The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #329

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

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Patriot Power Hour, we're live Thursday, December 11th, 2025, episode 329. I'm Ben the breaker. Banksters here with Future Dan. 329. Let's go, Ben. Where are we at with Polly Market? Let's run with it. Hey, good question. Let's see what our waiting list position is. But long story short, account has not been approved yet. I am looking at a couple other sites. But yeah, bureaucracy red tape is preventing us from that. That's the latest. Did you tell me that at some point in the past week, after joining the wait list, your position increased instead of decreased?

Yes, I went further back in the line about two days after I looked. I believe it's because people can jump ahead if they share or do some other promo codes or something. I did not do any of that. So I believe that's why, and I don't believe anybody's been added. So I don't think anyone's moving through the line. I think people are just jumping ahead from what I can. that doesn't sound like the right business decision at all well it's kind of a short-term waiting list and it's also probably to build some hype but it's also going to aggravate

people over time so good question it's been a few days since i looked at the waiting list i can check that out here during the show i got a lot of other stuff going through tonight uh finale next week we'll talk about some predictions outside of polly market i got some homework to do but I'm looking forward to that. I also have been doing some chat GPT and other research, even some research with my own brain and eyes and reading. So I got a lot to talk about next week, a little bit this week. We got some news.

Where do you want to start? Silver, all-time high again today. And something in the private channels that I'm not sure we talked about last week, but probably should really is, you know, is that is, Is what's going on with silver, you know, related to anything that's dangerous? It's a great question. I've been ruminating on it in the back channels. We've talked about five, six, maybe ten indicators that a runaway silver price could trigger or be part of on future danger.

But especially where it stands right now is a dangerous news. And is it more of a symptom rather than the cause or vice versa? Is the silver market going to cause a lot of problems? Or is it, again, just smoke from other issues in the financial system? I have a lot of thoughts. I could talk about that for hours. I am doing some research. But when it all comes down to it, all-time high again today, silver hit about $65.

And $60, excuse me, $64. dollars in 60 cents it's down to just about 64 bucks right now but it's crazy it's just every week it's up a couple bucks almost every day it's up a dollar these days it seems so we've been doing certain metaphors for a while on patriot power hour we got our original bolt of a imploding submarine to characterize bitcoin tonight i got another one I want to run past you. I don't know if it's sound, but to me, to me, silver hitting $66 an ounce right now is sort of like in, in, there's already been a massive flash flood through an area, just, just a

deluge came down, maybe a valley, tore everything, just wrecked the landscape completely, right? that was that was gold all time high earlier this year and now just just later other other parts of the terrain are collapsing because it got so eroded from the initial gigantic gold push silver's kind of like obviously second to gold right in most people's minds. So I don't know about the ratios, though, right? I don't know if this silver all-time high is extraordinarily high compared to gold and where it's at now what the ratio is and where gold has been. So I know you can educate me on that ratio piece. But in terms of just a metaphor, I think that's what it feels like to me. Does it make sense?

I think we could even go another step above. where it's the monetary supply and all the printing of COVID and 2008, but pretty much 2008 through COVID to now, was the deluge, the flash flood that wiped out the dam that blew all the way through the floodplain. Okay. And following that was gold, following that was real estate,

following that now is silver. So that's definitely a big part of it. And with regard to the ratios, that goes partially to your question about, gold leading the way it did but now silver is starting to hit all-time highs and gold is somewhat stagnant now gold's pretty much at its all-time high but it's not rising anymore but silver is because the ratios are crazy out of whack historically silver is significantly undervalued compared to gold right now on a ratio basis so silver could double right now and gold

would stay the same and that would be more of the historical norm that makes a lot of sense that's what i kind of felt like what's happening and so it's like the the valley's settling after the deluge is just you know we're getting landslide here and there that's silver just catching up where the ground should meet the surface after the flood yes and i will say this don't let me forget this spot because I'm bad at doing that sometimes but Dave Jones is in the chat the YouTube chap David Jones he says the 5 to 1 ratio

is the gold to silver ratio I've seen 10 or 15 to 1 right now it's like 80 or it's been upwards of 80 plus to 1 here's one that you and Dave Jones will both like as land warfare specialists this is the Fed and all

the World Central Bank printing and COVID lockdowns and all that aggregated was just a massive breakthrough bursting through huge amount of trenches and, you know, fortifications. After that initial breakthrough, it's just a route. And the rest of the lines, even if they weren't directly destroyed by the route or by the initial, you know, attack or whatever, assault, they're so routed. They're so out of command and control.

They're just retreating. And that's asset prices. Pretty much everything except for oil right now is just blowing through. french lines you know it's a full odd retreat wow yeah that's another metaphor for sure and what does that mean of your prepper well the bad thing is you're probably getting paid in u.s dollars which is the trench line that's totally being burned down right now so if you're saving in u.s dollars or you're getting paid in u.s. dollars or you're fixed income from social security or anything like that in u.s dollars you're getting blitzed right now the banksters and

friends are retreating while you have to hold the rear action rear guard action or whatever and die for them is how they're looking at your bank accounts right yeah but the dollar on the dx y compared to other currencies it's not tanking it's not even on the low side right now what's dx y tonight let's take a look great point compared to all the fiat currencies the u.s. dollar still is the strongest or damn near

actually let's just take a look here does this have dx y on it maybe not quite but we have seen the euro depreciate big time remember used to be about a dollar 50 per euro now it's a dollar 17 just in the last couple years so the euro's degenerated way

worse that means silver's like equivalent to 80 bucks in Europe or 90 like silver all time high gold on time high is amplified in the euro or in the yen which used to be like a hundred to one now it's 155 to one so they've lost a huge amount 33% uh yeah great britain's not such bad dx y don't have it on here but you're right it's been lingering around the 90 to 100 mark which is not bad it's been way lower in the past but totally everybody everyone's losing there go ahead totally totally paying attention to that when it gets into the 70s if it broke into the 60s now we're in historical crushing of the u.s dollar and we're not near that so i think i think your argument fundamentally comes down to

inflation right the the the dollar's buying power relative to our prices you know that's the entire Democrat Party campaign platform for 2026, all right? Nothing's affordable. But I did listen to your good friend, Jay Powell, yesterday speaking live. And he made some pretty hard to argue with points. And you know what? I want to just come out and say, you know, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, however, I got a lot more respect for how he explains what is going on.

in his organization than Janet Yellen or or Bernacki or any pretty much any bed chair that I've ever paid attention to in my life and honestly before 2008 I never paid attention to a single word they ever said because it never never was really important right but Powell's you know making the point that the the he said it straight up he's trying to get cornered by reporters and try to you know co-op the affordability campaign push for the democrats he came right back and said you know the the price increases happened in you know you know 2021 and it's pretty much you know that was that right that was a burst of nearly hyperinflation and it's still running at three percent but it's

it's not running like it was right eight nine percent so you know He refuted that point that, you know, inflation's running wild right now. What did you think of his balancing hack yesterday? I really got to touch on the DXY before I go into that, finish the thought. Okay. I got to do some research on what scenario or scenarios could happen where the DXY, meaning the dollar index, drops a whole bunch without the other currencies in that basket. for some reason outperforming massively, which I never, I don't think these other currencies

in the basket can do better than the dollar, meaning the dollar may never drop in the DXY, even if gold hits 80,000, the DXY still may be 90. I got to research that, though. Yeah, so, you know, if it's the greatest currency in the world, then, you know, it's all relative to the others now, not necessarily nominally in the year you, living except if it goes how do i say once it approaches the limit then everything blows up so it's kind of like hitting the event horizon but going back to powell first off he has a great radio voice like better than mine like the first time i heard him speak i was like holy cow this is a

different messenger puppet yeah than yelling or burnakey who are i mean they look like trolls that are banksters straight up whereas Powell has a somewhat reassuring truthful air about him I can't fall for that though that's why they put him up there but he also I feel like has and we've talked about this Trump put a bit of like cover his ass or he realizes it's bad and he doesn't want to get laid out for it oh that's definitely kind of laying nuggets of it kind of like for posterity no he came right out and said it yesterday he's like all the only the only thing he cares about is that during the time he was chair you know basically shit didn't hit the fan which you should i mean that's a great driving motive for all in life but especially

the government or this non-government entity you know that's how we hold them accountable is they a good part of it is their pride or being embarrassed historically that should hold leaders accountable some of what holds them accountable so yeah it didn't always seem like burnackie cared uh and by the way yelling always reminded me of like a librarian sure i get it or like a really nerdy accountant probably really really really smart but yeah like like after burnacki it was a complete different message it's like we're gonna have this kind of stale, slow-talking, school librarian-ish figure out in front. She actually ended up stealing as much as Bernanke, in my opinion, but I don't need to go too much down that.

But yeah, what else I think about Powell? Hmm. Markets pretty much presume this is going to happen. There seems to be a little dissent. in the Fed, but, I don't know, business as usual, still huge deficits, and the Fed's going to not only lower rates a little bit in the foreseeable future, but potentially start other asset purchases and quantitative easing and other financial engineering. So, yeah, moral hazard there at a minimum. To show you how tenuous all these arguments are, though, and he's a smart guy, he makes. strong arguments, and he makes sound, you know, weak arguments sound much stronger than they

are. One of the things he cited yesterday, Ben, was the unreliability and the revisions down of employment numbers. So, you know, currently looking at, you know, plus 60,000 monthly job gains, he's looking at the, he and the rest of the committee are justifying their rate cut by you know noting that it's it's probably a negative 20,000 if the typical revisions down hold we've talked a lot about do we trust the numbers or not and we felt that with Biden particularly let's focus on that they would fluff up the numbers and then quietly three or six months later do a huge revision that were really bad news but no one cared because it was already old old news i guess my question is

is trump and his uh administration continued that or are they trying to true it up and come up with accurate numbers or do they don't even want the numbers we had the government shut down we talked about how i was happy there was no numbers but i don't know is that trend of revisions being necessary because there's fluffing of numbers will that continue I'm not sure. I think we're headed for another shutdown. So you know you'll miss the numbers in January and February most likely. And, you know, having come into office and then firing people that were still in charge after, you know, Biden left that were there when Biden's administration did, you know, the flopping of the numbers coming into two shutdowns, you know, in a matter of, you know, in a matter of. 12 months, I don't know what it's going to look like after the government's funded again for, you know, a longer period of time. So this could be pivotal. Maybe there never will be sound economic numbers coming out of the Trump administration. And maybe they get by without them.

That'd be great to see them just actually getting by without them and, you know, not having an economic crisis and you know, you know, not really suffering from the fact that the government didn't publish the numbers because every time the government publishes the numbers or like yesterday, the Federal Reserve announces a rate, it feels to me like a planned economy. I like it to be like an honest to goodness free economy for some portion of my life. Sure. Well, with modern technology, we can build. kind of sub sub-economies, but it's not the same.

Even with Bitcoin and gold and silver, you still, really hard to get away from the Fiat system. Oh, man, I could go so many routes with this. Unless you back the dollar by gold and silver again, which if these prices continue in the direction they are, it's might be a lot easier to get something like that passed through Congress. well I don't want to go down too much a rabbit hole but we've talked a lot about AI as well recently I've been grinding it out at my work and personal life and side gigs seems very very helpful I'm sure it's even more powerful the next few years

I guess my question is a thought pattern is with doge did must use this advanced AI. He should be, you know, why can't we, first of all, I don't really want the government numbers. Let's use organic numbers that are from the actual market. But if we did have to use government numbers,

I would like to just scrap every process has ever been done, use those funds to revitalize and start from scratch using advanced AI metrics and data systems. Get way better numbers, more transparent. Yeah.

there's no need to have these archaic systems burn them down without literally burning them down and rebuild them with AI infrastructure 10 times as efficient 10 times more accurate what do you say well that was trump's um gen a i announcement in the department of defense haggseth came forward and said that's what that's what's gonna happen in the department of defense and it's viewed there as you know a warfighting capability which it obviously is equivalent to converting all the paper records to electronic, but except probably even more important. It does, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, so I think in the past I've talked about how the first 30 years of the internet are going to be forgotten as such a economic turning point because it's going to, it's just

going to be in the shadow of something many, many, many times more. profound than just the internet so it's it's the amount of destructive economically creative you know but destruct job destroying this coming it's going to be it's going to be wild it's going to create a lot of jobs it's going to create a lot of wealth it's it's going to it's going to literally shadow the advent of the internet the mobile phone you know, many major changes to our economy since our lifetimes. It's more profound than that by order of magnitude, I think. And that's our only way to get out of this debt bubble, have a controlled reset of the debt bubble.

Not a world economic forum reset, but a balance the books. It's not a reset. I don't know if I agree with reset as a term. sounds like our deficit in government debt though because it's totally unsustainable no no but it's not reset with the implication that some power beyond the common people some some cartels some cabal or even just the government right you know did a reset this will be you know absolutely driven by private industry it and the government's going to have to react to that right it'll be it will have no hope of it though

honestly too way too slow what's too slow government reacting to private industry use of AI no hope to keep up with that unless they I guess they got to employ their own AI but this is good I don't want the government to have so much control no the government's going to put a tremendous amount of money into getting this ignited. It already has. It already has. Most of these models, most of the natural language processing research,

was completely funded by DARPA. Oh, for sure. I mean, better, how much damn money is missing from the Pentagon. They better have been using on stuff like this. Yeah, I think it's just a matter of DARPA gets a budget. They always have. If you're a scientist and you've got a product that can have a military impact, you just go pitch it and they give you some money and you go build it.

And maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe it's a success. Maybe it's a failure. Maybe they learned a little bit about not what to do next time. That's what it's there for. It's just seeding ideas so that our industry can be ahead of that before an adversary. military has developed it and it's way superior than any other countries command and control

kind of you know from the state down to the industry approach Russia China right it's like pretty much fundamentally why we're always ahead of them this will be the question is it going to be the great equalizer or is it going to magnify selective scarcity you know We'll start through the dashboard here, heat map dashboard in a second. But right now, 0.001% of the population, not 1%, but much lower, much lower. 1,000th of 1%. Holds three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity. Now, will AI make this a little more, a little closer, or is it actually going to be that this

1-1,000's owns 99% of all wealth. I think that part is just as likely as a little bit more equalization. What do you think? Yeah, I'm a little bit torn. That is one of the kind of biblical indicators. At the end times, you know, there's selective scarcity. But on the other hand, it's a massive Marxist talking point, right? But the real question is, you know, the bottom half of the,

humanity has their standard of living risen during the age of AI. Right. Right. So even if that quadrupled, the same 1,000th percent of one percent of humanity has four times a wealth of the lower 50 percent, isn't it a more important question to ask whether the lower 50 percent is significantly better off in wages, standard of living? In the third world, electrification and health and water, just the basics, right? I'm pretty sure there's something about AI.

You know, now that they've cracked the code on these large language models, and many of them are open source, it's not a technology that only a few are going to have. It's not going to work that way. You can make your own models. well well well we're already more than halfway through the show or about halfway i want to get to the dashboard but i have such good conversation we usually do it earlier don't we we do we do i just want to say in my opinion they capital t have decided they'd rather euthanize most of the population than ray you know rising tides raise all boats but that doesn't mean that's what's

going to happen we can fight against that so that was my end cap there all right oh and also yeah i'm not a marxist but i have said that sometimes what they say is the problem is correct it's just their solution often as what's the problem all right be ready for this dashboard i'm right let's roll not much in the natural and health side of things You can always check at the volcanic activity report, but not too much in the fourth column. The third column, economics, we've hit that pretty hard today. In terms of the news articles, home prices going negative. We'll take a quick look at that.

In the article I referenced, one one thousandth of one percent of the world population, about 60,000 individuals, which 60,000 is a lot, but compared to 8 billion, not that much. Well, they hold three times the wealth of the poorest half. So you take 4 billion people, multiply all their wealth by three, and that's where you get. Geopolitics, security, domestic, and foreign. Judge Block's National Guard deployment to Los Angeles. That's the second, actually it's the highest grade article of the week. again judge blocks national guard deployment to los angeles absolutely will hit on that u.s answers china by sending

pair of nuclear capable bombers over the sea of japan and in the liberty column health department investing a school that vaccinated a child without parental consent and federal judge in florida orders the unsealing of grand jury transcripts and records in the epstein investigation under the powerful pedophiles exposed future dan i got a couple of those articles open but i'll defer to you where do you want to go i just want to talk about the um the seizing of a venezuelan shadow fleet anchor okay yesterday and why perhaps it doesn't belong on the heat So that tanker, according to, you know, laws passed by Congress based on, you know, the sanctions of the Maduro regime, you know, completely, completely lawful and also not acts of war in and of themselves. They're not acts of war. So this ship had a warrant out for, for it, for like, from the Biden administration.

Many, many, many, many, many months, a couple of years, really. 2002, I think. So they just, you know, the Trump's Department of War is just, you know, acting upon that. I think they waited for it to sail back near Venezuela so they could do it in the face of Maduro. But it's not the same as, you know, seizing ships and blockading. and, you know, which is an act of war. But, you know, so just the distinction there. Also, not going to keep putting headlines up about the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.

It's, you know, there's no news there this week. It's just echoes of previous talking points. So that's why we're not on that topic tonight. At least we can be all you want, but it's just, it's not going to be on the website. right we've talked about distinction a lot of yes future danger is the backbone of patron power hour but it's not necessarily every topic we have to talk about or we'll talk about for sure all right from there i'm just curious what what what what strikes your interest tonight haven't taught about this at all and it was the highest rated graded of the week

Clinton appointed judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment to L.A. Federal judge has blocked Trump's deployment to L.A. U.S. judge, Charles Breyer declared it illegal in order the troops return to state control under California Governor Gavin Newsom. What else can you tell us about this? I think that there's been other cases along these lines. This is probably just a new angle to, you know, other attempts to. do this and we'll see where it goes we'll see if it if it gets up to a level that a court you know it'll probably hit a few levels of opposing judges still it gets clarified at the national level so yeah i mean it's happening but like like we say often is you know it's going to take

a big pattern of highly, you know, hotly graded indicators, you know, to start to get a dangerous situation. Just one, you know, ember on, you know, coming out of a low flame is not enough. No, and something, we'll go back to the predictions, 2025 predictions next week during the season finale and really, maybe not the year finale. We might come back on New Year's Eve. I don't know but one of your i'm not going to say predictions but threads or kind of overall flow of what you thought 2025 would be is that there would not be some crazy false flag where Trump would be given all sorts of power right and that seems to be the case so far he's not you know he's not been given an excuse to exercise all this power in the eyes

of the Democrats, so maybe they don't want things to hit the fan because that would just enable Trump. Is that accurate? No, I'm pretty sure that's true. But the recipe in 2019, 2020 is if you timed something bad enough, it's going to hurt Trump or his successor in the 28 election. So I'm looking at the end of 27 to be you know start to be danger zone perfect segue that's what i was going to say in early 26 we'll have our prediction for next year's show and one of them will be is the 2025 lack of it you know lack of major domestic disturbances or other reasons for their that would give trump more power economically or otherwise is 26 going to be different is the midterms big enough

or i know economically economically you think they're going to wait till 28 but is there a chance that they would rush it for the midterms because they can't wait until 28 i guess is where i'm getting at no i don't i don't think that anybody's got the ability to set up something like that and profit from it and leave Trump with two years to react to it two years two years too much time he he would he would every one of these schemes gets chased down by fact-finding eventually right from from the financial crisis of 2008 right how long before the movie the big short really showed what kind of corruption went on to cause that to happen right Trump administration, you know, outfitted with, you know, leading AIs, warfighting AIs, like Palantir,

could, you know, audit the Fed, yeah, that would make a lot of sense to the president if everything went to hell. And in fact, I don't think he'd wait for an act of Congress to do it. He'd be up, you know, his arm around Rand Paul just saying, all right, we're doing this today. And then next week making announcements, right? like these people have to be careful he could do stuff like that if you gave him too much time popping it off with you know eight to six months before he's out of office anyways that makes a lot more sense he wouldn't have time to parse it he wouldn't have time to run it to ground so maybe the best they can hope for now is kind of a stalling tactic against him and just

throw as much random crap to distract and appease their low information voters for the next few years oh it's it's like hyenas on the prairie they'll do anything to survive whatever whatever they can exploit whatever they can gin up whatever they can say and trump has to be careful you know he gets cavalier and you know crosses a line that you know gives them pay dirt at the at the polling stations that could easily happen to but the you know worst case scenario worst case scenario is democrats take both houses at congress they still won't have the votes for an impeachment for conviction on impeachment but trump will set like probably a very hard to beat record on number of times of getting impeached well we'll be reporting here on patriot power hour hard to

Imagine less than 11 months until the election, 2026. It's a long time. That's a long time. And believe me, some of the stuff that they're uncovering inside of this government, like we're getting a steady diet of, you know, what MAGA base would consider wins. They're not dumb enough not to hold back and save some of the good stuff for next October. I'm sure that's coming. might have the name epstein on it

that's where I have a conflict because I'm like I understand that big picture we got to look at the long term but I also don't think we have months to just plan big picture stuff like some of this stuff needs to happen now before it's too late before something crazy really does happen that neuters the effect

you got to look at the founders you know two year for Congress six year for Senate, four year for president, and it all rotates around in the same pattern over time. But, you know, that's the way it's designed. That's the, that's the operating system. And you have to win those elections to have power. Well, the honeymoon's already been, you know, it's over with and some stuff's been accomplished. We'll talk, we'll summarize it next week, a lot of it.

Maybe in the 21st century. In the 21st century, what do you say if we chopped all of those terms by, you know, a quarter? So congressmen were in for six months, and they had to stand for election again, right? I would go much more dramatic. If I could restart. I like that. First of, I do like that. I also like caps on service, much higher caps or more stringent caps.

But I would like much more direct democracy in a safe way where much. a lot of vote goes to the people to vote taxpayers I don't need a freaking representative to represent me I don't live 50 hours by horseback to the state legislature what what you what you probably end up doing in the modern age is create a situation where every government every every six months a new house every year in something in a Senate every year

in a three months a Senate you know election and every year of president president, or two years a president, whatever you, you know, cut it to, there'd be complete inaction until, you know, for election after election after election, until everything got to a crisis point. Then there, then there would be action. But you, it would be, it would be paralyzing. There are definitely a lot of repercussions. You'd have to think through. And I'm not one to question the founders i maybe those limits term limits and how long between elections is fine i think condescending it might be a good idea but having it might be might be doable cutting in and half

might be but i like anything less than that and nothing would get done and that's that's an awful lot of voting that's but we have an electorate right now that is engaged enough you you'd get the same turnout people would not get tired of it and it couldn't be more of a pitched you know partisan environment that we got now we at least on that front we couldn't get it anymore in flame than it is already so people are motivated with politics not like maybe 20 30 years ago all right what other articles we want to hit on

home prices go negative let's touch on that super fast is it bad news for people that would like to buy a house I don't know it's such a small amount that it's trivial right now 1.4% in the last three months

like if it was 14% in the last year That would be a little different. That would be a crash of the housing market. It could be very, to stay, way just destabilizing. But it rose 14% in the year, so. Yeah, but then everybody borrowed on that. Exactly.

That's the thing. It's a one-way street. That's what happens. Exactly. Well, I'm not saying it shouldn't happen. I'm not saying that after it happened, it wouldn't be good. I'm just saying that that would be a. tremendous grief, you know, and the, and the second and third order ripple effects economically

could be, could be dangerous. Exactly. And the old, there's a lot of reasons why, but, you know, an equal increase and an equal decrease, that decrease is going to hurt you a lot worse and that increase will help you. So we're seeing Austin, Texas, down 10% in the last year sure it's like doubled in the last decade so they're still not eating that much crow but that's rough 10% in one year for any market is just really tough Denver's down 5% other lots of florida's down three four or five percent mostly because the insurance market's blowing out people can't even get insured for hurricanes um there are some gains you know you want to move to cleveland Cleveland's popular up six percent Chicago and

New York City. No, thank you, Philly. Nope. All I can tell you, Ben, is if you bought a house circa 2006 and went through a 30% cut, then, then, you know, tell me, tell me how it feels after that happens to you. We're not there yet. But that was what precipitator was the result of the 2008 crisis, right? yes yes exactly so what we're seeing right now is the way i look at it the last five years at least the housing market's been just on fire ever everyone remembers around covid it was just going crazy people are buying houses just in a crazy manner well we haven't fallen off a cliff like Wiley Coyote chasing a roadrunner or whatever

but we've definitely plateaued maybe we've fall you know maybe we've run off that cliff but haven't started to fall yet too fast. That's the question but they're cutting rates now they're cutting rates for a reason and they can keep

accelerating cutting the rates but every time you cut rates you get a little closer to zero and when you're at zero there's not much more you can do. So I'm a thought. economic ratio at you that certainly somebody else has already thought of probably been developed thoroughly. It's just, I'm ignorant of that piece of work and I'm just kind of thinking

of it originally again, or maybe it is original. But, you know, earlier we talked about the ratio of the value of silver to gold, right? Has anybody done that for perhaps something like a U.S. privately owned acre? What would that ratio look like? A privately owned residentially zoned acre? So it would be crude, right? Because the different buildings on different properties have different values themselves. But if you consider that, you know, especially with, you know, modern suburbia and housing divisions, you can pretty normalize it pretty easily and rural properties are oftentimes much more unique and you know have that have that difference but some kind of crude ratio and then tell me like an acre of livable land versus

an ounce of gold is it what direction is that moving i love it going to have to add this some more of my research and analysis we did a couple months ago we did a cursory look at an ounce of versus annual salary and median household income and household cost or housing costs, but acre of land is a great way to look at it. We could maybe subdivide it into urban, suburban, suburban, and rural or farmland. I'm sure people have done some analysis on that, but I would love to see the modern analysis on it, and I'd love to pull it all together with AI so we could just look at dozens or hundreds of you know reviews at once an acre of of land on average in the

United States like zone to live on right you got to be able to live there because that's what we're talking about that's the housing market right we're not talking about the swamp market or the protected wetland market or you know the sandpit the sandpit market we're talking about places you can live right well we can focus it even further we could require that it has utility connections or maybe not maybe we're in the rural area it doesn't have to but i don't know but you're thinking without that actual building on it you want to control for the structure cost or you or what yeah i mean if you want to get special with it it would be like has a road has a power line yeah nice nice interesting i will say this for all the complaining we do about

cost increases there has been improvements in some things like internet speed for example so not enough but go ahead the um whatever that ratio is i mean that wouldn't you need to know that wouldn't you need to know the various ratios between you know gold silver bitcoin land the things that we talk about owning on on pepper broadcasting network feels like now that we kind of you know crack this topic open that we got incomplete knowledge of you know what's what is the right choice where where should you put where should you balance that portfolio maybe maybe you know over over time land compared to the other ones it's it's obvious you should borrow as much fiat as you possibly can to have it up to a certain point and for prepper maybe you have

an extra drive to make that happen and generally it's cheaper rural but I love it got to dive deeper into it hard to know for sure but I don't know I would say Bernanke says that gold and silver

and Bitcoin price don't matter at all barbarous ancient relics and Ponzi scheme so that's say don't worry about any of these ratios it's all good baby I think we're past that I don't think anybody's paying attention to that i go to bloomberg radio just listen for 15 minutes a couple times a day you know it's hard to not hear about gold silver and bitcoin in any of those broadcasts so china in particular is forcing

that issue internationally because the banksters of the west would love to keep silver under 40 bucks and gold under three grand for another decade but china's buying the crap out of it has been for the last decade. They're the ones that they're not the only buyers by any means but for industrial purposes and for a hedge against World War 3. They've been buying the crap out of it.

They've been exposing the scheme. What do you think about reestablishing the gold standard and silver standard? Impossible to do? citizen i like it as a private citizen but too far gone national national currency i don't know there's a lot of variability to it it's not perfect money is it too late though we're so

indebted that it was it was too little too late or could we do it well undume nick nixon's mistake the way all right here's a quick set of numbers that i remember offhand hopefully they're accurate right now the u.s has a lot of gold right at fort knox and other places hopefully but it's valued at a very low dollar figure i think like 40 but hey what firewood forges in the chat he probably knows this is what's the u.s government gold valued on the balance sheet like 40 bucks or 30 bucks so it's our it's archaic that's but if trump came out today and said it's it's 10 000 an ounce think about what would happen then well exactly so these are the numbers i believe i calculated

maybe i'll recalculate them but if we revalued it to let's just say four grand i put i think i put four grand as this thing that would add like a trillion dollars which sounds like a lot it add out like a trillion dollars if we if we revalued it 10 grand per ounce let's say then maybe that would add a few trillion dollars to the u.s. balance sheet, which is good. Three trillion is great. But that's like a year and a half of deficit spending. So we got like a year, maybe two years of a reserve by this little trick, which is good. We might need that if we go to war with like China. Pull that. It's not a trick. It's just a reserve. I'm all for it. But it's not going to like erase the dead out of nowhere, you know.

Oh, no, I'm not suggesting it would. Growth from AI could, growth from AI could take a chunk out of it though well yeah if we could like take chunks 10% out of time like five or six of these chunks grow a bunch with the AI and other ways that'll be a 10% chunk fix a bunch of corruption in waste in government that'd be another 10% chunk you know have a couple other innovations or just you know I just think you got to take a couple bites at a time but if we if we work at that we could easily cut the deficit in half in the next few years both by growing as well as by cutting spending on waste and other BS totally productivity the the possibility of just a absolute growth in productivity you talked about earlier in the show you're using it at work right so artificial intelligence productivity increase Again, you know, it's going to be, it's going to cut this country in all countries a couple of different ways. People under the cut are going to not be employed anymore, but people over the cut or, you know,

find a way to be in the economy above the cut are going to be, you know, significantly more productive every single year until this technology sort of plateaued. And if it heads on the same trajectory of the internet, I would say just being alive and watching it happen, it wasn't until the 20 teams that the real growth of the AI sort of plateaued and got a lot of shower growth rate. Broadband was widely available by 2012, right? So if AI does the same thing, we're going to be at this until the 2040s there's there's definitely a period where a human needs to drive the AI I can use it

very effectively for my work but that's because I use the right prompts and upload the right documents in the right order and then I still interpret the results and I can find a couple weird things and correct it to help to recalculate it all that it needs a human driver for now but in like five 10 years I don't even think they're going to need me as the driver But until then, I'm going to be the best damn driver. Try to make as much money as I can, prep my ass off, do my best. I'm not sure that's true in a vast majority of industries. I guess it all depends on where you sit and what you know, what you're expert at.

But I think it's going to be next to impossible. You're not going to have a corporation that used to be 5,000 people with just a board and a chairman and a box against the wall that does everything. Depends if you're manufactured things or if you're just information warrior. There'll still be some humans in there. I guess my question is, is it just going to reduce headcount by 10% or it'll be more like 80%. In my industry, it might be more towards the 80% in the next decade.

I'm not sure, but I'm assuming that and I'm trying to be in the 20%. yep don't want to get cut out but i think you know again to bring it back to prepping oh feature day we got you back to bring it back on the show yeah i glitched out that's all right no worries i saw it um well i did kind of lose my thought but for there enough for this for preppers just try it out try one of these platforms just put in some basics ask some questions it will it'll amaze you both for your preparedness schedule you know i want to integrate james walton's master preparedness schedule i'm going to just upload that as well as some other documents i put together and just start a whole new project so i'm going to actually

make that kind of a christmas thing for me to do but anyway tons of potential for preppers and non-preppers. Yeah, I think there's so much potential for people to not have to be bound by companies to do things anymore, right? Economic exchange with LLMs, you can learn what you need to know and exchange with other people directly with less middlemen. All I know is the economy is about to change in a massive, permanent way. And it is going to grow for a while.

It's going to be set on fire because of this technology. That's the thing. I'm a middleman, so they're going to cut my ass out. No. I provide a valuable service, I swear. Yeah, it's going to be, we've seen all the great things that have happened from the Internet, all the horrible things. It's going to be a lot of great and a lot of bad as well. So, yeah, definitely interesting time to be.

And, like, I'm excited, even though it's dangerous. It's real exciting, too. A lot of enemies in the United States. foreign and domestic you're going to use it to the best of their ability to undermine us so this show is going to be about paying attention to that at all times absolutely absolutely all right anything else you want to hit on man great show so far we just hit the one hour mark show 229 i think or 329 is in the books but uh why don't you tell the audience what what we should expect in the season finale next week in uh episode 330 all right

Episode 3.30 will be next Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, the 16th of December. Let's call it 7 p.m. Eastern. That'll give me just a little extra few minutes for prep time and ensure all my preps are gathered because I'm going to be prepping all week for it. But, you know, that last prep before the show, it's nice to have some time. Anyway, let's plan for Tuesday, 7 p.m. Eastern start time. we will have the 2025 year in review it'll be a big picture year in review but mostly focused on our predictions and how they worked out we'll also be going through hopefully a silver analysis that i'm still working on maybe i'll be able to integrate some of your per acre ratios and silver and gold ratios firewood forge i know you joined about halfway through before you joined at least i think

before you joined we were talking about golden silver ratios i'm sure you would geek out on that like us go back and listen if you want uh so anyway you're in review 2025 that'll take up like the whole hour of the season finale um i don't think we're going to do too much 2026 predictions that'll be for the you know first show of next season but uh i mean we're going to do the full news dashboard to next week so who knows hopefully it's a good one thank you to our audience for listening to Patriot Power Hour on the Prepar Broadcasting Network. Ben, good show. Pleasure as always. Great show. Talk to you next week.