This Is the Once-in-a-Decade Opportunity to Build Wealth
Published: 2025-11-16
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Published: 2025-11-16
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Recessions are identified as a period where a significant number of new millionaires are created.
"More millionaires are made during recessions than any other time."
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Increasing the money supply inherently decreases the value of each individual dollar, leading to inflation.
"And so what happens is when you create more money it reduces the value of your dollars. This is what inflation is."
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The Federal Reserve's strategy during economic slowdowns or recessions involves cutting interest rates to encourage spending.
"When we are in a slowing economy, a recession, they cut interest rates to stimulate spending"
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To curb inflation and slow down a growing economy, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates.
"Now, when you're in a growing economy and you want to cool down the economy, you want to cool down inflation, you do the opposite. You start raising interest rates"
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The United States has a national debt exceeding $30 trillion due to spending more money than it brings in.
"So that's why we have this national debt of $30 trillion, this national deficit."
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Governments facing a deficit can address it by increasing taxes or by borrowing money.
"if you spend more money than what you bring in, you can do a few things. You can raise taxes... Or you can go out and you can borrow money."
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When a government cannot borrow sufficient funds internationally, it can issue Treasury bonds to solicit loans from the public.
"But there's going to be a limit to how much money you can borrow. So if you can't borrow enough money from different countries, then what's left? Well, then you can issue something called a Treasury bond, which is where now anybody people like you and me, anybody listening to this can go and lend money to the United States government."
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The Federal Reserve can create money out of thin air to purchase government Treasury bonds when the government faces a deficit and cannot find other buyers.
"if the government is running a big deficit... then they're going to call up the Fed and they're going to say, 'Hey, Fed, we want to issue $3 trillion of Treasury bonds. No one's going to buy it. Can you help us out?' Now, remember, the Fed doesn't have cash pile sitting there. So, what did they do? They print $3 trillion, give it to the government."
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The poor and financially uneducated are disproportionately affected by inflation, as their wages and savings lose purchasing power.
"And the person who pays the price disproportionately are the poor and the financially uneducated because now you have to pay for inflation. Your wages don't stretch as far. Your savings don't go as far."
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Increased inflation contributes to a widening wealth gap in society.
"So more and more inflation creates a bigger wealth gap."
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Severe inflation can lead to currency crises and government defaults on debt.
"if it get becomes a real big problem, well then you can run into some sort of currency crisis or you can run into an issue where the government can default on their debt."
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According to the World Bank, approximately twelve countries are at risk of defaulting on their debts.
"The World Bank said that about a dozen countries are on the verge of a potential debt default."
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Real estate presented the largest investment opportunity in 2008, while stocks and cryptocurrency offered significant opportunities in 2020.
"2008 was real estate. That was the biggest real estate opportunity in in our lifetimes. In 2020 it was stocks and crypto."
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Future market trends are heavily dependent on the Federal Reserve's actions and its current focus on combating inflation.
"It's gonna depend on what the Fed does next. Because right now, the Fed is working to fight inflation."
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The Federal Reserve plans to begin selling assets from its balance sheet, which currently holds approximately $9 trillion.
"they're going to start selling off their balance sheet. So, the Fed balance sheet is around $9 trillion."
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Raising interest rates makes purchasing a home more expensive, leading to a decrease in buyer activity.
"So when you raise interest rates, what happens? It's more expensive to buy a home now. Less people buy."
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A significant increase in mortgage payments, from approximately $1,700 to $2,600 per month for the same house, is observed due to rising interest rates from 2.5% to 5.5% and higher loan amounts.
"So you have to borrow more dollars and then you're borrowing the dollars at a higher interest rate. So you're not borrowing at 2 and a half%, you're borrowing at 5.5%. So now your mortgage on that same house, the exact same house, assuming no upgrades, has gone from $16, $1,700 a month to 24, 25, $2,600 a month."
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In a low interest rate environment, businesses that relied on debt and stock value without profitability face challenges as borrowing costs increase and investor scrutiny intensifies.
"businesses are having higher costs to operate because now if you were one of the companies that were relying on debt and your stock price in order to operate because when you're in a low interest rate environment, you don't really need to make money because investors will keep throwing money at you because they can just keep borrowing money super cheap, right?"
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The availability of 'free money' has led to investments in speculative assets, but as this money disappears, poorly vetted investments and fraudulent schemes will become apparent.
"There's a lot of free money out there. There was. And so people can just keep swimming in the free money, throw it into anything and just hope that they'll make money on it because there's a lot of dumb money out there. But when that money starts to go away, that's when you see who was swimming naked. That's when you see the scams. You start to see the bad investments and you start to get exposed"
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The Federal Reserve faces a critical choice: prioritize fighting inflation, which may harm the economy, or prioritize economic stability, which could exacerbate inflation.
"The Fed can either fight inflation or they can fight the economy. They can only do one or the other."
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Stagflation is defined as a dual economic condition of a slowing economy coupled with rising costs, representing a highly undesirable scenario.
"It was called stagflation. Stagflation is a very weird economic concept where you have a slowing economy and you also have rising costs. So it's like the worst case scenario."
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In the late 1970s/early 1980s, interest rates, including mortgage rates, rose to nearly 20% to combat inflation.
"And so what did they do? They jacked up interest rates and mortgage rates were almost 20%."
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If interest rates exceed 10%, a significant decline in home prices is expected, and businesses heavily reliant on debt financing will experience severe financial strain.
"if the Fed continues to jack up interest rates to bring it over 10%, home prices will have to go down... And that would also significantly hurt businesses because the businesses that are relying on debt, uh, they're going to see a big pain, a big crunch."
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The Federal Reserve is hoping for inflation to subside due to external factors like supply chains or geopolitical events, while overlooking the potential role of money printing and stimulus as a significant inflationary driver.
"They're hoping that inflation will go down, but the question is how. uh they're hoping that it's still just supply chain. They're hoping that it's still just Russia. They're hoping that it's still just other issues. But the one issue they never talk about is the money printing and the stimulus. And that's the concern."
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A former Federal Reserve chairman suggested that aggressive measures, including market crashes, might be necessary to combat inflation, as a currency crisis would be more detrimental than a recession.
"if we really want to get serious about fighting inflation, we might have to get more aggressive. And if we get more aggressive on inflation, it's going to hurt the economy. uh even the uh a previous Federal Reserve chairman said that we need to crash the markets because we need to get serious on inflation because we don't want to deal a currency crisis would be even worse than just dealing with a recession."
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The significant money printing in 2020 has been linked to the largest financial fraud in American history.
"the money printing that we saw happen in 2020. Uh it has just come out that it also led to the biggest financial fraud of America ever."
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Billions of dollars were stolen through fraudulent applications for PPP loans, with individuals claiming to represent non-existent businesses.
"And so what happened? Well, some businesses use the money for good. And some people said, "Well, I don't have a business, but I wonder if I can look up a registry of businesses and say, "Ooh, these are some businesses." And just start applying under these business names and say that I need the money. Billions and billions and billions of dollars were stolen."
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Investigations are revealing instances of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits, where individuals received funds they were not legitimately entitled to.
"even in the unemployment program. Now they're starting to realize that some people who were getting unemployment uh didn't justifiably get the money or shouldn't have gotten the money."
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The distribution of stimulus funds lacked adequate regulation, leading to widespread fraud, the consequences of which are ultimately borne by the average citizen through inflation.
"It created all this fraud. And so it's like we had all the stimulus without really any regulation without looking into what we're doing with it and it created the biggest financial fraud. And now who's paying the price? The average person."
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