Bob Goodlove argues Donald Trump's strategy to sever China's access to cheap oil from Iran and Venezuela will collapse Beijing's manufacturing sector, rendering the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant within a year. By boosting US and Canadian production alongside Venezuelan output, global prices could drop below $60 by next year, forcing China to pivot resources to the Indo-Pacific. This geopolitical shift coincides with predicted rightward political movements in Europe and potential Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2027, fundamentally altering global economic power dynamics. [Automatically generated summary]
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Wall Street Panic Plays00:03:23
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China's GDP Strategy Shift00:10:32
Hi, and welcome to the X22 Report Spotlight.
Today we have a returning guest, Bob Goodlove.
Bob is the creator and owner of TradeGeniusAcademy.com, and I am very happy and honored to have Bob back on.
Bob, welcome back to the Spotlight.
Hey, thanks for having me.
Let's start off with China because we can see that Trump, right now, the military, they are now cutting off China's cheap oil.
And we see it in Venezuela, we see it out in Iran.
So, what do you think China's future is now?
I mean, what do you think is going to happen?
Well, this is really interesting.
Everybody thinks the whole thing is Iran and Israel's playing us, and they don't even know the chess piece has always been about China.
And, you know, so I can walk people through this is that when Trump took office, you know, China was behind invading our borders.
He kiboshed that.
China was behind the fentanyl crisis.
He kiboshed that.
China was behind basically trying to turn Central and South America into their background and their backyard.
And Trump kiboshed that.
He basically got Honduras to go right.
He basically got the Chinese out of running the Panama Canal.
And then, of course, we know everything about Venezuela.
But what we don't realize is that both Argentina and Chile went to the right.
And Ecuador is now firmly in our camp, and he neutered Colombia.
Okay, so he's been doing this strategy all along.
And then the next piece of that puzzle was Iran.
And Iran stepped into the dog pile, us, I mean, so stupidly.
They're bragging about how close they were making a nuclear weapon.
And Trump says, Oh, thank you very much.
I'm taking you out.
And because now I can just tell the world that these guys are weeks away from a nuclear weapon.
And look, the war's over.
It's really a matter now of you can, and we'll talk about this when we talk about oil in a minute.
It's really a matter of when Iran will cry uncle.
And so when this happens, let's give it a year from now.
When this happens, we're going to see a significant shift of resources to the Indo Pacific from the military side.
Now, on the oil side, it's more than oil, Dave.
Okay.
So remember, China was getting discounted.
But you have to understand when they start fracking that oil or cracking that oil in their refineries, they got cheap plastic, they got cheap jet fuel, right?
They got cheap bunker fuel.
All that's gone.
All their subsidies are gone.
The only one left is Russia.
And Russia actually started canceling contracts with them, and they're going month by month.
So China lost another peg in their stool to be able to compete effectively with the world.
And so we have a situation now where China's manufacturing is, I think, on the verge of collapse.
We've been talking this for a long time.
Everybody thought China was the cat's meow.
And I've always said it's the Potemkin village.
And you see it now, the unemployment rates are skyrocketing.
People in China are rushing to Vietnam to get work because we've basically shifted the manufacturing to an ally.
And I think China's going to go third world here in the next five years.
Yeah, it seems like that he, I mean, more than just even the playing field, it seems that he basically shut down what they were trying to do.
And when you look at China, you could see that they do these things in the background.
They don't come out and say, hey, by the way, we're supporting Iran.
We're going to fight with them.
We're going to be on their side.
Hey, they do this behind the scenes, making it seem like they're not really involved in any of this.
It's just happening naturally.
And it really isn't.
No, no.
They do this all the time.
Don't watch what I say, watch what I do.
They're basically saying we're looking for peace in the Middle East as they're throwing weapons in Iran.
Look, China's had a strategy too.
Their strategy was basically a strangulation strategy against the United States, right?
Tie us down at home, tie us down in the Middle East, give them a free hand in the Indo Pacific.
And then Trump's strategy has basically been taking headshots at people, and they've been winning.
And if you look at two, if I can meander for a second, Japan now, they're scared witless about Japan, okay?
I mean, They're going to be pumping up their GDP, defense spending.
And the thing about the Japanese, their stuff, when they build stuff, it works.
There's no corruption in Japan and their manufacturing space.
What they make is perfect.
The other thing about Japan that people don't know is Japan can bring China to its knees in six months by withholding these special etching fluids that China can't copy and they can't create.
And you shut down the whole chip industry and tech industry in China.
And then you got Korea now.
I don't know if you see, they're basically coming right up the smoke trail of the United States in terms of defense exports.
And because the United States can't produce enough stuff for export because we're using it for the war, South Korea has been right behind us helping in the Gulf here in terms of equipment.
And so China's got themselves in a situation where now they're competing against Israel, United States, Japan, and South Korea for defense spending.
And it's basically checkmate for these guys.
So, their only hope is to discombobulate the United States in the next presidential election or do what they tried to do last weekend.
Yeah, I mean, this is all they have left.
I mean, but the thing is that the European nations are also in trouble because they were following the path of China.
I mean, if you look at Starmer, you look at Merz, you look at the EU, they're all like, yeah, green, send everything to China.
Now they're kind of trapped in all this, aren't they?
Yeah, it's really interesting.
You know, the path the Europeans were on were, look, they don't have anything.
I mean, And what they have, they kind of shut themselves down on it.
I mean, it's so stupid.
You know, Germany gets rid of their nuclear energy industry.
The United Kingdom stops producing oil in the North Sea.
You know, I mean, Norway look at Norway.
Norway is going to be the richest country in the world, you know, GDP wise.
And the United Kingdom is going to be basically a third world wasteland.
But there's a little bit of hope coming because you got Europe is starting to turn rightward.
Right.
So I think the next election in Germany and in France, they may flip right.
And I just read that Starmer's public support is at 18%.
And 18% is probably all the people that came in there illegally.
And so, you know, so we may see a vast shift rightwards inside of Europe here over the next, you know, two or three years.
So the whole globalism thing is imploding on itself because it was never sustainable.
It was always, it was always, um, Pushed down on the people, and they're starting to blow up on them.
Germany just said, you know, we almost committed national suicide.
I mean, this is a current sitting prime minister saying that.
And so I have hope, you know, but they may be too far gone.
I mean, you know, they may end up with some sort of civil war before they, between all the people that came there that shouldn't be there and the people that live there.
It's going to be really interesting to see.
But they have no resources.
But here's the ironic thing about it because Straight of Her Muse, one would think that Europe was totally dependent on that.
They're not.
So, they get their oil from the Saudis pumping in through the Red Sea coming up.
They get oil from Libya.
They get oil from Norway.
They get oil from Nigeria.
So, they have some exposure to the Strait of Hermuse, but not as much as you think.
And the thing that they're really hurting on, they can't get refinery capacity on, is jet fuel.
But the United States has plenty.
And the United States has plenty of natural gas.
So, basically, we're going to be the world's gas station.
It's starting to seem that way.
So, with the Strait of Hermuse, since there's so much pressure now on The Iranians, where they have nowhere to sell their oil, it looks like either they have to dump the oil someplace, burn it off, or they're kind of screwed in the end because they're losing millions or billions of dollars and there's no place for the oil to go.
So they're running out of time.
Yeah, that's why Trump, I think that's why Trump pivoted.
He's like, why am I blowing things up when I can just sit back and let them drown?
Yeah, see, I don't know enough about it technically, so I'll just take the word of people who say it.
But apparently, these wells need to keep releasing the pressure, or if you cap them, you risk destroying the infrastructure.
So I'm just assuming they're right.
It went from two weeks to five days.
Trump just said now three days.
So I think in the next two weeks, we're going to see.
If these oil fields go offline, then.
That they said it's like 50% structural production cut for the long term.
And, you know, dumping, like, remember Kuwait?
I don't know, you might be too young for that, but the Gulf War I, when they started blowing up the oil field in Kuwait, remember that's an ecological, I mean, disaster.
So you can't burn off oil like you can burn off natural gas.
Yeah.
So, I mean, with Iran, before they were using a fear tax and it looked like they were able to control the price of oil.
Now it seems like oil is being decentralized.
Oil Futures Structural Cut00:03:16
I mean, Venezuela now open to the markets.
Now we all know Wall Street doesn't lose money on sell-offs.
You do.
They create the panic, wait for you to dump your position out of fear and scoop it up at a discount.
The big banks aren't selling their gold.
They're buying yours.
Every time the headlines scream regular people sell, every time regular people sell, the institutions are right there waiting with open hands.
You build portfolio insurance for a reason.
Don't let a red day hand it over to the people who cause it.
That's why I tell people to talk to Noble Gold Investments.
They will help you build a long-term plan and more importantly, help you stick to it when the noise gets loud.
The miners' ups and downs, that's weather.
The long term trend, that's climate.
And the climate has been favoring gold for 5,000 years.
So the next time you see a dip and you feel that knot in your stomach, ask yourself one question Am I making this decision or is Wall Street making it for me?
Don't let them shake you out of the position you built to protect yourself.
That's exactly what they want.
And right now, all new qualified accounts receive a 10,000 American Gold Eagle as a thank you.
Real gold in your hands.
That's the whole point.
Go to x22gold.com.
That is x22gold.com.
And remember, passport.
Performance may not be indicative of future results.
Investing in precious metals involves risk.
Consult your financial advisor before making investment decisions.
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Commodities Over Easy Money00:09:42
Iran eventually, I think, is going to be open to the markets and it's going to be in a different way where they're not controlling the straight.
So Where do you see oil prices going now?
Yeah, so, and I sent you a chart if you want to share with the people.
This is the oil futures curve.
You know, we're going to get some sort of short term bounce in oil just because we have a timing mismatch in terms of production versus the reserves being called up and supply.
So that's probably a three month problem.
So we may see rising oil.
Even if they come to an agreement, we may see rising oil into the summer.
But what's happening is around the world, everybody is jamming production.
So let's just say, for example, the Strait never opens again in our lifetime.
In one year, Dave, the Strait becomes irrelevant.
Okay?
That's how much extra production can come online.
And it would just basically obviate the need for the Strait of Hemuse.
What's happening now is Iraq just said they're building a pipeline west.
Kuwait's going to probably build a pipeline west.
The Saudis may increase their pipeline capacity towards the Red Sea.
And Nigeria, Libya, Kazakhstan, the United States, Canada, Venezuela are all increasing production exponentially.
The United States was exporting 3 million barrels a day before the war.
We hit 5.2 million barrels.
Venezuela and Guyana alone.
Will be bigger than all the oil in the Gulf region in five years.
And so, you're going to see what's going to happen is you're going to see oil prices spike up a little bit, maybe through the summer.
And then I'm here to tell you that we'll see oil under $60 sometime next year because all this oil is going to come online and it's going to collapse the price.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I mean, I think this is why Trump said we're going to see a glut of oil out there and the prices are going to come way, way down.
And I mean, with cheaper energy, you can have incredible manufacturing.
And I think that's what he's planning to do here.
Yeah, look, I mean, you know, he, you know, his timing was almost perfect on that.
I wish you would have done a little bit earlier, but he probably needed to wait until he got Venezuela under control.
But yeah, absolutely.
Look, they're all coming anyway.
I mean, the chip foundries are all coming to the United States, pharmaceutical foundries are coming to the United States.
So, and then, you know, with the Defense Production Acts, you know, he's forcing some of the heavy industry our way.
And he cut deals with South Korea and Japan to bring their expertise back into manufacturing the U.S., too.
So he's tying in some allies and he's bringing employment home.
And I think, you know, probably the out years of his administration are going to be pretty good economically.
Yeah.
So we also see gold and silver right now.
They've been pretty much steady.
Before Iran, they've been going up, you know, pretty fast, gold and silver.
Now it seems like they're paused.
Is this because of Iran, of what's happening?
People are unsure, people aren't.
Going into gold and silver because of that?
No, not because of that for that reason, but you're making a lot of money right now in AI and in oil.
So money just shifted out of gold and silver and moved in.
Bitcoin was suffering for a while too, but Bitcoin seems to have found its legs.
So, our view is once people feel more confident that the oil prices are going to subside, money is going to flow back out of the energy names and it's going to flow back into.
You know, gold miners and silver miners, and I would say Bitcoin.
So, you know, the energy companies, you know, they haven't really taken, they did pretty well from January to now, but everybody's looking at that futures curve.
And so are the big oil companies and saying, hey, look, you know, I don't see $100 oil next year.
So, you know, so everybody's kind of conservative right now.
And I think once people realize that the easy money's out of oil and the easy money's out of AI, They're going to shift back into putting their money back into the commodities, oil, I mean, gold, silver, lithium, copper, et cetera.
Bitcoin really started to make moves again.
I think it's approaching 80,000 right now.
How much higher do you think that's going to go?
Well, I mean, obviously, I don't know the ceiling, but our next move higher is 88,000.
So we think it can get there before it pulls back a little bit.
What's happening with Bitcoin now is really.
The bumpers are on between the leverage longs and the leverage shorts, but it seems to be accumulation again because you've seen Coinbase is getting some money again and MicroStrategy is getting money again.
So, uh, we think there's just gonna be a general rise in Bitcoin.
And I think once money comes out of some of these other names, people start speculating Bitcoin again, yeah.
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And before we were talking about the new technology that you implemented, the AI enabled trading indicators, which is really assisting your algorithms and your system right now.
Can you just explain what you're doing now?
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And we've been using that.
You know, the first couple weeks of the war, we were all discombobulated because, you know, nothing could beat a Trump tweet, right?
Right.
But now that things have settled down, you know, the ship has been righted.
And then we just basically iterated our last set of codes.
And in fact, our latest release is coming out in a couple of weeks.
And then we think we got it right where we want it.
So it's really, really cool.
It's really going to help people.
And a nice thing about it is that you can visually see where the trades are.
And it's dynamic, Dave.
So, you know, from.
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And this is what the AI is doing for us.
And it's only going to get better.
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Right.
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Deflation And Balanced Taxes00:08:31
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You live in California and it looks like they're trying to push this billionaires tax out there.
And to me, it reminds me of what the central bank did when it first came into existence, where they said, we're only going to tax the wealthy.
Nobody else has to worry.
I mean, what are people saying about this billionaire tax in California?
Oh, they say it's never going to happen because all the billionaires are going to leave.
I think.
I think they touched the stove and they didn't realize how hot it was.
They really backed off on this thing pretty hard.
I mean, you're talking, you know, if this comes into play and these billionaires leave, you're talking $50 billion deficits.
It would bankrupt the state in two years.
You know, there's not enough other people to take over for the amount of money the billionaires provide to the state of California.
These people are absolutely idiots.
You know, they don't understand it.
And I watched the show and I read an article as part of the show.
It's basically they said we've reached what's called peak taxation, meaning that the more you try to push the tax rates any direction, you know, not any direction, any economic class higher, you're now getting a negative return because, you know, people are reacting to it now more violently.
And so I think that's going to be kibosh.
There's a.
There's an even chance that we'll have a Republican governor after this next election.
And if that happens, then that's going to be on the shelf for four years.
But I don't think they're going to do it.
They try to pull some stuff in Washington State, too.
They try to pull some stuff in Seattle.
Starbucks pulled out.
You know what I mean?
And so I think they're realizing that if you want every billionaire to live in Texas, Tennessee, and in Florida, and they're going to drag their headquarters down with them.
Your tax base is toast.
Watch Baltimore, Dave.
Baltimore is probably on the verge of a bankruptcy.
Their tax base is collapsing, collapsing.
And so it's going to be really interesting to see what happens because, you know, what happens in these situations is that, you know, you think of it like a shopping center, right?
You know, you lose your anchor tenant.
Well, it's not long before everybody else leaves because nobody's showing up.
Same thing works in these economic models.
You start losing your biggest, your biggest, uh, Tax providers and everybody else shuts down.
And I think that's what's going to happen here.
So I'm not too worried about it per se.
I'd like to be able to worry about it and be a billionaire a day, but I don't think I have enough time.
I don't have enough time in my life to be able to get there unless I get super lucky.
I mean, if they do do it and they say, okay, we're going to tax the billionaires and there's no billionaires, then they'll just rename, okay, millionaires.
Okay, all the billionaires left.
Okay, anyone that makes, you know, $100,000, then you're going to be taxed.
I mean, that's what they would have to do.
I mean, look at Kathy Hitchell.
The governor of New York, where she's saying, Hey, we need everyone to send money back to us because I know I told you to leave, but I didn't realize you were going to take your money with you.
Well, you know, California kind of tries that.
If you're wealthy and you leave the state, they'll automatically audit you and try to find ways in which to capture assets that you've left behind in the state.
So, yeah, so it's already happening.
But, you know, look, it's a death rattle.
And that's why if you look at 2030, the next census is going to be, I mean, California is going to lose representation.
Basically, red states up, blue states down in terms of representation.
So, right.
Yeah.
So, for the macro favoring the right, you know, it's just that Trump has to just keep, he has to keep killing off these, these corruption angles that the Democrats, I mean, and they're legion.
You know, the number of ways in which they created their power base is just, it's impressive and amazing and scary.
Yeah.
It really is.
So, it looks like Trump is, he might get Kevin Walsh into the Fed.
And he's all for lowering the rates.
So, do you think that we're going to see the rates start to come down this year?
Rates will fall with oil.
Kevin Warsh can't, he can't impose it.
I think Powell's going to stay on the board.
He's going to try to, yes.
Yeah.
So, I think it's probably more of a 2027 thing at this point because I think they're going to follow oil down.
What's impressive to me is how little inflation has gone up, even with the price of oil spiking.
I think people don't really truly understand that, how spread out.
You know, the pricing is.
I don't know if you've been to the grocery store, at least where I am, prices are lower in a lot of cases.
Yes, I agree.
So I think people are like, there's a lot of cognizant dissonance here.
I think people don't realize the inability for companies to raise prices on people in aggregate.
There's some areas where people have, you know, and this is really interesting to me.
I know you didn't ask this question, but I'll answer it anyway.
So we're seeing the labor prices for the, what I would call the trades.
Have skyrocketed.
They've almost doubled in the last year.
And there's only one reason why that is, Dave, is the illegals are gone.
That's true.
And so now the Mexicans are here legally are realizing that they don't have to compete against people that are here illegally and working off book.
And so you're seeing price.
And I know this because we have property that we use a handyman and a painter, and their rates doubled since the last project we had for them to the project we have for them right now.
And, you know, I mean, we're not happy because we have to pay it, but we now understand why because, you know, he has to now pay his painters more because they're all legal.
And so it's really interesting to see.
And I think you're going to see that more and more.
It's bad news, good news.
I think inflation is going to be a little bit higher in aggregate going forward, but all that money is going to flow into the treasury because these are the people that pay most of the, you know, the FICA taxes and stuff like that.
All those wages are going up and they're going to be cut out of a lot of the financial federal support programs because now they're going to make more money than they can qualify for food stamps and housing and whatever else we give people for free as income support.
So I think it's going to be kind of annoying for people like us that we're getting stuff cheaper, but I think overall better for the country because we're going to have a more balanced tax base and we're spending less money on transfer programs.
Yeah, I think that the whole transition right now, removing the globalist trade system, you know, cheapening oil, which is going to make gas cheaper, getting rid of the illegals, basically removing everything they put into place to create the inflation.
And with the removal of the illegals, you also see rents coming down.
You see a lot of things happening.
And eventually, once the rates come down, that's going to lower everything also.
So, yeah, I think we're going to see everything all of a sudden go the opposite way, especially.
I mean, opposite of what Biden did.
Well, rents are already coming down.
And, you know, we have property that we're selling.
And, you know, we've already been told that, you know, lower your expectations.
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But, you know, obviously I'm well aware of all that stuff because what I do for a living.
And so, you know, so we realized that I think the peak housing here in California is over.
And so, and I agree with you on rents.
So there are a lot of rental deals out there right now.
And remember, because all the illegals are bailing out.
So, a lot of properties are now available too.
So, I think it's going to be a war.
I told people expect deflation out of this.
So, you're going to see negative prints after this war is over.
I mean, for months and months in a row.
Then you're going to see rates go down to that zero level, Dave, in 2027.
Great.
Hey, Bob, thank you very much for being on the X22 Report Spotlight.
Once again, if people want to join up to your trading system, where should they go?
TradeLikeAgenius.com, TradeGenius.co.
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Dave has it on the bottom of the screen.
You'll run into Matt, and Matt will tell you the best program to get on.
And like I said, what we charge for service is nothing compared to what you get out of it.
Great.
I'll put all the links at the bottom of the video.
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I really appreciate it.
Thanks for having me.
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