Steve Cortez

It clearly does not work, has not worked.

worked for regular people, and now puts the entire world, including the United States, into a deep debt crisis.

Of their five scenarios or quasi-solutions, here's the thing.

If we don't do the first three, inevitably, we are going to the latter two, number four and five, meaning both defaults as well as massive inflation.

Unfortunately, a lot of smart financial markets, particularly gold and crypto, I would also say real estate right now,

they're betting on number five so a lot of very smart money is saying inflation is persistent it's sticky it's systemic not transitory that's for sure and here to stay hence gold at 4 400 hence housing that's totally unaffordable in the united states but here's the good news is if we

If we pursue all of the first three at once concurrently, cut spending.

I believe we can cut on defense.

And by the way, related to what we're going to talk about on Maha, we get a lot healthier.

We could spend a lot less on health care.

That's how we achieve number one.

Don't make war all over the world.

Get our people healthier at home.

Number two, this pro-growth strategy is starting to work.

Real wages are rising in our country.

That's a huge benefit to this land.

So again, we do have the glide path out.

It's not easy, but there is an escape route.

There is an escape route from this.

But that path gets narrower and narrower every day that we don't care as a country and that Washington, D.C., as a city and as an institution, permanent Washington, doesn't care about this.