Brandon

And I think a lot of it is the fact that we're in an international contraction, and that's a lot of it.

Europe has been raising their rates, and we've been cutting our rates.

I don't think we should be cutting our rates.

And I think a lot of it goes back to the fact that I don't think that we're in a real market-based system.

We're in what I would almost call a socialist-based system, where we have this board of governors who are

controlling the price of money and the amount of money that's in the economy.

And I think that's the fundamental problem with all of it.

We don't have market conditions impacting what the price of money is.

We have a group of people deciding what the price of money is.

And until that changes, I don't think that we're going to get a real healthy functioning economy.

I think that's the root of all of our problems, though.

You really trace all problems back to the fact that the price of money is the most important thing in the economy, and right now it's a socialist structure how the price of money is determined.

But do you think that's going to change?

No, but I think that's the root problem of everything.

And one thing on that too, the unfortunate thing about reserve currency is like it's literally designed for you to abuse the hell out of it.

Like the thing called Triven's Dilemma, it's like you basically are supplying the rest of the world with adequate money so that they could interact in the global economy.

So like it's set up to fail within 100 years pretty much.

No, I think it's a huge opportunity just for the world in general.

Because, I mean, there was a time where I believe Venezuela was number four in terms of overall GDP.

And it makes me think of when the Soviet Union collapsed, that if you handle this thing correctly, then you could open up that whole country back to the world as a new market.