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Hi,
Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. And today we’re
talking about the incredible run of gold and silver in the last just few days. Monday, which was
yesterday, silver hit $85 an ounce.
Most people within the last 14, 15 months were able to buy silver at around 30, $35 an ounce.
And so therefore many people have made more money percentage-wise with silver than they
have with gold, which has also almost doubled in value in the last two years. Both commodities
have outpaced Wall Street and silver for the last, I don’t know, five or six months have outpaced
the so-called mega seven, the big stocks like Apple and Amazon and Google Alphabet, I guess
they’re called, and Tesla, and I can’t think of all the other ones right now, but there’s seven of
them.
NVIDIA is another one. And people are not ever mentioning this on TV and on the news shows,
and especially the finance shows, but gold and silver is really outperforming all other
investments. In fact, when you take the American stock market for the last year now, foreign
stock markets have actually done better than the American stock markets have done.
The American stock markets, I believe, ended up last year with about a 15 or 16% gain. Like I
said, gold and silver were almost double 50% gains. But when you look at other stock markets
around the world last year, the average of other stock markets in the world, Asia and Europe
mainly, went up 29.2% last year.
Now, what does it all mean? I mean, Donald Trump was out really touting how great the
American economy is by the stock market, but actually the European and the Japanese and the
Chinese stock market has way outpaced the American stock market. Well, in my opinion, that’s
not necessarily good for Europe or China or Japan, and I’ll explain why. When the stock market
really goes up, when values go up radically, and people in their 401ks or the retired people like
it, but what that really signals for that country is runaway inflation.
And we do know that Europe has runaway inflation. So of course their stocks are gonna be
overinflated. They have a greater inflation rate than America.
That’s why America had a modest 15% gain where Europe was in the double digits, triple digits,
really when you say like 30%, what I mean, 29, 30% gains. China also is running into some real
problems. The tariffs have hurt them somewhat, but inflation has hit China.
That’s one thing that’s not being reported, but inflation has also reached China, and that may
explain their stock market going really high. And inflation is still way out of control in Japan, and
that explains why their inflated values are so overinflated. But the idea that our economy, if
you’re gonna go by how the stock market goes up in value, then we look pathetic compared to
the rest of the world.
As I look at it, we probably look a little safer than the rest of the world still, even though that
may be hard to believe. The thing about gold, and the thing about precious metals, mainly gold
and silver, is they are a hedge not only against inflation. I know you watch these TV shows and
they keep saying it’s a hedge of inflation, but it’s also a safe haven to put your assets into if you
think we are going into a global conflict, which I think appears quite normally true right now.
Some experts believe, and I’m looking this up on the internet, some experts believe that we are
closer to World War III now than we have been in over 40 or 50 years. I am one of those who
kind of believe that. One of the reasons for this increased risk, of course, is the Russian war with
Ukraine.
That could easily bring Europe into a world war. The US-China tensions, though I think that is
way overstated, and I don’t believe China wants to be an enemy of the United States, and I do
believe what we ran the programs last week, that China is more worried about Japanese
relations and Japanese power in the Pacific Ocean much more than they’re worried about
America. Until Donald Trump took office, for the most part, Americans didn’t go around the
world stealing land.
Now, I know people were gonna bring up what Teddy Roosevelt did in Guam and Puerto Rico
and things like that that we got, but where did we get them from? We got them from countries
that were collapsing and was handing them over to us. We didn’t have to do much to get them.
We could have got Cuba, but we didn’t take it.
So just think about that. But the US-China tensions, there’s more US-Japanese relations that are
the problem. Of course, you got the Middle East instability.
The very first article I ever wrote for the Plain Truth some 18 years ago, and some of the first
broadcasts I ever did on this Plain Truth Today broadcast was why the Middle East will always
be in your future. And you may think the Middle East has a peace treaty and you’re gonna live
in peace in the Middle East. The minute you hear the words peace in the Middle East, prepare
for war in the Middle East.
I already predicted the Iran thing was not cut off at the head when we bombed out their nuke
facilities, that they would come back and still be a problem for us, and they’re back. I also
suggested and promised by just understanding world events that the Hamas accord of peace
treaty in Gaza was gonna fall apart, and it did. Israel is more than ready to go right back in
there and start killing again.
And now we also ran a story last week. There is a motivation for Israel to wanna do it because
they wanna build a canal through Gaza all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba and bypass the Suez
Canal, which would bring hundreds of billions of dollars into the Israeli economy and take it
away from Egypt, which will cause some tensions there as well because countries don’t like
losing their livelihood to other nations without going to war with them. So as the Middle East,
Iran, we still have Iraq and Afghanistan we gotta think about.
Syria, over the weekend, Donald Trump bombed more ISIS targets in Syria. And if we really
believe that the government in Syria that replaced the dictator Assad is gonna be any better,
any more democratic, you’re just blind to the real plain truth of the matter of what’s going on in
the Middle East. Syria is a problem and will continue to be a problem.
Lebanon is a problem. And for that matter, Turkey, which is in NATO, and they should not be in
NATO, by the way, they’re a problem because they’re really against most of the other NATO
countries and they’re doing everything they can do to make the Kurds, which are really allies to
the West, they are a Muslim group that lives in Afghanistan a little bit, but mainly Iraq and
Turkey. And they are enemies of the terrorist type Muslim groups.
And they are an enemy of the Turkish regime right now. So Turkey is trying to do everything
they can do to get them exterminated, not only in Turkey, but Iraq, which is still gonna be a
problem because these Kurdistan people, these Kurds are great fighters. They’re not gonna go
down without taking a lot with them.
So the Middle East is a problem, will continue to be a problem. But here’s the greatest reason
why I worry about a world war coming, and that is public perception. I’ve said this many times,
and this was told to me a long time ago.
And I didn’t believe it at the time until I studied this word. Perception becomes reality. When
you think something is gonna happen, you do things, maybe subconsciously or whatever, to
cause it to happen.
And so if enough people think that we are headed towards a world war worldwide, then the
chances of a world war are even greater because people are preparing for it. And when people
prepare for it, sometimes, and I would say usually happens. Recent polls say a vast majority of
Western nations, and that would be America, Canada, it would be Eastern Europe, I’m sorry,
Western Europe, England, those nations we’re talking about.
A recent poll showing the majority of Western nations believe a new world war is likely within
the next 10 years. They often cite Russia as the primary threat, but as I would say, I would also
never rule out the Middle East as a threat, causing nations, because of peace treaties and
alliances, to find themselves in a world war over something in the Middle East. Now, over the
weekend, of course, we had this Greenland thing go up, and that’s where I wanna get back to
about gold.
Now Donald Trump ordered his military to make plans to invade Greenland. So what did the
English and the Germans do? Under the tutelage of the Germans, they came up with the idea,
because Germany is going to be the leader of the new European beast government that comes
out of Europe. But they talked to England that they will both send troops to Greenland to
prevent any attack by America.
Think about what that’s saying. NATO allies are preparing to go to war to stop an invasion from
American troops in Greenland. And if that doesn’t make you think of World War III, I don’t know
what does.
Now, I agree with the pundits today saying that Europe, as of present, cannot even hold a
candle to the United States military. And if the military really wants to take Greenland, you’re
gonna have a lot of dead English and German soldiers in Greenland with a lot of Greenlanders
as well. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gonna end up good for America if that really
happens, because that does put Europe on its own, and they will re-militarize with the A-bomb,
H-bomb, and we will find a Europe much more dangerous than China is today or Russia is
today.
Because face it, Russia has always been a paper tiger, and China is not the power they are
believed to be, number one, and they’re not a war-like people, number two. So when you take a
war-like people, like the Germanic people or the Japanese people, and make them rearm
themselves again, trouble probably is gonna follow within a decade or less. We’ve seen it
before, history does repeat itself.
Well, I wanna get into the gold aspect of this after this brief message. Theplaintruth.com is the
one place to go to to find out how to invest your money. Today’s show’s about gold and silver
and what’s causing it to have a big rise.
And if you follow theplaintruth.com for a while, you would have been able to get in gold when it
was around $1,600 an ounce just five years ago. And now it is over 4,500 going past $4,600 an
ounce on its way maybe to $7,500 by year end. So that’s theplaintruth.com. Go there for your
economic news and investing news as well, because we are ahead of the rest.
Well, we’re back and we are talking about gold and silver. Gold hit 4,600 today, silver hit over, I
think 85 today, and it just goes up. So why did it go up so much today? Well, it’s just what I was
talking about, the fear of war.
Gold goes up and silver goes up as a hedge against inflation. And that’s what started the move
of silver some four years ago. But gold and silver also goes up as a safe haven to protect assets
in case of a war, especially a world war.
And so therefore, what we saw the move of silver and gold today had more to do with
Greenland. And I predicted that in yesterday’s show was gonna be the headlines this week,
other than the Supreme Court announcing about the tariffs, which still has not happened.
Again, recording this very late Monday night, I’ve got a lot of work I’m doing in my real job.
And so that by the time this plays at noontime, there could already be a Supreme Court
decision, which we will on theplaintruth.com or on the message board have updates about that
at the minute we find out if it happens or not. But, and then again, depending on that decision
is gonna make gold either go much higher right away or stay stable or even go down a little bit.
But I don’t think if the Supreme Court now says the tariffs are okay, I don’t believe that that is
gonna force gold to go down because the war situation is the other reason gold and silver go
up in value.
When people want to put something in their pockets, you know, you think a minute, you can
put 20 gold coins in your pocket and they won’t weigh a lot in your pockets. 20 coins, that’s 20
ounces, that’s about a pound and a quarter, I guess, of weight in your pocket so you can hide it
anywhere. And those 20 coins are worth almost $100,000.
Think about that. So where else can you put $100,000 worth of assets in such a little tiny space
as gold? Now, silver takes a lot more. You can have quite a few pounds.
It’s 55 ounces right now of silver to equal one ounce of gold in value. It’s a 55 to one ratio. But
just a year ago, the ratio was 85 to one.
It took 85 silver coins to equal one gold coin. Now it’s down to 55 because silver is actually
outperforming gold. And why would that be? Well, again, if you were watching or listening to
the plain truth or reading the stories, we were explaining three years ago that silver, and this is
when silver was 22 to $25 an ounce, and we were saying that silver had to go to at least $50
quite soon.
And I believe we were saying that in 2023, not 2024. And the reason I picked $50 is because
that’s the all-time high of silver some 35 years ago when the Hunts brothers tried to corner the
silver market and they went broke doing so. But I did think silver was gonna outperform gold in
percentage gain, not in dollars per ounce gain, but in percentage gain, because of the fact
silver, unlike gold, is used in all kinds of things.
Gold is used in certain chips, certain circuit boards, and certain other industrial mechanical
uses, but silver is used in everything. Everything in your car, in your home, appliances, circuit
boards are using silver. Many of the new chips coming out are using silver.
And so silver not only is being collected by people to invest or to protect themselves against
World War III, silver is also mainly used industrially. And that is the reason there is such a
demand for silver. More silver is used and made each year than is discovered.
So our silver stockpiles are falling quite short. Therefore, the value of the silver is going quite
high. And that has more to do with world tension than it does with inflation.
Just want to make that clear. Most investments, inflation makes it go up or down. It’s very
simple to see.
For example, if you have a high rate inflation, banks will pay much more interest on CDs, for
example, and senior citizens like that, of course, until they go to the store and realize the price
of food went up past the price of their 401k. The next thing that inflation affects is if inflation
goes down to a real low rate and savings rates then will drop radically where people cannot
make money putting money in a bank, not even in a CD. So where do they put that money?
They put it in gold and silver, and that goes up because of inflation.
Because when your interest rates go down, inflation goes up. When interest rates go up,
inflation goes down. And when you listen to politicians, including the present president of the
United States, they tell you the exact opposite.
And every economist knows that is a lie. Yet when you go to these economic shows on TV, and I
don’t care if they’re more left or more right or in the middle, they just fail to mention basic
truths right now. I told my wife last night when we were sitting on the porch, looking at our
great yard in the winter time here, but I told her last night, it really bothers me today because I
don’t care what news agency you’re reading or listening to or watching on TV, there is no real
plain truth news anymore.
Everything is biased news. Simon and Garfunkel had a song that said, a man hears what he
wants to hear and disregards the rest. And that is what is going on in our news stations today,
especially the TV news stations.
They look for the stories that prove their personal point of view and they ignore and never
mentioned to you the stories that do not help their cause. I’m listening to Maria today, this
morning, I should say. And for some reason, Maria Bartoloma has a real problem with the
Chinese.
All she can think is everything has to do with the Chinese. So they’re asking why this gold
expert, why is gold going up in value? And he said, oh, it’s because of the Chinese. Their
economy is in the doldrums and they’re having a 20% inflation rate, which is true.
And that’s causing gold to go through the roof. Well, that’s the exact opposite. That was just a
bold faced lie.
China is the world’s biggest buyer of gold. And so they’re buying gold. And if they were in such
bad shape and stopped buying gold, gold would go down in value.
So it tells you that China is still buying all this gold, forcing it to go up in value, supply and
demand. And yet you listen to these TV pundits and you realize they are absolutely not telling
the truth. And I do believe they know it when they say it and it bothers me.
And so we see a situation, like I said, gold and silver is going up right now, partly because of
inflation, because inflation is not under control, but mainly right now because of world turmoil
and the world is in turmoil. And if your eyes are not open enough to see where we are today,
how close we are to a conflict that we cannot win, by the way. If you call winning that you
destroyed Russia 13 times with your atomic bombs and they destroyed us only seven, if that’s
what you call a win, then I got a story for you.
You’re still dead. You’re dead if you’re destroyed one time or 13 times. And yet we have people
who think and we have leaders and military leaders on both sides or on all sides, who actually
think they can survive if they do the right thing and attack first, that first strike idea, that if they
attack first and they destroy their enemy completely, they would just surrender and there won’t
be a nuclear war.
Or even if there is a nuclear exchange, they will have bunkers and everything to be able to
survive it. That’s dumb. That’s the most idiotic idea in the world.
Because first of all, if you destroy all of the vegetation on both continents, for example, or two
or three continents, you’re gonna go into a global cooling situation that we’ve never seen.
Winter would be everywhere. There would be no crops anywhere, even on the equator, and
billions of people would starve to death.
That is the problem with a world war. So even if you win a nuclear world war, you’ve lost it. It’s
like that old movie, War Games, playing tic-tac-toe, and the computer finally learns that you
can’t win tic-tac-toe.
It’s an impossible game to win, and it’s a useless game to play. That’s why everybody, as a kid,
starts playing tic-tac-toe, and all of a sudden, as they get better and better and learn more, they
stop playing tic-tac-toe, because it’s an unwinnable game. And so is nuclear, thermonuclear
war.
It’s unwinnable. But we have morons in this country and in other countries, the Middle Eastern
countries and the Germanic countries, in my opinion, the Europeans, who think they could win
a world war. And that is the most dangerous thinking there is going on.
And so my advice, again, is gold is not topped off. I wouldn’t go overboard if you don’t have the
money to buy gold. I would buy silver, even if you’re quite poor, because $80 an ounce, and you
can buy $80 a week of silver, and that is gonna hit $250 eventually, more than what your 401k
will do.
And it’s something that you have in your pocket that you don’t have to worry about. And it’s
very easy to exchange silver in any town in the United States of America, just to let you know.
Anybody who’s collecting money, collecting precious metals, will give you cash for your silver
very easily, more so than gold, even.
So I would still buy silver, even if you are on the poorer side, but I would not buy gold unless
you have a lot of money to gamble with. You’re not gonna lose money that much. Gold is not
gonna plummet down to $1,000 an ounce.
The stock market may plummet by 50%, but gold is not gonna plummet by 50%, especially
when we’re close to a nuclear war war, which I think we could be. And we need somebody to
start thinking rationally and stop trying to be macho soldier, because it’s not working in this
kind of a world. There’s a reason why the Eisenhower administration’s war plan was called
MAD, Mutual Assured Destruction.
Because when you have people that are rational and they know they’re gonna die if they start a
nuclear war, MAD works. Mutual Assured Destruction works. And it stops countries from doing
the unthinkable.
But now we have MAD men everywhere. And the unthinkable is becoming thinkable. And when
that happens, Twilight Zone episodes become very realistic.
That’s all I can say. Start watching some Twilight Zones and you’ll see what I mean. Well, that’s
about all for today’s show.
I thought I would get into the gold and silver aspect, because like I said, we have been
promoting this and we don’t sell it by the way. We’re not selling it. We don’t take
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Matter of fact, you can’t advertise on the plain truth. You can’t pay for anything on the plain
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God’s gospel and God’s news, the gospel just means good news, is free of charge. Christ didn’t
go around doing altar calls and trying to get people to give him money. It didn’t happen.
He had faith. He understood he was God. He knew money can be made from a rock if he
needed it.
And in one biblical story, they found the tax money in silver coins in a mouth of a fish. If that’s
not a miracle, I don’t know what is. So Christ was never worried about money like so many
people today who call themselves religious seem to be very worried about their finances.
If you really believe in God, you shouldn’t worry about it, right? That’s how I look at it. Well,
that’s the Plain Truth for today. I just want to end the show with another plug for
theplaintruth.com because I do believe it’s the one site you go to and it’s getting harder for us
to do so to find good stories that are not so biased, we can’t print them, but go to the Plain
Truth and we’re trying to give you both sides of everything and letting you make a decision.
And I try to, on these podcasts, give you my view. And if you want to listen to me, I think I have
some good examples and some proofs of my view. And I think my view more often has been
right over the last 25 years than wrong.
And so, but you still, you’re a free moral agent. God did not make you a vegetable. God made
you to have a brain that can think, that can read, that can understand and comprehend.
Never forget that. You are not a vegetable. You are a human being made in the image of God.
Your destiny is to become a God. Nobody else is telling you that for the most part. The few
Armstrong Church offshoots are doing that.
But other than that, it’s not a message that you get on any of these Holy Roller Sunday shows,
not even Sabbath shows, which should be the word it is. But that is the Plain Truth. You get it
here and you get it as a news format.
We’re not trying to raise money. We’re not trying to sell a gospel that appeals to everybody and
they want to pay for it. As a matter of fact, I think the news that we give on this program keeps
people away because what we talk about, most people don’t want to hear.
And that has been the problem. Go to the Bible, read Jeremiah, read Ezekiel and read Isaiah.
Read those three prophecies.
Read them in an easy to understand Bible at first and then try to reread them with a more
literal word for word translation. And you will see that the house of Israel and the house of
Judah, their stubbornness and their absolute rebellion against God has never changed. And it’s
been prophesied by those three prophets and others that it will not change until Christ comes
back to this earth.
We are a stubborn people. We are a ignorant, stubborn people that refuses to listen to our God.
All we have to do to listen to our God is believe every word of the Bible as a whole, not one little
bit here and one little bit there, but as a whole, read the Bible, understand that God is giving
you his message, his prophecies and tomorrow’s headlines.
It’s there for everybody, not me, not you alone. It’s for everybody who wants to do so. That’s
the good news.
And this is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today brought to you by theplaintruth.com saying
thank you for listening. I do appreciate those who can hang on and listen to what I have to say.
Until tomorrow, bye-bye.
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