In a painfully obvious turn of events, inflation is reeling havoc on the lives of millions of Americans, and Conservatives saw it coming. Charlie dives into the imminent issues everyone is going to have to face as inflation is on the rise— and the crash of the economy is inevitable. Next, he is joined by Founder of Peak Prosperity and Strategic Advisory Council Member at the Unity Project, Dr. Chris Martenson, for the update on Monkeypox, what we need to do about it, and how the WHO is using it as yet another power grab. He also discussed how COVID affected the economy and helped the liberal tech companies and Democratic politicians in the not-so-coincidental collapse of our economy. Charlie and Dr. Martenson answer one of the questions weighing on everyone’s minds: how bad is it going to get?Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Crashflation Is Coming00:10:08
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The economy is heading in a terrible direction.
It is.
I'm afraid that we are heading towards something that I am coining as crashflation, not stagflation.
And I don't think it's going to crash immediately or overnight.
I think it's going to be a kind of a slow-motion car crash over a period of time.
It's going to be happening day by day and month by month where we kind of look around and we say, wait a second, what just happened over the last year?
I think it's going to be different than the 2008 financial crisis, which was abrupt and it was quick and it was dramatic.
It all happened in like 45 days.
It's like, whoa.
Bear stars went under.
Solomon went under.
It happened really quick for those of us that lived through it.
It was from kind of like September 2008 to November 1st.
The entire economy cratered, crashed, smashed into a million pieces.
I don't think that's going to happen as abruptly.
I think it could be as bad, but I think it's going to be a slow-motion crash, largely because of the amount of dollar bills.
And so that is why we are calling it crashflation, not stagflation.
You're going to have everything getting more expensive while the economy craters.
It's the worst possible combination.
It's bad enough to have an economic crisis, but at least when you have an economic crisis and you don't have inflation, you have some monetary levers that you can pull to get the economy stimulated again.
But if you have an economic crash and no growth and you have a ton of dollar bills out there, which we do, then you are left with no good options.
We believe this is economic destruction that is intentional to try to reset our currency and bring us in a direction of a one-world type government.
We believe it's done with the intent of redefining the entire economic order as we know it in the West.
Play Cut 6, Jake Tapper, as recently as six months ago, you were calling inflation a short-term problem and not a long-term problem.
And then the Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, responded, play cut six.
You heard Secretary Yellen this week said she got it wrong about inflation.
In July, you told Bloomberg that inflation would be temporary about a year ago.
As recently as six months ago, you were calling inflation a quote short-term problem, not a long-term problem.
So you got it wrong too.
Yeah, good morning.
Good to be with you.
So clearly we are, and Americans are struggling with inflation, but I don't think anyone predicted Putin's war in Ukraine or various other things that have happened that have been unexpected.
I still think, you know, we will get inflation under control.
We just have to stick with it and see it through.
Yeah, we just have to stick with it and see it through.
It's always Putin's fault.
This comes after Elon Musk says, quote, he has a super bad feeling about the economy and wants to slash Tesla jobs.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a super bad feeling about the economy and wants to cut roughly 10% of jobs at the electric car maker, he said in an email to executives on Thursday.
The message came two days after the world's richest man told employees to return to the workplace or leave the company.
Tesla employs around 100,000 people in the company and its subsidiaries at the end of 2021, according to an annual SEC filing.
Add that to Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs president John Waldron, who said, quote, a hurricane is right down out there down the road coming our way.
You know, for all of the kind of self-righteous economic analysts, this is going to be a massive wake-up call for them.
But how do you solve crashflation?
How do you solve that?
If the economy craters and you also have inflation, there's almost no good options.
You have to then endure a time of suffering, of realignment.
And I'll say this, that a lot of people that have grown used to kind of the cheap money craze, the sugar high, if you will, as we call it on this program, there's going to be a massive economic wake-up call for people.
I'm telling you right now, I think by a year from today, there will be hundreds of thousands of less small businesses.
That might be a little extreme.
Let's say tens of thousands of less small businesses.
There are no more fiscal or economic interventions that could be pulled by the federal government.
There's just nothing else left.
And a lot of this was the creation of both Republicans and Democrats who passed these ridiculous spending bills, $5 trillion of unnecessary additional federal spending that was done by Republicans because of our reaction to the China Fauci virus.
Jamie Dimon is saying there's an economic hurricane coming our way.
I completely agree.
I see it every single day.
And we've been predicting this at every corner.
And it could be worse than anything that people imagine.
You might say, Charlie, that sounds pretty awful.
You know, where's the optimistic turn?
The optimistic is that those you should, if you are a good businessman and you know your product and you know your employees and you know your bottom line and you haven't borrowed a lot of money, recessions can be very good for you.
They could be good because it can make you tougher.
It can make you more nimble.
It can make you more agile.
So you kind of say, bring it on.
Now, I do not wish a recession on anybody for political gain.
That's what the left did.
In fact, I think it was Bill Maher that did that, who said that a recession is actually going to help us get rid of Donald Trump.
Elon Musk says the U.S. is in a reception, is probably in a recession that could last about 18 months, adding that, quote, recessions are not necessarily a bad thing.
And he's right.
If you allow recessions to take its course, absent federal government intervention, recessions can be like cough syrup.
It tastes terrible, but it's actually really good for you.
You get through it, and then you come out stronger on the back end.
Elon said recessions are not necessarily a bad thing.
I've been through a few of them.
What tends to happen is you have a boom that goes on too long.
You get a misallocation of capital.
It starts raining money on fools, basically.
I know a lot of companies that have been built on speculation, and they're probably going to go under.
And that's awful for the employees.
But you cannot have a market that rewards risk that does not punish failure.
By punishing uses, you go under, you close the business.
God forbid you have to declare bankruptcy.
But there's been an enormous amount of subsidy from the federal government.
And the PPP program that Republicans thought were the greatest thing ever was an unrealistic continued subsidy for bad businesses.
It was free money for months because of COVID.
We didn't take any PPP money on this program or at Turning Point USA.
And so our leaders designed these bad choices.
And so, believe it or not, the elites are actually pretty excited about what's coming next.
Guess what?
Jamie Dimon is going to be rich whether there's a recession or not.
So will the Goldman Sachs guy.
What will happen in a recession?
More buying opportunities to only further strengthen the corporate oligarchy in our country.
And what Republicans don't realize is they helped create the conditions for all of this.
The rich will get richer in a recession.
They'll get temporarily poorer.
You're starting to see that, by the way, in Elon Musk and Bezos and Gates' net worth.
They're down about 20%.
But because of the inflation aspect, though, because there's so many dollar bills out there, there's so much liquidity with low growth, the worst combination will occur.
So rich people will just start buying up more assets.
There'll be bargains everywhere.
Bargains in the security markets, bargains in the real estate markets.
And then when we start to finally re-emerge from the recession, the rich will be richer than ever before.
And the middle class will only get squeezed to an extent where they can't take it any longer.
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In great detail throughout the years, about social media companies, about how much power they have, and how there's almost two governments in America, the government of Washington, D.C. and the government of Google.
And we've said for quite a while that the Democrats, they have a bargain with these tech companies, and they will only lay off the tech companies as long as they are useful to what they want America to become, which is a dystopian nightmare where the rich and the elite rule everything and the middle class is destroyed.
There'll be abortion clinics on every corner, drag queen story hour in your schools.
The population will be largely illiterate.
The borders will be wide open.
But don't worry, weed, heroin, and cocaine will be widely accessible on your streets.
This is the vision that Democrats are enacting in our cities and our Democrat states and unfortunately starting in other places as well.
But the tech companies and the Democrats have a partnership.
They have a marriage, you could say.
And Zuckerberg was largely blamed for not being able to control his platform when Donald Trump got elected in 2016.
Donald Trump was able to use Facebook very creatively.
He got blamed for this through the Cambridge Analytica story, I think unfairly.
But Facebook, back in 15, 16, 17, before Zuckerberg changed the entire platform, it was like the wild west of Facebook.
Conservative content performed best then.
It still performs very, very well right now.
If you go to the best performing Facebook pages, they're almost all conservative Facebook pages.
Why?
Because we're a center-right nation starving for content in this kind of nonstop albatross or seemingly unending albatross of left-wing garbage.
And so, what we have, and what is growing at a quick rate, or has been the last couple of years, is Democrats trying to basically win over, I'm sorry, tech companies trying to win over Democrats.
So, this was Zuckerberg doing the $400 million to the Center for Technology Civic Life, which paid for ballot drop boxes and paid for mass mail and voting to be possible in many of the key battleground states.
But we're starting to see a tone change where all of a sudden Democrats, they're not comfortable or happy with just being an alliance with these tech companies.
Now, they want to use state power to be able to silence conservative speech that they don't like because they don't think these tech companies are doing enough to shut us up, to do enough to kick us off these platforms, despite I having going through multiple the bans of Twitter and the shadow banning on YouTube and Facebook.
But listen to Dan Pfeffer, or whatever his name is, how you say last name, saying that the right-wing media advantage is so much more powerful.
Congress has to step in and regulate these algorithms that are pushing this disinformation for profit.
Play cut four.
The problem around this is getting worse every single day.
The media, the right-wing media advantage, this disinformation profiting operation is so much more powerful now than when I worked in the last year.
That's getting bigger.
It is, I think, what we have to do is radically rethink how we communicate.
Everyone has a role to play here.
Democrats have to be more aggressive.
We have to invest in building up our own megaphone to compete with Republicans.
We need to invest in progressive outlets.
The media, I think, a lot of people maybe have to rethink how they deal with people who lie for a living.
And then the social media companies have an obligation to do more.
We can't rely on them to do it on their own.
And so this is where Congress and the regulars have to step in to think about how we regulate these algorithms that are pushing this disinformation for profit.
Okay, there's so much there to unpack.
I actually find that segment to be super useful.
I mean, I think it's insane to say that we have a right-wing media advantage in our country.
But in their own words, it is kind of illuminating, isn't it, that they think they're losing the narrative war.
It's kind of shocking where they're going on MSNBC.
And I think that guy actually hosts Pod Save America, isn't it?
I think he does.
I think he's one of the people that's on pod.
I could be wrong, but I think he's a Pod Save America guy.
Am I right about that?
Anyway, I know that he was a senior advisor to Barry Obama from 2013 to 2015.
And he goes on saying that there is a right-wing media advantage.
And, you know, let's just look at podcasting.
He's not wrong.
Conservatives do very, very well in podcasting, and Dan Pfeiffer knows that.
And I've been saying this for quite a while for anyone with the ears to hear.
Go look at the top 15 podcasts on Apple News.
Go do it right now.
I can pull it up.
The top 15 podcasts on Apple News, without me even knowing before I see it, a majority will be conservative podcasts.
And Dan Pfeiffer knows that.
He looks at probably the podcast charts all the time, and he's like, why does nobody like us?
Okay.
New York Times number one, NPR two, then Ben Shapiro, then Matt Walsh, then some sort of irrelevant band thing, then serial, NPR, then the Daily Wire, then Dan Bongino, then Glenn Beck, then the Charlie Kirk show at number 11, NPR Pod Save America, some non-political one, and then Megan Kelly.
So that is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven out of 15, right at 50%.
That, and then if you look at the, it's like seven out of 13, you got the non-political.
He's right.
We're winning on the podcast space.
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Dr. Chris Martinson is a toxicologist, pathologist, and founder of Peak Prosperity, a great website and strategic advisory council member at the Unity Project.
Dr. Martinson, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, it's so good to be back here with you today.
I enjoy your website.
Politicians Took The Bait00:07:51
I want to ask you a little about economics too later in our conversation, but off kind of off the bat here, what is going on with this monkeypox deal?
Why is the media all up in arms over it?
And what should we know that the media is not telling us about monkeypox?
Well, this is a big manufactured sort of fear hysteria thing.
They're just riding on the wave of the last virus and they're turning the same crank, I think.
From an actual health standpoint, what do we know about this?
There's 1,100 cases worldwide, but looks like it might have been circulating for a while.
And it looks like it mostly only transmits between humans who have very close contact, which they've chased this down to a couple of raves.
And as well, it looks like gay sex seems to be a strong way to get this passed along.
So it's not expressing itself like we saw with a respiratory virus, which passes easily and asymptomatically somewhat between people with a very high, what's called an R naught.
This thing doesn't transmit all that easily.
In fact, it seems like it should be not that hard to avoid because it only passes with people who are symptomatic.
Hopefully in this day and age, we know not to engage in close behaviors with people who are symptomatic.
Do you think this was tweaked via gain of function in a laboratory or do you think this came about naturally?
A little confusion.
I have a yellow flag on this one.
I don't know one way or the other.
There's 47 amino acids, sorry, DNA changes in this thing.
That's a little faster than we would have expected, but only if we think that this thing just recently jumped from an animal to a human.
It might have been circulating since 2017 by that measure.
So I don't see anything in the genetic code right now, Charlie, that says this thing has clearly been manipulated in a lab.
It's got pretty decent genetics compared to where we would expect it to come from.
And I don't see anything too surprising in there.
Not like the coronavirus.
That thing is a complete, obvious Frankenlab creation.
Okay, so I want to ask you now about the WHO, which had the meeting recently and looks like there was a significant setback, but it looks like the WHO is going to start to double down coming into these upcoming meetings.
So it might have been a temporary victory for those of us that love liberty and sovereignty.
Can you walk our audience through the battles to come?
Yeah, look, the WHO obviously wants more power.
It's ridiculous that anybody would consider giving it more power, except under the fail upwards principle, right?
So this is the same WHO that failed to call the coronavirus a pandemic for a month and a half, that failed to even weigh in on appropriately blocking flights out of Wuhan to going globally at a time when even China was blocking those flights domestically back in January and February of 2020.
So, this is an organization that has failed, failed pretty miserably, is not up to the task, and yet wants more power for that.
The mysterious part, Charlie, is so many people, mostly in Western nations, seem very eager to give that power over to the WHO.
Although, as you just mentioned and hinted at, it's not going all that well.
A lot of countries not on board for this ride so far.
They're meeting a lot of resistance.
Yeah, it sure seems that way.
And so, as we dive into this, so the in the fall, it looks as if they have another meeting or an attempted United Nations meeting.
Can you kind of also just reinforce how significant kind of their loss in Geneva was, what they were trying to do?
And it seems as if shining a light on them and the increased public relations campaign that happened around their meeting in Geneva, I think it made a significant difference.
Well, it really did.
And I'm glad to say that a lot of countries didn't go along with their agenda.
So they did have a pretty big setback.
I think they were hoping to really just get this thing rammed through, but what, maybe four-fifths of the world's population basically said no to that at this point in time.
So this is really starting to shape up, Charlie, a lot like this is really Europe and the United States, plus its proxy countries.
Let's call that Canada, Australia, New Zealand, seem to really have an agenda here that they want to push.
And the rest of the world is not as excited for that agenda.
And I think the WHO is just reflective of what those countries really want at this stage.
And I'm glad to say countries aren't going along with it because what they're proposing is basically to remove sovereignty and sovereign nationability from countries making their own decisions about what's best and what's right.
If that had happened, Sweden wouldn't have been able to do what it did back when it decided to approach Corona the way it did.
And now it has the best statistics in all of Europe.
So I want to now shift gears to economics, which is something you write a lot about on your website, peakprosperity.com.
And I visit it every so often.
It's some great commentary.
You have an article here or a piece of content that was written about a week ago.
Devastating inflation takes hold.
I think that it's important that we kind of connect all these otherwise, let's say, isolated dots on the graph where some people will kind of silo off COVID and kind of how we responded to it.
And now, of course, we have inflation.
Can you talk about how the hysteria around COVID, the lack of administration of early treatments, actually is largely to blame for our inflation crisis because our politicians, being the weak-need people they are, they took the bait from the media and then decided to create five to seven trillion dollars of additional federal spending.
Can you walk our audience through that?
Yeah, unfortunately, you know, this is a little bit of a complicated story, but I think it's really worthwhile for people to know because once you can connect the dots, as you say, I think you have a chance of understanding the environment we're in and what's likely to happen next.
So really, this story begins, you know, decades ago, but let's just go back to September of 2019.
We were seeing this extraordinary blowup in the financial markets.
A little bit wonkish, but it was something called the repo markets.
We're seeing the overnights rate blow up.
The Federal Reserve is starting to print.
They're looking for a reason to really print.
And then COVID comes along and it gave them the perfect excuse to really print.
So they printed like crazy.
I was writing about it extensively at the time saying, A, that's going to create inflation all on its own, printing money.
B, you have the government giving, handing money out at that point in time through the, you know, PPP and all that other stuff.
So they're handing money out, giving stimulus checks.
That's inflationary.
And then, of course, we have the supply chain hiccups, which were very easy to see in a complex global environment where all, you know, you need this part here so you can make that part so this can happen.
And before that can happen, it's very obvious that the supply chain hiccups we saw where we basically half the world's manufacturing got taken offline in a two-month period around China.
That obviously was going to have impacts, but the clueless people allegedly at the Federal Reserve kept saying, oh, you know, we didn't see that coming.
You saw Janet Yellen just say, I had no idea.
I guess I got this wrong.
And of course, lots of people were screaming that this was going to happen.
And now it's here.
So that's the backstory.
Printing, printing, printing plus supply chain hiccups.
You put those two volatile elements together and you get where we're at today.
So, but can you just clarify when was this kind of repo market kind of disruption happening with the time period again?
September 2019.
Okay, yeah, that was the height of it.
September of 19, we started to see, and as you say, it's kind of wonkish, but kind of a disturbance in the force of an artificially kind of created economy.
But this has kind of been a Potemkin village built on kind of artificial fiat currency for a long time now.
And it was quote unquote working.
I put that in quotes in the 90s and the early 2000s, but it really got out of control post-08.
Is it fair to say that we're kind of just living on the sugar high post-08?
Or even you could go all the way back to Jekyll Island, but we're not going to do that, right?
So, but this is kind of a, we're at the last gasp of kind of a decade of artificial monetary stimulus.
Is that fair to say?
End Of Monetary Stimulus00:02:28
It's true.
I just, let me go three decades because we had this, the 1987 and Alan Greenspan.
He said, hey, you know, we can't let that happen.
The Greenspan put, so they steer the cars in a slide, right?
So they start steering the other way.
Then we had the whole explosion in the so-called internet fad.
And then that blew up.
And so the Fed came again and rescued.
So they steered the other way.
And next thing you know, we're sliding towards a different ditch.
And then the housing bubble comes along.
Yep.
Again, courtesy of Fed policy.
So we steer the other way.
And it's just, it's just the amplitude of these corrections are getting larger and larger and the interventions have to get larger and larger.
So since the great financial crisis, the big three central banks in the world have printed $20 trillion and poured those into the financial markets.
And everybody was happy because it was mostly just going to financial markets.
So Hampton's houses got expensive, Gulfstream 650s, Gems, where the place where the money goes is where inflation happens.
It went to rich people.
Well, now this is all blowing up.
We're kind of at the end of the road.
And I think the Fed's in a really dark spot right now because they have actual inflation they can't control and they risk this Potemkin village of a market crashing completely and taking a lot of stuff down.
So that's it.
Crash the markets, crash the currency, which we call inflation.
What do you do?
We call it the tough spot.
We call it crashflation, not stagflation.
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Understanding Wealth Transfers00:05:26
So our audience gets really anxious about kind of talks about economic apocalypse, and I don't blame them.
What can they do to empower themselves to make prudent choices so that a recession doesn't scare them, but they're ready for whatever comes next?
What are your thoughts?
It's a great question.
And this is why I do what I do, Charlie.
This is my whole life and has been for a while, is getting people to be what we call resilient.
And resilience is as much as anything.
It's a state of mind.
The way we approach it is first, as scary as it might be, you have to understand what the context is.
That's what you do.
You help educate people.
People need to know, right?
If you don't understand how money works and how the Fed works and it sounds wonkish, well, you're just driving blind in this story.
You have to understand what the system is.
If you don't know what the system is and how it behaves, good luck, you know, operating within it as anything other than a pinball.
Okay, so now you understand something.
Information without action, though, is just anxiety producing.
So we really coach people to get to action and you want to get there.
There's a lot of things people can do to build financial capital, but we talk about eight different forms of capital.
Financial capital is one.
It's really important.
Your knowledge capital is really important.
Your social capital is really important.
So we outline those and other forms of capital, saying, listen, if you're rich in all of those, you're going to be more resilient.
And if you only have money, what's the saying?
None are so poor as those who only have money, right?
We don't just talk financial capital.
That's, I think, going to be a poor determinant of success for this time we're coming in because, hey, decades of mistakes, Piper has to be paid.
Now, if you listen to MSNBC, though, they're going to try and keep you Wolf of Wall Street style.
You know, you're in the market all the time.
Like that's, that's where money is.
You have to be in the markets.
That can be partly true, but I want people to understand that we've been through this before in history.
We went through it in Weimar, Germany, 1918 through 1923.
We've been through it in Zimbabwe.
They just, they're going through it in Venezuela.
It happens.
They always present it, though, at the retail level, at the MSNBC level.
They say, it's just this great, you know, wealth destruction that happens and, you know, people lose jobs and lives are destroyed.
And that's not true.
Well, that is true, but it's not the only thing that's true.
What's actually happening at times like this are wealth transfers.
Exactly.
And if you look at what happens before and after in Weimar, Germany, for instance, big crash, people are wiped out, books are written, middle class destroyed.
But there are just as many roads, factories, arable acres.
The real units of wealth were still there in the country.
So I want people to get away from the marketing that says wealth is only money and its derivatives and the paper fantasy promise tickets that Wall Street delivers.
And it's about the real tangible things in your life.
So tangible.
I like land.
I like trees.
I like rocks.
I like water.
I like soil.
I like gold.
I like silver.
I like the means of production.
I like people to be entrepreneurs and actually producing their own wealth.
These people actually are going to be, I think, fine.
If not relatively, then absolutely fine, no matter what happens.
But the people who are tied to that system, it isn't kind to them.
It all begins with education, though, because if you don't know what's happening, how can you possibly react?
Yeah, that's super smart.
And it's intimidating for some people, right?
I mean, and they will, the next step is going to go after hard assets.
And this is what the Soviet Union did with the Kulaks.
I mean, they are going to go after farmers.
They're going to say, you can't own more than 15 acres.
You can only own 10 acres because that's going to be the new place of wealth.
The new place of wealth is going to be able to sustain yourself outside of the game.
I hate doing this, but like prediction, how bad is it going to get?
Actually, I think that this is a long emergency.
This is going to take a long time to play out.
We have decades of excesses to unwind.
There's no easy way around it at this point.
I wish there were.
I wish I had some magic three by five card of instructions.
Listen, these were a lot of mistakes made.
And it's going to be the next generation that you speak to mostly who are really going to be picking up the pieces.
So, you know, I wish there was a different prognostication I could give.
It's going to get pretty bad.
And we're seeing it already in just the fuel.
If you understand the energy crisis for it, right?
So the things where there's only so much of, they get more expensive because you just can't turn on a printing press.
And, you know, they can't even print the money as quickly as they're creating it.
They can't.
They couldn't physically.
So they just say, oh, yeah, it's out of thin air.
Chris Martinson, thank you so much.
Phenomenal commentary, peakprosperity.com.
We'll have to have you back on.
Thank you.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
Just want to reinforce that point as we close out.
As things start to get more difficult, you have a choice whether you're going to become fragile or anti-fragile.
And I like the term anti-fragile even better than resilient.
I've done podcasts before on anti-fragility.
It's a great book by Nassim Taleb.
But the long and short of it, in 10 seconds, is some people actually grow stronger the more stress you put on them.
Make a decision to be that person.
That even there might be a recession, you're actually going to grow stronger the more opposition that you come against.
You'll be a happier person because of it.
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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