And you know, it's going to be a very stimulating, interesting conversation. And if you don't know by now, you can go to his website, goldenheass.com, and you can subscribe to his newsletter or consult calls or just donations if you feel so inclined and you're able to go ahead and give him a donation because Jim's been doing this a long, long time. And without further ado, let me go ahead and bring him in. Jimbo, how are you doing today, my friend? >> Um, I I was really frosty last night and
I'm still a little frosty. [laughter] There's a lot going on and uh we're we're dealing right now living in one of the most important transition times that we will ever see. Um, it's like a movement away from a fascist regime toward a republic. Um, it's a movement away from the King dollar era and it's a movement away from traditional finance. And, um, they're all interwoven and it's very complex what's going on. And if I said I had it all figured out, I'd be
nothing more than a liar. Uh but you and I, we're going to piece things together a bit today. And um it's really intriguing. Um I made some conclusions, Scott, a little over a month ago, like early November, really early November. When I finished the October report, the last few days of the month, then the new month of November came around, I made a conclusion that [clears throat] we are in a a very delicate transition time. And the transition, I'm sorry, we just lost you. The transition
is with the traditional finance moving toward digital finance. That's the transition. And the transition involves an integral role of Ripple and XRP. And I came to the conclusion, Scott, that, you know, gold and silver aside, I I still follow gold and silver, and it's it's downright exciting what's going on. We're about to bust through 60 bucks in silver. >> Gold. Gold is a different story, but let me just focus on this digital finance issue because something fascinating and
intriguing is going on. >> [clears throat and cough] >> I talked to a colleague of mine who's the most expert in crypto and he's made uh a rather small fortune now, a midsize fortune uh over a 10-year period. And he told me a year ago, Jim, it's time to move out of everything except Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP. Those are going to be the three to focus on. We were talking having iced tea looking at a beautiful valley on his porch and he said, "You know, Ripple and XRP, they got this wrapped up. You know
that, don't you?" I said, "I'm pretty sure, yeah, but it has to play out." And he said, "That's exactly it. It has to play out. Ripple is in a position to render obsolete entire Wall Street crew of banks and they won't let that happen. So, there's going to be a sharing of power, a passing of power, and a struggle over power. And I said, "Yep, bring it on. I I see it beginning right now." because Black Rockck is in the room and Black Rockck let it let it out in an indirect manner
that they got a non-disclosure agreement. [clears throat] He said, "I can't talk about that. Can't talk about an an exchangeraded fund." This was in a forum uh right before the Ripple Swell conference and they they jumped on him. They jumped on Larry Frink of Black Rockck. What do you mean you can't talk about exchange traded fund? Well, we can't talk about can't can't talk about it. And they said, "Oh, you got a non-disclosure agreement." He said, "Yes, yes, we do.
Have to leave that alone." Okay. He did talk about it. He did. He mentioned it. He could have said, "I don't know what's going on. I I have no idea about anything." But he said, "I can't talk about it. What's it non-disclosure agreement? What are they doing?" Well, they're 11 trillion firm. They got something going. All right. So then I I saw Garlinghouse with Jamie Diamond more than once or twice and they're not arguing. They're not making scowls at
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we'll show you the best scenes of the latest interview. But first, smash the subscribe button, hit the like button, and send us super thanks if you find our daily recaps valuable. Enjoy the episode. providing services for their clients and there was a oo and the Bloomberg interviewer went they were frozen. Garlinghouse later said we're not looking to take power from Wall Street. We're looking to share it. Then later Garlinghouse who the CEO of Ripple [clears throat] he said something
else. said, "We're not looking to grab we're not looking to make uh the big banks obsolete. We're looking to upgrade them." Okay, so here's the deal, and I think I might have mentioned it before. JP Morgan, Edal, and Black Rockck, they want a couple billion coins. Maybe Black Rockck wants five billion coins. And if they got five billion coins and the price goes to 200, they just made a cool trillion dollars. And the same goes for JP Morgan. Are not the big banks all insolvent with their bond holdings from
10 years of forced investment at one 2%. A knucklehead zero interest rate policy. We got to bring down the cost of borrowing borrowing costs for the US government debt. Well, yeah, but you're going to destroy the banks. It'll all become insolvent when you go back to normal. Well, we're going back to normal and they're all insolvent. Two years ago, it was $840 billion in the hole. Now, it's something like 450 billion in the hole. How do they get out of that? They invest in XRP and they take it up
to a couple hundred, maybe $500 in the next year or two or six months, we don't know. Okay, Scott, something big is going on. So, I think Ripple is has told um this is called Black Rockck JP Morgan at all. We'll supply you with a lot of coins. We we'll actually collude to make sure that it doesn't get above $2 while you're accumulating. But in return, we want a bank license and we want the global standard. We want the transfer bridge transfer device for global transfers. And if you can't give us 100%
monopoly, we want at least a 70% monopoly. And we want the bank license. We can't upgrade you to be something that WE COULD BE OURSELVES. OH, another great great point. So Ripple wants a bank license and you know they're they're going to revolutionize the banking industry and and already we got better connections between banks and exchanges, coin exchanges. Uh JP Morgan announced they got now a slick connection through Plaid to Coinbase and of course they put on a little fee. I don't mind a little fee. I want a lot
of service. So the deal is Ripple wants a global standard for transfers and they want a bank license and they will help JP Morgan and Black Rockck load up in coins. And that's exactly what I think's been going on. There's a lot of complaining from the XRP army that this thing is stuck. We went, oh my gosh, we launched the exchange traded funds and it was 270 250. Now it's $2 flat. What the heck's going on? Did they lie to us? NO. THEY MADE A DEAL. SO, if you are patient and hang on, it could be another
month. It could be another two months. Could be two weeks. Hang on. Because the reward, I think, is going to be historic, Scott. Historic. Um, I think this is going to be like a like a Bitcoin ascension in in months, not years. That it went up a thousandfold. >> Well, like we were talking about earlier, you know, they are wanting the the government's wanting to absorb all the federal debt into the crypto market. >> Yeah. The stable coin, that is a huge issue. And that Russian deputy economic
advisor got it exactly right. They're trying to bury now, not bury, what's the word? They're trying to dilute the ocean of stable coins with US treasuries. You know, Scott, it's not just US treasuries. It's Japanese government debt. It's Euro bonds. It's UK guilts. It's sovereign debt >> from from the major nations. And you know, it's going to contaminate this stable coin. I call it an ocean of liquidity. But there's there's more in there. There's property titles uh as
collateral. There there's a lot of different collateral in there. There's Ethereum as collateral. >> Well, this gets into the tokenization of everything. And then what is the running joke we got going on? What is the what what is the market value of planet Earth? You know, >> I ask what what's the market cap of the King dollar? But I also like Jake Claver's example. What's the market cap of email if you had to use a token to use it? >> ALL RIGHT. >> WHOA. BOY, DOES THAT ever open people's
eyes. Okay. It's a protocol. It's a service. And we just figure, well, you know, I got Google. I got Hotmail. It's for free. It's not for free. There's money. There's infrastructure behind it. There's investment behind it. There's advertising revenue on Hotmail, on AOL, on Google. there's a flow of funds that provides foundation. It's just that you don't have to pay for it, but you know, some people they they do pay for it. Um I pay a small amount per month and I get a
little extra service. [clears throat] Um this is very interesting. Now, THE BIG [screaming] BIG $10 question is [clears throat] if you've got a billion, they hit a billion dollars now with with the collection of ETFs uh of of XRP. They hit a billion dollars. Um I think it's going to be somewhere around 200 to$300 million a week now for demand. So, the big burning question is where are these financial firms getting their XRP coins? Where are they getting supply? And I've got a pretty good answer. It's
it's not definitive. It's just a pretty good answer. In other words, I have a really good idea how it's how they're doing that, how it works. There's something called the OTC desk, over-the-counter desks, and there's something more nebulous called dark pools. But let me just make up a couple of examples. These are speculative examples, Scott. [clears throat] Let's say that DARPA and the US military have like a billion coins they bought for under one cent eight years ago.
They got a billion coins for one cent. So that's worth a billion coins. That's worth $10 million originally. But now it's worth $2 billion. So they got a huge gain on that. So DARPA might say, "Hey, we we want to do something that's not exactly kosher, not exactly legal, but we want to work with Coinbase and Binance and because those are those are the croc. We'll supply you with a billion coins. We'll even give it to you for a $1.70. What do you say? Will you help us with some back doors?"
Okay, that's that's a shady example. Here's a better example. Ripple has three executives and they all have billions of coins. Maybe not 2030, but one or two billion in coins. And where what price did they get them at? Well, they got them at creation value. THEY GOT IT FOR NOTHING, BUT they've had it for eight years. And originally, it was for a fraction of a penny. So let's just say Ripple Ripple vice president whatever [clears throat] Martha Michael or Martha they say to JP Morgan we'll give you a
billion coins and we'll give it to you for a$1.70 a discount but here's what we want. We want a seat on certain conferences that you Wall Street guys are involved in that are secretive. We know they exist. We want a seat at the table. We want to be involved in some of the hidden policy. And where do they do that? Where do they sell them a billion coins? The dark pool over the counter. No names. Legitimate trades. But no names. Yesterday I heard something for the first time. The SEC made a directive to
Ripple and their executives. You need to stop the supply to financial firms off exchange unless you're going to report it all. Whoa. Okay, we're about ready to have rubber hit the road. It was a week ago that Jake Claver was pinned down. He's from the Digital Ascension Group and and he's become like a 100% invested in XRP and he he's kind of like a an anointed spokesman for Ripple. He was asked when do you think they're going to be done supplying off the exchange? I call it behind the wall.
When are they going to be done behind the wall off exchange OTC and Darkpool? when are they going to be done loading up with these financial firms? When will they have enough? And he said, "Well, I don't know if they'll have enough, but I have a pretty good idea from some conversations and other information that I have that in the next two to three weeks." This is the week ago in the next two to three weeks and I'm estimating at one and a half to two billion coins of XRP are available
off market off the exchange OTC and darkpool. I call it off the wall. I mean behind the wall off market. So he said, "I think I think a little before Christmas they might be exhausted and have to go to the main exchanges to get their XRP to supply the background force for their exchange traded funds and and every few days there's a new one. I mean, we we've got oh gosh, we got um Exo, Eio, Osprey, we we got um Canary Capital on a per capita basis, [clears throat] you know, considering their assets under
management, the king is Canary Capital. XRPC is as in Canary. Um Franklin Templeton is in there now. They they had a false reporting of what their symbol was, their ticker. Um, it's XRPZ. Uh, that's Franklin Templeton. And they got $1.7 trillion under management. And they're advising I think I think I read that they're advising 31,000 different financial firms. So then Vanguard, they came out, I think two days ago, and said, "We're going to make um XRP ETFs and other crypto ETFs available
um for our 51 million investors that include 401ks and IRA, Vanguard." Then Schwab came out and said the same thing. I think they have 25 trillion under management. Um, I think Vanguard did not go so far as to say they're going to do custodial wallet services. That's a big deal. Wouldn't it be nice if you just call up a broker and say, "Can you manage my entire wallet and keep it all secure and and when I want to go in and out, you take care of it for a fee?" That's called custodial wallet services.
All right. what I'm driving at here and you know taking the scenic route is that sometime around Christmas maybe one week before maybe one or two or three weeks after the big firms like Franklin Templeton Bitwise Canary Capital um they're going to have to go to the exchanges to get their supply and there's not much there and that's when I think it it goes like slowly up to $3 and then boom. What What happened? It's nine. It was three yesterday. It's nine today. Well, they needed to bring in
some more supply and they couldn't find any. And and nine is not going to work. You and I probably agree on that. Nine's not going to work. >> It'll move slowly up to 11, maybe not all that slowly, and then it'll just shut down and it's 23 and then 27. And that that's not going to work very well. [clears throat] We got a bifurcation, Scott, that I find to be really really interesting and that is the price is going to be driven up by the firms that need to use it. It's going to be driven up by investors
for sure, but the bigger moves are going to be the investment firms, the banking firms, the financial firms that need to use it. If they want to move like 1.2 2 million to a bank in Germany, Switzerland, Italy or whatever, then they need to have a nice easy way of having XRP facilitate what what they call now very interesting phrase consensual handshake where no corresponding account no intermediary escrow is needed because they trust XRP to make the handshake. Well, in order for that to work, and
there's another key word, friction. In order to have it work without much friction, you need to bring up the price. So, you don't need very many coins to facilitate the movement of 1.2 million to that German bank. So, it's how many coins do you need to make the $1.2 2 million transfer or to make the $65,000 transfer. Well, you got less friction, less resistance if it's worth more. These financial firms are going to do the work for us, Scott. They're going to make sure that it goes to a, you know,
10, 20, 50, and 100. They're going to do the work for it. They're going to do the heavy lifting. They're going to say, "We we can't we can't function unless next week we have a $25 price. We can't function. We can't use it." >> Let's, you know, I've been going through the timeline on especially just talking with Silver with Bob and you know, I call that the AI Bob. And so I've been telling, you know, of course we talked about it a couple weeks or a month or so ago, silver be
hitting $100 before the end of the year. Well, >> it could >> I It's already almost if you're buying buffaloos right now, it was $62 for a buffalo just yet the other day. >> Counting the premium. >> Yes. >> Yes. And that's what's >> the pre the premium includes the real I started stretching it out and saying okay let's all scenarios hit and say it hits $100. How bad does this really trigger a lot of other levers that nobody's really thinking about? And the
reason we got to $100 so easily is because December 26th, I believe it's December 26th, is the last Friday of the month. Yes, it is. And so that is the day when all the contracts are due. It's right after Christmas. There's not very many people there. There's low liquidity, all this other stuff. And so that makes it a real high chance that it'll be a liquidity squeeze. And the same thing because we always hear that >> we saw it on Thanksgiving. We saw it on the Friday. There's your point. That's
your parallel. >> Well, >> right the Friday of Thanksgiving. >> Now then, look at the banks that they say every time silver goes up a dollar, the banks are losing a billion dollars because they're squeez they're shorting it out and they're their shorts are getting hammered now. Their shorts are about a a billion coin, a billion ounces, >> okay, >> collectively. >> So, as that keeps ratcheting up to be going into XRP to absorb a lot of that debt that they're going to start
creating, I don't know how that would work, but that's something I wanted to run it past you. >> There there are two things involved as I understand it. And and you know, I I admit my shortcomings. I'm learning [clears throat] and and my understanding is that there's going to be a liquidity squeeze. What does that mean? It's a commonly used liquidity squeeze, liquidity crisis. It means there's not enough buyers and they don't want it to go to $85 in order to meet supply
to create supply. So, you got a gap there. And the same could happen with Treasury bonds coming out of, you know, Japan. There not enough buyers. So, how do you make a new How do you make a buyer? Well, you lower the price and you move it up to 7%. That's how you make a buyer. That's how do you make supply with silver? You know, different with bonds and and and metal. How do you bring supply to the market to to enable the liquidity to flow? Well, you need a 70 $80 SILVER PRICE. OKAY, I have a joke
and you know I'm a mathematician. I say Fibonacci is in the room. >> All right. >> 10 20 30 50 80. >> Uhhuh. >> Okay. What's after 50? Hey, we struggled at 50. We did not struggle at 40. We struggled at 30. We struggled at 20. We were stuck at 20 and and change for 10 years. >> Yeah. >> We were stuck at $30 for three years. >> Yeah. We weren't stuck at 40 for more than days. We zipped right through it like a hot knife through butter. And >> guess what? That cycle is speeding up
even now. So getting when it hits 100, the it will go to a 200 faster than 30 to 60. >> Okay. But I bear bear with me with Fibonacci in the room. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> I mean, if if you want formulas for it, I got a formula. It in includes the square root of five. Okay, it's really cool. Really cool. It's using difference equations. It's not hard, but it's cool. Okay, the first problem is you got to bring in liquidity. You bring in liquidity by changing the price. And
when you change the price, you wreck big banks. So, they resist changing the price. But you must change the price or else the market goes into lockup. it freezes. So when you relieve the [screaming] lockup, you raise the price of silver and suddenly you've got a few big banks who are facing gigantic holes in their balance sheet. And how do they fill that? They can. They can. One way is to buy a lot of bit of uh buy a lot of XRP coins for $2 and then cooperate collaborate and collude. Cooperate collaborate and
collude to make IT 20 BUCKS. BOOM. T-FOLD GAIN. How much did they invest in XRP? That's why they're hammering the price on all these cryptos because they're back door loading up on this And so that's the way that they can get their gains and wipe their debt out. If JP Morgan holds, let's say, two billion coins of XRP and it goes to 100, they just made $200 billion. >> Mhm. >> And that is more than what they are insolvent in their bond portfolio. Now, that is not a huge deal.
[sighs and gasps] I tell you, XRP is going to save their asses. And and they don't want to admit it. And and they don't want to reveal their plan. And they don't want to tell us that they're accumulating XRP leftand, right hand, front, right, center. They're going they're draining the whales. They're cutting deals. I would love to know what are the deals that they're making. I did I just brought up a couple with DARPA looking for backd doors. Okay. And and um Ripple wanting a seat at the table for
private meetings on policy. Um there's a lot of deals being made and I am pretty darn sure that Black Rockck and JP Morgan are willing to have the banking license given to Ripple. Oh yeah. >> And that'll change a lot of things structurally. A lot of things will change. There's so many things that would change that I can't wrap my arms around it all. I've heard a dozen different things that will change. Like money market, what do you get now? 2% a year. MY GOSH, THAT THAT is a big big big
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commodities, but his primary stance remains consistent. Tangible assets are a hedge against potential financial turmoil. 10. Dr. Jim Willy's forecasts and their accuracy. Like many financial commentators, Dr. Jim Willie has made various predictions over the years. While some have aligned partially with real outcomes, others have not materialized according to his expected timelines. Critics highlight inaccurate or postponed forecasts, especially concerning the swift collapse of the dollar or hyperinflation that did not
occur as predicted. Willie and his followers attribute such delays to factors like ongoing market manipulation or new geopolitical agreements that slowed down the anticipated shifts. They also stressed that his analyses revolve more around long-term structural issues than short-term market timing and that certain economic events might simply be unfolding later than initially expected. At the same time, supporters note that Willie accurately pointed out the continued expansion of central bank balance sheets and the trend of
countries accumulating gold reserves. Whether these represent unique insights or broader trends also recognized by mainstream analysts is open to debate. 11. Conspiracy theories and critiques of mainstream economics. Dr. Jim Willie sometimes embraces viewpoints described as conspiracy theories such as allegations of covert arrangements among global banking elites or claims that certain financial institutions deliberately engineer crisis. These comments often lack direct support in official reports or academic literature,
undermining their acceptance by mainstream experts. Nevertheless, Willy's core audience contends that the very absence of this information in major news outlets is evidence of systematic cover-ups. This tension results in a polarized reception. While some commend him for tackling subjects that major economists avoid, others dismiss his arguments as relying on rumor or anecdotal evidence. 12. Building an audience and media strategy. Dr. Jim Willy's influence stems in large part from digital media. Rather than
appearing frequently on television networks or in major newspapers, he has cultivated a following through. His website Golden Jackass. The subscription-based model allows him to finance his research and post in-depth analyses without relying on traditional editorial norms, podcasts, and interviews. Alternative finance channels invite him to discuss his views, giving him a platform free from mainstream editorial constraints. Social media. Willie uses social media platforms to share shorter commentaries and link to
his more extensive articles or interviews. This approach targets a niche yet dedicated audience, particularly those skeptical of mainstream financial narratives. Willy's unconventional or controversial theories find an environment of fewer restrictions online, aligning with audiences seeking alternative takes on global economics. 13. Dr. Jim Willy's place in the financial world in mainstream banking circles or academia. Dr. Jim Willie is not widely cited. Instead, he operates as an independent
commentator, an outsider who both intrigues and polarizes observers. Critics consider his warnings overly dire and his reliance on unofficial data problematic, but the financial turmoil of previous crises has also made many investors more open to unconventional perspectives. Those who value his work stress how events like the 2008 financial crisis validated skepticism toward institutional analyses. Willy's arguments about the unsustainability of constant monetary easing and the precarious nature of the global debt
burden echo broader concerns, though he often frames them more bluntly. Overall, Dr. Jim Willie sits at the intersection of alternative finance commentary and mainstream critique. While he has a loyal core following, he is also subject to ongoing scrutiny by economists and analysts who question his methods and conclusions. 14. Conclusion and assessment. Dr. Jim Willie stands out in alternative finance circles through his strong critiques of central banks, fervent support for gold and silver, and
emphasis on significant geopolitical realignments. His central premise is that the current global financial order, especially the dollar-based system, is unsustainable. According to Willie, everinccreasing debt and persistent market manipulation will eventually trigger a major monetary crisis. one in which holders of real assets, particularly precious metals, will thrive. Yet, questions remain as to whether his most dramatic predictions will unfold precisely as he envisions and on what timeline. His track record
has been mixed, and skepticism about certain forecasts lingers. Supporters respond by emphasizing that Willy's perspective is best understood as a warning about underlying fragility. fragilityities that may require more time to materialize or that might manifest in ways not easily predicted. Regardless of these debates, Dr. Jim Willie has established a definite niche. His analyses, whether embraced or doubted, compel audiences to consider alternative possibilities and deeper layers of the global financial system.
For that reason, those who engage with Willy's writings often do so with a blend of caution and curiosity, recognizing that while his approach can veer into unconventional territory, it may also provide a valuable counterpoint to mainstream narratives. >> Don't forget to like our video and subscribe for our channel.
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