Brighteon Broadcast News, Dec 24, 2025 - Christmas Eve Special Edition with Doug Casey
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Okay, welcome to the Christmas Eve edition of Brighteon Broadcast News.
Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate Christmas all over the world.
And for those of you who don't, just you probably know Christmas Eve is usually a big deal in America and Western countries.
Very few people are working today, but I am.
Yeah, actually, today, I love this day because I get to work on the single most important feature I'm trying to bring you from BrightLearn, which is the ability to download your personal digital library.
And let me just give you a quick update on that.
We have now over 8,000 books published at Brightlearn.ai, over 2,600 authors, and it's approaching almost 100,000 downloads now.
And what's really cool about this is, you know, I mean, there are so many books that it's almost difficult to navigate it.
We've improved the search function significantly.
So there's a search function at the top of the homepage.
So one of the interesting things I did earlier today is I searched for DMSO.
You know, DMSO is a very popular molecule now among those in alternative media who know what to do, who know about health, freedom, et cetera.
And it's very interesting.
There are 50 books generated on DMSO.
And some of them actually have the same title, DMSO Unlocked or DMSO Unveiled.
It seems like our AI engine, in many cases, can very often suggest a similar title for a subject like that that is usually censored.
But each of these books is different because it's based on a different user prompt, different information going into it.
So anyway, there are 50 books on DMSO and one of them, let's see, what's it called here?
DMSO and Chlorine Dioxide Solution.
Here it is, the DMSO and CDS Healing Handbook.
So that's different.
There's also another book on that combination called The Forbidden Alchemy, DMSO and CDS.
So that looks very useful to me.
Anyway, suppose you ran a search for DMSO and then you wanted to download all the DMSO books all at once instead of downloading them one at a time because that would require you have to fill out your email address 50 times and get 50 emails and click 50 downloads, right?
That becomes tedious.
So the function I'm building is called a personal digital library that allows you to run a search.
And then after the search runs and it shows you all the books, there will be another button that says, turn this search result into a personal digital library.
So I can download it, download the whole thing.
And yes, I've been working on that feature for quite some time.
And the thing is, what delayed it was the fact that I had to do some infrastructure upgrades to the core engine just because of this.
See, so the library assembly function, it turns out it's using a lot of bandwidth and a lot of storage and a lot of memory to compile it.
Because some of these libraries, you know, if you start downloading 100 books, let's say, all in one zip file, that can be a 300 or 400 megabyte download.
And most of that is in the PDF files.
So even though this feature will let you download both the static HTML pages and the PDFs, the PDFs themselves can be quite large because of the, well, because of the images, typically.
There's also some fonts embedded in the PDF as well.
But anyway, the bottom line is I had to do some core upgrades to the system, which took a little bit of time, took some research.
And that's done.
That's done now, so we've doubled the virtual CPUs and we've doubled the RAM on it.
It's now running on a much higher end deployment that will auto-spin up multiple systems as needed.
So that's pretty cool.
And I did have it running on just one virtual system.
And that just turns out not to be enough.
So anyway, it's going to scale up as it needs.
So then, now I'm ready to continue working on that feature, and I'm going to focus on it on Christmas Eve today.
That's my focus.
So I'm hoping to be able to announce this feature maybe tomorrow.
Until then, you can just download the individual books, but I did want to give you a Christmas present of being able to download a large library or a large category of books.
So that's all coming up very soon.
Yeah, that's what I love about holidays.
I get a chance to work on things.
It's awesome.
And then I also needed to do upgrades because of all the audio book features that are coming.
And it's very interesting as I'm talking here.
I'm checking under the hood, the engine.
And there's another book that has qualified for the audio podcast.
And the way that works is the book, once you hit 500 reads of a book, then the audio podcast is generated automatically, which is a 15-minute podcast.
And so the book that just qualified for that is called DMSO Unlocked.
What are the odds, right?
The Miracle Solvent for Pain, Healing, and Whole Body Restoration.
A science-backed guide to nature's most powerful therapeutic secret.
So that's pretty cool.
So anyway, that's generating an audio podcast right now.
And very likely what I'm going to do is all these books that hit 500, you know, 500 reads, beginning in 2026, I will have those probably at 500.
I'll have them generate a full-length audio book.
And then I'll lower the audio podcast threshold to something like maybe 300 reads.
And that'll generate more of those.
So anyway, those are some of the things I'm looking at.
It's always a bouncing act to try to keep the engine capable of handling everything.
And then there's a lot of costs associated with cover art production and costs for audio production, obviously, as well as text creation.
So try to keep a lid on all of that and make sure that we can afford it.
And I've got another interesting update about that coming up here, but I just want to mention that I've got now the final version of the Christmas music called the gift of learning free.
I'm going to play that for you today.
I did play it yesterday, kind of the rough draft of the music video.
Now we have the final music video.
And I sent it to a friend.
And my friend watched the video and he replied, he said, that's the gayest thing that I've seen this entire holiday season.
It's so gay.
And I said, tis the season to be gay.
Just joking with them.
You know, meaning happy in that context.
But apparently, this is the gayest video ever, and you're going to see it.
But it's not gay.
It's just innocent.
It's positive.
It's so funny because when I say things that are warning people about bad things coming, it's like, you're a doomer, you know?
And then I put out something that's positive and uplifting.
That's gay.
It's like, you're either a doomer or you're gay.
There's no in-between, apparently.
So this is on the gay side, according to my friend, who's not gay, by the way.
He's just making fun of me.
But in related news, this is interesting.
So you may recall that over a year ago, many top alternative media publishers, they donated to my AI project their full article set, for example.
So Dr. Joseph Mercola, for example, gave me the entire article set from Mercola.com.
And Sayer G gave me, I don't know, it was like 80,000 articles from GreenMedInfo.
And then Ty and Charlene Bollinger from The Truth About Cancer gave me all their transcripts of all the interviews they've ever done.
And so on.
Children's Health Defense let me spider their entire website.
The Alliance for Natural Health, same thing.
David Morgan of the Morgan Report said I could use all of his YouTube videos.
And I also gathered up a few other sources as well.
Plus, of course, natural news articles that we already had.
So these all got indexed and they became sources for the research that happens when the books are created at brightlearn.ai.
And as I promised each of these large publishers, like Dr. Mercola, I said that, you know, when I use your articles in the research, I will always make sure that you are credited.
And sure enough, as of right now, I actually ran a count with a database query that out of the 8,000 books that are now published at brightlearn.ai, mercola.com appears as a citation in 3,246 books, you know, by name, by mercola.com.
So by Dr. Mercola giving me his hundreds of thousands of articles, I mean, it was a massive data set.
Actually, it took a lot of compute to go through and normalize all that stuff.
And he sent me like 50,000 articles in Spanish, too.
It's very interesting.
In return for that, now he is cited, or his website specifically is cited as an expert in over 3,200 books right now.
And those books are getting spread all over the internet and copied and shared and everything.
And there are now about 700 books per day being generated.
So you could imagine probably Mercola.com is going to appear in at least 250 more books every day coming from our engine.
Green MedInfo with Sayer G appears in 1,236 books.
The Truth About Cancer with the Bollingers are cited in 761 books.
Children's Health Defense appears in 225 books, you know, as a reference in the citation section.
The Alliance for Natural Health is in 154 books.
And then the people that I've interviewed, so my interviews have appeared in 2,643 books, which is really interesting because then the people that are on my show can often be mentioned again and again and again in these books that are being created.
And by the way, the book author has the choice.
They can choose, they can click on or off of the interviews or articles or podcasts or books.
And pretty soon we're adding science papers.
So the author actually has the choice of whether to include these or not.
I'm just giving you the total aggregate number of citations.
So again, from my interviews, what did I say?
Yeah, 2,643 mentions of the various interviews that I have conducted.
So the reason I say all this is, well, number one, to show you that with our book creation engine, it's not just using, you know, like Chat GPT or just some LLM.
It's using a knowledge layer that is incorporated into the research of every subchapter.
And then the subchapter is written based on the research.
And that research is cited for the subchapter.
Okay, so I mean, this makes sense, but in order to do this, you have to actually collect millions of articles, essentially.
Yeah, it is millions.
And you have to clean all that up and then index it.
It's got to be clean, too, because you don't want to put like malformed or badly formatted article text into the engine because it'll show up like that in the books.
So you have to clean everything.
And on top of that, there are 10,000 books, like conventionally published books that are also used for research citations in the BrightLearn engine.
But anyway, the reason I mention this is because if any of you listening, if you are a publisher or a podcaster, if you are sitting on a large collection of article data or transcript data, from your own articles, your own website, your own interviews, your own podcast, whatever, if you want to be included, this is the opportunity to do that.
All you have to do is contact us.
The email is support at brightlearn.ai and just ask how you can include your content in our book research engine.
And I'll give you instructions on how to do that.
Very specific file naming protocol and file requirements and things like that.
It's actually, it's not complicated, but it will take effort to put it all together.
And then you send us all those files and I'll work them into the engine and get them all indexed.
And then they will start appearing in the books.
So think about that.
Pretty cool opportunity.
It's one of the new ways to amplify your message and your reach or your influence.
Because all of our books, by the way, everything published at Books.brightlearn.ai it's maximized to attract search engine crawlers and ai crawlers, and so we're already noticing lots of ai crawling traffic and so clearly these books are beginning to be incorporated into ai answers and search engine results as well.
So you know again, This is kind of, I don't know what you call it, like advanced content influence for the future.
It's about creating content that is friendly to AI engines because AI is going to be reading the internet more than humans in the coming years.
And, you know, I don't pretend that out of these 8,000 books, I don't think that there's millions of people reading even hundreds of the books.
You know, people are typically going to download and read a few here and there or save them and maybe have them as reference materials.
But you know who is going to read all these books?
The AI engines.
And they're going to use these books as knowledge for their own answers, their own research, or their own training.
So by creating a book with us at brightlearn.ai, you are actually influencing tomorrow's AI engines.
And this is especially true as we begin to auto-translate these books into Spanish and French and Chinese.
All the Chinese engines will start to pick up this book content once it's in Chinese or simplified Chinese.
And you're going to start to see a global impact on like the whole world is going to begin to open up with a lot of this information that has typically been censored by publishers or censored by book retailers, etc.
So that's the power of this.
And that's, see that, I just, I just gave you one of the big secrets of the internet in 2026 and beyond.
It's not even about publishing for humans so much.
It's about publishing for humans and for AI machines to read and crawl on purpose.
So that's why it's also a bad idea for websites that have, what are they called?
Paywalls.
Yeah, you know, when you have to pay to read the articles.
Like, I think Epoch Times does that.
And even though I respect the Epoch Times, by the way, but in 2026, that's a bad idea.
You don't want a paywall.
You want the search engines and the AI crawlers to be able to read your content so that that can be incorporated into their answers.
But anyway, this isn't about content marketing or AI marketing.
So I'll leave that for another day.
So anyway, how about this?
Let's play the gayest music video of the year so you can watch it now.
Again, it's called The Greatest Gift is Learning Free.
It's the new music video about Bright Learn.
Here we go.
Enjoy.
Nutrition and survival, living off the grid.
Open the door to knowledge once here.
No more gatekeepers standing in the way.
No more dollars, you just can't pay.
Bright learns here to lie the night.
Knowledge is a human right.
All I want to give you for Christmas is a gift of learning free.
Uncensored wisdom for the world now that I've opened both for you and me.
Your greatest idea can become a book.
Beautiful cover, just take a look.
Language spoken, every voice is heard.
Audiobooks bringing life to every word, Preparedness and medicine, economics too, The things you wanna learn.
We have
to hide from every Christmas.
Let the heart be that knowledge Finally run.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed that song Did you notice kind of me dressed up as Santa two minutes into that?
Yeah, my editor who put this together, he took my face and he did a face swap on a Santa Claus.
It kind of worked, but it's in there.
It's only in there for like a second.
I didn't ask for that.
He just did it.
So it's all good.
It's all good.
I'm making a cameo as Santa in the gayest music video of the year.
Whatever it takes, you know, to get the word out there.
Let people know about knowledge and freedom and other gay topics.
You know, that's just crazy.
It's okay.
Enough.
No, I'm this.
I'm serious about this being the gift to the world.
This is important stuff, you know, decentralized knowledge and information being available to everybody and sharing that information.
So, you know, I don't think that's a gay concept.
I think that's actually a civilizational concept.
And I think that makes me not just a builder, but a civilizationalist.
Have you heard that term before?
I think I'm a civilizationalist.
That's a long word.
But I think a civilizationalist is someone who helps build civilization, or at least the future of civilization, or maybe builds infrastructure for civilization.
So I'm just going to call myself that, the health ranger, the civilizationalist.
How about that?
Let's just hope we have a civilization remaining after the currency collapse that's coming.
Did you notice silver hit $72?
$72 and my goodness.
I mean, I'm watching silver just my jaw is dropping, not with happiness, but astonishment.
I mean, yeah, sure, I'm happy that silver is higher for those of us who have silver.
That's great.
But it's not like we're going to sell the silver, you know?
That would be crazy when the dollar is collapsing so fast.
So it's not like the number 72, it doesn't translate into anything unless you sell the silver.
And if you have a bunch of silver and you sell it, you're going to get dollars and you don't want dollars.
So it's kind of the number is kind of meaningless, actually.
I mean, you could sell it, but why would you unless you desperately need the money?
But here we are, 72.
And this number, I mean, you may recall, I'm recalling that we were at, well, $18 not too long ago, a couple years ago, when I was really strongly recommending silver.
And $18 to 72, that's a 400% increase.
Think about it, 400%.
So I am laughing at the people who told me a year ago that gold and silver were risky.
Actually, that's the gayest thing I've ever heard.
No, that's not even the right term for it.
That's not gay.
That's just stupid.
So those people are still sitting on dollars that are losing value rapidly when they could have been sitting on silver that's worth just in one year almost like 150% more.
And over three years or whatever, 400%.
And I think silver has still a long way to go.
Now, it doesn't mean there won't be some correction.
There probably will be.
I mean, I don't think it's going to stay in the 70s.
Frankly, but I've been wrong before.
I think it's going to drop back under 70, some kind of correction.
And then it'll consolidate.
People will pick it up.
And then it'll skyrocket to 80.
And then 90, you know, zigzagging along the way.
And then sometime next year, 2026, it's going to get to 100.
And then I think that in 2027, it could hit 200 is my current projection that I talked about yesterday.
If you missed that, well, you don't want to miss it.
Oh, hey, I forgot to tell you the interview I have coming up for you today.
It's a very special interview, and it's a brand new one.
And it's with Doug Casey, the international man.
Now, normally I wouldn't run an interview on Christmas Eve because not that many people are listening.
But I thought I would run this interview twice.
I'm going to run it today before Christmas, and then I'll run it again maybe a couple days after Christmas.
And this is a great interview.
What a great conversation with Doug Casey.
He's known as the international man.
He lives in Uruguay right now, or Uruguay, as we say in America.
He lives there on a farm and with cattle and the whole deal.
And we had a great conversation.
I mean, it was just outstanding.
So that's coming up today, and then again, after Christmas, because I'm not doing the normal interview schedule this week due to Christmas.
And then I've got one special report for you today called Mike Adams' Predictions for 2026 and Beyond, AI Replacements, Job Losses, Corporate Bankruptcies, and Radical Abundance.
See?
I included the gay part.
Yeah, the radical abundance.
2026 is going to be a wild ride in both directions.
It's sort of like whatever you're positioned for, either impoverishment or abundance, you're going to get more of it.
You know, 2026 is the year that everything gets dished out depending on how you have set up your life.
You know, even financially, for example, if you're just in dollars in the stock market, it's going to suck.
If you're in metals, it's going to be awesome.
But also in terms of just your activities or your career or your ability to pursue your mission.
If you don't use any AI at all, it's going to be a tough year.
But if you're leveraging some amount of AI for research or creating things, even creating PowerPoints or images or books like with our engine or music or whatever, then 2026 is going to be a year of incredible productivity and creativity, personal expression.
By using AI tools, your abilities to create are going to skyrocket in 2026 and beyond.
So it's going to be the best year and the worst year at the same time, depending on how you're situated.
I know it's a frustrating message because everybody wants to hear like one prediction.
No, it's going to be awesome for everyone.
No, it's not going to be awesome for everyone.
It's going to be awesome for a few people.
I mean, people like you who listen to this, who are well-informed and well-prepared.
It's going to be awesome.
For the masses who don't know what's happening or what's coming, it's going to suck.
So, yeah, you know, food inflation, you know, supply chain scarcity, skyrocketing prices of commodities are going to affect the prices of consumer goods and automobiles and everything.
It's going to be a wild ride.
So anyway, so that special report is coming up for you here shortly.
Let's see if I have anything else for you.
Oh, yeah.
This is interesting.
So, you know that the District of Columbia, which is some weird incorporated non-United States piece of land, they banned the AR-15 firearms and other popular firearms, like short shotguns and things like that.
And, you know, gun control has always been a big part of the District of Columbia.
Well, the DOJ now under Trump with Pam Bondi, they are suing.
They're suing the District of Columbia to overturn its ban on AR-15 firearms and other firearms that are, quote, protected under the Second Amendment.
The DOJ says that gun control in D.C. is, quote, an unconstitutional incursion into the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking to own protected firearms for lawful purposes.
Okay, and they're citing, of course, District of Columbia versus Heller, which was a huge precedent in the history of a Second Amendment law.
And also the Bruin case from 2022, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin.
Both of these decisions were decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on the side of the Second Amendment, you know, simply stated.
I mean, I'm simplifying it, but the Supreme Court has affirmed that firearms that are, quote, in common use today for lawful purposes cannot, you know, the state cannot, prohibit people from owning or or carrying those.
So, Bondy said, quote Washington, Dc's ban on some of America's most popular firearms is an unconstitutional infringement on the second amendment.
And let's see, of course there's, there's also a lot of gun bans in California, certain types of.
You know, you can't have a fully functioning Ar-15 rifle, which is infuriating, I suppose.
You can't have even a regular magazine.
You have to have a mag that's limited to, I think, 10 rounds and it can't be detachable or some nonsense like what no, um.
So this is actually really great news, because normally we see the DOJ pushing gun control, you know, under previous administrations obviously.
But this is a a very big deal for the DOJ to actually be supporting the second amendment, which of course I support.
And I mean I, I couldn't function without a second amendment, living in the country on a ranch, protecting animals and also protecting myself from villains and trolls and whatever else.
So yeah I, I need, you know, I need, a second amendment, but i'm in taxes.
Well, just because someone lives in Dc doesn't mean that their constitutional rights are stripped from them.
You know, because they live closer to the capital, they should have, you know, if anything, more constitutional rights.
They're closer to where the constitution?
Well I, I guess they're not closer to Philadelphia, but I mean they are closer to Philadelphia but they don't live in Philadelphia.
I'm just, i'm i'm trying to sort out the historical reference here.
Nevertheless, they're closer to the seat of power that's supposed to interpret the constitution.
Let me say it that way, it's like all you East Coast people are gonna give me a bunch of flack about history.
No, I know, it was Philadelphia, I know that's why I said it, but anyway, i'm just digging a hole deeper for myself on that one.
Um anyway we, we all have second amendment rights, and those are rights that are granted by god and our creator right, not rights granted by government, and so government has no authority to take away those rights, and that's why all gun control laws are not only unconstitutional but all around the world, in my opinion, all gun control laws are anti-human rights and they oppose god's creation and god's fundamental dignity,
because every human being has the god given right to defend themselves against violent aggressors.
And the only way to do that, given that the the state is incapable is to have your own firearms for personal self-defense, and that includes a R-15s and also, I should mention, that includes short-barreled Ar-15s or Ar pistols, etc.
So and you notice that in Australia, every time that people start talking about gun rights again, you know they engineer another mass shooting and then call for more gun confiscation, right like clockwork in Australia Unbelievable.
Or New Zealand, you know they they stage anything they need to stage to push their narrative and take away people's guns because they don't have a second amendment in Australia, and boy do they need one there.
And New Zealand and all of the EU and the UK, et cetera.
That's why they all hate America so much.
I mean, the governments do, because we have a Second Amendment, which means we get to own 50 caliber BMG Barrett semi-auto rifles.
It's just that they're scary to shoot a little bit.
And that's why I have one and I don't even use it.
You really need to shoot them in a prone position because there's quite a bit of recoil.
And so you want to be prone, you know, laying on the ground with this thing so that your entire body, the entire linear length of your body is absorbing the shock.
And when you pull the trigger, it's not really that the recoil hits you hard.
That's not at all the worst part of it.
By far, the worst part is what comes out of the barrel to the sides and down.
And it's kind of like a frag grenade goes off like a meter and a half in front of you.
It's like somebody throws a grenade in your face every time you pull the trigger.
It's like, and all this dust comes up.
And, you know, it's a big explosion when you're firing a 660 grain, massive 50 caliber bullet.
And the 50 caliber, by the way, refers to 0.5 inches, which is the diameter of the bullet.
So that's what 50 caliber means, in case you're wondering.
It's just half an inch in diameter, which doesn't sound like much, but it's long.
It's a long, you know, it's half an inch diameter and several inches long.
Again, I hate the Imperial system.
Everybody should just use millimeters as far as I'm concerned.
That's why 9mm is so much easier to understand.
Well, how big is it?
It's 9mm.
That's why it's called 9mm.
Oh, I get it now.
So you mean to say when you say something is 9mm, that that means it's 9mm?
Yes.
Versus, you know, Imperial around 308.
What is that?
What is the 308?
Oh, well, it's 0.300 inches, actually.
But what about the 8?
Where did the 8 come in?
Well, that's to make sure nobody confuses it with the 0.300, like the 300 blackout.
So we add an 8.
Well, but it's not really.
Nope.
What?
You know, don't even get me started on ballistics and bullet calibers and stuff.
Anyway, how did I get off on this topic?
Back to DC and the DOJ.
So apparently, if the DOJ gets its way, you could tote around a .50 caliber BMG in the District of Columbia, which I think would be awesome.
People should just walk around with those.
What are you doing, sir?
Just exercising my Second Amendment right to walk around lugging this 35-pound rifle.
I'm only going to walk 100 yards and then I'm done because it's heavy and it's awkward.
No one's going to march around for very long with that rifle.
Trust me.
They're going to say, do you have something smaller?
Do you have maybe a 9mm?
That's easy to carry.
It's like, I want to show my support for the Second Amendment, but not that much.
I'm not trying to burden myself.
I'm not trying to be a pack mule for steel here.
Not my goal.
Be ready.
If you're going to go on a long march for demonstrating the Second Amendment, get yourself a small rifle.
Because you're not out there to use it anyway.
Just get a lightweight rifle or a mock-up.
Nobody's going to know.
Don't even have a real rifle.
How hilarious would that be?
Hey, don't forget the Russians beat the Germans in World War II with broomsticks painted as rifles in the Battle of Stalingrad.
That would pin down German troops as they were trying to attack across the river.
And they would see in a distance, they would see people that looked like they had rifles in the buildings, but they were broomsticks painted black.
So you could march around with black broomsticks.
What are you doing?
I'm demonstrating my Second Amendment rights.
With the broomstick?
Well, obviously you don't know your history.
Okay, okay.
Okay.
Sorry.
I'm getting way too carried away.
Sorry about that.
This is a 50-caliber broomstick.
No, no, no.
It's a 100-caliber broomstick because it's a whole inch.
It's a 100-caliber broomstick.
That's probably not even legal in California, you know?
No 100-caliber broomsticks are allowed.
It's considered an act of terrorism to have a broomstick painted black, you know.
Okay, where were we?
Oh, yeah.
I should just play the special report here and the interview before I get too carried away here.
But I do want to say Merry Christmas.
And I want to say I'm working on that feature.
Like I said, the personal digital library for Bright Learn.
Should have that for you very soon.
Thank you for your patience.
And enjoy the rest of the show here.
Oh, yeah.
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And finally, one more thing, if you subscribe to the Naturalnews.com email newsletter, we will be emailing you a free book token after christmas.
I think it's going to be a couple days after christmas because it's a big list okay, so there's like hundreds of thousands of book tokens are going to go out there All at once.
That should be interesting.
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Predictions for 2026.
Of course, the prediction business is a dangerous business.
And my prediction track record is that I'm typically right about the trends and I'm wrong about the timing.
I tend to predict things happening more quickly than they actually do.
So keep that in mind as I talk about what I think is going to happen in 2026.
Maybe it'll take more than one year to happen, but it's actually, I think, more instructive to talk about trends.
In which direction are things really moving?
Even though we can't tell the timing, we do know the vectors.
And so the biggest trend of 2026, in my opinion, is going to be AI.
Well, AI replacing many humans and AI also creating a lot of new opportunities, a lot of new tools, a lot of, well, a whole new economy in many ways.
AI is clearly going to be, in my view, the biggest story of 2026.
Now, that won't be true if there's World War III or something, or if there's a nuclear accident or an event or an attack or something, then maybe that would be the biggest story.
But barring some huge catastrophic event like that, or aliens showing up or fake aliens, cosmic false flag where they fake like the aliens have appeared.
That would be the biggest story of the year.
But other than that, it's going to be AI.
And there's a very good reason for that.
It's because, see, the growth of AI capabilities is an exponential phenomenon.
And the human mind is not really wired to understand exponential events.
We're wired in more of a linear fashion.
And so people underestimate how dramatically AI technology is going to change things in 2026.
In a similar fashion, they also underestimate how the cost of AI tokens is going to drop dramatically while the capabilities of AI are going to increase dramatically.
So we could see just the cost of tokens could easily plummet by one order of magnitude, you know, 10x in 2026.
And it could be a lot more than that.
It could be 20x or 30x.
The capabilities are going to increase dramatically.
And China is going to continue to release a lot of open source AI models that are increasingly very capable.
You know, in addition to Meestral out of France, their models are also very good, notable.
I use their models for a lot of things as well.
But in the U.S., they're not releasing open source models much anymore.
Maybe there are a few smaller companies that are doing so, but the Giants aren't releasing AI models in the US.
So the biggest new model releases are going to come out of China and France.
And China is playing a very interesting strategic game right now where they are trying to become the global standard for AI models by building amazing models like Quinn and DeepSeek, et cetera, releasing them for free so that people don't pay ChatGPT or OpenAI or Google or Microsoft for their models.
Now, and by the way, I'm not putting down the capabilities of models like Gemini.
You know, Google's models are excellent, actually.
You know, Google, as much as I don't like the ethics of the company, Google does have highly capable engineers who are themselves building really, I mean, impressive models.
That's the only way to say it.
They're really impressive.
And based on the current rate of advancement, 2026 is going to blow people's minds.
I mean, I've even seen a lot of astonishment with people when I tell them about the book AI engine that I built.
So my book creation engine, it's at brightlearn.ai.
And in minutes, it creates a book for you on any topic.
It does everything, the cover art, the research, the writing, editing, the citations, referencing, the fact-checking, and then the PDF packaging and sends you the book.
And it happens usually in a few minutes.
Sometimes it's a few hours, depending on the load.
People are astonished at that.
And I mean, I'm not, I don't blame them for being astonished because six months ago, that wasn't possible.
Well, imagine what's going to be possible six months from now.
You see, like just the engine that I built alone, because I'm the only human engineer on the entire project, that engine is clearly disrupting the book publishing industry.
You know, it's called a disruptive technology.
It just changes the game completely.
And we have 5,000 books published there now, by the way.
5,000 books from over 1,500 authors, and that number keeps increasing.
Well, imagine what the world is going to look like when that kind of efficiency and innovation is seen everywhere across every industry, across healthcare, across education, government, private corporations, technology, you name it.
Imagine what that's going to mean.
Well, you're going to begin to really see that in 2026.
So as a result, you're going to see greatly improved efficiencies, accuracies, results in areas like customer service.
You're actually going to have better interfacing with any kind of a healthcare system that incorporates this technology.
But at the same time, you're going to see millions of workers lose their current jobs.
The displacement will be unprecedented.
This will cause short-term economic chaos.
It will cause a lot of desperation among those people who are displaced, a lot of fear and panic.
And eventually, probably demands for a UBI, universal basic income.
And I'm guessing there will be a UBI, which is really sort of an elaborate form of unemployment, let's say.
If you've been displaced by AI, you will probably be able to collect some amount of money from the federal government.
And so maybe it's not a universal basic income.
They might not give the money to everybody, but it will be AI displacement unemployment benefits from the federal government.
And I'm sure that that's going to happen because the displacement numbers are about to get massive.
And many of those workers cannot be easily rehired in other jobs because a lot of those jobs just will never exist again.
They will be permanently replaced by AI.
So this is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The good thing is, again, radical abundance, easy access to digital cognition and all the things that result from that, like being able to create books at brightlearn.ai, right?
But then the displacement and the disruption of economic chaos and the fear, apprehension among the working class, that's going to be a very real thing.
So that's the biggest trend, in my view, barring something, some war or something.
What goes along with this is the second trend, which is a wave of corporate bankruptcies.
You're going to see a large number of corporations going out of business in 2026.
And there are a couple of reasons for that.
One will be those who refuse to innovate and who are left behind because they don't incorporate AI.
And so they will just be out-competed by other companies that do use AI.
But the second reason is at the retail level, because of the job losses and job displacements, you're going to see a sharp reduction in the discretionary spending of consumers because of loss of income.
And even though there will be some kind of a UBI, like I said, it's not going to be enough to both live on and to make a lot of purchases of things that you want, like extra luxury goods or vacations or whatever.
So you're going to see a continued drop in discretionary spending by consumers.
This will lead to more retailers going out of business.
And as a result, then you're going to see more retail space becoming available, which means more abandoned retail buildings, which is already a huge problem in many cities.
And what goes along with that is more bankruptcies of commercial lenders or commercial banks that are on the hook for those commercial properties.
So these are some of the domino effects that you're going to see in 2026.
Again, this is a huge disruption of the status quo.
The economy is going to have to be reformatted in a sense or recalibrated to the new reality where machine cognition is widespread and cheap, widely available, and very inexpensive.
And think about that in this context where I just read a shocking news survey from a university that says that 54% of the adult population in the United States is functionally illiterate, that they can't read and comprehend information at even, what was it, a sixth grade level, I think?
It was either sixth or seventh grade.
Well, that's shocking, but it shows you how quickly AI will replace many, many people.
Because, you see, AI doesn't have to be that brilliant to replace a population that's half illiterate.
And I don't mean to sound arrogant or demeaning by saying that.
I'm just stating that factually.
If half your population can't read and write, which is the case in America, and then a machine could come along that can very competently and very affordably read and write and read emails and write emails and answer emails and answer customer service and so on.
Well, you know, of course the half illiterate workers are going to be replaced because it's not like they're geniuses that can't be replaced by machines.
You know, the machines are going to replace the illiterate half very quickly.
Now, some of those people will be in labor jobs, obviously, where they don't need reading and writing skills, or maybe most of them are in labor jobs.
And it will take a few more years before those labor jobs are replaced by automation via AI robots.
So their jobs might actually be safe for a while.
But if any of those people are in areas like customer service or any cognitive jobs, you know, jobs you can do behind a computer with a keyboard and a mouse, those are going to be very rapidly replaced in 2026 and beyond.
Just have no illusions.
That's exactly what's going to happen.
So the bankruptcies will be widespread.
And the real question in my mind is how fragile is the financial system?
Can it withstand the wave of bankruptcies and failures of lending institutions or financial institutions, etc.?
How much can it handle before the whole system breaks down?
And I don't know the answer to that.
And I'm not predicting a total collapse, Mad Max scenario for 2026, but I do know that the dollar eventually dies.
Now, maybe that doesn't happen in 26.
Maybe that happens in 2030.
Who knows?
But I see the signs.
You do too, obviously, because they're inescapable.
And this system can't last much longer, which brings me to another trend in 2026, which will be massive currency printing and accelerated dollar devaluation.
Yes, groceries are going to get even more expensive in 2026.
The real world inflation rates will accelerate in things like groceries, but there will be deflation of prices in things that can be handled by AI.
So for example, our book engine, right?
What's the price of a really great book?
It's zero.
So talk about deflation.
We've taken the cost of books to zero.
So that's something you don't have to spend money on anymore.
You can create all the books you want for free.
Well, but you can't create all the food you want for free because AI doesn't make food, right?
So food is going to get more expensive, but digital books will become less expensive.
Energy.
Right now, oil is very cheap, shockingly cheap.
And it's hard for me to say where oil is going to go in 2026 and beyond because I'm not an oil industry expert.
But I would imagine there are two competing forces.
One is going to be the risk of war in the Middle East.
Any kind of escalations there would tend to make oil prices go higher, obviously.
But then there's the decreased demand of oil because of economic downturn factors across America and Western Europe, etc.
So with fewer people buying things, you know, transportation is a big part of commerce, obviously, even online commerce, Amazon, et cetera.
They have to get it to you using combustion engines, typically.
So with purchasing going down, you're going to have transportation falling and that will reduce demand for oil.
So my overall guess, this is just a guess.
Again, I'm not an expert on energy or oil in particular, but my guess is that oil could actually stay about where it is right now unless we have conflict in the Middle East.
Or it could even go down, but I don't think there's a lot of downside room for the price of oil, but it's possible.
So I'm not expecting a massive spike in oil prices.
I am expecting a high increase in electricity prices, especially for those on the eastern power grid in the United States, which is the 13 states, including Virginia and Tennessee, etc., New Jersey, you name.
These are the states that host most of the data centers, especially in the Virginia area for the government.
Well, that power grid, the entire Eastern power grid is already at maximum capacity.
And yet, They're still trying to build more data centers and bring them online.
That's going to cause power scarcity.
And in the short run, it's causing, well, price increases for kilowatt hours.
And so those people in the 13 states are going to find themselves paying extremely high electricity rates, much higher than what they may have imagined before, like 35 cents a kilowatt hour, 45 cents, 50 cents.
You know, these kinds of prices are going to be commonplace among those states.
Whereas in China, what are they paying?
You know, 10 cents?
I don't know.
It's much, much lower.
The Texas power grid, which is its own power grid, is a lot more affordable than the Eastern Power Grid right now.
But with all the data centers coming online in Texas, Texas is also going to suffer increasing energy scarcity.
And this could be a factor on very cold days or very hot days, you know, because of energy usage for cooling and heating.
The Western power grid has the most spare capacity at the moment, I believe.
But there's not nearly as much infrastructure investment going into the Western grid because everybody's fleeing California or Seattle for that matter.
Why?
Well, because everybody in the business world realizes that blue cities or blue states run by Democrats are all basically on a suicide mission because Democrats do not understand economics or business or energy or reality.
It's financial suicide to keep your company in California.
Why do you think Elon Musk moved out of California?
Now, I understand he still has offices there, but probably over time, those will be shut down as well.
It's suicide to try to conduct business in California or in Portland, Oregon, or Seattle, Washington, etc.
And even these days, Denver, Colorado, or Albuquerque, New Mexico, right?
These are suicide cities because of Democrat policies.
And so as more and more businesses and wealthy residents flee those areas, you're going to see a drop in investment.
I mean, it's already happened.
There's just no real new infrastructure being built, not at scale, to try to build out, for example, data center infrastructure in California.
No, it's not happening.
The future of data centers is not in California.
It's in Texas.
Yeah, or it's in orbit, you could say.
They will have data centers in orbit for a lot of reasons that make a lot of good sense.
Free solar energy in orbit and easy to dissipate heat using radiant heat dissipation, etc.
But California, no way.
Nobody's going to invest in California because it's a train wreck of corruption and waste and fraud and abuse and lawlessness, etc.
So the other trend is the rapid decline of blue cities.
I mean, basically any blue city is going to see an accelerated decline.
And that's going to lead to the trend of states having to vastly increase their spending on social welfare programs, which is going to bankrupt the blue states even more quickly than what's already happening.
And ultimately, those blue states will be begging for federal bailouts of state debt.
And if that happens, and it probably will happen, even under Trump, it probably will happen because the cost of not doing it is so high politically.
And yet the cost of bailing them out is just printing more trillions of dollars, which the government's going to do anyway.
So yes, I'm thinking that a lot of these cities like LA that has an insane budget, paying a lot of pensions and retirement benefits and medical and healthcare benefits to former government workers or current workers, those cities are going to go bankrupt and they're going to have federal bailouts.
So the government at the federal level through the Treasury and the Fed is going to print trillions of dollars to bail out blue cities and states to keep the pensions rolling for those people so that those people still have enough money to buy stuff in the economy to create the illusion of abundance, but it's just another form of a UBI.
You see?
In fact, here's another trend.
The Trump administration will be working on finding lots of different ways to print and disperse money throughout the economy to stimulate, stimulate, stimulate until it's too late.
You know, stimulate until the end, and then it's over.
That's going to happen.
And that's going to be cranked up in a huge way.
I mean, you're going to see tax refunds.
You're going to see the tariff dividends.
You're going to see, you know, bailouts, like I said.
You're going to see UBIs or something resembling UBIs.
And all of this is going to happen as there's a shift into CBDCs, which is the technocratic surveillance state.
That's the other major trend that will really ramp up in 2026 is efforts to get everybody into a digital system.
Now, this will take several years.
So this is really more like 2026 through 2030.
But by the year 2030, if the dollar still exists, you won't be using bank wires to send money.
You won't be mailing checks to anybody.
You won't even be using ACH.
You'll be using the government-approved stablecoin to transfer money rapidly at very low cost.
And I don't know what stablecoin that's going to be, but it's one of those created by the Genius Act or enabled by it.
And it'll be, you know, something that will probably benefit the Trump family and JPMorgan alike.
And it'll be a stablecoin.
And you'll be able to move money around like that, but it's all going to be surveilled.
Total KYC, total AML.
That's anti-money laundering, in case you're wondering.
KYC is know your customer.
So these are all surveillance technologies.
And so yes, the rise of technocracy will accelerate in 2026.
And it will become much more difficult to function off grid.
In fact, you know, I still use cash everywhere I go.
If I buy groceries, I pay cash.
If I buy gas, I pay cash.
I pay cash everywhere because it's private.
But it will probably become more and more difficult to pay with cash as the electronic digital systems come online.
And that's their goal, is to surveil everybody, control you and limit you, to block you from being able to use your money or to automatically fine you or tax you or seize your funds electronically just by blocking your wallet address.
That's coming.
And that also underscores the importance of gold and silver and private crypto like Monero or Xano or others to be able to bypass the government's systems of control and surveillance.
I'm an advocate of private crypto, but not really Bitcoin, which is surveillance crypto, and certainly not the government's CBDC system, which is big brother surveillance crypto.
So anyway, all these trends are going to accelerate in 2026 and beyond.
So this is what I think is coming.
Some of it, anyway.
It's going to be a very interesting year.
There will be a lot of people living in despair and a lot of people experiencing abundance.
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Authorities and high government officials, those kind of people, especially people that work for the government, are the last people you should listen to.
They're actually not the worst kind of people who go to work for the government.
They're not entrepreneurs.
They're not risking their own money.
They're extremely overpaid.
And they're the kind of people that like to boss around other people, which makes them dangerous.
Right.
And you give them a little bit of power and they want more.
Okay, welcome to today's interview here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And it's extraordinary that as I'm recording this, and our special guest today is a legend in the area of metals and also sovereignty and so much more.
But silver has passed $71 per Troy ounce today in Western markets.
So something is happening.
And I can't think of a better person to help explain what's happening and also the major changes coming for our world than Doug Casey himself, the international man as he's known.
And his website is internationalman.com.
And Doug Casey is just an extraordinary individual, a brilliant analyst and thinker.
And I'm honored to have him on the show today.
Welcome, Doug.
It's great to have you here.
Thanks, Mike.
Flattered and it's a pleasure to be here.
Well, although for me right now, Kier is on the farm in Uruguay.
What's on the farm?
I'm on the farm.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, great.
Well, I love it.
And I mean, before I came here, I left my ranch.
And from the waist down, I'm still wearing ranch pants from this morning.
So, you know, you know how it is.
We live in both worlds.
Yeah, we do.
Actually, I could technically call this a ranch too, because we have about 150 cows.
But in Uruguay, you don't call them ranches.
You call them farms.
Oh.
Well, that sounds perfect, actually.
I love the fact that you're right there where the food is produced and you know so much about self-reliance.
But let's start with the opening topic, which is silver, something you've been advocating for for a very long time.
What do you think is happening in the global silver supply chain marketplace that's leading us to the $71 and still climbing?
Well, to put it in context, almost all the commodities are very cheap right now.
Starting a couple of years ago, some of them started perking up.
Cocoa went from $2,000 a ton to $8,000 or $10,000 a ton.
Coffee went from $1 to $3,000 or $4.
There were a few things like that.
But right now, relative to almost everything else, commodities are still, even after having made a fair recent run, are still close to their all-time lows.
So that's the context that we're looking at for silver.
And when we talk about silver, it has broken into a new all-time high, because twice before, silver hit $50 an ounce and then backed off a lot, like 90% both times.
But if silver were to go back to its previous all-time high in real terms, not just dollar terms, but because the dollar is always losing value, the dollar is a burning match.
Silver would have to go back to $200 an ounce, would have to go $200 an ounce to actually reach its real previous all-time high.
So let me put it this way.
We're in the context of a major commodities bull market.
Silver is still way below its previous high in real terms.
And the world situation is extremely dangerous and volatile today.
It all adds up to me to being much higher silver prices and actually much higher gold prices and copper prices and everything.
That's a really grain prices, you name it.
Very important point because governments can print fiat currency, but they can't print the table of elements, it turns out.
And I want to distinguish this for our audience because you mentioned two previous times that silver hit $50, for example.
One of those famously was the 1980 Hunt Brothers attempt to corner the market.
But that was purely a single party attempting to buy up all the physical silver and to try to break the Comex.
But then they, of course, they changed the rules and broke the Hunt Brothers.
But this is totally different from that because now we're talking about unprecedented industrial demand from everything from solar panels to AI data centers to telecom weapons.
And then now this new Samsung battery technology, the silver cathode anode that's going to go online into production in 2027, which will need tens of millions of ounces of silver every year that do not exist as excess in the system right now.
So isn't that true that the industrial drivers right now are unprecedented?
Yeah, it is true.
And looking at some supply and demand statistics, it said that about there's about 850 million ounces of silver that are produced every year.
But for the last several years, there's been a significant deficit of new production over use.
And right now, about 300 million ounces are being taken out of inventory every year for silver.
So that's probably the current driver.
The last several years has been a deficit in supply-demand production.
And right now, it's very significant.
And talking about silver, I've always been a big fan of silver.
As one of the 92 naturally occurring elements, it has some unique properties.
And one of them is that it's the most electrically conductive of all the elements.
And it's the most optically reflective of all of the elements.
So this makes it unique in a high-tech world.
It's also true.
I mean, that's a critical point, which is that it's not, it can't be easily substituted by some other mineral or metal.
But I mean, that's critical because, and as our audience knows, the vast majority of silver production right now is a byproduct of other types of mining, you know, lead or iron or nickel or whatever.
And then they get silver as a result, or even gold mining, they get silver as a result in some cases.
And it's gold, copper, and lead and zinc.
Okay, great.
So I saw that Samsung did a deal to reopen this mine in Mexico called La Parilla.
And this mine had been closed for many years.
And Samsung is going to get 100% of the mine's output to funnel into their battery production beginning in 2027.
But they're going to open the mine, I think, in 26 next year and start stockpiling that silver for their battery production.
Isn't that interesting that you're now seeing industry go directly to the mines to get silver?
Yeah, I think it is, actually.
But it's nothing new.
Henry Ford did that with rubber in Brazil back in the early days of the car and so forth.
It's kind of like farm to table when it comes to food, doing the same thing with metallic elements.
So it's predictable, but especially in the kind of world we live in today where the supply chains from one country to another are less certain than they were even a few years ago.
So that if you want to keep your business going, it's probably wise to make sure that you have all the elements that you need along the way and not have to rely on the broad market.
Right, right.
And especially in this age where you have, and I'm going to take this into the political realm a little bit, you have the Trump administration emotionally slapping tariffs all over the place where domestic businesses can't plan, they can't get supplies, it's very difficult.
Even for our company, just trying to get turmeric from India is now a lot more expensive.
It seems like, well, I'd like your comments on the fact that sort of the world is becoming more isolationist, especially the West, and cutting off many of the supply chains that actually feed consumers and industrial processes in Western countries.
And this is going to be a problem, I think.
But what are your thoughts?
Well, you're absolutely correct.
When a government makes an enemy of another government, it's the little people that live in these countries that are the ones that get hurt, that actually need things that cross.
Look, this whole thing you mentioned earlier, Trump and his tariffs, which are economically completely idiotic.
And it's been said correctly that it was the tariffs that were placed on the economy by Herbert Hoover that set off the Great Depression, that made it much, much worse.
And the thing to remember is that there was much less trade internationally in the late 20s and the 30s than there is now, vastly less.
There was very little ship by air.
It wasn't in any way comparable the amount of trade in those days to what we have today.
So we've gone from a place where because the Guatemalans can make bananas much cheaper than people in Detroit can, that's pretty obvious, and people in Detroit can make Chevrolets much cheaper than Guatemalans can, it makes sense to let them trade with each other.
But if they both put 100% tariff on both of their products, there's not going to be any cars in Guatemala and there's not going to be any bananas in Detroit.
Now, I give you that analogy because that's the way it works for every product to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the dynamics of the market and depending on the amount of tariffs that are placed on.
But what Trump has done, thinking, you know, it's funny when, and I don't want to venture into politics because that's A, pointless, and B, it gets people hot under the collar.
But I was so happy when Harris and that moron that she ran with, whatever his name was, lost because they were actually communists, I mean, as far as their views.
So I was happy that Trump would win and some of the things that he wanted to do.
But way back in 2012, I wrote an article explaining Trump when I said that he has no philosophical center.
He has no core beliefs, nor does he have any understanding of economics, despite the fact that he can be shrewd and he's been good at borrowing and manipulating debt and all that as a businessman.
But I'm afraid that Donald has gotten out of control.
He's turned into a megalomaniac, a narcissist, and is taking all kinds of powers onto himself that some of these things I approve of.
We can talk about that.
That's arbitrary.
I approve, I disapprove, who cares?
But speaking as an economist, he's trying to transform himself, it seems, into a new Roman emperor.
And maybe he thinks he's doing that, and maybe he is, in order to save the country, which is clearly on the slippery slope anyway.
That's also true.
Well, let's delve into this effort to save the country a little bit more because We are dealing with a population in America now because of the failed education system, which you have also rightly criticized for many years.
We're dealing with a population where now, and I'm reading the statistics from National University here.
You can show my screen.
About 130 million U.S. adults, that's 54% of U.S. adults, read below a sixth grade level.
Okay.
I mean, one out of every two U.S. adults roughly is illiterate, functionally illiterate.
Now, I mean, which by itself is just shocking.
I mean, those are third world country statistics.
But when Trump says, and I love the fact that he wants, he's trying to be optimistic about reforming America, et cetera.
But when Trump says, oh, we're going to reindustrialize America, we're going to build the factories here and re-engage all the workers.
My question is, how do workers work in factories if they can't read?
Number one.
You know, I mean, it seems like you can't just plug factories back into this situation.
What's your take?
Well, yeah, I'm afraid that Donald is very naive at that.
It's not just the point that you just made, but there have got to be some changes made from the bottom up.
In other words, government is basically at cause for the exit of industry from the U.S. There's been way, way too much regulation in the U.S. People want to get away from that.
Taxes are way too high.
Those are the two big things.
And of course, the unions in the U.S. have always worked hand in glove with the government and have made things much higher than they should be, to the benefit of union members, but to the disadvantage of everybody who can't get into a union and also to the public at whole.
So that's why industry has left the U.S. over the last at least 50 years.
The way to get it back into the U.S. is to change those things, totally deregulate, radically reduce taxes, and make the country more stable so that you're not subject to the arbitrary whim of a bureaucrat or a president as far as what's going to happen.
Look, in the mining business, where I've been actively involved for many years, it can take decades from the time that you find a deposit of a valuable mineral in the U.S., decades to get approvals and permits and everything that you need before you can even start breaking ground for a new mine.
And then if you do that after investing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, that's when your trouble has really started here in the U.S.
I mean, that's when the NGOs will attack you and the native groups will attack you and the Greens are going to attack you and the local government will look at you as being a milk cow.
So of course there's industry has exited the U.S.
Yeah, and it's interesting because some of those groups you just mentioned, they will push out really contradictory messages like we should all be driving EVs and we need better range for the EVs.
Well, that means you're going to need these silver-based batteries, which means you're going to need to mine silver.
But then those same people say, well, we shouldn't do any mining, though.
So what do you want?
Magical cars?
You want, how about just a magic flying carpet?
How about that?
Because that's more likely than your magical cars.
You know, they're not rational.
And I've noticed that in your own podcast, the number one thing that you do that infuriates people is to exercise rationality.
Well, yeah, we don't all know everything about every subject.
But what we can do is take a critical thinking approach to things and ask questions and demand logical answers as to why things are the way they are.
That's how you educate yourself, quite frankly.
I don't think people do that so much anymore.
They assume that authorities, and I put that in question quotations, yes, authorities and high government officials and people with degrees know what's best for them.
Actually, those kind of people, especially people that work for the government, are the last people you should listen to.
You know, they've tried to say that the government has the best and brightest people working for it, but that's not true.
It's not true.
They actually are the worst kind of people that go to work for the government.
They're not entrepreneurs.
They're not risking their own money.
They're extremely overpaid.
And they're the kind of people that like to boss around other people, which makes them dangerous.
And you give them a little bit of power and they want more.
So actually, there are a lot of things in the American culture that are going to have to be reformed before America returns to what it was, a good place to do business, which it's really not anymore.
There's 200 other countries in the world, and a lot of them have more educated populace with better habits and less restrictions on trying to create more wealth.
So this is why the standard of living in the U.S., even by official counters of standard of living, have been dropping for years.
By some, there are several organizations that do surveys of what the standard of living of the average guy in these various countries are.
And the U.S. has fallen from being number one or two always in the past.
Now we're four, five, ten, as well as 12 on some of these surveys.
And we're dropping at this point as the dollar loses value, which is really one of the very biggest things, which I haven't even mentioned so far.
I mean, well, and I also want to take us back to the education component here very quickly and what a failure that's been and the ramifications for our country, because you and your co-host, Matt Smith, you have created a very popular book called The Preparation.
And I love this book.
Can you hold it up?
Yes.
Perfect.
Like any good author hand here.
There we go.
The preparation.
The book is all about is, look, everybody knows that college has become beastly expensive.
It's unaffordable.
This is why if you want to go to college, you've got to borrow tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it.
That didn't used to be that way, and it's wrong.
But it's worse than that because It's not just taking on an albatross that you'll wear around your neck for years or decades into the future to pay it off, but college is a negative value.
That's a really critical point, and you're right about that.
Please.
Colleges have been captured by the radical left, have been captured by Marxists, statists, collectivists, all of the professors there.
And I speak as somebody who was at one point a trustee of a college.
I was a trustee of the 10th oldest college in the country for five years, actually.
So I'm speaking firsthand.
But you're going to learn very little of value in college, nothing that's of any use when you get out of college, unless you take a STEM degree, science, technology, engineering, math.
Let's put that in a separate bucket.
But that's only like 10 or 15% of the people that go to college today.
And most of the people that get those degrees, or I don't know what the exact percentage is, but a large number of them are students from foreign countries that are coming to do the lab work and the science and technology.
Our students are taking things like sociology and politics and gender studies and psychology, things that are actually of negative value that clutter their minds up.
So what we did in this book is, first of all, explain to kids, especially young men, because it's the young men that are most in trouble at this point, why they should not misallocate four years of time and a bunch of money going to college, how they can get a better education in the classical sense, all the things that you should learn in college without going to college.
Explain that, but also what you should do in that four-year period of time.
We've divided it up into 16 quarters, and we call them cycles.
And in each quarter, you will learn a practical skill in a serious way.
For instance, one quarter, you might learn to be a welder.
And we show you where to go to the school and so forth.
Another quarter, you might learn to be how to build a house from the foundation on up.
Another quarter, you might learn how to sail a ship.
Like my co-author's son, Maxim, spent several weeks sailing from the Falkland Islands to Chile around Cape Horn and becoming a competent sailor.
Wow.
Another thing that you learn to do is defend yourself.
And actually, next week, he's going off to Thailand for three months to learn to become a competent Muay Thai fighter.
The idea is that, and this goes to business too.
Several quarters are, in effect, better than getting an MBA degree.
So following the instructions and doing the things we tell you in this book, where you do it, how much it costs and so forth, you'll actually have the equivalent of a law degree, an MBA, a science degree, a humanities degree, plus lots and lots of practical skills, like I've just mentioned.
It can be done.
So you get out of college and you won't just be indebted and fat, drunk, and stupid, which most college kids are.
And totally indoctrinated.
Exactly.
But the idea is you should be able to transform yourself into a Renaissance man, able to do anything and go anywhere.
Well said.
That's what the book's all about.
All right, let me plug the book again.
It's called The Preparation.
Here it is on Amazon.
And it's at other booksellers as well.
There's also an audio book available now.
It's called The Preparation, How to Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous.
And that's Doug Casey and Matt Smith, who we also interviewed with his son on this topic.
And that was a very popular interview as well.
You can check that out.
Doug, I want to mention something else that has also happened that is relevant to what you just said, where a university education is now essentially obsolete.
So in the last month, we launched this website called brightlearn.ai and where anybody can instantly create any textbook or how-to book on any topic they want completely free of charge.
And we've had 7,700 books published.
Oh, that's marvelous.
Yeah, and they're all free.
They're all free to download.
And we're generating audio books starting next month.
Those will also be free.
And then Spanish translations are coming next, also free.
So what I'm saying to young men or young people is anything you want to learn now, all you have to do is make a decision to learn it.
You can create a book or you can use the book.
You mentioned the preparation.
You can find an apprenticeship somewhere.
You can learn a skill.
You can get a four-year degree in less than one year by focusing on learning and not wasting time with all the indoctrination.
And then you can become a real person, not a fake shadow of a person, which is what's coming out of our universities.
You know what I'm saying?
That's right.
And it's not just helping yourself, which is critical, but Western civilization itself is in trouble and is on the slippery slope at this point.
And charity begins at home.
And if you like the good things that Western civilization has brought to the world, and frankly, that's to say almost everything that's good in the world has come from the West, which runs totally counter to the propaganda that we're fed in the media and in colleges and so forth.
By transforming yourself and becoming rich and competent yourself, you'll help hopefully turn around the slip slide of our own civilization.
Yes, yes.
And I love the fact that you have been consistently teaching these principles for decades.
And I want to bring attention to your website, internationalman.com.
Can you walk people through also the other things that you offer there at your site?
Well, I call it internationalman.com because I've traveled to, I'm not sure, over 155, probably over 160 different countries in the world.
I've lived in 12 different countries.
Right now, I'm speaking to you from my farm in Uruguay, like I said.
So part of what the internationalman.com is about is making the world your oyster.
You don't want to act like a potted plant.
That's not a good survival strategy for a human being where you find yourself one place and you stay there.
I mean, you should take advantage of everything the world has to offer.
And for that, you have to get out.
We have some great writers, including David Stockman, who ran things during the economic part of the Reagan presidency.
It's free, and it's a great site.
Everybody should subscribe to it, quite frankly.
Yeah, you're going to learn a tremendous amount of information that will help you understand the trends that are coming.
And I would also say, Doug, that you've been proven correct again and again on the overall trends.
And you're also very cautious.
You tend not to make timed calendar date predictions because that's always a dangerous business.
But the overall trends have very much moved in the direction that you have been warning about or sometimes talking about opportunities as well.
For example, your discussions about mining companies.
If people had heeded your advice and wanted an investment, some of those mining companies have already paid off.
And I think the valuations have only just begun.
You want to talk about the mining interest for a moment?
Yeah.
Well, mining is whenever I talk to conventional, legitimate financial people, I have to explain myself.
How did I ever get into the mining business and the mining finance business?
Because it's a very dangerous part of the market.
It's the most volatile part of the entire stock market.
It's a teeny weeny part of the stock market.
Mining stocks in the past have been as much as 20% of the stock market.
Now, they're like 1%.
Nobody owns them.
Nobody likes them.
Everybody knows that miners rape Mother Earth and exploit the natives.
Horrible business.
In addition to the fact that young people don't want to get into mining anymore, because who wants to go out and play in the dirt with big yellow trucks when you can make zillions of dollars moving digits around on your computer?
So it's a very unloved business right now.
And this relates to commodities being inordinately cheap right now.
These are two reasons why I'm looking for a huge upvaluation, both in commodities and in the companies that mine them.
And they are very volatile.
I particularly like gold because what's happening to the dollar, I'm afraid the dollar, it's a one-way street to zero at this point.
I think it's beyond redemption with the national debt, acknowledged national debt.
The actual national debt is not just $38 trillion.
It's three or four times that much when we add in the liabilities from Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare, which aren't officially, they're liabilities, but they're not officially counted in the national debt.
Now, the dollar is on its way to zero.
And the problem is for Americans is that everything they own is denominated in dollars.
And if they produce more than they consume, which we all try to do, and save the difference, what do you save in?
You save in dollars.
But if those dollars are inflated away on you, you're in trouble.
This is why third world countries with unstable currencies never get anywhere.
Because the average guy, if he's productive and tries to makes money, tries to save it, what can he save it in?
You can't save it in pesos or dirhams or any of these other crazy fiat currencies around the world.
And the same thing could happen to the U.S.
And it's going to destroy middle-class society in the U.S.
So what do you do about it?
Well, that's why I've saved in gold and to a lesser degree, silver, for my entire life.
I've never sold any ever because it's savings.
On the other hand, in the stock market, when I play in the stock market, and I do a lot, my specialty is mining stocks because nobody else looks at them.
They're hated and they tend to be cheap.
And right now, they're at about the cheapest level in history with gold at $4,500.
The industry-wide cost to produce an ounce of gold for producing companies is about $1,500 an ounce.
That means every ounce of gold that you mine is $3,000 right to the bottom line.
But the prices of the stocks don't reflect that for the reasons I mentioned earlier.
I mean, they're considered poisonous.
Nobody wants to own them.
You know, it's funny.
They used to say, you know, hey, that's like having a gold mine.
But no, having a gold mine is just like having a huge liability.
But you know, there's a line in the famous movie Idiocracy where the character says, I like money.
But apparently, some people don't like money when it's tied to minerals, you know, metals, gold and silver and copper.
And yet, these are the things that drive all the technologies that consumers want to use and experience.
So there's got to be a great reckoning coming here at some point.
Well, I think there is.
And the public is very uninvolved, not only in gold and silver.
They don't understand that gold and silver are money.
The dollar is just a fiat substitute for money.
But the companies that mine it are very, very cheap and very, very volatile.
We're not talking about multi-trillion dollar market capitalizations.
We're not talking about multi-billion dollars.
A lot of these companies are, they're not small caps.
They're not micro caps.
They're nano caps.
They're so small.
And in the past, many have gone 100 to 1 or even 1,000 to 1, not over the course of a lifetime, but over the course of three or four years.
That's how volatile they are.
And they've really been doing well for the last year.
But I think they're going to be doing very well for several years to come, maybe more.
And the public isn't even involved.
It doesn't even know they exist today.
So, yeah, I think it's the place to be as a speculator.
And unfortunately, as governments destroy their currencies, and since all the governments in the world, including the U.S. government, are terminally bankrupt, they can't borrow the money.
They can't really tax it so much anymore.
They will print it up.
And that's what's going on.
So this augurs well for gold, silver, other commodities, and the companies that produce them.
That's the basic idea.
You mentioned earlier that you believe the dollar is headed towards zero, and that definitely fits the historical pattern of fiat currencies.
They all end up there sooner or later, it seems.
There's no U.S. president in our lifetimes that is actually that has sworn off currency printing.
They all print, every one of them, including Trump today.
Not just including Trump.
Trump thinks it's a good idea.
Yeah, yes.
And artificially low interest rates plus money printing.
I mean, talk about that.
You know, Trump is installing people in the Fed that he can control, clearly.
And he's pushing his policies, which are very cheap money, low interest rates, while he's trying to keep 10-year bond yields also very, very low to refinance the debt.
But it seems to me increasingly this system, you know, I keep thinking it's very close to fracturing in some way.
But I thought that in 2008, also with the subprime mortgage collapse, can this system continue to have a heartbeat for another decade?
I mean, yeah, that's a very good question because I've been around for long enough to know that even during the 70s, people were talking about, hey, this can't go on.
This sucker is going to blow.
And we have bad recessions and a recovery, another bad recession, and a recovery.
Okay, can this go on indefinitely?
I don't think it can because all the while, the debt of the federal government has been going up, now.
So that now the amount of interest, even at these artificially low interest rates, and they are artificially low right now, is greater than the so-called defense budget.
So this is unstoppable.
And at the same time, people demand more.
As their standards of living go down, they demand more from the government.
So no, I think we're very close finally to the edge of the precipice.
Well, and that's fascinating to hear that.
And it reminds me of your book, The Preparation, because a lot of younger people today, let's say young men and women in their 20s, they really don't see any future for themselves.
They don't see a financial future.
And that's why they're getting, you know, what's it called, the food delivery service, Uber Eats or whatever.
They're overpaying for food.
They're financing their meals with eat now, pay later, which seems like a horrible idea.
Talk about depreciation of yourself.
You know, it must be very depressing for them.
And that's why they're doing that, because the attitude is eat, drink, and be merry, because tomorrow we die.
Or tomorrow, maybe we have a nuclear war and it all comes to an end.
Or tomorrow the whole thing blows up.
So you might as well enjoy it.
And that is the attitude.
America's, especially young people, it's not a question of the long-term values and thinking that way, it's short-term values increasingly, which is natural and normal when you can't save and you can't plan because of regulations and inflation and there's nothing left after taxes.
And why bother?
Because you'll get it all free from Uncle Sugar anyway.
Look, the whole society has become corrupt.
And I speak as somebody that absolutely loves America.
America isn't a place.
It's an idea.
And not only was the greatest idea in the history of countries, but it was the greatest country as a place.
But that's all changed, especially over the last 50 years.
Everything changes.
I mean, I started feeling this way probably when I read Edward Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman Empire many years ago.
And it occurred to me that the second law of thermodynamics, which says that everything falls apart and disintegrates and becomes corrupt over time, is also tree of countries.
And it's happened to America.
Yeah, well, and the opportunity to get ahead now does seem so fleeting to the younger generation.
I remember when I bought my first house, I took out a 15-year loan on it.
I bought a house that I could afford.
I saved and I paid extra, paid extra, paid extra.
I lived beneath my means.
I had the house paid off in five years.
And that was the last time I ever had any debt in my life.
Now, today, but even then, that was rare.
But today, it's practically impossible because of the cost of living and the amount that a young person would make being an Uber driver or working a job, even at $20 an hour, by the time you pay food and health insurance and your phone bill or whatever, what do you have left for housing?
You literally can't afford housing if you're participating in the system like that.
Well, you're right.
And a lot of young people today have to do gig jobs, drive Uber or deliver food or things of that nature.
Why is that?
It's because they don't have any particular skills.
And to have a particular skill, you have to learn the skill.
And you can't rely on somebody else to give you a job.
I mean, the whole concept of working for somebody else, that's not a lifetime thing.
Look, there's an infinite demand.
I know it doesn't seem this way to people out there sometimes, but there's an infinite demand for goods and services in the market.
Everybody wants as much as they can.
So theoretically, you can work 24-7 supplying goods and services to other people out there because everybody wants stuff, including your labor.
Problem is, is you're not going to get a good buck for your labor unless you've got skills.
And people don't learn skills today.
Certainly not in college.
They got academic knowledge that's not even useful academic knowledge that helps them to think.
It's bullshit academic knowledge that is created artificially by professors.
You can only get hired by either another college or the DEI department of a corporation, you know, just to underscore your point.
Those skills don't translate into the real world.
And I know a lot of entrepreneurs in the AI space, by the way, and I would say that AI technology opens up a lot of doors of opportunity for young people today.
But I know a lot of people in AI, they skip college now.
They openly talk about skipping the university.
I'm not going to waste four years because in four years, the whole world's going to be different because of this technology.
They're skipping college and they are being way more successful as a result.
And isn't, I mean, could you talk about your views on just AI as an enabler of innovation?
For example, it's so much easier to launch a business today, an online business, compared to 10 or 20 years ago.
I mean, it's almost effortless compared to the way it was back when I was trying to launch businesses.
Talk about AI and that tech.
Well, AI is a double-edged sword.
From a financial market point of view, the time to have gotten into AI with your investment dollars, I think that's past.
There's a mania.
There's a bubble in AI financed by debt and crazy accounting and people spending not just billions, but tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to build more AI factories and so forth.
I think we're in a bubble like we saw, we've seen several times before with computers and then the internet and then it's one thing.
It's one thing after another.
It's too late.
I'm just talking to somebody that watches markets.
Too late to mess around with AI from stocks like NVIDIA, et cetera.
Yeah, exactly.
And so to add to that, though, I think you're right that people are too much focused on NVIDIA, not realizing that for NVIDIA to function, they're going to need copper and silver and steel and nickel to build the data centers that run the NVIDIA chips.
So we're back to that same thing.
That's right.
And those things are all cheap and necessary.
So, you know, this moving paper fantasy will go from technology stocks in AI to people saying, wait a minute, we actually need real stuff, the kind of stuff that you make buildings out of and that you make knives and forks out of and so forth.
Right.
So cyclically, it's going to come into it's going to come into basic resources.
And as volatile as these stocks are and as cheap as they are, I actually think that the mining business, which is held in low repute by most people for the reasons I've mentioned before, it could be good for 10 to 1.
And at some point, some years from now, a few years from now, you're going to hear people talking about it at cocktail parties.
That'll be the time to sell.
Just like now is the time to sell AI stuff.
They're talking about it at cocktail parties.
Everybody's putting every nickel and dime that they can into it.
It's a classic top of a bubble.
In fact, the whole economy is what I think we would call an everything bubble, driven by borrowed money.
You can't buy a house.
You can't sell a house today unless you have a mortgage or somebody else can get a mortgage to buy it.
So the housing market, the whole real estate market is walking on air at this point.
It can collapse.
Let me add that the AI hardware industry is also walking on the thin ice known as the power grid infrastructure in America.
As you are no doubt well aware, in San Francisco, the power went out the other day for 130,000 people.
The entire eastern U.S. grid serving 13 states, they have zero excess power.
If you build a data center, you have to bring your own power somehow.
The wait time on gas turbines is up to 10 years, depending on the size.
The time to build a nuclear power plant is 15 plus years for planning and regulation and construction, everything.
Solar depends on silver.
So yeah, you can buy solar panels.
You're going to need silver.
So talk to us about the America's really, it's a failing power infrastructure that the AI layer is built on top of that has me very concerned about the reliability.
Well, the solution to all of the power problems that exist is nuclear power.
Nuclear is the safest, the cheapest, and the cleanest form of mass power generation with no exceptions.
I know that sounds very controversial to say, and I can explain why I say that.
And not only that, but the technology of generating nuclear has been advancing tremendously, although putting the theory into practice has been very hard because of the unbelievably stringent regulations for building a nuclear power plant.
We should have, well, we could have nuclear power plants that are the size of trucking containers that could generate enough megawatts to power a small city, buried for 10 years, completely safe, very, very cheap, and as many of them as you want.
I mean, that's very, very close.
It's here.
Yeah, they've got submarines and ships for decades, of course.
Absolutely.
I just want to mention to the audience, small modular reactors, there's a number of companies that have that tech.
You're exactly right.
And I believe those can produce up to 300, 400 megawatts, something like that, which is really substantial.
But you're right.
The regulatory environment doesn't allow this to happen quickly.
Whereas China can build a large-scale fission-based nuclear power plant in about five years.
It's up and running.
In America, it takes us triple or quadruple that time.
Yeah, everything takes three or four or five or 10 times longer in the U.S. for because of regulations, because of, well, it's mainly regulations more than anything else.
Yeah.
In competitive bureaucracy.
But one way to play nuclear, and of course, there are small modular reactor companies, but they've been discovered.
They're not cheap.
It's why I'm a fan of uranium, which is what you need to power.
Of course, once again, if we had a completely free market, we'd probably not be using uranium now.
Anyway, we'd be using thorium, but that's a totally different subject.
We're using uranium and will be for some time to come.
It's also a very volatile part of the market.
There are scores of small uranium companies out there that are very cheap, beloved.
Another area.
Well, yeah, I completely agree with you.
I've also researched this extensively, and I understand there's really only one, maybe two uranium enrichment operators in the United States, which means that we still depend on Russia for the enrichment of uranium.
And then, you know, Trump's got the tariffs.
Well, not just Trump, but Biden, the SWIFT system.
You can hardly buy anything from Russia except uranium.
You're still allowed to buy uranium that's enriched from Russia because without Russia's uranium, the U.S. nuclear industry would collapse.
I know.
It's all really quite crazy.
And if it's crazy, the relationship of the U.S. and Russia today, the relationship of the European Union and Russia is totally and absolutely insane.
I mean, the Europeans are plumping for a war with Russia, doubling their military budgets.
I mean, that's just what we need with World War III on top of everything else.
And of course, these poor Europeans are deindustrializing.
They don't have any natural gas within Europe.
Well, and what they do, they're shutting down.
And they're not importing any from Russia.
They're acting run by sociopaths that are actually criminally insane.
I completely agree.
The European countries are led by what I would call a suicide cult of absolute lunatics in Brussels and the EU, etc.
But anyway, look, we're almost out of time here, Doug.
I want to give you a chance to add anything here that you think we've missed or we'll mention your website again.
But what would you like to leave our audience with here today?
Well, we're in for tough times.
They've been building up with a form of delayed momentum for decades, but we're at the edge now.
I think we're going to enter upon something that I call the Greater Depression.
It's going to be longer and different than what we had from 1929 to 1946.
Yeah, because back in 29, people could read.
That's right.
And the way to prepare for that is to don't act conventionally.
Learn to be a speculator.
Learn to find distortions in the market so you can take advantage of them.
Try to produce more than you consume and set aside the difference in the safest place you can think of.
And that's not a fiat currency like the U.S. dollar.
And actually, the most important thing is to prepare yourself so that to ensure that you have the skills that you need so that no matter what happens in the future, how the chips may fall, you'll be able to act as an entrepreneur and survive and prosper.
That's what most people don't think of.
Don't think of looking for a job.
God forbid.
It's the skills in your hands and the knowledge in your head that makes you valuable, not the ability to fill out an employment form, which is what most people think of.
Yeah, that's the best advice ever.
Yeah, you can't depend on someone else's approval or permission to protect yourself and your assets and your interests in the years ahead.
Yeah, but it takes work.
So you can't go to the bar and drink beer with the boys.
You can't go to your mom's basement and play video games all day.
You've got to qualify yourself to do things.
And I think most people are too lazy, or perhaps most people think, well, worst case, I can always go on the dole.
I mean.
Well, our audience, of course, is the exception to that.
They are the people that always keep learning, they keep advancing.
And I want to encourage them to visit your website, internationalman.com, where they can subscribe and they can stay informed using your financial analysis and your latest updates and so on, your insights that will help them tremendously.
And Doug, I just want to thank you for taking time during this holiday season to spend an hour with us.
It's been an honor to speak with you, and I hope you'll come back in 2026 and give us an update.
Well, I really appreciate that, Mike.
And a Merry Christmas to you too.
Merry Christmas.
All right.
Thank you, Doug.
Enjoy the rest of your day there on the farm.
Have fun.
And for those of you watching, there you go.
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So knowledge and action will spell the difference.
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