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Okay, everybody. Here we go. It’s me, Gregory Mannarino, Sunday, March 16, 2025. My newest segment of markets, look ahead, and people, we have a big week coming. We are beginning tomorrow, a new trading week with a new war. The United States is directly involved in yet another Middle East war. We’re going to talk about this, what it means for the markets and economy. Obviously, this goes way beyond the markets and economy, but we’re not going to cover a lot of that today. What I want to focus on mostly here is what we can expect with regard to, again, the markets and economy.

So, let’s just start off with this. As you know, I mean, this is everywhere right now. Trump ordering large-scale strikes against Yemen’s Houthis. Now, this is not just a one-off. President Trump has stated directly, in fact, vowing to use, I’m reading this, overwhelming lethal force to achieve our objective. Our objective. Let me know what our objective actually is. There was no presidential address to the nation, which you would expect with something like this, but he did post on Truth Social. Okay. Lovely and fantastic. This obviously is going to create a certain amount of uncertainty in the market.

We’re going to cover all that and made a list of things that we need to pay attention to. So just real quick, this is yesterday when it just had started. President Trump has ordered waves of airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis. The United States has launched, according to President Trump, quote, a decisive and powerful wave of attacks on Houthi rebels. Again, President Trump went on to say he is vowing to use overwhelming lethal force to achieve our objectives. This is going to be a sustained U.S. military bombing campaign. Okay. Now let’s, before we even discuss this new kinetic war with no end, you have to understand.

And, you know, let me just say this real quick. For those of us who maybe follow this stuff a little bit, I’m sorry to even chuckle about this, but it doesn’t work. These Houthis, whatever these people are, whoever they may be, they’re pretty resilient, and they have stood the test of time here. And I would be willing to bet, unless President Trump intends on literally flattening Yemen as a whole, and even with that, the Houthis will probably still go on. It doesn’t work. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, or maybe one definition of insanity isn’t expecting a different outcome.

Are you expecting that this new war that we are in, this is a new war, kinetic war? We’re already in an economic war globally. Now we’re in a kinetic war. Are you expecting this to really stop the Houthis, honestly? Or are you expecting this to possibly escalate moving forward here? The Houthis that President Trump is claiming, and this really may be true, is a proxy of Iran, and this is obviously a warning to Iran. Do you think Iran’s going to just back down here, or do you believe that there’s a possibility that Iran could retaliate wreaking havoc on global energy supplies? So we already know supply chains are going to be disrupted by the economic war, the global economic war that we are in, this trade war, and it’s an interesting dynamic to think about.

So right now, I’m moving into next week, starting tomorrow, the United States, we’re entering this week with regard to the markets with a new kinetic sustained military campaign. I direct a military campaign by the United States. A global economic war is writing this stuff down. We’re already in a rapid economic downturn. The U.S. is being isolated, and the dollar is becoming irrelevant. That’s how we’re starting the week off. I want you to consider these things. Now, I had a whole other thing I wanted to talk to you about, but I think this is pretty important. So let’s now focus on, and I was just writing some stuff down, I’m going to cover this with you, what I believe is the effects of what we’re about to see due to this new war, this new kinetic war.

You know, it’s kind of funny. How many of you recall me many, many months ago saying that war would not stop no matter who they selected to sit behind the residence? Greg, you don’t understand. President Trump is the peace president. He wants peace. I said this was laughable, and we were going to see more war. And here you go, man. Of course, this was carried out on a weekend. This is to protect the stock market, at least an attempt to protect the stock market. Invariably, this is the way it is. 98% of the time, they carry out these events on a weekend to let the market digest it first.

Do you understand? The market comes first before everything. You don’t matter. Again, there was no presidential address except for Truth Social. No, President Trump did not have, in my opinion, the common courtesy to address the nation, to explain why we need this now. That’s because you don’t matter. You understand? Their agenda, he already referred to this. It’s kind of interesting, and I want to know what you think about this. To achieve our objective. Is he referring to Israel? Who is he referring to here? Our objective. I find it kind of offensive. Actually, I would expect this from President Trump.

No direct address to announce that we are now engaged in another sustained military campaign. Truth Social, you think that was enough? Really? A real president would have came out on national television and laid his case out for the American people. Why? We need to engage in yet another undeclared war. We don’t declare war anymore. So they could kind of like, you know, try to cover it up, of course. But what else did you expect in this environment here? But with regard to what we can expect here on an economic and market basis, it’s pretty obvious, and I just was sketching out a few things.

Number one, OK, so obviously this is a no-brainer. I’m just going to read to you what I wrote down this morning. So obviously, sustained military operations require potentially many hundreds of billions of dollars of funding. Where does the cash come from? We don’t have it. Is it the funds from Doge that are going to be used, or is it going to come right out of the Federal Reserve who’s willing to fund everything? All wars are banker wars. We understand that. And right now, the Federal Reserve is being made more powerful than ever in history with President Trump’s executive orders allowing cryptocurrencies to have access to the Federal Reserve’s national payment system, the potential for this Mar-a-Lago accord, this debt restructuring scheme, which is likely going to happen here, which will do nothing.

But of course, make the Federal Reserve monumentally stronger. So here we have another mechanism to empower the Federal Reserve, because the Federal Reserve is going to have to fund this to the tune of many hundreds of billions, maybe trillions of dollars, depending on how long it takes for President Trump, whoever he’s referring to here, to achieve our objective. Are we on the same page? So again, sustained military operations require potentially many hundreds of billions of dollars in funding, depending on how long this is. Now, there are other factors involved. So let’s just go over this.

So what we could expect from this, of course, again, it’s a no-brainer here, rising oil prices, and obviously that means higher inflation. Expect increases in energy prices, which also means increases to the cost of manufacturing and consumer goods. No-brainer stuff here. Now, global instability often leads to stock market fluctuations. Now, I started a new thing just over this weekend, a weekly trade. And I tell you exactly how to trade it, not just, hey, this is my stock pick. If you go to my website right now, traderschoice.net, there is a link in the description of the video.

I have a weekly trade, which I’m going to be doing. I’m going to advise you to not engage in that trade. Do not engage in that trade, because we have no idea how the market is going to react to this tomorrow. We’ll see first. We sit back. We wait for the right time to strike. Do you understand? So geopolitical instability often leads to stock market fluctuations impacting, obviously, investor confidence. Now, I hate even saying this. Defensive sectors like, of course, energy as an investment, defense contractors, of course, will benefit. But also, technology, consumer discretionary, and financial stocks could benefit from war.

Could benefit from war. Just amazing, isn’t it? It’s an incredible thing to see. Obviously, we have to think ahead. We don’t just live in the moment like animals or like dogs or like children who don’t think ahead. So thinking ahead here, we have to consider there is a potential for a retaliation for Iran. This is all about Iran. President Trump is sending Iran a direct message. He already threatened Iran. He said, you will stop backing Houthis or else what? OK, so we’ll see. This could lead to a water conflict in the region, further threatening economic stability, and obviously, the stock market.

Now, we have to consider if this gets worse, right? Or should we just not consider that at all? If this escalates and is sustained, which it will be, of course, consumer sentiment may decline, leading to reduced spending, which drives a large portion of the United States economy. In fact, 70% of the US economy is driven by consumer spending. Now, uncertainty in global markets could cause a further slowing of economic growth, impacting hiring, and business expansion. Now, if Iran were to retaliate in response to US airstrikes in Yemen, the most likely targets would be what? Obviously, it’s a no-brainer here.

US military bases in the Middle East. However, it could go beyond that. Iran could potentially cripple global oil supplies, missile or drone strikes on oil refineries, pipelines, any of this stuff here. And they’ve done it before. This is not speculation what I’m saying here. This is something that we’ve seen. We should also consider the fact that, obviously, Iran has a cyberattack ability, and they could use cyberattacks against the United States, financial institutions, infrastructure, government. agencies, banks, cryptocurrencies, power grids, I mean, you know, you name it across the board. Now, you know, look, man, I could go on and on about this.

I did write more, but I think that’s where I’m going to leave you off right here, people. I want to hear from you on this. Do you believe that the American people as a whole deserved to have President Trump come out yesterday on international television? Or at least national television, and explain to the people why we need this new war right now? Or is it okay that he just posted it on Truth Social? What’s your take on that? Me? Any real world leader engaging in yet another war should have the common courtesy to go out on national television and explain his case.

We did not get that. We don’t matter. You understand? Does this yet again allow you to understand that you don’t matter, that there is a whole other agenda going on here? If you don’t like my tone, you think I’m putting down President Trump, that’s because you can’t handle the truth. And that ain’t my problem, man. That ain’t my problem. It’s your own personal problem. So I hope, people, I have outlined for you what the effects of some of this are going to be quite obvious. I mean, everything I wrote here, I mean, come on, all of you knew it already.

A new surprise. You know, war, more war, sustained war, any mechanism they could think about, dream about, or cause you to have a nightmare over will be instituted to allow the Federal Reserve, in this case, to inflate. I’ve been telling you guys and girls this for 10 years. You think it’s going to stop? What this actually is, is another mechanism to empower the Federal Reserve. We do not have the cash for this. Potentially hundreds of billions, maybe even trillions of dollars for another war. Did you believe, honestly, really, how many of you believe? And it’s okay if you believe this, because you were duped, that we would not see more war.

Did you really think that this was going to be it? President Trump was going to sit behind the Resolute Desk. Wars were going to end. Did you really, honestly, believe that? Because if you did, you need to sit back and reevaluate where your mind has been put. You have to understand, there’s a psy-op going on here against the people of the United States, especially here. It really is a counter intelligence program against the people, and you’ve been brainwashed in many, many ways. War can’t stop. War, the lead up to war, the build up to war, or kinetic war itself, what we have now, generates more cash, or the need for more cash created out of nothing than any other endeavor on the planet.

Nothing even comes close to this. And again, this will vastly empower the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve, all central banks, have but one product. Their product is debt. The more debt they’re allowed to create out of nothing or called upon to issue, the stronger they become, not the weaker. What we’re seeing here is every mechanism and place that you could dream about right now to make the Federal Reserve much stronger than it already is. I hope you guys and girls are really starting to understand what’s happening, whether you’ve been put in this box, the blue box, or the red box over here.

You should be in your own box, understand? This here, what we’re seeing, the effects of this are going to be widespread. Again, I covered potentially what this means for the world economy, for the market, and for global debt. Do you think, again, going back to my premise as far as you want to go, do you really believe that global debt isn’t going to stop hyper-ballooning, or do you think that we’re going to see this even get much, much worse as the world economy is deliberately crushed? Do you think any of this is by accident, or all of this has been well thought out? Why the timing of this right now? Do you see what’s going on here with regard to the United States, with regard to our markets? Do you honestly not believe that this was timed absolutely perfectly? Really? I mean, it’s so obvious, right? It’s so obvious when you think about it.

But you have to understand, they’re playing a game, and we are the pawns in this game. If we don’t start to push back, and I don’t care where you sit here, what you’re seeing now is going to get a lot worse. I’ve already told you, and I did this video about a week or two ago in six months from right now, the United States and global economy is going to be unrecognizable from where we are now. More death, more pain, more suffering, suffering on a biblical – this is, obviously, biblical, what we’re seeing. Make no mistake about it here.

World War III has already started. It started a while back. I’ve been telling you this for the longest time. The economic war that we are in right now, that’s going to worsen as well. You, my beautiful friends, and me are already a casualty of the economic war. And this already started. I mean, President creature-freaking-Bidenstine, mummy man. Obviously, you know, man, we will lie to and deceive then, too. Do you think it’s going to – did you really believe it was going to change with the new guy? No. What we’re going to see is all these things, these underlying dynamics, get much, much worse here, especially with this economic war, which is war and now a new, sustained, direct military bombing campaign in the Middle East.

You think this is a stabilizing force here or a destabilizing force here? Do you see any connection between what’s happening now with the United States and Israel? What do you see here? I want to hear from you on this. Do you agree with what I am saying here? Or is Greg completely out there? Greg does not know what he’s talking about, because I get a lot of that. Anyway, guys and girls, I think we’re pretty much on the same page here. People, we’ve got to come together, man. I don’t know where to tell you.

We’re being destroyed. We’re being wiped out on a literal sense, on a literal – I mean, across the board. And this is not going to stop. If you’re expecting wars to stop, spending for war – again, think about what I told you. No other endeavor on this earth generates a need for more borrowed dollars than war. War will not stop. War is the business, really, of the U.S. government. And the job of the U.S. government is not to – obviously, the job of any government – is not to support its citizens. To survive itself. To propagate itself.

And that means you lose. Do you understand? I really hope you get it, man. I really, really do. And I know there’s some people here that are still locked into delusion. I hope your delusion is now becoming less real to you. Understanding that the peace president has just directly involved the United States in another war. A sustained war. There was really no other way to do this. And do you honestly believe that this new war is going to stop the Houthis? You know it’s not going to. It never does. You want to – you think I’m wrong on that, too? Maybe you should do a little research on how war and attacks on these Houthi people – Houthi, whatever these freaking people are here – never works.

And it’s not going to work now. But you’re going to be told it’s going to. I mean, President Trump is already telling you he’s going to use overwhelming lethal force to achieve our objective. What is our objective? Maybe President Trump should have came out last night on national television and had the common courtesy to tell the United States people that we are now being thrust into a direct U.S. military-sustained war in the Middle East. But we didn’t get that. Not get that. And if we don’t stand up and start demanding that we do get that, that boot on your neck, the pressure that you’re feeling right now, is going to get a lot worse.

And whose fault is that going to be? Your own. I love all of you. I’ll see you in the morning. I want to hear from you. Got something out of this video? I’d appreciate hearing from you. You don’t like what I said? Okay. Tell me where I got it wrong. I am willing to learn, okay? I will read through the comments, guys and girls. Please share the video. Get it out there. If I burned your thumbs up, I would appreciate that. And again, one more time, do not engage in my trade of the week. Link in the description of this video if you want to go look at it.

Don’t do it. I am telling you to hold off. Wait. This is a whole new dynamic in play. We need to sit back and see what happens, how the market reacts. Let’s just sit back, man, okay? Market ain’t going nowhere. You got it? See you tomorrow. [tr:trw].

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