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July 24, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Watch This Before It’s Too Late—Trump’s Economic Plan Could Change Your Life Overnight
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Well, my friends, it's time for that time.
Our good friend Bob Kudla from Trade Genius and tradewithlionel.com.
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Bob, every time we speak, you never fail to do anything short of mesmerize us.
What's going on in the world, politically, financially, economically?
Tell us now.
Wow us.
Make us weep and act and wax frenetic, sir.
Oh, that's a big lead-in.
Yes.
I think we're going to suffer from too much success.
So we have the tariff.
The tariff news is kind of winding down.
Really, the only thing really left here is really the battle they had with Europe, but it looks like Trump has locked down all the Asian tariffs that he wants.
And they're pretty good.
So, you know, I would consider looking at what I would call the allies of America in Asia, those that are opposing Chinese domination have cut pretty favorable deals with the United States in terms of the United States getting good deals.
So you have Vietnam, you have Indonesia, you have Japan and Korea.
The Japan one just came out today.
We're talking on Tuesday.
I don't know when you're going to post this, but they only 15% reciprocal tariffs between each other.
It's pretty generous to Japan.
Japan's our linchpin ally in that part of the world.
Obviously, the other end is Australia, which goes coast basically the Pacific Wall.
And then you have India.
So I think Trump has really strong economic foundations for Asia right now.
And now he's going to focus his full attention on Europe.
And Europe's being a little feisty right now, but they'll lose any reciprocal war with the United States.
They just send too much exports to the United States.
So having said all that, two things are coming out of it.
One is that basically the importers and the corporations are eating all the tariff fees.
And I think they're going to eat them long term.
And I have friends that own businesses that do import.
And basically they're telling me that between either themselves or their suppliers, they're eating the extra costs.
They're basically paying the tax, if you will, to Trump.
And some of the guys say we have enough margin, so we're not going to anger our customer base.
Other people are saying, I can't raise my prices.
Customers simply won't buy.
So it's really, really fascinating to me.
Now, my one friend that has it, he sells to end users.
So they're not cost sensitive because it's a luxury product, but he has no intention of raising prices.
He goes, I'm not going to basically kill the golden goose by trying to squeeze them for 15%.
And so it's really interesting to me.
So Trump was right.
His instincts were correct.
Powell was wrong.
And which leads me to phase two is that they're going to probably start the reduction of interest cycle in the fall.
And with that comes the market will go, will follow the interest rates down.
So Trump will probably suffer from too much good news, if you will.
Remember, bad things don't happen when you expect them unless it's a, you know, what do you call it, the black crow or the black shadow or the, you know, the out of the blue stuff, right?
So usually these markets will die of indifference.
And I think that's what we're going to see here.
The markets are right now really, really, which is really scary.
The market is now being held captive by the options market, which means that everybody now is the degenerate gambler.
And we have billions of dollars a day going in to try to prop the market.
And all you need is one or two days where there's not as much activity and the gravity takes over.
And it could be an elevator ride.
You know, if you ever been to Disney, Disneyland, they have that the Tower of Terror.
There's a Tower of Terror day in the market coming over the next 60 to 90 days.
So that's the thing that I try to warn people on.
Look, you made a lot of money.
You know, you may want to call this thing good, trim a little bit, save some cash so you can catch that crash, if you will.
And that crash may not come in one day.
It may come over a course of like four or six weeks.
And then you can get yourself positioned then in the late fall.
So that's kind of where I'm seeing things right now.
Geopolitically, you know, unless something really wild happens, you know, Trump's winning there too.
You know, he's going to get to a point now where the Middle East is now manageable.
You know, Iran is the Molos will be lucky to survive over the next two to three years.
They're significantly weakened right now.
They have no strategic threat left to them.
They either chose not to or are able to carry out terror attacks in the United States.
And maybe we threaten them saying, you know, we'll end your existence if we see a terror attack.
I'm not sure.
But the important thing geopolitically is that Russia and China has tried to tie us down in Ukraine and tie us down in the Persian Gulf.
And we're in a situation now where we can actually start moving resources out of the Middle East and to then give China our full attention.
And the Chinese are very worried about that.
So, you know, the United States is just going to pump weapons into NATO.
NATO, you take care of Ukraine.
And we'll move our assets out of the Persian Gulf and we'll move them into the Indo-Pacific region.
And now China has our full attention.
And China doesn't want that.
And right at a time where maybe Xi's not in power anymore, we don't know that.
He did not leave the country to go, which is pretty scary.
And for a Chinese standpoint, they called it a new marshal, I guess, to run the army.
Now, we don't know where he sits on this.
My sources tell me, I don't have any insight sources, but my sources tell me that there's kind of three factions inside of China right now.
There's the Xi camp, then there's, I guess, the Hu Zhin Tao camp, and then there's this, what I would call the interior camp.
And, you know, the Xi camp, believe it or not, was the moderate camp.
And so there's one that wants to simply have a economic relationship with the United States.
Let's tone down the rhetoric, you know, and, you know, long term, we can maybe have America lose interest in us, and then we can then carry out our strategic goals.
The interior people are really where the peasants are.
They're a little bit more hardcore, but they're not necessarily outward looking.
They're more inward looking, and it can really cause some strife internally.
So those are, you know, and I could be all wet, but this is, I've been reading everything I can on China.
China is my very much sole focus of interest because if China can be tamed, you know, then it's Pax Americana again.
And, you know, Trump just wants to just drive forth economically.
His message to all these leaders are, why are we fighting each other?
Let's all just get rich.
And, you know, which is a really interesting point of view.
You know, you appeal to these guys saying, look, wars are you can lose the war, right?
And a lot of times you can lose your internal power base trying to conduct war, or you can just simply get rich.
And I think that's probably the message he's sending out there.
And, you know, it probably resonated very well with the Saudis.
And, you know, maybe Putin can play, I mean, Trump could play Putin against, you know, Xi or whoever that Marshal is.
And I think we can gain some control here.
So really interesting times.
You know, I've been, as you know, been pretty consistent with my messaging here.
I was never in the China Rising camp.
I think China is regional power at best.
And they overplayed their hand.
And they're not leaders in technology.
They're incredible followers.
But, you know, unless you're the lead dog in a technology race, you know, you're always playing catch up.
Now, remember, for those just tuning in, your political aspirations, your thoughts regarding Trump or Democrats or whatever it is, may have nothing to do with your economic forecasting.
The two have nothing to do with each other.
They should be looked at each other.
This is not a, you never change your financial outlook in order to accommodate your political wish list.
You don't sit there and say, I like Trump.
He's a great guy.
So, yeah, I think things are going great.
No, if things are not going great, you'll say it, which I want people to understand does not mean you have turned in your MAGA hat or your membership card.
The two have nothing to do.
So lest someone's listening to you and saying, oh, here's another Trump, one of these apologists.
No, no, no, no, no.
Because no matter what Trump does, good, bad, or otherwise, you will adjust your political, excuse me, your financial strategies accordingly, correct?
Yeah, I mean, look, I'm extremely practical.
You know, there's some things I don't like that Trump's doing.
But, you know, right now I think he's doing, put it this way, I think Trump's doing the only thing he can do.
Okay.
So, you know, you could either could throw the baby out with the bathwater, do a deflationary collapse and start over.
Okay.
That's not helpful.
Or you can do a Zimbabwe strategy, which is not helpful.
Or you can combine a little bit of financial repression, which he wants to do, which means push interest rates down lower than the market would ultimately require of you.
And then take it out of the height of your economic competitors and bring the work back into the United States and create basically a wage pressure cooker and try to grow your way out of this.
Remember, look, this is an infinite environment.
I guess in the next 12 or 13 years, there'll be less people taking Social Security and Medicare than are contributing to it again.
So the baby boomers will start rolling off as an aggregate expenditure.
And you got the Echo Boom then moving into its highest earnings.
So you're going to have to.
What's that?
What is the Echo Boom?
So there was the Boomers, and then there was a Boomer Bust, and then there was the Echo Boomers.
That's the kids of the Boomers.
And so it's not as big as the Boomers, but it's pretty damn big.
And so, you know, you have a window here.
If Trump can bend the curve, you're going to have a window in about 10 or 12 years where you can play some catch up before that Echo Boom comes into play.
And so he wants to try to grow the GDP at 4% to 5%.
I think he could probably get there.
I think you'll see costs kind of rising.
But at some point, if we keep nuclearizing, if that's a term, you're going to put a ceiling on energy costs because once you build the plant and once you buy the uranium, the cost of running the plant is like, what, two or three cents a kilowatt hour?
It's not expensive.
You're just amortizing that upfront investment.
And so, and natural gas is cheap.
It's everywhere.
And so, you know, and if you create a hydrogen economy and you create a natural gas economy, a nuclear economy, you know, you're going to bend the curve on energy.
And then with all the baby boomers dying, rents are going to fall, immigration getting curtailed, rents are going to fall.
And then now they're focusing on how do we use AI, machine learning, and some smart policy to bend the curve on the healthcare.
And I'll give you an interesting thing that people don't know.
So with this machine learning and AI right now, there's a company that's going to go public here in the next year.
So I'll look the name up.
I'll give it to you for maybe our next call.
Is that they're going to be able to do a use echocardiograms, you know, the normal thing people get, ECG, ECGs.
And they're going to be able to at a high degree of confidence, very early detect heart disease.
So instead of you coming in because you have chest pains, they'll start testing you out at 35 and 40 and adjust treatments at a very early age.
And so, you know, and they're going to do the same with the technology.
My wife's type one diabetic.
She's been at diabetic since she's 25 years old.
And the technology that's starting to come out in terms of being able to control people's blood sugar is just amazing.
Now, for people that don't know, type one is where your body kills the ability to produce insulin.
Type two is you, you either genetically or through habit, you know, lifestyle, make it difficult for your body to absorb insulin.
And so now they have methodology and drugs and information now to start bending that curve.
You know, it's cancer, heart disease, diabetes.
So they're going to be able to create the testing and you're going to see things that'll probably blow people away here in the next five.
Oh, listen, that is going to be one of the best things ever.
And by the way, aside from that, huge advances.
You mentioned our number one killer, which is heart disease, every 750,000, 800,000 every single year through basically lifestyle and otherwise changes.
That's being done, believe it or not, in addition to AI, just in terms of the way we're looking at treatment and hyperlipidemia and everything aside from that.
Also, friends of mine who were in the business, radiologists, people who are dermatologists, being able to send somebody, say, look, here's this thing.
There is a, people are going to be able to use apps to look at skin lesions.
And it's going to prevent, it's going to cut down and actually increase preventable intervention.
Let me tell some other things too.
For those who don't know, crypto, crypto, crypto, crypto, crypto, crypto.
People can't follow it.
What's going on?
Is this good, bad?
Will one day cash be completely be replaced?
Are we going to go cashless CBDCs?
Where is that going, Bob?
Yeah, so I'll answer the last question first.
We're already cashless society, essentially, right?
So, you know, people say, oh, we're going to go cashless to the crypto.
Well, you know what?
How much time do you get your wallet out and bring cash, right?
I say we're 95% there anyway.
It's just that the notion of being forced to be that way.
No, the crypto law came into place on Friday, which basically gives more certainty around stable coins and certain altcoins.
And it's a little bit of a sell-the-news event because people have been waiting for this for months.
The interesting thing about crypto, and I may have talked on this show about it before, is that my personal view has always been is Bitcoin is a construct of the United States intelligence community, the NSA, and it was designed to protect the dollar, basically a flanking for the dollar.
And I'm more convinced than ever of that.
You see the way the United States government is embracing Bitcoin like no other country is.
And the stable coins are a really clever way to absorb treasuries that are being produced from deficit spending because they collateralize the stable coins that they create by issuing, not issuing, but by purchasing treasuries to hold as collateral.
And that in turn then provides the fuel to buy more Bitcoin and you create this cycle.
And then the government will have more and more of those digital assets as part of on their books.
Banks will have that as tier one assets on their books.
And now you have protection for the dollar.
You have a customer for treasuries.
And I think it's really, really, really clever.
And so, you know, you're going to see more and more of that.
There's going to be some crazy altcoins that come out.
Just ignore that.
We at Trade Genius are big on either you own Bitcoin outright or a lot of people are afraid of that, which is okay.
And you can actually have Bitcoin exposure by buying ETFs like BITO, YBIT, MSTY.
You could buy the Bitcoin miners, you know, and I'm not as big a fan on those, but you can buy those as well.
And you can get some incredible yields.
We've been in an ETF called MSTY, which is a derivative, a synthetic position of microstrategy that basically people have doubled their money in the last year and is still paying out a distribution rate of north of 60% a year.
And the reason why that works, people get really confused of this is because they create a synthetic called a synthetic option, meaning that you have natural leverage in there.
So if you're just a call writer, you know, people who recovered calls, you know, you might be making, you know, 10 or 20% a year in addition to the share price.
If you put synthetic on this, you know, you're adding a leverage of four or five times more to it because you don't have to hold the collateral of the shares.
You're holding the collateral of the, what they call a long call and a short put.
You guys can look it up.
Just look under MSTY.
And then there's a lot of other ones.
There's 60 or 70 of these out there now.
Some pay weekly dividends.
So we have our clients.
If you want to join us for no other reason, we'll teach you how to use these.
That's what I want to talk about now.
Now that we've whetted the appetite of the viewers and they're saying, I love this guy because you know more than anyone barn on.
And if you don't say it, I'll say it.
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Yeah, so you get two, you get two levels.
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And we give those out every day.
We also get access to the chat room.
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Or you can go to the next level.
And it's called the VIP voice room where like you and I are talking.
We have a room now.
There's a couple hundred people in there and people are bantering back and forth, asking me questions, me talking to them all day, just like I'm talking to you, you know, talking insight, ideas, opportunities.
And what we charge for the service, Lionel, is nothing compared to what you get out of it.
I mean, if people just took that trade, IPI trade, we would have already paid for two years of the service.
So we charge as nothing, you know, compared to what you get out of it.
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And you don't have to trade those.
I mean, you just hold them.
And I was showing somebody, there's a trade called ULTY.
Last June, I purchased 4,000 shares of it for about $54,000.
As of last end of June, just a couple of weeks ago, I had 10,000 shares of it.
My price moved from 54 to 68,000.
So $14,000 profit, 25% return.
But my run rate now, it pays a weekly dividend.
My run rate on this now is that I'm earning $1,000 a week on that $54,000 investment now.
Okay, now I'm dripping it, which means that I keep adding to the shares.
By next end of April, that same investment will be north of $120,000 and I'll be generating $2,000 a week in income.
Okay, so this is the power of compounding.
It's the power of compounding these leveraged instruments.
And then people will say to me, well, what if the market crashes?
Well, this particular entity can go long or short the market.
And because it's a seller of options, okay, they're betting against the trading against what I call the degenerates out there, the gamblers.
So you're basically, you're the house.
Okay.
And so you're raking all the time.
Now, of course, if things move too far, too fast, your collateral gets affected too.
So sometimes you will get a downdraft.
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And there's, like I said, there's 60 or 70s out there.
These aren't my inventions.
I get nothing from sharing them with you other than what you pay for to be part of the service.
But it'll change your life.
I mean, I joke that I said these things could put me out of business.
And I'd be quite happy if people can make this kind of consistent money long term.
I'm happy to go into the night.
Okay.
That's how much I like these things.
These are game changers.
I get emails from people saying I've changed their lives by just introducing them to these things.
And nobody talks about them.
I still talk to friends today that are just really didn't even know these things even exist.
That's what's interesting.
That's because everybody's talking about Bitcoin, which is wonderful.
I mean, wonderful.
But the thing is, they have to talk to you.
You live and breathe this every single day.
And it's the best.
It's like this no low pressure.
Just sell the information because once, once you're not a broker, you're not Jim Kramer.
You sell your service and you want everybody to make gobs of money and profit so that your word spreads.
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That sound about right, Bob?
Oh, absolutely.
And just so you know, you know, with these products, you used to get exposure to Bitcoin too.
So, you know, there's no either or here.
How would you like to make a high yield and have exposure to Bitcoin, which is going to continue to move up because of the debasement of the currency?
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So, look, I mean, what we, like I said, what we charge is very reasonable.
So, and look, the way this works is that you hopefully make money by being part of my service.
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