E332 - If the COVID Regime Wins, Our Investment Strategies Are Meaningless

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Believe me…  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I really didn’t want to interview George Gammon on this topic. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Afterall George, who has 325,000 YouTube subscribers, is one of the best at breaking down economic concepts and communicating them effectively. In fact, he’s one of my favorite self-taught economists on earth. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I would much rather talk to him about inflation, deflation, and the arguments for investing in precious metals vs bitcoin. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the reality is… </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Financial wealth is completely meaningless if we don’t have the ability to express ourselves freely. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, we could be right on the brink of ushering in a new era of government tyranny and top-down mandates, the scale of which history has never seen before. Despite the horrific track record of governments and their various “trusted” agencies, the justification for these examples of overreach is always for the benefit of our own safety.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But after what we have already seen, just in the last few years, is this claim even remotely believable?  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss… </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Stanley Milgram experiment and why its lessons are relevant to what’s happening today</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How we as human beings tend to think we might have navigated critical moments in history, vs. how we behave when the moments are actually upon us </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to tell if you’re on the wrong side of history with one simple question</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="fon