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inflation, affordability, debt, recession. Here's my question for you. Which of these is going to be solved in 2026? Which of these next year is going to get worse? Inflation is clearly going to be making a comeback. And people look at it too closely and it comes down from one read to the next and they say, "Okay, now it's coming down. It's bouncing around a bit, but the long term, and this is what I tell you about anything with investing, where is it going to end up 3 months, 6


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months, a year from now? inflation will be dramatically higher. It's going to do what I told you it's going to do. It's going to double digits, but it needs the recession to have that happen as well because that's going to be resulting in a massive response from the quantitative easing and the government and the monetary creation and they're going to just dump money on the problem as they always do. The debt gets too big, so we're having harder time paying the carrying costs. And so then what they do


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is take on more debt to cover the debt. And here's the engagement question to appease the YouTube algorithm, which is my only actual literal boss right now. Make a comment below this video, please, about what you think is going to happen in 2026 with inflation, affordability, debt, and recession. Are they all four going higher? Just one of them going higher? None of them? Tell me what you think. You've got a million- dollar loan. You can't afford it anymore. You're not bringing enough money to pay


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it. So, you take out another loan of $200,000 and dump it on top. and then they go in front of the cameras and tell you that they saved the day. And if you think affordability is going to get more manageable or any better, then I wish you luck. I don't see that in any possible way whatsoever. Not just from the tariff war going on, the trade war, just the entire trajectory of the overall economy that no one seems to yet still recognize how bad this is going to be. I've always told you that I put my money


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where my mouth is. I haven't just told you that. That's what I do. If I tell you to buy something or do something, you know that that's the same thing I'm telling my kids, my father, my friends, and what I do for myself. I don't say to you, buy gold, and then I don't buy gold. And if you think back to when I told you about gold so many times so long ago, back when I was on that ill-advised cruise at a time when I'm competing with the likes of Timothy Sykes and there's maybe I can count on


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one hand how many videos he had that he wasn't touching a Lamborghini or in a private jet. So it's a showy thing is how you competed back then and it looks bad. It was bad optics and I regret it. But if you remember when I was on that ill-advised cruise, I was sitting there and I told you guys this is got to be I mean at least a decade ago that I moved everything into precious metals related companies or physical precious metals, silver and gold and the mining stocks about 80 90% whatever it


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was of my portfolio I put it and I told you that I pinpoint invest. I don't diversify. If you diversify and this is not personalized trading advice I'm wrong all the time. You do what you're going to do. You figure out yourself. If you diversify, then you get a little bit of what everybody else and you get a little bit of what everyone else is getting. The more you diversify, the more you're getting the average return. I would rather go bankrupt than get the average return. That's just me.


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Everyone's different. There's only nine personality types. But I put my money where my mouth is. And since then, here's what happened to gold. And I told you about silver. And this is what happened since then. So, who do you want to listen to? Some people know what they're talking about. Believe me, I'm not trying to disparrage anyone. Anyone out here talking about gold, please listen to them because they know what they're talking about. But a lot of people talk about gold as one


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of the things in the investment world and they talk about Bitcoin and they talk about oil and they talk about the obvious stuff and they'll put 10 20% of their money or their investments into gold. And what I told you at the time was that this is what I believe is going to be the best opportunity. And I told you why. And I put everything in that. And it played out pretty darn well. So then, who do you want to listen to? If you're a little bit more of a risk taker, maybe you want to listen to me. I don't see


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too many other people out here making millionaires at the rate we've been doing lately. And I'm not trying to hold out millionaire. It's all based on what you start with and then how good the stock does. I know. And also, money is not important in life. Even though watching these videos, maybe you think that it is important or that I care about it. I care about capabilities. I care about being able to help people. I care about having total autonomy of my life. And that involves having the


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currency to get what you need. Money is not the root of all evil. Shout out to Ein Rand. Money is the root of all production. And I messed it up in the last video. I was talking about Michael Gerber, how he says, "Turn your biggest obstacle into your biggest opportunity." And I was trying to say that the biggest obstacle is the price of groceries. And so then I was talking about one meal a day. And I'm not doing the thing where I'm saying your daughter can't have $37 or whatever is going on with that. I'm


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saying that besides saving money, there's other benefits, too. So it's a problem. And all of a sudden, you got all these benefits because of the problem. But the reason I'm telling you this now is to tell you that I didn't make it very clear what I was trying to say. And also, your biggest obstacle right now is probably this economy, whether you recognize that or not. And the biggest obstacle to the biggest opportunity, I'm hoping I can be the opportunity for you. This channel has


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become about helping you thrive and survive through this economic meltdown that we're going to face. And if I make six or five millionaires over that course of time from people following stocks I talk about, that's just gravy, I guess. But I write a weekly team letter to any of the supporters of the channel. And I want to pull out some comments that I made in that letter this week because it's very relevant to you. You'll probably benefit or at least agree with or understand what I'm saying


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here. Let's talk about the strikes in Syria by American forces in response to the terrorist attack. They killed three US personnel. But the point is that there's wars that are continuing to expand between Thailand and Cambodia, America and Venezuela, Russia and Ukraine. The civil war in the Sudan is quite awful and postering in the South China Sea between Japan and China is growing in activity. Chaos theory. Therefore, because of all of these conflicts and all this military personnel, and there's even been a


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couple of near misses with military jets and commercial aircraft in South America over the last week. Chaos theory says that there's an extremely high likelihood of a major escalation, which would get set off by an accident or misunderstanding. You can't do much about the potential chaos, but you can control what you do. Own 99.99% pure physical gold, silver for sure, and lots of it. Be able to stay fed and warm for a month straight if you need to remain in place. And remember that in any modern conflict,


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internet will be one of the very first casualties to go around the world. So think about how that would affect you. Also consider how that would affect your ability to help your loved ones. If you want to get the weekly Peter Leads team letter, it starts at $3 a month. You pay whatever you decide you want to pay. You want to support the channel. I appreciate every single effort that any of you make. I love you guys. This is the best soap box and the best tool to use to help you guys understand what I


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think that would help you to understand. If that made sense, subscribe to the channel. And last night, it all just came together finally. I am writing upthinking evolved. This is version two of upthinking and it's going to be tremendously better than the first one. I'm not going to talk about it again ever until it's done. You guys will like it. You'll benefit from it. I know that. And happy holidays. But also remember that it's very extremely thin trading right now. That can change some things.


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Usually not for the worst, but sometimes. But thin trading opens up a lot of opportunities if you're looking to get into anything, especially if there's tax laws selling and there's a stock that came down. They're just dumping shares to get out of it. And they tell you the economy is so strong and they say you just have to wait. The tariffs are kicking in now. That's going to be what's important. And I'm saying I agree. The tariffs are going to be kicking in now and that's what's


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important. The tariffs are not going to be a net positive. they're going to be a net negative and that's clearly understandable even to children and historical precedents and logic and it's not a political statement. take the tariffs will add to all the difficulties and problems we're facing right now and some of which are just going to emerge now such as you're going to start recognizing the effects of the fact that there weren't very many tourists in Florida Vegas over the last


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year and there only going to be even less now that's going to matter people lose their jobs because there's not enough activity and that then has following effects from that it's all one thing It's all one thing. The economy is one thing and it's being mismanaged, mishandled, misunderstood for far too long. And we're at the point now where it will not be fixed. It cannot be recovered. It's over. It's now just about ducking and hiding and figuring out what moves you're going to make.


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Some things will do very well such as investments related to money which is precious metals, gold and silver mainly because as the dollar declines in value and worth and respect other things then seem to cost more. It takes more weaker dollars to buy anything. And I always say precious metals. I always say gold but it also counts towards pork bellies and coffee and avocados. And I told you guys I'd have a new alert for you today for Peter Lean subscribers. I'm delaying it a day because I just had


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to get this video out. It'll be out tomorrow. Got some updates for you guys. A lot of opportunities. You guys are going to love it. If you're a subscriber to peterly.com, details everywhere. And if you like the fact that we do not have sponsors, please show the YouTube algorithm that we mean business by engaging with the video. Whether that's subscribing, liking, commenting, whatever you got to do, please help us out. You guys are what magnifies our voice. And don't forget to put your comments about what's


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going to happen in 2026 with debt, inflation, recession, and affordability.