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Joining us now is the great senator from Florida, Senator Rick Scott.
Breaking news, Senator, you're going to have a new colleague as you are, I think, now the senior senator from Florida.
Oh, finally.
I know.
Finally, I think you've been the junior senator to Senator Rubio for quite some time.
Your reaction, Senator?
I want to introduce Marco yesterday.
I said one of the benefits of you getting nominated to be Secretary of State is I finally get to be the senior senator.
So I spoke to him.
Actually, he's gotten appointed.
I just spoke to her.
I've already spoken to her a couple of times.
I just got off the phone with her.
She's going to come up this weekend, so I'll be meeting with her and doing everything I can to help her get automated and get started quickly.
She's been a successful attorney general in Florida for six years.
He took over after Pam Bondi.
She's put a lot of effort in it to try to hold the Biden administration accountable.
So I think she's going to be a good colleague to work with.
So, yeah, just talk more.
The announcement was made this morning by Governor DeSantis.
Ashley Moody will fill.
The vacant seat.
And so that obviously keeps us solidly in the majority and will be another powerful voice in the United States Senate.
So walk us through how the confirmation process is going right now, Senator.
We have Scott Besant and also Pam Bondi.
How do you think Pam Bondi did?
Well, so Pam Bondi was outstanding.
I had the opportunity.
She's a good friend, as you know.
I had the opportunity to introduce her yesterday at the Judiciary Committee, and she did a great job.
She's somebody that's smart.
She's going to try to bring respect back to the Department of Justice.
She's not going to play this lawfare, gotcha, what the Biden administration, the Obama administration did.
So I think she's going to do a really good job, and she did a fabulous job yesterday.
Marco Rubio, of course, foreign relations, I also had the opportunity to introduce him.
He did a great job, as you know.
He's very knowledgeable on foreign relations, and I think what he wants to do is bring the...
Secretary of State's office back to the importance that it should have in deciding foreign policy in this country.
So Pete Hedgeseth did a great job at armed services.
So I'm on that committee.
He did a great job.
Here's what I like about Pete.
He's a warrior.
My father did all four combat jumps during the Second World War.
I respect and admire those people.
They know where the problems are.
They know what the warfighter needs.
That's where Pete is.
He fought.
He served in Afghanistan and he served in Iraq.
He knows what the warfighter needs.
That's what we ought to be doing.
So I think he's going to do a great job.
He will be confirmed.
I don't know how many Democrats are going to vote for him.
I don't know how many Democrats will vote for Pam Bondi.
But they're going to be confirmed.
Hopefully, we'll get them confirmed quickly.
John Thune has committed to have an aggressive process to try to get all these confirmations done as quickly as possible.
It appears that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are going to try to slow down as much as possible, which makes no sense.
Donald Trump was elected president.
He won a big win.
He won the popular vote.
You should help them get their team together.
And by the way, if his team does not do a good job, there's elections in two years.
Help them get their team together.
Democrats should not be fighting us on this.
And then let them go do their job.
And if they don't do a good job, the public has the opportunity to vote in two years and not elect Republicans again.
So, Senator, can you contrast the pace at which the Senate is operating right now versus 2017?
It feels as if there was just a slow walk back during Trump 1. This seems to be moving at a rapid pace, even so that I think you and many other senators are bouncing in between simultaneous concurrent hearings.
Is that correct?
Absolutely.
There's a commitment by our leadership.
Senator Thune has made a commitment that we're going to do this as quickly as possible.
I think all of us are going to do everything we can to get them done.
So it's not going to be us slowing this down this time.
It's clearly going to be that we're going to stay here.
We're going to work, if we need to, through the weekends to get things done.
We'll see how much the Democrats want to slow it down.
It takes a certain number of hours of debate for every one of them.
We need to say to ourselves, we should be clearly no worse than the pace of when Obama got his cabinet put together.
And I think that should be our standard.
And I know that's exactly what we're demanding right now, and hopefully that's what we'll get.
So there are several votes upcoming.
Can you just walk through our audience how this is going to work?
So President Trump in three days and 22 hours and 47 minutes becomes the 47th president of the United States.
I'm sure I'll see you there, Senator.
But then it's a workday for you where most of us are going to kind of go celebrate.
We have a big ball to host.
It is a workday.
Walk us through what that day looks like as far as how quickly we can get these people confirmed into office.
So what'll happen is, as soon as Donald Trump is sworn in, then he'll sign the nomination letters and send them back over here.
We will have our committee votes to confirm them out of committee as quickly as possible, as many as we can get done that day.
And then we'll start the process.
The Democrats can slow us down.
They can make us take 30 hours of Senate hours, basically, for each of these cabinet members.
So we'll see if that's what they do.
If you go back to Barack Obama, I can't remember, but he got many confirmed his first day.
They didn't work to help Trump in 2017. Hopefully, you know, they'll work to get some of these done.
I don't know how – Marco Rubio is going to get almost every vote, I assume.
I think there's going to be a lot of people that they're all going to vote for.
I think you're right.
These people, they should get done immediately, within hours after Trump is sworn in.
No, I think you're right.
I think Rubio could pass on a voice vote.
And also understand that it's unusual for senators to vote against one of their own, especially someone like Senator Rubio.
Who's been around for quite some time and despite disagreements has always been very respectful and cordial to the other side.
So, Senator, if you were to say, which of the ones do you anticipate a little bit of drama or a little bit of a fight?
Pete Hegseth had a great hearing, was obviously very high profile.
Tulsi Gabbard.
Which are the ones that our audience should really focus on to try to make sure that President Trump gets his full cabinet?
Well, what you need is you need national defense done as quickly as possible.
Number one, things you ought to be doing.
So we need to get our Secretary of Defense done.
We need to get Marco Rubio done.
We need to get Tulsi Gabbard done.
So Pete had a great hearing.
I think it's very difficult to vote against him.
I don't know how the Democrats are going to do, but that should happen very quickly.
Marco should happen hopefully within hours.
But after that, we need the Attorney General done.
Pam Bondi did a great job at her hearing.
She was outstanding.
She doesn't take any gut from anybody.
So hopefully those get done.
We need to have Russ Vogt approved.
He's going to be management budget.
Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi, I assume they're going to...
They'll make her life miserable for a while, like they did Pete's for a while.
What Democrats do, they do smear campaigns.
But these are great nominees.
These are hard-working Americans.
These are people that are going to change the direction.
So Cash Patel, they're going to go after.
If you look at history, they're going to go after Cash.
But look at who they're replacing.
Christopher Wray, who was clearly lawfare against Trump.
Merrick Garland.
And look at how General Austin ran the Secretary of Defense.
And by the way, twice within six months, he was AWOL. I mean, he was in the hospital and didn't tell people.
So, I mean, that's a violation of the law.
And of course, Biden did nothing about it.
We just found out yesterday.
Senator, in closing here, the new administration is going to hit the ground running.
Lessons that you learned during Trump 1 that you want to communicate with our audience.
The media is going to be out of control.
We must stay disciplined and steady at the wheel.
Senator, closing thoughts.
So it really matters.
If the public is vocal about what they expect.
Donald Trump won.
He won big.
The public needs to do whatever they can to let their senators know it is very important to be very helpful to Donald Trump to get his agenda done.
The more active you are, the better chance it'll get done.
I love it.
Senator, keep up the great work and deliver Pete Hegseth and Tulsi across the finish line.
We're counting on you.
Thank you, Senator.
We're going to.
too.
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Scott Besson is acing this confirmation hearing.
Look, we very well might be heading for some economic turbulence sometime soon.
Some choppy waters.
Some uncertainty and some financial curveballs.
I was just reading here in one of my many newspapers that I try to read during the break here as inflation data.
It's looking a little better, but it's nowhere near where it needs to be.
And guess who is posting a surge in profits?
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs post surge in profits.
This is going to be an unsustainable economic recipe.
If the top banks and the top 1% keep on posting record years and record profits while everyday Americans can't afford eggs, butter, and groceries, you're going to have an economic revolution.
This is exactly why Joe Biden did what he did in his farewell address.
Do we have Joe Biden's farewell address?
Joe Biden didn't believe a word of what he said last night.
However, it was very well written.
Whoever wrote that speech was basically lamenting that that is what the Democrats should have said this last year.
Run against the oligarchy.
Run against the entrenched economic powers and interests.
Joe Biden's farewell address would have been very politically challenging for Donald Trump to run against.
Donald Trump himself being a billionaire, Elon Musk being a billionaire, even though Joe Biden got more support from billionaires and more support from the 1%, and the wealthiest counties in America disproportionately voted for Joe Biden.
I think 8 out of 10 of the wealthiest counties.
It's a message that would have been very difficult for Republicans to overcome if Democrats would have been sane on immigration, sane on crime, sane on the trans stuff.
Instead, it's just completely out of control.
And Joe Biden's farewell address said that there is a smaller and smaller group of people controlling more and more of the wealth.
I mean, he's correct, of course.
He didn't believe that throughout any part of his presidency.
He pandered to that very same oligarchy.
He made that oligarchy protected by the lawfare regime.
He did the bidding of that oligarchy.
But we don't want to live in such an oligarchy.
We want to be able to have it where there is robust free market competition.
That if you want to be able to get to $400 billion in wealth like Elon Musk, we have no problem with that.
But we want to make sure that we can get 10, 20, 30 more people like Elon Musk.
We want this to be the center of entrepreneurial activity around the planet.
To have a system where there is an entrenched ruling class that is untouchable.
Here in the Wall Street Journal it writes, Big bank profits surged in the fourth quarter as Wall Street roared back to life with net income rising 50% and doubling at Goldman Sachs.
I mean, it's the best years they've ever had.
BlackRock's profits rose, assets under management edged up to $11.5 trillion.
This is Joe Biden with The message that Democrats should have run on, if the Democrats would have run on this message and said we're going to close the borders, we're going to be tough on crime, for any Democrats taking note, that's the pivot they should make.
Playcut 90. I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern.
This is a dangerous concern, and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people.
The dangerous consequences.
If their abuse of power is left unchecked.
Now he's worried about an oligarchy.
Last week he gave the nation's highest civilian honor to George Soros.
He doesn't believe any of this.
This last election, Joe Biden represented the oligarchs and now he's regretting that he didn't run against them.
But it was the people versus the plutocrats.
That is what this election was all about.
It was the people versus the plutocrats.
And we the people own the table.
We got a seat at the table.
And now the chairman of the board is back to being we the people.
But what I'm reading here with this economic data, as Scott Besson continues his testimony, this is unsustainable.
It is unsustainable that the biggest banks in the country are posting a 50% profit and doubling of income at Goldman Sachs.
How many of you in this audience saw your net income double this last year?
Anybody?
Anybody in this audience see your income for your family double?
How about up by 50%?
How about up by 10%?
I bet many of you in this audience are actually getting poorer every single year because of inflation thanks to Joe Biden.
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We have Scott Besson on the screen doing questions right now to become the next Treasury Secretary.
Perfect guest is Colin Plume, great partner of the program, NobleGoldInvestments.com.
Colin, say hello.
Hello.
How are you?
Good to be here.
It's good to have you here in Palm Beach.
Yes.
Oh, very nice.
It's our last program here in Palm Beach before we head up to the Imperial Capital.
Yeah.
And you've got some goodies here.
So Scott Besson is going to have some serious challenges in front of him.
What would you say are the biggest ones if you had to identify them?
Well, overall with the economy, I think the CPI report came out.
Inflation is still – it's sticky, right?
It's still here.
So that's something that you have to think about is do we focus on reducing inflation or do we focus on growth?
And I think what my opinion is is there's only a few different ways to go.
You go high growth, high inflation.
You go high growth, low inflation, which is the ideal.
But very difficult to do.
Low growth, high inflation, stagflation, that's always dangerous.
We don't want that.
You've been living through a little bit of that right now.
We've been living through a little bit of that.
So we need, in my opinion, I don't think with the next administration coming in, I don't think there's any way that you're not going to have inflation, but I think it will be coupled with high growth.
So from a policy standpoint, what would you like to see happen as far as the Treasury Secretary managing the money supply?
To be able to boost middle-class incomes?
Well, it's tough because I think they've been very conservative with the money supply and they've reduced the amount that they've exposed to the markets.
A lot of people believe they will open that back up.
They're going to start freely bringing money back into the markets.
You've got to be careful when you do that, though.
You've got to be careful because that could bring inflation again.
But I think that all the measures going forward, we want...
We want wage growth.
We want job growth.
The people that have been hurt the most over the last four years have been people that have had credit card delinquencies.
They've been the highest that we've seen in a long time.
Last year was the highest.
A lot of debt.
A lot of debt for middle Americans.
So they need high growth opportunities.
They need wage growth.
And those are the measures that I think are going to put more money back in people's pockets so that they can live a better life and not take on all this debt.
And look, there's a chance that inflation does continue to get out of control.
Talk about how gold is doing and silver.
Gold has been very reliable.
In fact, I think gold is at $2,751 an ounce.
Correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gold is up.
26% last year.
26%?
Yeah.
Paul Tudor Jones, I mean, he said it best.
All roads lead to inflation.
That's why you're seeing alternative assets, gold, crypto, all these things really do well.
The world is divested away from the dollar.
They're moving away.
The bricks are moving away.
It's a natural progression.
The petrodollar, this great control that we had, where every dollar is being used for oil, that seems to be going away.
That was a massive advantage that we had that Nixon signed in 1973. It was one of the best things he had ever done.
And that seems to be slipping away.
So I am concerned that inflation will continue to...
Be here in the high twos.
And I've been saying for a few years that I think 2% inflation is an unrealistic number.
If you look at the world, nobody holds themselves to 2%.
I actually think we're going to go to a 3% model.
And I think that's much more attainable.
But I think we're going to sit in the high twos.
And the key is to be able at least to have growth outpace inflation.
Right.
Correct.
The very baseline.
Right.
Correct.
So if you have a new 3%.
Baseline inflation rate.
What is it technically now?
I have it here somewhere.
2.7.
I don't believe that.
Can you talk about the fabrication of some of these inflation numbers?
Because people will tell you things are getting more expensive than that.
Yeah.
Well, if you go back to early 1980s and how they calculated inflation, you take the same numbers today, we'd be above 10%.
They've pulled out a lot of different statistics to show a number that's low.
And that allows them to...
Continue the debt and continue the spending, and that's typically what politicians want to do.
They don't want to make any cuts.
I think this new administration, that's the big goal, right?
To make some significant cuts to bring our debt down, which gives people more confidence.
The whole dedollarization is based on the fact that people are losing confidence in our dollar.
It's not that they want to trade in another currency that's better.
There really isn't anything that's that much better.
They just don't feel comfortable with our debt.
That's what's happening.
The challenge for the administration will be to manage that inflation, navigate those waters.
Talk about what you're doing at Noble Gold Investments and your new book about silver, which is equally as interesting.
Yeah.
The new book is called Silver is the New Oil.
And it's basically a book where I believe that we're coming into a new super cycle.
And the new super cycle is high growth.
And higher than normal inflation, but higher opportunities.
And I think the opportunity in silver is something that a lot of people don't talk about.
Everyone talks about gold, and gold has already gone on a massive run, but silver is still below.
It's 1983 price, and there's no other commodity out there.
Why is that?
Has there been an abundance of supply?
There hasn't been that much supply.
I think a lot of it has been pushed down by a lot of the larger organizations.
They don't want the price where it should be.
But yeah, I mean, we're sitting at $30 an ounce basically today, which is a number that it had already hit $50.
It's hit $50 an ounce.
So if you look at...
Solar energy, EV, all the electrical uses, medical devices, and I go into really long detail.
And then the government, the military uses a tremendous amount of silver, drones, all those things.
So much silver, they don't even want to release how much silver they use.
So I do think there's a massive opportunity.
So I get into that in my book, and I also talk about some investment strategies that are outside the traditional investments that I've used in my life.
Talk about those.
Yeah, well, one of them is just focusing.
I really talk about here is that there's going to be opportunities where you're going to acquire assets at a good price and you want to continue to acquire those assets.
You just focus and you add.
And the two assets I talk about in the book are silver and real estate in satellite cities.
I still think there's tremendous opportunities in cities that are outside the main city.
So like you're out in Phoenix, obviously Phoenix and Scottsdale is really great.
Flagstaff, Mesa, the next city where people now...
Yeah, that's one of the cities I talk about in my book.
I also talk about Greenville, South Carolina, which I actually just bought a property this year or last year.
I bought a property there because I really believe in it.
But silver is the easy one in that there's no work, right?
There's no maintenance.
There's no tenants.
So you can really buy it and sock it away.
Sleepy investment that you can just not think about.
And then, you know, 10 years from now, when it's sitting at, you know, $100, $150 an ounce, you'll be...
So yeah, let's...
So why hasn't silver...
I think the market for silver on the exchange is still pretty small.
It's not as actively traded.
Also, if you look at gold, gold is bought so much and just held, whereas silver is seen as more of an industrial metal.
But what people don't realize is that a lot of the uses for silver aren't recyclable.
Some are, but some are not.
Like, for instance...
Refrigerators.
There's almost two ounces of silver in most refrigerators today.
Nobody's going to go in that old refrigerator and pull that out, right?
That two ounces is gone.
Solar panels.
10 to 20 grams.
But if there was two ounces of gold, they would tear that up.
If there was two ounces of gold, they would have...
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, this is five ounces of gold.
So, yeah, I mean, if someone would get in there and...
And then what is it?
This is a kilo?
This is a kilo.
Yeah, that's a kilo of gold.
Yeah, if there was a kilo of gold in a refrigerator, well, your refrigerator would be...
Yeah, don't just walk through the streets with this.
No, your refrigerator would be $100,000.
Yeah, how much is this, by the way?
That's close to $80,000.
Wow.
Right there.
Yeah, that's nice.
I asked Colin if I could keep it.
He said no.
Well, we'll talk about it.
I'll give you a good price on that.
I'll do a great price.
I know you'll do a great price.
Keep going, please.
Well, and also, I was going to say, not to transition totally out of it, but I was evacuated in the fires, and I've been talking to people- Yeah, and praise God, you guys were spared, right?
Yeah, we were okay.
And I was talking to people is that this is exactly, this right here is some of the stuff that I put in a backpack and I left with.
And I think that one of the things that people are not going to report, and it's going to come out, is that there's someone in the fire that had millions of dollars of Bitcoin sitting on a ledger that's gone.
You mean they forgot their password?
No, no.
They had it on a ledger in their house, and it's gone, right?
The thing is, people think some things are investments or not.
I was joking earlier about purses and some of these things, and people are going to be in a situation where as if this is so easy.
We're talking about like $100,000 here.
This fits.
This could fit in a tiny little bag, right?
Now, silver takes more to supply, though, right?
I mean, it takes it to store.
Yes, absolutely.
Yes, silver does.
So we do storage for silver for clients.
But gold is not.
I mean, this is.
Yeah, I mean, this is.
Yeah, right.
So you could fit.
You can look at this.
You can fit a million dollars in a shoebox pretty easily.
So it's liquid.
You can take it places.
That's why I think it's a really smart investment.
That's why people like it.
But the liquidity and the other thing that I love about precious metals, the way we do it, is that you're not paying.
You don't pay anyone a fee every year.
Once you buy this, it's yours.
Every other investment in the world, there is some fee you're paying somebody every year, whether it's a management fee or property tax or an annual fee.
Once you buy this, it's yours.
That's so interesting.
So they are exempt from any property tax.
They're exempt from...
I mean, if you sell it, there's capital gains.
If you do it in the IRA, there's no capital gains.
But actually, 12 states have actually gotten rid of capital gains on precious metals.
What do you make of this move?
That some states want to have a gold-backed currency.
Have you seen this, Texas?
Texas has done it, yeah.
There's this big move right now of states to try to have a metallics-based reserve system, basically.
Well, inherently it makes perfect sense because they're already accepting it for tax.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there's multiple states.
Utah's been doing it for many years.
You could train gold in for your tax.
Yeah, and if you think about that, why wouldn't the state want to do that?
Like, if over the last four years, gold has more than doubled.
If somebody paid a tax, their state tax, in this, and this was sitting at $45,000, and now it's close to $80,000.
The state wins.
As opposed to them taking it in cash, right?
Because the state's obviously going to keep reserves.
That's the whole idea.
You keep reserves.
So maybe they use cash that people pay in tax to pay whatever they need, and they keep some of the gold and silver in reserves.
So I think it makes a lot of sense for a state to want to take an asset that's going to go up in value.
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We have you for another segment, Colin, but I want to make sure you...
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
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It's a great time because you have until April 15th if you want to add to your IRA, so we have a lot of good promotions going on.
If people want to add more money to their IRA and their retirement, it's a great vehicle to save money.
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I've known Colin for a while.
He's the best in the business.
There's a lot of shady people out there in gold.
He's as good as it gets.
Would you say there's some shady people in the gold industry?
I would say yes.
Let's just say not great actors.
Collins is as good as it gets.
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So Colin, there were some numbers you were showing me here.
Do you want to pull those up?
Yeah.
They're very interesting, by the way.
That's a lot in gold.
That's nice.
It's a lot of gold, I'll tell you.
Make sure you protect that.
It looks like Scott Besson has just wrapped up as the cameras are flooding him.
That is a wrap for January Madness Committee hearings.
What are we looking at here?
Yeah, no, I was talking about non-financial U.S. firms held $8.45 trillion in debt as of Q3 2024. Wow.
This is an interesting stat because I always look at these things.
The yield on season AAA-rated corporate bonds, 5.2% December 2024, double from December 2020. So the rate is high on this, you know, AAA corporate debt is supposed to be the creme de la creme.
I mean, that's your best.
They're trading at 5.2%.
So it's either one of two things that's happening.
Either that the market is saying that they're riskier.
That's why they're paying such a high yield.
They were paying 2.5%, 2.7% before.
Or they're trying to keep up with Treasury bonds and what the banks are paying for.
I think the average bank's paying between 4 and 4.25%, which is really interesting right now.
I remember when that happened initially.
Everybody was enamored with keeping money in the bank.
But now that inflation's probably at 3% or higher, is a 4% of the bank a number that really Are they even breaking even?
Are they losing money?
These are all the things that I look at when I look at the economy.
They've sort of got people in love with this 4% return, but...
When you look at what it takes to live and the cost of living and how everything is astronomically going up, I just don't think 4% is enough.
No, it's not for most people.
And so the way you look at your company, what are the type of calls you're receiving right now?
Give us kind of some of the demographic picture of the incoming you're getting at Noble Gold Investments.
Yeah, I mean, obviously people are optimistic about the new administration.
They're excited about...
What's going to happen?
And they're hoping that things will happen soon, that wages will go up and things will get better.
I do think it's going to take some time.
And I do think it's going to take some time for anyone to come in and fix a lot of the problems.
He's going to have to come in four years of problems that he's going to have to clean up.
So I think people are optimistic.
I also think that if you look at Some of the proposals, when you talk about inflation, which is rampant right now, it's still going.
You talk about tariffs.
The reason that no president really wants to take on tariffs is really it's a long game because it would make certain products more expensive in the short term.
And so what we're starting to see is a lot of people buy things now before they think things will go up.
I mean, I've seen numbers where they think computers could go, an average computer of $600 could be with a 20% or 30% tariff could be $700 or $800.
So a lot of people are trying to pre-buy things before these things could happen.
Before those price upticks happen.
Before the upticks happen.
And so I think that's smart.
And I do think people that are getting early.
On some of the things that we do, we'll also take advantage.
So I don't do any investment advice.
I'm legally not allowed to run, you know, federally regulated radio, nor would I because I'm not there.
But I think it's fair to say that...
Would you say that in the most durable portfolios, you've seen a pattern that these asset classes have some place in those side of portfolios without giving investment advice?
Yeah.
Well, I always think about this is the classic.
Whenever you hear about hedge funds and these firms, they always say assets under management, right?
That's the classic term that everybody says.
What are assets?
Assets are businesses.
Assets are real estate.
Assets are precious metals.
These are all assets that the wealthy is buying, that these big corporations are buying.
So everybody is trying to acquire assets.
That's the key to this next economy.
And I think what people need to realize is that a lot of people say this to us, is that things sound and feel expensive.
And if they sound and feel expensive, then why is BlackRock buying all these houses?
Why are all these institutions picking up properties?
You know, in Los Angeles, one of the biggest buyers of commercial real estate apartments is the city of Los Angeles.
The city of Los Angeles, just you know Encino, Woodland Hills, they just bought a $400 million apartment, the city of Los Angeles, with taxpayer money.
They're buying assets.
So the key to this new economy, to protecting yourself, is it's really an asset economy.
That's really what you have to do.
And I do think that precious metals plays a part in that.
But I think overall, it's just assets, having a business, having some different income streams, and really being diversified.
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