The Real Reason Why The Market Hasn’t Crashed… YET
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Summary
In this video, I talk about why the stock market is near all-time highs and why you should not be worried about a recession coming. The Fed is not going to raise interest rates any faster than they have in the past, and the recession will not happen until the Fed stops raising rates.
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Remember a couple years ago how everybody was talking about that a market crash was coming?
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Everybody's like, oh my God, what if it happens?
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Now everybody's talking about it's going to be soft landing.
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And there's one thing that people forgot about.
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If you were to pull out the top seven stocks, when you see the numbers on this, it's staggering.
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And on top of that, there is an indicator of when a recession actually hits.
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And it isn't while we're raising interest rates, the Fed.
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And wait till you see how long it takes for the market to crash.
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And by the way, I've got a bunch of other data to share with you.
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Having been in the financial industry since the day before 9-11, only the paranoid survive.
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And those who are way too confident are typically wrong.
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And those who are way too cocky are also typically wrong.
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Okay, so if you get value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.
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So here's U.S. interest rate hikes in the history of America.
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When we raise rates, we have never raised 4.88 percentage points as quickly as we did in the States.
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So if you look at this here, the yellow to the left shows how quickly we kept increasing rates.
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And you'll see the lowest was from 2015 to 2018 when we raised 2 points.
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And then you'll see 2004 to 2006, over 2 years, we raised roughly 4 points.
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So if we look at the balance sheet, this is pretty much the quantitative easing balance sheet.
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If you look at the top, that shows how much bonds the Fed is buying.
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But if you look at the bottom, the M2 money supply shows how much money is circulating in the economy.
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So you notice, if you go to 2020, look how historically it's gradually climbing, climbing, climbing.
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Then all of a sudden, boom, we feed the economy, the market, with trillions of dollars we're not accustomed to.
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And we don't have another case study for somebody to say, well, here's what's going to happen.
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Based on what case study can you speak so confidently, saying nothing's going to happen?
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So look, I've been in the financial industry since 9-11, the day before 9-11.
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And I've owned stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, crypto, gold, you name it, I've owned it.
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But the one thing that's a very important part of my portfolio all these years is gold.
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I love having a percentage of my net worth in gold that I have access to in case of many different things.
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Number one, the gold market cap is $11.8 trillion.
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Since 2000, the compound annual growth rate for gold has been 9.24%.
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And during times of high inflation, 3% plus has been 15.35%.
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Now, those are just some numbers for you, but there's some other benefits to add gold to your portfolio.
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Number two, results showed recently that 93% of central banks are working on a CBDC.
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That could be a manipulated currency that they own.
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Everybody is almost protecting whatever business they're a part of, investment they have.
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They're trying to sell why they're right and maybe don't worry about it or do worry about it.
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But the reality of it is nobody knows 100% what's going on because we've never been here before.
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So then 2024 projections, what's next for the U.S. economy?
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They did a survey to find out who thinks a recession is coming.
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The Fed staff says 0% there's not going to be a recession.
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I remember, they're in the business, so they're supposed to be saying that because that is Wall Street, right?
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Yield curve says 61% chance of recessions coming next 12 months.
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Now, what would CEOs know that the rest of them don't know?
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Maybe they know when their debt payment interest rates that they got was lower.
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That if they have to renew the debt that they got, it's going to go up here.
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How the hell are we going to make those payments?
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Maybe we ought to look at what some of these CEOs are talking about.
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And if you go to the bottom, you'll notice the percentage of S&P 500 companies citing keywords on earning calls.
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Look at what's happened from Q2 2022 to Q2 2023.
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So could this be a sign that everything's going to be okay?
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If yes, why are CEOs at 84% saying a recession is coming?
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What do they know that the rest of the people don't know?
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Now, when it comes down to S&P 500, these are the 500 biggest companies in America.
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There are seven companies that make up 28% of the S&P 500.
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500 biggest companies, seven companies make up 28%.
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In the history of S&P 500, never has there been a time where seven companies make up 28%.
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You got Meta, Facebook, NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Tesla.
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If you look at the S&P 500 year-to-date returns, you will notice a number roughly around 12.4%.
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Could be higher, could be lower, but it's not 12%.
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You know what Magnificent Seven's return is for the year so far?
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So what happens if you take the seven stocks out and there's only 493 stocks left?
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So the seven are pulling the rest of the market and it looks like everything else is
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So we decided to break it down to see how small cap companies were doing, mid cap companies
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So if you look at this chart, you'll notice three different funds here.
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So if you look at these, the S&P 500 is companies valued roughly at $12.7 billion or higher.
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Russell 2000 is company sizes $300 million to $2 billion market cap.
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And then the micro cap is from $50 million to $300 million.
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The rich get richer, the big get bigger, the stronger get stronger.
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Is it the bigger guys can afford to go through a season like this?
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They can weather the storm and it can kind of handle it because the amount of cash they
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have in capital they have in the smaller guys cannot possibly, but we cannot fool ourselves
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thinking the market is up just because these seven magnificent companies are carrying the
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So, so far, the reason why the market hasn't crashed is one.
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Number two, unemployment is super low, 50 year low.
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So people have jobs, they're paying their bills.
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They are worried, but not that worried about it to the point that the market has to think
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about maybe a crash or recession coming around the corner.
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However, number three, something to be concerned about because the US consumer credit card
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So you may say, Pat, credit card debt, trillion dollars.
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It's the highest it's ever been in the history of America.
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We've been spending money on credit cards for a while.
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This shows you, let me explain what the differences are.
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So look at credit card interest rates is the highest it's ever been because as rates go
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higher, your interest rate on your credit card goes higher and then it makes you miss
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So if you had a $33,000 credit card total debt and it keeps going higher and higher and
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higher, your payments are getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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The average person's like, look, I can't afford to pay 300 bucks a month.
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All of a sudden it went up or a bigger number than that.
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$420 now it's 580, but this is not a good sign of what's taking place because people's
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interest payments are officially higher than they've ever been before.
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Now, for some of you guys that are watching this, I don't want to break it to you.
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You know, the 30, 40 million students or Americans who were paying their debt for their student
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Remember that whole where the government said, yeah, during COVID, don't worry about making
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So think about 30 to 40 million people having to pay another $300 per month.
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So put that on top of everything else that's going on.
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Now, this next one is going to be crazy because this next one, some people could say, Pat,
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So if you look at this chart, what this shows is the weighted average mortgage rate.
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8% about 4% or 5% higher than the lowest mortgage rates we had set earlier in 2022.
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Despite the sharp increase in interest rates, the weighted average rate has barely ticked up.
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Only those buying houses are affected by no mortgage rates and there aren't many home buyers.
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So what this means is the weighted, if you take everybody's mortgage loan, everybody's loan together and you average it weighted rate that they have, it hasn't increased because people are not refinancing.
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Only the people that are buying a new house are paying these new high rates and people are not buying as many houses as they did before because people are not selling.
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Because those who are not wanting to sell, they don't want to go from a 3% loan to an 8% loan.
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No one knows, but they're still hanging on to that loan saying, I'm not giving up this 3% loan.
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This is the real news you want to know about why the market hasn't tanked.
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When you look at this chart, this is the Fed funds and the lag effect, the lag, the delayed lag effect.
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The graph below shows the Fed fund rate and the time is as measured in months from the last in a series of rate hikes preceding each recession since 1981.
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So, meaning, they're increasing the rates, increasing, increasing, increasing, increasing, increasing.
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If you look at these numbers, you'll see a 6, a 15 months, 8 months, 17 months, 10 months.
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We stop raising interest rates, that recession appears.
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Again, if this data is real, say they raise interest rates next month, the month of November.
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December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October of 2024, a month before election.
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There should be a recession in America based on this chart.
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That's what should happen in 11 months from November.
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Now, some people may say, well, Pat, how come more corporations are not filing bankruptcy?
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How come all this stuff that happened in 2008 is not happening today?
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Because these corporations, if you look at this chart, what they were doing is the money they took.
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Companies were taking millions and billions from banks saying, go get some more money from the bank because it's so cheap.
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Yeah, but the rates are only locked for three years or two years or four.
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They took that 50 million dollars at 3% and they bought bonds.
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So the difference, let's just say the bonds paying 6%, the 6%, 3%, the 3% they're making on top of us.
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Every year we're making a million and a half in interest.
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However, if you look at this chart, you know what's coming up?
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When that expires and it matures and then it goes from 3% to 8%, they're going to be in deep trouble because they have to make those payments.
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That's when they have to say, hey, we don't want this loan anymore.
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If they have the money or two, banks are going to say, we're expecting a payment.
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This is why a company called WeWork that was valued at $47 billion in 2017 where SoftBank gave it $18.9 billion investment just defaulted on a $95 million payment this month.
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So let me unpack this lag effect of these corporations having to pay their interest on the loan that they took.
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If you look at this chart, this is corporate debt maturing in billions of dollars to the left.
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So if you look at the remainder of 2023, you'll notice they have roughly another $220, $230 billion of interest payments left to pay.
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They're going to end up paying roughly $525 billion in 2023 of corporate debt maturing.
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And then it goes to roughly $1.2 trillion, give or take.
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How are they going to go all of a sudden from $2, $3, $4, $500 billion to $1 trillion to $1.4 trillion, $1.5 trillion?
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And this is why when we ask the question at the beginning, who is the least optimistic about recession?
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Maybe they know something that others don't because they know that debt is coming.
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So, so far we've talked about, imagine the average individual is like, look, dude, you might, school loan, I got to pay for it now.
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Now credit card debt went up all of a sudden to the highest it's ever been.
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And you're noticing the defaults right now, you know, commercial real estate companies are defaulting on their payments.
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So those people that don't have good credit that bought a car, they're starting to default with their payments because their interest rates are going up.
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Well, these were all small things we're talking about, right?
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What corporation in the world owes the most money?
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You know what's going to happen to them every time interest rates go up?
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So U.S. roughly owes $33 trillion of national debt.
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Math would tell you and I that each 1% increase in interest rates pushes the government's interest expense up by, you know how much?
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An increase of an additional $3 trillion at each 3%.
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So just to kind of put that in context, if you look at this chart, look what it shows you.
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This is the interest expense we've had in U.S. from 1970 till today.
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You know how it's gradually gone up, gone up, gone up.
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But they're going to come to you and I because it's really our debt.
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You and I are running, you know, we hired these people to run this corporation, but they come to you and I to fund it.
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You know, there are certain things you look at to be motivated and excited about the future.
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So again, remember this corporation we're talking about called the United States of America?
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The green is the tax revenue our government gets every year from you and I.
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The orange is our GDP, the blue is our interest payment, and the red is our debt, the $33 trillion debt.
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Look how many, many years ago in 1980, everything was right next to each other just 43 years ago.
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All of a sudden, boom, the red goes off to the roof.
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Look, it just skyrockets all the way to the top.
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And guess what all of a sudden caught up to being the second highest now?
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This is why every time these guys don't want to go get their, you know, balance their budget, except they want to spend money.
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This is our doing because we voted these people in.
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You and I voted these people in and they're managing U.S.'s finances in a reckless way.
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So if you're watching this and Pat, okay, so what's your point?
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Someone just shared this video with me and I'm sitting here saying, what the hell is this all about?
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Am I supposed to now lock it up and just not spend any money and not do anything?
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Here's all I'm saying to you is I subscribe to the concept of only the paranoid survive.
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Last night, Sunday night, I'm playing Monopoly with my two sons and my daughter.
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One of my sons decides to play very conservative and he's keeping and hanging on to all the cash.
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One of my sons, every time he gets cash, he's building a house.
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I'm going to build three houses on Indiana, Kentucky, and this.
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I'm going to build three houses on Vermont, this and this and this.
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I'm going to buy two more houses and I want to build on this one.
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So all of a sudden he's got park place, boardwalk.
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And luckily I was able to negotiate a good deal.
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And I got to give him a couple, you know, properties that I have.
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And next thing you know, you know who ends up winning?
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The guy that took a little bit more risks than my other son did.
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Does it mean go spend all your money right now?
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All it means is if your tolerance for risk isn't high, don't take it.
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But don't expect to make a lot of money if you're going to be super conservative.
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But if you have some tolerance for risk, this may be a good time for you to be shopping
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Because the next 3, 6, 12 months, people may be very scared.
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And FYI, don't let the arrogance of people saying, everything's going to be okay.
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Whenever anybody says that, including myself, just kind of say, I don't think anybody knows
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