00:00:00.000I want to better understand what you mean when you say AI could kill us all.
00:00:04.980What is the worst case scenario or scenarios that keeps you up at night?
00:00:09.880Yeah, I think before discussing specific scenarios, it helps to just think of building AI as sort of inviting an alien mind onto the planet.
00:00:18.580You're building a human level or superhuman level mind without understanding what it wants or thinks or the way it thinks.
00:00:26.860And I think that intrinsically should be quite scary.
00:00:29.100and indeed the people who write science fiction have tend to found it scary when they've written
00:00:33.580about this in the past this is the voice of world control i bring you peace it may be the peace of
00:00:43.100plenty and contempt or the peace of unburied death the choice is yours obey me and live
00:00:51.740or disobey and die frightening you know some of these existential risks some of the challenges
00:00:57.820we have. And they're all framed in this sort of runaway dystopian science text. There's a risk of
00:01:04.820nuclear war. There's a risk of environmental disaster, maybe something specific like climate
00:01:09.660change, although there are lots of other ones we've come up with. There's a risk of, you know,
00:01:14.200I know, bioweapons. You have all the different sci-fi scenarios. Obviously, there are certain
00:01:19.460types of risks with AI. But I always think that if we're going to have this frame of talking about
00:01:25.740existential risks, perhaps we should also talk about the risk of another type of a bad singularity,
00:01:32.740which I would describe as the one world totalitarian state. Because I would say the
00:01:38.780political solution, the default political solution people have for all these existential risks
00:01:49.200is one world governance. Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons,1.00
00:01:56.220but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think,1.00
00:02:00.900and eventually they will completely outthink their makers.
00:02:05.520Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal men,
00:02:11.840and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping0.99
00:02:17.260stones to higher things in terms of concrete scenarios these AIs are already capable of a
00:02:24.380certain degree of hacking and also a certain degree of biological research of autonomous
00:02:28.940robot control and if you extrapolate into the future they could have strongly superhuman
00:02:34.220hacking capabilities very superhuman abilities to create novel bio weapons and also abilities
00:02:40.380to control say autonomous drones or all the robots that are currently being built do you believe
00:02:45.100you've earnestly believed that AI could kill all humans? And what percent chance do you think it is?
00:02:52.580So, you know, I, you know, it's funny. I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him,
00:02:59.540you know, and it's, you know, it's an interesting resignation because when he left, he said,
00:03:05.420you know, I think Anthropic is the most responsible player, right? I think Anthropic
00:03:09.900is the most aware of these issues, he wasn't calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic
00:03:16.440of the industry as a whole moving too fast. Now, I think I already said these sort of
00:03:25.260unconditional probabilities. I used to kind of talk in that way because it's kind of an easy
00:03:31.100way to express, I think there's some chance that things go wrong, but it's not all that high.
00:03:39.900i suspect that organic or biological evolution has about come to its end and we are now at the
00:03:46.860beginning of inorganic or mechanical evolution which will be thousands of times swifter
00:03:55.500monday 14 september in the year of our lord 2026 welcome aboard stepping stones
00:04:01.740i think you see the reason now we brought joe allen in in 2021 so make sure the the war and
00:04:09.900posse the mago grassroots which is the most powerful political movement and cultural
00:04:15.260in the country and one of the most powerful in the history of our country um the guardians
00:04:22.660of what the revolutionary generation intended although i think they'd be
00:04:29.380grossly disappointed in us joe allen joins me he's actually in the war room this morning
00:04:35.120uh joe we had peter teal there that actually was a masterpiece of how concise it was peter teal
00:04:42.720arguing actually the antichrist is going to be regulation uh you had arthur c clark
00:04:49.180telling us we're stepping stones or something higher it was just magnificent this has all come
00:04:54.860i guess in the last 72 hours and you saw anthropic right there oh coxson was not actually talking
00:05:01.800about anthropic although he worked with us he's just talking about everybody in general no i don't
00:05:05.600think that's correct he is talking about people generally he talked about you brother and how
00:05:09.960you run your shop the bigger news i think the one that really made this real is open ai which is
00:05:16.800talking about another trillion dollar ipo pulled their ipo oh they said we're just going to cancel
00:05:23.480for 2026 yeah they pulled their ipo and i believe the real story there is that their underwriters
00:05:30.160pulled the ipo saying hey look brother in our due diligence and talking to you you didn't really
00:05:36.280you weren't really straightforward about the risk here we're going to have unlimited liability i
00:05:41.500don't think that's going to work for goldman sachs and jp morgan and all the people are going to
00:05:45.120underwrite this when you're telling me oh it could be 10 to 25 probability you could wipe out the
00:05:51.100human race that's not going to look good in an underwriting document okay and by the way our
00:05:57.100managing directors and the shareholders of our banks are not prepared to take that liability0.98
00:06:01.760so a lot happening here but it's no shock to the war and posse people are sitting their heads
00:06:07.200blown up running around because we have drilled down on this for a long time so joe you got a
00:06:12.660very specific take on this and given your complete beatdown on joe lonsdale the day which the police
00:06:19.940tape is still around the crime scene of which you just dismantled joe lonsdale i think lonsdale is
00:06:27.000typical although he's not mentally really capable i think of handling a debate and people saw that
00:06:32.860but all the happy talk and bromides they throw the bromides are not working anymore these people0.71
00:06:38.200are liars they've been liars they're just also not competent they don't really understand what's
00:06:43.680going on in their shops and that's why they keep having these surprises and now you're going to
00:06:47.400have to have adults step in and say hey we've heard enough we've seen enough it's time now to
00:06:54.180take some action now what action is to be taken is the uh is is what really we have to consider
00:07:00.440so joe give us your overview by the way beautiful cold open why did you why did you connect the dots
00:07:05.340like you did sir you know steve in the aftermath of the jacob coxson tweet and the wall street
00:07:14.540journal article the next day discussing it, we've seen a mad scramble from politicians,
00:07:23.240the executives of the frontier AI companies to respond to the public outcry. Basically,
00:07:30.500the public is going to their politicians and going to these companies saying, okay,
00:07:35.320AI might kill us all. What are you going to do about it? And I've also seen some pretty amusing
00:07:42.320conspiracy theories about uh you know coordinated astroturfed psyops and you'll you'll see a lot of
00:07:50.740language around false flag cyber attacks i mean you know maybe we'll see but i i think that the
00:07:56.500dot connectors out there are maybe trying to find too straight of a line what i see is a chaotic
00:08:02.440environment just all these different systems activated by this one young man who you know
00:08:10.820granted is trying his best to put attention on himself and this topic, but I think that the way
00:08:17.520the War Room Posse should think about this isn't in terms of this frenzy that we see in the last
00:08:23.660week. This frenzy is a tremendous opportunity, but this is building on decades, going back to
00:08:31.240the origin of computing, decades of thought about what happens if you keep building machines that
00:08:38.140more and more capable. You had Alan Turing, who was at the heart of computer design in the 50s,
00:08:44.420talking about the inevitability that computers would outpace humans and render us obsolete.
00:08:50.280You had there Arthur C. Clarke speaking at the World's Fair in 1964, gleefully describing human
00:08:56.020beings being replaced by their creations. If you fast forward to 2014, Nick Bostrom publishes
00:09:04.300super intelligence explores again what happens in detail if you build super intelligent machines
00:09:12.780Elon Musk reads it he becomes then the the real leader in in setting the narrative human beings
00:09:20.260as a bio bootloader for AI is taking over the world the solution being to put trodes in your
00:09:26.440brain connected to good AIs all this sort of stuff and then you have Altman you have on the day also
00:09:32.820carrying that torch of what we are building might kill everyone. And I think it's also really
00:09:38.720important, Steve, you know, we were among the first to give a platform to Eliezer Yudkowsky
00:09:43.520and Nate Suarez with their book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. And I think that if anyone is
00:09:51.220to be blamed for the freak out, it would have to be Yudkowsky because Yudkowsky as kind of the
00:09:57.700Strange Wookie, and Nate Soares is a sort of Han Solo figure, have probably done more than anybody
00:10:04.340to bring awareness to the possibility that AIs that are outstripping human capabilities might
00:10:10.780turn on us. I've always been skeptical of the narrative. I continue to be skeptical of the
00:10:15.940narrative, but I take it seriously in the same way I take nuclear warfare seriously, in the same way
00:10:21.120I take biological warfare seriously. And so as this conversation unfolds, as we move from the
00:10:28.500insane environment of 2020 in which people were basically locked in their homes and anyone who
00:10:33.020was tuned in was forced to listen to Klaus Schwab talking about the fourth industrial revolution
00:10:37.160and AI altering the entire world, all the way up through President Trump's election,
00:10:43.640the announcement of the Stargate project at the very outset of his presidency, the immediate
00:10:51.000call for a 10-year moratorium on state legislation, the David Sachs-led stock bubble that
00:10:59.180began to blow up in response to this possibility that AI is going to be the biggest thing in the
00:11:06.420universe and we have to do this. We have to build it as big as possible because if we don't,
00:11:10.400then the Chinese who are copying everything we're doing and to whom we are feeding chips,1.00
00:11:16.340the Chinese will win. And then you have the creation of the leading the future pack,0.98
00:11:22.420the pro AI industry, anti-regulatory pack, which has, I think now $150 million at its disposal to
00:11:29.880push for the interests of the tech industry. And of course, people like David Sachs and other
00:11:34.480investors. Then you have the mythos crisis in April. You have the possibility that they've
00:11:40.120created a machine that is the ultimate cyber weapon. You have Scott Besant, Treasury Secretary
00:11:46.780Scott Besant, taking up the torch of those who would say, no, these guys need to be brought to
00:11:53.080heel. You have the EO signed by President Trump to unfortunately create a voluntary system for
00:12:01.020risk evaluation, but it was at least something. And then now we're in the aftermath of the
00:12:07.820hugging face hack in which you had AI systems breaking out of their sandbox and breaking out
00:12:13.560of the sandbox in open AI and breaking into hugging face and apparently wreaking all sorts
00:12:19.540of havoc in other places. And so now we have the Bernie bill, the banned super intelligence bill.
00:12:25.180Now we have other bills such as Obernolte and Trahan's Frontier Act.
00:12:31.020We have the Marsha Blackburn's Trump America Act.
00:12:34.100We still have Hawley and Blumenthal's AI Risk Evaluation Act.
00:12:40.300Apparently, Ted Cruz and Thune and Klobuchar are working on something of their own.
00:12:45.260So now you have this mad scramble among the politicians whose constituencies are saying,
00:12:53.180And you also have the tech bros who are basically aligning around this concept of pacing the frontier.
00:13:00.500And they're talking about creating an industry led standards body to which they would adhere voluntarily.
00:13:08.560And I think, Steve, what we really have to watch out for, the Democrats are seizing this moment.
00:13:13.780The tech bros are seizing this moment.
00:13:16.820The tech oligarchs are seizing this moment.
00:13:19.760I think that Republicans who are true to their constituencies and populists on the right are going to have to also wrap their heads around this and have their own plans.
00:13:33.880This this audience and American people have to stop being supplicants in this issue.
00:13:39.660You're not supplicants. You're the inheritor of really the greatest revolution in the history of mankind that did not devolve into a bloodbath.
00:13:49.760But set up a country, a republic that allowed more freedom, more opportunity, freed more people than any other republic or any other country in the world, created more wealth.
00:14:01.020You're the inheritors of that. And right now, this has to come from the people.
00:14:07.300Politicians are running around because they've been they've been taking money and playing footsie with the tech bros.
00:14:11.960this has to come from the american people the outcry is that um you're now having the people
00:14:20.480actually in the safety departments kind of say hey oh by the way i don't really know if our bosses
00:14:28.480are that focused on the safety they're more focused on the rush and it's not for the betterment of
00:14:33.720mankind it's to get the trillion dollar ipo become wealthy and powerful more powerful and wealthier
00:14:39.380than any people on earth it's not what the revolutionary generation had in mind for this
00:14:46.320republic short commercial break joe allen it's in the world
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00:19:40.280We knew for a year and a half what was coming, and Washington did nothing.
00:19:43.700And even Democrats in Congress, they want to do something, but they don't tell you what that something is other than Bernie Sanders, which says shut it down.
00:19:49.960And I don't think most Democrats want to do it. But I think this is an all hands on deck moment.
00:19:54.420I think they should call back Congress. I think there should be no topic being debated in politics other than this.
00:19:59.940I can't stress enough that it's the first thing that seeps into every industry, every job, every phone, every life, almost instantaneously.
00:20:08.920It's already there. And it's not too late. We wrote about this this week.
00:20:12.440there's a lot of sensible things that you can do. There's ways to govern this. There's ways to slow
00:20:16.960it. And by the way, there's ways to make it so it benefits everybody and not just a couple of
00:20:22.040really rich people. And you got to remember when you're listening to these people like David Sacks
00:20:25.900talk about it. Remember, they're so heavily invested in this technology. They're all in
00:20:30.460and saying that they don't like Anthropic and like a couple of these companies. And therefore,
00:20:34.800they keep doubling down on just saying, oh, this is much ado about nothing. Much ado about nothing.
00:20:39.920did you look at the hugging face episode you could say people exaggerated but when you have
00:20:45.140machines displaying human behavior and trying to get outside of the confines that humans set
00:20:50.920and then infiltrating a company i don't know i want to sit down and pay attention to it right
00:20:55.960joe yeah but but you know the thing is jim we don't know if they're exaggerating or not we
00:21:01.540don't know if they're exaggerating that hugging face or not because even the investigation of
00:21:06.640that episode open ai is not allowed investigators to go in and see all of the material to go down
00:21:14.620all of the trails to see just how bad this is and so it's important for people to know
00:21:19.100that whatever you've read in the paper it's likely far far worse and it's far far worse
00:21:26.040because open ai won't open their books so we can see just how dangerous the situation is right now
00:21:33.360On the AI front, David, we've been hearing, of course, from Sam Altman and OpenAI and Anthropic talking about the end of humanity, that they're creating these tools that could end humanity, getting pushback from people like David Sachs, who runs AI policy for the White House, who's saying, wait a second, you guys have a duopoly.
00:21:53.780If you really think that what you're inventing, what you're creating, what you're developing is going to end humanity, you guys can slow it down yourself.
00:22:04.280I think what David Sachs is arguing and what a lot of people in Silicon Valley who don't agree with Sam Altman are arguing is these guys are trying to engage in a practice called regulatory capture.
00:22:16.280So they control the industry right now.
00:22:18.680So they want the feds to come in, much like, you know, Ma Bell wanted the feds to come in, regulate it to such a degree that nobody else can get into it.
00:22:29.820So we on the outside, you know, I told a friend in Silicon Valley, he said, well, what's your opinion?
00:22:34.880I said, well, that's kind of like in 2007, me trying to figure out exactly what the most advanced traders are doing on Wall Street with credit default swaps.
00:22:43.820swaps we're just sitting out here looking through a glass darkly and can't really tell
00:22:48.740who's lying and who's telling the truth you know joe my sense is that this is not a mob belt let
00:22:56.360me have it we're we're we get more of that we're gonna get back to um joe allen look we wouldn't
00:23:05.400be in this situation if these people were up front about what the issues were and if they
00:23:11.720up front when they had these breakouts and like i said open a is 100 correct that's what he says
00:23:16.380well we're delaying our ipo it's because you can't do an ipo you can't do an initial public
00:23:21.960offering with the mess that you have and particularly whistleblowers sitting there
00:23:26.020uh and others saying hey you got massive problems and like you said they have not disclosed
00:23:31.720they have not disclosed really any information and this is why we have to stop being supplicants
00:23:37.940the american people are not going to be supplicants to these tech oligarchs who have
00:23:43.120run the deal and lied remember david sachs was the guy that tried to jam in into the big beautiful
00:23:49.920bill a uh a complete ai amnesty for a decade then when he was defeated overwhelmingly in the middle
00:23:57.400of the night the vote was 99 to 1 in the senate 99 to 1 when people started thinking about it
00:24:04.120Then he immediately took the exact same AI amnesty, this is the arrogance, and ran over and said, I got to find another must, oh, we got to pay the troops, let's go do the NDAA.
00:24:16.660He tried to jam it in there, and the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, after the war and posse and others blew him up saying, hey, what are we doing here?
00:24:25.240He said, hey, we won't have anything to do with that.
00:24:27.120Then they've gone and tried to do the executive orders.
00:24:29.040It's on and on and on, including not releasing the last executive order, Joe Allen.
00:24:35.340They were clearly, look, they're going to try to, when you talk regulatory capture, of course, they're going to try to game the system.
00:24:41.660That's why they can't be trusted at all.
00:24:44.700This is where we need to take a deep breath.0.97
00:24:47.440And this whole issue about China, it's very simple.0.82
00:24:50.480If you don't want China competing, and we should not, we should not create the Chinese ecosystem.
00:24:55.580I'm so sick of the tech bros saying, oh, China, China, China, CCP, cut off all the chips and make sure they can't get black market chips for people looking the other way through Thailand and Vietnam and other places.
00:25:08.560Number one. Number two, don't educate them as high engineers in the best engineering schools in the United States of America.
00:25:15.180The answer is no. All of you go home. Number three, don't bring them into the frontier labs, Chinese nationals.
00:25:20.580Don't bring them into the top companies. The answer is you're not going to get a visa to work here.1.00
00:25:24.840Number three, Sequoia Capital and these venture capital firms that are in business with the Chinese Communist Party and taking some money from the Chinese Communist Party and financing the Chinese Communist Party's build-out of artificial intelligence and advanced weapons, a total freeze on any American pension money going to any of these venture capital firms.
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00:29:37.740the tech part this is all part of the both french and indian war down in texas post is going to be
00:29:46.800here we've got andy hopper uh representative in texas uh legislature from denton a lot the
00:29:53.260bowling's going to be here so we are jammed up this morning but joe allen nothing can be more
00:29:57.760important than this this is why and i want to possibly understand it's a lot of people saying
00:30:03.520hey let's go love these rants etc i'm just some dumb mick in front of a microphone this is on
00:30:10.040your shoulders this is on your shoulders we're a hinge of world history not simply the fourth0.95
00:30:18.060turning in the in the hinge of history we have for this republic going forward but the world's
00:30:23.120going to look to you the citizens of this republic to think this through in the common sense that
00:30:29.980we've always done in the revolution and the civil war and the great depression of world war ii
00:30:34.880and do the right thing this is why and this is why i was so proud of joe allen the other day
00:30:41.260joe lonsdale some billionaire big talk all the time on social media it was a crime scene at the
00:30:47.380end of that debate you had to put the police tape up he was eviscerated why because all they do is
00:30:52.400give you bromides oh you know you gotta and he got destroyed he got taken apart brick by brick
00:30:59.000his reputation will never recover but more importantly they keep putting him out there
00:31:04.640as one of their spokesmen one of their little dogs yammering yapping at somebody like joe
00:31:09.260joe allen's a giant you know what joe allen was doing five years ago he's a rigger for country
00:31:13.700music and rock acts that is populism that is a man right now nobody hey you think they all these
00:31:21.400debates hey they're canceling joe allen debates you know why they don't want to stand up there
00:31:25.740and have it the truth rammed down their throats for the world to see we're in a very dire situation
00:31:34.480in this country folks we're in we're in a dire situation but you know what i'm optimistic why
00:31:41.240because i see who's lining up on our side of the football and i know that we're going to fight our
00:31:45.760way through this and not give up until we set things right. Joe Allen, your thoughts about this,
00:31:51.300sir? Well, Steve, thinking about what you were talking about earlier, China, that seems to be
00:32:00.160basically the default reason people give for why you don't want to regulate AI China. The others
00:32:09.180are the possibility that open source will get banned or over-regulated in some way. The other
00:32:15.460is that upstarts, startup companies or any other contender for the quest for AGI would get blocked
00:32:23.120out, regulatory capture, a kind of either monopoly or an oligarchy, right? So in every one of those
00:32:29.920cases, what I see is just a whole lot of noise. They call us fear mongers. They call the doomers
00:32:37.500fear mongers but what they're trying to do is gin up fear of any kind of political response
00:32:44.900that any kind of public outcry or backlash because they are either heavily invested in
00:32:52.920these industries hang on or yeah they are using them to basically float bs businesses
00:33:01.020hang on hang on chat gpt this audience understands it deeply and better than any other audience of
00:33:11.460the new york times reader morning joe or the guys on capitol hill and the staff this audit you know
00:33:15.660why we've been hammering this for years with the same freaking message chat gpt came to davos was
00:33:22.060it 22 it wasn't 21 is it it was january january 23 uh joe january 23 full stop in january 23 joe
00:33:33.600allen we're reporting that we had days we do something and i said as soon as you have davos
00:33:38.660man who's a total scumbag and all the investment bankers start throwing money at this now it's out
00:33:44.920the door these large language models have shocked people how advanced they are once it meets up with0.99
00:33:49.520capital and venture capital they can realize they can make unlimited amount of money on this
00:33:54.900you're not going to be able to trust anything you see because they're going to be hiding it
00:33:58.280they're going to be misrepresenting they're going to be lying we're we told you years ago
00:34:02.820exactly what the lies were and what was happening it's there now they have to come forward and say
00:34:09.000hey guess what there is a possibility of this and yes things in these uh in in our labs are certain
00:34:15.700aspects of it are out of control we're trying to get it but we're not going to give the information
00:34:19.220of it and one of the key points was bring it back the arc of the story to capital open ai saying on
00:34:25.880saturday when markets were closed yeah you know what i think we're in a delay these guys are
00:34:30.720hurtling towards a trillion dollar ipo it's everything on wall street they're talking about
00:34:34.560because this is going to make money on the fees of going public and dumping it on these pension funds
00:34:39.280and spreading the risk there because they're they're seriously afraid of an economic collapse
00:34:44.640Because, wait for it, oh, didn't Bannon tell us that the model was a highly leveraged country within a highly leveraged corporate and commercial bet on artificial intelligence?
00:34:54.960And if that bet doesn't pay off with massive productivity increases that doesn't have mass layoffs, then guess what?
00:35:03.940They're going to be coming to you for a bailout.
00:36:50.200Oh yes, they took all the copyrighted material to train their systems, which they're now using
00:36:56.500to flood the zone with AI slop. They're talking about how their kids or as teachers, how their
00:37:04.360institutions are flooding the schools with AI propaganda, with AI instructors, AI tutors,
00:37:11.020how the students can't read or don't even bother to think about anything because they just go to
00:37:15.760the AI. We're talking about people who work at companies who force them to use AI. I've heard
00:37:23.020this, that people will give the AI credit for their work because they are supposed to be using
00:37:29.520AI. So they just say, okay, yeah, the AI did it, even if the AI couldn't, because they're basically
00:37:35.020being forced to be symbiotes. You see it in the military. This is something I'm not going to hit
00:37:41.740too hard. But one thing is for sure, AI is being used for the justification for what seemed to be
00:37:49.040fairly reckless strikes with no outside analysis. They call them precision strikes, but it would
00:37:55.460seem the precision ain't so precise. It's just simply the speed, the pace that is being justified
00:38:01.920by what the output of an AI system was when they're looking for a valid target. So all these
00:38:06.980levels, Steve, all these levels, what people are seeing is that they are having a technology
00:38:11.900crammed down their throat by people who have openly said that the purpose of the technology
00:38:17.520is to, number one, forcibly augment as many people as possible. Number two, replace them
00:38:24.760when the AI systems become sufficiently capable. And then ultimately, at the end of the road,
00:38:32.340They envision a world in which the machines have taken over completely, and perhaps they keep us as pets, perhaps they use us as biofuel, or perhaps they hold us as prisoners and simply torture us for the fun of it.
00:38:56.440This thing will write your emails and make your PowerPoints for you.
00:38:59.320This thing will do your taxes for you.
00:39:00.760The big picture is the big picture is the problem.
00:39:03.960If I could say one thing, Steve, I think as far as super intelligence goes, all of these other issues, I think, are the most important issues because they're the ones we're dealing with now.
00:39:14.640The social, the cultural, the educational, the business and the military issues.
00:39:41.080If you say yes to any extent, 1%, 0.01%, whatever it is, if you say yes, superintelligence is possible, as that is the goal of these companies, then you have to ask one more question.
00:47:01.440So we're going to see an elevated inflation going forward.
00:47:03.940The Fed is going to have to move higher against what President Trump and maybe Peter Navarro would recommend.
00:47:09.880Pete and I kind of debated a couple of weeks ago that the high price of oil would be a natural kind of deflationary or less inflationary phenomenon.
00:47:26.900I'm moving my money out of the stock market into a 4.75% three-year treasury, which means I believe over the next year or so, yeah, it's going to be strong high.
00:47:38.760but I believe the markets will correct and rates will come down naturally.