 Since the great financial crisis began in the late 2008s, the world's central banking cartel has increased a global money supply by net total of roughly $14 trillion. Holy fucking shit. And so where is this taking us? You know, who benefits from this $14 trillion? Well, the answer is not you or me. So let's let's look at this total US market cap is trading at 153% of GDP highest ever. The top 1% owns nearly half the world's wealth. So that's a 500 riches own $6 trillion in wealth. The bottom 60% of the world's adults have less than 10,000 per household. The reason why I'm doing this video, it's a continuation from yesterday's video talking about why your dollar is worthless and why you should take cash and put it into things that appreciate and value or I call it equity per se. So store value equity appreciating assets. Now I want to kind of state this from the beginning. What I'm about to tell you is very simple stuff. I'm not a professional investor. I'm not a formally educated person by their standards. I didn't go to high school. I didn't go to university. I didn't go to college. I didn't have no Ivy League stuff. I'm just a regular guy. They've been through ups and downs, you know, been in the startup scene for a very long time, been through a lot of rough fucking shit in my life. When I went down the rabbit hole of our financial system years ago, when I first discovered Bitcoin. I was like, well, it kind of all makes sense. And so basically the dream that they sell you where it's like, put your money in a RSP in a retirement or retirement savings plan or give your money to old age pension plan or put your money to X. It's all bullshit, man. Like at the end of the day, they print money, they buy stocks for free and they move the wheel. Let's say, you know, it's like the Matthew McConaughey thing, spinning, spinning, get them in the hamster wheel. And so what are things that you can do? You know, that's the question. And it's like, okay, I'm here, you know, I'm working, I got a family support. How can I protect myself? I just want to go through like simple things that I found interesting. I'm doing myself. I've done myself. I'm doing myself and you can go down the rabbit hole yourself. I'm not going to go in in deep detail. Okay. So number one, looking back at my last video, I'll talk about equity and assets, right? So let's look at simple things over here. Gold. I know you, I know there's a lot of gold bugs out there. Gold is good. Gold is really good. And I'm not talking about IOU certificate golds. I'm talking about the real gold, the bullion gold, the physical gold that I can have in my closet. So let's look at this. Let's first look at the gold prices. So listen, also caveat, gold prices are manipulated as well. There's a lot of history and stories on that. But we're talking about comparing assets to holding cash. That's it. The whole point of this video is how can you take bits and pieces or buying in averages, right? Dailing by or weekly, whatever you want to do a monthly buying in averages, where you can put a little bit cash into something that fights against inflation, that fights against QE. That's the whole point. We're not talking about asymmetrical returns like in, in, in angel investing. If you want to get into that. That's a whole different ballgame that we can talk about. But that's major risk, huge risk. What I'm talking about is let's say you put away $1,000 of cash into gold. This is to hedge against inflation. So look at this, you know, since we go from the 1950s till now, right? Gold's trading at roughly what rounded up to $1,500 per ounce over here, right? Let me put it this way. Gold is, is a commodity that since the, since the beginning of time has found value. And so what is value in my perspective value is a narrative. It's a story and story with gold is a story value. It's precious. And so I just want you to take a look at this chart, right? And now let's take a look at this. This is the most important chart. Purchasing power, which is your dollar versus gold from 65 to two. So this is even old, then we got to update it by decade. But what is a blue line? That's your dollar. What is the gold line? That's gold. I don't need to say more, right? And roughly in the 70s, this is where the deep pegging started happening with the gold and fiat. And so think about this, man. It's like, let's say you're making some money. What's stopping you from buying a little bit of gold, physical gold and putting it away? Remember, I'm saying this is hedging. You're not looking for asymmetrical returns. You're now saying, well, I'm going to put $10,000 in. Well, if you did put $10,000 in over here, you'd bought it at less than $100 and you would have made quite well 10X it. This is a hedge. It's look, it's a safe hedge. It's physical. It's portable. You can hold it in your hands. So that's the first thing looking to go. Like everybody talks about gold. If you want more information about gold, look into Peter Schiff stuff. He has some cool stuff. There's a lot of gold bugs out there, but gold is a no brainer. And it's not about like, do I put 20,000, 30,000? It's like, listen, man, if you can put in 100 bucks a week or 20 bucks a week, one is better than zero. Anything is better than zero. But just look at this. Here's your purchasing power of your dollar and here's gold. This chart tells you that like that's it. Like this chart, one chart speaks volumes. All right. Next thing, let's talk stocks, the S&P 500. So this is index. Now stocks are tricky one. The reason why I bring up stocks is a couple of folds. It's been on the biggest bull run ever. Like if you zone out, like I've zoned out here since like the inception over here in the 20s till now, right? Yep. Till now, pretty much. It has ups and downs at drop, but it is pretty much the biggest fucking bull run of bull time, right? Now I'm stocks are tricky. They're manipulative timing it. It's very difficult. You know, even Warren Buffet had a deal with hedge fund managers like, listen, if you can beat the stock market, S&P, I think it was a million dollar bet. No one took him on. He won. But pretty much something simple you can do is you buy the index, right? So index is the index of all of these different stocks into one, right? And so it can be very simple. You can have and what's cool about it too, depending on where you're buying it for, like, for example, let's say you're buying certain stocks or index of stocks. They have this in the United States, I'm pretty sure. But in Canada, we have something called a TFSA, so tax-free savings accounts. So you can use your TFSA, you can buy the index. Let's say the index is a 5% per year, right? You can buy that index and it's tax-free, right? So when you do cash out, you're not getting charged capital gains tax, right? So there's cool tax benefits as well, depending on how you purchase your index. But once again, like, let's compare this to you holding cash in the bank. So we can do some compound mathematics here. Where it's like, okay, you're able to save a hundred bucks a month. So that's $1,200 a year. What does that get you? Right? What does that get you? As opposed to, let's say you put $1,200 a year, I don't know, we'll start something recently, 2010, right? $1,200 a year you put in, let's say you bought it, you know, you bought it at a thousand bucks, right? Look at this. You three X it. Just buying it one time. And so if you bought it every year, you're going up and up. And so these are simple things to look at. Look at stocks. I'm a firm believer in if you're not really well versed in this world, if you don't know the operating company, if you don't know the company's vertical, a lot of people are very emotional. And so they ride the FOMO, they ride the wave. And so they get, let's say, manipulated by the market and they sell when they shouldn't sell or they buy when they shouldn't buy, but indexes are, they're kind of no brainers for a lot of people. And I'm just, I'm not, I'm not, this isn't a vice. This is just for you to compare holding cash versus something that appreciates in value, like this equity within this index. Okay. So that stock, the S&P 500. Next, let's get into crypto. This is pretty cool that I found the dollar cost average of Bitcoin. So look at this. This is 300 bucks monthly for the last three years in Bitcoin. So total invested would be $10,800, right? Your net return is 96% and you've doubled your money. So if you started buying Bitcoin at 300 bucks per month as of March 2017, you would have doubled your money. Once again, buying an asset that appreciates, I just call it all equity, you're having stake. You have stake in something. So you have stake in Bitcoin and Bitcoin is an interesting one because it's pretty much the only new asymmetrical asset class that's uncorrelated to other asset classes. It's a freak of a freak. The best returns ever possible of any asset class in the last decade or so. And so these are examples, right? Gold is example. The S&P 500 index is an example. Bitcoin is an example. These are examples to show you how your dollar is cheating you and how wealthy people get. Wealthy is they get free money from the Fed and they buy assets that appreciate. And so you can do the same thing. You can look at your budget that you have and this is applicable to anybody like this is 300 bucks a month. You can go cheaper like, like let's say you did a hundred bucks, right? You still you almost three X there, right? And you can plug in a calculator. They have this for the S&P. They have this for gold as well. You can look at historicals. But imagine if you took, let's say, 10% of your savings of Fiat, if you took a hundred bucks a month, you took 200 bucks a month and you put it into certain assets. You want your money to work for you. Like the bottom line is you must beat inflation. You have to beat, you know, two to five, I say it's five percent. You have to be five percent a year. And so look into that, man. You don't want to sit on cash. You want to sit on appreciating assets that accrue in value. And I'll leave it at that, man. It's like, listen, anyone can dig into this information. Anyone can educate themselves about this. Like I'm not a formally educated person. I'm just like a guy that likes to go online and read about shit and read books and talk to people and get in there and actually learn by doing, right? And so leave it at that. If you have any questions, leave a comment below this video and don't forget to hit the like button, subscribe and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace.