Epic Real Estate Investing - They FEARED Musk... But This Man Is the Real Threat Behind DOGE | 1488

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

This episode explores the dramatic changes in the US government following Elon Musk's departure and the appointment of Russ Vought. It delves into Vought's strategic moves to overhaul federal operations, emphasizing Schedule F, budget cuts, and policy reforms aimed at streamlining the government. Matt discusses the controversy surrounding these changes, their legal challenges, and the broader implications for government employees and services. He questions the balance between necessary reform and the potential for disruption, urging listeners to consider how much control the government should have over their lives. BUT BEFORE THAT, hear some news on a dollar reset date! About that thing we are doing in Vegas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCsH9-05vQzgZf9MAGBpUahyTqBcu9VgVqQ8pcACMT8/edit?tab=t.0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's go. What if I told you, the dollar reset is, coming. It's already been scheduled. And the trigger? If not crypto, it's not a war. It's gold. In 2025 alone, gold has shattered 16 all-time highs. Central banks are stacking it, China, Russia. Even the bank for internal settlements reclassified it as a Tier 1 asset, basically making it as good as cash for banks. And yet, America still values its gold reserves at $42.22 an ounce. Not a typo. That's a number from 1973. So what's going on here? Why are we pretending nothing's changed while the rest of the world gears up for a reset? Well, let's pull back the curtain.

Gold's market price just passed $3,200. That means America's 8,133 tons of gold are worth around $830 billion. But on paper, still marked at $42.22. That's not just outdated accounting. It's Intentional. But why? Because marking it to market would acknowledge a massive gain and force a conversation they're not ready for. Like, is the gold even there? Why hasn't it been audited since 1953? This silence? It's the smoke. But what's the fire? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently said, we're not revaluing the gold. But that's the tell, because if they were, they'd have to audit it. They'd trigger inflation panic, and they'd blow up the illusion that the dollar is backed by more than just faith. Because here's what we know when it comes to stuff like this. The minute they say

they won't, you know they will. Like, read my lips, no new taxes, H.W. said, and then new taxes were signed into law. If you like your health care plan, you can keep it, said Obama. Then millions found out they couldn't. Inflation is transitory, they said under Biden's watch, just before it surged to 40-year highs. The NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans, James Clapper said on Obama's watch. Then the leaks proved otherwise.

We're not going to do 2008-style bank bailouts, Janet Yellen said, days before emergency actions guaranteed all deposits at failed regional banks. And regarding Afghanistan, Joe Biden, no circumstance where you see people lifted off an embassy roof, followed by the chaotic mass evacuations from Kabul Airport just weeks later. And now, Scott Besson, we're not revaluing the gold. So what are they really preparing for? Let's talk some moves that the media won't. Basel 3.

Reclassifies physical gold as a zero-risk asset for banks. Bricks? working on a new currency backed by a basket of commodities, led by gold. Central banks, net buyers of gold for 11 straight quarters. China and Russia are leading the charge. They're not stacking for fun, they're repositioning, because when trust in the dollar breaks, and it likely will, something else needs to rise, and history shows gold fills the vacuum.

There is no single day circled on a calendar, but the pieces are moving. digital currencies prepped by central banks. Trust in treasuries fading. America's debt passing $37 trillion. And now, global demand for an alternative reserve asset. The reset won't be announced. It'll be obvious. Because once confidence breaks, everything reprises.

Gold becomes the trigger. Real estate becomes the shield. Besson isn't talking gold. He's talking land, energy leases. government assets. Some speculate the Treasury is planning a sovereign wealth fund, without admitting we're already insolvent. Because if they revalue gold, they reveal the truth. If they don't, they delay collapse a little longer. But this delay is also your window. So here's something to do. When a currency weakens, you don't save harder, you own better. Fixed rate debt

becomes your weapon. Cash-flowing real estate becomes your shield. And assets the government can't print or confiscate become your freedom. Gold is insurance. Real estate is freedom. It pays you every month. And in a system shifting under our feet, cash flow is the new gold. So here's the blueprint I'm following to give you an idea. First, secure your foundation with physical gold and silver. allocate 5 to 15% of your net worth to physical gold. And consider adding some silver. We're talking about tangible coins or bars from reputable dealers, stored securely where you can access them.

Gold is your ultimate financial insurance. It's a monetary asset that has preserved wealth for millennia, outside the control of any single government or bank. In a currency reset, its historical role is to maintain purchasing power when fiat currencies are repriced or lose. trust. Silver, often called poor man's gold, is more volatile, but offers similar protective qualities and could be crucial for smaller everyday transactions if the monetary system faces severe disruption. This isn't about getting rich quick, not by any means. It's about

wealth preservation and having a universally recognized store of value when traditional financial assets are questioned. Second, strategically weaponized fixed rate debt. If you're going to hold debt, ensure its long-term and fixed rate, ideally attached to an income-producing or essential asset, like a home or a rental property. In an inflationary environment or a scenario where the dollar is devalued, fixed-rate debt becomes significantly easier to service over time. You see, you're repaying that loan with dollars that are worth less than the ones you borrowed. This is one of the few scenarios where debt can powerfully work in your favor, effectively decreasing your debt burden as the currency weakens. Avoid variable rate debt like the plague, though, as rising rates in a

volatile environment could crush you. The key is that the debt must be serviceable and tied to something of lasting value. Third, invest in tangible cash flowing real assets, especially real estate, acquire income producing real estate or other tangible assets that provide consistent cash flow and have intrinsic utility. Real estate provides shelter a primary need and can generate rental income that typically adjusts with inflation. As the value of the dollar potentially erodes, the nominal value of your property and the cash flow it generates in those depreciating dollars is likely to rise. This cash flow becomes your lifeline, your new gold, as we said, providing liquidity and income. Unlike paper assets, it's tangible, can't be arbitrarily

diluted by printing presses and it meets a fundamental human need. Due diligence is critical. So focus on location, property condition, and conservative cash flow projections. Fourth thing, build financial agility with non-traditional strategies. You need to educate yourself on and cautiously implement creative financing and alternative asset strategies. This includes understanding options like seller financing for real estate, private lending, being the bank, or even diversifying into other hard assets like productive land or commodities relevant to your situation.

If this overwhelms you just thinking about it all and you want some help, that's what we do here. Let me know. Either way, here's why this is important. In times of monetary transition, traditional banking and lending can become restrictive, unreliable, or offer unfavorable terms. Being able to operate outside the conventional system gives you an enormous advantage. Cellar financing can unlock deals that banks won't touch. Understanding how to structure subject to deals means you could take over properties with

favorable existing low-interest loans, a huge win in an inflationary environment. This type of loophole lending and allows you to create your own opportunities. This isn't about reckless speculation. It's about becoming financially sophisticated and adaptable enough to navigate a changing landscape where old rules may not apply. A powerful tool for your toolbox when it, comes to creative financing is a line of zero-interest credit, like the ones that they offer at loopholelending.com.

Always seek expert advice and never invest in what you don't fully understand. But the time to learn is now. The game, it's not to panic. It's to pivot. This isn't just about defense. It's about strategically positioning yourself for the realities of a new financial era. This is how the wealthy repositioned quietly while the world watches headlines. They prepare, they adapt, and they act.

Every headline, every denial, every reclassification, it's all pointing to one thing, a quiet countdown that ends with the dollar being something very different than it is today. Ever hear someone say, I have too much money? Me neither. Let's get you some more. Back to the show. He fired 283,000 people. He shut down entire agencies.

He tried to access your Social Security data, and now he's gone. But the guy taking his twice, he's not here to shake things up. He's here to erase what's left. And chances are, you've never even heard it. When Elon Musk became the face of Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, created to streamline federal operations, Washington panicked, layoffs, shutdowns, budgets frozen. Musk was the figurehead, the disruptor, the public face.

He was loud, messy, fast, but at least you knew what was happening. Now, Musk is out, and they replaced him with someone far more dangerous. Meet Russell Vote. By the end of this, you'll know who he is, what he's done, and perhaps most importantly, what he's about to do. He's not flashy. He doesn't post. He doesn't troll. He builds quietly and moves with precision. Russell is a 20-year DC insider. He knows how the system works. He knows how to change it. He ran the federal budget under Trump's first term. He co-wrote Project 2025, basically a manual to reset the government.

And he runs a think tank that's been shaping policy since 2021. And then there's skisketing. Schedule F. You'll be hearing about this quite a bit for sure. You see, for 140 years, our civil service has been protected from politics. The Pendleton Act of 1883 created a merit-based system. No more firing workers when a new president takes office. This echoes the 1880s spoil system when government jobs turned over with each election. A chaotic practice ended by reforms vote now seeks to overturn. The stability built America's bureaucracy, for better or worse. That's Schedule F.

It's the biggest change to that system since FDR. VOTS not here to cause chaos. He's here to rebuild the machine. And unlike Elon, Russ knows how to work the rules. Musk randos like a startup. Fire fast, break things, talk big. Russ, it's demolition by design. He's already reclassifying workers so they can be fired at will.

That's Schedule F. Blocking billions in approved funding. Facing out entire agencies quietly. This isn't random. This is strategy. As Musk said on his way out the door, this isn't the end. It's just the beginning.

And Russ vote? He's what he meant. Russ doesn't just want smaller government. He wants direct control. He calls it radical constitutionalism. It means the president. President leads every agency directly. Think CEO with no board oversight.

No more independent institutions. Bureaucrats either follow orders or step aside. And he's making it real. Doge is now a war room. Strategic memos. Legal plays. Pre-cleared staff waiting in line. CDC?

Cut by 40%. Food safety inspections? Down by a third. Non-essential services? Slashed. The same team that laid off. 283,000 people still going. Vote made Musk's temporary cuts permanent. He told the press, we want bureaucrats to feel trauma. We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.

We want when they woke up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work. CFPB, HUD, Department of Education, gutted or frozen? Lawsuits? Sure. But they're not stopping him. He's not breaking the law. He's dancing right on the edge of it. The resistance is mounting, though. Federal judges have blocked some firings as potentially unlawful. Career officials are leaking internal memos. Even some Republicans worry that cuts go too far and hurting constituent. It's becoming vote versus the establishment, a high-stakes power struggle playing out in real time. Constitutional scholars, they're split. Some say he's reclaiming executive power granted by Article 2. Others warn he's sidestepping checks and balances.

Either way, the courts are struggling to keep up. This isn't just about politics. It's about restoring what many Americans believe government should be, efficient, accountable, and working for the people, not against them. It's about how your government runs, how your tax dollars are spent. This is Russ's version of protecting the country, not grabbing power, but restoring control. Let's be real. Both sides agree our government needs reform. It costs too much, it moves too slow, it's grown beyond what the founders intended. The debate isn't if we need change. It's how fast and how deep.

Vote wants to cut waste, cut staff, cut red tape, and make sure that your tax dollars go where he believes they're needed most. Here's what he's working on. Locking in must cuts, expanding Schedule F, using Project 2025 to guide the rewrite and holding back Pentagon spending and rolling back rules across every agency. A leak staff email reads, move with maximum velocity. We have a 120-day window to dismantle before opposition organizes. And he's doing it fast.

Deadlines were set months ago. His strategy move before anyone can block it. Of course, not everyone's on board, especially the left and the media. Here's what you'll hear and what you won't. Politicizing jobs. The media is going to tell you that Schedule F turns trusted roles into political ones. And they'll leave out the part that it clears out entrenched resistance and speeds up real reform.

In other words, drains the swamp. This is how we dismantle the administrative state, vote told supporters last month. But former agency director Janet Wilkins counters. We're watching the collapse of institutional knowledge that took decades to build. To Russ, that's the point. Creating fear. Critics argue that people can't speak up without risking their jobs. The other side believes that loyalty to elected leadership matters more than protecting

lifers. Breaking legal lines. Lawsuits are already stacking up. What they failed to consider is that these reforms follow legal paths. They just haven't been used in decades. And that doesn't make them illegal or even wrong. gutting services. The critics say, if you fire too fast, systems collapse. But if the systems aren't working in the first place, that's the point. It's time for a reset. Russ's stance,

the culture inside government needs disruption, period. Big changes mean big cuts. Here's what's been proposed, reducing Social Security growth. Cutting $2 trillion from Medicaid, scaling back school and housing grants, slashing agency overhead across the board. Sounds brutal, right? But Votes team argues this is the only way to fix the debt. They believe these changes will ultimately strengthen America by forcing fiscal discipline the country has lacked for generations.

They say, if we don't cut now, we'll collapse later. The national debt clock, almost $37 trillion in counting. Annual interest payments alone are, $1 trillion. That's more than we spend on education, transportation, and veterans combine. And that includes programs like Medicaid, ACA subsidies, veteran health. They also want more seniors in private Medicare plans, less government, more choice. That's the pitch. Will that work for everyone? No. But it's not just slash and burn. It's slash and shift. So what does all this mean for you? Well, if you work in government, you might be replaced. If you rely on programs, they might shrink or change.

If you're a taxpayer, your money might be used very differently. Take Sandy, a 15-year veteran at the Department of Education. Her entire division was reassigned overnight. I went from managing million-dollar programs to emptying my desk in 24 hours, she said, or Rick, who's waited three extra months for his VA claim. He said, they say they're fixing the system, but I'm the one who can't pay my bills. This isn't a shutdown. It's a redesign. Would you trade stability for change? How much power should one branch of government have?

Would you accept short-term pain for long-term reform? What do you think? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Either way, it's real. Doge isn't fading away. It's ramping up. Russ vote?

he's not trying to shake the system. He's trying to rebuild it on purpose. But this raises bigger questions. How much should you really rely on the government? Are they giving you what you need, or just enough so you don't complain? Have we traded responsibility for comfort, security for strength?

Are we becoming weaker, more entitled, less accountable? And is that their fault or ours? What has all this government dependency actually gotten us. Are you better off? Or just managed? If you want to take some more control over your situation and profit, while all of this unfolds,

I put together a document below about this thing that we're doing in Vegas this month. If you qualify, I'll fly you out, I'll even put you up, and I'll feed you to. Check it out when you get a chance. Either way, there's a lot on the table, and you're not watching from the sidelines anymore. You've been forced onto the field. So what happens next? June 15th, the first major legal challenge hits the Supreme Court. July, new budget proposals drop with even deeper reforms.

August, phase two of Schedule F expands to intelligence agencies. Doge is just getting started. I'll see you next time. Take care. And that wraps up the epic show. If you found this episode valuable, who else do you know that might too? There's a really good chance you know someone. else who would. And when their name comes to mind, please share it with them and ask them to click the subscribe button when they get here and I'll take great care of them. God loves you and so do I.

Health, peace, blessings and success to you. I'm Matt Terrio. Living the dream. Yeah, yeah, we got the cash flow. You didn't know home for a world. We got the cash flow. This podcast is a part of the C-Suite Radio Network. For more top business podcasts, visit c-sweetradio.com.