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When Gold Does This, The System Cracks - It Just Happened

By Minority Mindset

Summary

## Key takeaways - **Gold Outpaces Stocks: System Cracks**: Every time gold prices outpace the stock market, something in the economic system cracks and some people become incredibly wealthy. This has happened only five times in the last 100 years: 1930s Great Depression, 1970s stagflation, 2000 dotcom bust, 2008 financial crisis, and now in 2025. [00:00], [00:13] - **FDR Seized Gold in 1933**: Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 making it illegal to own more than $100 worth of gold; citizens had to sell it to the government at $20.67 per ounce, which was then revalued to $35 per ounce, instantly creating more government wealth. [02:26], [02:58] - **Nixon Ended Gold Standard 1971**: Richard Nixon took the US dollar off the gold standard so the government could print infinite money to pay debts, leading to an inflationary crisis with high prices, falling wages, and recession. [03:41], [04:06] - **Deficits Explode: $984B to $2T**: US national deficit jumped from $984 billion in 2019 to $3.1 trillion in 2020, and is expected around $2 trillion in 2025, with debt growing faster than national wealth and interest payments as the fastest growing expense. [07:15], [07:41] - **Fed Proposes Gold Revaluation**: Federal Reserve considers revaluing its 261 million ounces of gold from $422 to $3,300 per ounce, turning $11 billion into $860 billion on the balance sheet to ease national debt concerns without creating new wealth. [09:08], [09:46] - **Investors Win, Wages Lose**: Over last 5 years, median household income grew ~22% while stock market grew ~90%; to build wealth, convert salary into assets like stocks and real estate because money creation enriches investors, not workers. [13:12], [13:33]

Topics Covered

  • Gold Outpacing Stocks Signals Cracks
  • FDR Seized Gold to Fund Crisis
  • Revalue Gold to Mask Debt
  • Investors Win as Money Printed

Full Transcript

Every time gold prices outpace the stock market, two things have happened. Number

one, something in the economic system cracks. And number two, some people

cracks. And number two, some people become incredibly wealthy. And we're

seeing it happen right now. Take a look.

In the last 100 years, we've only seen gold prices outpace the stock market on five different occasions. Number one was around the early 1930s, which is of course when the Great Depression happened. Number two was in the early

happened. Number two was in the early 1970s. This was when we saw the great

1970s. This was when we saw the great stagflation, super high inflation, wages that were falling and a deep recession for the United States. Number three was around the year 2000 when the dotcom

bubble burst and people were concerned about the economy and the dollar. Number

four was around the 2008 time when the entire great financial crisis happened when the housing market crashed and people were concerned about hyperinflation because of all the quantitative easing. So, gold prices

quantitative easing. So, gold prices outpace the stock market. And then

number five started in 2020 during the pandemic. And you might say, well,

pandemic. And you might say, well, dustpre, we already saw that crack. The

pandemic led to the economy shutting down, so people were concerned then.

Well, here we are in 2025, and gold prices are now outpacing the stock market. Again, history doesn't exactly

market. Again, history doesn't exactly repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And

what we've learned is that every time in history, gold prices have outpaced the stock market, has meant something bad for the economy, and some people became incredibly wealthy. So my goal in this

incredibly wealthy. So my goal in this video is to go over what's actually happening in the economy and how you can find the investment opportunity for yourself. Now to really understand what

yourself. Now to really understand what might be coming, we have to take a look at history. In the early 1900s, we ran

at history. In the early 1900s, we ran on the gold standard here in the United States, which meant gold was money. But

that first started to change during this time period because we ran into a big financial crisis. People were running

financial crisis. People were running out of money. Businesses were going bankrupt. So people were concerned. And

bankrupt. So people were concerned. And

what did they do? They started to pull their money out of the banks. Bank after

bank across [music] the country is hit by panic withdrawals. Depositors

swarming to snatch out what [music] savings they have left before it's too late. Banks by the hundreds, by the

late. Banks by the hundreds, by the thousands are forced to close. The whole

financial system quakes and totters.

>> And again, money was gold. So people

were pulling their gold out of the banks and they were hoarding this gold in their houses because they were concerned about all the bank runs. Remember during

this great depression, there was no FDIC insurance. So if people pulled their

insurance. So if people pulled their money out of the banks, banks would run out of money and they would collapse. So

people were scared. They were hoarding their gold. And the United States

their gold. And the United States government needed money. They needed

money to pay bills. They needed money to help stimulate the economy. And

remember, money was gold. So that was when the president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order

D. Roosevelt, signed Executive Order 6102, which made it illegal for you to own more than $100 worth of gold. If you

owned more than $100 worth of gold, you were required to sell that gold to the United States government for $2067 an ounce. And if you did not sell that

an ounce. And if you did not sell that gold to the government, you were going to go to jail. And fun fact, as soon as the United States government bought your gold for $2067 an ounce, they

immediately then revalued your gold for $35 an ounce. That way, the United States government had more wealth to help pay back the bills. After that

happened in 1933, our money went from being gold to being money backed by gold. It was a contract that said, "Hey,

gold. It was a contract that said, "Hey, this $100 bill that you have is a promise that is backed by $100 worth of gold." But then that changed in 1971.

gold." But then that changed in 1971.

The United States government now had a lot of debts. We had a lot of foreign countries that wanted to be paid by the United States government because they had lent us money and we didn't have enough money to pay them back. And in

order for us to create more money, we needed more wealth. And remember, our money was backed by gold. So our

government couldn't just print more money because we needed more gold to justify printing more money. And that

was when in 1971, Richard Nixon temporarily took the United States dollar off of the gold standard. That

way, the United States government could now print an infinite amount of more money.

>> I have directed Secretary Connley to suspend temporarily the convertability of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets.

>> And that's what happened. We printed

more money. We then paid off all of our debts and all the problems were solved.

Except not really because that then led to the inflationary crisis that happened because we printed so much money without having more wealth which made the dollar effectively less valuable causing the prices of things to go up while wages

were not growing and the economy was slowing down. And that also led to now

slowing down. And that also led to now our dollars no longer being backed by gold. Which is why today our money or

gold. Which is why today our money or what we call money is not backed by gold or any other precious metal. is backed

by a promise that our United States dollar has value because it's backed by the strongest economy in the world. It's

backed by the strongest government in the world. And this is why people get so

the world. And this is why people get so concerned when gold prices outpace the stock market. Because when gold prices

stock market. Because when gold prices go up, it's not because the value of gold is going up. It's because the value of the dollar that's buying the gold is going down. People are buying the gold

going down. People are buying the gold because they're concerned about something. Compare that to something

something. Compare that to something like Amazon. When Amazon stock price is

like Amazon. When Amazon stock price is going up, it's generally because they're producing more value. It's generally

because they're trying to make more profits because people are excited about the future products that Amazon is going to create. They're excited about the

to create. They're excited about the growth that Amazon might have. That's

why Amazon stock would go up. Why would

gold prices go up? Because people are scared. Now, to understand the concerns

scared. Now, to understand the concerns that people might have, we have to take a look at what's been happening with the dollar, more specifically the creation of the dollar, especially over the last few years since this time. Now, one of

the simplest ways to understand this is by taking a look at a national deficit.

And what that means is taking a look at the United States government's spending of dollars that they don't have. Because

remember, the United States government has one form of income. It's tax dollars from taxpayers, people like you and me.

But what we've been seeing happen, especially over the last number of years, is that the United States government has been spending a lot of money that they don't have. And when the government spends money that they don't have, they have to borrow that money.

Where do they borrow that money? They

can borrow the money from people like you and me. They can borrow the money from foreign countries like Japan and the United Kingdom. Or they can borrow that money from our central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank. Now, although

they're called the Federal Reserve Bank, they're actually not a bank because you and I can't go there to deposit money.

They're actually not a reserve because they're not sitting on any cash reserves and they're actually not federal. It

says so on their website. But what the Federal Reserve Bank can do is they can print money and lend it to the United States government. Now, remember, the

States government. Now, remember, the Federal Reserve Bank would be printing money without having more wealth. And so

when you create more of this money out of thin air, what happens to the value of each individual dollar? Well, it goes down because we're just creating more money without creating more wealth. So

let's go over what a national deficit has looked like from 2019 to 2025. And

I'll talk about now what this means for you as an investor because well, it becomes very important for you to understand this from an investment standpoint. And by the way, for those of

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In 2019, our national deficit was $984 billion. In 2020, during the pandemic,

billion. In 2020, during the pandemic, it shot up to 3.1 trillion. 2021, 2.8

trillion. 2022, 1.4 trillion because things finally started to normalize. But

check this out. By 2023, it jumped back up to 1.7 trillion. 2024, 1.8 trillion.

And in 2025, we don't have the final numbers, but it's expected to be something around $2 trillion. This is

where the key thing that I want you to understand is that the value of the debt is not what's important. It's the

ability to pay back the debt. And it's

the real value of the debt relative to the value of your assets. Because if you have a $100 worth of debt, is it a lot or a little bit? If your net worth is $2, that's a lot of debt. If your net

worth is a million dollars, now $100 worth of debt is not that much. And so

if the United States government has $38 trillion worth of debt, the reason why it's such an issue right now is because number one, our fastest growing expense in the United States is interest payments because we have so much debt.

And the second reason why it's so important is because our national debt is growing way faster than the national wealth. And this is where investors are

wealth. And this is where investors are getting concerned. And this is right now

getting concerned. And this is right now the Trump administration is looking to make some changes with gold, looking to make some changes with crypto to help alleviate some of these concerns for investors and to alleviate some of these

concerns about the economy. Remember I

said a few minutes ago where in 1933 it became illegal to own gold and FDR ordered that you sell your gold to the United States government for $20 and some change. And after the United States

some change. And after the United States government seized that gold, they revalued that gold at $35, which meant the United States government bought gold and then immediately became wealthier

because they changed the value of that gold on their books. Well, that could potentially happen again. It hasn't

happened yet, but in August 2025, the Federal Reserve government published an article on their website revealing the idea of doing another gold revaluation.

What the article said is that they are considering quote revaluing the government's 261 a.5 million troy ounces of gold which is currently valued at 42.22

per troy ounce. So if we do some quick math if we have 261 million ounces of gold you multiply that at $422 per ounce. That means we have 11 billion

ounce. That means we have 11 billion worth of gold on our balance sheet. And

this is what the Federal Reserve Bank is saying. What if we just change the value

saying. What if we just change the value of our gold? In the article the Fed proposed $3,300 per troy ounce. So now

we can do the same math equation. Let's

assume we have the same amount of gold, which hasn't been verified. But if we assume that we have the same amount of gold, we change this to $3,300 per ounce. Now we don't have 11 billion

per ounce. Now we don't have 11 billion of gold on our balance sheet. Now all of a sudden we have $860 billion worth of gold on our balance sheet. We now

immediately became wealthier by doing nothing except changing the value of our assets. And hopefully the goal here is

assets. And hopefully the goal here is if we do that, it makes the United States look $800 billion wealthier, which will hopefully ease some of the concerns of investors about our national

debt. Now, of course, this does have a

debt. Now, of course, this does have a risk, though, because if the value of gold falls below this, now investors are going to be even more concerned because that means now we're underwater on our assets. And we know that gold prices

assets. And we know that gold prices don't always go straight up. Take a

look. Between 2008 and 2012, gold prices skyrocketed when people were worried about inflation and the economy crashing. But then in 2012, when those

crashing. But then in 2012, when those fears went away, the economy recovered, gold prices crashed, and they didn't hit new record highs until 2020, almost 10 years later, when the pandemic hit, and

those same concerns about the dollar came back. Remember, gold as an

came back. Remember, gold as an investment is not producing value the way that a stock does. Nike is working to produce shoes. McDonald's is

producing burgers and building real estate. Amazon is selling products in

estate. Amazon is selling products in AWS. Gold is just sitting there looking

AWS. Gold is just sitting there looking back at you. This is why gold is considered a debasement trade. It's

because people generally buy gold when they're concerned about the value of the dollar dropping. They buy gold when

dollar dropping. They buy gold when they're concerned about the economy.

They buy gold as an insurance. And when

that insurance, that hedge, that protection is growing faster than the value of other assets. That's where

people get concerned. We're also seeing the Trump administration make some changes in the cryptocurrency side of the world to help make our national debt not look as bad. In March 2025, President Trump signed an executive

order which established a new strategic Bitcoin reserve and a broader digital asset stockpile. What this meant was not

asset stockpile. What this meant was not that the United States government was going to go out and start buying Bitcoin. Instead, when the United States

Bitcoin. Instead, when the United States government were to seize crypto assets, instead of selling off this Bitcoin that they used to do, they're just going to keep owning that Bitcoin. Because now if

they have this bitcoin on their balance sheet and bitcoin goes up in value well now the United States government looks more wealthy because they have more assets on their balance sheet. Now the

reason why this matters is the government says that over the years we have seized something around 170,000 bitcoins which we have sold off but now if we didn't sell it off we kept those bitcoins it'd be worth a whole lot more

money because when bitcoin is worth 80,000 90,000 $100,000 it's worth a lot more. And this is where the government

more. And this is where the government says, "We're going to start keeping that Bitcoin because if Bitcoin continues to go up in value, well, that's going to make the government more valuable. And

if our assets are higher, our national debt does not look as bad." But of course, there's a concern because if we keep that Bitcoin and Bitcoin drops in value, well, if we value that Bitcoin on

our books at just say $100,000 a coin and Bitcoin falls to $60,000 a coin, well, now we look underwater on those assets, especially if we've borrowed against those assets. Now, what does this mean specifically for you? Should

you buy gold? Should you buy crypto?

Well, maybe. Personal finance is personal. And yes, there's a place for

personal. And yes, there's a place for gold in a portfolio. There's a place for crypto in a portfolio. And you're going to have a different ratio and percentage than I do. But the real thing that I want you to understand here is that the

trend is not changing. The United States government is spending more money than we generate from taxes. That has an impact because anytime we create more

money, that makes one person rich. It's

not the workers. It is the investors period. How do I know? Well, we can just

period. How do I know? Well, we can just take a look at the last five years because what we've seen is that investments have grown way faster than wages. We've seen the median household

wages. We've seen the median household income grow by less than 25%. It's

actually estimated to be around 22% over the last 5 years while the stock market has grown by around 90%. It's the same trend that we've seen for the last five decades. So if you want to become

decades. So if you want to become wealthy in this economic system, you cannot do it based off your salary alone. Period. I'm not saying it's bad

alone. Period. I'm not saying it's bad to work a job. It's not bad to earn a salary. But you got to convert a piece

salary. But you got to convert a piece of that salary into assets. What are

assets? Stocks, real estate. And by real estate, I don't just mean the house that you live in. I mean rental properties.

It could be crypto. It could be gold.

There are many places for you to invest this money. But you have to own these

this money. But you have to own these assets because as more money gets created, inflation happens. And when

there's more inflation, consumption becomes more expensive. That means you go to Amazon, you spend more money to buy things. You go to Kroger, you spend

buy things. You go to Kroger, you spend more money to buy the guac. You go to Walmart, you spend more money to buy whatever you got to buy. And that means more money doesn't just go into the hands of the workers because workers get

a small percentage increase. The more

dollars go into the hands of the investors, the owners. And this is why it's so important for you to become an investor. And it's going to become even

investor. And it's going to become even more important as we continue to spend more money. And what we see is that this

more money. And what we see is that this trend of spending more money is not going away. In fact, it is amplifying

going away. In fact, it is amplifying which is why it becomes exponentially more important for you to become an investor. And I know it's difficult

investor. And I know it's difficult during a time where yeah, it's already tough to pay your bills. But you have to if you want to build wealth in this system. Again, if you want more

system. Again, if you want more resources on how to become an investor, I have my free investing master class for you down in the description. But the

whole idea here is you have to own assets that are going to benefit from money being created. Period. Because if

you just hold on to your salary, you just hold on to your savings, those things are losing value. That $100 you have in the savings account, the $50,000 you have in your bank account, it

doesn't have as much buying power next year as it does last year. I just think about what you could buy in 2019 versus what you could buy today with $1,000.

It's a pretty big difference. That's

going to continue happening. It's

happened for decades. It's going to continue happening into the future, which is why you have to convert your extra savings into investments. That way

you can protect your wealth but also grow your wealth. In this economic system, the way you become wealthy is by becoming an investor. And unfortunately,

we were never taught this stuff, which is why I've really made it my mission to help spread this financial education.

So, if you got value out of this video, the best thank you was a referral. So,

if you could please share this video with a friend, family member, colleague, or fellow investor. The Fed just announced that they're going to end quantitative tightening come December 1st. In plain English, that means that

1st. In plain English, that means that the Federal Reserve Bank wants to start printing money and boosting markets again as we go into 2026 as a way to stimulate the economy. This economic

shift is going to affect everybody. It

affects the stock market.

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