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Oct. 9, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
20:21
NOT owning gold is a HIGH RISK proposition
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It now takes 4,000 U.S. dollars to buy one ounce of gold.
Or you could say that one U.S. dollar can now only purchase one four-thousandths of an ounce of gold.
And, you know, a few decades ago, a dollar used to purchase 1 35th of an ounce of gold.
So, of course, the value of the dollar has plummeted dramatically over 90% compared to gold.
And this podcast is about understanding risk versus gold, dollars, treasuries, other investments.
Because there is still a very pervasive belief among a lot of people, more sort of conventional thinking type of people.
They think that gold is risky.
I mean, I've heard them say things.
Oh, I don't know if I should get gold because, you know, the dollars were the, it's the most solid investment, you know, the dollar, the treasuries, the T-bills.
And they think that they're actually earning money because the U.S. Treasury is paying them, you know, 4% or whatever, even though the dollar is losing 15% to 20% per year in terms of purchasing power.
So by investing in treasuries, they're losing, you know, 10% to 15% or more per year, but they think they're gaining because they're not educated about what is risk.
See, if you invest in treasuries or bank CDs or what have you, yeah, you have certainty.
You have certainty that you will lose purchasing power.
In other words, you're losing money.
If you buy treasuries, you're losing money because the treasury and the Fed are printing so much money, trillions of dollars a year, that the plummeting value of the dollars that you get paid back in is worth far less than the yield on the treasuries by far.
So yeah, there's certainty, but there's certainty of loss.
Now, you could argue, well, that's not a high risk situation.
No, it's not actually.
There's not much risk of variation of that scenario.
It's not high risk.
It's high loss.
It's certainty of high loss.
So if you stay in dollars, any dollar instrument, there's a certainty of high loss.
Whereas gold and silver give you the certainty of holding value or the certainty of high gain versus the dollar.
Now, you might argue, well, it's not 100% certain.
Okay, fine.
It's near certainty.
But in my mind, the certainty of gold and silver comes from the fact that they have been around since the dawn of human civilization and that they hold value over time and that they have outlasted the rise and fall of every currency and every nation, every civilization that has come and gone over the last thousands of years because gold is even mentioned in the Bible, in the Old Testament.
So we're talking about 5,000 years, gold has outlasted everything else.
So if you want to talk about certainty, well, I have a lot of certainty in the table of elements.
I have very high certainty that gold and silver are going to still be here because they are physical elements that cannot be destroyed.
In fact, there's really only two ways you can mess with them, and that's fission and fusion.
You can either create heavier elements or lighter elements by combining things with gold and silver.
But to do that, you have to have, I don't know, like exploding stars and things like that.
So I have very high certainty that gold is gold, silver is silver.
I do not have high certainty that dollars are money, that dollars will have purchasing power.
So people who prefer dollars and treasuries over gold, they misunderstand risk.
They don't understand that holding dollars is a 100% certainty of losing purchasing power, whereas holding gold and silver is a near certainty of protecting purchasing power.
So actually, gold and silver are the lowest risk investment that you can possibly make.
Now, there's another reason for this that's not immediately obvious, and that has to do with counterparty risk.
So if you buy treasuries, who's your counterparty?
Who has to make good on their end of the deal to pay you back?
Oh, well, that's the United States Treasury, which is broke.
The U.S. government is broke, bankrupt.
So you have to trust in a party that is not trustworthy, a party that is sooner or later going to default on their debt.
And if you buy stocks, same thing.
You don't have possession of the stocks.
You don't have the stock certificates.
You don't have bearer bonds.
Your stocks are held in some portfolio somewhere, some stockbroker account.
And really, it belongs to them, not you.
You're just sort of the proxy owner, but not the real owner.
They own it.
And if they go into default, then all your stocks belong to them.
And then you become a creditor and you get to wait in line to see if there's going to be a settlement so you can try to get some money back.
But if you have gold and silver in your hands, then there's no counterparty risk.
Gold and silver in your hands, right?
So it doesn't matter if the bank goes bankrupt because they don't have your gold.
And that's why you shouldn't put gold in a safe deposit box.
If the dollar collapses, that doesn't make your gold disappear either.
In fact, it probably makes your gold way more valuable.
But you hold it.
You control it.
You can touch your gold or silver.
And so you know it's real and it's not vanishing.
And, you know, like even crypto can vanish.
Crypto has counterparty risk, even though it's decentralized, obviously.
But for Bitcoin to have value, the Bitcoin network, the nodes have to function.
Electricity has to work.
And for you to cash out of Bitcoin, there has to be somebody else willing to buy it.
So in essence, it's distributed counterparty risk.
It's not the same as just holding Bitcoin in your hand where it has intrinsic value.
That doesn't exist.
Even if you have self-custody of Bitcoin, it's still not the same as having gold and silver in your hands.
Gold and silver are money.
And that's why they keep skyrocketing in value with gold now over $4,000 an ounce, silver about to touch $50.
Because in a world of risk, risk of financial loss, risk of tariffs, risk of war, risk of default, all the nations and central banks and hedge funds and family funds that know what they're doing, they are buying gold and silver hand over fist because they are fleeing risk and they are buying gold and silver as a means of safety,
as a lifeboat to paddle away from the sinking Titanic of fiat currencies and the Western global financial system that has already crashed into an iceberg and is taking on water and is about to sink.
The Western financial system is going to capsize.
Gold and silver are your lifeboats.
And if you buy gold and silver early enough, then your lifeboat is very affordable.
If you buy it late, your lifeboat is expensive.
But no matter when you buy it, you're going to buy it if you can, because what's the value of a lifeboat?
It's priceless when the currency is collapsing.
And that's why you're going to see gold go way beyond $5,000 an ounce.
I mean, there's going to be a day where gold is $10,000.
Frankly, there's going to be a day where gold is $50,000 because the dollar is collapsing and thus it takes more and more dollars to buy one ounce of gold.
I don't know the timeline of that and don't take this as financial advice, but I know that's going to happen because there's no way that the dollar printing is going to stop.
It's just, it gives too much power to the government and the Fed and the Treasury.
The power to print currency is the ultimate economic power in our world.
They will never give that up.
They will never stop creating currency, which means that the dollar itself is not going to come back and gain a bunch of value.
You know, you're not going to see extreme deflation to the point where gold goes back down to $250 an ounce.
Never going to see that.
Instead, we might see gold at $25,000 an ounce on the way to a total currency collapse of the dollar.
So that's why the smart people are stocking up on physical gold and silver.
Now, I don't know what the price is going to do in the short term.
I don't know if it's going to go up or down.
I don't know if there's going to be a correction.
I do not think it's overbought, even though it's skyrocketing.
It's still, in my view, undervalued from where it will be.
I mean, I see gold at $5,000 before the end of this year very easily.
And silver at $50, probably by the end of this week or early next week.
And silver could be $100 by the end of this year or early next year, let's say, possibly.
But again, don't take this as investment advice.
If you want to get physical gold and silver, which is your lifeboat to hold onto your assets, get it from trusted sources.
And the source I trust is Battalion Metals.
They are our sponsor.
And I've been working with that team for, I don't know, seven years now.
High integrity, high trust, high honesty.
Very low premiums on the coins.
They give you an exceptional deal.
You can find them at metalswithmike.com.
That's metalswithmike.com.
That will forward you to their website.
And there, if you use our discount code Ranger, then they waive the shipping insurance fee on any physical coins that you purchase.
And yeah, you can buy physical coins from them.
They will ship them to you.
You will get them insured, discrete delivery.
Nobody knows you're getting gold or silver.
And, you know, you're going to open the package and you're going to do what everybody does.
You count them.
You're like, did they send me the right number?
Yes, they did.
Here they are.
One, two, three, four, five.
You know, whatever.
You count them up.
You're like, okay, got it.
And then your next question is going to be, where do I hide this stuff, right?
Where do I hide this?
So there's lots and lots of information about where to hide gold and silver.
I've done podcasts on that.
I've done book chapters on that.
If you go to my audiobooks at naturalnews.com, the Global Reset Survival Guide is an audiobook.
It's free.
You can download it.
That book has a whole chapter dedicated to hiding gold and silver.
So you might want to check that out.
It's got a lot of crazy ideas that will most definitely hide your gold and silver because nobody's looking at the places that I mention in that book.
And again, it's free.
So, you know, download it and enjoy.
Again, metalswithmike.com is how you get to battalion metals.
And I strongly encourage you to check them out.
They don't run bait and switch operations or any kind of nonsense like that.
Otherwise, I obviously wouldn't do business with them, period.
They are an honest broker that can help you get honest money.
Gold and silver are money.
Dollars and currencies are not money, period.
They are not.
And so if you're holding on to dollars and treasuries and everything, guess what?
You don't have any money.
Not until you get it into gold and silver.
Then it's real money.
And at the end of the day, it's real money that's going to save you from this accelerating financial collapse or debt collapse that's happening, or maybe, I don't know, you call it currency collapse.
All three.
But real money is going to be your lifeboat out of all of this.
So get some real money while you can while the dollar still is tradable for real money.
And you will thank yourself for doing so.
And thank you for listening.
I'm Mike Adams here at the HealthRanger, naturalnews.com and Brighteon.com.
Take care.
All right, checking gold prices today.
And this is the first week of October, and we're almost at $4,000 an ounce.
I've got on my screen here, $39.84.
Gold is rising very rapidly.
And also silver prices, although a little bit more flat today, they're very close to $48.
Silver is probably going across $50,000 pretty soon.
Now, don't take this as financial advice.
Do your own research, but the trend is undeniable.
Gold and silver are exploding in terms of dollar denomination because, of course, the value of the dollar is sinking.
Dollars are being destroyed by money printing and debt spending, while gold and silver are doing their job by preserving wealth.
And of course, if you want to preserve your wealth, you need to get more gold and silver.
We've partnered with the Battalion Metals Company.
We've been working with them for years, actually.
This is what used to be Treasure Island, and they launched this new online presence with new improved services.
It's called Battalion Metals.
You can reach them at metalswithmike.com.
It takes you straight to Battalion Metals, and there you can shop for gold and silver coins from all the trusted mints.
No shenanigans, no bait and switch.
Not trying to sell you weird, like three-ounce numismatics that nobody wants or other weird odd coins.
There's none of that garbage.
This is a trustworthy, family-run business in precious metals that's been around literally for generations.
They have discrete insured delivery and vaulting services, including IRA vaulting.
And seriously, check them out.
Check out their prices.
You can see their prices online in real time so you can see that they're not playing rip-off games or anything like that.
Honest pricing, honest products.
Now, if you use discount code Ranger, if you place any order with them for physical delivery, use Ranger.
They will waive the shipping insurance fee.
And that saves you something.
It's, I mean, it's not a huge part of every sale, but every little bit counts.
It helps you maximize the amount of metal you actually get.
And I believe it's critical right now to have physical gold and silver in your hands.
As the dollar collapses and as we face the possibility of a banking system collapse and even ultimately a U.S. Empire collapse that some people are predicting, something like the way the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Well, if that happens, the dollar is toast.
And then the value that you'll have left is either what you have in metals, what you have in property, what you have in hard assets.
And at that point, you may want to consider also gold backs, which are these.
Here's a stack of gold backs.
I keep these on my desk because I hand them out to people.
I give them to guests and other people.
Each one of these right now is one one thousandth of an ounce of physical gold inside the gold back.
And these are available in different denominations with larger amounts of gold in them.
So the gold is actually in the gold back.
And then these allow you to spend gold like cash.
And people love them at farmers markets and certain merchants across different states.
And more states are opening up for gold backs.
And more states are recognizing gold and silver as legal tender as well.
You know, not necessarily in this form, but in any form, just that gold and silver ounces are recognized as legal tender in many, many states.
And more states are coming.
So if you want to get gold backs, go to our website, verifiedgoldbacks.com, where we explain what goldbacks are.
And I share my lab testing results because we actually melted these down using a kiln.
And we did different types of tests.
There's the melting test.
There's the acid stone test for gold purity.
And we weighed them on an analytical balance in our lab to look at the actual gold mass.
And then this is our ICPMS for the gold atomic analysis.
And then at the end, we produce this chart that you can see here.
If you scroll down, let me keep it.
Here it is.
This is the recovery chart.
So out of gold backs, how much was expected in terms of gold mass?
Here's how much we recovered.
So the least amount we recovered was about 102%.
And the highest amount was 107%.
That was out of the five gold back units.
So you're actually getting slightly more than the promised amount of gold in the gold backs.
And this is critical because we have independently confirmed that these actually do contain the gold that they claim to contain.
Otherwise, obviously, we wouldn't be promoting them.
So you can order these from verifiedgoldbacks.com.
Just click this button right here.
You see this?
Click this to order gold backs.
And as gold prices go up, gold backs also go up in value right along with gold.
So when I first started mentioning gold backs, they were $3 and something per gold back.
And now they're over $7 per gold back.
So those of you who already purchased gold backs, you've probably seen them double in value, if not more, depending on when you purchase them.
So those are the two options we have available for you.
We have battalion metals that you can reach via metalswithmike.com for gold and silver coins that are recognized coins from recognized mints or gold backs from verifiedgoldbacks.com that you can allow you to spend gold like cash.
So those are the options we have available for you.
And just again, don't take this as financial advice.
Check with your own financial advisors, do your own research, make your own decisions.
But at the end of the day, the people who listen to this and who got gold in the last couple of years or silver, they have seen the value of that just skyrocket in terms of dollar denominations.
In fact, gold was only around, well, just under $2,000 in 2022.
And now it's about $4,000.
So it's doubled in about three years or maybe a little bit over three years.
That is significant.
That is outperforming almost all of the stock market indexes and stock market funds and so on without the risk of stock market loss.
Because when you have gold and silver in your hands, then there's no counterparty risk.
You have it in your possession.
You hold it, you own it, and it can't vanish overnight if a bank fails or if a currency fails or if a government fails.
Gold and silver will outlast the dollar.
They will outlast the United States government.
They will outlast the Treasury and the Federal Reserve.
Mark my words.
Gold's mentioned in the Bible.
It's been around since the dawn of human civilization, and it will still be here after this whole system collapses if it does.
So you want real value that maintains that value?
Gold and silver is your answer.
Again, metalswithmike.com and use discount code RANGER to have the shipping insurance waived off of your order.
So thank you for supporting us.
And thank you for supporting yourself so that you'll have some assets when this economic storm blows through.
It's going to be something interesting, that's for sure.
Thanks for watching.
I'm MikeAdams of BrightTown.com and naturalnews.com.
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