to T plus eight weeks. That to me sounds like a default.

If that’s true, imagine if you were a massive jeweler and you had stores all around the world and you fabricate and you own bars on the LVMA, both gold and silver, you take possession of them quarterly or whatnot in order to fabricate your high-buck jewelry. Sorry, Mr. Z. I know you were expecting your metal in three days, but we don’t have enough trucks, so it’s going to be eight weeks. What does that do to your business? It’s like a default.

Things are beginning to get very interesting, to say the least. It is. I’m waiting for the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

What’s it going to be? I think we almost saw it here just the other day. Honestly, I think you could argue that what we saw with this basis trade fiasco, I don’t know if you read about that, but the basis trade blowing up was very, very, very close. That’s the kind of thing that can destroy the entire system.

If you go back to long-term capital management back in the 1990s, I don’t remember exactly what year it was, James Rickards might even have been a part of that, but some of them were Nobel Peace Prize winning economists. These were the brightest of the bright doing this basis trade with maybe tens or hundreds of billions, not the trillions that are happening right now. The Fed had to bail them out or it would have brought down the entire system.

What the basis trade basically is, it’s buying a 10-year treasury, which the Fed loves because the central banks are selling it. If the hedge funds want to buy it, and I’ll answer that question, leave that up there, if the hedge funds want to buy it, the Fed’s happy. They buy massive amounts of treasuries.

Then they turn around and short the 10-year treasury future and they capture the spread. It’s a tiny, tiny little spread, but they lever it up 100 times. Even at 20 times leverage, if you lose 5% times 20 times leverage, that’s 100%.

You lose everything. These are levered up as much as 100%. That’s because during the Dodd-Frank Act, the banks are not allowed to do anything risky, supposedly.

The treasuries are the safest asset on the planet, so they buy the 10-year treasury. They short the 10-year treasury future, which has a little bit of a premium, and they capture that little premium, just a tiny bit, maybe 20, 30, 40 basis points. Multiply that times 100, it gets big.

It’s virtually risk-free unless the short-term yield goes much, much higher. It’s about when they get margin calls and the whole thing blows up because it goes against them. They get a margin call because the rate went up.

You owe a lot of money here in your margin account. They have to sell. What we saw happen last week was that in a span of 3 days, the yield on the 10-year treasury went up 60 basis points.

That’s a massive amount. At the same time, the stock market dropped 8%. That’s contrary to what’s supposed to happen.

If the stock market is falling, big money is supposed to run into the safety of treasuries, which pushes yields down. Instead, the yields went up and the stock market went down. It’s the biggest jump in bond yields over 3 days since 1982.

It’s one of the sharpest splits between stock and bonds ever. When you talk about higher yields, it signals a broken system. It could get very bad for the bond market.

As rates continue to go higher, we’ve talked about what that means to the stock market, to the bond market, to the real estate market, to the hedge funds, to the banks, to the insurance companies. The bigger issue with all of this is that as this is happening, you have countries around the world, especially the ones that don’t like us very much, they’re continuing to sell U.S. treasury holdings just when we need them the most. We have $6 trillion coming due next month.

We’ve got $28 trillion. Who’s going to buy and continue to finance our debt? While hedge funds are being forced to sell, central banks are heading for the exit. That flood of supply with the shrinking demand, that’s the kind of setup that could send yields spiking faster than anyone expects.

Think of the strain that puts on the Fed. They’re caught right there. They’ve got to buy those up, which means they’ve got to print to buy those up.

Otherwise, the market crashes. What does that do to inflation when they print money to buy the treasuries? The whole thing, it’s this technical trade unraveling that could turn into a really big deal, a confidence issue. It breaks the world’s safest market.

I think that’s how the shit goes down. Graded gold coins or junk gold coins? If you’re talking pre-1933, that’s the only time to buy graded coins, in my opinion. To buy graded coins that are new is earrings on a pig.

Everything that comes out of a mint right now is brand new mint condition, MS69, MS70. Graded coins, if you’re buying pre-1933, if you buy circulated grade pre-1933s at a really good price, you don’t need them to be certified. But if you’re buying anything uncirculated, pre-1933 should always be certified.

Basel? That means that the banks have to get in line with the regulations surrounding Basel III. It has to do with the net square foot funding ratio. In terms of gold, it has to be unencumbered gold, not paper gold held in the vault physically.

A lot of these coming at us just so quickly. We’re going to miss a lot of them. Some of them I’ll jump on over the next day or two if you don’t hear an answer to a question.

I’m going to have to jump at about 11.20. I’ve got 10 more minutes. We can take that one. Market will implode sooner or later.

It’s just going to correct. It’s not necessarily imploding. It’s just correcting.

It’s only a matter of time before you have to pay the dues. Let’s see. I don’t even know where to start.

I’ve missed so many of them in chat. I’d have to start running through. Ted, it would be a heck of a business.

Have you seen all the videos of kids and metal detectors in Ukraine? No. You’ve got a metal detector right now and not worried about getting shot. It’s a good business.

Risk reward. Exactly. No, Richard.

I need a friend. Jake, my man. How would Trump go about refinancing our debt? How would you do that? One way is to revalue gold.

That’s one of the things. It’s held in the gold revaluation account. You have the head of the Dutch national bank screaming, let’s revalue it.

Every $4,000 increase in the price of gold gives the Treasury account $1 trillion. The way that happens is that the gold that the Federal Reserve holds on behalf of the US Treasury, the Treasury would issue gold certificates to the Federal Reserve. Those gold certificates that the Federal Reserve then takes and more or less creates money and gives it to the Treasury, which is very inflationary, which will devalue the dollar, which is just what he wants and raise the price of gold, doesn’t give the Federal Reserve claim on the gold.

It’s the cash value of it. The gold still belongs to the country. It’s an accounting gimmick.

If gold were to go, as James Rickard says, and the way he gets there, I believe, is the money supply taking 40% of it and then dividing that into the number of ounces of gold that’s in 8,300 metric tons that we supposedly have held at Fort Knox, at the West Point Mint in New York and the Denver Mint, and he comes up with roughly $24,000. Well, that $24,000, if the Treasury issued new gold certificates to the Fed, they would give them then, in essence, that money would give the Treasury general account what? That’s six times. That’s $6 trillion, free and clear, into the Treasury general account to use to buy back debt.

Then Judy Shelton is correct and they actually are going to let gold go that high and then peg it to the 50-year Treasury that she’s told me verbatim. This was his nominee for running the Federal Reserve. They’re friends.

She’s his advisor and many think she’ll run the Fed when Powell’s done. She said, Andy, he’s going to issue gold-backed Treasuries July 4, 2026. That’s the 250th year anniversary of the country.

First, you bring it all back. You slowly let the price go. Then you revalue it much higher and the Treasury gets $6 trillion, free and clear, to start paying things down.

Then you back the Treasury with gold, show it on a blockchain, as Elon is talking about, for immutability. You issue stablecoins off the 50-year Treasury, as Judy said, and now you start building demand for the Treasury market that’s been destroyed and you start paying down your debt. A lot of people are worried that if the gold price adjusts, that means their dollar’s going to be worth way less money.

That is true. How does that work in the way you see it? How would that work in purchasing power, when they want to go with their paycheck and spend money? If you do that in conjunction with reshoring all your shit and have it made here at home, it’s not as big of a deal. What is the value of the dollar? It’s measured against a basket of other currencies.

If what you’re buying is all US-made and the input costs are US, this is why what he’s trying to do is very noble, but it’s very painful. The costs are going to go much higher than we are used to, but the currency has to reset to reflect that because you can’t compete with Vietnam charging four bucks an hour for that horrible Dave Chappelle skit. It’s very funny, but it’s not very politically correct.

A lot of athletes have their own shoe collection. He walks in and says, I have my own sweatshop. He opens up his closet and there are three or four Vietnamese women screaming at him in Vietnamese.

It’s actually pretty funny. The point of it is that this is the problem when you have so much of this massive trade imbalance because we’re importing all of our stuff. The dollar will go down in value and things will get more expensive.

That’s just the way that it is, but it’s the lesser of two evils than defaulting on everything and everything blowing up. I don’t think it matters if silver becomes 10-ounce silver-made beliefs. I don’t know if they’ll make it.

Maybe if Canada becomes part of the United States and it becomes legal tender. I’m kind of tongue-in-cheek there. Why not? You could do it right now if they wanted to.

That 10-ounce coin is $50 face value if I’m not mistaken. It’s worth a lot more than that. Right now, why not? If part of the purchase price was accepted in silver, why not do it? We’re down to only about a minute or so.

I’m going to hit this one. I can’t even say don’t go, Mark. I need a friend.

I want to stay. It’s you leaving me. I’m sorry.

I have an interview with Jay Martin from the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. He and I couldn’t connect yesterday, so I can’t be late today. I don’t know.

That’s a question someone stumped me. I don’t know if there is a dollar crisis throughout Latin America. It wouldn’t surprise me that there’s a shortage of dollars, but I don’t know.

There’s a lot of that. People just aren’t willing. There’s not enough liquidity in the markets right now because it’s causing a crisis just about everywhere.

People are protecting themselves. All right, Andy, we need to let you go, but you’re welcome to join for whiskey tonight if you want. I’ll send you one if you can make it great.

Please do. I have someone in town that very soon I’ll be making kind of a neat announcement. Yes, but I can’t say it yet.

But it’s pretty cool for the company. I’ll try. Send it to me.

I always try, but it’s hard for me. Time management is tough for me. Someone asked, isn’t gold the highest number on the periodic table? Yes, it actually is.

It’s number 79. Platinum is 78. All right, dude, you take it easy.

I will talk with you soon. I appreciate you, bro. Send that to me, though.

All right, guys. The illustrious notorious Andy. I’ll be back for 7 o’clock news and then I’ll be back for Whiskey and Wisdom at 8. Hopefully we’ll be able to catch up to a lot of the questions you asked.

Looking forward to it. See you guys.