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The world's central banks just filled

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out a confidential survey about what

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they're going to do with their money and

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what they said should make every

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American investor sit up and pay

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attention. Because while we get the

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talking heads on TV and they're telling

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you, you know, gold is done, the trade

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is over. Sell now, move on. The people

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who actually manage trillions of dollars

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in national wealth, guess what? They did

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the exact opposite. They bought more

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gold. And here's what gets me. This

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survey is publicly available. I read it

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over breakfast this morning and I

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thought I'd come for a little stroll

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here in um one of the most beautiful

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parks in the world in this amazing city.

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You can probably guess where I am. And

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yes, anybody can read it, but the

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mainstream financial media, they're

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barely covering it. So, Wall Street

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sends research on this and I've also

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read all of that this morning to their

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hedge fund clients and they charge tens

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of thousands or hundreds of thousands of

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dollars for the service, but they don't

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send it to you, right? And I believe you

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deserve to see it, too. So, today I'm

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going to break this whole thing down for

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you as we're um standing here in Gloria

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Central Park. You don't need a finance

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degree for this. I'm going to give you

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three simple frameworks. Think of them

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like a cheat sheet so you can understand

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what's actually happening with gold and

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more importantly what you should do or

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think about doing with your money. If

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you're wondering who the heck this is,

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my name is Felix. Um, I am dedicated to

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helping regular investors, which is why

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I am nowadays to access the same

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insights and the same intelligence and

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the same strategies central bankers

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have, the hedge fund managers have, the

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Wall Street guys have. And I'm not a

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gold buck. I'm also not here to scare

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you into buying gold. I'm here to show

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you what the data actually says straight

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from the world's central banks

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themselves and hand you a framework so

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you can make your own informed decision.

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Now, the video here is going to be

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fairly dense. Um, what I'll do when I

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get back to my hotel room and sit down

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and have a bit more clarity of what I

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can say, I'm going to put together a

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bonus research report with everything

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that's important there. You can download

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that for free at felixfriends.org/ or

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gold2026. I think that's that's a good

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link for it. Gold 20226. And the links

2:12

in the description. It's completely

2:13

free. It'll have every bit of statistic

2:15

and we'll walk you through all the

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implication steps I'm going to run you

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through here. So here's our road map for

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what I'm planning to talk to you about

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in the next 15 20 minutes. First, the

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elephant in the room. Gold just dropped

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hard from its highs, right? So if the

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central banks love gold so much, why did

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the price fall? We're wondering now,

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right? I'll show you a simple framework

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I call smart money versus yeah, dumb

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money. And that explains exactly what

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happened and why this correction

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actually strengthens the case for gold.

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Second, the 1,000 ton phenomenon. And

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that's the big story nobody's covering

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here. Central banks have been hoovering

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up gold at a pace we've never seen. And

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I'm going to tell you why they're buying

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it and why that why it has shifted in a

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way that should concern everybody

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invested in the US. And then third, the

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dollar crisis. US government pays more

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in interest on debt than it spends on

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its military. I want to explain that in

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English and explain why this traps the

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Federal Reserve and creates what might

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be honestly the best environment for

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gold in decades. And then as a little

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bonus here, fourth, um I'll talk to you

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about the vault story because that's

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something that almost nobody

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understands. And then of course we'll

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focus on what this actually means for

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your money, how you can make better

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decisions. I'll give you a proper

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framework here if I can remember half of

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the stuff I'm planning to talk to you

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about. So gold dropped about 20% from

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its highs, right? It's a big number. If

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you own gold, that probably hurt. You

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might have bought it near the top. Most

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retail investors do buy things near the

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top. So what actually happened? Because

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this is where the story gets a bit

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twisted and people get this completely

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wrong. So let me give you an analogy.

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Imagine there's a house in a good

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neighborhood, solid foundation, great

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location, and it's genuinely worth about

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$500,000.

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The value is real. Now, some flippers

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come in, they start bidding it up, and

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now it's worth $600,000. Eventually,

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somebody pays $700,000 for the same

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house. Now, did the house get better?

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Nope. Still the same house. They're

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paying $700,000 because they think

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someone else will pay $750,000 tomorrow.

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That's speculation. It's momentum. And

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that's exactly what happened with gold.

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Late last year and into early this year,

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gold was surging. And when something

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goes up, two very different types of

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buyers show up. The first type is what I

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call structural buyers. These are

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central banks. They buy gold based on

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policy. Their job is to protect wealth.

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They don't care if gold went up

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yesterday or down yesterday. They just

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buy anywhere. And then and those guys

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are the foundation, right? They're the

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real value guys. The second type is what

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I call momentum buyers. Hedge fund,

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retail traders, people who heard gold

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was going up and thought, I want in on

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this. They're not buying because they

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studied the fundamentals. They're buying

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because the price is moving and they

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don't want to miss out. They are the

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noise. They're the FOMO or they are

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actually quite sophisticated investors

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who just flip in and out of stuff and

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they don't really care what they own.

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All right, found a spot to sit down.

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It's a bit more comfortable. Uh, as I

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realized, I'm gonna I'm going to be

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rambling on here for a while. So, the

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momentum crowd got excited, prices got a

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bit stretched, and then, as always

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happens, the rubber band snapped back,

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right? And then every headline in the

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world screamed, "Gold crashes." And the

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talking head says, "The trade's over."

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But what they don't tell you is this.

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The structural buyers, the central

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banks, they never stop buying or for one

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second. So, think about that. The house

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is back to $500,000. The flippers are

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gone, but the serious buyer, the one who

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actually lives in the neighborhood, he's

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still there. Still buying at a pace

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we've never seen in history. And one

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analyst I respect put this perfectly. He

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wrote, "Central banks are the buyer of

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first resort. Investors are the buyer of

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last resort." And what that means is

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this. Central banks buy proactively all

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the time. Rain or shine. Investors, they

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only pile in when they get worried or

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when their price rallies really, really

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quickly. Now the beautiful part is that

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the next phase of this gold story won't

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be driven by speculators chasing prices.

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It'll be driven by investors who are

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genuinely concerned about what's

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happening in the world. And that kind of

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buying that is much more durable, much

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more powerful. So the framework number

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one here and I want you to remember this

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maybe take some notes. Whenever you see

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a scary headline about gold falling, ask

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yourself one simple question. Did the

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structural bias stop? The answer is no.

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The foundation is there. the noise left.

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The real buyers are still there. And

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that brings me to the real question. Why

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are central banks buying so

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aggressively? What do they know that we

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don't know? Right? These are the guys

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who print money. But before we get into

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that in more detail, I want to pause for

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a second and talk to you very frankly

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because I know some of you are sitting

7:00

there thinking, "Okay, Felix, this is

7:01

interesting, but what do I actually do

7:04

with this?" Like specifically, what's

7:05

the move? And there's the thing. I've

7:08

already written out my plan. my exact

7:10

strategy for I'm positioning myself for

7:12

the rest of this year. It's written out.

7:14

I know exactly what I'm going to be

7:15

doing based on all of this data and what

7:18

I learned from my Wall Street mentors.

7:19

And what I want to do is give that to

7:21

you, share that with you, but not as a

7:23

document because it won't land and

7:25

guarantee it. I've tried it. You'll

7:26

download it, you'll skim it, and you'll

7:28

sit it'll sit on your your desktop next

7:29

to that PDF you saved, you know, 19

7:32

months ago and never opened. Uh we've

7:34

all been there. So instead, I want to do

7:36

an actual teaching session. I'm gonna

7:38

sit you down for two hours and walk you

7:41

through the exact process why I'm doing

7:44

what I'm doing, what the institutions

7:46

are doing, and how you can build your

7:48

own playbook for the next 90 days, for

7:51

the rest of 2026. Because that's really

7:54

what this is about. It's not about one

7:56

trade. It's not about having some

7:58

insider information. It's about having a

8:00

plan for what's coming over the next

8:01

quarter and the quarter after the after.

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And there'll be two kinds of people

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here. There'll be the people who learn

8:06

this and there'll be the people who wish

8:09

they'd learned about it, you know, six

8:11

months from. So, if you want to join me,

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you can grab yourself a free seat at

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90dayplaybook.org.

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Links down below in the description.

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It's completely free. No credit card

8:21

required, anything like that. It's just

8:22

a free teaching sessions. So, now let's

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get into the data that changed

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everything for me. And if you're going

8:28

to show up for yourself, just write show

8:30

up in the comments down below so I can

8:31

see it because it's really about you.

8:33

It's not about me, right? You got to sit

8:35

down, learn the actual skills, um, and

8:39

then you can enjoy, you know, places

8:41

like this. I mean, it's such an you see

8:43

that skyline back there. It's just

8:45

glorious. Absolutely amazing. I love

8:47

this city. Been here for too long. I'm

8:49

going to stick around for a little while

8:50

because it's just fun. And here's the

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key headline from the survey that just

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came out. 45% of central banks say they

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plan to buy more gold in the next year.

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That is the highest number in the

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survey's history. So almost half the

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world's central banks are saying we want

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more gold. And to really appreciate how

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dramatic this is, let me give you a

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trend. Back in 2019, only 8% plan to buy

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more gold. By 2022, it was 25%. Last

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year, 43% of those central banks said,

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"We're going to buy more gold." This

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year, it is 45%. And they don't plan to

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buy it. They've literally been putting

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their money where their mouth is. For

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four years straight, central banks have

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bought over a thousand tons of gold per

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year. And now those are the official

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figures. And arguably, some countries

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don't tell you everything that they're

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buying. Gulf States, certain Asian

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countries actually buying secretly more

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than they're telling you about. But

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these banks have literally doubled the

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pace of their buying compared to the

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previous decade. And they're telling us

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we're going to buy even more. And what

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blew my mind even more than numbers is

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the why. So they literally asked these

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banks, these central banks, you know,

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like the Fed, why do you hold gold? Why?

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Why is that important? And the number

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one reason cited by 90% of them, so nine

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out of 10 central banks in the world

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said the following. They say gold's

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performance during times of a crisis. So

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think about that. These are the most

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conservative money managers on the

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planet. They're also the guys who can

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just print money, by the way, which is

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just a bizarre place to be. Their job

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description is protect the nation's

10:22

wealth. And 90% of them, nine out of 10

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of them are saying we hold gold because

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when everything else falls apart, gold

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also its value. Think about 2008, the

10:31

financial crisis. Market crashed, banks

10:34

failed, people lost their homes, gold

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went up. Yeah. Co, the world shut down,

10:38

markets created, gold went up. Yeah,

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Bitcoin went up more, but gold still

10:42

went up. And these central bankers have

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studied every crisis in modern history,

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and their conclusion is gold's the thing

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you want to own when the world goes

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haywire. But there was a shift this year

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that I've never seen before in the

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history of all the data. For the first

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time ever, geopolitical instability

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has overtaken inflation as the number

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one concern for central banks. Let me

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say that again. For years, inflation was

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keeping these central bankers up at

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night, right? They're sitting in their

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wood panled rooms swigging cherry going,

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"We're terribly worried about this." Um

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because that's their main job. Keep

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inflation under control. But this year,

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it isn't inflation. It is geopolitical

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risk, wars, sanctions, trade conflicts.

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So 80% of these bankers, again, eight

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out of 10 people in that wood panled

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room now say political geopolitical

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instability is a huge factor in their

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decision-m more than inflation, more

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than anything else. And that tells you

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something about where we are in the

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world right now, right? more conflicts,

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more trade wars, countries sanctioning

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each other every other Tuesday,

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financial system being weaponized.

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Central banks are looking at all this

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and saying, "We need protection. We need

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an asset that doesn't depend on anyone

11:53

else's promises, and we don't really

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believe ours because we're probably just

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going to print more money anyway." Well,

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I'm making that last part up, but you

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know what I mean. So, we need gold.

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That's what they're saying. Now, here

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was a part of the story that just

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doesn't make the media, and it's

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massive. The countries buying the most

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gold are not the big Western economists.

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It's the emerging markets. Countries

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like India, Brazil, Poland, China, and

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dozens of others. Half of all the

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emerging market central banks are going

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to buy more gold. Half. Why does that

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matter? Because these are also the

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fastest growing economies in the world.

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These are the countries where the

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growth's happening and they're all

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saying the same thing. We don't fully

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trust the Western I mean basically the

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American financial system because let's

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face it, that's what it is anymore.

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We're building our own reserves. We're

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buying gold. One central banker wrote

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this very bluntly. He said something and

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I'm paraphrasing here because I haven't

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got the document in front of me. We

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expect the share of reserves held in US

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dollars to go down. So the US is

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weaponizing a dollar through sanctions,

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through tariffs, through trade

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conflicts. And other countries are

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saying, well, we're just going to hold

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less dollars and what are we going to do

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with our money? We're going to buy gold.

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And the number of central banks who are

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worried about a weaker dollar now just

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doubled doubled in just one year. So,

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let me try and put this all together so

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it hopefully um makes some sense. So,

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the second framework here is follow the

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central banks if you're in gold, right?

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Again, I'm not telling you what to buy.

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I'm not a financial adviser. I'm just

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sharing with you what I just read

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because I think it's incredibly

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important and giving you some color here

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from the way Wall Street's interpreting

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it. Central banks have bought a thousand

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tons a year for four years straight.

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More central banks are planning to buy

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gold than ever before. And more of them

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are worried about geopolitics and a

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weaker dollar than ever before, which

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are the reasons why they're buying that.

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And that brings us to the third thing,

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right? Are we are we on track in terms

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of of what I was going to talk about

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here? You can judge me on that in the

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comments down below. And if this is just

13:46

a lot of information for you, this is

13:48

also completely fine. Just join me on

13:50

Saturday. Saturday will not be

13:51

information dense. Saturday will be

13:54

skills dense because I want to give you

13:56

something that you can take away that

13:57

you'll always have that will just help

13:59

you make better decisions forever after.

14:01

whether you're a gold bug, a silver bug,

14:03

a stock investor, or just all of the

14:04

above. And I might go and find myself

14:06

some shade so I don't um you know, come

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back uh looking like like a lobster

14:12

here. But what really should concern

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everybody, especially if you have

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exposure to the US, who else a little

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bit better? Um the US government is

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spending more on its debt than on

14:24

anything else, like literally than

14:26

anything else. And we're talking about a

14:28

trillion dollars a year. Like really,

14:29

really insane. So the cost of every

14:31

aircraft carrier, every plane you see uh

14:33

you know every fighter jet, every

14:35

soldier around the world uh bases in I

14:37

think 150 countries uh and the interest

14:39

payment is greater than that and it's

14:43

growing. So people are worried about

14:46

interest rates going up, right? New Fed

14:48

share just came in. Well, if interest

14:50

rates rates go up a little bit, those

14:53

interest payments of the government,

14:54

they explode. We're talking about

14:56

hundreds of billions of dollars of

14:57

additional interest payments. And let me

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give you a real world example of what

15:02

happens when a government debt get out

15:04

gets out of control. I'm talking talking

15:05

about some tin pod hut country. I'm

15:08

talking about um Great Britain. I mean

15:11

Britain. I think they lost the great a

15:12

while ago. I think it was auctioned off

15:14

to Americans. But in 2022, the UK had a

15:18

new prime minister called Liz Truss. and

15:20

you probably won't remember her for good

15:21

reasons, but she announced a budget that

15:24

spooked the bond market. And investors

15:26

looked at the numbers and said, "Wait,

15:28

we don't think the UK can handle this

15:30

debt level." So bond prices crashed,

15:33

interest rates went through the roof,

15:35

and Liz Truss, she was forced to resign

15:38

after 45 days on the job. So the bond

15:41

market essentially fired the prime

15:43

minister of Great Britain and then

15:46

auctioned off the Great Part. Now, 45

15:48

days. Imagine something like that

15:51

happening in the US. If the bond market

15:53

loses faith in America's ability to

15:55

manage its debt, interest rates will go

15:57

through the roof. And the math doesn't

15:59

work. The government can't raise taxes

16:01

enough or cut spending enough to fix it.

16:03

So, the Fed is trapped. The Fed is

16:06

powerless. They cannot let interest

16:08

rates rise significantly without causing

16:11

a crisis. And they know it. Wall Street

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knows it. Central banks around the world

16:15

know it. And that's one of the reasons

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everyone's buying gold. Now, you've

16:18

probably heard this before. They think

16:20

when interest rates go up, gold goes

16:22

down because gold doesn't pay interest,

16:24

right? So, that sounds logical. Well,

16:26

why own something if I can get five or

16:27

6% with no risk? But it's actually

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wrong. And I'm going to explain it to

16:33

you in a way that's hopefully going to

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land for you and tell me if it lands for

16:36

you. What actually matters for gold

16:38

isn't the interest rate you see on

16:39

television. It's something called the

16:42

real interest rate. And real just means

16:45

this, the interest rate minus inflation.

16:48

So think about it this way. If your

16:49

savings account pays you 3%. But

16:52

inflation is running at 5%. Are you

16:54

making money? No. Right? 3% - 5% is

16:57

minus2. You're losing 2% a year in real

17:01

power. It's a negative real rate. And

17:04

negative real rates are rocket fuel for

17:06

gold. Because when your money in the

17:08

bank is actually losing value, people

17:11

start looking for alternatives.

17:13

something that lasts, something that at

17:15

least holds its value. Something like,

17:17

yeah, the shiny stuff, gold. Right now,

17:20

inflation is through the roof just for

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over 4%. And because the government

17:25

can't increase interest rates because it

17:29

would tank the bond market and it kick

17:32

the government out of power in about 45

17:34

days like it happened in the UK. We have

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a perfect environment for gold in my

17:38

humble opinion. And that's exactly what

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the world central bankers just told us.

17:42

Three out of four expect the US dollar's

17:45

share of global reserves to be lower.

17:47

Three out of four, 75%. That's a lot.

17:50

And they're making those plans

17:51

themselves. So, it's very likely to

17:53

happen because these are the guys

17:54

actually deciding that less dollars

17:56

typically means more gold. So, let's put

17:59

the whole picture together because it's

18:01

all one big puzzle. And at the moment,

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the US dollar makes about At the moment,

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the US dollar makes up about 42% of the

18:10

world's reserves. Gold's about 26%.

18:13

Hopefully, we can put some of these

18:14

numbers on the screen here for you so it

18:16

isn't just a overwhelm of data, but it's

18:18

also in the document you can download.

18:20

The the monkey currency known as the

18:22

euro is uh 16%. And everything else

18:26

filters in the rest. So gold is about a

18:29

quarter of global reserves and central

18:32

banks are telling us that the gap

18:34

between the dollar and gold is going to

18:36

close. Dollar down, gold up. And the

18:39

reasons are simple. One, the US debt

18:41

makes everybody worried. Two, the US

18:44

shown a willingness to weaponize the

18:46

dollar. Sanctions freezing assets. Look

18:48

at Russia. Three, trade wars and tariffs

18:51

make people nervous to be dependent on

18:53

just one financial system. And the US is

18:55

the financial system of the world. And

18:57

fourth, there simply isn't a great

18:58

alternative to current currency to

19:00

switch to, right? I mean, the euro, you

19:02

know, I love Italy, Portugal, and

19:04

Greece, but do I necessarily want them

19:06

in the same thing? And then you look at

19:07

the lunatic governments and say Germany

19:10

and France, and you also think, do I

19:11

want to own that thing? The Euro was

19:13

created to keep my lot because I'm

19:16

German. Um, to allow us to export more

19:19

because the Deutsch mark was incredibly

19:21

expensive. So, they thought, "How do we

19:22

lower the value of our currency without

19:24

people noticing?" Uh, let's let in uh

19:26

let's let in Greece. That was the whole

19:28

point. It's a complete pig's breakfast,

19:31

the way that's structured. Um, you have

19:33

the Chinese currency, but it isn't

19:35

freely tradable. So, no one's going to

19:37

do that.

19:38

So, therefore, your only alternative is

19:40

really the thing that's been money for

19:42

5,000 years, which is gold, right? and

19:44

and one of the bankers, one of the

19:46

central bankers in that uh document

19:48

says, and this is a quote, "We want to

19:50

diversify away from the dollar, but

19:52

there aren't many alternatives. So,

19:54

we're buying the best alternative we

19:56

have, gold." So, that's your dollar

19:58

trap, and it's not going to get any

19:59

better, and Trump has already publicly

20:02

said he actually would like a weaker

20:03

dollar because it would help the US

20:05

export more, bring some industry back.

20:07

There's a lot to unpack here, right? And

20:09

it's going to keep evolving. And I

20:11

totally get this isn't like intuitive.

20:13

If this is not something you were

20:14

taught, I'm very lucky. I got an

20:16

economics degree which helps a little

20:17

bit, but most of us w lucky. So, you

20:20

need to find a way to really like learn

20:22

how to manage your money better. And why

20:24

do I say that? Because inflation is

20:27

going to go up. It's the only way they

20:28

can handle the debt. And when inflation

20:30

goes up, your salary goes down, your

20:32

savings go down, your bonds go down, and

20:35

it sucks. So, what can we do about it?

20:38

Well, we can do a lot about it because

20:39

there'll be plenty of people who get

20:41

very, very rich in this particular cycle

20:43

of the market. There are plenty of

20:44

people who are going to invest in a way

20:46

that far exceeds what inflation's doing

20:49

and they're going to be sitting on their

20:50

yachts and their boats and flying to

20:52

Nucket and having a lovely summer. And

20:55

you can participate in the same

20:57

strategies because they're actually not

20:58

complicated, right? There's an

21:00

assumption that, you know, the guys

21:01

working street sort of somewhere behind

21:04

me there, right? in that general

21:05

direction and those guys are smarter

21:08

than you. Well, you obviously haven't

21:09

met many of them. Um, I think the lowest

21:13

hanging fruit for making all of our

21:14

lives better is just to have better

21:17

skills around managing our money. And it

21:19

doesn't sound super sexy, but you know

21:21

what? It's better than working an extra

21:23

20 hours a week or an extra 5 years to

21:25

make your retirement stretch longer or

21:27

whatever. It is just better to make the

21:29

money you already have and put it to

21:30

work in a way that is more responsible,

21:32

in a way that gets you less draw downs.

21:34

in a way that means you're not down 20%

21:36

on gold because you bought at the very

21:37

top and it's natural. It's human. Um,

21:40

FOMO is a huge thing, but it is also

21:43

somewhat avoidable. And I believe I can

21:45

teach you that and I can teach you a ton

21:46

of that in just a two hours if you show

21:48

up for yourself on Saturday. And as I

21:50

said, if you do that, click on the link

21:51

below below and write show up in the

21:54

comments. But let me tell you one other

21:56

I think very important piece of the

21:58

puzzle here. People don't talk about

22:00

where is the world's gold stored. I mean

22:02

the physical stuff, not the fugazi stuff

22:05

of comx. Where are the gold bars

22:07

sitting? Because when a country says we

22:09

have gold reserves, that doesn't mean

22:11

there is a vault under their parliament

22:13

building full of gold bars. For most of

22:16

the world, for decades, the gold's been

22:18

stored in a handful of Western

22:20

countries. The Bank of England in London

22:22

had it. The Federal Reserve of New York

22:24

stole a lot of it. The Swiss National

22:26

Bank and the Bank for International

22:28

Settlement also in Swissiland. And these

22:31

were the world's safe deposit boxes.

22:34

Every country in the world trusts them.

22:36

Put your gold with us. It'll be safe.

22:37

We've got a perfect track record. But

22:39

something dramatic is happening right

22:41

now. And when I saw this data, honestly,

22:43

the hairs in the back of my neck stood

22:45

up because countries are moving their

22:47

gold home. In just the last year, almost

22:52

10% of all the central bank gold in the

22:55

world moved to new locations overseas.

22:59

That's like 10 times more than normally

23:01

happens. And the Swissy National Bank,

23:04

the preferred custodian of the world's

23:07

gold, their storage vault got cut in

23:09

half in a single year. And what's really

23:13

peculiar is um and there's a squirrel

23:15

behind me. Hang on. Can you see my

23:17

little squirrel friend? Can you see him?

23:19

Where is he? Hard to see, right? But

23:21

he's down there somewhere. Very cute.

23:23

Very wide little tummy. Anyway, we

23:24

interrupt this very important financial

23:26

education program for a squirrel. Um,

23:29

half of all the central banks in the

23:31

world refused to answer the question

23:33

where they keep their gold. They just

23:35

didn't tell anybody. Isn't that weird?

23:37

So, when people don't tell you where

23:38

their money is, it tells you something.

23:40

They're being deliberately

23:42

secretive, right? And to understand that

23:46

when Russia invaded Ukraine, the world

23:48

was horrified. and Western allies

23:50

decided to hit Russia where it hurts,

23:52

not with bombs, but with money. And the

23:54

US and its allies froze about $300

23:57

billion dollars of Russian central bank

24:00

reserves. They just locked it up. Russia

24:02

could no longer access it. Now, every

24:04

central banker in the world watched that

24:06

and I guarantee you every single one of

24:08

them had a meeting the next morning and

24:09

said, "If the US can freeze Russian

24:12

assets, they could freeze mine." So

24:15

suddenly storing your gold in London or

24:17

New York or Swissiland doesn't feel so

24:19

good anymore, right? So where you going

24:20

to put it? In your basement, aren't you?

24:23

Because they can't freeze that. It's now

24:24

yours. Nobody can touch it. Well, unless

24:26

they invade you. Um, so this isn't about

24:29

investment returns. It's about

24:30

sovereignty, national security, control

24:33

over your assets. So what does it all

24:35

mean for you? You know, just normal

24:37

investor like wanting to retire a little

24:38

earlier, wanting to have a bit of a

24:40

better life. It means we're moving into

24:41

a different kind of a world. We're

24:42

moving into a world where there isn't

24:44

one global financial system that

24:46

everybody trusts. We're heading towards

24:48

competing financial blocks. The US and

24:51

its allies or its um vassel states,

24:54

think the United Kingdom. Sorry guys, I

24:56

keep making a joke. I love you. But it's

24:58

actually quite true if you look into it.

25:00

There is China, there is India, there is

25:02

Russia and you know other places. And

25:05

what's the one asset these guys are all

25:07

buying because they all distrust each

25:08

other that has value in every country in

25:10

every system in every currency that

25:11

can't be frozen by any government or

25:13

central bank? Yeah, you got it. Put it

25:14

in the comments down below. It is gold,

25:17

right? There's no counterparty risk. It

25:19

doesn't depend on the US being nice to

25:21

you. It doesn't depend on your

25:22

relationship with uh you know the

25:24

socialist republics of Europe. It's just

25:26

gold. It's just physical. It's real.

25:28

It's yours. And that's why people buy

25:30

it. And that's why a lot of in

25:31

individual gold investors that I meet,

25:33

that's why they buy it, not even as an

25:35

investment, just as a sort of uh

25:37

insurance policy, right? So the world's

25:39

most conservative money managers, the

25:41

people whose job it is to protect the

25:43

country's wealth, they're saying to you

25:44

what they're going to be doing. But

25:46

there is an elephant in the room and

25:48

it's called AI because every analyst on

25:50

Wall Street has to have AI exposure.

25:52

Every fund manager is talking about, you

25:54

know, the the hottest investment story

25:55

of the year. But there is something that

25:57

should make you pause. Every generation

26:00

has one of these you can't lose in this

26:02

stories, you must be in this stories and

26:04

they follow a very similar pattern. In

26:06

the 1800s, it was railroads.

26:09

Revolutionary technology that formed

26:11

America. Most railroad companies went

26:13

bankrupt. Now, who made real money out

26:15

of this? Well, JP Morgan because they

26:17

bought the rail assets for pennies on

26:18

the dollar. In 2000, it was the

26:20

internet. Everybody knew the internet

26:22

could change everything. And they were

26:23

right. It did, right? We would not be

26:25

here today. But investors who bought the

26:27

NASDAQ peak, well, the Nasdaq dropped

26:29

78%. It took 15 years to go back to

26:33

break even. Real technology each time,

26:35

investment returns, not so real. Because

26:38

there is a difference between the

26:40

technology would change the world and

26:42

the stock is a good price. I'm not

26:44

saying AI is going to crash tomorrow.

26:46

What I'm saying is stock valuations

26:47

right now at levels we have only seen a

26:50

handful of times over the last 100

26:51

years. They're paying prices that

26:54

historically ended badly. And a lot of

26:56

the AI stuff is being done with debt,

26:58

right? Companies are borrowing billions

27:00

and billions and billions and they're

27:02

hoping it's going to pay off. Now, the

27:04

central banks also said one more thing

27:06

that doesn't make the media. 80% of them

27:09

said they have no plans to increase

27:11

their stock exposure. So, these guys are

27:13

not buying stocks. They're not buying AI

27:14

stocks. They're buying gold. Now, does

27:17

that mean gold's going to go up by, you

27:18

know, 100% next month? No, it doesn't.

27:21

There are a bunch of factors here. Yes,

27:23

there's fundamental demand from the

27:24

central banks, but there are also our

27:26

friends, our hedge fund traders, our

27:28

comx traders and so on who will

27:30

ultimately control

27:32

the short-term or even the medium-term

27:35

gold price and silver price and so on

27:37

because that's just how the world works.

27:39

So, I'm not telling you to dump

27:40

everything and buy gold. I'm not telling

27:41

you to do anything at all. Be incredibly

27:43

irresponsible. Uh, your situation is

27:45

also different from a central bank

27:46

because they could just print more

27:47

money. I just want to give you a simple

27:49

framework to think this through. So, why

27:52

would you own gold? That's something

27:54

you're going to want to answer. Again,

27:56

the document down below will help you

27:57

answer that. And then you want to choose

27:59

how you own it. There are three options.

28:01

There's physical, the ETFs, the gold

28:04

miners, and then we made a lot of money

28:07

out of the gold miners last year from

28:08

about April onwards. Just look at the

28:10

charts. And then from about August

28:11

onwards, we made a lot of money on gold.

28:12

It was beautiful. But we sold the gold

28:15

miners, right? because we made money and

28:18

then the money left the building and we

28:20

left the building with the money. And

28:21

then three, think about what are you

28:23

protecting against? If you're worried

28:24

about the dollar losing value, if you're

28:26

worried about a stock crash, if you're

28:28

worried about just the world, you're

28:30

buying this as insurance, but do you

28:32

need it to live? I mean, do you need to

28:36

sell some of it? Do you how liquid do

28:37

you need to be? What's your time

28:39

horizon? That sort of thing. That's

28:40

very, very important. And then you got

28:41

to decide on an allocation, right?

28:44

Traditional portfolio theory is 5 to 10%

28:46

in gold. Some people are now apping that

28:49

number. So if you have zero exposure to

28:51

gold, it might be something to look at.

28:53

But it is a very very long-term asset.

28:55

It is something that could underperform

28:56

the market for years and years and years

28:57

because it doesn't have earnings. It

28:58

doesn't invent chips. It doesn't do

29:00

anything exciting really that catches

29:01

the headlines until Wall Street money

29:04

decides that they actually want to buy

29:06

it, which is typically the moment when I

29:07

like to buy these things. At least

29:09

they're miners. So we learned a

29:10

framework yesterday as a day, right? The

29:12

correction was noise. the speculators

29:14

left the building, the structural demand

29:15

is still there, but it still means gold

29:18

can go down and it sounds frustrating.

29:20

So, if you want to really really learn

29:22

that framework in a lot more detail so

29:25

you can make better decisions whether

29:27

you know I'm telling you what I'm

29:29

thinking that that day or or or not,

29:31

then join me on Saturday. We're going to

29:33

be doing a special session here in in in

29:35

New York just before I hop on a plane

29:36

because I think where we are right now,

29:38

people are so confused. I met some of

29:40

you as well this week and everyone's

29:42

just like, "Well, what do I do? The

29:43

world's changed. I'm confused. I need I

29:45

need a plan." So, let us give you a plan

29:48

on Saturday at at felixfriends.org/

29:52

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29:54

Grab yourself a free ticket. I'm going

29:56

to enjoy this really glorious city. And

29:59

I must say, I think New York gets

30:00

maligned um very unfairly. I was

30:02

expecting um the city to be, you know,

30:05

piled up in trash and people who want to

30:08

kill you at every block. And it's the

30:10

exact opposite. It's true. It's

30:11

absolutely beautiful. People are lovely.

30:13

Um except for the half of people who

30:15

seem to need anger management. Uh but

30:17

that's also kind of amusing and it's

30:18

just amazing and the weather is glorious

30:20

and we're going to have a beautiful day

30:22

here in a beautiful few days here in New

30:23

York. Enjoy it. Eat lots of things, buy

30:26

stuff, you know, help pump up that

30:28

economy of yours. Apparently you need

30:29

it. and I wish you tremendous success

30:32

and I hope to see you on Saturday. If

30:34

I'm going to see you there, write, show

30:35

up in the comments. All the best. August

30:38

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30:40

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30:43

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Interactive Summary

The video analyzes a confidential survey of the world's central banks, revealing an unprecedented and consistent trend of gold accumulation. The host, Felix, explains that while retail investors are often deterred by short-term price fluctuations caused by speculative 'momentum' traders, central banks act as 'structural' buyers who view gold as a long-term hedge against geopolitical instability, inflation, and the declining reliance on the US dollar. The video highlights how US government debt and the weaponization of the dollar are forcing global central banks to diversify their reserves, leading them to repatriate their physical gold holdings to avoid potential asset freezes. Finally, the host encourages viewers to move beyond impulsive trading and instead develop long-term financial frameworks to navigate this shifting economic landscape.

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