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A "Soft Landing" or a Big Economic Splat?
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Colin, welcome back to the program.
Thanks, Charlie.
Nice to be here.
Colin is with Noble Gold Investments, and you guys hear us talk about Noble Gold quite a lot here.
They are the official gold partner here of The Charlie Kirk Show, and I gotta tell you, in a world where there is a lot of, let's just say, shady actors in the gold space, do you ever hear that feedback, Colin?
Do people ever call?
Yeah, unfortunately they do.
I do hear that a lot and we get those calls a lot.
I just think people need to take their time when they're doing this and check the reviews.
Unfortunately, a lot of times people rush into something.
We urge people to check us out and do the reviews and spend time.
You really gotta look at the company and who owns it and see if the owner's out there like I am.
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I can say Noble Gold is an ethical company through and through because I got to know Colin because it starts at the top.
Yeah, thank you.
So something's going on with Russia.
I read something about Russia and gold.
Yes, they are on a buying spree.
The BRIC nations are meeting October 22nd, 23rd in Russia and so they're They've pretty much been buying before they plan the invasion, and they're doing a lot of trading directly with China, but they just announced last week that they're going to go from buying a little over a million rubles a day in gold to eight million a day, which is quite a shock.
It's a 600% increase, so it's a huge number for them to increase.
They're also the third largest gold producer in the world.
So they're producing a lot, and they're also buying a lot.
And it just shows that a lot of countries besides the US are wanting to buy assets.
They see the value in owning tangible assets.
Because they realize that we've created so much debt in the world that we can't keep up, and so the only way to protect yourself is to have something tangible to kind of back it up.
Yeah, there's so much hocus-pocus in the markets.
A lot of speculation, a lot of elevated and, I think, overly ambitious valuations.
And it's kind of sobering to be able to then touch your money.
What is this?
You gave this to me.
Yeah, that's a Saint-Gauden coin.
They started making the Saint-Gauden in 1907.
And that one is interesting because it's a 1924 Saint-Gauden.
So it was a hundred years ago today.
And just to think about what you could buy With $20 a hundred years ago, the buying power was so tremendous just with a small amount of money.
And so today, we're in this cycle that even if we lower rates, we're addicted to cheap money.
Yes, we are.
Right?
And people don't realize that it really started after 9-11.
I mean, we weren't doing great before that, but we weren't doing as bad.
But since 9-11, the last 23 years, the amount of debt we've created It's something that we've never seen in the world.
Let's go into that.
I totally agree.
By the way, I just did a whole show on how—I'm not a fan of Dick Cheney—like the Cheney-Bush regime made a decision to open up the guzzle of cheap money, which financed war and a welfare state.
So what exactly happened?
There was the Greenspan put, and then there was a decision to lower rates and keep them low after 9-11.
So the Financial Center gets hit, World Trade Center.
They say, we now have to use the Federal Reserve as a psychological mechanism, essentially.
Correct?
I mean, I don't know why that emergency created a situation where rates had to be low for so long.
And even Greenspan, he talks about gold, and he always says that gold is a great barometer to how he was doing his job.
And so he would say that, you know, when gold was sitting at $300 an ounce, he would say, if gold hits $400 an ounce, Then I know that my monetary policy is maybe a little bit too loose.
And then if it drops, maybe I'm a little too tight.
So he actually looked at gold as a great barometer to how we're doing things.
And I would say right now is the most interesting time because we actually raised rates the quickest we've ever done, right?
We did it over two years ago.
We raised rates to combat inflation.
So we raised rates to hopefully tighten things up, yet gold skyrocketed.
So, I don't think even Greenspan is probably sitting back going, wait a minute, what have we done to our economy that we could increase rates so much and gold still is skyrocketing?
That means there's so many dollar bills in the system.
There's so many dollars.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, that's the big issue with us printing this much money.
You know, $100 trillion in debt every 100 days.
That's where we're at right now.
That's where we're talking about.
Yeah, 100. No way. In terms of debt, we're no one. I'm sorry.
1 trillion. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. 1 trillion every 100 days.
No, no, that's right. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, that
right.
That's that trillion a year. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's where we're
that's what we're talking about. So you're looking at a situation
where we've had gold Gold have this, and that's why the retail market and the
Western market totally missed this gold rush.
They missed it.
You know, we've been talking about it for a long time, for years.
And our investors have done, our community that became investors did very well.
They did.
Yeah, they did.
And, you know, they looked at gold and retail across the board.
They said, well, rates are high.
Gold shouldn't do well.
But you go back, I mean, you go back this year, you know, gold's outperformed the S&P.
You go back the last three years, it's outperformed the S&P.
So it's moved in a way that I would say is unusual, because the Western market, you know, the funds, the mutual funds are just now getting into the market.
Bank of America is now saying gold's going to hit $3,000 an ounce.
So the Western community sort of missed the boat, but Russia and China, and India and Brazil and all the BRIC countries have
obviously been riding this train up.
Yeah, and so if there was even to be a design of a soft landing, what would that look like?
Oh, I think the idea of a soft landing where, you know, unemployment feels good and the markets
feel good and real estate comes back, I think is, in my opinion, totally impossible.
I think in a normal world, with these rates, even where they are, and everybody wants rates to come down because they feel like it should come down, in a lot of ways, you could make an argument that they shouldn't.
Because really, things haven't gotten much better, and our debt just continues to go up.
And really with rates going down next week, which they are, they've obviously indicated at least a quarter point, that just opens up the money supply more, right?
That's going to create more potential inflation.
And if inflation is the big problem that everyone's really worried about, and I think they should be worried about it, I don't know how lowering rates It's going to help that.
It will open it up for businesses.
It will make it more desirable.
But prices will go up.
Prices will go up?
Yeah, 100%.
I think that the real benefactor to lowering rates is the Fed realizes that if they don't lower rates, commercial banks, banks next year will just be totally out of business.
Because there's so much debt coming due, they won't be able to keep up.
So with all this debt coming due in the next 12 to 18 months, if they don't start to lower rates a little bit, what are the banks going to do?
Are they going to take back all these properties?
No, they don't have the bandwidth.
They don't have to do it.
So they have to.
And then obviously it's great timing, you know, two months before the election to lower rates, which is something that I always felt that they were going to do.
And some argue they could have done it last meeting, but they're going to do it next month.
It doesn't necessarily bode well for regular people.
Regular people are kind of saying in some ways, like, cash in the bank's paying a decent amount right now.
We're actually, maybe housing prices coming down is not the worst thing in the world, but lowering rates will just, you know, the cheap money train will just skyrocket again, unfortunately.
Yeah, I mean, the everyday Americans, 70-75% Americans, do not like the state of the current economy.
Nor should they.
I mean, prices are out of control.
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And you get a free quarter-ounce gold standard coin, right?
Yes.
Are one of these gold standard coins, or no?
Well, those are very special.
Those are different coins, but they do get— You know how I know it's special?
It's in this kind of case.
Yeah, exactly.
When Colin brings it in a case— Then you know.
Then I know.
Otherwise, he's just throwing them out to everybody.
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You know, part of the reason that we built a great reputation is we focus on bullion coins and bars, which I, you know, I bought a bullion gold bar today, which is, this is a one ounce gold bar.
And I love, you know, I've seen videos online where people are like, oh, you can't, You can't take gold anywhere.
I mean, I fly all over across the country with these items.
It's a 10-ounce silver bar.
And you can travel anywhere with these items.
They are completely liquid.
I brought you a few great coins.
And so I love the 1907, 1908.
Gaudens.
That's when President Roosevelt finally said, like, we have to have beautiful coinage.
We're an amazing country.
We've created something.
We've won.
And so he went to St.
Gauden and created the coinage that we use from 1907.
Where is that now?
Oh, Augustus Saint-Gon is the sculptor that created it.
He was a famous sculptor, and he created those beautiful coins, which a lot of people say is the most beautiful coins ever created.
But the coin that I bought that I always thought was interesting is that when they came out with the coinage, there's a coin that they took off in God We Trust.
And I always think it's an interesting thing to look at, because from the 1860s, 1850s, we always had in God We Trust.
It was just part of our DNA.
It was part of our trinity.
Yeah, it was who we are as a country, is that we had those, you know, those Christian values.
And so for a very brief six-month period, they released the coin, and it didn't have In God We Trust, and people got very upset.
Are you serious?
Yeah, they got very upset about it.
It wouldn't happen today.
It would not happen.
Well, yeah, it'd be interesting to see what would happen today.
I see it right here.
Yeah, so you look at that 1908 coin, it doesn't have the Ngawi Trust.
Roosevelt took it off because he thought money was kind of dirty and he didn't like some of the places that people were using money, you know, gambling institutions and whatnot.
So he did it very intentionally, but Congress said, listen, you're not in charge of the money.
We're in charge of the money.
They change it, and now ever since then they've had In God We Trust.
So it's a nice piece of history, and I always look at what people look at when they're buying things of history or relics or antiques.
Those things were in circulation.
People used those to buy things 120 years ago, and they still have tremendous value, and people are buying them today.
So the idea that you can Hold a piece of history that is unique and that, you know, people in the early 1900s were using, and it's also got gold in it.
I think it's just one of those things that's really great.
It's not like, you know, when people bought these Rolexes and all these watches, this market just totally collapsed.
Like, these things have inherent value.
And we don't focus really on numismatics or coins, but I just thought I'd bring it just to What does that mean?
What does numismatic mean?
Numismatic means the value has a rarity above and beyond the metal price.
These are bullion.
99.9% of what we sell is bullion coins and bars.
So you see what you get, basically.
You see what you get, exactly.
But a numismatic coin is a coin that has some history behind it.
The no motto, obviously, is an interesting story because it doesn't have one God we trust.
So there's certain coins in history There's a story recently about a, I think it's a nickel or
dime from 1975 that this family's been holding, and that coin's going to be worth
probably a few million dollars.
And it's a tiny little dime.
So it's fun.
These stories are interesting.
And I think people like to hold a piece of history.
They collect Civil War memorabilia.
They collect all these things, which is fine.
But I believe if you're going to own something that has some kind of value, you should have something behind it that will actually go up too.
And obviously the fact that they have gold in them is going to inherently push the price up over time, even if the rare coin value isn't as valuable as it once was, if that makes sense.
Yeah, of course.
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I want to get to some of the economic stuff with Mark Cuban commenting on the economic plan and what Kamal Harris's plan would mean for the economy.
I just want you as an objective onlooker and someone who deals in economic news to comment on it really quick.
I mean, what would this do to the American economy from taxing unrealized gains?
Unrealized gains, yeah.
Where did he get this idea?
When they move the goalposts and when Americans right now are really struggling in retirement just to cover their normal day-to-day and then imagine someone that is in their 60s and 70s and 80s that has a majority of their net worth tied up either in the stock market or in their house and they're not ready to sell or maybe they're selling over time How do you tax them on an unrealized gain in those two assets?
Because what would you do if the stock market's up, you'll tax them, and then what if it goes down the next year?
Are you going to give them the money back?
Is the government ever giving you your money back?
No, of course not.
No, this would crush the American economy.
Yeah, and it wouldn't give any faith.
You know, part of what the government's job is is to give confidence militarily.
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Allegedly, and also fiscally.
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Let's play Cut34.
This is Mark Cuban, who I'm not a fan of, but he is correct on this Harris tax plan issue.
Play Cut34.
There's a whole bunch of folks in the Valley who I've been in touch with in the past week on this unrealized tax issue, gain issue, and where we've talked about, you know, those who are taking loans against their unrealized stock, etc., etc.
And then they say, well, you know, If you start to tax that, we won't be able to make investments in startups.
We won't be able to give money over to venture capitalists and private equity folks and other things like that.
What's your feedback to that distinction?
Because I wonder, once there's a critique of one policy, and you get rid of that policy, then, of course, it moves to the critique of the next version of it.
Well, of course.
But, OK, so what I told him was, if you tax unrealized gains, you're going to kill the stock market.
Going to kill the stock market.
So where does this idea come from?
I mean, I think it's the idea that, you know, there's people that her administration or whoever's around are saying, like, we need to tax those people.
We need to get that money out.
There's all this money tied up there.
We need to get that money out of there.
And then what they don't realize is that, yeah, there is a lot because there's 401ks and IRAs.
And right, there is a lot of money there.
People do need that money to live on.
They're saving it for the future.
And also, they're betting on the American economy.
Yes.
I mean, Warren Buffett over the last two to three months has been selling anything he can sell.
So I don't know if he believes that something like this could potentially happen, but he's been dumping, I mean, he's dumped Bank of America, he's dumped a lot of very large He's just sitting in cash, probably waiting to see what's going to happen over the next few months.
And I remember 2008-2009 when Warren Buffett was really positive on the stock market.
I don't know if you remember, but he was like, we're going to fix it.
We're going to make things happen.
He was like, best bet ever.
Best bet ever.
And he was doubling down.
He was buying more.
And now he's going into cash.
So I think that's pretty telling.
Bank of America is, if not the largest, probably the largest bank in the US, and he's Basically just continues to divest.
So I do think that people are concerned about the stock market and what this potential idea could do.
I mean, it's not a fair way to look at it, to have money that's sitting there that they're going to go after and potentially go after.
It's not only that.
She wants to raise corporate tax.
There's three or four different tax measures there that are that are very, I mean, and we're talking about corporate tax from 20 to, you know, she wants to go to 40.
I mean, like very aggressive numbers that would make it very difficult for, I mean, business owners are already struggling with wages going up.
With higher rates.
So they're already sort of struggling.
Then you add this potential tax.
I mean, are people really going to want to hire in this environment?
I think it's going to reduce excitement to hire more people.
Without a doubt.
And so the current state of the economy is not in a healthy place where most voters think or most Americans think.
And the stock market is all over the place.
It's up today.
It's down.
And it's an interesting point about Warren Buffett.
Has he signaled that he thinks a collapse is incoming?
I mean, I don't think he wants to do it because it would be inherently not work for him to say that.
Because obviously, if Warren Buffett came out and said, I'm dumping my stocks and Berkshire Hathaway is getting out, you know, and I don't feel confident.
I mean, that would be decimating.
Huge signal.
Huge signal to the economy.
So he hasn't done it.
But he's been unloading.
He's unloading a lot.
He's sitting in cash.
And I think that is a true sign.
And I think that what we have to look at is that, you know, the dollar And the stock market, a lot of it is just based on faith, right?
You know, gold's been actually very interesting that if you look at the last 12 to 18 months, there's been more money going out of gold than in.
And there's more money going into Bitcoin ETFs than out yet.
And this is the thing that people always say that the people that don't believe in gold, they say the only reason gold goes up is because there's more people buying it.
But actually, if you look at the trends over the last 12 to 18 months,
most of the Western world has actually been dumping it.
They haven't been hoarding it.
The growth in gold has been from emerging nations.
You know, the emerging nations are growing GDP-wise, and they're growing with their gold reserves more than ever.
I mean, more of our growth in the world is coming from emerging nations, and so they're growing and they're looking at assets that they can acquire, and so gold and silver have been those assets.
So gold is near all-time highs now.
Correct.
And there was a bank that says they think gold is going to go to $3,000.
Yeah, that's Bank of America believes that it's going to hit $3,000.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's because a lot of it has to do with the Western market just catching up now.
I mean, a lot of the big funds are looking to get into it.
And then also, you've got to look at the gold to silver ratio.
It's sitting at about 80 to 1 right now.
What does that mean?
So basically, one ounce of gold to silver.
It costs basically 80 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold.
And so, when you look at that ratio, that's a pretty high ratio.
Typically, when gold is running, you see silver really kind of follow suit, and it hasn't.
It hasn't really kept up, because gold broke its all-time high last year at over $2,000 an ounce, and silver is still sitting in the $29 range.
It's still half of its all-time high.
The all-time high of silver is about $50.
So, gold has made this massive move.
Silver hasn't moved yet.
A lot of it has to do with the industrial side of silver.
It hasn't really caught up.
But there is tremendous demand for silver.
They're using it in solar panels.
They're using it in electric vehicles.
There's a utility to it.
There's a utility to it, which makes it day-to-day more volatile, but also long-term.
I mean, I've seen Robert Kiyosaki talk about $300, $400 an ounce silver.
I think that's kind of aggressive.
I always think about with silver, it's like, what other item could you buy today that's cheaper than it was in the early 1980s?
And silver's really the only thing out there.
I'm looking at the chart, and just the chart for gold goes straight up.
And so it's an indictment also of the current monetary status of the dollar, of kind of where we are currently sitting.
And so the uncertainty that the markets are feeling can be best displayed also in the political instability that we're seeing, where people do not feel as if their leaders are making rational decisions that will actually empower them.
So, how are you guys navigating this when people call in to Noble Gold Investments and they have questions?
You guys are a resource to them.
Yeah, and I will say this.
I do believe in diversification.
I always talk about it.
I'm diversified, so I'm not, like, telling you that this is the only thing in the world that you should own.
I mean, there's other assets out there, and I do believe in being diversified, but we really just talk to people about what we do on the physical side, and I think it's an education in that you don't have to have all of your assets Tied up in funds or something where they charge a lot of annual fees.
I mean, that's the other thing people don't realize is that mutual funds can charge anywhere from 1 to 3%.
And so unless you're like making significantly more than that, that can really hurt your bottom line.
I mean, that's a lot over time.
And that's annually.
And as it goes up, those percentages don't go anywhere.
With our IRA program, our fees to store the metal and the custodian fee are flat.
They're $275 per year, and that's it.
And you audit it too, right?
And we do audit, yeah.
It's in Texas or something, right?
We have Texas and Delaware.
I'll be out there actually next month to do another audit.
But basically that $275 is flat so that You know, if you have $50,000 and it doubles, or it goes up, you know, wherever it goes to, it's flat.
So it is different in terms of the fees.
Like, people always say, like, oh, the fees, physical gold, it could be higher.
And actually, if you do it, and you're matching it to mutual funds, if you just buy gold and hold it for the long term, it's actually, over time, you could save a lot of money.
Because you're not getting charged.
There's no, like, trading fee, you know, in these mutual funds.
And they're always trying to hide how they're doing it, right?
1-3% if you go over 30-40 years in a portfolio, that could be millions of dollars, at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue for an investor.
And it gets hidden in a lot of the paperwork.
Absolutely, yeah.
And you know, it's really changed.
I mean, I always look at, like, people look at the stockbrokers, how they were in the 70s, and they thought, like, oh, those guys were sharks and this and that.
But actually, the way they did it was better because they made a fee based on picking good stocks.
Now they don't.
They just get a management fee.
They're just trying to get the most money in.
Whereas before, you'd get a call from a stockbroker, and he's like, I got a cool idea, this blue chip stock, and he'd tell you about it, and you'd buy it, and they'd make money on that.
And then if he didn't make money, you wouldn't use him again, right?
I think that's a much better way to do it.
But we've moved to this new model where they just try to get the majority of your money, and they charge these large fees and management.
And in general, is the gold market growing as far as dealers, vendors, companies?
It seems as if you turn over a rock, there's another gold company, but going to an ethical one is pretty important.
Yeah, yeah.
No, there are new ones that pop up.
I think to get to where we are, where you're doing, we've done over $2 billion in gold and silver.
To get to that number is getting harder.
So there are some smaller firms that are popping up and they, you know, they want to get it when the price going up and anything, you know, it's like, you know, there's people out there that like, want to be influencers now, and how many influencers actually make any money, right?
Probably less than 1%.
So it's like, you know, really to get in and have that stability, where you have that volume, that big volume $2 billion that I think there's less of that available in the market.
It's Noble Gold Investments.
And also, other fun giveaways, stuff you want to be aware of?
Yeah, I mean, we always have different coins.
We're doing the Silver Trump Coins that we're giving away for IRAs.
Where's my Silver Trump Coin?
I thought you had it here.
I'm surprised you don't have one here.
I think it's in my office.
Okay.
Yeah, so right now we're doing Silver Trump Coins for any qualified IRAs.
We have Silver Flag Bars.
Yeah, we give away a lot of stuff but ultimately our goal is to get you the most bang for your buck.
So we don't want to be overly gimmicky.
The idea is that we do heavy volume and so we want to pass on good pricing and so that's really what we focus on.
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So Colin, I want to talk about how, let's play Cut 37.
These employment numbers keep on getting downgraded and revised.
Let's play Cut 37.
In June, the number was revised lower by $61,000.
So that takes you to $118,000 from $179,000.
And the change for July revised down by $25,000 from the $114,000.
So that takes you to $89,000.
18,000 from 179 and the change for July revised down by 25,000 from the 114K so
that takes you to 89. So together employment in June and July 86,000 lower
than previously reported.
Colin what's going on here?
Well, it is interesting because I think that, you know, now the Fed is sort of looking at those numbers going, that's why I have to lower rates, right?
Because they haven't hit their mandate, their 2% mandate.
But they're worried about unemployment.
But they should have been worried probably like six months, eight months ago, because now the true numbers are coming out.
So I think we're going to hit probably closer to 5% unemployment.
Obviously, a lot of people are after 18 months, they get out of the workforce too.
So the numbers would be much higher.
And then if you also take into effect how many people are actually taking a second and third job in the gig economy, I think you could probably argue that unemployment is probably 10 to 12%.
Even if you're paid full, they're not getting enough money to actually cover their day to day goods and how they're going to live.
Yeah, I think they've been manipulating the numbers and they wanted to just be able to raise rates next week to kind of create the shock event to potentially... Help them politically?
Yeah, I think so.
But have you ever seen this many revisions?
I can't remember.
No, I can't remember.
And I also think, you know, maybe it has happened over time, but I also think part of it is that we've been looking at these job numbers so closely, you know, everyone that's In real estate is waiting on bated breath to hopefully have rates come down so they can actually do some business.
Because letter of the law of the Fed, they have not hit the 2% number.
And until they hit that 2% inflation number, they probably shouldn't be lowering rates.
But they sort of now are looking at unemployment.
So they're trying to manipulate everything they can to create the policy that they want and the agenda that they want.
But as I said, I do think lowering rates, and then I do think maybe they just go bananas, they go QE again, like they did in 2009, 2010, and they really open up money.
That'd be so destructive.
And I think if unemployment hits that 5% number, I would not be surprised if they... They just open up the floodgates.
Yeah, that's what I think could happen.
Let's play Cut38.
CNBC says, we are in a type of recession.
That would lead to what you're saying.
Play Cut38.
I think we're in a type of recession eventually that comes due to this cycle of higher interest rates, higher inflation.
The stress that puts on the consumer eventually hits their savings rates, increases their delinquency rates.
That hits the employment markets where we're already starting to see some signs of companies slowing down in terms of hiring.
They've paused hiring already.
I think the next step will be when we start to see more layoffs.
And that then will bring you your run of the mill, more of a normal type of recession.
That's kind of what you're talking about.
And lowering rates would also do the thing that they want.
They want people to start getting money out of the banks.
They want people to start investing and really start moving money and getting the economy moving because so many people are just sitting in cash.
They've done this cash grab situation and they just want to sit in there because they're getting this rate that they're really feeling.
So lowering it, maybe the savings accounts are paying in the threes, maybe they start paying in the high twos, and that's going to get people to push back into the stock market, which is really what they're attempting to do.
But ultimately, you've got to get assets that keep up with inflation.
You have to put some money out there.
Even in the 4% in the bank, if you look at some of the other—gold this year is well over 20%—you have to make significantly more than that To keep up with the day-to-day living, the cost of everything, energy costs, food costs, everything has gone up significantly higher than the 3-4% in the reporting, so you've got to make a better return out there.
Just to summarize again, it's noblegoldinvestments.com.
People can get these beautiful coins from you.
Absolutely, yeah.
And a gold IRA.
Gold IRA, silver IRA, and I'd say silver.
Last thing I would just want to mention is the Samsung battery that we have going on.
This Samsung battery, if they can get it into a price that makes sense.
They're talking about, this is for EV vehicles.
They have a Samsung battery coming out.
They're talking about charging going from 45 minutes to an hour to go to about a nine or 10 minute charge.
and they're going from 300 mile charge to a 600 mile charge.
Silver, it's a silver carbon battery.
So, you know, all the things that people have been talking about,
EV and everything's happening.
Listen, I love gas cars and I have a lot of gas cars, but I also think if gas prices start to hit
$8, $10, $12 a gallon, you know, having another vehicle there to offset some of those costs,
you know, putter around your neighborhood.
And so you're not constantly filling up and having to keep going up and up.
So this Samsung battery is very interesting.
There's going to be a silver component in it.
So you've got to really look at silver as a silver option there.
Noblegoldinvestments.com.
Colin, great job.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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