Jon Dowling Lynette Zang Discuss The Global Reset Financial Updates

➡ In this podcast, Lynette Zhang, a financial expert with over six decades of experience, discusses the economy, precious metals, and future predictions. She talks about the shift in how silver is valued, moving from London-based prices to local valuations, which she believes is a positive change. She also discusses the potential for a global financial reset and the undervalued state of silver and gold. Lastly, she emphasizes the importance of understanding the difference between physical and paper contracts in the financial market.
➡ The text discusses the complexities of the global financial system, focusing on the potential for a new system and the role of gold and silver. It suggests that the real debt is much higher than admitted, and the value at risk is unknown. The speakers believe that holding physical gold can preserve purchasing power and provide an opportunity for the public to regain power. They also discuss the possibility of the Trump administration using silver purchases to influence global markets.
➡ The text discusses the potential value of silver and gold in the future, suggesting that silver might become more valuable than gold due to its use in various industries and its limited availability. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of diversifying one’s portfolio and investing in sound money like gold and silver to preserve purchasing power. They also discuss the possibility of a new US treasury note backed by gold and silver, and the importance of holding onto gold and silver in any form, including jewelry, as a form of wealth.
➡ The text discusses the concept of sound money, using silver as an example. It explains how silver was once part of our currency and is still valuable today, unlike modern dimes. The text also discusses the importance of investing in gold and silver, as their value increases while the dollar’s value decreases. Lastly, it questions whether Jerome Powell, the current Chair of the Federal Reserve, can prevent a stock market or housing market crash before his term ends in May.
➡ The speaker discusses the potential shift to a new digital system supported by President Trump, which could disrupt the current economic system. They express concern about the potential for wealth inequality if the new system doesn’t include redeemable gold. They believe that if gold is included, it could level the playing field and provide more opportunities for economic participation. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of community and self-sufficiency in this changing economic landscape.
➡ The text emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment and making the most of it. Ms. Linneng from Zhang International joined for a deep and insightful discussion, hoping it was beneficial for all listeners. They ended the conversation on a positive note, looking forward to future interactions.

Hi everyone and welcome to the podcast. We have Fellow Returning guest Ms. Lynette Zhang, who’s been gracious enough to join us for yet another insightful discussion on the economy, precious metals, and how she sees the forecast for the remainder of the first quarter into the second quarter and many other musings. So we’ll be looking forward to her insights per usual. If you’re new to the podcast, please as always, do like subscribe and share. Helps the channel grow into others gain the knowledge are currently being afforded. As you know, Ms. Lynette Zhang has been in this industry for a little over six decades and probably beyond in upbringing with the proper rearing of finances from her family.

She brings a cogent knowledge on her podcast that she has on YouTube and many other platforms. And she is big into shelter security with some community initiatives that we’ll talk about that she has to help her local and regional community as well. And I’m delighted, honored to have her back on once again. Ms. Lynette Zhang, thank you for joining the podcast. How are you? Oh, I’m great, John, and thank you so much for having me back. I always enjoy our conversations. Likewise, likewise. Very enriching and hopefully the audience concurs. Okay, so the first question I want to ask you, Ms.

Lynette, is from April 1st of this year, the SCBI Securities Exchange Board of India, they’re mandating that mutual funds value silver holdings based on domestic spot prices from recognized exchanges. Moving away from the lbma, it appears that more countries are pricing silver based on local valuation rather than looking to London. It also appears the spot price mechanism in the west is becoming more and more relevant based on true physical price of silver and not paper contracts. What say you? Oh, I say this is the day that I’ve been waiting for for a long, long time. And it’s a shift that started a year ago in January.

So it’s well underway. Not near conclusion yet. But yeah, it’s about time that these markets start addressing true supply and demand. And it makes a whole lot of sense for the world to be moving away from what we’ve been used to, the LBMA and the COMEX and in the US those paper contracts, because it’s a lie, it doesn’t reflect the true value, but based upon demand. And I will also say this for those that are listening, because they can hear this or they can hear that, but I sat down, I said, okay, well where do they actually use physical gold? Where do they actually use physical silver? And this is not necessarily a conclusive list But I found 33 different areas that actually utilize physical gold in the global economy, and 36 that that utilize physical silver.

That is full demand. And what do we have? But we have those. We’ve had those paper contracts of which they can create as much gold and silver that does not nor ever will exist as they want to. And the market reads it. So for me, this is a day that I have been. And we’re not done yet, but this is a day that I have been waiting for. And I very excited. And I also think that it does ultimately set up the world to do that overnight reset, which I think is probably going to be done in a coordinated way.

I could be wrong, but I think it probably will be coordinated. No, I completely concur on what you said. And I think it’s all been scripted and prescripted and designed for us to elicit a certain time period. You know, we’re coming up in spring, we’re coming up on the 4th of July, the midterms. And all of that has a form and a fashion to it that elicits the results that we’re anticipating. Speaking of which, Lynette, I want to ask you as a follow up on that first question, I’m somewhat surprised that silver isn’t screaming to around $115 by now.

With the wars and the threats of war in the Middle East. What do you think is the reason ultimately that silver is being held back and when do you see it hit between 125 to 200? Well, those are great questions and I’ll go first with my technical hat. Not that the technicals seem to matter too much these days, but even in the recent corrections with silver or first of all, let me back up even with the recent corrections that we’ve seen in the spot silver contract, because we have to start helping people understand that Wall street is not giving you truth.

Right? So by referring to those contracts as silver or gold, it kind. It screws with people’s heads. So I always like to go spot silver contract. It was still, oh, I just ran this so I could be off. I don’t have it in front of me, but about 80% above the 200 day moving average, which 10% above that average is considered a lot. So technically speaking, I, I’m sure some of that in there has to be some profit taking. But additionally, to me, silver is the fuse, right? So it’s a lot more volatile. And what it’s really screaming to me is the loss of confidence that is happening in the markets going to Your first question in that shift from the paper markets going into the digital.

So it’s kind of like if you think about a bridge in a hurricane and the images that we’ve seen with that, and it gets to a point where structurally there are fractures in the bridge and the bridge starts swinging back and forth. That’s what I think that we’re seeing in the paper markets for, frankly, both spot silver and the spot gold contracts. But silver is the, Is the fuse because it straddles the industrial as well as the monetary world a little bit more than gold does, and it gets used up. And so this huge. I mean, what do we have? We’ve got silver that is going into all of the bombs that are being destroyed in Iraq, let alone the.

The. The data centers that are being built out and all the silver required from that. So. And do I really care if it goes to $120, John? That is chump change. That is nothing compared to its true fundamental value. So if you get a pullback in the spot market. Yeah, we’ve been talking about junk silver and take advantage of that pullback. But in reality, the true fundamental value of an ounce of gold and an ounce of silver. Gold is somewhere, I don’t know, 38,000 to 40,000 an ounce, based upon the level of debt and how much finite.

The finite amount of gold that there is, silver is closer to $2,000. So 120. Bargain bar, 5,000. Bargain, bargain, bargain. Get it done. Yes. Thank you. And thank you because I actually have a video I want to show you from another colleague in the industry, you know. Well, that brings up this issue. And so if you just bear with me a moment, I would like to show that to you thusly. Let me know when you can. When you can see this here. Has it popped up yet? There’s some. Yes, now something has popped up. Yeah. It takes a minute with a little bit of the delay, so bear with me.

So this is from Mike Maloney’s podcast, I’m sure you know, but it’s talking about $20,000 revaluation of gold and our belief, and I’m. I’d like to get your thoughts is that as that happens, silver is going to fall accordingly, and I think it’s going to be even more than 2,000. I’m with you. I think that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But take a quick listen to this, and I would love your thoughts, please. In a recent interview, Luke Groman explained how the US treasury can get the US Debt to GDP ratio down to a reasonable level by revaluing physical gold up to to $20,000 per ounce.

There are provisions in the Federal Reserve bank operating manual by which the Treasury, United States Treasury Secretary can instruct the Fed to write up the gold, the US’s gold and the accounting treatment of that is a deposit free and clear, no debt attached to it, into the US Treasury General account. Now there’s a lot to understand here, including the difference between the statutory price and the market price. And so I’ll leave it there. I think you know the other mechanics. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I think that the government or the US government tried to do that or did do that actually after they confiscated all the gold in 33 and then they did that revaluation to from $20 to $35 and it wasn’t enough and this won’t be enough either.

And the interesting part about this, that’s way too low. If you’re looking at a global basis and we do this in a global format, well then that’s that 38 to 40,000. But I pulled the debt numbers and the amount of gold that the US has and in order to take clean up that debt, and I want to come back to that in just a second, but in order to absolutely clean up the debt that the US has accumulated so so far, so forget if they do anymore, you would have to see that revaluation at somewhere around $135 an ounce.

So you’re right then 2000 on this is chump change. But what good would it do them to just reduce the debt? We’re moving into a new system and what have we been told is going to justify new money in that system, purchases and debt. So we got to start with a clean balance sheet in order to do that. Now if they do it like they did in 33 and I don’t think they will because it doesn’t do them any good and they knew it at the time. It really should have been over 42 for the level of debt that they had taken on and the amount of gold that they still had in deep storage.

So I think that when this revaluation comes because it’s going to take us into a new system, they have to clean it, they have to clean it up. Market, that means nothing. Wall street, their job is to trade and make, make fiat money on the trade. And I have to really just like I say, I have the bugaboo with the spot market I have to create. For me, this is not money, this is corporate frickin Debt and you can prove it to yourself. Don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to anything I’m saying. Pull any bill, any bill at all out of your wallet.

And what does it say? Federal Reserve note. The Federal Reserve is a private for profit company and a note is a debt instrument. So how, how many of these debt instruments you want for an ounce of gold or an ounce of silver? Exactly. Thank you, John. Exactly. Just like this 1 billion or $1 million bolivar that has no value. Or this 100,000 dongs that has no value. Or this 25,000. What is this? Bank of Iraq has no value. I mean there’s 4800 of them. But like you said, we’re going global and so that’s going to effectuate everybody around the world.

And like you, so things are changing. And to your point, you said, I think it was our last podcast several months ago, you rightly said the real debt is probably somewhere between, I think you said 317, 320 trillion. Trillion. That, that’s the admitted debt. That’s according to the iff. We have no idea of all of the leverage and the derivatives, those bets against that debt. So actually, actually, no. Since the last time we talked relatively recently, I pulled up the Office of the Comptroller of the Currencies derivatives in the FDIC insured system. And as I was going through it, one of the things that really popped out at me was the netting benefit.

So that’s where they somehow you take this contract, even though it’s not exactly the same as this contract, but you take this contract and this contract and boom, they just cancel each other out. And that netting benefit was 88.4% according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. So when I did the calculations, I’m like 88.4% of derivative contracts magically disappear. So how much are they actually admitting to in derivative contracts? So you take the number that they put out there and so. And this doesn’t reflect the true value at risk, but it was six point.

Don’t hold me to this. I’ll be close. I could be off a little bit, but I believe it was something like 6.19 quadrillion quadrillion in admitted. Just the derivative bets in the FDIC insured banks. So you said 88 trillion was what they admitted to. No, I’d have to go back in and look, it was 88.4 in netting benefits. In other words, this contract, canceling out this contract. So therefore it goes from, I mean, I showed In a recent video that I did, how they can take like 435 billion or trillion in a contract and get it down to look like nine.

So essentially. Lynette, give me some rope on this. They’re basically. I know I am. The derivatives are so complicated because you can’t. You can’t get to the. No. You know, they’ll die on their deathbed before they tell you. But I think we can deduce enough, reasonably, there’s enough intelligence on your end to deduce that they’re basically admitting to 1 to maybe 5% of the total true debt. Yeah, well, kinda. Not so much necessarily the debt, but that’s just the value of the bets. If you read from the bank for International Settlements or the International Monetary Fund or the World bank or the Federal Reserve or the fdic, Take your pick.

Take your pick. Any of those guys, every single one of them say that nobody has any idea of the true value that is at risk. That’s a scary statement unto itself. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah. They’re saying look out below, basically, is what they’re saying. So they’re saying, you can’t do anything about it. We are going to crush you. This is why it’s so important to hold physical gold in your hands. And this is also, John, though, this is actually what creates the opportunity, because there’s always opportunity and change. And I can tell you for an absolute fact, you can come out of this thing in a much better position than you are going into it as long as you can hold your purchasing power intact.

But beyond that, this is why I say this is the absolute best opportunity to get redeemable gold back in the global monetary system again. It is the best opportunity that I have ever seen for the public to take their power back. Yes. I couldn’t concur with you anymore if it was possible, Annette. And what’s exciting to us is the opportunity, the timing, the patience will be rewarded. And. And what you’re holding in your hand with the metals, well, we’re just trying to get more people a seat at the table. Right. This is how we. This is how we do it.

Exactly. Repetition of the truth to those who will listen. But it’s also going to feel what your. What’s in your hands is going to feel what’s on your table at some point, too, because the whole world’s going to get the benefit, which is exciting. Voila. Exactly. So thank you for that, Lynette. There was a theory from Tom Longo recently and some anecdotal evidence that the Trump administration, in conjunction with the US Banks in China, began buying silver when the tariff decision from the Supreme Court came out recently. His reasoning was that this was a way to punish the EU autocrats, banksters that influenced the justices that struck down the tariffs.

By doing so, their goal is to cripple the LBMA and continue to punish the European banking system. This seems to have some merit since the price of silver immediately jumped after decision and has been on a somewhat upward trajectory since that time. What say you? Well, what I say is with the. I think the tariff decision was really interesting, but I also think that it, this, this could be a little controversial. John, I’m not going to lie, but when I look at everything, if Congress is forced to declare war, then that would also give President Trump a lot broader and more power than he even had before because he can call into effect the Trading with the Enemy act that was enacted in 1917 and therefore the 15% tariffs or whatever.

That again, chump change because he would have a whole lot more power. I do think that. I do think that we have an administration that very much wants everybody to absolutely agree with everything that they’re doing and that they will use whatever tools that at their disposal or that they can create or use to get other countries to fall in line. And so none of that would actually surprise me. I mean, silver is a strategic metal and it does get used up, and we’re using up a whole lot of them in the war right now, even though it’s not an official war.

No, that’s kind of what I’m looking for, John, is an official war. That would then, you know, if Congress declares that, then the power, then, then the president’s going to have a lot more power. And so enemies beware. I guess that’s the way I would say that. I think that was well said. I agree with you. I think it’s more about regime change than a war. I think it’s 100% Coke and Dagger, which is in ultimately for what’s sitting on your table and other and the medals, a really good thing. But I think you’re right. I think he’s going to be able to dust off some laws and constitutional statutes to use to his advantage.

And maybe that’s at the goal at the end of the day. I heard that Eric Sprout said to me, this kind of goes back to my silver question with you, Lynette. Circling back to that about 115 or we’re just looking for that specific range for other things But Eric Sprout said he believed the gold silver ratio eventually reach 15 to 1. Ray Dalio has used an even more aggressive approach, and I, I tend to think he’s right. But we’ll get your query on that in a moment. Which with the gold price would be around 5,000, which would put silver over 300.

We already have Wells Fargo and JP Morgan estimating somewhere between 61 and 6,300. And we both know that’s really conservative. But we believe that silver is, as you know, currently more valuable than gold, given its, as you said, utility in all these different industries. We also believe there’s way more gold available to source than silver globally. What’s preventing silver from going to the 7, 1 ratio they’re currently pulling out of the ground? Well, they’re, they’re. Okay. I don’t know necessarily that there will be anything to stop that. But what I can tell you is that in all of my, my studies in hyperinflationary events, which I’ve been studying since 1987, that ratio, that gold to silver ratio, has a tendency to grow more narrow.

And that’s where we are right now. And I think that’s what we’re going to see. So it wouldn’t necessarily surprise me to see it at 15 to 1, 7 to 1, 10 to 1, whatever that ratio is going to be. But historically, once we enter that hyperinflationary phase, then that ratio grows more wide again. So gold has to be the foundation because that’s also what they do, the overnight resets again against is they take this crap that has absolutely zero value and they revalue it against gold. And gold became the primary currency metal because one of the reasons, because it was indestructible, so that we can have that consistent value over time.

So, yes, I can see that that ratio grow more now narrow. But let’s just say that spot silver, let’s say spot gold goes to 40,000 an ounce and spot silver goes to 2000 or 2500 or even 3000 an ounce. Right. What you’re talking about are numbers. Are you going to want to convert either one of them into dollars at that point just to get dollars or euros or yen? No, exactly. Because at that point the fact that the system is completely falling apart becomes very apparent to everybody. So I know a lot of people focus on that ratio.

And historically, yes, we are at a place where we see that ratio growing more narrow. But that isn’t why I would either buy gold or silver. And I don’t look at the ratio. I only look at it because you look at it. People out there, they’re looking. It’s the same thing with the spot markets. It’s a tool for distraction to get you looking over here and thinking about the way that they want you to think, rather than understanding that we have to get something sound money back in the system. Because what gold and silver do really, really well, it’s the same thing they’ve done for thousands of years, is they hold your purchasing power intact, because when one system dies, another one is born.

You want to make sure that you have purchasing power when you’re in the other system, because if you have no principle to work with, you’re in a worse position. And if you have your purchasing power intact, because truthfully, John, you can probably do almost everything that you can do with gold, with silver, but it takes a lot more weight and size and amount of silver to perform some of the same functions that I’m looking to for gold. So you’ve got to have a diversified portfolio, because even in that, there’s gold and then there’s gold, there’s silver and then there’s silver.

So rather than just making blanket statements, you know, at Zhang International in our strategy, what do we do? We put your goals first. What are you trying to accomplish? Right. That has to be driven to what you do. You allow your goals to do it. You don’t make a choice and then change your goals to suit the choice. You lay in your. Your. Your goals, and then whatever you do should support them. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Well said. And, you know, you talk about diversification. Put copper and platinum and nickel and throw that in the mix if you really want to fan it out.

But it all starts, as you said, with, you know, with true gold and silver. And. Yeah, I mean, I think it’s interesting because Ray Dalio was talking about somewhere a while ago saying something like in the next 18 to 24 months, he’s predicting gold and silver are going to run parallel one to one. And that would not surprise me with where we’re headed. That would be really interesting. And you know, Ray Dalio is also seeing a revolution. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Well, money is the revolution. You’re absolutely. You said it before. So I guess just one quick question before I go to the last two for you is are we getting rid of that fed worthless toilet paper on your desk? Are we going to see a new US treasury note backed by gold and silver? Yes.

Okay, you said it all. But here’s the thing. And please, you’ve got to mark my words on this, because everything is about asset backing. Just like in Zimbabwe, they’ve got the Zim gold, but you can’t take the possession of the gold. And so. So I hope that happens. And it probably will at some point happen. But we have to be able to go in. If we don’t like what our government is doing, and we don’t even need the central bank, but let’s say they’re still there. We need the tools to be able to say to the government, no, I don’t like what you’re doing.

I don’t like what you’re doing, central bank, I’m pulling my gold out and enforcing fiscal responsibility. That then puts the power back in the public. Not just because the government says, oh, trust us, because look what they’ve done so far. Right, Right. Well, you said a key thing, Lynette, too, inside of what you shared. Central bank. Become your own central bank. That’s where all this is leading to. It gives you the autonomy and control. No matter what’s going on out here, you’re always stable here. So. Yeah, absolutely. Right. So he’s. Freedom. Yeah, that’s. That’s really what you were saying, freedom.

So we have a choice. We can stay with this kind of crap and just be slaves, or we can demand our power back and be free. We need to be free. And then the people demand that. That stuff in your hand backs the other stuff you were talking to before, which is where it’s headed. So the last couple of questions I wanted to ask you are sort of creative, out of the box, just so the expectations properly. So I was thinking about this morning. So you probably deal with this question with friends and family and colleagues that you, you know, clients that you give guidance to, you said at Zhang Enterprises.

So we deal with this with our respective audiences. And some of my friends and family, a lot of them don’t have precious metals or perceive that they can’t afford to get precious metals because they’re looking at the wrong perspective because of miseducation and brainwashing in society and yada, yada, yada. But then the conversation inevitably shifts to, well, you know, my family gave me jewelry, flatware, you know, chains, bracelets and the like that they’ve had in the family for many, many years or stuff that they just bought, graduation, college, whatever the case may be. Have you had your.

Have you had this conversation on your end as well? And if you have, what advice do you offer to them in terms of possibly parting with some of those keepsakes in order to acquire gold and silver coins or bars, well, I would say don’t part with them, number one. And I started giving my daughters gold jewelry when they were and for just 10 carats to see if they’d lose it or whatever. The reason why I did it was because eventually they went off to college and I always wanted them to have money no matter what. So my daughters were trained to know that.

That gold jewelry. And if you watch me, you see I wear a lot of jewelry. Don’t get rid of it. Because gold and silver in any form is monetary at its base. And it does not matter if it’s broken or bent or, or tarnished or anything. It’s still monetary at its base. So. And I have had those conversations. And so look, if that’s the way that they’re going to accumulate gold and silver, rock and roll, hoochie coo. However it is that you’re willing to do it, something is better than nothing, to be honest with you. I mean, I have somebody in my family that has not even positioned into one coin with me.

Not one. But he does like to buy his wife jewelry. Okay, okay. However you can get people to position in. But then they need to understand it. And that’s kind of why if, if this is okay to show you, but we’re sending you these dime cards because what I realized one day, and I don’t know if. Did I have the dime cards the last time we were on? I don’t think so. It’s relatively new. I lift weights and I’ve been going to the same person for years, years, years. And he was an attorney turned gym rat.

And his major in college before he went to law school was history. So we’ve had lots and lots of interesting conversations over the years. And one day, I don’t even remember how we were talking, how we got talking about it, but I happened to say, well, yeah, because silver was part of our currency at one point. That was our money. And he said it was. Now he’s in his mid-40s, right. And a smart guy. And I said, you didn’t know that? And he goes, no, I didn’t know that. Shocked me. Shocked me. And so what what I said, what I realized was, here I am.

I’m talking about sound money. Do you even know what sound money is? Probably not, but here it is. Simply put, sound money is above all central bankers and all governments ability to inflate away. Why? Because it’s used in every single sector of the global economy. So the global demand really outpowers any local thing that they can do to gold and silver. So that’s sound money. But then if we’re trying to get people to do it, we figured we needed to put some sound money in their hands. So any client can get the first card for free and then beyond that, because basically you’re the army out there at our cost.

This is about getting this message out. And on this side, can I share your screen to show them this card? Is that okay? Yes, ma’, am, please. Okay, so on the one side, what we have is we have a pre1965 silver dime, which is roughly, roughly a tenth of an ounce of silver. And on the day that we happen to buy those dimes, our cost on it was $2.78. Today’s cost on it is close to $9 for one silver dime. On the other side is just a regular dime. Now take a look at them because they look kind of identical from this view.

And interestingly enough, both of them even, because they don’t want you to realize anything has changed, both of them say liberty on here. But what can you buy with that dime? Really nothing. Whereas what can you buy with the silver dime? At almost 10 bucks, you can at least buy a cup of coffee and many other things. So the hope is on the back there’s a QR code so you can learn more, et cetera. But the hope is, is that enough people will pass these out to other people to help educate them. And, and then we have like little one minute, two minute clips on different videos that people can use to help explain it further.

But where you see the difference is in the edge. Because in the silver dime, it’s all silver. In the fake dime, the counterfeit dime, it’s got a little copper rim that’s not even copper. It’s just some kind of base metal. Zinc. Zinc, there you go. Yep. And a clever paradigm where you play on words that I like that. So, yeah, absolutely. And I just want to be. Be clear enough to you the audience. I was not by any means intimating that people should get rid of their jewelry. I’m just saying I’ve had some friends. Like I said, hey, you should begin.

You know, I have one friend in particular. I told her this 14 years ago. I said, you know, get into gold and silver. It’s 14, what was it, 1112 bucks an ounce. It’s stupid, cheap. Get into it. She heard me, but she didn’t hear me. She heard you hear. She didn’t hear you here. Correct. Well, she just Cognitive dissonance was too, so whatever. So, you know, I love her. She’s great. I, I came back to her again a couple months ago. I. And I’m not going to mention her name, but I just said, you know, how about now? Remember we.

She’s like, yeah, I was just thinking about that. Or I should. I could have. Would. I’m like, okay, but it’s not too late. Get it before it’s three figures. Well, I have some antique jewelry. I’m like, I’m not recommending you part with it, but if you have enough of it, maybe you could do something on consignment and then you could buy it back. You know, creative ways for people to get into it somehow. But to your point, as long as you have it in some iteration. Okay, but you know, it’s not too late until it’s too late.

That was the point there. So honestly, John, that is such a good point because I hear from people all the time, oh, well, gold’s at 5,000 announced. First of all, that’s a spot gold contract, right? And oh, silver at $90 or what? Oh, it’s 20. Too expensive. It is not gold and silver going up, people. It is the dollar going down. This is the only tool that they have. So while you are absolutely correct. And she was absolutely correct. I mean, I started buying in when we had spot gold at 248 bucks an ounce and spot silver was $4.

I could buy this for $4.38. Sense. Right. Yeah. That was the best time to do it. What’s the second time? Best time to do it today. Exactly. So I’m glad you brought that up because that’s such an important point. I mean, it’s chump change. It’s cheap. And really, you should be. You’re right. And you. It’s also, you should be looking at the futures or spot, because that’s. What is that. You, you haven’t, you haven’t dealt with the miners, you haven’t dealt with the brokers. There’s still an upcharge for them to make a living. Look at the Shanghai would probably be more accurate because it hasn’t really deviated off Japan at all.

And I, I personally believe that Japan has been manipulating their, their yen for years, buying gold and silver. Print, print, print. Just like we’re doing printing ourselves. Wrote the playbook. Yeah, yeah, we’re just following it. Exactly. So for them. But we’re still following it. To your point. I love that. Right? Yeah. Yeah. They’ve been battling deflation for since the early 90s. But hey, let’s. Let’s do what they’re doing. It worked well, I think optically, but secretly we’re really doing exactly what they’re doing. Transitioning the system. But you’re absolutely right. Okay, last question. I wanted to save you time.

For you in the audience perspective, this is another out of the box question, so bear with me on this one. So we got Jerome Powell coming out. I’m not a fan, but whatever he, he’s leaving as of right now until. As it stands, unless things change in May, which is not that long from now, with how time is speedily precipitating along, will Jerome Powell be able to stop a stock market crash before he leaves in May, but yet allow a housing market crash to occur, which we both know is long overdue? Hmm. What a good question.

But I don’t think you can save one. Well, you can’t save either one of them. Yeah, right. You can’t save either one of them. And in so many ways we need a housing market correction because it’s not affordable. 50%, by the way, at least of a correction. Oh, well, minimum. I mean, 80, 90, probably. Right. That probably would be about right. I’d have to do the calculations. I don’t think he can save one. Or. No, it’s not. I don’t think you can save either one of them. There is no saving when all you’re doing is creating more debt to keep things inflated.

So there is no saving. I don’t think that one imploding would. I think that one imploding would definitely pull down the second one, whichever one it was, because they’re so interdependent on each other and everything has been turned into a trading profit. It or. Yeah, trading product. So, yeah, they’re too interconnected. They’re too interconnected. I agree with you. I just wanted to entertain the question. So let’s ask the question. An interesting question. Well, thanks. Let’s ask the question another way, given your answer. Does President Trump want both to fall on his watch before he leaves? No.

No, I don’t think he wants either one of them to fall, you know, on his watch. But boy, I mean, what a battle. Number one, what is he doing with the stablecoins? Right? He’s trying to create a new artificial market for Treasuries because there’s been a run on the dollar as far as the typical buyers of our treasuries since 2008. And it looks awfully similar to what we see or what we saw in the 60s, when foreign governments, they’re run on the dollar by sending in dollars and pulling out the gold, it’s the same kind of action.

He’s in a race against time, there’s no doubt about it. And there’s so much chaos and so many moving parts. While I do not think that he wants these to implode during his time, I also know, and I knew it in his first term, and I absolutely see it more clearly now, he is a change agent. I mean, John, there is officially virtually no purchasing power left in the dollar. And so the System died in 2008. And it’s been on life support to go into this new digital system, which President Trump has certainly supported, building out that infrastructure, you know, creating those avenues.

Will it be enough to maintain our position, our strategic financial position in the world? Probably not, but time is going to tell. No, I don’t think that he wants that. But having said that, he’s also a change agent, and that’s his job, really, to bring us into the new system. So it’s kind of like, you know, paradoxical. It really is, because in order to finalize that shift, we need a big enough crisis to justify it. And I think that’s his job. I really do. He’s a disruptor, and that’s what he’s being. He’s disrupting the evil to bring about.

And part of me on this analogy, I don’t mean it to be crass. It’s just a visual thing. You, you have daughters, when they were little or younger, you know, maybe they ate something that wasn’t good for them. And as a parent, you want to protect them, but sometimes it might be better to induce regurgitation to get it out of them to get to a better result. And in a similar fashion, I think that’s what he’s doing with the economy. Well, yeah, you’ve got to have. Well, here’s the thing, John. If we go into the new surveillance economy without redeemable gold in the system, then I don’t think that’s going to be good for the masses.

It’ll be good for the few because they’ll maintain their position and they will have the ability, as this, a huge wealth transfer mechanism, to get into position to benefit if we do so. Therefore, even inside of this change, then we go to a feudal system where you just have a few that owns everything and everybody else that has to rent. And like the World Economic Forum says, By 2030, you will own nothing. And I don’t think that that’s Good. And I don’t think anybody’s going to be happy other than the few that benefited from it. If, however, we can indeed get redeemable gold back in the system, then we have a level playing field on the other side of this, right? Yes.

So then the opportunities that things like I had when we were still, I was born in 54, so there this whole system was still kicking off. And that’s why I had all the opportunities that I had growing up, because of the period of time that I was born into. My grandkids, they don’t have the same opportunities right now. But if we get redeemable gold in the system on the other side of. We have to go through this regardless. It doesn’t matter, there’s no stopping it. But on the other side of it, we have a level playing field and then we have a whole lot more people that get to participate in the development of our economy.

And, and that could be a very good thing. President Trump, I mean, he’s into gold, he likes gold, he wants that gold coin. He’s taken gold for rents in the past. So we have a shot with this president of making that happen. I agree, I agree. And I’m reasonably confident here in America we are going to have a tangible asset backed system because of that and because we have enough people who, I mean, didn’t say enough. I mean we have one plus percent. We need more at the table, but we have some awareness. I’m not so sure about European EU backed governments with the socialist agenda if they’re going to.

But it comes down to what it always comes down to. The people. The people need to remember they are the government. I mean, we have a constitution, we have the Bill of Rights and, and laws and second Amendment that a lot of countries do not have, which is, is a blessing from God. But again, at the end of the day, the people globally need to stand up against the tyranny. And you know, I always say, I always say, lynette, you know, get your thoughts on this. What is the motivation for people to change? That’s the real question.

And my thought is when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain to change, you’ll make a change. Exactly. That is. You said that perfectly. Absolutely perfectly. I wish it was my thought, but whoever said it was brilliant, I just regurgitated it out. So that makes you brilliant too. You’re being kind, but thank you. So, one other thought. I just want to leave you. I know I said I have one more question. I apologize. I’ll Leave you with this thought. I’m really excited because it’s germane to the conversation. I’m really excited about what I saw recently.

A few weeks ago, I wish I had the footage in front of me. I showed my audience. A few weeks back, there was a closed door Senate meeting with Secretary Treasury Secretary Scott Benson. I can’t remember the woman, the congressman or senator rather, who was querying him, talking about the Clarity act. And he’s talking about, you know, we got to get it done across the finish line. We know that in its current form it sucks. It’s good for the banks, not good for the people. What does that compromise look like? That’s another story for another day.

But what, what I was going to direct your attention to is there were two people behind him that were in the room that had a lot of influence and guess who one of them was. Judy Shelton. Oh, I love her. I love her and I’m rooting for her to be our new, I believe, personally, I’m just sticking my neck out. I believe once we revalue gold and silver, once President Trump starts saying whatever that number is, 8, 9,000, hey, let’s, let’s audit the Fed in Fort Knox, which I already did, I’m just talking about optically, hey, let’s do that.

I’m praying somewhere around that point or afterwards, he’s going to appoint her as his new Treasury Secretary and put best in somewhere else and then she’s going to bring back gold because she’s been an advocate of long treasury bonds, 50 and 100 year. What did President Trump talk about 50 year mortgages? What if that’s really code for 50 and 100 year treasury bonds actually backed in something and not the Fiat crap? What do you think of that? Well, first of all, I think that’s a really, really, really long time, 50 years. But I think that’s a possibility.

And you know, again, I go back to is it redeemable? So if at the end of 50 years your family were to get however much of that gold were to the treasury that you bought, that was, that was actually backed by it, then I would be so for it. I would be so for it. And if the 50 year mortgage, I think that’s more about making real estate more affordable in the current system. So I, I’m not agreeing on that. I’m thinking out of the box of what’s really what it means versus what he says. And yeah, I think the market’s going to crash.

Both the stock market, as you said earlier in the Real estate market should run concurrent to each other. Yeah. I think just reset the whole thing based on real assets. Then we could go back to like whatever 1970s pricing where stuff is affordable and people can live on one income. You can start to have families again. Engenders the community that you’re all about. So it all kind of converges to the middle. And that’s what, you know, I’m doing my best to do my team. You’re doing the best. And that’s all we can do at the end of the day.

And then it’s. It’s up to people’s free will, but. Right. Really appreciate your wisdom and perspective. So, Lynette, if you would last thoughts for the audience today. And where can people find your work, please? The best time to buy gold and silver is today. Whatever today is, get it done and really stop procrastinating. You know, people always wait. They think they have time and they have as much time as they have. Right. And then that’s it. So get that done. And I also suggest you need a plan. You need an actual plan. I’ve been studying this stuff for like, on some level my entire life.

And at Zhang International, because we did just recently have a name change, but at Zang, and because we are really, we are a global company and we travel all around the world promoting, promoting sound money, redeemable gold in the system. But just, Just get it done. Stop procrastinating and. And. And meet your community. Surround yourself. They don’t have to think exactly like you, but you need to come together with a bunch of people that have a whole bunch of. Of different skill sets. People that know how to grow food, know how to manage water, can deal with security, and, you know, become your own central bank.

So it’s food, water, energy, security, barterability, wealth preservation, community and shelter. We don’t have a lot of time for you to do it all on your own. So find that community and then make it happen and get it done asap. Because we aren’t. We don’t know the second we’re going to lose all choice. Yeah. What we do have control of is the moment and, and we need to seize it. Carpe diem. You’re absolutely right. Well, Ms. Linneng, Zhang International, thank you for joining us for the wisdom musings and deep, insightful conversation. I pray it was useful to your audience and mine as well.

We hope you have a great rest of your day and we look forward to seeing you down the road. I look forward to it too. Anytime. John. Thanks. Take care.
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