Warning Signs For Retirement Savings

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US Treasury Secretary just said one sentence that should scare every single person with a pension. He said, we're now entering the end game. And yes, he was talking about Iran, but what he's really doing is going to hit your savings far harder than any war headline because to win this fight, America is about to weaponize the one thing sitting in your bank account right now, the dollar. My name is Felix Prince. I used to be an investment banker before I got out and started teaching regular people the stuff Wall Street likes to keep for itself about seven years ago. And we've taught well about 25,000 people so far. And I don't take money from anyone. This is never sponsored. This is not political. But while the news shows you the tankers and the sanctions, the smartest money on the planet, central banks, the biggest clients of the biggest banks, what they're quietly doing is something else. In the last three weeks, they bought a record amount of gold. About $22 billion of it, which is literally the most in over a decade. And one trading desk just placed a bet that silver, the boring metal, hits $90 in the next three months. The question is simple. Do they know something you don't? And by the end of this video, you will understand exactly what they know that you don't know yet. And here's what actually bothers me about this. Almost everyone watching the news this week is gonna see the war heartlines, is gonna feel a bit anxious and completely miss the real move, which is their own cash quietly losing value while the rest of the world quietly gets off the dollar. And that's the part nobody really explains, at least not in plain English, well, until it's too late, and then they're gonna do a documentary about it, about you know how you could have done. Let's learn it before it really happens. So I've written out the whole thing for you, actually in plain English. What happened just, why it matters for your money, and exactly what the big players, the skilled money, are doing about it. It's completely free. There's no catch. You can just download it. It's the link in the description down below. Just go to feedixfriends.org/slash silver. Grab that first, come straight back because the next part is where this gets. I was gonna say fun, but I think uh sort of slightly terrifying, is perhaps the better way of putting it. So this is what you need to understand before I show you the rest and walk you through what I'm doing about it. This weekend, the US Treasury Secretary told the world that any country helping Iran will be removed from the dollar system. He launched something called Operation Economic Outcast and called it an economic DJ. Nearly 60 companies and ships were sanctioned overnight, five sectors targeted, including gold. And that's just half of it. The exact same time, at the exact same time, the Treasury is sitting on about a trillion dollars in cash, and they just doubled the size of a program to buy back their own government debt starting September 9th. So in plain English, they're getting ready to flood the system with money while telling the rest of the world the dollar can be switched off at any time. And that combination, more dollars being created, fewer countries wanting to hold them, is the setup for everything I'm going to show you right now. And it's it's already in movement, it's already in action. But the bit that made me want to share this with you this morning while I'm sitting here in Glorious California, is that all of that, the weaponized dollar, the trillion dollar money machine, is landing on top of the biggest speculative bubble since 2000. And it's the AI bubble. Big tech is going to spend $700 billion on AI just this year. Look, AI is real. I'm not knocking the technology, I use it with my businesses every day, it's tremendous. But guess what? The internet was real too. The internet was arguably the greatest invention of our lifetime, and the Nasdaq still crashed, 78%. It took 15 years, yes, 15 years to climb back to zero. So let me make that a little bit more personal. Imagine you're 55 years old, you're planning to retire at 65, you've got $100,000 in your 401k, that's roughly the average for somebody in their 50s. Now imagine it gets cut by 78%. Your 100 grand becomes $22,000, and it doesn't come back until you're seventy. I'm not saying that to scare you. I'm saying it because it already happened to millions of people in the year 2000, and the concentration, the speculation, the valuations today are worse. So what do you do about it? Well, gold and silver may be a big part of the answer, and I'm gonna spend the rest of this video showing you exactly why the biggest money on the planet thinks so. But how do you actually protect your 401k, your pension, your retirement from the kind of crash that history says is coming again? Well, to teach you that would probably take me about two hours, and that's exactly what I'm gonna do with you this Saturday if you're up for it. Life. And it has to be life because it takes me quite a bit of time to get through it properly. And I want you to be able to ask me questions in real time. So it's coming this Saturday. It's completely free, there's no catch. You just go to survive the bubble.com, grab yourself a free ticket, and show up. And no, there won't be a replay. You have to actually be there. You have to actually want to learn this enough to want to be there. And if you're coming, put the word thrive in the comments. So I know you're in, because that's our goal. It is not to scare you, it is to actually

Sanctions Turn The Dollar Into A Weapon

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make you thrive and make you so skilled that you can do better than most people out of the situation that we're in. Links down below, survive the bubble.com. Now let me show you the whole thing because yeah, once you see this, it'll all fit together why the skilled money is already running in one direction. So, what actually happened this weekend behind all the headlines? The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessant, who's a Wall Street guy, by the way, he's a proper hedge fund guy. He's coming out of the industry that I was a little part of for a little while. He stood up and he launched something they're calling Operation Economic Outcast. He literally called it an economic D-Day, the single greatest financial offensive ever aimed at another country. And the target on paper is Iran. They sanctioned nearly 60 companies, people, ships, tied to the regime, the supreme leader of Iran. It's always nice when someone calls himself supreme, right? I should maybe start doing that, shouldn't I? Anyway, uh here's the here's the here's what actually matters. He said that any country that keeps helping Iran will be removed from the US dollar system. In plain English, it means this. Almost all global trade, oil, ships, imports, everything gets settled in US dollars. Being in the dollar system is what lets a country do business with the rest of the world. So what Besson just said is this play by our rules, or we cut you off from the money the whole planet runs on. So it is not a sanction on one country. It's turning the dollar itself into a weapon. And look at what they put on the list of things they're going to go after. I put it on the screen for you. Uh, five sectors digital assets, technology, shipping, aviation, and gold. Yeah. And then gold specifically is one of the pressure points. So sip it out for a second, because the government is telling you in writing that gold is now important enough to fight over. And it matters to you, even if you're sitting thousands of miles away from Iran, because look at what's happening inside Iran right now. Because this is what it actually looks like when a currency comes under this kind of pressure. The Iranian currency, the real, that's their money, it just hit a record low. About 2 million reals now buy you one dollar. Rice is up 60%, beef is up 150%. And that's what it looks like when the world stops trusting the paper in your wallet. It doesn't happen slowly and politely, it happens really, really rapidly once it kicks off. And no, I'm not saying the US dollar is going to go to zero. That's not the point. The point is what happens next. Because when the most powerful country on earth shows everyone that it's willing to switch off the dollar like a light switch, freeze your accounts, cut you off from trade, use your own money against you. Every other country that isn't a super close friend or, you know, married to your sister or something is gonna sit up and think the same thought. Could that be me one day? And once you have that thought, you start doing one thing. You start moving your savings out of dollars and into something no government can freeze, print, or switch off. And history says that's always been the same two things, gold and silver. Now, why does it matter to you still, right? Well, when other countries start dumping dollars, that's more dollars sloshing around the system with less demand for them. When there are more dollars chasing the same amount of real stuff, food, energy, metals, houses, and so on, the value of each dollar shrinks. Now, us economists call it inflation, and it's a slow, invisible kind of tax that eats your savings from the inside without you really noticing. This isn't the first time they're doing this. Every time America has weaponized its currency in the last 20 years, Russia, Venezuela, North Korea, more countries quietly started stacking gold. It's not a coincidence, it's just it's just logic, right? Any smart government in the world is going to be doing exactly the same thing. So sanctions make the dollar powerful in the short term and weaker in the long term because every time you use it as a stick, you give people a reason to look for an alternative, a shiny alternative. So the sanctions aren't just sort of a policy headline, you know, let's fight the enemy. They're a threat to the spending power of your dollars sitting in your bank account right now. And they're also a threat to your salary if you get paid in dollars. But the sanctions are only half of the story that I need you to understand. The second part of this, and that's the bit I really well, I really want to hammer home because the evening news doesn't seem to cover it, not that I would watch it, but at the exact same time, America is playing tough with the dollar abroad. It's propping up its own finances at home with the biggest sum of money you've ever heard attached to this. To understand this, you need to understand how the government borrows money. Well, it does it by selling IOUs. They call them bonds because it sounds fancier, but it's just an IOU. Think of them like a loan. You give the government your money today, and they promise to pay you back later with interest. So, right now, to get anyone to actually lend the

Why Countries Move Into Gold

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government, the government has to promise a pretty high interest rate. There is something called the 30-year interest rate. So it's a loan for 30 years, and that interest rate is now about 5.25%, as I'm recording this, which is the highest since uh 2007. And these high rates are a nightmare for a government that owes as much as this one does, because every time that rate goes up, well, every mortgage, every car loan, every credit card also gets more expensive. So it pulls money out of the economy and slows down economic growth. So, how do you force this rate down? Well, you become the buyer yourself if you're running a lunatic asylum, which is apparently what we're running here. So the treasury, the US government, just doubled the size of a program where it buys back its own debt. They went from $2 to $4 billion. That starts September 9th. Buy your own debt, push the price up, force the interest rate down. Weird. Now, it sounds kind of odd, right? Bonds, interest rates, buybacks all sounds kind of complicated. But it's anything but weird or boring or dry. When the government becomes the biggest buyer of its own debt, it's basically saying this Nobody else wants to lend us money at a rate we can afford. So we're going to lend money to ourselves. And that only works if you have money to lend, which brings up the question most people never really ask. Where does the money come from? Well, the government has its own checking account, just like you and I do, and it's called the Treasury General Account. It's sort of a giant bank account at the central bank. And this week the number came up. That account holds about a trillion dollars. The T, right? And that is 250 times bigger than the $4 billion per operation they just announced to intervene in the bond market. So that's the firepower they're sitting on. Now, let me walk you through what happens when they start drawing that money down. Because this is the bit that connects directly to your savings, your retirement, and everything you're investing in. When the Treasury spends that money, it buys back its own debt, pushes it out into the system, it does what any new money does. In the short term, it can lift stocks, even crypto, because there's suddenly more money sloshing around the same path. And markets love fresh money, right? Bankers like fresh money, we love the smell of it. That's just how it works. But in the long term, it does something else. It waters down every value, it waters down every dollar already in existence. And when there are more and more dollars chasing the same amount of real stuff in the real world, the same barrels of oil, the same ounces of gold, the same sacks of rice, the price of things go up. Not because they are worth more, because your money got less valuable. That's the trick. The numbers in your bank account stay the same, but what they can actually buy slowly, quietly shrinks. And this is rocket fuel for the one thing that goes up when there are more dollars being printed than there's real stuff to buy. It is scarce assets, hard assets. Gold and silver, some of those. Now, I'm not a financial advisor, I'm not telling you to run out and buy it. I'm not, I haven't got a crystal ball about the gold and silver price. And it's important to understand that in the short term, gold and silver prices are uh, I was gonna say, manipulated by no, uh, that was not the word I was looking for, are um are efficiently managed by the wonderful people who run COMEX, which is the exchange where gold and silver futures are traded. Um but let's put the two halves together here for you, because this is where you get the full picture. Abroad, the US is showing the entire world that the dollar can be weaponized, frozen, switched off. And that makes every country on earth think twice about holding it. At home, they're getting ready to push up to a trillion new dollars into the system, more dollars being created, fewer countries wanting to hold it. And if you're designing a machine specifically to send gold and silver higher, this is pretty much what I would design. And it's not the first time they've done it. They've done this before. They did it in 2008, they did it in 2020. Every single time the same thing happened, gold and silver ran pretty hard. And the people who didn't own any watch from the sidelines, well, their savings quietly shrank, their salary quietly shrank, and then often they buy the top of the gold and silver rally because the traders will push it higher than it should go, and then it'll tank again, like it did at the beginning of this year. But this time the numbers are bigger. So, what's the smart money doing? Well, we've got a government weaponizing the dollar abroad, warming up a trillion dollar money machine at home. So the people who do this for a living, what do they do? All I do, I'm a person with no conviction, by the way. I have no particular

Treasury Buybacks And The Money Flood

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love or uh, you know, for any stock or any metal or any asset class, I really don't care. I'm sort of agnostic when it comes to that. I look at what the skilled money is doing. That's all I really care about. Because if the biggest money in the world is making the same bet that I'm talking about here, then it's a very, very different conversation than if it's just my opinion, right? Some lunatic ex-banker who's on a holiday once again. Let me show you what the smart money is actually doing. Because they've already started moving and people just haven't noticed it yet. Let's start with gold. Gold down here was sort of in this sideways limbo. Well, first of all, it went down fairly significantly since the beginning of the year, which is to be expected, by the way. It happens every time a war breaks out. And then we got this little sort of, I call it a heartbeat pattern here. And I love this heartbeat pattern because this is what I was taught to look for. And then we break out of that heartbeat pattern. And if that means absolutely nothing to you, good. Uh, because I'll explain it to you. And if you show up on Saturday, I'm gonna really explain it to you. We were basically, we were below trend, right? And we're below the trend, the trend is down. When it crosses above the trend, then what happens? Well, the trend's up. It isn't magic, it's just a very, very widely watched signal that everyone's looking at, and we could draw some moving averages on here and it would maybe maybe make it a little bit clearer, but I want to keep it simple. So gold just crossed over this upside for the first time since actually 2023. And that's quite a big deal. So fund managers who run tens of billions watch this same line that I'm imagining is on the chart here. We break out above that. Many of them have actual rules, written rules, mandates that say, let's start buying again. So the crossover itself tends to bring in a wave of new money. It doesn't have to, but it tends to. And the last time gold pushed back over that line and held, it went up by how much? It went up about 180%. Again, I'm not telling you that's gonna happen. I'm gonna crystal ball, right? I'm not telling you to put all your money in it. Diversification is the key to all of it. A pure gold or silver portfolio is a is a lunatics portfolio because it's gonna like rob you of your sleep half the time. But we've already up about 15% since the bottom here, right? We're trading at sort of 4,600 or so as I'm recording this. And then Goldman Sachs, who are, you know, gold man and Sachs, um, and and also, you know, run kitten sanctuaries and look after the needy, you know, just like the loveliest people in the world. It's a big investment bank, so you know who I'm talking about, right? Generous, kind-hearted people who are there to make the country a better place. Yes, they're not in it for the bonuses, those people. Anyway, um they are saying and told their clients that they think gold's gonna go to 4,900 by the end of the year. And they see significant upside risk beyond that, which basically means it could go a lot higher. And the reason they give for this is pretty interesting. They said the flood of call options, and those are bets that only pay off if the price goes up. That flood of call options is creating what they called a mechanical price amplifier. They haven't told them to use plain English yet on Wall Street. But in plain English, it means so many big players are betting on gold going up that their bets themselves are pushing the price higher. So it becomes self-reinforcing. The more people bet up, the more the banks who sold those bets have to buy gold to cover themselves, which pushes the price up more, which triggers more buying, it feeds on itself. Now, what I just said there is probably incomprehensible, and that's okay. It's how the options market works. We don't need to actually fully understand that. Just take my word for it for the moment. Now, what about silver? Well, this is the one I really want to pay attention to. So I've got a little silver chart here on the screen. Looks very similar actually to the gold chart, right? When gold gets expensive, the big money tends to spill over into silver because it's the cheaper way to own the same idea, the same bet against the dollar, the same bet on hard assets, but at a fraction of the price. And silver has this pattern that drives people mad. It sits still for ages, does absolutely nothing, it looks dead, and then it moves late, typically. It moves usually harder than silver. And the reason is simple the silver market is tiny compared to gold. So when the market starts pouring in, there just aren't enough sellers to absorb it. So the price has to move to find them, and that's why silver moves so violently. And then, of course, we've got our lovely, wonderful people who make the Comec so much fun and make sure that the prices really are uh, you know, exactly where they should be for the little lab. And we've got one trading desk. They placed a bet, and it's a call option again, which is a bet on it going higher in the future. And the call option is three months long,

Gold Breakout And Silver $90 Bet

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and they said silver's gonna hit $90. Doesn't mean it has to. But that would be a monster move from where we're sitting right now. And again, those are not small people are messing around, those are trading desks with real money, uh, and that's where they think it's gonna go. Doesn't mean it has to, right? It's not a guarantee. It's one desk's bet. They could be wrong. But it tells you a little bit about the flavor of the smart money direction. Let's put the whole thing together. Who's actually doing the buying? It's not the day traders on their phone, it's not the Reddit lunatics. It's the last, in the last two weeks, it's the big professional traders. It's the hedge funds, it's the algorithmically traded funds. It's basically a computer, uh, and it's the people who manage billions of dollars. Because somebody bought $22 billion of gold futures. It is a 10-year record. The most gold bought in a short window in over a decade. And then we have other people. The central banks, they're loading up to. And if you've been paying attention to what I've been saying at the beginning of the video, weaponizing the dollar, well, yeah, if you're a smart government, what are you going to buy? Anything but dollars. So gold and silver are an obvious thing to buy. The World Gold Council just put out their report and they said every single reserve manager of a central bank in the world is buying gold except for one, Russia. They're selling. I guess they need some money. So the entire world central banking system is basically saying the thing. We want more gold, right? And less of everything else. So you've got Goldman Sachs telling you $4,900, you've got desks betting on $90 silvers, you've got $22 billion of skilled money pouring into gold in just three weeks, and virtually every central bank in the world buying gold. So it's a bit of a stampede, right? Now I know what some of you are thinking. Okay, I hear you, but I'm just gonna sit this out in cash. I'll wait this out, I'll sit on the sidelines until the Blows over. And look, it's your decision. I'm not telling you what to buy, I'm not a financial advisor, never have, never will. And I get that it feels safe. Cash feels like the one thing that can't go wrong, but that's a trap, my friend. Let me show you why. Back in 1971, when the US took the dollar off the gold standard, which is a fancy way of saying that, well, before 1971, every dollar was backed by gold, the government just started printing more money because it felt good. It was an easy way to get elected. And since then, the dollar has lost most of its value. That $1.71 is worth a couple of cents right now. Literally, a couple of cents right now. And that's the government's official number using their own inflation calculator, which is obviously complete nonsense. So in reality, it's it's lost by 99% of its value. That's cash for you. So each time the government prints money, and they're telling you they're printing money, they're just calling it something fancy, you get a few years of relative calm, followed by a very, very nasty spike in prices. You might remember it after COVID, right? Um, I remember these hotel rooms used to cost a couple of hundred dollars. Now they added a zero to it. And what is that? That is money printing, right? It didn't get better or fancier or anything. It's just money printing. And from where I'm sitting, we're staring at the exact next money printing saga, and it's going to be wonderful, people who are invested in the right thing. And it's going to be really, really painful for those who are in cash or those who live off salaries, essentially, right? Which is most people. So what do you need to do? You need to put as much of your salary into assets, good assets. That's my humble opinion. Because they're about to do it again. A trillion dollars worth just announced, right? So, in my opinion, cash is not safe. Cash is the one asset that is guaranteed, a hundred percent guaranteed to lose value. So if you're sitting in cash while they print, you're basically standing in the rain and you're wondering why you're getting wet. And the people who figure this out, the central banks, the skilled money, the funds, the insiders, they've already made their move. They own gold, they own silver, they own real businesses that make real cash, things that can't be printed, can't be switched off. That's where the money is going. So the question is whether you're going to join them or whether you're going to find out in six months or even in six years from a headline that tells you you should have done this. That's what happens with these cycles, right? They sort of sneak up on you if you're not informed. And that's precisely what I wanted to record this video for here, because this is happening. This is real. So let me leave you with this. If you just watch the whole thing laid out, congratulations, you've done more than 99% of people in the world. You have a government that's weaponized the dollar this week. Told the world it can and it will cut off anyone. You've got a trillion dollar pile of cash that's about to get pushed into the system. You've got the smartest money on the planet buying records amount of gold. You've got big trading desks

Cash Trap And Free Live Training

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betting on $90 silvers, and a 55-year track record showing you exactly what happens to the money in your pocket and your salary every single time they do this. They've run this a few times, right? So the people who get hurt the worst in every one of these are never the people who saw it coming. No. They're the people who did nothing because nobody explained it to them in a way that they could actually understand until it was too late. My hope is that that is no longer going to be you just watch the whole thing. So take the next step. Join me on Saturday for that free life training I mentioned earlier. I'll show you exactly how to protect your retirement, your pension, your 401k from what's coming. And it's waiting for you this Saturday at survivethebubble.com. It's free, it's live. Bring your questions. And if you're going to join us, put Thrive in the comments because that's my goal for you. I don't want you guys to suffer. I want you to thrive. We've all suffered. We've all been through this. I started investing in 1999. Was that a good experience? No, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I lost half my money. But I was young when I lost half my money. So I could get through it. But if you're in your 40s or 50s or 60s or 70s right now, this could really, really, really hurt very, very badly. So put drive in the comments. Join me on Saturday, and I wish you all the best.