They're dangerous times and at the same time um these are historical changes that we're undergoing. Uh in in 20 years from now they're going to be talking about the layman event. They're going to be talking about the US bond bust uh of 2019 and 20. They're going to be talking about these events in the future. And what's going to be different this time is the people writing the history books won't be the same people because the prevailing agents, the prevailing nations will write the


history book and it's not going to be the same as 20 years ago and 40 years ago. Uh we got to change the guard is what I'm saying. uh Asia and the Asian super giants, super superpowers, they're in charge and this all comes apart at their will, at their timing, at their discretion. And what's kind of interesting right now is [snorts] that uh China made a decision a few years ago. They're not going to spark the the breakdown. um they got away with it in 2006 and seven. They sold on a massive basis


Fanny May bonds and they put out the story and the US government, you know, backed the story that they're going to give emphasis to the treasuries and then later they're going to give emphasis to the shortterm Treasury bills. Okay, that's two steps there. In other words, they were going to abandon the Fanny May bonds and then they were going to abandon the long-term treasure bonds, but they never put it in terms of abandoning it. Put it in terms of what they're going to emphasize next. So,


China sparked the layman incident. They don't want to spark this one. This is going to be systemic layman moment. That's what I call it. Um, it's going to be a global breakdown. Whereas in 2007 and 8, the subprime bond was the mortgages and all the derivatives like you know the collateralized debt obligations and synthetics and CDO squared which just means they they amplified doubly so the leverage. [snorts] Now the subprime bond is the Treasury bond. The US Treasury bond is subprime and


it's the basis for forex reserves foundations for banking systems. It's the subprime bond. So, what I'd like to give emphasis to today, Dave, if if we can, is uh the reset and the breakdown that are both in progress and the trade deals that are at work. And this is a, you know, it's not like people go to a meeting and they come out half an hour later. This is an ongoing meeting that's going to last for months and months and months because the decision is going to be all the ramifications and


all the details for retiring the dollar as the global reserve currency and that has 20 gigantic impacts, manifestations, repercussions. Um, I'm convinced that we have begun the reset. Um, I think it began probably around March. I mean, a lot of people think, oh gosh, it wasn't it really a March a year ago that the Shanghai uh pro yuan contract began. Wasn't that really the beginning of the reset? I think that was like the the flags being, you know, whipped around like you see on the Indianapolis 500. Yeah, that was the


big starting event, but it was very slow motion. And now a year later we have much bigger motion. Uh and we got you know breakdown in the bond market. [clears throat] Our bond market is is now broken. That's my opinion. Around as an elegant woman of elite stature. Do you do you think the the China trade deal where they were negotiating for quite a while? Do you think they actually made a deal behind the scenes or do you think it's still going on um in front of the public? I think there probably about six or eight primary


planks and and most of them have been decided upon. Um but the big distinction here and this is extremely important is that the timing is not agreed upon. It's like it's like you say, okay, you've got three properties and you you want to sell them all. Uh you're going to sell one next year. That's the plan. And then you got some some maintenance to do and some repairs and maybe a small room addition to prepare the second one for sale. So we're thinking like next year, next summer. And the third one, we don't


really know, but we're going to put that out there and say that in the next several years, we're going to get that done, too. So, you've got a plan to sell three properties, and you got a buyer, and you got some funding. Some of the funding is not all arranged, and that's the plan, but the dates aren't set. The dates aren't set for a very good reason because when certain dates kick in, the impact with certain financial markets is profound. So here's my here's my gut here's my my


my gut feeling. Um there were two principal deals struck and Secretary Nin, you know, Steven Nin, our our uh [clears throat] movie director, Goldman Sachs guy, >> right? Uh yes, Goldman Sachs still in the room. Um he had two separate announcements uh on the same day in early April. The first announcement went like this. Uh we finally have a um an agreement on the financial uh reforms that we have planned that involve the currency market. Okay, let's put that on the table. Then a few hours later, same day, he said,


"We now have an enforcement mechanism for the trade deal that will be um put into force and I I can't come up with the exact words, make final the consequences of trade deficits." He didn't say that. But that's the implication. Okay. So the first issue, this this is what we're piecing together the jackass colleagues. This is not easy stuff. It's not easy. What? Okay. The currency element to the financial trade deal. What was that? Well, you have to look at what have we been pushing for.


What have the Chinese been saying? No, we won't do that. I know we're not prepared to do that just yet. Let's keep talking a month later. No, we're not ready to do that. Okay. What the Chinese have, I think, agreed to is a 20% just rough figure 20% currency upward revaluation. The Chinese R&B I believe has been agreed upon. The timing is not set, but the deal has been struck for a 20% or so, maybe 18, maybe 25, maybe floating within a range, but the agreement had been made to lift


the value of the Chinese yuan R&B currency. Now, why would they resist? Well, for obvious reasons. They'll lose their trade advantage. everything that they sell to Europe, Middle East, North America, Australia, everything will be a little bit more expensive and they'll lose that trade trade pricing edge. Okay? So, they resisted. What did they want in return for agreeing to a currency revaluation upward for the R&B? What do they what did they push for that? The United States says, "Oh, no,


no. We can't do that. That's out of the question." So, two months later, they bring it back, put it on the table, and the US says, "No, we're not ready for that. Uh, we're still in a dollar dominant world." The Chinese want TO DOUBLE THE GOLD PRICE. They want to triple THE GOLD PRICE. THEY WANT THE GOLD PRICE TO MOVE toward 10,000. It's stuck at 1300. It's an absolute joke. So the Chinese were resistant to raise the currency and lose their trade advantage and they've been pushing for a


much higher gold price relative to all currencies. And you know some of the trade negotiators and the expert analysts who watch it, they say the Chinese are looking for a devaluation of currencies relative to the main. IT'S RELATIVE TO GOLD. THEY WANT ALL THE CURRENCIES TO DROP relative to gold. turn it around. They want the gold price to rise versus all currencies. Okay. So, I think the deal has been struck. 20% rise in the R&B lost trade advantage, but they'll still have a pretty ample activity in the trade


front. And in return, the United States will allow and work toward and get out of the way as obstacles for a doubled and tripled gold price. Okay, but there's more to it. The enforcement mechanism. Okay, you we just begin on the enforcement mechanism by talking about the higher gold price versus the dollar, the euro, the pound, etc., yen and Australian dollar and all the rest. The enforcement mechanism is going to be different. Okay. Now, let's just take [laughter] take an example like uh uh


Germany versus oh the Middle East. Uh where's the trade advantage? Well, let's just say there's a slight advantage uh for the Germans. So, they have a trade surplus versus a couple of uh Arab oil monarchies. Okay. The Germans have a trade surplus. Therefore, the result after it's washed through is that on the forex market, the German currency, the euro, this argument is much more appropriate when the Germans were on the mark, uh the Deutsch mark. Okay? So, let's just call it the euro for now.


So the Germans and Europe have a trade advantage with some Arab monarchies and the euro therefore goes up versus those small currencies like you know the Saudi realal and you know every little country there has its own currency. Okay. My point is that if A and B have a trade deficit and it favors A, country A, then A's currency goes up a little bit versus country B. That has been the enforcement mechanism. And the basis of that is that the dollar is the center of the currencies. Everything floats versus the


dollar. What's your currency worth? It's versus the dollar. What's the yen verse worth versus the dollar? What's the Canadian versus the US dollar? Okay, so that enforcement mechanism is going to have a reform. It's going to be if country A has a trade advantage on a net basis overall, then their price of gold goes down. If a country has a net trade deficit, they must pay higher price for gold. the enforcement mechanism goes to gold and away from the dollar. You you you won't


see so much currency A and currency B adjusting versus each other because of trade impact. What you'll see is the gold price changes in those two countries. Now, here's where it gets very difficult and the high super high risk arises for the US. The enforcement mechanism also involves payment of gold. So if you got A and B nation, United States versus nation B, nation B has a surplus with the United States. So therefore, the United States has to hand over some gold on say a net quarterly


basis. And furthermore, that country gets a discount on their gold price if they have other surpluses with many other nations like on a net basis. Okay. So, a deficit nation must give up its gold. A deficit nation is going to be under tremendous pressure to find foreign investment. Okay. A little known concept to most average financial watchers and observers is is something called the current account deficit. Uh it consists of the trade deficit plus the investment deficit. Now years ago, the United States had a huge trade


deficit, but they sold a lot of bonds. We sold a lot of treasury bonds, sold a lot of corporate bonds, sold a lot of property like Manhattan, Miami, Los Angeles, and Texas. We had a lot of investment capital coming into the country and it offsets some of the trade debt, trade gap. So the current account deficit that is the final element that is looked at when you have these adjustments on a net quarterly basis coming regarding the the uh the currencies and gold. Remember when I talk about currencies there's going to


be adjustments versus with the currencies but the king of currencies is going to be recognized as gold. And you know Basel 3 just made the announcement I think it was in effect last day of March called April. They didn't they didn't want to say it's going into effect on April 1st, April Fool's Day. So they called they they officially recognized goal gold as an asset for ratio calculations. Okay, which brings me to a very interesting point, Dave. Okay, this that's the whole, you know, the nut of the the


trade deal. And it's ongoing. It's just ongoing. Okay. It's It's not going to be something that that's finished in two months. We're going to be talking about the trade deal in September. We're going to be talking about the trade deal, you know, that we're going to finalize things before the end of the year 2019. There are many, many details and the United States has been dragging its feet, dragging its ass every step of the way. Now, they might say, "Oh, the


Chinese, you're you're very reluctant to do the following, and we're we were we're quite angry that uh you won't allow the uh the [clears throat] yuan to to be upward uh revalued. Uh you're dragging your feet, China, Beijing, what what's your problem?" No, no, no, no. The [clears throat] Chinese are objecting to recent rules to try to and not just not just copyright, which China is not on the right side of, [clears throat] but the Chinese objecting to now is the US and the


British are trying to get like an invasion into the the banking sector so that the western banks and financial firms can operate more freely, can can conduct uh subsidiary purchases, acquisitions, can be involved in some of the markets a little more openly like with as primary dealers sort of whatever their equivalent is in China and the Chinese are saying get the hell out of the room we don't want any of that okay so the Chinese in a legitimate way are objecting to control mechanisms in the financial


sector that the US wants and the Chinese are slow to coming slow in coming to agreements on copyright I got to tell you something about China in the 1980s and 90s China had a reputation and it was very much earned. There was something called the Chinese Army Corporation and they openly violated copyrights. They would they would just make duplicates of Microsoft software, a lot of different software, Lotus software, you know, all the spreadsheets and you know word processing software. Okay, that was just


for the computer world. Then they would do loads and loads of copyright violations of movies and they would sell the CDs and they would do loads of copyright violations of uh music uh and and have sales all across Asia without properly paying for the copyrights. And then they went on these charades where they bring in the steamrollers, you know, that would lay down asphalt roads, pavement, and they would crush thousands of CDs. But we NEVER KNEW WHAT CDS they were crushing because over on the other side


of town they were still making them. Okay? So it was all for show. What I'm saying is the Chinese were some of the worst copyright violators the world has ever seen for software, music, and movies. Now they're trying to CLEAN THEIR ACT UP BECAUSE they want foreign investment. BUT THEY WANT FOREIGN INVESTMENT WITHOUT financial infiltration. That's a good word. Invasion, infiltration, which will enable attacks. The Chinese want to control their financial sector. They don't they have very long memories


going back a hundred years. So Jim, let me just ask you on on the gold aspect of this. When you're saying that the Chinese want the gold price to go up double or triple and you're [snorts] saying that the United States is not ready for this, is the Trump administration, are they willing to go uh double or triple in gold price or they are they just waiting for a certain period of time to do it, the right time to do it? >> I don't think they want to do that at all ever. It's something they must do.


uh they must allow the gold standard to enter the framework and that means that the dollar phases out. Now look at the elements of the petro dollar. There's six, five, six, seven major elements of the petrod dollar structure and they're all breaking and they've been breaking for years and one of the last elements to break is the tight Saudi connection for dollar sales of oil. Now they've got a linkage with Russia. Some Saudi oil is being sold in in rubles, in euros because it's not any longer complete


dominance in the US dollar framework. So [clears throat] Trump realizes the dollar must go away. He realizes the dollar debt can never be paid. He realizes trade exclusively in the dollar, even in the oil market, it's going away. He's realizing this belt and road initiative despite how much we try to denigrate it and say and insult it and and call it a conspiracy for Chinese global control and other stupidity like that. Trump realizes it's not only not going away. Okay, we've got some gold in West Point.


Uh why there? Because that's where the army cadets are guarding it. You know, they're they're on duty. They're not, you know, official mature soldiers, but they're young. They're bearing rifles and they're learning and it's safe. It's secure, but there's not much gold there. That's where I think it is a it's a station for gold in motion. Okay. The the mines like, you know, Bareric and the other corrupt entities, they have huge input of gold. Where does it go?


Goes to West Point. WEST POINT'S pretty close to Manhattan. Okay. It's the same state. It's just up the river a little bit. Okay. We don't have the gold. That's one. >> What about gold in the ground? >> Yeah. Well, that's that's that's that's fine. That's all very nice and pretty. Uh it takes a lot of time to get there. We don't have the gold for the dollar. The second point is that we have an enormous debt. We can't say, "Oh, let's let's back our


our new currency and and have this wonderful new legitimate structure." First, we don't have the gold. Second, what happens TO THE OLD DEBT? YOU CAN'T SAY, "WELL, WE'RE GOING TO ISSUE this new and we're JUST GOING TO FORGET ABOUT THE REST." NO, YOU GOT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS in investment by foreigners. They want to know what about our money? Uh because if you just reneig on it all, we're we're not just going to tell you um we won't lend you any money.


We're going to tell you we won't trade with you. We won't export to you. We won't touch you. We won't even visit you as tourists. We won't issue visas to you. Okay? WE GOT TO RESOLVE THE DEBT. And that's where the debt default comes. It's going to be a restructure. it's going to be 30 60%. The third thing we don't have is industry and this is something that Trump talked about in the campaign trail and quickly um put aside when he became president and increase the military budget and did


the exact opposite of what he said he was going to do. In other words, he didn't have the time. He didn't have the situation, didn't have the conditions to do what he promised and probably needed all four years and maybe more to set the stage. We don't have the gold. We didn't resolve the debt. We don't have industry. Okay. I I like mentioning this because it it really puts it into perspective for people to think. We have now a $900 billion trade deficit annual. If you just focus at the $13,000, I'm


sorry, $1,300 price that equates in one year to 20,000 tons of gold. our trade deficit. If we're forced by a new enforcement mechanism based in gold, we must forfeit 20,000 tons of gold in the first year. Now, we might attract some foreign investment. This is a big Trump goal. We're going to attract foreign investment for industry. Oh, really? They don't trust us because we change the rules whenever it suits us. because we break treaties when it suits us. So, we're not trusted. Trump has kind of to


the side of his mouth said, "We need to work on this trust issue." You got to be very watchful in how that comes out of his mouth. He knows foreign investment. Remember, trade deficit plus foreign investment equals your current account. and and I think we're losing on the foreign investment while we're losing in a massive way on the trade side. So, in other words, the trade deficit is going to be made perhaps a little worse by the current account deficit when you factor in investments. I I don't think my gosh,


who are the biggest buyers of treasury bonds these days? It's the Department of Treasury. We're buying our own debt with DERIVATIVE MACHINERY. OKAY, WE'RE NOT READY FOR THE trade to turn to gold. We're not ready for the debt to be backed by gold. We're not ready for the trade deficit to be SETTLED BY GOLD. WE'RE NOT READY FOR THE GOLD STANDARD. That's why we delay. I said before [cough] [clears throat] a lot of elements have been agreed upon in the trade def trade negotiations and


talks with China. I think China represents the east and we represent the west. the dates are not set. So when the Chinese objected to copyright issues and to bank sector infiltration by foreigners and those issues, Trump walked out of the room, called the Chinese uncooperative, and said, "We're going to slap tariffs on you." Okay, here's one of the ugliest things I've discovered in economic statistics in all my 15 years of this newsletter. When we slap a tariff on a bunch of


products and it's reflected in prices, we actually say that it's a discount on the price. We lower the consumer price index by that amount and we we not just we don't just take it away from the increase, we call it a reduction. Dear listeners, I was able to upload a portion of this interview which lasted approximately 2 hours and 6 minutes due to YouTube rules. You can watch it in its entirety from the link in the description. Now, some brief information about Jim Willie will be given. Dr. Jim Willie is an analyst


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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


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