Hard Asset Money Show Christian Briggs

What is the state of the economy? The dollar has seen at 17% decline in buying power so far this year. Gold has reflected that with a 25% increase this year. In 2001, the US dollar represented 73% of global dollar reserves. In 2021, it decreased to 55%. In 2023, 47%. 

When the Silicon Valley bank was bailed out last year, there were an additional 1,619 banks that were in risk for failure. That represented 1/3 of all banks in the United States. Since that bailout until today, nothing structurally has changed other than stemming the tide of people pulling their assets out, bailing the bank out, and then creating the illusion of stability. Now, in late April 2024, Republic First became the first FDIC-insured bank failure of 2024. Simultanuosly, seven additional banks closed in that same week. The way to protect against the wave of upcoming banking failures is to invest in hard assets. The reason to invest in hard assets is threefold. 1) It gives you long-term investment appeal. 2) It hedges against inflation. 3) Hard assets have an inverse reaction whenever the economy is in a downturn.

In this episode, Christian Briggs is a guest speaker on Foundations of Freedom’s ‘Voice of Reason’ podcast. He speaks about the growing national debt, and how there is fear that the U.S. national debt is past the point of paying it back. Speaking with members of congress, he hears whispers that the fallout will be sooner than we think. Mortgage rates have been rising, bonds got crushed. All of the things that are supposed to make gold react in a fundamental manner that is consistent with history is not true today. In fact, gold has been on a continuous rise for the last six months. Why is that? Because central banks around the world are in a coordinated effort to take away the value of paper currency by creating gold backed CBDCs.

In this episode, Christian Briggs, Mandy Gunasekara (former Chief of Staff of the United States EPA), and Tennessee congressman Mark Green are guest speakers on Foundations of Freedom’s ‘Voice of Reason’ podcast. They go into a page by page discussion of Hard Asset Management’s CBDC presentation. They differentiate centralized vs. decentralized digital currency, as well as go into a chronological progression of CBDC development. Then they show all the countries that are currently using or are developing CBDCs, including the United States’ Federal Reserve, which launched FedNow (a precursor to a US CBDC) last July. Finally, they go into a chronological deep dive on all the CBDC white papers from 2017 to today. These include white papers from countries, as well as white papers from companies such as Amazon, Citi, Visa, and Bank of America.

In this episode, Christian Briggs speaks with Tennessee Senator and member of the Senate Banking Committee, Bill Hagerty about the potential rollout and implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States. They speak about the bill he introduced on February 26, 2024 – the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Anti-Surveillance State Act, legislation to halt efforts by the Biden Administration to issue a central bank digital currency. “From Operation Chokepoint to recent reports of political and religious profiling by FinCEN, it is clear that government bureaucrats have been far too willing to exploit the financial system to advance political agendas and target Americans,” said Senator Hagerty. “This bill blocks the issuance of a central bank digital currency, preventing CBDC from being used as a tool to surveil and violate Americans’ privacy.”

In this episode, Christian Briggs is a guest speaker on Foundations of Freedom ‘Voice of Reason’ podcast. He speaks about the war on cryptocurrency, the war on decentralization, and the implementation of a United States CBDC. We’re moving towards a digital age. Cryptocurrencies tested if people will truly use something that has no material value, that doesn’t even exist when the light switch is off, but yet they will use that as a value proposition to buy something of tangible value. We’re going to a centralized system so the new world government will be able to control the flow of all information. Information can be a purchase, to a smart contract, to health care, to transportation, to any forms of banking whatsoever. As a result of this, governments around the world started buying gold. From small countries like Poland, Malaysia, and Indonesia, to the biggest like China and Russia, these countries started purchasing gold by the 1000s of metric tons. So much gold was purchased, that gold mining operations weren’t able to keep up with the demand. In fact, China’s recent purchase of gold has been highly speculated to their digital yuan (e-CNY) being backed by physical gold.

In this episode, Christian Briggs speaks with Tennessee Congressman and Chairman on Homeland Security Committee Mark Green. They talk about CBDC implementation and rollout in the United States. The discussion includes the difference between centralized verses decentralized cryptocurrencies, and how the US Federal Reserve is looking to implement a centralized CBDC in the United States. That means that the Federal government knows where every single penny goes and every single purchase that happens. Every transaction is tracked and known by the government, and that means zero privacy. That’s exactly what Elizabeth Warren and the hard progressives really want. They want to control what people spend their money on. Later in the show, they talk about how TikTok is data mining and sending that information to our adversaries, and how that information might be used against us when the US implements a CBDC.