Silver Market Bifurcates Why a Massive Squeeze May Be Coming

➡ The article discusses the potential for a significant increase in the value of silver, with experts predicting it could be one of the greatest short squeezes of all time. It also highlights the underreported economic issues such as global bankruptcies and the suppression of silver prices. The article further discusses the rise in corporate bankruptcies, likening the situation to the 2008 financial crisis, but with the added factor of companies being loaded with debt by private equity firms. Lastly, it touches on the struggles of the farming sector, with farmers experiencing low revenues despite high food prices, and the ongoing consolidation of the farming industry.
➡ Farmers are struggling due to increased costs for things like diesel, fertilizer, and seeds, along with higher interest rates. Bigger players in the industry are using this time to squeeze out smaller farmers, leading to a more fragile food system. The legal system is also under strain, with justice becoming increasingly inaccessible for those without significant wealth. To protect assets in these uncertain times, it’s recommended to hold physical certificates for stocks and to own gold and silver outright, rather than through ETFs or brokers.
➡ The text discusses the risks of investing in gold IRAs without proper knowledge, warning that scams are common and can lead to significant financial loss. It emphasizes the importance of doing your own research and not blindly trusting influencers or companies. The text also discusses the increasing demand for silver, particularly in the tech and green industries, and the resulting supply deficit. It suggests that this could lead to a significant increase in silver’s value, potentially even surpassing that of gold.
➡ The text discusses the increasing importance of silver in our high-tech world, with its many uses in technology and medicine. It also touches on the changing world, from societal shifts to financial instability, and emphasizes the need for self-reliance and preparedness. The speaker advises people to be ready to sustain themselves, including having access to food, water, and energy. The conversation ends with a discussion on the potential for societal revolution due to systemic issues and the importance of a fair justice system.
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Well, on, on Monday there was 1.4. Yeah, I think it was 1.4 billion ounces were sold on Comex to push the price down the way they did. I mean, that’s one, that’s more than 150 of total annual production. So it’s, I mean it’s, it’s laughable. And if anybody gives you a number, if anybody gives you a number for either gold or silver, that that’s where they’re going to peak, they’re full of crap because nobody can predict that. Nobody can forecast that. I’m, I’m going to tell you that silver now looks like it’s going to become, if not the greatest short squeeze of all time, one of the greatest short squeezes of all time.

Welcome to business Game changers. I’m Sarah Westall. I have economist and expert Bill Holter coming back to the program to start off our Friday night economic review. For the first day, the second day, it’s actually January 2, 2026, we’re going to be talking about what’s happening, the headlines that, the economic headlines that are way undercovered in the mass media or not even covered at all and not covered in enough depth in the independent media either. And that’s kind of what I do. We look for change. We look for the edge of change. That’s what I do.

I look for the edge of change. Where are things really happening? Where should we be looking? You know, I think entrepreneurs and people that are running their families or just trying to make it through this world and need to look at what those signals are so they can make good decisions for their families, for their businesses and also because it’s entertaining. But that being said, this is pretty serious what we’re dealing with now. We’re going to talk about all the global bankruptcies. We’re going to talk about what’s behind the silver surge. And I got to tell you, I had someone reach out to me.

Am I too late to get into silver? I’m going to tell you, no. Not only are you not too late, we are at the very beginning of it. They are working really hard, hard to suppress silver. And we’re going to talk about it. Bill has some numbers of just how hard they’re working to suppress silver. You will notice that Bill is an expert. If you’re looking for someone to help you and give you advice, you can always contact bill@billholter.com and check them out. Follow him. He always has great information. If you are looking to get silver and gold, I highly recommend Miles Franklin.

Bill uses Miles Franklin as well. If you are interested in seeing their special price list that is not public go to sarahwestall.com Miles Franklin ask for their price list. Also if you’ve been scammed in an ira, we are helping people and have been very successful at getting people their money back. We’ve seen hundreds of people now come in being scammed. Very sad. I talk about it a little bit in this interview. Again if you’re one of those go to sarah westall.com/miles franklin and we can help you there as well. Okay. I hope 2026 is better than 2025.

I didn’t have the best 2025. Mine was very hard. I had lost my mom and my dad had to move because he had a stroke. So he’s living out not in the by me anymore. It’s just a hard year and so I am very happy. 2026 is here. I think there’s a change of energy. I can feel it. We are not out of the woods. There’s going to be a lot of opportunity and a lot of chaos. There’s going to be a lot of system wide collapses. But in that there’s opportunity not to let those who do not have the best for humanity and they’re just about greed and power.

Those people are going to try to take advantage of this time. We need to step up and take advantage of this time for what’s best for people, what’s best for humans and, and it’s a glorious time to be alive. But it means that we all need to step up to the plate and do make it happen for us. Do what’s right for your fellow human being. Okay, let’s get into this wonderful conversation I have with Bill Bolter. Hi Bill, welcome back to the program. Thanks for having me back Sarah. There’s a little bit of a delay but just so that listeners know that he’s on a set or a dish system and I want to talk about this is some for Internet that is I want to talk about what’s going on headlines that people are not aware of.

I mean we’re going into 2026. There is so much going on on the financial front. You know Silver is going crazy especially you know on this Shanghai exchange and in the east. And I don’t know if it’s going to, I mean it’s going crazy here too but it’s really going crazy there. And then we have corporate bankruptcies like we haven’t seen since 2008 but it’s different. Let’s start with the corporate bankruptcies and some of the parallels of 2008, but it’s different. We’re seeing, you know, when you’re looking at the headlines, when you’re looking at the data, we’re seeing as many corporate bankruptcies really, or we haven’t seen this since 2008, but it’s not quite what people think it is.

Can you explain what’s really happening behind these corporate bankruptcies? They’re mega ones too. Massive. Sure. I think if you go back to the movie Wall street and you remember corporate raiders, they go in, they buy the company and then they split the assets up or they take a pension plan or whatever, that’s what’s happening again now with corporate raiders in private equity. What they’ve done is they come in, they buy a company and then they load it with debt and they take that capital out. So mathematically, from the get go, many of these corporations were dead men walking from day one just because of the structure.

Pardon me. They hose them over, they steal all the value out and then they, the, they put all that debt on them and they’re going to collapse. Yeah. And now. And it’s mathematically impossible. I’m sorry. Mathematically, they know it from the beginning. They’re killing the companies. Okay, so now. Yeah, they’re killing the companies. Are, are, did they kill them years ago and now it’s starting to come to fruition, or are they killing them? Currently? It’s pretty current. I mean, it’s probably a lot of it has been done in the last four, five, six, seven years. I mean, it’s not, this is not something that would.

Was done back in the early teens or early 2000s. This is something that’s, you know, basically just before COVID and just after Covid, a lot of these, these private equity firms bought out, bought companies out and then settled them with debt. Some of these are big, big names. I mean, names that have been in business for 50 years, 100 years, more than 100 years. Yeah. It’s kind of sad. Well, so we’re seeing companies, I think what’s happening is they loaded them with that took stripp the value out of them. And now that the interest rates are higher and the, the loans are coming due and they have to restructure.

They can’t. And they’re filing, needing to file bankruptcy. Right. They can’t roll the. That’s a, that is a function of the higher interest rates. They’re not able to roll the debt over. And that the same thing is happening in the commercial. Not commercial. Yeah, commercial real estate interest rates have gone higher and many of these, these real estate deals that were done on, you know, 1, 2, 3% rates, they, the revenues just don’t work at, you know, 5, 6, 7% rates. Yeah. And you’ve already seen probably a trillion dollars or more in commercial real estate. As far as drop in value, then these, these are losses.

Who’s going to eat these losses? Is it the banking system? You know, we’ll, we’ll see. But this is, you’re talking big numbers. We’re talking big numbers. Now we’re also seeing in the farming sector, these farmers, the price on food is really high. Right. People are talking about. And it’s just obvious in the data that food has soared, inflation is high. However, farmers are seeing revenues that are lowest since, I mean, they haven’t seen these kind of numbers since last century. I mean, the lowest this century. It’s really, really hard on farmers. And what. Meanwhile we’re seeing consolidation of these big global farming entities.

What’s really going on behind the scenes? This has been going on for 50, 50 plus years, the consolidation of the farming industry. And one of the problems is estate taxes. You know, family farms, if they’ve owned the farm and they don’t do what they need to do from an estate planning standpoint, the family gets wiped out because they don’t have the cash to pay estate taxes, you know, on the family farm. So a lot of them have just been, they’ve gone under and basically had to sell the real estate to, to pay the taxes or part of the real estate.

The other part of that, I think is the input costs are, have risen so much and that’s, that’s a squeeze on the profit margins. The inputs of. The only one input that I know of that’s, that hasn’t really moved up in the last five years would be diesel. You know, fertilizer is more expensive, seed, you name it. And of course, interest rates are also higher. And so farmers, I mean, most farmers don’t own everything and do everything out of pocket. They do it with credit. And the higher interest rates is also hurting the margins, I think.

You know, my theory too is that they’re squeezing them out. And, and it’s not just that they’re imp. All of what you said is true. All of that is true. But I also think that the bigger players are able to use this time to really squeeze on them and because they’re actually getting lower revenues too. So not only do they have to pay higher input Costs they have to deal with the tax issue. They also are getting lower revenues right now. Whereas these big players can hold on a little bit while they squeeze these little guys out and make a big play to really consolidate their market position.

That’s, that’s going on up and down, up and down the line. It’s not just the farms, but it’s the processors. I mean it’s the whole, the whole industry. Right. And that puts all of us at risk because now we’re moving to a much more fragile system when things are just a few players versus greatly distributed our food supplies at risk. I mean people, you know, they think it might be better to have a few players. That is not historically true. Historically is this is you need a wide distributed base of food suppliers to have a population that is safe.

History’s proven that. Right, Right. And just another piece of evidence as far as the fragile food supply. The US cattle herd is at a 75 year low. Yeah, that’s actually pretty scary. Why is it at such a low? Why is it so low? Well, we’re talking about the farmers being squeezed and you know, you, you get a summer where there’s a drought or whatever, it’s, it’s easier to sell the cattle than feed the cattle. Is it our mathematically, all of these systems? I know I, I’ve had somebody that’s coming on next, the next show after you where we were talking about the legal system, we’re talking about the big pharma system, we’re talking about all these systems are collapsing because mathematically, like for law, there’s no justice system for the major part of our population.

If you have money, you can access the justice system, but you have to have a lot of money because we’re talking like $800 an hour or something for some of these attorneys. So the vast majority of people essentially do not have a justice, justice system. There’s no justice system for the majority of the people. That’s collapse level territory. And we’re seeing it in all of these different systems everywhere. Is that what’s being reflected in our, you know, bankruptcies and, and the silver surge and what we’re seeing in the gold markets, I mean the rule is long has been chipped away at for years and years.

The biggest thing in the legal system, and we would be remiss if we didn’t talk about it, is the great taking. Those laws are on the books across the world. They started in 2014. The ink is dry all throughout the western world. If you have stocks or bonds with A broker, they’re for your benefit, but they’re not your stocks or bonds. They’re on the broker’s balance sheet. Same thing with, with banks. If you put money into a bank, you’re no longer a depositor, you are a lender and you’re the most subordinated lender. So these laws have been put on the books to basically when things collapse, everything’s going to be taken and we’re moving towards a collapse.

Right? So we have to really, I mean that’s what we’re moving. Everything I’m pointing to is, and everyone I’m talking to is all these systems are in collapse mode and it’s going to happen and we have to, I don’t, unless there’s a way to like go in for a landing in some way and, and restructure and I mean, I don’t know. We’re at really risky territory. We have to protect our assets. The best way to protect your assets is to have as few or no intermediaries between you and your capital. Meaning if you want to own stocks, hold the certificates.

The certificates are like a deed of trust or title to a car. If you want to own gold and silver, don’t do it through an ETF because a, they don’t necessarily even own gold or silver, they own contracts. And it’s on your broker’s, it’s on your broker’s balance sheet, it’s not yours. So you’re better off if you’re going to do gold and silver, own it outright yourself, either in hand or at a private non bank vault. Well, how about if you have stock with a brokerage, can you get delivery of your stock certificates? How does that work? Do you know? Yeah, what you do is.

And not all stocks, there are some companies that, that don’t even participate in it. You can’t get ETFs and you can’t get mutual fund certificates. But generally speaking for most stocks you still can get them. You call your broker, you tell them that you want to send your, your shares to the transfer agent under drs. That’s direct registration of securities. Once the transfer agent has those securities, then you contact the transfer agent, you say send me a certificate. And it generally will take you anywhere from, I don’t know, call it three weeks, maybe four weeks. If your broker sends you the certificate, they’re going to charge you $500.

If you’re, if you do it this way through the transfer agent, it should cost you maybe $50 per certificate. But think of that as an insurance policy. That if your broker goes under it doesn’t matter because you have title in your hand. That’s right. You actually have it. Now how about with cryptos that people say hold your own cryptos and do the brokerages have the same great taking benefit with cryptos that they do with a stock? I’m really not sure. I don’t. I’m sure. I mean there’s no way you’re going to get a certificate with crypto.

But you can put it in your own wallet. This is really not a topic, right? Yeah, you can do that. You could put it in your, your own physical wallet. But this is really not a great topic for me to talk about because I don’t believe in crypto at all. I believe it’s digital air. I think people are going to find out that it was a just like GLD, SLV, the other ETFs. I believe that crypto was created as a pressure relief valve from the demand that was going to go into gold and silver. So you think it was a.

Ah, that’s interesting. It was to not to get people to invest. That’s a really good theory. To get people to invest their money in the crypto so that they wouldn’t put their all their money into gold and silver. Because that’s the only other option from a. Just a economic standpoint versus real estate, other things. That’s an interesting year. That’s the first time I heard that concept, but that makes sense to me. I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes sense. And go one step further. I mean crypto has been advertised, lauded, etc, by mainstream media, you know, cnbc.

I mean they, they do so much and have done so much on crypto and, and I believe the powers that be wanted to see crypto, you know, take off and, and go to the moon because that would attract capital that otherwise wanting to get out of the system would have gone to gold or silver. Interesting. Now what do you think about all the scams going on in the gold and silver industry? In a way that’s the same thing. People put their entire life savings into gold and silver. And then, you know, Andy Schectman and I have talked about this, I’m sure you’ve talked to him about this a lot.

Where they put their entire life savings and then these a holes. I mean there’s not, that’s such a kind word for them take over half their life savings essentially and they give them, when it should be worth a million dollars, they give them $450,000 worth of it and they pocket the rest. I mean, to me, that is kind of that same thing. They just completely screw these people. Right? At least they’re not sending out counterfeit pointer bars. It’s very unfortunate. That would be worse. Yeah, no, it’s unfortunate that this is happening. I mean, but you see it in, in every, in every facet of life, people trying to steal from you every day.

I would just say that if you’re gonna look to buy gold and silver, look online and see where, generally where prices are. There’s probably eight or 10, you know, major dealers that you’ll just type in gold or silver. You, you look at, you know, Google it, they’ll come up and just look at their prices. And if somebody’s way out of whack or if they’re telling you, oh, you have to do this special coin it, you, you know, you’re being, you’re being scammed, basically. It’s like so much other things in life. You have to have a basic understanding, right? To protect yourself.

You just do. And when you outsource management of important things in your life, you are really putting yourself at risk. And so you have to. What do they say about management? It’s, you get what you inspect, not what. What is that saying? I mean, you really have to manage your life assets. You just do. Well, yeah, I mean, some people see that ad on TV or they, they do a Google search and click on the first one and boom, that’s it. I mean, would you do that if you needed brain surgery? No, you wouldn’t. But you do trust a lot of these influencers.

I mean, some of these people come across as very trustworthy because they are trustworthy in other areas. But when it comes, I mean, these are big names that are pushing these people who are scamming people. And if you listen to them on a regular basis, they seem trustworthy. And so if they’re the ones recommending them, you think, okay, I can trust this, this firm. And the reality is they couldn’t. I mean, in that way, the scam is really insidious. Yeah, it’s, I would just say DY odd. Do your own due diligence. Just a quick break from the program.

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Make sure you understand what you can get as a buyback value for the gold or silver that you have in your ira. If you have noticed a significant drop in what you invested, you have more than likely been scammed. We can help you and there’s no shame. Go to sarahwestel.com Miles Franklin, fill out that form and we will help you get your life savings back. Yeah, well, luckily we have a way to help people and we’ve been having some success at that, but. Okay, so let’s talk about silver and what the heck is going on because we’re watching Shanghai Exchange and we’re watching the East.

I mean it’s going up a lot here, but over there it’s even, it’s almost in breakout territory. What are you thinking is going on? Well, there’s a, there’s, and we’ll get to this in a minute. There’s a bifurcation between paper, paper, metal and physical metal exchanges. Just as a background, silver has been in a structural deficit for at least the last five years. And when I say structural deficit, for instance, this year you’re looking at demand somewhere around 1.3 billion ounces versus 850 million ounces being produced collectively worldwide for a year. Yeah. So supply demand. Yeah, right.

It’s, and it’s been out of whack for five years and we’ve argued that there’s something really wrong. Well, what’s happening now is, you know, this year, the last two or three years, there’s been huge demand. There was not, I shouldn’t say not anticipated but not calculated in. And that huge demand is for, you know, the green industry, solar panels, etc, now they’re the, the big thing in 2025 was AI. Well, you can’t, AI cannot be created without silver. I think Samsung said that they, they’ve invented a new EV battery that charges in nine minutes and goes 900 kilometers, but it uses a kilogram of silver for each battery.

That’s 32 ounces per battery. I mean that’s just going to be huge demand. You, the AI model does not work unless there’s more silver. And the problem is they’ve, they’ve suppressed the price for so many years that the mining industry, most, most silver that comes to market is a byproduct of lead, zinc, nickel, et cetera, et cetera. There’s very few pure silver mines in the world. So the, the supply has not even come close to keeping up with demand. And now we’ve got bigger problems coming up with supply. You’ve got, we know that Chinese companies etc are scouring Latin America and try to buy Dore directly from the miners.

That’s right, before it gets to lbma, before it gets to Comex. So that’s, so that’s a problem. Does that, does that create a price distortion as well? Well, it creates a supply distortion because now the refiners, those are, those are going not to the traditional refiners. I mean a Chinese company is going to ship it to their own refiner in, in China. And now the question is, does that even come back out of China? They’ve said that after January 1st, after today, they’re, they’re not going to exporting any more silver. Well, what does that do to a market that’s already upside down with supply and demand? Now talking about the bifurcation, COMEX and LBMA are primarily futures markets.

They’re, they’re paper, paper markets. The deliveries out of, and they do deliver. They, you can get real metal. And those have picked up dramatically over really the last couple of years versus Shanghai for example, which is a cash and carry market. It is not a, it’s not a futures market. And a lot of people have talked about backwardation where the, the spot market higher than a future month. And without going into the reasons that should never be. Well, the reason it should never be is because there’s a time value to money. So the spot market should always be below the futures market.

And it’s not. The spot market is above the futures market because traders are saying I want my metal, I want it now. I’m not waiting 30 days, 60 days or 90 days. I’m not even sure if I’m going to get it. And there’s been created a, a huge arbitrage spread of seven or eight dollars and it’s actually more than that now between the east and the west, the, the cash markets are trading much, much higher than the paper markets. That should be arbitrage though. It should have already been arbitraged out. But it’s not because traders are either unwilling to, to take the risk of buying on the paper market, selling on the cash market and then finding out they don’t get delivered on the cash market.

So they’re ended up basically making sure, you know, they’re short the metal and they have no way to get it or the other possibility is they’re just not able to source it. Wow. And so there’s a source problem spread between. I’m sorry, keep going, finish that. Well, I was just going to say that the, the problem, the, the problem of this, this huge premium of cash markets over paper markets is it’s, it’s pulling the pants down, if you will, of the western markets. They’re not real. And I, my, my past business partner, Jim Sinclair talked about, he envisioned the day where Comex gold would be $10 an ounce offered, no one willing to buy, and China $50 an ounce bid and no one willing to sell.

Wow. I mean, that’s the ultimate. That would be horrendous. Okay, so that is, that’s okay. Well, it’s a very real possibility. It is. I’m seeing that starting to happen now. Question for you. How high is silver going to go? Because I had somebody go, oh my gosh, I might have missed the silver window. I need to buy. I’m like, no, no, you haven’t missed it. I think we’re at the beginning. Right? I mean, this isn’t, this is just, it’s starting to correct itself. But we are there. There’s so much suppression being done right now that silver is still, it’s leaking out even under this intense suppression.

So that means it has a lot to go if this valve is let loose. Well, on, on Monday, there was 1.4. Yeah, I think it was 1.4 billion ounces were sold on comex to push the price down the way they did. I mean, that’s one. That’s more than 150% of total annual production. So it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s laughable. And if anybody gives you a number, if anybody gives you a number for either gold or silver, that that’s where they’re going to peak. They’re full of crap because nobody can predict that. Nobody can forecast that. I’m, I’m going to tell you that silver now looks like it’s going to become, if not the greatest short squeeze of all time, one of the greatest short squeezes of all time.

I mean, go back to 2008, I think it was, what, 20, 15 or 16. You look at Volkswagen, there was $10 a share, and then the next day it’s 300. Well, that’s a short squeeze. And I think that’s what we’re headed for in silver. And do you think that silver could bypass gold? I mean, because in its value, it’s More valuable than gold. From a industrial standpoint. We’re moving to a high tech world. From a use standpoint. Yeah. And we’re moving to this high tech world we have. I mean we’re, you know, we’re already in it, but it’s going on.

We’re already there. Yeah. And there’s, there’s so many uses for silver. I mean you just mentioned high tech. Look at the, you know, solar and the green new deal. Medicinal values, technological values or uses rather. So there are so many different uses. You’re absolutely correct. I don’t believe that silver is going to trade at par one to one with gold simply because gold, only one ounce of gold comes out for every nine or ten ounces of silver that are mined. And gold is pure money. And we’re living in a world that is bankrupting and gold and silver are the only two monies on the planet that cannot bankrupt.

Well now if you think about it, okay, 7 to 8 to 1. But the usage is. And the, the value of it in industrial products and high tech products is clearly more than 7 to 8 to 1. Not it. What didn’t used to be before they created new advances in dealing with the corrosiveness of silver. But now they’ve been able to deal with that. Silver conduct can, can conduct at like 40%, 50% higher than everything else. I mean it’s so much better that it is. I mean, I don’t know. I think that possibly we’re looking at a total different world.

We’re looking at a total different world. No question about that. I just don’t know if silver is going to go to parity with gold in that world. That’s fair. I’m skeptical of that. That. No, that’s fair. I’m just throwing that there. No one has said that. But I’m like holy crap. There’s. This is a change. You know, that’s what the whole. My whole big swear has said that. Go ahead. He said that. Huh. Well then he’s one. I haven’t heard his name. It’s weird. Has said that. Well that makes sense though because my whole thing is looking for patterns of change.

Right. And the more the pattern of change from a global standpoint, the more interesting it is for me. And that is like a huge flat, you know, red light going on and off for me that this is indicating something incredibly different. Like I said, there’s no question about it. We’re. The world has, has changed so much. Just go back 25 years ago, before 9 11. It was a completely different world. That 9, 11 happened and what happened, law after law after law has chipped away at our liberties, at our freedoms. It’s an entirely new new world from that standpoint.

Go back 25 years ago, the majority of kids could read and do math. They can’t do that anymore. I mean, they’re purposely being dumbed down by. Think about health care. Think about just the entire world. Everything has, has changed. Think about somebody who was born 100 years ago, 1925, and if there’s, if, if they were in a coma for the last 70 years, they would not even remotely recognize this world. I would think from 40 years ago, you know, like when I was a child to tonight to today would be, holy crap. Yeah, you went out and you played like a normal kid.

Yeah. Get out of the house and don’t come back until dinner time at 6. Exactly. Now they’re screaming upstairs, get off the computer. Exactly. It was so cool, though. We had a really, a very rich childhood, that’s for sure. The current kids don’t have that. When we got kicked out of the house and we were out there playing games all day long and screwing around. That was beautiful. Your parents knew where you were because they knew what, what your bike looked like. Exactly. You rode everywhere on your bike. You. You could go everywhere. You were free.

You were free, right? Yeah. You weren’t, you weren’t in a cage. You know, it might be a gilded cage for these children, but you weren’t in a cage. You were on a bike of freedom. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay, well, you’re cutting on a little bit. This has been such a wonderful conversation. It’s good for 2026 to kind of level set like this now. What would you say to people? What would you say that they should really be looking at going into 2026 to prepare, you know, if they were your clients, what at a high level, what would you tell them? Well, the.

You’re wanting to know what I’m looking at to, to give me a signal or what should people be doing? What should. I mean, what advice would you give people? Like, if they were your clients and they came, hey, Bill, I am just really, I need to get my. Together. What should I be doing in 2026? Yeah, well, and it’s what we’ve. I mean, I’m sure you’ve talked about this too. People need to. Need to have the, the outlook that they need to protect themselves because no one else is going to protect you. And that, that means with what we see happening in the financial system, I see credit at some point is going to become a problem.

You’re not going to be. Credit is going to maybe not cease altogether, but it’s going to become very difficult. And that will affect the real economy. It’ll affect the financial economy too. But you need to have the mindset where you got to be on your own. You have to do for yourself. And that includes, do you have a. First off, you live in a city. If you live in a city and things go down, you’re dead. You’ve got to be in a less dense, densely populated area. You need to be able to create your own energy.

You need to be able to purify your own water. You have to have a food source, whether it be stockpiled or you can hunt and fish, or do you have greenhouses? Can you grow? Can you grow year round? You need to take responsibility for yourself because no one else is going to do that. And I mean, when you dial 91 1, nobody’s going to answer. So can you protect your position? Those are the things you need to think about. Those are the things you need to address. Yeah, we are really getting to that. You know, I live in Minnesota and we’re realizing that the fraud.

And the fraud’s been going on for decades, right? But the fraud is so bad that their entire surplus plus decades pass. Everybody’s realizing, oh my God, it’s been, I think it’s up to $9 billion now, which our surplus a few years ago was 7 billion or 8 billion. I mean, so it’s the entire surplus plus. And that’s. Then there’s more to it. And they’re just. That’s just one state. It’s been going on all over the country. When this kind of revolutions, revelations come out and people start to let, let it sink in, I think we’re dealing with something that’s just extremely profound.

Well, it’s systemic. And you, you, you misspoke when you said revolution. But I don’t think that was a, I don’t think that was the wrong word. I mean, people are going to revolt. Well, I think maybe what do you call it when you’re thinking one thing but you meant to say something else? I think it’s, it’s both. Right? It’s, it’s, it’s letting it sink in your. It’s the revelation of it which will lead to a revolution. I mean, honestly, I think we’re going to be going. I don’t know if it’ll be a violent revolution. Right. I don’t know.

I Hope not. I hope it’s just us peacefully doing the revolution thing and maybe we’re already in a revolution. Say that. Yeah, if we’re not in a revolution already. They’re, they’re the powers that be want. They want everything to come down. What if they. What did the WEF tell you for how many years? You will own nothing and you will be happy. And the only way to own nothing is if they take the whole system down. And that’s, that’s what this is all about. That’s why kids can’t read or write anymore. That’s why healthcare is like so ridiculous.

You have to have a justice system for the average person. I mean, you can’t, not when the, that 95% of the people have no justice system. You need something for the people. And we have an opportunity to say, okay, we need to develop systems that are actually accessible to people. I mean, come on. So there is an opportunity for common law and other things. Go ahead. Just, just to highlight what you’re saying. One of the reasons the US became as great as we became was we had the best rule of law in the world. That’s right.

Fairest rule of law in the world. That’s right. You have to have fairness and the ability for everyone to thrive and flourish. If you don’t, I mean, that’s what I think. That’s what Jesus’s message was all about. How do you maximize flourishing for everyone? You know, if someone wants to take the initiative, they have the ability to flourish. And then there’s going to be people who are downtrodden because they become disabled and things. And we always take care of those people. But right now it’s so out of whack in so many ways. It’s not, it’s not even close to that ideal.

Sarah, there’s 100 million people in the United States that don’t have jobs, but they’re not considered unemployed. So what do you call that? But there’s a lot of. That’s awful. There’s a lot of people who have jobs who are still, at least in my state, who are getting unemployment. I mean, there’s just so many screwed up things. I’m just saying we. Yeah, you know, I agree. Okay. Where do they find you if they want advice on what to do, where. And you’re, you are, as they can tell, you’re an expert in this. You’ve been doing this for, for decades.

Where can people reach you? You can go to my website. It’s simply billholter.com and I I have mentioned this in my last few interviews. There’s a really good icon up top. It’s called Grizzly’s Corner, and that’s strictly about prepping. There’s all kinds of links for products. There’s articles there on ideas of, you know, how to prep. So that’s really something. If you’re interested in prepping, go to Grizzly’s Corner at my website, billholter.com if you want to contact me directly, you can contact me through the website or you can go to my my business email is B H O L T E R Proton me.

Thank you so much for joining the program today. I really appreciate it and so do our listener. Thank you, Sarah. Happy New Year. Sa.
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