Your Safety Is Not Their Concern
Uncover the Truth About Debt! 💸 In a world dominated by debt, the authorities want you to believe it’s all safe. 🤔 Many swear by treasuries as the ultimate safety net in government debt, but surprise! It’s not as secure as you think. 🚨 Municipal bonds are often hailed as super safe, especially for tax purposes. 🏦💼 However, the booming municipal bond market hides some lurking dangers you need to know about! Don’t be in the dark! 🔦
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Municipal Bonds
1:25 Rent-A-Muni
3:11 No Employees?
4:18 BofA More Muni Defaults
5:26 Municipal Bond Blowup
8:19 Burned Muni Holders For Cash
12:51 NYC’s 7 Billion Deficit
15:35 Boosting Trading Volume
17:54 Spot Gold Market
20:20 Get Your Strategy Now
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You know, in an all-debt-based system, the powers
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that be want you to think that debt is safe.
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And a lot of people happen to think treasuries are the safest thing you can do
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because they are the largest and most liquid pool of government debt.
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Well, that’s turning out not to be true.
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But they’d also like you to think that municipal bonds are really, really safe.
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Plus, you get a lot of tax advantages with that You need to be aware of it.
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You need to know about it.
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And that’s what we’re going to talk about today.
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Coming up,
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I’m Lynnette
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Zang, chief market analyst here at ITB, trading, a full service
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physical gold and silver dealer specializing in custom strategies.
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And if you don’t have one, click that cowardly link below.
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Set up a time to talk to one of our specialists
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and get that in place because time is running short.
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But what I really want to focus on is a lot of people for
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tax purposes have turned to the municipal bond market.
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And in reality, the New York Fed did a study years ago that showed that,
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no, they weren’t really as safe as the perception that people had.
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And now we need to really talk about it because that market is exploding
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and you might not be aware of the hidden dangers.
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So let’s just jump right into it and let’s have that conversation,
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because there are issuers rent to muni issuers scored
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market access for bonds that came out
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at $1 and are now at $0.11.
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Now you have to add a few zeros on there to make that more accurate.
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But the PSA in Wisconsin has issued debt
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and businesses nationwide.
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So you still have advantages in the federal level,
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but not on the state level as far as tax taxation is concerned.
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Okay.
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Let’s take a look at this, because that was back in 2020.
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Now, who is the PFA?
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Well, the Public finance authority, the PFA is a political subdivision
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of the state of Wisconsin, created for the purpose of issuing tax exempt
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and taxable conduit bonds for public
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and private entities nationwide.
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So again, this was an agency that was specifically created
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to generate an issue more debt for the state of Wisconsin.
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That’s their sole goal.
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And they can go anywhere in the country to do it.
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The PFA was set up a decade ago with the sole purpose of renting out
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its power to issue municipal debt to businesses all over the country
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from real estate developers and colleges to nursing homes.
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So you’re buying a municipal bond that you think is safe,
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But these are revenue bonds.
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These are conduit bonds.
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And personally, this is an accident waiting to happen, in my opinion,
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and also possibly in reality, because they are
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one of the biggest bond markets and they have no employees.
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Last year, 17 of its bond issues or more than half didn’t have credit ratings.
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So it’s just about generating income for the state.
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They don’t really care how safe it is for the investor.
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It is a step frequently used by borrowers
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that are are unlikely to receive an investment grade.
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According to data block, only qualified
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institutional buyers, those are buyers that buy on your behalf.
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That’s what institutional buyers are, or accredited investors
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who have to have a certain level of wealth and income
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can buy these securities and those rated below triple B-minus.
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So you can see and I got news for you, junk is always junk.
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My mother always said it’s better to have one of the best than ten of the cheapest.
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And junk, frankly, is always junk.
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So what in the world can go wrong?
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Lots of
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things, especially if you’re the holders of those bonds.
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Because Bank of America and many others see more muni bond defaults.
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And part of that is because the revenues
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on a statewide county wide, city wise level
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are declining in many areas, particularly in places like Chicago, etc..
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So they have a lot of expenses via their pension plans,
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their defined benefit pension plans, but their income is declining.
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And guess what?
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We’re seeing that even in the in the U.S.
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markets, first time payment defaults rose 122%
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in January from a year ago.
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Not for profit sector has led the defaults,
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but there’s been defaults in not just not for profit but nursing homes,
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senior living hospitals, as well as the not for profit sector.
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So bond defaults in the muni area are going up.
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What do you think about that?
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And if you’re sitting in them, how would you feel about that?
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Because a muni bond blowup exposes flaws
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in that particular 600 billion corner of the market.
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And what we don’t know, because they don’t talk about
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it, is how many derivatives.
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So those big speculative leveraged bets,
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how many of those derivatives are written against these muni bonds.
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So it may talk about a 600 billion corner of the market, but in reality,
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this is just the tip of the iceberg that we can see.
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It’s all the stuff that’s below the surface that we can’t see
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that is really the danger to investors and actually to all of us,
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because this is going to have an impact
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on all of us, whether we’re prepared for it or not.
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But sports complex went bust less than three years after its debt sale.
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Guess what that means?
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That means those muni bond holders,
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they’re taking all those losses.
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That money is not there.
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And there’s little vetting by agency with the history of rubber stamping deals.
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Why would that be?
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Well, let’s talk about that.
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Each year, billions of dollars in high risk projects are financed
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with little vetting or government oversight,
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all because they piggyback on the names of state and local municipalities.
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But there are few checks and balances,
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largely because the agencies aren’t responsible for the debt.
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If a project fails.
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No, it’s the project that’s responsible for it.
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Those are revenue bonds.
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Those are conduit bonds.
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Are you holding any?
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You might not know because they could be buried so deeply
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in your pension plan that you can’t see it.
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The securities are often unrated, and when interest rates were at rock
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bottom levels, some of the highest yields in the industry
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made it easy to attract money market money market managers
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or attract money managers in droves.
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I mean, have you forgotten?
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As the Federal Reserve held interest
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rates as zero or even negative rates, how?
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Didn’t matter how risky the asset was, it was paying a yield.
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It was a reach for yield.
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But that means that all of those bonds are vulnerable.
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Remember, interest rates, market value of the bonds
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as the interest rates have gone up, the not only have
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the price action of the bonds declined because of that,
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but also because of the increase in defaults.
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So it’s really like a double, triple whammy.
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We’ve set ourselves up for a decent
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pipeline of four defaults.
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Well, who’s going to pay for those defaults?
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The investors are meaning you, whether you realize it or not.
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Here’s a great example.
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Defaulted California plant turns to burned
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muni holders for cash.
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The venture firm that once that turns rice
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straw into panels needs another $18 million.
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So this was a muni bond. It defaulted.
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And then surging demand for junk
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muni debt paves the way.
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Because of that little pickup of interest, you are risking your principal.
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Is it worth it? No, it’s not.
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You want to keep your principal intact
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so that you can live to fight another day.
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Having bonds, having stocks, having cash
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that is not diversification, because all of those are dollar
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denominated, having physical gold and even physical silver outside of the system.
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That’s diversified because you have a tangible as well as an intangible.
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Intangibles are so easy to to rob you of because you don’t hold it.
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But the reality is, is if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.
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That’s simple.
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Okay.
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Still, the plant, which started making panels in November,
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needs about 18 million more to fully scale up to commercial operations.
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Bondholders appear to have faith.
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Despite the missing debt payments, the company is poised to win
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final approval from California officials
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to sell that amount of new securities, most of which
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will likely go to the existing investors.
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This was roughly a little bit more than a couple of three years ago.
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Two years ago. Right.
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Do you get that?
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So California had to approve additional debt sales
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after this bond, this municipal bond defaulted.
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And and investors are trying to save
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what equity they have by throwing good money after bad.
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The company has equity backing from entities, including a subsidiary.
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How do you like this?
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Teachers in California include being a subsidiary
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of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America.
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See what I’m saying?
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You might not even know that you are sitting in this garbage, but
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you are from those institutional investors that invest your money.
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What’s their risk?
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It’s your risk they’re taking on your behalf.
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Thank you so much.
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Not me. Not me.
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Let’s see.
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Let’s see.
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So the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America
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has already borrowed 344
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million since 2000 and seventeenths through sales of unrated
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tax free debt, most of which is in default.
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But let’s just keep going because guess what?
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That was 2021, right?
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Wasn’t that 2021?
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Yeah, nine for 2021.
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Here you are.
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A couple of years later, October 5th, 2023.
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Right. With bankruptcy completed.
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500 million cal plant sustainable building
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products factory in willows is to be liquidated.
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The equipment, land and other assets
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of the groundbreaking Cal plant factory and willows,
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which saw investment of more than 500 million, are to be liquidated.
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Where were they before with that?
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Let’s see.
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18 million more tied to the to them.
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344 million.
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Plus another 18 million.
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And what is getting defaulted on?
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yeah, that’s right. 500.
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500 million.
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So how do you feel about that?
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And how do you think you would feel about that if you owned them?
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And by the way, would you even know that if they’re buried inside of your pension,
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are you really getting all the data and the facts?
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Because they probably have sent you
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a little email about it, which you probably ignored,
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or maybe they even did a little glossy one sheet.
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If they send you a hard copy of anything but nothing to worry here
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until this really ratchets up.
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And then we’ve got something huge to worry about.
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Bond investors largely ignored New York City’s 7 billion deficit.
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There you go.
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This was just done November 21st.
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Demand is high for bonds that yield more than 3% tax free.
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So you are risking your principal
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for 3% tax free.
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Well, Evercore is wealth management.
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Howard cured the risk of holding Citi Debt outweighs the reward.
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I 100% agree with that.
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100 zillion percent.
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He points to the city’s looming 7
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billion budget deficit, exacerbated in part
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by spiraling costs of sheltering asylum seekers and other migrants.
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Blah, blah, blah.
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Declining Wall Street profits and job cuts at major investment
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banks will put pressure on city tax revenue.
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Your revenue.
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If you’re taking on more debt, your revenue has to grow,
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at least at the same level
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as your debt repayment grows.
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And that is not what’s happening.
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And we’re not in that environment on a federal level.
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We’re a municipal level. Can you see that?
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So all of these muni bonds that you might think are safe, maybe not so safe.
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General obligation bonds are a little bit safer because
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that comes out of the general fund.
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But when you’re looking at conduit bonds or you’re looking at bonds
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that are specific to, you know, a
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revenue bond, you better look again.
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You better think about it hard.
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You better see where it’s at on this spectrum
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of market values and the risk that is associated with it.
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Because you certainly saw what happened to the Cal Bond investors that ended up
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putting 500 million in the buy 500 million.
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Don’t risk your principal for a little bit of interest.
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The risk is not worth the reward.
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And, hey,
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it also suggests, let’s say, declining Wall Street profits and job
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cuts at major investment banks will put pressure on city tax revenue.
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Dimming New York’s fiscal outlook that suggests
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the city’s general obligation bonds.
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So even the gio bonds aren’t particularly attractive
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at current valuations.
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Insanity is doing the same thing
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over and over again and expecting different results.
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And we’ve got a lot of history on these results.
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So does it really matter because investors dive into 4 trillion
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muni bond market boosting trading volume?
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Are you kidding me?
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Look at the volume right there.
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Highest well, at least the highest
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since they started tracking this in 2020.
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And it’s all about demand and supply.
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But who’s really the investor?
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Is that mom and pop?
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Or is that your retirement funds, your pension funds, etc.?
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401 KS, IRAs, annuities, all that stuff.
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Investors rush into the market as yields rose,
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and now we’re being sold that this is a great time to buy and put out duration.
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In other words, go longer.
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But this is what happens. Okay.
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Interest rates
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will current market value when they issue it.
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This is when issued, right, right there.
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So when they issue it, when interest rates
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go up, the principal value goes down.
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This is maturity.
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You can see how much more the principal declines the longer out you are.
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So that’s what
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they’re wanting you to do right now, because the reverse is true as well.
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Right. So they’re counting on the Fed pivot.
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You have to understand what’s happening when we get that Fed pivot.
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But they’re counting on the Fed pivot.
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So then if the Fed put pivots and starts to push those interest rates down,
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you can see what happens to the market value of the bond.
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As long as the bond doesn’t default.
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Then if you hold it to maturity,
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you may get your principal back.
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The purchasing power is another story, and that’s what inflation erodes.
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And we know that we’ve talked about it a long time.
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But, you know, again, I have to ask this question.
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You know, this is not the first time I’ve asked it.
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Why would you risk your principal
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for a little bit of interest when you can hold your principal,
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your purchasing power intact right here
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in an undervalued asset that has full global demand?
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Just a thought.
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Let’s take a look at that, because what you’re looking at here
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is the spot gold market.
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And it’s easy to control it
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while the controlled market yet waits for the ultimate breakout.
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So it’s got to go above here and it very well could do that
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even between now and the first of the year.
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But let’s take a look at what’s happening in the key dates and rarities.
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This is only the only physical market.
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There’s no paper contracts written against that.
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So as I’ve shown you many times, it is easy
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to manipulate the visible price of a contract.
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But only gold.
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Only gold is money.
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Everything else is credit.
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Everything else is a contract.
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And any time you have a contract,
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you are running counterparty risk.
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And that’s the risk of default from the other entity.
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Because if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it.
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This is your best defense with what we’re going through right now
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because it’s not even so much if you get your principal back.
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But inflation has shown you
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that you lose purchasing power value.
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So even if you get that value back, you hold it to maturity and you get it back.
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What’s it going to buy you? A whole lot less.
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And that’s a guarantee because that’s the way the system is set up.
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So in this, this is what the one percenters do, right?
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Because a lot of the coins in there will go for millions and millions of dollars.
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This is the category of this coin and the category
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that I personally work in, which is a lot lower.
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And that, too, has had a breakout out.
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So, you know, while we’re still struggling to
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to break out in the paper market, what are you listening to them for? Why?
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They’re just lying and lying and lying some more.
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For them, it’s just about a pick up and a little bit of money.
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But the physical only market, that’s where you’re finding the truth.
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And both of them are breaking out, especially the one percenters that either
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write the rules or have the ability to influence those that write the rules.
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They are clearly breaking out in a very large and pervasive way.
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So I’d like you to just pay attention to what’s going on.
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Don’t be suckered in by the lies.
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It’s their job to lie.
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It’s my job to help you see the truth
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and your job to follow the links and do your own due diligence.
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Don’t take my word for anything.
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Don’t take their word for anything.
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Either I give you the links.
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You can find them on the blogs and you can follow every single thing
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if you come up with a different opinion than I do.
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Who am I to say that your opinion is less valid?
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A random OPM opinion?
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Yes, that is definitely less valid than my well-educated opinion.
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But I want you to actually have well-educated hearted opinions
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so that you can put your best interests first.
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That’s what the strategy is all about.
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That’s why if you click that cowardly link and you talk to one of our specialists
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there, if you don’t know how to define your goals, they’re going to help
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you define your goals and then it’s doing the right tool for the job.
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What are you trying to accomplish?
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Now, I
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think it’s really important if you haven’t done this yet,
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to watch securities ization market breaking down,
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because again, a lot of this Wall Street
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garbage has been turned into products and sold to you.
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So they’re making money hand over fist.
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But you’re the one that’s taking all the risk
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and that appears to be breaking down.
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So you definitely want to be
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taking a look at that and looking at what you’re holding.
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You know, you might be in something that you can choose to liquidate.
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You might be in like a403b or something
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like that, that you have no option to liquidate.
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In which case you need to get yourself diversified.
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Really important.
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And you know, you’ve seen it and it’s awesome.
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The materials that are coming out from the three of us,
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including Daniella Cambone and Taylor, Kenny and me.
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So there’s lots for you to look at when you might have a little bit of time,
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although we are in the holiday season, so
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you’ll do
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whatever is going to be comfortable for you and your family.
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SOURCES:
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Investors Dive Into Muni Bonds, Sending Trading Volume Surging – Bloomberg
