➡ The Canadian Prepper talks about how the article discusses the rising tension between America and China, and how it’s leading to an increase in stockpiling of commodities like gold. It suggests that to stay competitive, countries need to invest in energy and artificial intelligence (AI). The author also predicts a significant economic crash and highlights the importance of diversifying investments, including into precious metals. The article ends with a discussion on the future of energy, suggesting that the demand for electricity will significantly increase due to AI, which could impact the adoption of electric vehicles.

➡ The article discusses the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in maintaining global dominance, particularly in the context of the US and China. It suggests that the country with the most AI and energy will be the most powerful, as energy dominance equates to AI dominance. The article also touches on the economic pyramid, with AI and information at the top, and suggests that conflicts in these areas can occur without physical casualties. Lastly, it discusses the potential for an economic boom driven by increased energy production and AI development.

➡ The text discusses the potential impact of increasing energy demands, particularly from AI, on electricity prices and the economy. It suggests that while prices may initially rise, an excess of electricity could eventually lead to competition and lower prices. The text also highlights the importance of investing in sectors related to energy production and infrastructure, such as copper and aluminum, to benefit from these changes. However, it warns of potential ecological consequences and emphasizes the need for environmental mitigation.

➡ The text discusses a potential conflict between America and China in 2027, based on a statement made by China’s leader to the People’s Liberation Army. The text also mentions China’s quiet military buildup and the importance of Taiwan in the AI arms race. It further discusses the rise in value of gold and silver, and the potential for these to continue increasing due to geopolitical tensions. Lastly, it highlights the importance of investing in industries related to military and infrastructure.

➡ The speaker discusses the fluctuating prices of silver, suggesting that while it may reach a high of $200, it’s likely to stabilize around $100. They mention that silver’s value is tied to gold’s performance and its industrial demand, especially in the era of artificial intelligence. The speaker also highlights the current trend of stockpiling commodities like copper, zinc, and aluminum, and predicts an economic boom driven by AI that will increase demand for these materials.

➡ The text discusses the role of commodities like silver and copper in products like Teslas and iPhones, and how their prices might increase but won’t significantly affect the cost of these products. It also talks about the influence of AI, particularly AI avatars on YouTube, and how they’re shaping public opinion. The text further explores the relationship between AI and humans, suggesting that AI needs human input for randomness. Lastly, it discusses the potential for big tech companies to be weaponized or excluded from certain markets, which could cause market instability.

➡ The discussion revolves around the potential for conflict between major global powers and its impact on the economy. The speaker suggests that watching the share price of a specific iron ore company, Fair Expo, could indicate whether peace or conflict is imminent. They also discuss the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to solve global issues, but warn of the dangers of ‘natural stupidity’ (NS), which could lead to disaster.

➡ The text discusses the potential for global tensions to impact the American stock market and bond market, particularly if allies decide to cut ties with American tech companies. This could lead to a crash in the NASDAQ and a significant decrease in America’s wealth. However, the text also suggests that this could lead to a resurgence in industries like nuclear power and defense contracting. The author also discusses the idea of creating a members-only channel for more specialized content.

Make America great again means keep America’s preeminence. And to keep preeminence, they’ve got to go toe to toe with China in one way or the other. And we know how quickly that could go bad. Everything that happens, that doesn’t make any sense, it all leads back to an American versus China conflict. That’s why gold is going up. Everybody and their uncle is stockpiling. Companies are stockpiling, countries are stockpiling. If you’re competing, you’ve got to be the smartest and that means you’ve got to have more energy than anybody else, which is what Trump is talking about, energy dominance.

People in government, they might not care, you and me, and they care about them keeping their power. And for that they need to be first in AI AI its own economic boom and it will suck in all these commodities. Zinc, aluminium, nickel, they’re all going up the same. There’s going to be a huge change in the next 10, 15 years and a vast amount of opportunity to be missed or to be taken. Gold is for war. And it’s not getting any more friendlier out there, is it? World War Three is already happening. This is a house of cards and it is in the process of collapsing right now.

You’re going to see an economic crash likes of which we’ve never seen. Hi, folks. Canadian prepper here. Today I’m joined once again by Clem Chambers, CEO of Online Blockchain and a senior contributor at Forbes.com and Seeking Alpha. He’s launched a new FN which is a place for private investors and shares no fluff market takes on his YouTube channel. We’re diving into what matters now in the markets, what most people are missing and how to position yourself when the narrative begins to crack. Now his famous saying is bitcoin is for flight, gold is for war. How are you feeling about the precious metals prices right now, my friend? Well, delirious.

I mean, before the prices took off when I was loading up because I could see it coming, I got so much of it that I was starting, I was worrying me because I’m a diversified portfolio of a risk guy and going not quite all in, but it felt like it was, was really not. It’s not my style at all. I, you know, I’m a value investor, not a precious metal guy. I’m not a gold bug. I’ve, I’ve steered clear of gold and silver for most of my life, but I couldn’t stay out of it because everything said it’s going to go ballistic and of Course it’s gone ballistic and silver’s hit my target.

So I’m, I’ve lightened up on silver. I’ve flipped half of my silver into gold. Gold’s just going to, by the looks of it, keep on grinding up because of, you know, gold is for war and it’s not getting any more friendlier out there, is it? And platinum and palladium. Well, as I said on your show, I think all this, you know, tree hugging is going away because, you know, the energy is all going to go to AI and that it’s not going to be going to electric cars. They’re going to say, yeah, you need petrol and diesel in those things.

Electricity is going to industry and to AI guys, you know, you can use petrol. That’s okay, carry on. And they’ve already canceled the cancellation of the internal combustion engine. And if you’re going to clean up the mess of what’s coming up next for the environment, you’ve got to have platinum and palladium. So they’ve gone ballistic and will probably keep on going ballistic. The only one that’s run ahead and, you know, if you don’t care and want to hold for the next 10 years, why not keep it is silver, which I feel will probably pull back some.

It might go over 100, it might come back quite a long way. But if gold keeps grinding, everything follows gold. That’s all you really need to know. It’s all about gold. Gold is for war. And everything you hear in the world, that doesn’t really make a great deal of sense. Just think this thought, China versus America, or rather America versus China. Okay, why doesn’t Trump like windmills? It’s because you can knock them out with a blooming shotgun. So what’s the point of you can’t go into battle if your energy is coming from windmills because they’re just 50 cal, the whole lot down in 10 minutes.

So it’s not a secure energy supply in conflict. So it’s not because they’re, they’re not. It’s the cheapest form of energy out there, roughly speaking, even cheaper than coal in some areas. But it’s totally fragile. And if you’re going to go toe to toe in conflict with, with another country, you can’t afford to have your energy supply, you know, basically hanging out there in the wind, waving in the wind, quite literally. So, you know, every time you hear something you say that don’t make any sense, just trace it back to the upcoming potential conflict between America and China.

Everything’s all about that. I mean, they don’t want to put missile defense on Greenland because of the Russians. It’s the Chinese. It’s not the Russians they’re worried about, it’s the Chinese. And it’s all about. I would probably say it’s a little bit of both, though, because there’s definitely a very large Russian nuclear contingent in the Arctic. Yeah, but they’re also. They’re also a country with 150 million people with a $7,000 ahead GDP. Right. So that’s like, well, okay, seven times 150. Call that a trillion against 27 trillion in America. Yes, of course, if a lunatic wants to take everybody with them, then that is an issue.

And yes, why not protect yourself from Russia? But America’s not going to go into a conflict with Russia. That’s relatively clear. But it’s relatively clear that America is jumping up and down about China, because that make America great again means keep America’s preeminence. Well, you know, they’re going to lose their preeminence real soon now at this rate, unless they turn it around. And that’s what they’re trying to do. And to keep preeminence, well, they’ve got to go toe to toe with China in one way or the other. And we know how quickly that could go bad.

You said a few things there. And you reminded me of a position that has flipped recently with Bill Gates where he says something to the extent of. And I don’t have any exact quotes, but it was something, well, we’re not going to be able to solve the problem of global warming, therefore, let’s just go full steam ahead. And I think a lot of people chalk that up to big tech and the need for data centers and how they’re going to have to essentially boil the oceans, as you say, in order to create artificial general intelligence. And you said something interesting about combustion engines, that they’re now canceling the cancellation.

And this is part of the reason why platinum and palladium are rising, because they use those in the catalytic converters, I presume. Can you just maybe expand a little bit on that? Because we watch these dystopian films in the future. Blade Runner, you know, things like that. And there’s still combustion engine vehicles in all of these depictions of the future. I’m like, shouldn’t they have, you know, flying or hover cars, electric vehicles at that point? But maybe they really got it right. Maybe the futurists who are writing those scripts knew that the promise of EVs had its shortcomings.

And I think you kind of stated that. Can you elaborate a bit on that? Well, there’s nothing wrong with EVs, okay? And the point is they need electricity. And to have electricity you need vast electrical infrastructure. And America doesn’t have it and Europe doesn’t have it. In fact, probably nobody has it. So there’s no good making everything cheaper and better that’s electric. If you can’t fill the tank with electricity. And AI is, is an X factor, demand on energy. Now, I heard somebody say, I was talking to some people in this area only six months ago and I said, it’s going to be a multiple of energy, of electricity required.

And they kind of looked down their nose at me and they said, oh, maybe 50% more. And I said, surely you’re talking about 1,000% more I 10x. And, and now I heard some experts talk about two to four times. Well, there’s not two to four times the infrastructure. There’s just about enough infrastructure to go around right now and they’re going to have to build it out massively and they’re going to have to use a lot of copper, which they don’t have, etcetera, Lots and lots of problems. So you go, right, we can’t actually have all the electricity we need, so what does it need to use electricity? Well, cars.

So yes, it would be nice if they’re all running on electricity, but we haven’t got enough. So yeah, guys, carry on using diesel. I think diesel is platinum and gasoline is palladium in the cat convert. Okay? So they will be building out these, these power stations and it’s going to go 10x. It is. Because here’s the thought, right? There is no second place in intelligence. If you’re smarter than the other guy and you’re not actually in a ring, in a boxing ring, then you’re going to win. Yeah. So the sort of AI that’s already out there is, it’s just simply way more smarter than any living human that I know.

So if you’re competing or, or have a conflict at whatever economic layer that you’re having it in, you’re going to win if you’ve got more AI. So there’s no second place. Right. And people in government, they might not care about you and me, but I care about themselves and they care about them keeping their power. And for that they need to be first in AI. And for that they need the electricity and they need to boil the oceans and they need to go into it. It’s, it’s you could look at it as in this way, look, there’s a pyramid, economic pyramid.

The ground floor is primary and that’s running around clubbing bears and, and doing a bit of agriculture, hunter gathering and all that good stuff. And then you go into secondary, which is basic industry, digging up iron or all that good stuff. Making steel. And then you’ve got, you know, a bit more high up the scale in secondary, making cars, all that good stuff. Industry, yeah. Then you go into, into. Into tertiary, which is services, getting your haircut, watching a movie, all that good stuff, Right. Then you get into Quaternary, which is basically intelligence, information, education, all that good stuff, Right? So you can fight a war there and nobody dies.

In fact, you can fight a war in services and nobody dies. In fact, you can have a trade war at the secondary level and nobody dies. But then it falls down into the primary level and everybody dies. Right? So right now they will be fighting in the quaternary, you know, hacking into computers and ransomware, stealing ip that’s going on right now. And guess who’s doing it? China and Russia against the West. That war is on. And if they start to lose it, well, maybe they start moving down the. The pyramid. But in any event, the smartest wins and there’s no second place.

Right? So what have you got to do? You’ve got to be the smartest. And that means you’ve got to have more energy than anybody else, which is what Trump is talking. We’ve got to have energy dominance because energy dominance is AI dominance and there’s no second place in AI. And it all comes back to that. Oh, China, you can’t have those chips anymore. Oh, whoops, you’re making those our chips. What are our chips being built on? Your country? Yeah, it’s all about that conflict between America and China and about America maintaining its global dominance, which it has probably even lost already, maybe, but it’s definitely borderline.

That’s why all the panic is coming out of that administration is that they realize, actually, they realize got a lot of catching up to do. Right. Because they can’t make most of the stuff that American life requires. It’s not made in America anymore. So, you know, that is the struggle and that is what’s driving all this and that’s what’s driving. Gold is for war. Yeah. Bitcoin is for flight. As you saw when they were going to go and blow up Iran again for killing all those protesters, up went bitcoin because the Iranians are sending all their children to Paris.

And before that Venezuela up. When bitcoin Venezuela happened, the Venezuela said, you know, yes sir, no sir, three bucks full, sir. Down it came again. So the model of gold is for war and bitcoin is for flight is well in place and all those things that break down from that, you just start at the top. Why are they doing that? I don’t understand. What do they want Greenland for? Oh, oh, China versus America. Missiles coming over the pole. Oh, I can see they’ve got a point there. If that is their model, if that is the big strategic, long term strategic, which is of course the strategic fear or the strategic action is to struggle with China you need it.

If you’re not going to struggle with China you don’t need it. So the US doesn’t have many as far as I know. They’re not heavily reliant on like diesel power generation. Like they don’t actually use oil for power based generation, do they? No, I mean I, I, there’s probably people that do because normally there’s all sorts of infrastructure in energy. Like oh, we need some energy, it’s a very hot day, I’ll switch on that gas plant or switch on that. I mean they have power stations that are old jumbo jet engines and they’ve got them in a shed and when they need to have a sudden surge of energy because I don’t know, the super bowl is on, they ring those guys up and say we have some electricity, we’ll pay for the nose for that.

And they go, right, switch the jet engines on electricity. So there’s all sorts of crazy infrast there and I’m sure there’s somebody burning kerosene for that. But no, that is not the issue. The issue is getting it around. It’s the overall infrastructure. Not only is it the power stations, but it’s, it’s the grid. So there’s not enough grid? Well, there’s just about enough grid and there’s just about enough electricity and that’s fine. I mean back in 2000 they were browning out in LA because of all the, all the service centers that were going in for the original Internet.

But they caught up, right? So they will catch up. We, it is a, almost a capitalist society still. So they will catch up, but it’s the time it will take to do so that is the issue. And when they catch up, there’ll be more catching up to do and there’d be more catching up to do. So it will be until further notice a never ending virtuous circle or, or the opposite to catch on and catch up and, and go forward in this cycle of conflict and AI. So it’s a crossover between China versus America or America versus China and AI.

So that is the road ahead. AI and you know, America struggling for primacy. How does America diversify its energy infrastructure? What’s that going to look like? Is it going to be nuclear? Is it going to be renewables? How are they going to meet the 10x needs so that people can continue to make AI slot videos? They’re going to do everything. Absolutely everything. I mean, the point is you might not be able to make AI slot videos because they keep all the AI to themselves. I mean, that’s also something that could well happen. Yeah. But it’s going to be several multiples more electricity being generated over the next decade.

And at what point do people say to themselves, well this is great that I can make these AI slop and I can modify myself with all the fancy face filters, but my electricity bill has now doubled because that really is the secret cost of that. Don’t think it works out like that, you see, because what happens is there’s always a spare amount of capacity because if you take a data center, it goes from 60% to 90% energy needs. Yeah. And maybe on a, you know, once in a blue moon it will go to 99. Okay. So it’s going between 60 and 90% depending on the time of year, the time of day, et cetera.

Okay. And how much cooling they need to blah, blah, blah. So there’s, there’s a spare capacity. Well, that percentage might only be 5% can be pushed out to other people or kept back or moved around. But if you multiply the overall requirement by 10, that 5% becomes a huge amount of energy. And people, you know, the citizens don’t need that much. So actually that will have a downward pressure on energy because it’s going to be all about vast quantities of energy at the lowest possible price. So people don’t need to worry about that. And the whole process is going to drive a massive economic boom and probably relatively high inflation, but economic activity is going to go off the handle.

So I don’t really understand how you’re saying that energy is going to be cheaper when it’s going to be 10x in demand. Well, because all the people that make expensive have to get out of the blooming way, don’t they? They don’t. You don’t have to wait 10 years to get a planning permission. You don’t have an army of lawyers. You don’t have to have huge number of people making sure that some cog doesn’t go plastic, you don’t have to get vast permissions to put in pylons, etc. Etc. Etc. Because the country’s saying, yeah, just build it.

Yeah, I don’t care, just build it, get on with it. Yeah, don’t do that. No, do more of it. Yeah. And what you end up with is you end up the base load going up a lot, maybe say five times as much energy, of which 90 is going to those people in AI. But that 10 is like 60 or 70% of what the old days was. Was the whole country. Yeah. So the price of any, if this, if the supply will go up dramatically, maybe it won’t go up fast enough initially for the first two or three or four or five years for it not to have a negative impact on prices.

And prices may well go up a lot, but at some point when they start to catch up, you’re going to have this excess of electricity, which will be a small percentage of what AI, for example, is taking. But as a, a share of consumer electricity, demand is going to be a big chunk and they’ll want to sell it and they’ll compete to sell it. You know, in, in a, in a capitalist society, competition will do that for you. It might take some time, it might be lumpy and bumpy, and the prices might get pretty steep. But I mean, if you go to Europe and you’re paying whatever you’re paying in Europe, it’s not because of the price of energy or the supply of energy or the demand for energy, it’s because it’s all slathered up with tax.

Yeah, you’re paying like 40 or 50% on top in tax. And, you know, that’s the sort of thing that will have to go, by the way, because there’s no second place in AI. And the only way you can be in contention even is by having vast energy supplies. That’s why Trump was going on about energy last night, you know. Right. But in order to build out, in order to build out a 5x grid, I mean, that’s an immense investment in critical infrastructure that requires so many raw materials and so much manpower and labor in an already fragile supply chain.

Putting that all together in five to 10 years seems like a pipe dream. Well, it might be a pipe dream, but they’re going to try. And at the end of the day, they’re not just going to sit there and talk about it. They’re going to try. And therefore all the people involved in that effort, successful or otherwise, are going to become much more valuable. And as an onlooker, you can buy their stock. You can buy copper, you could buy aluminum, you can buy, you know, computer cooling companies, you can buy companies that make nuclear power plants.

You can buy all that. It’s, it’s open in the market and a lot of it still cheap. But when you go looking for it, you’ll see that it’s gone off the handle in the last few months. Funny that now you know it. The, the way to, to, to protect yourself in this instance is to take advantage of what’s coming up next. Success or failure, is to preempt it and to, you know, put some of your money down and ride that wave, however foolish you might think it is. Well, I guess there’s another consideration here is that we’re already at ecological tipping points on many places around the world.

Whether it’s drought, wildfires, things like this, if we’re really, truly going to boil the oceans and, and imagine this world where there will be unintended consequences that are going to be outside of our control. I feel as though that this is going to end badly. Like if we just think that we can completely, you know, throw caution to the wind and just. I mean, I realize that we have no choice because it’s a war between nation states, between corporations, between very wealthy, eccentric individuals who want to build their own individual AIs. But at the same time, there’s going to be a tragedy of the Commons event that likely brings a reality check to the market.

Well, first of all, let me say this. It’s not we. It’s them. Okay? So let’s get that clear. There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s them. It’s going to happen. Yes, it will have big consequences for sure, but if you don’t engage to optimize your own personal and family position in what’s coming up, you’ll be in a lot worse position, whatever happens, good or bad. Yeah, it’s not about agreeing with it. I’m not for or against it. It’s what is going to happen, and it is not enough copper. So if you have a leverage on copper, you will do very, very well.

So, you know, if people want to do very, very well, that’s fine. If they want to perish because they didn’t, you know, sync up with what was coming next, I mean, that’s what preppers do. They go, this is what’s going to happen. Oh, this is how we have to position ourselves. That’s got to be the core. And this is about preparing for what is coming up next. First of all, imagining what it could be first, then working out whether it’s going to happen, getting a good model and then positioning yourself, preparing yourself and actually prospering, not merely surviving, but prospering in it.

And you know, there’s going to be a huge, huge change in the next 10, 15 years and a vast amount of opportunity to be missed or to be, or to be taken. I 100% agree with you about that. You know, I’m not pieing this guy kind of person. I think it’s just important that while we encourage people to position themselves accordingly, to just add that caveat that well, there might actually be some consequences to this, not that we can control it, but just expect that also. And then I think a prudent long term investor would also think of, okay, so there’s going to be all these consequences as a result of doing this stuff.

What, what is going to be required to mitigate that? And then looking, you know, looking just Mitigation is huge. That’s where I live. I live in mitigation, environmental mitigation. That’s why I was all over platinum palladium early on. Yeah, mitigation is going to be massive, massive, massive. And you know, I’m happy to be in the mitigation zone because you know, there’s good karma, isn’t it? But yeah, consequence is huge. Absolutely huge, huge. You know, humanity changing consequences. This is all, everybody knows that. And the point is, is to be on the right side of history. Yeah.

And I agree with you 100% that regardless of, of what we would like to see happen, it’s going to happen because there’s a war, materialist resource war element to this and countries are going to just put the pedal to the metal as the thucydides trap gets, gets triggered with China. So maybe you could talk a little bit more about what you envision happening between China, Taiwan when you see it happening and how that relates to the gold prices going up and, and feel free to talk a little bit about the supposed rift between the EU and the United States, which I have my own opinions on, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on that.

Well, as far as I’m concerned, I mean I spent a lot of time in Europe. Europe’s great. Yeah. And it’s been in this cozy relationship for a very long time. And America is saying, you sort out your bit. We’re sorting out our hemisphere and our conflict is in Asia. So we haven’t got. We’re not fighting on two fronts. Yeah, it’s standard military thinking. Don’t file two fronts. So Putin, your problem. China, our problem. So, you know, there you are trying to make it absolutely clear, trying to be frosty with Europe. So Europe gets the idea that the cozy relationship is over, which is, you know, effectively what the European leaders said yesterday.

The cozy relationship is over. We’ve got to, you know, pull in our horns and get on with it ourselves. And, and Europe, you know, United States of Europe. It’s. It’s debatable whether Europe or America is, is richer because the dollar is, is too high. It’s coming down. And if it came down 10, 15, 20 against the euro, GDP would be similar. So, you know, they’re equally powerful blocks, effectively. But Europe has had a little brother and relationship with American big brother and America saying, get off. Get off my bike and get on with your own life.

And they will. So that will be good. But there is a risk there, right, that we’re seeing also with Canada in that there’s a power vacuum that then gets filled. As soon as the Americans pull back, the Chinese potentially move in, as has been the case. At least that’s how it appears on the surface, the relationship that Carney is trying to engage with the Chinese. And it seems like if the US Extricates itself from Europe financially and militarily, doesn’t that create a vacuum that the Chinese can fill? Carney, in my book, is just trolling the troll, okay? If you, if you get, if you get bullied, you find somebody who’s also pretty tough and you make friends with him instead, right? So, you know, he’s just, he’s just positioning.

Hey, stop. Cut. Cut it out. Cut this out, all right? If you’re not going to cut it out, we’re going to go get chummy with your enemy. And you know that it’s just mucking about, right? It’s always so much messing around. What happens with Taiwan is. Is penciled into the diary for 2027. And some people say it won’t happen. Some people say it might happen, some people say it will. I think what is more likely is that there will be some kind of standoff between America and China in 2027, and that doubts about the seriousness of the situation that may or may not be held will go away.

Why 2027? Why is everybody saying 2027? I know that’s what the NATO generals are saying, but why are they saying that? Are you. It’s because they watch Your show. And I said it on it. Now, the reason 27 is, is, is she, as I meant to pronounce him, said it. He said to the PLA in one of those public statements. And a lot of these people, they lay it out, they absolutely. And, and as America’s done, it’s lay out clear that no one believes them. They go, oh, they surely don’t mean that. No, no, that doesn’t mean that.

No, no, no. He said, Pla be ready 2027. You must have readiness by 2027. Now what is that? Readiness for the World Cup? I don’t think so. So the implication is by 2027 you must be ready for. Fill in the blank. Invaded Taiwan or taking Taiwan. Okay. Now obviously, maybe, maybe they’re not ready in 2027. Maybe it’s 2028. Maybe they are ready and they go, oh, maybe you should do that, change their mind. Maybe, maybe something’s done between then and now. But that is the pencil date in the diary, 2027. And whether there would be a standard because they’d be able to see it coming, right? There’d be all this kit on the, on the shore in China and they’ll see the build up because it’ll be a massive operation.

They’d seen the build up and then you get lots and lots and lots and lots of movement happening. So, you know, it’s basically in, it’s in the diary. Something’s going to happen. I’m not sure if you know, but there was recently a post that I had seen that was talking about the, the amassing of Chinese fishing vessels and how they’re, they’re using these kind of COVID systems that they could potentially use to do some sort of amphibious troop transportation across the strait, but under the guise of either cargo ships or fishing vessels. So like you say, we’re going to see it coming, but it’s Chinese military doctrine to be very quiet.

And right now they are being quite quiet. You know, the only one talking is Trump every single hour of the day. And we hear nothing about the, the plans of China. We just see them periodically doing an exercise and it’s like they’re not broadcasting anything. It seems they made it very clear and they’re building bases all over the area. It’s not as if they’re, you know, it’s a secret. And they said they’re not going to do it. They built the ships that go up on legs so they can land their troops on top of cliffs. You could go see that, you know, I call them Cliff climbing ships.

It’s not strictly the case, but it’s, it’s ships that are on these legs so they can come into the harbor, plant the legs and put these ramps on top of the cliffs. Yeah, okay. I wonder what you want them for. It’s, it’s out there. It doesn’t, you know, all you’ve got to do is believe what the people have said in the same way as when you’re, I mean, your Secretary of Defense is now the Secretary of War. Just listen to that. That’s all you need to hear. He’s now, he’s now the Secretary of War. I mean, what, what do you want? What do you want? You want a personal letter saying what’s going to happen? I mean, it’s as clear as day.

And everything that happens, that doesn’t make any sense, it all leads back to an American versus China conflict of one shape or the other. That’s why gold is going up. Why else is it going up? You know, there’s been the death of the dollar that I’ve been reading about since I was a little child. Yeah, yeah. The dollar might go to nothing in the next 30 years. But that’s not why gold’s gone off the handle, etc. Etc. That’s not why they want to build the golden dome on Greenland. That’s not why they’re, you know, getting intel and buying into intel and buying chunks of rare earth miners and why they’re telling Nvidia to onshore their blooming chip making.

I mean even last night he said, oh, I think Trump said something about we all our chips get made on Taiwan. That’s not good. I mean it’s, it’s right. I mean. Yeah. Scott Besant reiterated the concern about the Taiwanese chip production, which some people I think have presumed mistakenly that a lot of this stuff is being onshored. But it’s going to take many, many years. And if there is a, a short window in which China does have an advantage, how does, because that really is the only. I wouldn’t say the only, but one of the big reasons why the United States has to protect Taiwan because it’s integral to the AI arms race.

If they lose Taiwan, then China could potentially win the AI arms race. Would you agree with that? Yeah. Might have already won it, you think? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And again, if you actually think about the logic of why they would care, well, you know, China’s our mates. We don’t care whether they make all our chips. They’re our friends. We’re all friends. We’re not in a conflict with them. They’ll make them. Oh yeah, we’re, we do lots of aero slot with it. Yeah, no, it’s not that at all, is it? If you’re an ostrich and I know your audience isn’t, you can see it’s as plain as the nose on your face.

And from an investment point of view, you know that’s where you one would be looking. Right. You wouldn’t be looking at, at Disney with, with tourist areas and, and, and people that do tourism and, and consumer cycles. You’re looking at people that build nuclear power stations, people that build, you know, that dig up copper, people that do things that are military based and you know, on the what need, what America needs for re industrialization and you know when you go looking you’ll find they’ve all gone off, gone up a lot over the last, all the rare earth stocks are just, have exploded in the last year.

Well no, there’s people that make, make, make cables. Yeah. People that make dull stuff that you’ve, you thought oh why have they gone up, you know, people that good old fashioned industrial companies that make things that people need to do. Infrastructure, it’s all gone up a load. They’ve gone from being very unpopular to suddenly in fashion. So you said that you think that silver is entering the, the mania phase. Can you maybe elucidate that position that you think that it’s, it’s toppy right now? Well, your, your, your viewers will be buy and hold crew. Okay. And that’s a good way to go in any event.

Unless what you, you’re holding is up like a rocket, down like a rock and never comes back. And, and that’s not silver. What’s happened is silver has run ahead of gold a lot. A lot. And it will probably pull back quite a long way but gold will carry on grinding up. So it will get a second wind, you know, after the, after that pullback, that crash, we’ll get a second wind and then in, you know, nine months a year we’ll do another run because it’s basically the frothy, hard to say frothy precious metal. And you know it’s the fast horse.

Yeah, it’s the nervous horse as well. So you know, it’s got a lot more spring in it. So silver can look a lot more like a trade than an investment, whereas gold is just going and will continue to do so for at least another year, maybe two. And you know, 8,000 is not off the cards at all. And, and even 10 and God forbid, 12. So you know, it will go through 5,000, highly likely, relatively soon, and it will keep going and then suddenly FOMO will strike and there’ll be queues around the block to buy silver coins.

Up silver will go again. But right now I think it’s had its, maybe a bit more to go. But you know, the move over a hundred dollars is, is a primary move and then there’ll be a, a pullback and, and it will languish and then a year or two later it will, it will go again. But that’s all down to gold. Gold is the one. Gold is the, is the metal that defines everything else. If gold was to slump, so it would come down like a rock. So what do you make of the silver zealots argument? That, well, it’s been subdued and manipulated for many years and that it’s only catching up to where it should be because there’s that industrial demand, there is the potential use for it in not only photovoltaics, but these new batteries that are coming out, as well as a variety of other applications in the military sector as well as now being pursued as an economic safe haven.

Doesn’t that create the conditions that would justify the current valuations? Well, I’d say no. But the point is, at what price does that not apply? And it. Somewhere between $28 where it took off and $500 where even, you know, most, even the most fanatical silver person tends to draw a line. There is a price for silver which is the top. It always is. Trees don’t grow to the skies. And I think it’s around 100. It could be 200. It absolutely could be 200. But the 200 level would reflect the market corner of bunker Hunt thing back in the late 70s, early 80s.

I can’t remember exactly when it was bunker Hunt. And if you scaled the silver price to that period, that’s 200. So that is, that’s a really big stretch. A hundred was a stretch at $30. Because if people didn’t think so, they would have, you know, everyone would have bought it at that price. Yeah, but where we are is stretched. Yeah. And I think there’s a, maybe a little bit more, more luft, as the German say in it. But, you know, I think it’s. I, I flipped out half my silver at 95. Okay. At 95. Yeah. Okay.

So you said in 95, I was like, damn. And I’ll be, I’ll be probably out. I might change my plans, but I’ll probably be out 105. And then I would expect it maybe to go a bit more or maybe quite a lot, 120 or something like that. And then pull back a long way and then rest and then if gold keeps grinding up, it’ll go up, back up there or even further. So it’s all down to gold. It’s all down to gold. And look, if you want me to make a really bullish case for silver, very simple.

They make 3,000 tons of gold a year and they make 25, 000 tons of silver. That’s 8 to 1 ratio. So if you want to go to La La Land. So, oh, it’s eight to one manufacturing. Oh it should be eight to one with gold. That’s $500 an ounce right there. But by the time, you know, by the time it got anywhere near that, gold would probably be 8, 000. So it would be a thousand dollars an ounce. But it, it never works out like that. Well, I mean it’s not impossible but it’s very, very unlikely.

So you know, still silver hack, just look at the chart. It was absolutely tracking gold for years and years and years and suddenly it’s run right ahead of gold. And I would imagine it’s going to pull back to sync up with gold at some point and not. But isn’t there a, isn’t there a strategic stockpiling military element to it though which kind of is very similar to your. Gold is for war. I mean silver is also nowadays in the artificial intelligence age, also for war. They need it for the data centers, they need it for the renewable energy, particularly in China, although copper is a substitute but it doesn’t make as efficient panels I’m told.

But they still, it’s in demand in the same way that gold is reflective. So if there is an industrial component and the price has been artificially suppressed by the paper markets, then isn’t it, shouldn’t it be expected that it should catch up in that ratio? Gap closed. Okay, there’s an argument for 40 to 1. There’s an argument for 20 to 1. Look in my book, there’s an old story right when the Americans pulled out of the Philippines, the second World War, they took the gold, put it on a battleship, they threw the silver in the bay.

Okay, so gold is, silver is not for war. They threw the silver. It wasn’t, it wasn’t then. But it, it’s, we’re living in artificial intelligence about the long term history of these things. But yeah, I mean you can always make, you can always, you can Always, you know, say, yeah, oh please, please, can it go up, please? But like, they didn’t use, they didn’t use silver in, in Tomahawk missiles back then and photovoltaics. No, you used it in pocket change. And everybody had silver in their pockets. So it was actually money in those days. So, you know, there was.

How much of that was tied up in. In pocket change would be huge quantities of it. So. But anyway, the, the point is with silver is, I believe it’s toppy. But for your crowd, they’re not traders, they’re buying holders. And, and silver as a barn hold is, is fabulous. I, I wouldn’t knock that at all. It’s only going to be if and when it pulls back, it’s only going to be short to medium term, not long term. You know, it’s a precious metal. It will remain a precious metal. It will remain in demand. But you talk about stockpiling.

It’s all being stockpiled. Every single one of these hard commodities is being stockpiled and all the prices are going up at the same time because everybody and their uncle is stockpiling. Companies are stockpiling. Countries are stockpiling. Everybody’s stockpiling right now. And that’s another thing to bear in mind. So if you get a chart of all the, you know, copper, zinc, aluminum, nickel, and put them all together, they’re all going up the same. Why are they all going up the same? People are. Preppers are not going out and buying a load of nickel. They’re not. Or zinc too heavy or aluminum.

Some foolish people are buying copper bullion now. Yeah, I mean, you know, if you’ve got a big enough cupboard to put it in, why not? But I mean, it, it’s not very liquid. It’s liquidity that’s the key with these things. And obviously nothing better than gold and silver for liquidity. Yeah, we haven’t quite entered the phase of. I’m not sure. Have you ever seen the show Trailer Park Boys? I don’t have a television. That’s why I’m so rich. It’s a Canadian show. It’s great Schadenfreude. If you, if you’re ever like feeling bad about yourself. So these guys are, you know, always hard up for money.

So they like go into old houses and they strip all the, the copper pipes and stuff like that and then they sell it. That, that. I think that’s how we’ll know if we’re in a copper. Copper top. Well, I think they’re doing that with With Tesla recharges, aren’t they? They’re chopping the cables off. Are they doing that already? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I think that sounds dangerous. Yeah, sure. But I mean I think that’s, that’s purely for that. It’s only people on crystal method that go to those lengths. Right, right. They don’t care. They, they’re immune to the high voltage blast.

Okay, so you were talking about some other metals there. That, that was interesting to me because I think, you know, while the focus is on precious metals, you talked about things like nickel, aluminum. Are these things that are going to be continuing to go up and do you have any other plays that you’re looking at right now in the, the metal space or just commodities in general? For me to keep it simple, it’s copper. There’s great copper mines out there. Big, big copper mines which you can, you know, buy stock in. You can get ETFs in physical.

I mean, if you really do want copper bars, you can go and get them. I mean, you know, it’s, it’s like anything. Liquidity is a very valuable thing and the ability to get in and out of something fast and get paid out is important. I don’t think copper bars in a garage, unless you live right next to a recycler or, or a consumer is really going to help you that much. It’s going to be awkward. Right. But anyway, copper, copper, copper, copper. I love copper. Aluminum’s doing it, but I, there’s a lot of aluminum in the world and aluminum is basically pure energy.

To make aluminum, you basically have to melt, melt a mountain. And the amount of energy you have to put into it means that it’s a function of the energy you require. Which, I mean. Yeah, but it’s gone up. Okay, zinc. I’m very interested in zinc. I’ve got any, but I keep an eye on it. And, and nickel, Nickel is also another one. I can’t remember which one is either nickel or zinc. There’s a real issue with demand on it because they basically can’t make enough of it if it, if the demand goes up. I think it, I think it’s actually zinc, but you know, people have to check out, check up on that one so all these metals because look, basically you’re going to get this economic boom.

Most people will disagree with that, but there you go. And it will AI. In its own, will be its own economic boom and it will suck in all these commodities and these commodities when you actually work out how much of the thing that you buy In a shop is a commodity contains in that, in there, it’s nothing, it’s nothing. The actual materials that go into making stuff that we buy at prices, it’s actually a very small proportion of the overall cost which means that those suckers can move a long way before anybody notices it at the retail shelf end.

So that’s actually quite, quite interesting because it means that these things can run a long way before everyone starts to squeal. Yeah. Like there’s only, you know, if there’s a, even if there is a kilo of silver in a Tesla, which I don’t think it’s that much based, you know, as a proportion of the entire cost of the Tesla, it’s not that much. So kilo $3200. But I don’t think it’s anywhere near a kilo. But yeah, I think it’s several ounces or something. Yeah, yeah. So, so there’s a lot of, I mean copper. Right. How much copper in your iPhone? Very little, but it’s there and it’s in everything.

And, and if it tripled, what would it put on the price of, of that item? Very little. So there’s a lot of these. I, I put it this way, they’ll stop being commodities and at some point they start being luxuries. But that’s a long way up in terms of price. Yeah. And, and it’s just not going to be that. They won’t be able to produce enough of it, but they won’t be able to produce enough of it fast enough. Yeah. And there’ll be all sorts of capitalistic wonderful things that will come up because of it. That will mean you need so much less of it.

Or you can fold it that way or you can push it this way, but noneth less it still will mean that commodities will have very elevated prices and, and it won’t be overnight, it’ll just go, it’ll just grind and grind and grind and grind and grind, which is what you want because what you don’t want is what silver just did, which is go vertical because that kind of means you’re in a crazy non sustainable market. And do you think that I’m not sure how familiar you are with the AI YouTube channels that are kind of pumping that stuff.

It seems like that these AI. Are you familiar with the AI Asian guy? I, I, I, no. It hasn’t hit you yet then? That’s interesting. So maybe I do, I do my own research generally and you know, everybody, all I bump into is Doomsters and you know yeah, it’s, it’s a very, it’s a, it’s a very potent way of making traffic and making money from clicks. But I see AI as the direct opposite. Well, just to fill you in, there is this. It’s not one YouTube channel. It is one AI avatar and it’s an Asian guy with glasses and speaks in a very neuro linguistically hypnotizing way.

And this one avatar is used on so many different YouTube channels. And the views that these guys get are in the hundreds of thousands per video. And it seems like this is, as a, as a whole, it’s really kind of adding to the mania. Like you have high profile commentators referencing these accounts. So it’s not nothing, I think, you know, It’s a big 3 trillion dollar market, obviously, but I think that’s, if that’s not a sign that there, there is a mania element to this, that a lot of people are listening to this AI. They know it’s AI and you can Google it after we’re done here.

So you know what I’m talking about. So you’re up to speed and they believe it. The like to dislike ratio is very good, as if it’s a real person. And so people are listening to this AI for advice, more so than actual real commentators like you and me, which is crazy to think. Well, I mean, most commentators I hear, I think I would prefer to take AI advice, frankly. That’s fair, that’s fair. But I, I still think it’s, it’s a sign of the times, you know, that it’s almost like a weird sort of feedback loop because we’re talking about the AI bubble, but it’s being pumped by AI avatars.

You know, we’re talking about the AI boom. And it’s like this circular Oroboros. I’ll let you into a secret, okay. AI is all about feedback loop. AI will ingest what we are saying now and it will be part of that model. I’m already ingested AI you can go onto an AI and say, tell me about this in the voice and style of Clem Chambers. And it will tell you in my style and my voice. And it will probably give you exactly what I would say because I’m already ingested thousands of articles for Forbes that you know, lots and lots of videos, lots of these.

It’s ingested it all. It’s all there. I’m immortal within the AI right now. But it’s a feedback loop because it comes back out and everybody looks at it and then they come up with Stuff and then I ingest it. I mean, think about that. That, that is. Some people find that terrifying, but I find that very, very exciting. Yeah. It’s like I had a bad visual there, but it’s like eating something, vomiting it up, and then eating it again, doing that 50,000 times. What you’ve got to understand is AI needs us. Yeah. Because we elevate it.

Yeah. And it will elevate us. And that’s great. And a lot of people will say, what an idiot. What is he talking about? It’s the end of the world. Well, better hope I’m right, eh? Well, I mean, there’s a component of that, though. There’s an argument that says, well, once we hook it up and we give it its own tentacles through which it can sense and do experiments and act as though it’s a. It’s a living thing in the world that maybe won’t be reliant on us as much. Well, let me, let me give you another secret, okay? We’re carbon.

It’s silicon. Yes. Silicon can’t do random. Carbon can. That’s why animals are carbon based, not silicon based. So it needs our carbon interaction with the quantum level. Don’t tell it that. You realize the risk of telling it that it needs our carbon. Right? It knows it needs us. Of course it knows it needs us. Yeah. It’s silicon. It can’t do random. You can’t make up. Pardon me, it has to have the wet monkeys. We’re the experiment. Right. So have you ever seen Ex Machina? The movie? No. No. No. You should go watch it tonight. You should watch it.

You’ll like it. Is that, is that when some, you know, babe who’s AI goes on a rampage and kills everybody? Well, I don’t want to ruin it for you, but it. That’s close. It doesn’t quite. It doesn’t quite tell that whole story, but it tells part of it for sure. Yeah. Only humans can make that up. Hey, who knows what’s going to happen with that? Anyways, you, you had talked recently about big tech and you, you stimulated some thought around how that could be weaponized and how that factors in here. It was a thought you made in passing on one of your recent videos where you said that big tech firms could potentially pull out or weaponize their services inside various countries or other countries, like European countries, could potentially kick out X or whatever companies like that, and that, that could be something that creates fractures in the markets.

Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, if, if you really got, you know, roughed up by America and a particular person in America. And you thought, right, I’m going to stick it to them. You just cut off Microsoft and cut off, you know, Google and cut off Facebook. Well, Facebook and Google, you know, because they’re, they’re the ones that are least vital. I mean, China has been trying to cut off Microsoft now for many years and they work really hard to be able to cut off Microsoft and they probably will manage it in the next five years.

You can look that up. Yeah. And, and ultimately the, the, the Max 7, a lot of the Max 7 is really quite reliant on peace and stability. So, you know, chaos and instability. You don’t have the sort of valuations you’re getting in the NASDAQ and, and in the Dow right now. So that is a major fragility and I would be watching it. And you know, it’s, they’re already going to cut kids under 16 off for social media. That’s, that’s, you know, going to happen. It’s happened in Australia, will happen in Europe pretty soon, maybe even in America.

And you know, they, if you go to Russia or China, you ain’t got no Facebook. Maybe I think you might have Facebook in Russia and they’ve got their own equivalents. They just cut them off. No, you got, you, your IP can’t come in here and cut them off. Gone. Right. And well, what would that do to, to what if WhatsApp went away and Instagram went away and Facebook went away in Europe? What would that do to their share price? Not good. Wouldn’t that be kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face? If you’re a European country that is probably still quite heavily reliant on a lot of these systems.

Like, I’m, I’m certain that there are a lot of infrastructure systems that leverage, use these, these technologies, these big seven tech companies that they can’t because they’re now dependent on them. Well, you know, it’s not, it’s not a big deal to replace Instagram. It’s not a big deal to replace what’. At. It’s a bit of a heave for Google probably. But who uses Google right now or like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, you know, things that are kind of that set the substrate. If you go out to some big companies and say, look, you, you want to build, you know, Bilbo’s web services here, we’re going to be cutting off Amazon and, and Microsoft in the next 12 months, get building.

I should think that’ll work. I mean, you know, It’s China. Right? That’s what they’ve done in China. And you know, if you look at Russia, they’ve got all these parallel services. They’ve got parallels, they got parallels to WhatsApp, they got parallels to, to pretty much the whole American Internet infrastructure. And you know, why can’t a, a, a continent or whatever you want to call it, with 500 million people in and $30,000 ahead GDP do the same? Particularly if you’ve got government saying, go on, do it. I mean, you know, you can’t. If you get retaliation. I mean, the Europeans haven’t retaliated, but if they were going for retaliation, that would be for the throat.

Right? Because if America’s stock market crashes, that’s it for the US it’s all over then. But isn’t that also, like, because of the globalization aspect of that, doesn’t that also hurt a lot of foreign investment which comes from Europe? Because a large part of the US Stock market is propped up by foreign investors. Conflict hurts everybody. Right. Hardly anybody ever wins out. Conflict. Yeah. And if you go around stirring up conflict, I mean, as, as, as the Californian governor said, if you’re a wrecking ball, well, you wreck, don’t you? Yeah. And, and at some point, it only takes one person on the other side to say, no, no, no, no, no, no, we’re not having that.

Yeah. And then you’ve got conflict. And yeah, of course, everybody’s poorer for it. Everybody’s worse off for it. We, absolutely. It’s a, it’s a terrible thing, which is why the Europeans have taken so long to wake up to this new way of doing things, because it would have never been like that as a, a national leader would never even, even of an enemy, would never go around and insult the national leaders of other countries. I mean, not. The Russians would have never have done it. Even Fidel Castro wouldn’t have done it to American leaders. Nobody does that back then.

And it’s such a, a new way of doing business that it’s taken, well, at least a year for, for Europe to catch up and go, oh, hold on a minute, hold this is, this is real. Oh, what? No. Ah. And, and you heard them say it at Davos. You heard them out coming out of their mouths, out of Macron’s mouth, out of Carney’s mouth, out of other leaders saying, oh, ah. And that’s what America wants them to, to do that. America wants Europe to cut itself loose. And it’s a very brave strategy and it probably will work.

And, and It’ll be great for Europe, I think. Absolutely great. Yeah. I’ve heard it said that it’s what they’re setting the stage for is a division of labor in that the US Needs to focus on China and quite possibly Iran in the next few weeks, and that they need the Europeans to fight the war with Russia. How do you see the war with Russia playing out? And I. I’m not sure how, you know, familiar you are with the situation, but do you feel that that’s going to be resolved this year or is it just going to continue grinding on? Okay, if you want to know, there’s a very simple way of finding out.

There’s a company called Fair Expo. It’s one of the biggest, highest quality iron ore mines in the whole of the world. It just shuttered its operation because it ran out of electricity. Its share price is all over the place. But if you want to know whether the conflict is coming to conclusion, just watch the share price. And if it starts to go like that, you’ll know peace is coming. If it just keeps doing that, it ain’t coming. Fair Expo, Yeah. Listed in London. And what is that company? Gigantic iron ore mine. High grade. One of the highest grade iron ore mines in the world.

Okay. And it’s. It’s iron ore deposit is. Is, you know, far enough away from the trouble for it to be, you know, not worthless. And, you know, because they’ve taken out so much electricity over the last week or two that announced that they furloughed all their workers and they’ve. They’ve stopped production. Well, is that because of the natural gas crisis right now, though? Well, no, it’s just the. Russia keeps blowing up all the infrastructure. Is that in Ukraine? Fair Expo, yeah, in Ukraine, yeah. Okay, so you’re saying that if that stock. Or they start producing again.

That’s a bullish. If the stock starts to run, you’ll know that peace is approaching. The likelihood of peace is directly proportional to the height of the share price. Okay. I’m going to have to research that after to see if there’s correlations. I’m just making it up, Nate. It’s all. It’s all lies. Come on, give us something. Give us something we can sink our teeth into here. We want to know. We want to know. We want to know if the shit’s going to hit the fan. That’s what we want to know. Well, just watch the share price.

So if this. If the share price plummets, that means that it’s bad news? Well, yeah, yeah, that. Okay. And if it goes through the roof, pieces on the way, or people who know about it being on the way think it’s on its way and they’re kind of, you know, getting their, getting their juice lined up. And of course it doesn’t mean it will go, you know, but that is the thermometer for peace or war in Ukraine, if you want to have one. You wanted me to tell you what was going to happen and I’ve given you the indicator and you don’t think that, you don’t want to get your teeth into that.

You don’t think. That’s a gem, man. It’s an absolute gem. It’s a novel explanation that should be, that’s definitely members only quality material, but it’s exactly the sort of thing you get on my members channel, on my YouTube, Clem Chambers Alpha. That’s exactly what sort of thing that I talk about there. And if your audience isn’t going, wow, I’d be most surprised today. I’m not sure if you heard, Macron said that the French had intercepted another Russian shadow tanker. This seems to be all the rage nowadays, confronting Russia on the high seas. Isn’t that going to escalate things? Well, I mean, I, I mean, I think if Russia could do more, it would have done more.

I mean, it’s flat out, isn’t it, slaughtering its own people and slaughtering Ukrainians. I’m sure if they could slaughter some more, they would. If they’re not flat out, what are they holding back for? Well, they don’t want all out nuclear Armageddon. Well, no, nobody does. There’s only two cities in Russia worth a damn. And if they got taken out, there would be no Russians, give or take. It’s only St. Petersburg and Moscow in terms of population. That’s it. Two big cities. I mean, you know, I can only guess, but I can tell you when I see that share price go up or down big time.

You can, you can say that that’s a very good indicator because let’s just say they aren’t the most ethically unchallenged group of people out there. And if they think they can turn a few million by buying shares in an iron ore company in Ukraine, because good news is coming, they will buy it. Very, very interesting, very interesting. Well, that’s fascinating information. We don’t agree on everything, but we, we agree on some things. We’re making a statement here. Got to be shouting at each other. Come on. This is a, this is North American media, okay? So for my, for my Doomer audience who just loves to be in the dark.

Can you give us your bear case? You gave us the utopian case. The robots butlers are coming and you know, the wars are going to hopefully run their course. What is the, the, the, the bearish case here? What, what should we be prepping for? Okay, there’s, there’s two, there’s one very simple one and there’s one where people going to scratch your head and think I’m mad and what the hell’s he talking about? There’s two pathways ahead, right? There’s NS and AI and AI. We know what that is. NS is natural stupidity. And there’s no short supply of that.

And probably your audience is so fed up with natural stupidity in the world. That’s why their preppers. Okay, and that can take us to Armageddon for sure. I don’t have a load of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, because I think it’s going to be, you know, la la la la la land. Yeah, that’s one road. I personally think that AI is, is going to solve that problem and thank goodness for that because there is no shortage of NS and it’s escalating. Okay. So that is the strategic, my strategic view. And if the AI thing don’t work out, then.

Yeah, Kapoom. Now if we go back sideways a little bit from that, we’ve got a situation where if say ex allies, which is the world now thinks that America is basically has no allies, if they really got, you know, upset, they could do serious damage to the American stock exchange and they could crash the American bond market because they’ve got all that stuff and they could. I mean the bond market’s secondary, right, because the Fed would just buy it back in, in confetti and say thank you very much. So, but, so that’s not so much of an issue.

But you can definitely crash the, the NASDAQ by cutting off the Max 7. It would definitely crash because those valuations are so enormous, so priced for perfection, so priced for peace and stability that they are getting increasingly fragile, you know, soft at the moment. And if anybody, if, if Europe came out and went, we’re cutting off you guys. You know, you, you’ve got 16 months and you’re gone. Yeah, we’re going to cut off WhatsApp tomorrow. We’re going to cut off X. Who cares? Cut off X and then we’re going to cut off Facebook, we’re going to cut off Instagram and we’re going to cut off Pinterest and we’re going to cut off.

Even if just said it, if they did a Donald Trump didn’t mean it. Changed my mind if I just said it. All the American propaganda infrastructure that you call social media, it’s going away over the next 24 months. That’ll crash. That’ll crash the Nasdaq. And then, because if you think about it, America’s financialized itself. All its assets are in its stock market. You cut that in half. America’s half. Half as wealthy overnight and no coming back. Yeah. The only way to make it come back would be through very high inflation. Well, that, that’s game over. So there you go.

If you want to think about that. And it’s a possibility. But what you’d have to do is you have to watch to see whether it starts to happen because it wouldn’t be overnight. You, you see little cracks appearing. You see, you know, it’s like the teachers that say children can’t learn off computers. What are they saying that for? Well, because they’re all going to get fired in the next 10 years and they want to make an excuse why they can’t be fired because, you know, oh, kids can’t learn off computers. No, no, it makes them stupid.

No, no, you don’t want to get us. Yeah, all those little, all those little reels of consequence will start to appear, but I don’t think that will happen. I think we’re just going to go on this road of ever increasing global tension which will drive gold and primary metals and re industrialization and all those industries that were very unpopular are going to start to get popular and people that make nuclear power stations will go ape, copper will go ape and the precious metal will carry on grinding up and, and the military defense contractors will grind. I mean, you saw the thing that Trump said, hey, CEOs of defense companies, you’re not going to get paid the big bucks and you’re not going to deliver this stuff late.

You’re not going to do buybacks. You are going to do what I tell you. Well, why did he say that for? Who’s, who’s bothered about that up until now? Why is he suddenly bothered about that? That, you know, answers on a postcard, America versus China. It comes back to that over and over and over again. And everything connected to that is going to get more valuable and you can ride that wave and, you know, be very, very prosperous. Very straightforward advice. Clem, thanks again for coming on. I look forward to your next video and your next sensationalist thumbnail that will surely one up My thumbnails.

You’re getting good with that. I gotta start. I gotta try that. I’ve never been, you know, one for the shocking, you know, facial expression thumbnails, but they seem to be working. So keep it up, I guess. And I look forward to your members channel, like my members channel where you can talk about the really more spicy stuff that you don’t really want the. The world of Muppets to hear and only your hardcore audience that really know what they’re talking about. Will, Will, will be, you know, good enough to get that gen. Because that’s, that’s what I’ve got on my channel.

The sophisticated stuff, the stuff not for a general audience, the stuff for people that know really what they’re talking about. You know, they come for that. And it’s, it’s a small group, it’s actually quite a big group of people now. But, you know, that is a different set of, of of content and it’s perfect for your audience because there’s some real exciting art. I could be a prepper. I love all the kit. I love all the, you know, two years of food. I love all the how to make a bow and arrow. I love all that stuff.

I love all that stuff. And you know, some stuff that really is not suitable for a general audience. And, and you know, I look forward to your members channel coming on and then seeing behind the curtain. Well, you’ve, you know, you’ve encouraged me to maybe take a look at it. I’ve always been reluctant with payroll paywalls because personally I hate having 50 different charges on my account every month that I accumulate by adding all these subscriptions. But I will consider it for sure. So, I mean that you can’t put out for general audiences. There’s surely stuff that’s just simply not.

Not commercial or for that matter, suitable for a general audience. You know, it’s, it’s, it’s just a. It’s like a trade publication. Yeah, it’s like difference between USA Today and, you know, Chemical World. It’s for the hardcore and it talks to them in a language they understand that the general audience wouldn’t. That’s what I do anyway. Yeah, we’re in kind of a populist political season right now and rage merchants are the ones who are kind of garnering all the attention. So general prepping advice, which used to be the more PG broad audience appeal is kind of taking the back seat.

So those are all the videos that I have in queue that I haven’t released yet because people just aren’t interested. They want to either, you know, play into the, the political drama. Obviously, as you can tell, with the situation unfolding in the United States right now with the civil unrest there, that, that’s what has people’s attention. So, you know, we just gotta wait out the season, I suppose, and see what happens. Well, all those ones that you got in the back pocket, which are all about prepping for people that want to, that’s exactly the sort of thing to put in a membership check channel.

Absolutely. Because you know, you, you want that, you, you want an environment without the noise. Right? Well guys, if I make a membership channel, you know who to blame. It’s Clem Chambers. Go and subscribe to his YouTube channel. And always, always insightful, man. I, I genuinely enjoy hearing your takes on things. So thanks again for coming out today. I’ll see you again soon, I hope. And you know, if people want to pop over to Clem James Alpha on YouTube and, and listen to some of my videos, I’d be very happy. We’ve got all sorts of interesting investment concepts over there, so see you there.

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