Is Inflation Ending... Or Has It Only Begun?
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Happy about this hour here. We've been waiting for it for quite some time. And it is Colin Plume, friend of mine. Hey. And a great American, great patriot, entrepreneur who runs Noble Gold Investments. And I still have the silver you gave me. Yeah, exactly. Rip that plastic off. Rip that off. You know, it's so funny. We gave Andrew such a hard time.

because he tore the plastic and we were with him for a month. Yeah. And now you're telling me I could just take it off? Yeah, I mean, it's silver, so it's not going to have an issue. So this is from the Istanbul Gold Refinery? Mm-hmm. Is that where most silver comes from? No, I mean, during the pandemic, we had to get creative and find different mints all over the world. The U.S. Mint has a very...

overwhelming criteria for gold and silver that they receive. So they were always at a disadvantage to private mints because the criteria that they want is not realistic. It's just not a realistic way to do it. So we can actually get gold and silver bars from many places all over the world at a much better price than the U.S. Mint, which obviously that's... And it's the same quality, yeah? It's the same exact quality. It trades everything on the market exactly the same. And

And it's, you know, at the end of the day, it's all about getting the most value, the most dollar, you know, most moving dollars to silver. You want to get the most that you possibly can. And so going private with the volume that we do at Noble Gold, we can get, you know, great discounts. And that's that's the key to investors. So the story of gold this year is amazing. And, you know, we've been partnering for quite some time. We don't do investment advice. I don't. You guys do. Right. Right.

because it was very clear about that. However, I buy my stuff from you, gold and silver. Love working with you guys. And I want to get this chart up on screen here. The price of gold was stable through January, up, down a little bit, February, March. And then something happened in the beginning of March where it just started skyrocketing. And it went from about $2,000-ish an ounce to now near $2,300. So you look at that chart there. That's just in this year.

We have tons of time here this hour. What happened in March? Yeah, I mean, a lot of it had to do with the fact that

People are... You see the major buyers of gold. So you have central banks, obviously tremendous buyers. And China and many of the major banks are getting out of U.S. treasuries. I mean, you've probably seen the reports of China dumping close to $100 billion in the last year of U.S. treasuries. But where are they... What are they moving into? What do they slide into? And so they...

People are dumping fiat money all over the world. They're dumping bonds and they're looking for tangible investments just because they know that we're just at the beginning of this inflation. It's not inflation is not going anywhere. Jerome Powell has said they've had a hard time staving off inflation. We're still in the mid threes. I think it's worse than that.

Yeah, of course. The numbers are worse than that, but that's the numbers that they're reporting. So it's really what you're seeing is central banks – and this has been going on for probably 10 years – is they're moving away from U.S. treasuries. U.S. treasuries 10 years ago were at about 70 percent in central banks. Now they're at about 58 percent. So they're moving away, and now you have all this de-dollarization talk, and it's becoming rampant. Everyone's doing it, and so it makes sense –

For countries like China, obviously Russia, they're not going to be in U.S. treasuries anymore. It doesn't make any sense for them to have U.S. treasuries because they're just going to get taken away. No one's going to be able to reciprocate trade with them, so they want to be in gold.

So it's just a natural thing that has happened. And I think a lot of it was built in. And I was saying in November last year that I was expecting 2,300 gold. Yeah, and you were totally right. You came on this show and basically called your shot. Yeah, yeah. And people were like, oh, he's a typical gold guy. I'm like, that's legit. I'm very conservative with my expectations. And I think that when I look at the markets and you just see all this money moving out of typical safe haven investments...

then it makes sense for gold to make sense. And I think also people are realizing that the banks paying for 4.5% is really, and I hate to use this term, but I'm going to, it's really fool's gold, right? If the bank is willing to pay you 4.5%, what do you really need to make out in the market so everybody that really has any sense realizes that that 4.5% is just

It's they're throwing that at you because they're going to make 15, 20 percent on the market. Right. In whatever investment they can. And that's really the kind of returns that people need to keep up with. What is gold up this year?

Gold is up from January. I think we're at like 26%, 27% from this year. And then silver also went on a – No, I have a whole thing on silver. I'm going to go through. Yeah, one on a bigger one too. So I think it's what it is. It's like you have people that realize – they're starting to open up to the idea that you can't just –

rely on a 401k. You can't just rely on your employer that you have to have these different assets out there. And so having a self-directed IRA in gold or in real estate, you know, I heard you talking about recently talking about how, you know, the federal government owns so much land and they should sell that land to the states and to individuals. And that would be a big coup.

So I think that there's just opportunities out there that people are looking at. And alternative investments, gold, Bitcoin, these investments that no one was talking about 10 years ago are becoming very popular with everyone. Well, and so I want to take a step back and then I want to get into the silver thing because we have silver right here. And silver is interesting because they're usually related, but they're not always correctly related. Correct.

But the principles of what we're living through, it doesn't take someone who is overly sophisticated. So when the government controls the money supply and the money supply expands artificially and you have... There's only so much silver in the world. Right. And there's only so much gold in circulation. Correct. Correct. So when there's...

dollar bills continue to voluminously, then all of a sudden the finite becomes more valuable because then you have more dollar bills chasing fewer goods. Right, correct. Yeah, and also you look at – the reason I knew that gold was going to go to $2,300 because if you just look at inflation of other items that we are buying every day like food and electricity and all these other things that we need –

And electricity is obviously and energy is obviously very interesting because it does tie into silver. But I think that I knew that we were going to have this ramp of gold and now it's sort of testing. Once it broke 2000, that was a real testing point. And I remember in 2008, mid 2008, 2009, when gold broke 1000 and everyone was saying, you know, you had these Harry Dent and a lot of these guys saying it's going to go back to 300. And they, you know, talking about all these things.

But what they didn't realize is that we have this debt that we've accumulated and our GDP growth. We've had we're we've done something we've never done. And that's why they really couldn't understand it.

They couldn't understand that gold could hit these numbers because we've done something. We've expanded the money supply. We've created way too much debt for any country to live on. I mean, we're at 120% GDP. That's right. We owe far more than what we're worth. Yeah. And so how do you continue to do that? How do you sustain that? And then now we have this really predicament of higher interest rates. And how is the Fed going to try to pull those interest rates down and

But they also have a predicament because nobody wants to buy our treasury bonds. And so if nobody buys our treasury bonds, the bond prices have to go up. The rates have to go up. They have to be able to – we need to have these bonds continue to sell. So that's why this year I did think that they were going to lower rates a little bit quicker than they have. But –

And mostly because I thought they would do it to try to move Biden. A hundred percent. But they've been skittish on that. They've been skittish because they technically, based on their mandate, they actually can't do it. They cannot. What meant their own mandate? Well, they have to go back to two percent. Right. So if they lower rates and then inflation goes to five percent, which it would. Yeah, it would. Then then they're sort of in a bad predicament and they've done they've gone against what they're supposed to do.

Yeah, if they were to lower rates, the inflation crisis could have gotten worse for Biden. Correct. Absolutely. So they're actually helping Biden by doing nothing, but it doesn't really help because growth is not what it should be. Right. And people can't afford homes. So the ruling class regime is like, well, better to have kind of stagnant growth then. I mean, if you get to 5% inflation, you get to really, that's a very, very unstable. Just so we're clear, inflation and monthly rates are still over 5% nationally. It's remarkable.

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And funny enough, on the ride over here, the gentleman that drove me was a veteran. So we started talking about the book and he served in Vietnam. And yeah, so I'm always just fascinated. And World War II, I've spent probably too long of my life studying it. I'm just fascinated about how they did it, how they got from, you know, how they moved all these people from the water and into the land. And it was impossible. The amphibious nature of it. No one had ever done it successfully.

And there really wasn't a trial run. I mean, there was training, but there was this open question. Can we actually get the men on the beach? Yeah, exactly. Because they couldn't paratroop them all in. No. They did some reconnaissance in Sicily. They wanted to see...

But they never did it until they did the actual run. And the part I was just reading about was about General Patton and him and his... He's a maniac. He was quite an interesting character. But one of his things that he wanted, he didn't want them firing. He wanted it to be a surprise. He wanted to just... Yes. And his quote was, I want to get on the beach and I want to stomp on their necks. And that's...

basically what they did. It really was, I mean, I'm a believer in God and I think we both share a belief in the higher power, which is that it was a God thing that the Germans didn't take the warning seriously. Right. They were dispatching for approval, for reinforcements. They didn't believe that the Western forces would actually hit Normandy. Right. They thought it would be, what, 60 miles up the beach at a different landing sector. Is that right? Yes, absolutely. And they also just didn't think it was possible to move that many people. And, and,

And listen, a lot of soldiers perish because it's just such an undertaking to get these huge trucks and all this manpower onto the land.

But ultimately, some would say it was one of the things that won us the war. Well, and just so you know, we remember D-Day a couple weeks ago. The Battle of Normandy went on for a couple months because once they hit the beachhead, then all of a sudden the Nazis consolidated a ton, a ton of troops, and the street fighting began. Began, correct. And—

it was basically a mowing field. I mean, the film Saving Private Ryan does really capture that, I think, better than any other picture. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and it was also a time where it was, you know, people wanted to join. You know, people were... This was a time where actually people did want to do this. That's amazing. And they wanted to fight. The thing they talk about a lot in this book with Rick as is that they were fighting for their country, but they were fighting for their...

brother, the person next to him. That was the main... They did surveys. That was the main reason that they wanted to get out of the fight is they didn't want to let their brother down. And that kind of mentality is why they were the greatest generation. And it's also sort of lost today. It's totally lost. You just don't see...

You don't see that kind of mentality. I'm trying to get people to fill in a mail-in ballot, not storm in Normandy Beach. Right. It's not that hard. No, it's not that hard. It's not that hard. No, that's so deep. Yeah. So let's just talk more macro. You're talking to a lot of everyday investors. Yes. Also big institutional guys, guys that are on hedge fund, Wall Street, across the board.

There seems to be a trend that is now harmonizing amongst high income and low income where we want to go to assets we can touch like silver. Right. We want to go to assets like gold or something where there's only a finite amount. Is this a growing indictment of the U.S. dollar? Yeah. And I think that it's not –

if it's going to happen, it's sort of when, right? Because you look at the BRICS countries, not to go outside this country, but to just talk about the BRICS nations are coming together and that coalition is really growing. And they, in their October meeting, October 22nd and 24th in Russia, they specifically are going to be discussing how to get away from the de-dollarization, how to create their own currency. And they've had significant talks about doing it in gold.

and having gold backed, which would be unbelievable to the market. So both for the gold market? Correct. But in some ways, would they be limiting themselves?

I mean, they would have to have awful, incredible fiscal discipline. Yeah. Because it's hard to finance wars and hard to finance. Yeah. Again, I think one of the reasons we have such big government and such crazy wars is because we don't have a dollar-based currency. Correct. That's the biggest reasons against having a gold-backed currency is that it doesn't allow them to finance for war or regulate recessions or do it. But also— It limits the size of the state. But is that necessarily a bad thing?

I think it's amazing. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, my kind of Jeffersonian love of small, limited government. Right. I truly believe that the state was able to get – I mean, it's not a belief. It's a fact – got to huge levels because we destroyed our currency and we decided to open it up to a fiat currency. Correct. Correct.

You get big government, big war, and you get big DC, $6 trillion organization, largest organization ever in the history of the world because we can just print money on demand. I just wrote a thing to his book. I said, Colin, you are gold. Isn't that great? Yeah, I appreciate that. Promo code Charlie at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. Okay, I want to, let's get to silver. What's going on with silver? Silver, yeah. So we have a shortage, a 2024 shortage, about 17%.

And it's, you know, obviously we have solar panel growth.

Every time, you know, oil price fluctuates. But as you see oil prices start to go up, then people, they want electric cars. They don't want to. I mean, you can go a million different ways, but it doesn't seem like it's going to get any cheaper oil. And so you're seeing the demand skyrocket in so many industries. China is obviously doing a tremendous amount of solar panels. And so you have this just tremendous industrial demand that

And they just can't keep up mining-wise. Now, when silver was in the low 20s, I would talk to miners and they would say, we can't sustain mining. And what I'm hearing now is in the high 20s, it's becoming very difficult. So that's the thing that I always look at. And, you know, early in the show, you said, you know, I predicted with gold and I was right about gold. And I think silver is really still low relative to where it was. Yeah.

It has broken $50 an ounce twice. It broke it in 1983, and it broke it in 2011. People remember a quantitative easing 2009 to 2011, and the money supply opened up, which I predict, and I've been saying this for a year, and I think I'm laying on it. I do think we're going to see some kind of opening up of the money supply happening soon. So they're going to lower rates soon? I think they're going to either lower rates or they're going to expand in a different way.

I think they need to get more money out. They'll just quantitatively ease more? Yes. I do think they're going to do that. They need to. They need to get more money out into the market. And so either way you look at it, silver's sitting at— But we don't have a liquidity problem right now.

Right. I know. But you've got to think, industry, they want the real estate market to move. They need more jobs. They want money velocity, I suppose. Exactly. That's exactly what they want. And they need it. And they need it. So another way that you could do that also fiscally, not monetarily, by government just saying, here's universal basic income, which is a really bad idea. Horrible idea. And so, I mean, in the pandemic, that was your craziest year ever. Right. The luxury industry,

kind of industry, Louis Vuitton, for example, that's where people spent their money. Right. That was given to them by government. And silver jewelry, actually. Is that right? Silver jewelry from 2020... I thought that was going to ask. Yeah, went up over 300%. Are you kidding me? So yeah, you're right. Louis Vuitton, makeup, a lot of these items that... So people spent the money they got from the government, which you never should have sent. Not on stocks or saving money or...

Yeah. I mean, 2020 to 2021, we had the lowest debt for about personal debt for about a year. There was a really good period where people, they still bought some stuff, but they really kind of shrunk down. But actually what they were doing is like you said, they were just taking the government's money and they just kind of put it in a different place. Whereas the smart money in that situation should have said like, I'm going to buy Amazon stock or something, or I'm going to learn a

a trade. I'm going to do like, you know, and this is the big thing that I'm excited about when with Trump is that I think the idea and everyone's, you know, pissed about the tariff talk and all this stuff, but ultimately like getting jobs back to our shore is the thing that will, will ride the ship for everybody. That's really the most important thing. That's because at the end of the day, yes, cost of goods will go up, but wages will go up.

And that's a thing that people aren't realizing. But also, here's the thing. Trump has floated funding the entire government with tariffs, which, by the way, is the way we used to fund government or government for the income tax.

That if you do tariffs, if you are the world's superpower, which we still are, foreign investment will come into your country then. Correct. So they'll just say, okay, we need to do business in America. We'll just build a plant in Oklahoma. Right. Or Texas. Exactly. And so the tariff structure is dangerous if you are a third world country. Mm-hmm.

But tariffs actually can do a tremendous good for your country if you are the incumbent superpower. Yep. And Trump was really the first president that I can recall that really took this on with China. Yes. And it was because it's unpopular to –

wealthy, a lot of wealthy business owners. They didn't like that idea. They like the things. Well, they like cheap capital, but they don't care about the country. Right. Exactly. Yeah. That's the whole thing. And, and, and so I think that's really the, the big, and that's the big idea of, of what we do at Noble Gold Investments is like the idea of taking back. And I always talk about this when you see me anywhere, I always talk about like taking back your own control and,

And a big idea of taking back your own control with an IRA with us is that people get in gold and silver. And there's been a lot of people this year that have taken profits that bought gold from me at $1,400 an ounce four years ago. And they're going to sell at $2,300 and they're going to go into some other investment and

And I think gold's going to continue to go up, but the idea that they can do that and they have that control is really important. The other thing that people don't realize with us is that we're one of the few instruments in the world, investments, that we don't make a monthly fee. People don't realize how much the fees are in these 401ks. They don't realize how much is going away. And there's lots of studies about it. Harvard and a lot of organizations have done it, that typical fees in a 401k are anywhere from 1% to 3%.

You know, we just make money when you buy gold from us. That's it. Even when you sell back to us, we don't, there's no profit for us. So because I can just take back that gold bar and sell it to somebody else. Yes. We've structured noble gold investments is that we sell bars at the lowest possible price. We get you into good products. And then when the market's up and you go, Hey, you know what? I got to fix the roof or I got to do this. Guess what?

This asset is liquid. People want this asset. They don't want dollars. And you can feel it and you can touch it. 100%. And Noble Gold, you guys are super ethical. There's a lot of other gold companies that are not exactly having great times right now. And you guys continue to be on the straight and narrow. Yeah. And the reason a lot of our competitors are having problems is because they charge –

outrageous commissions and now people see the price of gold at 2300 they go well i gotta be in profit now and guess what a lot of these people are not because they went with a company that was selling them a commemorative coin they promised them free gold like a lot you know 10 000 20 000 dollars for free gold and silver it's like well well how do you think that happens it's because they're charging these fees we don't do that we sell bullion coins and bars that's what we sell

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Like you said, they print the dollar. So why does the government even borrow? Well, the... So the... I mean, again, some of this stuff gets...

some of the language that the MM, some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money, which is why, uh, the government definitely prints money and then it lends that money by, uh, by selling bonds. Uh, is that what they do? They, they, um,

They, yeah, they sell bonds. Yeah, they sell bonds, right? Since they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah. Oh, it continues. Again, this guy is the chief economist. He is the head of the United States Council of Economic Advisors. He is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget Policy Priorities, and he can't tell you how the government is financed. Continue, Playcut86.

A lot of times, at least to my ear with MMT, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to... So, yeah, I guess I'm just... I can't really talk. I don't get it. I don't know what they're talking about, because it's like...

So just to be clear, I thought that was AI when I first saw it.

I thought it was a deep fake. Deep fake, yeah. This is Jared Bernstein, who, again, it's not like he's some random intern. This guy is the chair of the entire American economic strategy, chief economist and economic policy advisor, and he is the chair of the Economic Advisory Council. Your reaction, Colin? These are the people that want to make economic decisions for your family. Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of it comes down to just it's pretty simple. It's...

versus GDP growth as a country and how do we increase that GDP growth and how do we get growth, wage growth. And it was what we talked about earlier is that the way you fix wage growth is you bring more manufacturing back here, which is what we're talking about, or you create tariffs that make it expensive and we get a piece of the action. So it's not just shorthanded.

shipping jobs over and I think the idea of people focusing on US owned companies and spending money here and really foot which is what we are we've always been a US based company we we hire here we're not you know a lot of companies I see out there they're they're hiring talent and all over the world and I believe that every dollar I spend with an employee here comes back right and

And so the big picture of what he's confused about is a lot of it is that we're in such tremendous amount of debt, we don't have a choice.

I mean, once we went off the gold standard, once the dollar wasn't pegged by gold anymore, it's just been an absolute printing press. And so, yeah, there has been a lot of wealth that's been created in a smaller amount of people. But ultimately, to get money back to the middle class in the right way is that we have to focus on bringing the right kind of jobs here, not government jobs, like the right kind of private sector jobs. Yes.

And the way that you do that is you make things again. And so talking to a lot of business owners and people that are trying to preserve their wealth, inflation is a primary concern on people's minds. Would you agree? Yeah. And that inflation is a choice, and we are choosing to engage in inflation and even hyperinflation. So what is then your prediction for gold and silver?

Well, also, I would say like the Inflation Reduction Act has actually made inflation worse. Go figure. You know, I think I look at gold and silver and I look at, you know, I always look at five to seven years. And so I'm looking really at 2030 as a really interesting time for us. And I know we will have gains before that time period. But

I look at where we're going with the next president and what could potentially happen. And I think that if you believe that gold and silver will be items that are continued to use in industry, if you believe that countries will back currencies by gold, Zimbabwe did it. They did it. Now, Zimbabwe is sort of a joke in terms of currencies. Has it stabilized their currency? Not yet. But the ZIG, they've backed it by $580 million in...

in gold. So, cause obviously they had the heaviest inflation currency in the world. If you believe that countries are going to do that, if you believe that we will continue to use silver and everything that we're using here today, then you have to look at what's the trajectory possible trajectory. And I, and I look at that compared to debt. And I, if you look at 1983 when gold hit $900 an ounce and you look at today's price and you just look at the charts of how things have gone up from 1983 to today, I,

I think you can make a very strong argument that gold could be three to six times higher by 2030. And I think silver will make a very strong argument to break $100 an ounce. I think that the mining cost is so expensive now. Mexico has said they cannot continue to mine. There's been silver mines that even with the price going up that have closed because they can't afford it at the price. Ultimately, they have to make a profit.

So even at $29 and some change, they believe it's still – it's not a profitable endeavor. Which means eventually it will become profitable.

Because it will be these mines shut down, then the price will correct. Absolutely. Yeah, there'll be limited supply. Yeah, absolutely. So I think the future is, is, is bright. And I think that it's getting away. Don't have I don't I don't think you should have all your money and assets that are managed with heavy fees. And I definitely think having too much money in the banks is even with this fool's gold of four and a half percent. I think people will look back.

and realize that the 4.5%, based on inflation probably being 9% or 10% or maybe higher, that they could have made much more in something else. So much more to discuss here economically. The stock market seems a little more fragile than they ever want to lead you on to believe. And so how has gold and silver done versus the market?

It's definitely outperformed the S&P. Let me rephrase that. How is it done outside of any averages when you don't include the five biggest stocks? Oh, then, yeah. I wish I had that number in front, but that would be like— You destroyed it. Yeah. I know the number. So far, without the five biggest stocks, the market's up 0.3%.

Okay. And so, yeah, we're like in the high 20s. So yeah, we've done, we've done a little bit. But literally, I hope everyone understands the stock market is being driven by five companies. That's an oligarchy. That's an oligopoly. That is not free market capitalism. Yeah. Yeah. And, and not everyone's 401k or their mutual fund, uh,

is going to have those. Maybe it hasn't now, but they've already, the growth's already been in there, right? So that's something to think about too. But yeah, I mean, I think that's what it is, is that people are getting more comfortable with the idea. You know, it's sort of an old school investment, Charlie, in that

The idea that not everything is somewhere else, the idea that you actually own something by yourself is becoming more in fashion now. And I think that because if you think about everything else, someone owns a piece of everything else that you kind of own. From your house, the bank owns some. The government's doing heavy taxes now.

Every time you do, you know, people think real estate is such a great investment and it can be long term. But, you know, anytime you fix your house, there's fees, you know, there's a lot of property taxes, there's property, heavy property. So, you know, and then you have the stock market, you just own a share of a company, right? You don't own yourself. So the idea with us that you could own something by yourself, you're in control of it, you can store it on your own, or if you want us to store it in a segregated place, I'm

I'm going to be out in Texas actually next month. Is that where you store a lot of it? We store a lot in, out in Dallas. So I do a, I do a blind audit where I'll take a few hundred accounts and I'll spend two days and basically open up the boxes. And does it always correlate? It always correlates. Yeah. I always joke with them like, Oh, there's like three extra gold ounces here.

with the guys in the vault, they don't think that's funny. I think that's a great joke. I've said that for the last 10 years. So good for them. They're always doing it. Every time. And you have full audit rights. Full audit rights, yeah. And you just randomly pick 200 accounts. I give them... So the day before I show up, I give them like 300 or 400 accounts. So I don't even want them to know because I'm going to be there the next day, right? I don't want any... And then what I do is if it's...

The way they do with gold is they shrink wrap it so then it won't be open. I actually have to open it up myself and then I'll go through. So there's no way they can manipulate it. There's no way they can. And also our depository also gets audited by their insurance company too. Oh, good. So a lot of times it'll be like they just did an audit a month or two ago and then I'm just doing another audit. But you could choose to have the gold delivered to you.

Of course. Absolutely. And some people do that, but you better have good security. I mean, you better. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you know, people that are retired or traveling and so they don't always feel comfortable. And, and, and so, you know, it's something that, you know, I've, I've, we've sent people millions and millions and millions of dollars and sometimes they don't want to have it. So we'll store it. And it's a very, the fees that we do are all, it's all insured. It's all segregated. You know, that's the thing you have to watch out for too. Some of these brinks and some of these vaults, they commingle stuff.

And that's like the worst thing that you could ever have. It's like commingled metals. And I'm not just saying, there might be some horror stories with that. There is some, you know, there's a depository in Delaware that, that went out of business recently that, that said they had gold and silver and nobody was doing audits or checks. And unfortunately they had like,

I think 50% of what they should have. People can go to jail for that. People, yeah. The guy that owned that organization will go to jail. So that's why, even though I trust the company we work for, you know, trust but verify. And so I go and I do audits a few times a year and I just, I want to get my hands on. And also, frankly, it's...

it's a blast i love i love doing i love seeing it and then what i'll do is i'll send a note to those people and just say i did an audit so i did personally they probably appreciate that yeah they do yeah yeah yeah so it's noble gold investments.com promo code charlie that is noble gold investments.com promo code charlie and you guys also have commemorative coins too is that correct yeah we do have commemorative talk about the gold ira yeah so an ira any old 401k for people that left everyone's left the job you might have an old account you

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So anyone that's looking to learn, I'd say it's a great time to get educated. It's the summer. It's a little slower. Maybe you got a little bit more time, but don't put your head in the sand. That's what I would say. Yes. You know, you really got to, you have to take control of your own destiny. It's where I get all my gold and silver from noble gold investments.com promo code Charlie.

Colin, I hope you guys have a great year and hopefully not too good of a 2025. So what do you mean? Because if Trump doesn't win, you're going to have the best year in the history of Noble Gold Investments. He's going to win. I would guarantee it. NobleGoldInvestments.com. Promo code Charlie. Colin, thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thank you so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.