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March 22, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Mar 22nd, 2021 - FINANCIAL red alert: The currency collapse has already begun
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Alright, welcome to the Situation Update Financial Report for Monday, March 22nd, 2021.
I'm Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
Thank you for listening.
I think this is going to be shorter than most other Situation Updates because it's just a special financial update.
And there have been things, very important things, I interviewed silver guru David Morgan a couple of days ago.
That interview should be posted today, Monday, on the Health Ranger Report channel on brighttown.com.
I think it's very important to listen to that interview because we talk about the 10-year bond prices and yields, and we talk about monetary inflation, the role of precious metals, and so on.
Definitely be sure to check that out.
You're going to learn a lot.
What's very worrisome to me about what's happening right now is that we are experiencing not only massive helicopter money bailouts, and as you know, the bailout money hit everybody's bank accounts.
The automatic electronic deposits hit last week.
So there's this massive money printing, and then, you know, some people are using that money to go out and pay for drugs and hookers and buy illegal things, whatever.
Which, in a funny way, you know how the media is always saying, well, Bitcoin is used for illegal activities.
Yeah, well, so is your Fed fake currency cash, by the way.
Maybe you've never seen any mafia movie ever, but all the prostitution and drugs and gun running and everything is done in cash, by the way.
Or at least it used to be.
But not only is that happening, we also have skyrocketing prices in commodities, including lumber and housing and steel and copper, which means electrical wiring, which means electrical infrastructure, all that stuff, and massive which means electrical infrastructure, all that stuff, and massive supply line shortages happening at the same time.
Shortages in the microchip industry are so bad right now that car manufacturers in the United States, like General Motors, are shutting down.
They have been shut down in some cases for six weeks or so because they can't get microchips.
And the microchip supply lines are cratering right now, and it's not looking any better.
Samsung has also shut down some operations in the United States.
Can't make their, what is it, the Galaxy phones and all the other things they make with microchips.
Can't get the chips.
So I believe that we are witnessing the beginning, the beginning of the financial crisis.
What's the right word for this?
Apocalypse?
No, maybe that's too strong.
The financial implosion, I don't know, the debt bomb, maybe...
Look, I don't know what term to use here.
But we're starting to see the compounding inflation.
And it's only going to get worse because the money printing will never stop from this point forward.
This is the hyperbolic blowout of fake money.
And about the only two things that are not rising or inflated are gold and silver, which, you know, that's what you should be at.
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Gold and silver are the only two things that I can think of in the economic ecosystem right now that are not crazy hyperinflated.
Land is hyperinflated.
Bond prices arguably are as well.
And again, all the commodities.
And it's gotten so crazy that now building a house is so much more expensive than what it was a year ago because lumber prices are up in some cases now 500%.
Think about that.
You know, where a house might previously had used, let's say, $25,000 worth of lumber.
Now that same house is using $100,000 plus worth of lumber.
And of course, the builders are going insane with this, trying to explain the price increases to their customers.
And then the copper increases are causing the electrical wiring to go up.
The electricians are having to pass those price increases along.
And cryptocurrencies are exploding as well.
It's almost as if they're hyperinflating when denominated in dollars, you know, because Bitcoin is now, I think it hit, didn't it hit $60,000 a coin?
Now, obviously, there's not some rational increase in the value of Bitcoin.
It's a speculative blowout.
In fact, Peter Schiff recently called it digital tulip bulb mania, I think is what he called it, which is really funny because A lot of the Bitcoin people, they call it digital gold, which it is not, but Peter Schiff calls it digital tulip bulb mania or tulip mania, which I think is a lot more accurate description.
Although, of course, I say Bitcoin has its place.
Cryptocurrency has a role.
It's very mobile.
It's...
Easier to put in your wallet.
I mean, put in your pocket on a thumb drive.
You can carry around unlimited amount of Bitcoin as you flee your country or flee your city or whatever.
You're trying to escape some collapse somewhere.
Bitcoin's got a role for that.
No question about it.
But it is wildly hyperinflated, that's for sure.
So you look around the economy and ask yourself, where is all this headed?
I wanted to read you...
Oh, also, insurance rates are skyrocketing nationwide.
Insurance rates.
Check your insurance rates for home insurance or commercial insurance.
Guess what?
They're all going up like crazy as well.
Everybody's getting hit with this.
I'm hearing all kinds of stories, and it's happening to our own company as well.
I think one policy that we held that was $4,000 last year is $7,000 this year, and we've never filed any claims.
So it's like, that's almost double!
What's going on?
All right, so from an article on Zero Hedge...
That was entitled, Things Are Out of Control.
I wanted to read you just some of the shortages and supply line problems that are happening from different sectors of the economy.
So here we go.
An electrical equipment appliance company says things are out of control.
Everything is a mess.
We are seeing wide-scale shortages.
A chemical products company says supply chains are depleted.
Inventories up and down the supply chain are empty.
Lead times are increasing.
Prices are increasing.
Demand is increasing.
The deep freeze in the Gulf Coast is expected to extend the duration of shortages.
Here's a company in computers and electronic products.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting us in terms of getting material to build from local and our overseas third and fourth tier suppliers.
We're complaining of a lack of available resources, i.e.
people, for manufacturing, creating major delivery issues.
Now, this is a very important point to cover here.
The COVID bailout money that the Biden regime has just deposited in people's bank accounts.
This is sending a message to the workers across America.
And the message is, you don't have to work to get free money, even though it's not really money.
It's currency, but whatever.
You don't have to work.
You're going to get free money just magically appearing in your bank account.
Why would anybody want to work When they're getting all this bailout money?
And the answer is a lot of people have realized it's actually, it pays better to not work.
And you can collect unemployment and you can collect federal bailout money.
You can collect all these subsidies and different funds and grants and so on.
It pays better to do that than to go get a job somewhere.
So the labor shortage is killing everybody in the industry, including us.
We're having a very hard time manufacturing and shipping out products.
This is why our store, Health Ranger store, is always out of stock on everything, it seems.
Although we do have some Ranger buckets in stock at the moment.
Shockingly, they'll probably be gone in a couple days.
But here's a metals company that says, we've seen our new order log increase by 40% over the last two months.
We're overloaded with orders, and we do not have the personnel to get product out the door on schedule.
Yep, labor shortage.
And so again, the Biden regime is making the labor shortage worse.
They are killing the economy by paying people to not work.
And in fact, as Peter Schiff often says, you can't have a functioning, sustainable economy if everybody in your country is just consuming and nobody's freaking producing, which is what is happening now.
Who's producing?
Who's running the landscape companies or providing the labor?
Who's doing the labor at the manufacturing companies?
Who's doing the labor at the meatpacking plants and so on?
Whatever.
The grocery stores.
Very few people are willing to work and this is causing everything to crater.
The supply lines are getting worse.
And because the supply lines are getting worse, then a lot of companies have to shut down and lay people off who actually wanted to work No longer can work because, well, that business can't function because there's a critical part missing, like a microchip in a circuit board that goes into a car, for example.
So now you're having a second wave of layoffs and shutdowns because of all the engineering shortages.
And folks, this is all by design.
That's my main point here.
This is all by design.
A wood products company says, quote, prices are rising so rapidly that many are wondering if the situation is sustainable.
Shortages have the industry concerned for supply going forward deep into the second quarter.
So, yeah, get ready for more fun.
A food and beverage product company.
We've experienced a higher rate of delinquent shipments from our ingredient suppliers in the last month.
We're still struggling keeping our production lines fully manned.
We anticipate a fast and large order surge in the food service sector as restaurants open back up.
And then here's a transportation equipment company.
Steel prices have increased significantly in recent months, driving costs up from our suppliers and up on proposals for new work that we're bidding.
And tariffs and anti-dumping fees and penalties incurred by international suppliers are being passed on to us.
So what's the common thread in all of this?
Well, number one, a massive labor shortage.
And then secondly, an inability to produce their products because they're waiting on some upstream supplier that can't supply them.
So there's this ripple effect that is just wreaking havoc throughout everything.
Here's a good example in our industry.
One of the items that we include in our Ranger buckets is organic non-GMO popcorn.
It's popcorn kernels.
It's a really delicious corn.
The popcorn has been out of stock from our normal supplier since January.
That's never happened before, but it's all gone.
We don't know when they're going to get more.
And I've already mentioned in previous podcasts the transportation problems.
We have all these pallets of our vacuum bags sitting in a port in, I think, Los Angeles, and we can't find a train to put them on.
There are no trains with available space leaving California.
So you have to hire...
You know, trucks to do custom runs for you, and then you pay through the nose, which is what we ended up doing, by the way.
I think those bags are arriving tomorrow or something.
So prices are going up because of these extraordinary, you know, decisions that have to be made by business owners.
And if you have a complex product, I should say this, the more complex your product is, like a car, The more likely you are to be shut down now because a car has thousands of parts.
And you can't sell the car if even one part out of the thousand is missing.
It's like, oh, we have everything except the seatbelt.
You can't sell it without the seatbelt.
You can't sell it without the gas cap.
You know what I mean?
One missing part, it's over.
And so you're starting to see, actually, the kind of warning signs of breakdowns that happen in complex societies.
And I've talked about this before.
The structure of complex societies and how that makes them vulnerable to collapse.
What you are seeing right now, I would call it a kind of soft collapse.
A kind of foreshadowing of the bigger collapse yet to come.
Everything that's happening at the moment.
And by the way, if you don't own a business, you may not see behind the curtain what's happening.
But every business owner is absolutely seeing this.
If you're a consumer, you may not yet know that all the supply lines are just wiped out.
You may not yet know that massive shortages are about to get way worse, you know?
Because business owners are striving very diligently to try to provide products and they're pulling miracles and they're finding inventory and they're finding workarounds, but that's only temporary.
That's not going to last forever.
Before long, There are going to be more and more empty shelves and more and more supply shortages.
And then the consumers are going to see it.
It's going to be empty shelves at the grocery store, empty shelves at the Home Depot, empty shelves at your auto parts store and whatever.
This is going to get worse.
So at the same time the shortages are here, your dollar is worth less and less in terms of its purchasing power because the government is printing mad money.
Now, by the way, we can't just put all the blame on Biden for this, for the $1.9 trillion bailout, because I have no doubt if Trump were in charge at the moment, he would have done much the same thing, because he did bailouts, too, last year.
He wasn't withholding bailout money.
He was shoving it out there into the economy, just like Biden is doing, right?
So there's really no fiscal discipline anywhere near the swamp, as we expect.
And I say that this is not the last bailout.
There's going to be another bailout almost guaranteed this year.
And it's going to be another at least trillion dollars, maybe a couple of trillion.
And I think this is going to continue through 2022 and beyond.
In fact, I think the bailouts will continue until the system craters.
That's my prediction at this point.
I don't think there's any way they can pull back and stop sending money to people because this economy is on life support.
And the only way to keep the economy pumping along, because let's use a metaphor of someone who's been wounded and is bleeding out.
The stimulus money is a blood transfusion.
And you can keep pumping new blood transfusions into people But if you don't close up the wound where they are bleeding out, they're still going to bleed out no matter how much blood you put in them.
And this is what's happening in our economy.
More money is being printed, which is the transfusion, but then the value of the money is collapsing, which is the bleeding out.
I mean, the debt is the bleeding out problem.
But they can't solve, they can't stop the bleeding because that would mean austerity.
That would mean making cuts in spending.
That would mean shrinking the size of government and not having the trillions of dollars that they need.
To bail out their corrupt Democrat friends and pay off the bribes and the kickbacks and the favored business deals and all that garbage that typifies the swamp and especially the Democrat Party, but not exclusively the Democrat Party.
It's also the GOP as well.
So they will never stop the bleeding because stopping the bleeding is too painful to them.
They want the free money for themselves and they're willing to hand it out to the people To keep that scam running so they can keep skimming off the scam, so to speak.
This is getting complicated.
There's skimming of the scam as part of a scamdemic.
And it's only going to get worse.
So when it's all said and done, what has value at the end of this?
Do dollars have value?
No.
No value.
Does Bitcoin have value?
Maybe.
Maybe.
Bitcoin might have a lot of perceived value as people flee the collapsing dollars.
So that's possible.
But I wouldn't bet the farm on it because it's still virtual, right?
It's not real.
Does land have value?
You bet it does.
But it's also getting crazy inflated.
Partly because people are fleeing the cities and realizing a lot of what I'm saying here, which is get to some land.
You know, get out of the city before the collapse comes.
So you're going to pay a premium now.
Versus if you had moved to the countryside five years ago, it would have been a lot more affordable, typically.
Does gold and silver have value?
Absolutely.
No question about it.
It's real.
It's physical.
It can't collapse.
The government doesn't really know how much you own or where you put it.
It's not digital.
It's not tracked by the government.
You have possession of it.
And with your trusty AR-15, you can protect it.
Depending on where you live, if it's legal to even have that in your jurisdiction.
Amazing.
So, you know, a roof over your head is real.
You know, I've talked about this many times.
Things that are physical are real.
Everything else is going into vapor land at some point, especially dollars.
Now, I have to give Peter Schiff credit here.
I'm a fan of his, by the way.
And Peter Schiff said in an interview the other day, he's very good at explaining this, that America is mostly in the business of producing more fiat currency rather than stuff, that is goods or products that people want to purchase.
So America produces the fake dollars and then trades those dollars with other countries for physical goods that consumers want.
So if you're buying, I don't know, a new drone toy for yourself or a family member, the drone is made in China.
How is the drone purchased?
With fake fiat currency that's printed in the United States.
Or, you know, whatever you're buying, think about where it comes from.
Most things don't come from America.
Even when you have cars that say, Made in America...
They're assembled in America using parts from China and other places.
So they're not really entirely made in America.
They're just kind of screwed together.
Sometimes not exactly screwed together at all.
If it's a Tesla, you know, the bumper fell off, you know, the roof is gone.
I was just driving it home.
So the only job that the American workers have, they forget to do it, you know, because they're on meth or whatever.
All right, so we are in a situation where the countries of the world are basically collecting U.S. debt in exchange for sending us physical products that they go through the trouble of actually manufacturing.
Electronics, you know, semiconductors, computers, all kinds of things like that.
It's a difficult trade.
And for the most part, these countries are sick and tired of this because they get stuck with nothing but U.S. debt.
But they've exported their goods to America.
So the American people, who are consumers, not producers largely, the American people are overflowing with stuff.
They've got all kinds of stuff, or as it's called, cargo in Africa.
All kinds of cargo.
You know, physical stuff.
You live in a material world in America.
People have, you know, 57 pairs of shoes.
And fashion purses and whatever, and nine streaming webcams, because you always got to have the newest one, and so on.
Meanwhile, people who live in the countries that produce this stuff, they don't have anywhere near this material quality of life that Americans enjoy.
And this has been the state of things ever since the creation of the global petrodollar, which is the U.S. dollar as the standard currency for buying and selling oil, primarily enforced via Saudi Arabia, supported by the United States deep state, because the Saudi regime has been quite an evil anti-human rights regime over the years, but it was supported by the Bush's You know, and the Clintons and so on.
So they were able to get away with all kinds of war crimes as long as they continued to sell oil only in dollars.
So this created global demand for dollars and it allowed the United States to print this artificial currency and flood the global marketplace with fake money in exchange for real goods.
Well, everything that I just explained is about to come to an end.
The easy materialism that you and I have enjoyed for our entire lives has been built on the backs of other nations who have been on the short end of a bad deal.
And the bad deal is, as I've described here, America prints fake money, sends the money to them, and they produce real products and send those products to us.
This is about to end and it's going to end when the dollar collapses.
And when it ends, here's the important point.
There's going to be a catastrophic collapse in the quality of life, or at least I should say in the material quantity of life, maybe is a better way to call it.
It's not necessarily quality just to have more crap.
But there's going to be a massive drop in the amount of stuff that you can get in exchange for an hour of your labor, let's say.
And this is going to be reflected in two things.
Number one, shortages.
And number two, price increases.
And those are two things that we are seeing right now.
It's already kicking in.
So if you think about the ease at which you and I could purchase something like a Toyota car or a computer made by HP, let's say, or whatever, furniture, whatever you want to purchase, a mobile phone, an iPhone, right?
Things like that.
That, it's going to get so much more difficult to buy that now than it has been that the American people, by and large, are going to collapse into destitution and poverty.
Or at least they will think, they will see it as destitution and poverty compared to the way they've been living.
Because America's been living on debt.
and fake money, and frankly, exploiting the other countries through this unfair financial system that's rigged.
And the way we know it's rigged is because Trump and Biden just keep creating more money and flooding the system, which is devaluing the debt that's held by other countries.
In fact, hyperinflating the currency is a way to kind of print your way out of debt, and it leaves the holders of the debt holding an empty bag because the debt that they hold is, of course, denominated in dollars.
And dollars are going to lose, let's say, 20% of their value in this calendar year alone, 2021.
Now, that's my estimation.
According to the official White House sources, it's only 2%.
But I say, no, it's 20%.
Or, you know, you could go to shadow stats and you could see...
His version of what this is going to be.
I think the dollar is going to lose 20% of its purchasing power.
In fact, I think it's already happened, Frank.
I think I'm already right.
Because gas is up more than 20%.
Lumber is up more than 20%.
You know, real estate, housing, it's all up more than 20%.
I mean, really, in reality, food prices, everything.
The dollar is already...
Lost maybe more like 30 or 40% of its purchasing power this year alone, okay?
So I guess I can scratch that prediction off the list, already done.
But do you realize that if the dollar loses, let's say, 25% of its value for just three years in a row, at the end of three years, it's worth half what it was when it started.
It only takes about three years.
And yet with more and more money printing about to happen, because again, the economy's on life support, right?
So this is the only way that they can keep the debt transfusions going, because the patient is bleeding out, so they just have to keep printing more and more money.
So they're accelerating the very problem that is causing the bleeding out.
It is a cycle of financial doom, frankly, and we're in it.
In fact, we're in the last chapter of it.
It has begun.
So economics is really the study of human behavior.
And we're already starting to see an interesting behavioral pattern.
And that is that people who get bailout money, or even people who get any money at all, you know, from income checks or bonuses or what have you, they are tending to now spend it as quickly as possible on purpose.
Because many of them know that this dollar is going to become worthless.
A banker in Texas told me that there's been a run on cash at the banks following the bailout money deposits.
So what's been happening is that as soon as the deposits got into people's bank accounts, they would physically come into the bank and demand the cash.
So there were all kinds of people coming in to the banks and demanding $1,400 or thousands if it was a family.
And the banks were running out of cash.
Okay?
I mean, and this is happening nationwide.
You maybe heard of this as well.
So there's a cash shortage as well on top of all this.
So think about it.
The cash is becoming scarce, even though the value of the fake money is approaching zero, while the products are running out of supply and the prices are skyrocketing.
I mean, this is a bad combo.
You would not wish this combo on anyone.
It's a bad situation.
Not going to get better.
But people are spending as quickly as possible.
Because rationally, you know that food prices are going to go up by, let's say, 30% in the next year.
So if you can buy food today that you can eat in the next year, you're getting essentially a 30% or up to 30% savings on that food by pre-purchasing the food.
So in this way, people who pre-purchase toilet paper are not irrational if they're going to use the toilet paper.
Because today's price is a discount versus the price it's going to be.
And the dollars that you're using to buy that toilet paper are worth more today than they will be worth tomorrow.
because the dollars are becoming devalued.
So this is the cycle of currency devaluation and price hyperinflation that go hand in hand.
This is the cycle.
And this is the behavior that rational people will engage in.
Whenever they have money, they will immediately convert it to something.
Even if it's something they already have enough of right now, they're just stockpiling for the So somebody has cash, they're going to say, I better buy something today.
I better buy, you know...
A pack of toilet paper or a new pair of jeans or tennis shoes I'm going to need later in the year or better buy gold or silver or land or something that's going to hold value because I sure as heck am not going to keep it in this rapidly devolving dollar.
Because you keep it in your bank account, it's worth less each and every day.
So it's rational behavior now to spend as quickly as possible.
Right.
Which means that the national savings rate plunges, doesn't it?
Nobody's saving.
Why would you save in dollars when savings is a losing game?
You're getting 1% interest from the bank and the dollar is losing 20% of its purchasing power.
You just lost 19%, sucker.
You know, I mean, that's not a smart thing to do.
So people are not going to save it.
They're going to convert it to something.
Almost anything.
Almost desperately converted to anything.
And this helps explain, by the way, a lot of the shortages that have been experienced in silver that are still out there in the silver marketplace right now.
People are trying to buy, you know, silver eagles from the U.S. Mint.
And those are very difficult to get right now.
That's why a lot of people are purchasing so-called junk silver instead, or 100-ounce silver bars, by the way.
Or they're just buying gold, like 10-ounce gold coins or quarter-ounce gold coins or half-ounce or what have you.
And again, gold is a bargain.
Silver is a bargain.
Even at $35, silver is a bargain as far as I'm concerned.
Because again, gold and silver are artificially suppressed.
Now, I asked David Morgan what he thought silver was worth rationally.
Based on independent, rational economic thinking.
And he was estimating that he thought silver...
And he doesn't sell gold and silver, by the way.
He's an analyst.
He has a newsletter.
If you want to find that, you can get it at themorganreport.com, by the way.
And he said he thought that silver was worth about $400 an ounce right now.
And yet the price of silver is what?
Like $27?
On paper anyway, maybe $35 to get physical one-ounce coins or something in that range.
Yet it's probably worth $400 an ounce.
That's one heck of a bargain.
Whereas land is quite inflated and, you know...
Spending on land, yeah, you have physical dirt under your feet, but you may have paid a premium to get that.
So think about where you're putting your money right now.
Food can be a good purchase, and I'm not even saying from us.
I'm talking about just regular groceries.
How many jars of peanut butter are you going to eat this year?
Go buy them now.
How many cans of dog food are you going to buy this year and feed your dogs?
Go get them now.
Seriously.
Stock up now on whatever you need, whatever you're going to consume, unless you're getting ready to move, of course, then that's a different situation.
I know people who are moving, especially out of the cities, so obviously don't stockpile before you move.
But if you bought, let's say, I don't know, gold coins now before you move, and let's say you're going to move in three months, after you move, you could sell the gold coins back to get the dollars to buy gold.
Everything that you want to stock up on, the gold would hold your value.
See?
That's the point of gold and silver, which is why they're real money.
They freeze the value.
They take what you've earned and put it in a deep freeze so it doesn't vanish.
It doesn't erode, unlike the dollar, which is eroding rapidly.
So there are a lot of strategies that you can use to just figure out what's right for you.
My point is, We're no longer just talking about theoretical, like, oh, this is going to happen one day.
The dollar is going to lose its value.
The prices are going to hyperinflate.
Supply lines are going to crater.
It used to be five years ago when we talked about that, people were like, ah, that's never going to happen.
Why are you being so doom and gloom?
You know, never going to happen.
Well, hey, welcome to 2021.
It's here now.
It's here.
And it's getting worse.
And it's going to get way worse, I think, for the rest of this year.
But, you know, that's just my personal opinion.
I mean, I encourage you, talk to experts that you know and trust and figure out what's a good strategy for you.
You know, depending on your age and your financial goals and what kind of assets you already have and what you want to do with your assets in the future.
You know, figure out a plan that works for you.
And no one plan is right for everyone.
But your plan, I hope to God your plan isn't, I'm just going to keep dollars in a savings account that's FDIC insured and I'm going to trust the banks and I'm going to trust the Fed.
Because that's not a plan, that's suicide.
That's financial suicide.
You're going to be left holding an empty bag worth nothing.
One day, one day, who knows when, but one day, Probably within the next few years, if not sooner, that dollar bag is going to be empty.
Alright, so part of my mission here is to help spread information that can help people make good decisions about this.
That's what I encourage you to do.
Make good decisions.
And I want you to have knowledge of what's happening.
And so that's why I do interviews with people like David Morgan.
Be sure to watch that interview before you make any decision about anything.
He talks about mining stocks as a good option for some people in certain situations, for example.
And I asked him a lot of skeptical questions about mining stocks, like, hey, how do you know you can get your money back out?
Maybe the mining company gets nationalized by the government of the country where the mine is located.
You know, I asked them that question.
And we had a good conversation about risk management, so you should watch that interview.
And if you already know somebody who can offer you gold and silver locally at a good competitive price, consider talking to them and working with them.
If you want to work with Treasure Island, our sponsor, take a look at them, metalswithmike.com.
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They've got a phone number and a form, and you can talk to them.
If they can't beat your local price or they don't answer their phone, don't use them.
You know?
Have lots of options.
Make the best choice for you.
Maybe you would rather buy a piece of land because you want to move out to the countryside anyway and you found a piece.
It's barely affordable.
Maybe that's the answer for you.
Go for it.
Land isn't going to vanish.
It's a great investment if it's not in a Democrat-controlled state.
That's the one caveat there.
I wouldn't buy land in Illinois, okay?
I would be selling everything in Illinois right now.
That state is going to financially collapse like nobody's business.
Oh, very bad.
And so will California and so on.
But if you could buy some good land in, you know, Utah or Texas or Florida or Arizona or heck, I mean, all the flyover states, you know, South Dakota, for that matter, snap it up.
People are buying land like crazy in Montana.
And then they're building homes on their land.
Yeah, it's costing them extra.
But at the end of the day, what are dollars going to be worth anyway?
Nothing.
Nothing.
So you might as well spend the dollars on, let's say, building a house on a piece of land that you own.
That's better than having money in the bank.
Money in the bank is going to be worthless.
No question.
That day is coming.
And finally, one final warning.
Don't put all your eggs in the crypto basket like some people are doing.
I'm all in with Bitcoin at $50,000.
And it's going to be bad for those people.
I'm sorry to say...
Because they never know when to sell.
I mean, the way the typical investor operates, who isn't very, let's say, sophisticated about history, they'll buy in at $50,000, and they'll ride Bitcoin to $100,000, and they'll add to it, and they'll keep buying more Bitcoin, they'll ride it to $150,000, and Bitcoin might hit $200,000, might hit $250,000, and then one day it's going to be worth like $2.
And that person will have never sold it until it's too late.
And they'll lose everything.
But if you have the discipline to get out and you have the appetite for speculation and you can still sleep at night, you know, do what you want, but don't put all your eggs in that basket.
That's a virtual digital basket of extremely high risk.
Like a vanishing act on a magic show or something.
Just be very, very careful with that basket.
Don't send it into the cryptosphere unless you're ready to possibly lose it.
That's all I'm saying.
It has its place and it is going to go up.
But eventually it's going to plummet and no one knows when those things are going to happen.
Unless you have a freaking crystal ball or you're a psychic or something, you won't know the pivot points in advance and you won't be able to get out when the crash is occurring.
Very few people will.
Oh, actually, and finally, I think the simplest thing, and this is the way I look at actual assets or wealth, is not dollars in a digital bank account or numbers on a screen, whether it's a Bitcoin wallet or a bank account.
I even think of dollars in a bank account as worthless.
They don't mean anything.
I don't count on them at all.
The only thing at the end of the day that describes your material wealth, as far as I'm concerned, is do you have a roof over your head?
Dirt beneath your feet, and how many stacks of gold and silver coins do you have in your possession that you can touch?
That's what counts.
If next week you have more stacks of silver than you had this week, you have more wealth.
If next week you have fewer stacks of silver, you have less wealth.
Whatever happens with your Robinhood account up and down, Bitcoin up and down, bank account up and down, essentially it's all meaningless.
None of it counts.
It doesn't count until you make it real.
And the only way to make it real is to sell the virtual assets and acquire real assets, things that you can touch.
All right, so that's my wrap-up for today.
And as much as I thank you for supporting my online store, healthrangerstore.com, be aware that if you do go there to shop for things, you're going to find almost everything.
Well, I don't know, almost everything, but a lot of things out of stock for all the reasons I've talked about in this report.
We are not lazy, by the way.
We are not holding back.
The people that show up to work for us are working their butts off.
It's just that everything we produce is being sold almost immediately, and then we're having a hard time producing because of the raw materials problems.
So we're not sitting around.
We're not playing like jumping jacks against a wall in the back room, just goofing off.
We're doing the best we can.
But society's breaking down, folks.
And honestly, I don't know how long we can function.
I really don't.
I don't count on us being able to function for more than, well, I mean, if we couldn't function tomorrow, it wouldn't surprise me.
If the whole collapse happened tomorrow, I would not be surprised.
So I don't even know.
Maybe we'll be able to run for another year, maybe six months, maybe two years, maybe three days.
I have no clue.
I know the U.S. Postal Service is barely delivering mail.
I know that UPS and FedEx are having massive problems with delivering anything.
I know the transportation trucking can barely move anything.
I know the systems are all breaking down and nobody can get parts and people can't get raw materials.
It's all getting bad and nobody wants to work.
And, of course, the government's just making everything worse by paying people to not work.
So how does this end?
Well, frankly, folks, it ends in collapse.
That's how this ends.
It ends in a catastrophic collapse.
I wish I knew when.
If I did, I would definitely share that information with you.
But I don't know when.
All I can say is, however much ammo you have now, it's probably not enough.
Unless you're a Texan, you probably have plenty.
You may want to look at ammo for self-defense.
You may want to still pick up a firearm if you don't have the right ones for all the right situations and everything.
I think Brownells had a nice little compact 9mm pistol set up with an arm brace.
It's pretty nice.
What is it, like Foxtrot Mike or something, I think, makes that.
Pretty nice pistol.
I mean, seriously, folks, get ready.
It's going to get nasty out there.
You're going to need to defend yourself, I think, and work with your community to reestablish the rule of law.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, what happens if the vaccine side effects kick in?
You know, the hyper-inflammatory reaction, mass deaths.
We have 100 million Americans who have been vaccinated.
If it's a 5% death rate in the next year, that's 5 million dead Americans.
What do you think that's going to do to the supply lines?
It's going to get worse.
Yeah, and they're pushing vaccines on another 100 million if they can.
And the death rate might be a lot more than 5%, possibly.
We don't know.
But what if they really have a catastrophic problem and 20% of the people die?
What happens if 10, 20, or 30 million Americans die in one year?
Guess what?
Things get bad.
The disruptions are not going to be easy to survive, frankly.
So that's what we need to be planning for.
And remember, government is doing this all on purpose.
They want to exterminate the human race.
They want to collapse our economies.
They want to crush our nation.
They want to roll out military martial law.
And they want to just murder everybody with these vaccines.
So these are not accidents.
These are not just bad luck.
These are all by design.
This is global depopulation, genocide, and totalitarian takeovers of your society.
That's why this is happening.
So don't be surprised when their blueprint rolls out week by week and you see it all coming true.
That's their plan.
It's not a coincidence.
It's all by design.
All right.
But with that said, I'm sure you're more prepared than most.
So stay on that track, folks.
We can survive this, but a lot of people won't, flatly stated.
All right.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams, naturalnews.com.
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