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Seth Holehouse is a TV personality, YouTuber, podcaster, and patriot who became a household name in 2020 after his video exposing election fraud was tweeted, shared, uploaded, and pinned by President Donald Trump — reaching hundreds of millions worldwide.
Titled The Plot to Steal America, the video was created with a mission to warn Americans about the communist threat to our nation—a mission that’s been at the forefront of Seth’s life for nearly two decades.
After 10 years behind the scenes at The Epoch Times, launching his own show was the logical next step. Since its debut, Seth’s show “Man in America” has garnered 1M+ viewers on a monthly basis as his commitment to bring hope to patriots and to fight communism and socialism grows daily. His guests have included Peter Navarro, Kash Patel, Senator Wendy Rogers, General Michael Flynn, and General Robert Spalding.
He is also a regular speaker at the “ReAwaken America Tour” alongside Eric Trump, Mike Lindell, Gen. Flynn.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Man in America. I'm your host, Seth Holhouse. Tucker Carlson recently gave what I think is a really important interview with a Swiss media company. And he talked about a lot of different subjects, but one of the things that really stood out to me was his perspective on where the world is at. And he specifically noted how a lot of Americans don't really see much of the world.
Seth Holehouse:We're looking at things through the filter, especially of the mainstream media that's here and even though we may not be watching the mainstream media, the mainstream media still dictates a lot of what the conversations are around us. So we can still be cut off from this vital information, which is why maybe you watch this show because we're trying to give you that important information. But something that really stood out of that is the interview with Tucker Carlson is him talking about how basically that our system is collapsing. The system that gave us the life that we know it here in America, the system that emerged post World War Two is at its end. And so joining me today is Doctor.
Seth Holehouse:Kirk Elliott to talk about what this means, look at Tucker's words and analyze them and really take a step back and look at the cycles of history and where America is at right now, where the world is at right now, and what's potentially coming next. So folks enjoy this economic update with Doctor. Kirk Elliott. Kirk, man, as always, it's good to have you on. How are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm doing great. Getting ready for a wedding in our family. My daughter's getting married this week. And so never a dull moment when you've got daughters getting married, a news cycle that's wild, Congress that that's threatening to shut down the government, wars and rumors of wars. I mean, there is never a dull moment.
Seth Holehouse:That's true. I guess that's one thing is that as much as, you know, perhaps some of us complain about the the era that we live in, The one thing you got to say it's not a boring time to live. That's for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not boring. But, you know, I've asked myself this a bunch, right? It's like, God, why why me? Why now? Right?
Speaker 2:But but here's the thing when, you know, he God knows all of the days of our life, right? He knit us together in our mother's womb, and we were born right now, not four hundred years ago, not two hundred years from now, right? For right here, for right now for a special purpose, and that's to be light in this dark world, right? And to help people navigate through it and, I mean, neighbor by neighbor by neighbor, or in this platform, thousands or tens of thousands or hundred thousands of people at a time. Right?
Speaker 2:So I'm just honored and blessed that God chose me to be alive for right now. As crazy as that sounds, as bad as it is, right? It's like, but yet, we're here for a purpose and we're here for a reason.
Seth Holehouse:I'm in the exact same boat. I feel like it's not as I mean, it's even more than just, like I was chosen for to be alive right now. I feel like that we're at this war, like I was plucked, and I was chosen to say you're gonna fight in this war, right? It's almost as if that's that's like my mission, you know, like it's what God wants me to do is just to just to fight and to fight in this war of awakening people and, you know, helping people come back to being good people again. That's why I think a lot of the war is, is like we got to be good people again.
Seth Holehouse:Like America wouldn't be this place if we rejected this satanic agenda, like as early as we saw it, but we kind of is all those little, it's not that bad that got us to where we are now. So now we get to rip it all out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, ripping it out. That's the best way to best way to put it.
Seth Holehouse:It is. So so jumping into our discussion today. So Tucker Carlson recently gave an interview with, I believe it was a Swiss publication, if I'm not mistaken, or a European publication. And he talked about a lot of stuff. It was a really good interview.
Seth Holehouse:But one thing in particular he was talking about was the the dollar and the system that we're in. And I think it's really important because obviously, you know, Tucker is probably the single most influential person in the world outside of maybe a few world leaders or, you know, from that perspective. But he's someone that gets hundreds of millions of views on his on his content now. I mean, he has a massive amount of influence. And so his words bear a lot of weight when he says them.
Seth Holehouse:And so I want to bring up this article, this is Zero Hedge. And the title is Our System Is Collapsing in Real Time Tucker Carlson gives bombshell interview. And I'll I'll scroll down just a little bit. Actually, I'll I'll of start the intro. It says, they're all afraid.
Seth Holehouse:It says Tucker Carlson's unstoppable. Since his sudden departure from Fox News, he scores record viewer ratings. In an exclusive interview with Wealth Watch, the political media star demolishes the mainstream media's manipulation machine reveals his concerns about a potential Trump restoration. It's interesting. Speaks about the disturbing state of the Biden family and discusses what's next for him.
Seth Holehouse:But there's one kind of section here I wanna highlight and come to is he's talking about where he sees the the world at, and they're asking him, you know, what's next for him and what kind of views you're expressing. And so he says that I've become convinced over the past several years, particularly since the war Ukraine, that the world is changing much more quickly than most Americans understand. And because there's virtually no coverage of the rest of the world in American media, Americans don't have a good sense of it. What we in this country refer to as quote, post war order, the institutions set up in the wake of World War Two to keep the world peaceful and prosperous in The United States at the top of the pyramid, and that would include the dominance of the dollar, the swift system, NATO, all of that appears to be crumbling. That's my view of it.
Seth Holehouse:And so I want to I want to dig in that a little bit because this takes us to a much broader discussion because it's, you know, you know, you and I, Kirk, we talk a lot about the collapse of dollar and the BRICS nations and everything. And there's a book that I read recently. It's by Peter Zihan called The End of the World is Just the Beginning. And it's an entire book by this this brilliant brilliant man talking about specifically this about how the the world that was established post World War Two with the Bretton Woods Agreement and everything, the you know, the dollar is the world reserve currency, that world is coming to an end. It's not just that the dollar's dying and and CBDC is coming in.
Seth Holehouse:It's like the what was established with the dollar and and that dominance set up really what our world is today. It allowed for the the growth of globalism because it allowed secure trading and everything. And and so I wanna just really hear your thoughts on that about where our world is at. Because because I think that we are at the end of a a very specific way of life that we've gotten very used to.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, we did, know, and we've we've become accustomed to this since 1944. Right, when we became the world's reserve currency with the Bretton Woods Act, which did what? It it made all international settlements to be transacted in US dollars to actually bring stability to the international financial order, right, rather than all the chaos of all these different currencies and different exchange rates and everything else. Like, everything's gonna be traded in dollars.
Speaker 2:Well, when that happens, we are forced to print more dollars than what we need domestically to fund all these international settlements. That means capital inflow came into America. It was automatic built in demand for our dollar. Now what did our politicians do with that built in demand for our dollar? Right?
Speaker 2:They they built a system created on debt. It it it was kind of like false prosperity. Yeah. It was it was real prosperity. Right?
Speaker 2:But it's based on on debt. And we went into debt to now where we have quadrillions of dollars of global derivatives debt. Quadrillions. Right? Because, you know, if you can buy something and pay cash for it, that's like nice, slow, steady growth.
Speaker 2:If you can finance it, then you can use that other money to to keep financing other things. Right? And it accelerates that growth. And then, you know, regular debt isn't good enough. So you buy how about you leverage that debt?
Speaker 2:Right? It's not even dollar for dollar debt. That's where derivatives come in. See, it's like this insatiable appetite for more that's actually created the world that we live in. We couldn't have gotten to that place without being the world's reserve currency.
Speaker 2:So fast forward from 1944 to 1971. So in 1971, Nixon closed the window on gold completely, right? Because when we had the Federal Reserve Act back in the early 1900s, US consumers couldn't transact in gold They they basically took the gold backing of our currency away, but international countries could still basically ask for settlement in gold. Right? So there was still like this sort of quasi backing of our currency with gold.
Speaker 2:Well, in '73, Nixon closed that gold window because France wanted debt repayment in gold rather than stinky US dollars. Well, Nixon gets blamed for a lot of the inflation that we have today because he closed that gold window. He said, no. We're not gonna actually allow settlement in gold. We're just gonna give you our stinky stinky dollars.
Speaker 2:I would have probably said the same thing quite honestly. It's like option. Should I give him my gold, or should I give him our stinky US dollars? I would have given him stinky US dollars. Right?
Speaker 2:So because he wanted to keep the gold. But what that did, the kind of unintended consequence, was it created a completely fiat based money system with no tangible backing whatsoever. It allowed us to amass tens of trillions of dollars worth of debt. But because we're the reserve currency with the petrodollar in 1973 and the Brent and Wood system in 1944, we had all this built in demand for our currency, even though we were printing money like there was no tomorrow. Right?
Speaker 2:Any other country on the planet, if they were to print money like there's no tomorrow, the demand for that currency would go away because they're flooding their markets with it and the automatic response is they raise rates in that country to try to attract more foreign capital. So this is why interest rates start to rise, right? So we got to get through that period with printing as much money as we really wanted to, because there was built in demand for our currency with not just reserve currency status, but petrodollar, and they were artificially keeping rates low during that time. You know, 09/11 really is is when they really started to print money like there was no tomorrow to try to stimulate the economy. Now people don't remember how bad nineeleven was financially.
Speaker 2:A lot of people don't because it was twenty something years ago, right? But they shut down the markets for days or weeks, right? And it's like they couldn't stop the free fall of what was happening, and that came off the heels of the tech stock collapse that was during that timeframe as well, and where tech stocks came down 80% during that timeframe, I mean, it was brutal. So the mechanism that they decided to use was, Hey, let's just print money like there's no tomorrow, there's no tangible backing we can, and we have built in demand for our currency so we can do it. So this created this cycle of debt, right?
Speaker 2:Where everything that we see is almost like a Potemkin village, right? It's just this false front buildings, and there's nothing behind it, Right? The the entire global system is based on debt, and once that that kind of water faucet of debt gets shut off, the whole thing comes collapsing down. Really? And so this is what Tucker Carlson is referring to where economic so there's cycles, and I think maybe I can explain it in cycles.
Speaker 2:So financial problems lead to economic problems. Economic problems lead to political problems. Political problems lead to geopolitical problems all the time. So for example, you look at the banking crisis that we saw in 02/2008 subprime lending, well, led to an economic crisis. It was turned into a national thing.
Speaker 2:They actually then had to change policy, which turned it into a political process. They created laws like Dodd Frank bill and other things that restricted our freedoms, and now we have geopolitical problems because of it, because we're stealing money out of other countries' wallets by printing money like there's no tomorrow. That's what that cheap credit did. You can see the same cycle in February when you had the tech stock bubble that was erupting, and Bush at the time had a very low popularity rating. The economy was really stinky.
Speaker 2:So then what happened? That turned into a political problem after nine eleven, where they started to do like Patriot Act and things of that nature. Well, then that's still going on today. And with all of that, you've got this geopolitical conflicts that arise from all that. These cycles play out the same every single time, and they go through that, and we're seeing the same thing right now.
Speaker 2:I love studying cycles. I really do. I know that you've interviewed Martin Armstrong before, and he's one of the best cycles guys I've ever studied ever. Right? And he says that food and heat, you have lack of food and you have too much heat, makes you grumpy.
Speaker 2:Right? I mean, so these kinds of cycles that we're in right now are leading us into social unrest and then war cycles. So we're in this war cycle right now, and it's all a function of of the social cycles that are actually imploding, and people start to make crazy decisions. Some of this stuff we can't avoid because it's human nature. It's it's you get too much of something and you just have to, like, cut it off.
Speaker 2:Right? It's like going cold turkey. We've got too much debt. See? And now you've got congress that has to vote on the debt ceiling, and I'm not so convinced that they're actually going to raise it willy nilly like they have before.
Speaker 2:I think there's gonna be conflict and opposition this time because you've got so many factions fighting right now. You've got part of the GOP that basically is hard money crowd, right, that says what? They're they're saying, we're not gonna raise this at all. We've got too much debt. This is detrimental to future generations.
Speaker 2:You've got part of the GOP now that says, there's no way we're gonna cut spending. Right? It's like, what? You're you're part of the GOP, and you said there's no way you're gonna cut spending and entitlements. Right?
Speaker 2:And then you've got part of the Democratic party that's talking like the GOP, and and this becomes a a problematic cycle because they know that with what Tucker Carlson was talking about, this this paradigm shift of losing the petrodollar, losing our reserve currency status, the BRICS nation's rising up. We've got problems with NATO. Couple that with an interest rate cycle and unsustainable debt. If we don't raise the debt ceiling, you got social unrest like crazy, which what follows that a war cycle. But if you raise it, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2:You're gonna have to raise interest rates even more to slow down that inflation. The rest of the world is already starting to dump US treasuries. I mean, you raise rates too much more from where they are right now. I mean, listen to these numbers. These numbers, I just did this research a couple of days ago, but 51% of all banks in America now have tighter lending standards, which means it's harder to get a loan for businesses or for individuals or for home equity credit lines or construction loans or anything.
Speaker 2:So over half. Now commercial lending has plummeted 52% in the second quarter alone. Jeff, the second quarter commercial real estate lending came down 52%. And the number of loan originations that banks have done in the past twelve months, in the past year, is down 73%. Why is this?
Speaker 2:Because of rising interest rates and because of lowering wages. So this is the cycle that Tucker Carlson is talking about where he sees everything as kind of unloading and unwinding at the same time. It's not going to be a soft landing. And I hate to be a prophet of gloom and doom and the bearer of bad news. It's just the end of a vicious cycle that they let go on for too long, right?
Speaker 2:They kept keeping interest rates artificially low, artificially low, artificially low, kept building up that debt. So now when the interest rate cycle changes, they can't keep rates at zero forever, and you've built up all of that debt on these low rates, unless you pay off the debt, rising interest rates is gonna be the kiss of death. You can't pay off that much debt that quickly. You realize it's twenty years of basically unencumbered debt creation. You can't pay that off real quick, and and the rates are rising.
Speaker 2:This is what's giving rise to the BRICS nation saying, our time is now. We've been waiting patiently in the wings. We've been building up our infrastructure. We've been building up amassing tons and thousands of tons of gold backing our currency. Our time now is to strike.
Speaker 2:Right? And I think that's what they're doing, and that's what Tucker Carlson's alluding to.
Seth Holehouse:There's this other article that was on, zero hedge recently that I feel and it's funny because it came out maybe a week or so before that Tucker one, which which really hits the nail on the head. The coming collapse of the global global Ponzi scheme. I'll read the first paragraph. Says, it won't be long before governments around the world, including the one in Washington, self destruct. Strong words, but anything less would be naive.
Seth Holehouse:As economist Herbert Stein once said, quote, If something cannot go on forever, it has the tendency to stop. Good point. Right? So he's a case in point, fiat money political regimes. And they say that interventionist economies of the West are in a fatal downward spiral comparable to that of the Roman Empire in the second century, burdened with unsustainable debt and the anti prosperity policies of governments.
Seth Holehouse:So, like, this is I mean, it's hit hit the nail on the head. I mean, it's this is just the the where things are at in history. I didn't I did a show with, John Perez last week about real estate. And it was I mean, it was pretty serious and sobering looking what's happening in the real estate. I mean, it's obviously a crisis, but here's the the kind of the big question.
Seth Holehouse:Was it was it Rahm Emanuel, wasn't he the mayor of Chicago who said that never let a good crisis go to waste? Right? And so this is a crisis, you know, from the the cyclical perspective. This is a massive, you know, it's like every couple hundred years or even more. This type of crisis, like where a global system like this, like the global Ponzi scheme collapses.
Seth Holehouse:And my concern is their solution to it, right? Never let a crisis go to waste, which also means, well, what if they help create the crisis is because this crisis has become great tools to bring in things like central bank digital currency. And so that brings us to this another article I wanted to talk about with you because we've talked a lot about CBDC and how this all fits in. But right here about cash will be no refuge under CBDC. So there's a lot to unpack here.
Seth Holehouse:But, you know, one thing I want to bring, your attention to is this this tweet talking about how Australia will be functionally cashless by 2025. I mean, these are major Western nations that are already stopping. They're laying the groundwork to get rid of cash altogether. I mean, is to me, like, what you can see unfolding here, whether they're successful or not, is the collapse of the system at the same same time as them bringing in their new system.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, for so for Australia to be limiting ATM withdrawals to $500 a day. What are they doing? They're they're limiting the amount of paper cash in available. In America, just this year alone, we've seen $1,000,000,000,000 reduction m two money supply, which is checking accounts, savings accounts, you know, you're very liquid capital in banks.
Speaker 2:A trillion, right? We've seen not only that, but we've seen now banks, I mean, there's story after story after story that I've seen just over the last week and a half. I mean, is this is wild. We haven't seen this kind of stuff recently, but but Wells Fargo not not allowing a a withdrawal and not allowing a deposit of $203,000 in a client's bank account because they said they couldn't verify where the funds came from, even though it was from an adoptive mother's estate from another bank, from Farmers and Merchants Bank. Right?
Speaker 2:It's like, geez. So so it showed up, and then it didn't. It's like, lady saw it in the account, and then three hours later, it was gone. Vanished. It's like, where'd it go?
Speaker 2:Well, we don't know. We'll have to investigate it. Or or people who who, like oh, what's the what's the name of the what's Green Dot Bank? So Green Dot Bank, nobody's ever heard of Green Dot Bank. I've never heard of Green Dot Bank until last week.
Speaker 2:So, but Green Dot Bank does the background for Uber, for QuickBooks, like for Intuit and Apple Pay, right? So it's a technology bank, but they also are tied to TreasuryDirect. So they do all of their investments into US Treasuries right from TreasuryDirect. Well, treasury direct changed their rules and said, we're not we're not actually allowing any kind of inner term redemptions of US treasuries. You have to wait till they mature.
Speaker 2:So now all these people that are needing money out of their bank account that were put into treasury direct, because treasury direct, which is the US treasury, is basically withholding people's withdrawals. They're withholding all of them. So imagine if you're a retiree, Seth, and you've got this green dot bank and you've got your money and treasuries or whatever, and there's all this social security automatic deposits going in. Well, then they say, we're not we're not allowing you to withdraw. It's like, what?
Speaker 2:For like a day? For a week? Or like, for how long? This has been going on for six months. And I'm just hearing about it, right, because Green Dot Bank isn't that famous of a bank, right?
Speaker 2:But they've been withholding withdrawals for six months. Then there was another bank, Citibank, actually did the exact same thing. Deposit showed up, disappeared. They can't find it. They said, we sent it back to the other bank.
Speaker 2:The other bank has no record of it. So where is this lady's $120,000 retirement? It's gone. See, there's a lot of weird stuff happening on right now in the banking world, but I see this as a precursor to, well, we've got a solution. Let's just get rid of this paper cash system that we've got, right?
Speaker 2:Because you create crisis that's so bad that people will want something that's different. So you and I have been talking about central bank digital currency for months now, right? Well, just two days ago, Citibank actually unveiled their central bank digital currency to institutional clients only, right? So not to their individual clients, but you have no choice if you're a Citibank customer, if you're gonna use this FedNow app and use their central bank digital currency, if you're a business owner or institutional client, they just rolled it out. You can't opt out, it is what it is.
Speaker 2:So they're gonna force people and say, well, maybe I just have to go to a different bank then, right? So you're starting to see weird upheaval and almost like a forcing of the decision making process to happen right away, which tells me what's when so it's hard to pinpoint what's the chicken and what's the egg right here because everything's happening at the same time, creating conflict, creating unsustainability, pulling money out of the system. People are afraid, withholding bank accounts, forcing now a new system and people have to comply or else you can't have a bank account there, right? Then we're seeing ideological uses of funds being the divorce agent from you and your money, like with Nigel Farage, with Doctor. Merkola, with Gateway Pundit, right?
Speaker 2:You're seeing these things start to happen. It's like, the things Kirk and Seth have been talking about are actually happening right now. And Tucker Carlson doesn't really pinpoint the exact reason why other than that that really article. It's a long article, but it was an amazing one. Right?
Speaker 2:If you scroll through it, he he interviewed the premier or president or whatever you would call it of United Arab Emirates. What was his takeaway? This guy is very humble and very wise, like the wisest person I've ever talked to in my life, kind of wise. And then he says, humility is the key to wisdom. And the contrasting agent there is he doesn't know any politicians in America who have that kind of humility.
Speaker 2:Right? And so they've been waiting in the wings, waiting, waiting, waiting for decades, building up this BRICS system, and now they're just ready to strike. Right? So there's humility and there's I'm not saying everybody at the BRICS nations are humble. Putin certainly isn't.
Speaker 2:Right? But some of these people that are not part of American politics that are all about control and manipulation and and things of that nature, it's like we're seeing a shift. We're seeing a power shift from the West to the East, and it all boils down to money. It all boils down to people control, which is all about money. Right?
Speaker 2:So as as you look at this kind of stuff, no wonder I keep referencing back to it, but no wonder Tucker Carlson sees the the beginning of the end. Right, and this unraveling that's starting to happen. Because we don't have we don't have the ingredients to a good recipe in this. We're not operating with humility. We're operating with pride.
Speaker 2:We're not operating with obedience. We're operating with disobedience. We're not operating with love. We're operating with hate and division, and there's no unity in any part of our world right now. We're not we're not operating with self restraint on our spending.
Speaker 2:We're operating out of unrestricted debt. Right? Everything that you need to be a prosperous nation, we've got the opposite happening right now.
Seth Holehouse:We really do. I think there's there's a resurgence of people trying to get back to what you need as a nation, but it's, I mean, it's such a small percentage of people. Something else I wanted to just kind of touch on that article had mentioned one about CBDCs. Is it just it was an interesting point about saying cash doesn't buy you freedom under CBDCs because that's also know, as people see that coming, what do you do about it? Right?
Seth Holehouse:The author says there's an error in thinking. Error in thinking so arises from a failure to understand that cash is simply older iteration of what digital cash is and CBDs are going to be denominations in a currency backed by nothing and controlled by the very state you're trying to protect yourself from. He says it gets worse because this is also the same state that has already weaponized the currency against you either slowly via targeted inflation aka theft or overtly as you saw in Canada during the freedom convoy. The only thing I can see happening to the paper cash economy after a given country has successfully gone cashless is that the paper currency will lose most of its value and everything gets far more expensive when priced in terms of cash. And the author makes a really good point here too saying that it'll be easier to destroy cash than ban it.
Seth Holehouse:This is far easier after all governments and central banks have been destroying cash throughout history. And here they had this this little graph showing the dollars worth, and how the purchasing power you've talked about is 99% of what it was, you know, before. So it just it's it's an interesting perspective on this because, again, never let a good crisis go to waste. And if they can use that crisis to advance their agenda, they certainly will. And saying that that's also why why we see, you know, Biden, it now come out that they're paying for small business loans in Ukraine, they're paying for the entire, you know, first responders in Ukraine.
Seth Holehouse:I mean, they're just dumping money over into there because I think A, because it's being laundered back to the politicians here, I think B, because they realize they're at the last 1%, the 1%, and they're just trying to just hasten that collapse. Think in a lot of ways, they're on some sort of a timeline before twenty twenty four election to get some of this stuff done, but it just makes makes interesting points in there.
Speaker 2:Well, okay. So the whole concept of banning a currency versus like just destroying it. Right? So it's easy to make inflation with a digital currency. Much easier than it is with paper money.
Speaker 2:Because with paper money, there's a process. Right? You've gotta cut down the tree. You make it into paper. You put you know, make it into the big sheets of whatever, and they've got the strips of metal going through it.
Speaker 2:And then you put it through the printing press, you put ink on it, you cut it, you band it up, and you have to bring it to all the different Federal Reserve banks. Right? So there's a lot that goes into making a trillion dollars. I mean, that's a lot. I mean, truly, a trillion dollars is like thousand millions.
Speaker 2:It's it's a lot of money. Where how do you create a trillion dollars digitally? You you just hit zero a few times and say, okay. Money supply, done. Truly, I just created a trillion dollars just on my fake computer here, right?
Speaker 2:So it's easy and it's fast. But what comes with it is not just the ease of inflation creation and destruction of a currency, right, it's it's people control. So there's more to it than meets the eye. See, they've been eroding our currency since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act, where it is only worth 1p of what it used to be back then. Right?
Speaker 2:Where But imagine if you could do that with the press of a few buttons, you know, like the Zimbabwe dollar, right, or the Argentinian peso, or Venezuelan boulevard, right? I mean, we're talking about millions of percent of inflation like these places have seen in very short order. When you're as big as we are and you lose the demand for that currency globally, politicians are gonna be forced to just print like there's no tomorrow. So they would rather devalue it, destroy it rather than ban it. Right?
Speaker 2:I mean, this is the weird era that we're entering into.
Seth Holehouse:Yeah. It it really it really is. It also makes me think too, and we know that, you know, they've talked about, inflation being a weapon to be used against us. And I mean, if, let's just say it's a token based system and all your money, save $100 in the bank account that's now is 100,000 tokens. It's okay, well milk is five tokens.
Seth Holehouse:But then the next day, look at milk is 10 tokens. And then, you know, a month later, milk is 20 tokens. Looks like they can they can control and program if it's programmable as they wish. So that could certainly be a way of it's like, okay, well, the masses are revolting, let's double the price of milk. We'll see how that how they how they love that, which gives them just even more control.
Seth Holehouse:So Kirk, we're rounding out our kind of time together here. I know that, you know, you and I have talked, we talked a lot about gold and silver, obviously, as the solution to this. And, you know, for a lot of the new viewers, maybe it's a new concept to them, but you know, we've it's not necessarily a broken record, just that's the record that's on play right now, because that's just where things are at. Right?
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, it's really where it's at. And, you know, we're not the only ones that are buying gold and silver. Right? You look at what central banks are doing right now.
Speaker 2:We have the largest amount of gold holdings at central banks ever in the history of the world. I mean, it's this new era that's coming. I mean, there's a chart in that article that's on the screen right there. It's like, when did we see a downturn? 2,007, right, when they actually were central banks were selling their gold, right, and they were printing paper money and they were trying to stimulate the economy, right, but now it's been this resurgence since then, and it's almost like they knew what was coming.
Speaker 2:It's almost like they knew that when you print money like there's no tomorrow like they did and provided stimulus to get out of 02/1989, and then you have COVID, and you printed money again like there was no tomorrow, what were these central banks doing when they were printing all this money? They were buying gold because they know that the end of the system is nigh when that happens, right? And so what is gonna be part of the backdrop of a new system could be a gold backed currency. This is where there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I think the government overreach that we're seeing from the World Economic Forum for the Bank for International Settlements, for them, the IMF, the G20 nations, that wanna put all these controls, all these unrestricted printing of money things on us.
Speaker 2:You're starting to see behind the scenes states rise up. We just had federal legislation at the house passed the committee level, so it's gonna go to the house floor for a vote on banning CBDCs in America. Now, I mean, so does that mean it's gonna pass? No. Because I doubt that it gets past the senate.
Speaker 2:But what it does mean is that people are now talking about it and they're seeing the overreach, and that's exciting to me because enough people speak out against it, it won't pass. Right? It's like, we're moving into an era where truth is really starting to manifest itself in a big way because the lies are so huge. Right? So here's where I am encouraged.
Speaker 2:We can allocate in our own personal finances like central banks are doing behind the scenes. While they may be poo pooing gold with their mouths, they're certainly not with their wallets. They're buying as much as they possibly can to record levels. Over 38,000 metric tons of gold are now held by central banks. That's a lot.
Speaker 2:And the thing is that's what's reported. China stopped reporting its gold holdings years ago. So who knows how many is actually owned out there, but it's at least 38,000 tons. So we can, on a smaller scale individually, ounce by ounce by ounce, start to do the same thing that the central banks are doing by the hundreds of tons or thousands of tons and protect and preserve and grow and thrive for this new economic world monetary system that is coming. It's coming.
Speaker 2:Right? I don't think we can stop it, but what we can do is counteract it and thrive.
Seth Holehouse:Exactly. So folks, when you go get ahold of you, it's goldwithseth.com, or the phone number (720) 605-3900. And if someone fills out the form right on website there, you scroll down to goldwithseth.com. If they do that or if they call you, what's that process look like? What what happens next?
Speaker 2:So it's real simple. You'll talk to one of my amazing concierge team members, and they'll just ask you some questions wondering, hey, what was it that Kirk and Seth were talking about that caused you to wanna reach out? You know, what are you trying to protect? And then you'll be scheduled with one of my advisers. We'll actually dig in a little bit deeper because we wanna set up a strategy moving forward that allow you to thrive rather than just survive.
Speaker 2:Right? Because we wanna hear your dreams, your your concerns, your fears, your aspirations, your goals. What do you want? All of it. All jumbled up because we wanna put together something that'll that'll actually stand the test of time and allow you to thrive.
Speaker 2:And believe me, this is how you and I can both have a smile on our face because there is. You know, we talk about a lot of dark stuff every single week. Right? The economy collapsing, petrodollar going away, inflationary pressures, money running out. But in all of that, those are all stimulus factors that cause gold and silver to go up.
Speaker 2:You know, we can't change some of those things, but we can identify them and act accordingly. And this is where we really start to thrive.
Seth Holehouse:Perfect. Well, Kirk, thanks again for coming on. It's always fun having you. I appreciate it. Thank you for what you're doing.
Speaker 2:It's my pleasure. We'll talk soon.
Seth Holehouse:Alright.