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Wealth Creation Course: How To Invest In Gold Like The Top 1% | Jerry Fetta
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Alright, welcome to our FinanceFriday weekly course. I'm Jerry Feda, the owner, founder, CEO of Wealth Dynamics and I'm coming to you live as I've done every Friday and I've been doing this course actually four years on the. Okay, so four years ago, Friday, today, was the first time I ever did a finance Friday course. Isn't that cool? So, we've been doing this every week since then but the goal of this course, if you're just tuning in, the goal of this course is to spread financial literacy. Okay, the goal is to help you understand the truth about money, to be able to apply it in your life, to be able to build wealth and financial freedom, and so when I first started doing these, that wasn't something that really existed for me as a kid growing up, as a entrepreneur, as a business owner, that wasn't something that I naturally had access to, right? And so, as I started learning more and more about finances, I was like, man, more people need to know these.
So, my company, what we do is we help families, individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners, it doesn't matter, we don't care what shape, skin color, size, country income, whatever. We're going to help you. We want to help you learn about finances and and improve your life financially, right? So, we're going to talk tonight about gold and silver and how to buy those the right way, how to buy those like the top 1% by them. Um and it's something that I've been doing for for several years now. Before I dive into it, some things I hit every week I'm going to cover really quickly.
First thing is I want you to make sure you got a reason for being here tonight. Okay? What is your purpose for being here? Right? We're talking about gold and silver on a Friday night. It's 10 PM on the East Coast. Like you gotta have better things you're going to be doing with your time. Why are you here? Okay and if you don't have a reason, you might as well not be here. You might as not well not be watching. So, what made you come onto this webinar tonight and if you don't have that, I want you to pick that. If you do have that, I want you to look at it really quick. Make sure you've got it. Friend of mine as we go through this. Second thing is, I want you to get rid of the idea that this can't be learned about.
That money is complicated, finances are too hard. Guys, it's all just basic math and vocabulary. So, if you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and use a dictionary. You can finances. right? The only time finances become complicated are when banks on Wall Street get involved in financial institutions get involved and they add these million dollar words on top of basic mathematical concepts so that we feel like we need them. Right? That's a manufactured process. That's not really how money works.
The wealthy people that I know, they speak about money like they're five years old. Simplest concepts in the world, right? So, I want you to get rid of the idea that money is hard. It is just basic math and vocabular on that note, if I go over anything tonight that doesn't make sense to you, I want you to ask me right away. Okay, you can ask me in the chat, you can ask me in the comment, if you're watching the replay, still ask. We'll answer the comments on YouTube and Facebook and wherever after the fact, we'll still help you out. So, make sure that you're asking questions. We will go live throughout and answer your questions. If you're on Zoom, if you've got the microphone, we'll mic up and we'll talk, right? So, we'll go over your questions live on Zoom.
Second thing is, you've gotta get rid of the idea that you know it all already I can't learn something if I don't think there's anything for me to learn. Right? Nobody likes to know it all. Okay and there's no such thing as a know it all. The reason why nobody likes a know it all is because nobody likes a liar. I know it all is a liar. There's no such thing as somebody that knows everything. And anyone that tells themselves that is foolish **** Right? And I know that's not you guys. So we gotta get rid of the idea that I know this all already. I've heard this already. You know repetition is is where certainty comes from. The more times I do something the better at it I become. Okay so then might be part of that for you tonight. If you're brand new, this is probably going to be information you've probably never heard before. If you're a client, this might be a spin on it that you've never heard before, right? Okay, and then the final thing is I want you to think about how am I going to apply the information here tonight, right? I'm a producer, not a consumer.
Right? So, I'm here tonight to get information, not just to get mentally obese, and, and, and consume but never use, right? But for me to actually use and apply the information, to burn it off as fast as I can, as soon as I can to use it and put it to work, right? So I want you to think about that as we're going through this, okay? So, I want to talk about and silver. Now, this course is not going to be about why you should buy gold and silver.
I've done that course already and and I'll just quickly in a few sentences, I'll tell you why. Number one, it's the oldest, most reliable store of value known to mankind. Gold has been around for 6000 years. It's been valuable to mankind for 6000 years. Um we still use it today for banking, investing, all sorts of things. You can't say that about any other store of value.
Right? Especially when it's versatile as gold. It doesn't expire. You can you can sort the gold that we have today. It's the same gold they had 6000 years ago. Right? You can't say that about oil. You can't say that about anything. Okay so so that's one of the big reasons we use gold. The second thing is it's literally the most useful metal on the planet.
Right? If you're watching this on an iPhone your iPhone wouldn't work without gold. Every iPhone has gold in it. Right? If you have if you have internet connection. That satellite up in outer space that that that they use for that type of thing wouldn't be up there if it wasn't for gold. Gold is used in aerospace. It's used in electronics. It's used in technology. It's used in dental. It's used in so many it's the most useful metal on the planet. Okay? Not only that, it's used in banking. Our United States Federal Reserve Bank currently owns half a trillion dollars worth of gold. They're the number one owner of gold on the planet. Number one issuer of debt and number one owner of gold. Want you to think about that? Right? We and and right now the statistic is only 12% of Americans own any gold at all.
So it's not even like like most people have a little bit. No no no. Only 12% have any at all. Right? So, we're talking about the oldest store of value, the most valuable and useful metal on on the planet and something that, that, that, you know, the, the number one owner of it is the Federal, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America, okay? So, like I said, I'm not going to go into tonight on why we should own gold. I'm going to talk about how? What are the mechanics? Okay, what are the things you should know? I bought my first silver back in 2016. Okay, I actually bought it from Matt on this webinar. Okay, from, from Mint Builder. Back then, it was called a different company but that's where I bought my first silver.
Okay, and then I started buying gold. So, this was back in 2016. It's now twenty twenty-two. That was what is that? Six years ago? Right? So, I've been buying gold and silver for 6 years. Now, when I first started buying it, one of the things that I was confused about is what should I be buying? Okay, and I'm going to some of these things out tonight. I remember one of the first conversations that I ever had with somebody about gold. It was from one of my mentors and he said, hey, when you're buying gold and silver, there's two different kinds, okay? And I'm going to sketch this out on the screen. So, the first thing I want to teach you about gold and silver tonight and how to buy it is you have two different sides of the house. You have what's called bouillon. and you have what's called numismatic Num Numesmatic. Okay? Now, one of my mentors when I first started, he told me one of the most helpful things in the world.
He said, there's a difference. There's this stuff called Buy an and there's this stuff called pneumismatic, okay? He said, numismatic is gold and silver in the form of art. Okay, collectible coins, commemorative pieces, things that are rare and and they have a value to them, not just the gold and silver but the art value of them. Right? So, there's like the and he said then there's also buoyan. This is literally just pure metal.
Nothing special about it. You're literally just buying the the gold because it is point nine nine nine pure. Right? It's ninety-nine point ninenine nine% pure gold. There's no collector's value. It's not special. There's nothing great about it. It's not rare. It's not unique. Right? Same same gold you get. Excuse me. Same gold you get anywhere. So he told me and this was something that I learned earlier and he told me when I first started I didn't know the difference. So I thought I was buying booyan but I was actually buying pneumismatic. And so you know For those of you that are are in the gold and silver, new mismatic typically is going to be a higher initial price. Okay, and the reason why is you're paying for not only the bullion, you're paying also for the significance of the art, right? For the, the, you know, the significance of it, for the rarity of it, right? Whatever those unique factors are that make it commemorative or a collector's item.
So, you're paying for that in addition. The medal, you're only paying for the medal. So, he didn't know the difference between the two, someone told them, go buy gold, go buy silver. So, he went to a coin shop and the guy was like, well, buy these and the reason why is you could sell them at a higher price, okay? So, my my mentor at the time, he was like, you know, I I didn't know this, not to say pneumismatic is bad, but when I went to go sell it, I was selling it in the new mismatic market, and I didn't know that. So, he was buying what he thought was buoyan, but really it was a new mismatic. It was a collector's piece. He was selling what he also still thought was Buy in, but really it was a new mismatic.
So when you do numismatic, you're paying a bit more to get in, right? And then you're also going to sell it for a little bit more because it has the potential to be more important, more significant, etcetera. He didn't know that. So, he bought an expensive coin and then he sold it at the cost of bullion because he was selling it at I would say that this middle category looks like this. right? So, the middle category, let's say this is down here. This is like minted, right? And when I say minted, technically, yes, all of it's minted but I'm saying buying it from the United States Mint, buying it from the Canadian mint, buying it from, it's not numismatic, but it almost is.
Right? Cuz I could go to like, for, for example, if I'm buying bullion, I could go buy silver coins, silver rounds from Sunshine Mint. They're not government regulated, they're not, they're not housed by a country, it's a private mint. Now, they still sell good product. It's still pure. It's legitimate but because it's not the United States man and it's not a US Silver Eagle. I'm not paying the premium for it. You see that? So this is pure buoyan.
Then we have numismatic and then we have specially minted which is kind of in the middle. I'm going to pay more for a silver eagle even though it is just a piece of silver. It's created by the United States men. I'm paying for the brand. I'm going to pay more for Canadian maple leaves. Why? Because I'm paying for the brand. Okay so when I first got involved I didn't know these things either. Right? And so a lot Luckily, you know, I I got hooked up with Matt and Mint Builder and so he, you know, I got directed immediately, okay, this is Booie and you want Booyan. They sell newismatic but they were clear like, this is numismatic. You know, and so you, if you want to do the collector thing, you get the new asthmatic. If not, you do the bullion or there's the minted stuff. And so, I learned this upfront but those are the three categories you need to know about first if you're buying precious metals.
Now, the purpose of buying precious metals, the purpose of it is to store value. Okay, so the number one thing you need to know as a a precious metals purchaser is this is not an investment. Okay, it's not investment. it's not going to pay you an income. It's not something that you you buy like a stock or or a piece of real estate and you trade it around. It's a store of value. Okay, the reason why people ever first started using gold is they were sick of bartering. So, they needed a medium of exchange that would retain its value that everyone agreed upon was valuable. If you take gold to the the Amazon Desert or the Amazon Jungle right now and you show it to someone down there that's never seen it before, they're immediately going to see that it's valuable. we just know, right? You look all the way back at at Pharaoh's. They collected gold.
You look at kings, they collected gold. Everyone has always agreed on the value of gold, right? So, even today, like if it wasn't valuable, why does the Fen have half a trillion dollars in it? Why? Why is Russia loading up right now, right? So, everyone agreed it was valuable. Think about this. Everyone liked it. Everyone used it. Everyone that was willing to accept it. It didn't expire. You couldn't create more of it. Still true to this day. Like, it's the medium of exchange. And so because of this, that was the purpose of gold. I produce wheat when I go to the market. I don't want the wheat to expire. I'm going to trade it for gold. Right? And then when I go to the market, I've got gold.
I can go buy everything with the gold. Anyone that I talk to will want the gold. Right? Instead of the the coincidence of needs. If I bring the wheat to the market, I'm only going to be able to get a deal if you want wheat. If you don't want wheat, I'm out of luck. I need to go home with my wheat and hope that I can use it before it all goes bad. Right? So got rid of that because I could just take the gold and everyone was willing to have it. right? So, so that's what it is. It's a store of value. It's something I buy. I keep for the period of time that I'm going to keep it for and then I I put it to use. So, either exchange out of it, we'll talk tonight about being able to borrow against it, being able to lease it out for income.
There's a lot of things you can do with it but it's not an investment, okay? It's a store of value, okay? So, I want to I want to drill this in. Now, here's the process I want to go through. I'm going to just draw this out. Now, when we're buying gold. Um it's important to know where it comes from, right? So, I'm going to clear my screen here and just kind of type this sequence out. So, the first thing is gold gets mined, right? It gets mined out of the ground, okay? And so, people will dig for it. They'll, that's, you know, I'm from Alaska, the the Alaskan Gold Rush, the Klondike, right? Everyone found out Alaska had gold and they're like, man, that's when back when when gold was the the Bitcoin of the day, everyone's like, man, I'm going to get rich mining gold.
Most people didn very few did, right? But everyone rushed up and they mined it. Today, people still mine gold. So, this is where it comes from. Now, you have to realize when gold gets pulled out of the ground, it's in a bunch of rocks and dirt and residue and other metals, right? So, a miner, when they pull gold out of the ground, they're going to pull it out and they're going to sell it to a refiner. Okay? Now, you have to realize, I'm just going to change this to minor. We'll just go with the titles here. You have to realize that every time someone touches gold in the in the sequence of it going from its destination into the hands of you and I, the purchasers of it, the ones that are in a store of value in it.
Every time someone gets involved, it increases the price. Okay, no different than anything. Like, when you buy your your food at Costco, there was a bunch of middlemen that touched it before it ended up on the shelves at Costco. And the more middleman there are, the more costs you pay, because each one of those guys has to get paid for touching it, for being involved.
So, the mind they dig it at the ground. They have their cost. They want to make profit. They sell it to a refiner and they sell it at a profit. Okay, so the refiner pays more for the gold than the miner actually put into it so that the miners can be profitable. The refiners, what do they do? The refiners, they basically are refined. They purify. They get all of the other metals and dirt and and additives out so that there is just pure gold, okay? Now, they're just going to get it in in bricks. They're just going to get to the point where it's refined.
It's in these giant bricks. They're going to sell it, okay? The refiner is typical going to sell it to a mint, okay? Now, what does a mint do? A mint takes this giant brick and they turn it into little bars and rounds and coins and one ounces and ten ounces and five grams and all of these different things. Now, they also certify the purity of it. They use something called an assay for this. They certify the purity of it, the weight of it, and make sure that it meets market standards, okay? So, the mint buys from the refiner and they mince the gold like when you mint the coin, you're stamping it, you're putting your little logo on it, you're creating, you know, the coin that's the perfect circle and the perfect weight and it's got the perfect blend of material So, that's what happens at the minute.
Now, when the refiner sells it to the mint, the refiner also sells for a profit right? So, the mint pays more for the gold than the refiner paid. The refiner pays more for the gold than the miner paid. Tracking so far, each one of these guys brought the price up. Okay, what is the the mints do? Okay, the mint sells to a wholesaler. Right? So, this is another group. So, mints don't sell the consumers. When you guys are watching the gold market, who's ever seen the the it's called Spot when you see the pricing and it's called Spot Price, okay? The only ones that buy a spot is the mint. Right? The mint is paying spot. They're they're paying literally just the value of the month because that's all it costs them, right? Now, when a wholesaler buys it, they're going to pay more for the gold than the mint pin.
The mint is not going to sell the gold to a wholesaler at a loss. They're going to make money on the deal, right? So, the mint charges a little bit more. The wholesaler is required to buy gold in volume, right? So, for example, in the US Mint, I think the minimum to buy silver, I think is like a five-million-dollar minimum. They're not going to sell you silver eagles as a wholesaler if you're not going to spend that much money. That's how the mint makes the money because there's these thin, little, razor-thin margins on it. So, they're going to sell a bunch of it. They want to sell gigantic amounts. So, these wholesalers, they have requirements on how much volume they're going to purchase, okay? Now, the wholesaler when they buy it, they're going to sell it, typically to a distributor, okay, a distributor is typically going to sell it to a broker or a dealer, and then the broker or is going to sell it to a end buyer.
All these guys make money, right? So, the mint, they charge a little bit. The miner, they charge a little bit, right? The the refiner, they charge a little bit. The wholesale that they charge a little bit. The distributor, they charge a little bit. The broker, they charge a little bit, then the end buyer, they pay everyone's charge. That's why when you buy gold, you're not paying spot. You're paying spot plus one or two, or three, or four, or 5% on top of that. So, this is a, this is where gold pricing comes in. So, when I was buying, I was the end buyer and, and I would even I would even go further than this. I would say there's maybe even another step. Oftentimes, there might be a retailer, right? A retailer might buy from a broker.
You go to a coin shop, like a a physical location. A lot of times, they're buying from a broker, okay? So, if I'm paying retail, I'm literally buying the most expensive gold and silver that I can buy. Why? Because all of these people had to take a fee. Okay? Now, before we get into the fee thing, let me let me stop my screen share. Before we get into the the fee thing, and again, if you guys have Questions, dropping them in the chat. We'll answer questions periodically here.
Before we get into the fee thing, this is not a rant about never pay fees, okay? Never pay fees if you're not getting value. If you're getting value, great. Like the fee is is equal to the value you're getting? Awesome. Okay? So, so that's something I'm okay with. Now, I'm not okay for with paying a fee where I don't get anything. Nobody likes that. Right? So, so when I pay a fee, I want to make sure, okay, I'm getting value and so if I buy gold from a retailer or from a broker and they're charging a fee, other than the commodity of gold that I can buy anywhere on the planet. What else am I getting? That's what I'm asking myself. Because gold literally is a commodity. A commodity means it's the same across the board.
Everyone is going to have the same price. Everyone's got the same thing. And so if you're more expensive it's like why am I paying you more? Right? So that's what I'm looking at. So this is not poverty mode. Never pay fees. you know, screw profit. Everyone should lose money in business. No, this is not that. Right? That's stupid. Right? This is if you're going to pay a know what it's for and know what you're getting in in value and benefit, okay? So, I want to answer some questions really quick.
By the way, if you're on this webinar live, you're probably going to get reached out to from Nano. Nano works on my team. He's our our client acquisition manager. So, he's reaching out to connect with you, answer questions with you. One of the things that he'll discuss with you is my book, Blueprint to Financial Freedom. So, if you've not read this, this is a fantastic step-by-step pathway on, okay, how do I build wealth? Where do I start? Where do I go from from point A to point B. There's an entire chapter in here on gold by the way. Okay, so Nano is probably reaching out to you. Um if you would like to get a copy of this book, Nano can get it to you. He can also get you a free consultation and help you get through the book as well which is awesome. So, I want to open this up for some questions really quick. first one is from Mark. Let me bring Mark on live.
So we got a question from Mark Perry here. Alright, we should be live with Mark. How are you today, Mark? Hey, Jerry. How was nice to hear your voice on these trainings on Friday. I look forward to it every week. Uh my question is in regarding to gold and silver bullion bars. And I I've been noticing a lot more that the brand that that mince the bars. Is it big disparity in prices according to the brand and I'm I'm not sure why there is and it doesn't even matter when when purchasing if you know one brand versus the other and and why it's such a big price difference when buying bars especially in big amounts like 00 ounce silver bars or ten ounce gold bars. Yeah that's a really good question Mark. And I I saw the same thing. So when I first started buying gold and silver while Marcus saying is you'll see different brands right? Um so for example you know what what's one of them? Like like Pam Swe PAMP Suites like Pamp Swiss. They're going to be maybe a little bit more expensive and it it literally in most of these cases, I'm not going to say all of them.
In most of these cases, it literally does just come down to the brand, right? They're selling the same one ounce of gold. It's the same purity. They're just saying, you know, we're we're the Gucci of gold. You're going to pay more because of our brand. You're going to pay more because you know, you're doing business with us. So, that's that's really where that comes in. As long as you're buying from legitim and reputable, you know, dealers, and this is where it comes down to who you're buying from, because they, they can counterfeit. There can be false, you know, fake gold and silver. So, if you're buying from a, you know, a pawnshop and it's like, man, I could get that really cheap piece over there. There's a chance it could be fake, right? And the way that they do fake gold is they'll actually use tungsten.
It's a very cheap metal and they'll just coat it in gold and you'll have no idea, right? You'll think it's gold. Now, if you peel the gold coating off, you'll find out it's just tungsten, right? So, When you're working with a dealer, you want to make sure that that is a dealer that you know is reputable because the dealer is the one that needs to inspect for quality that they're not giving you bunk product and that you're getting something good. Now, if all of that's the same, then, go with the cheap stuff, right? I have a my buddy, Matt is on. So, Matt owns Mint Builder and we have an ongoing joke that that he goes for the cheapest like when he's looking to sell bullying to clients, he looks like, okay, what's the cheapest price we can get? Sometimes, they'll send out Christmas bullion, right? Like it's a gold coin and got a little Christmas decoration on it. Still point99 nine pure.
One ounce of gold, like one gram. Same everything. But because it's a Christmas decoration and it's like not the sexiest thing in the world. Right? Like it's cheaper. And that's simply because the aesthetic of it and it doesn't have the collector's value. I want the damaged stuff. I want the scratch stuff. I want the Christmas coins. I want the stuff that's got a little bit of that that brown residue because it got oxidized.
Because that's the cheap stuff. And at the end of the day it all melts down to one ounce and it's still point nine nine nine pu and so as long as I know that about it, then, I don't care who it's from. Now, Mark asked another question which is a good question about denominations. He said, you know, if you buy bigger bars, it gets cheaper, That actually goes back to, I want to go back to my my little drawing here. That actually goes back to the mint, right? So, if you think about when when a mint buys like, you know, a 400 ounce bar of gold from a refiner or one hundred ounce bar gold from a refiner and they're like, okay, we're going to cut this up. We're going to melt it down and chop in the product. The smaller pieces they're making, the more money it costs, right? Because it's more, it's more doing this. They've gotta chop it up into more, it takes more resources, it takes more machinery, and so, when you buy like a one gram or a five gram, that piece of gold is going to cost more per gram than buying a, you know, ten ounce bar and the reason why is that ten ounce bar doesn't take as much, as much resource to make.
It's a larger cut, and so they, they can do it quicker, and it's a lot less work, and it's a lot less money for them, right? So, that's one of the tricks of the trade that we'll get into is how do you buy the right denominations? By denominations, I mean the right amount of ounces. Okay, if I buy more ounces, I'm going to save more money and it's not just more ounces like like if I buy ten, one ounce bars instead of twenty, it's it's if I could buy A 20-ounce single bar. Instead instead of 21 ounce bars. That single bar, that twenty ounce single bar is going to give me a lower overall price because it cost them less to manufacture it. So, that's an excellent question for Mark And that's that's a seasoned question. You can tell Mark is a a gold and silver guy. Um just by knowing to ask that question. Good question from Mark there.
Let me see what else we have in the chat before we jump back into this. Good to see everyone on tonight Looks like some good good communication going on with Nano. Um and it looks like Matt actually has more of a comment. Let me bring Matt on really quick. Hey, Matt. What's up? Hey, hey. Yeah, I know I was just making a comment about, you know, when he was, that was a really good question he had. You know, he was talking about the, you know, the the bullying, higher prices, and this has been something in the last 15 years that we've dealt with as a wholesaler and that is that, you know, should I pay premiums especially when it comes to government minute versus private minute. You know, I feel like I can trust the government more than I can trust the private minson and you know, it really does come down to what are you looking for but I think what you, I think you covered it pretty good but just an example the the Gold American Eagle is literally only ninety-one point I think six 7% Yeah.
Gold versus the private man. We there's tons of highly reputable you know private mens you can trust and they're like 9-9. 9 or 9nine pointnine nine percent pure gold. So for me personally I'd I'd be going for for that versus just to be able to pay that higher premium. Same with silver. The the Silver American Eagle. Uh you know right now the premiums are skyrocketing. You're you're talking like sixteens you know dollars over spot for an ounce of silver just so you can get you know, an American Silver Eagle. Well, that kind of starts to lean towards more towards the new Mismatic side. We were talking earlier. So, yeah. Yeah, that's a good comment. Um and and actually, Matt's, Matt's totally right on the Silver Eagle and the American Eagle. So, what Matt was saying with that is, when you buy a a gold eagle from the US Mint, you're only actually getting about ninety-one, 92% actual gold. The rest of it's alloyed in with other metals versus, you know, buy like a if you bought one ounce of gold like from us for example where it's like you know Valkambi or it's one of these other brands.
Sure it's not US men but you're you actually are getting 99. 99% gold. You're getting more gold than you actually get at the US Mint. So it's starting to become more of a collector's item of commemorative piece. Um and and so that's that's something especially in twenty twenty. We saw the US mayor really get you know hit. They started to go by the wayside as far as quality, purity, speed, all of those things that matter when buying bullion. So, good point from Matt there. Let me see if we have any other questions here before we jump into the next part of this. Good. I think that that's all the questions right now and again, if you have more questions, go ahead and drop those in the the chat Uh Mark adds, I noticed that the more attractive bars are are sold at a higher premium than the non-attractive, Asahi, Englehard.
Yeah, exactly. Um Mark, you want the ugly stuff? You want, you want the the red-headed stepchild of the litter because at the end of the day, like, if you're buying it as a store of value, it's not jewelry, it's not collectors, it's kind of like we talked about with the lending last week, like if I am buying a a home that I know I'm going to sell or finance out, I don't care that it's not pretty. I'm not going to live there, it's not mine I'm not I'm not the landlord. It's I don't have any pride of ownership. It's literally just an interest payment, right? And so, same thing with gold, it's just a commodity. It's something that I'm just looking at. Where can I get the, the best deal for the right premium, for the right product, and also, there's other factors we'll jump into as well.
Justice as I'm improving my situation by watching FinanceFriday while making adjustments to my Glock 19 and Bergara 6. 5 Creedmoor basic dude stuff. Those those are the other kind of precious metals Justin. Um that's Justin on on our Facebook, our Facebook feed. Um good. So, let me jump into the next part of this. So, we're talking about how do we, how do we get the best pricing, right? So, I was buying here. I was an end buyer, right? And I was buying from retailers and I was buying from brokers and when you buy from a retailer, you're typically going to pay 3 to five percent more than than market.
If you buy it from a broker, you're going to pay about market, mean all brokers pretty much are going to be the same. Like you're you're arguing over half a percent better on one versus the other, right? So, at the time, I was like, man, how do I buy cheaper gold? You know, how do I buy cheaper gold? I was storing it at home so it wasn't like I had all these storage costs. I wasn't really going to sell any of it. So, I was like, I need to figure out how do I get a lower entry price, okay? So, what I did is I bypassed the broker, the retailer, the dealer, and the distributor. I got rid of these guys. And became a wholesaler. Okay, I started buying at wholesale pricing, right? And and so, what this does for me is it saves me, you know, one, two, three, 4% on the purchase versus what I had been paying at, right? Because I know that gold is going to make, you know, what, 8 to 10% per year over the long haul.
That's what it's done but if I can save, you know, one to maybe 3% in fees on purchasing it because I don't have to pay the distributor to touch it. I don't have to pay a broker to touch it. I don't have to pay a retailer to touch it and I can just bypass them and get the same price that the wholesal are paying. Like when a wholesaler buys it from a mint, they're paying a little bit more than Spot. They're paying, you know, like, like for example, ounce a gold, right? An ounce of gold, they might pay 30, 40, $50 over spot. Versus retail, you might pay like 2% over a spot, which is a lot more, right? So, I want to look at how can I get wholesale pricing.
So, that's what I ended up doing and so I I did that actually through, it's funny that Matt's on the webinar, through Matt's company, Mint Builder. Okay, so what this is, is basically, the way that you do this, is it's a membership right? So, it's a membership. Just like for me to be a wholesaler in the industry, it's a membership. It costs money. I have to go through an application process.
I have to get approved. So, what Matt's company does, what my company does is we took our wholesale status 'cuz we actually are buoyant wholesalers. We're in the buoyant industry. We buy from, you know, wholesale connections, mints, like all these different relationships. So, we're able to get the best pricing and we basically said, pay us a membership and we'll pass our pricing through to you, right? Like, you can go into our shop, you can pay the same thing we would pay, and, and you're going to be able to get the best pricing, and so that saves me that one to 3 percent on the front Right? That's a big deal, right? Because here's the thing is before I was doing this, I was trying to shop around and get the cheapest thing and I talked about this a couple weeks before, right? I was trying to shop around and get the cheapest thing.
Well, when I'm shopping around a bunch of different online dealers, like I said, they're all like, you know, five bucks, 10 bucks, 15 bucks, 20 bucks, a difference. And so, if I'm spending hours and hours and hours and hours and hours trying to find the best deal to save $20 on an ounce of gold, like, that's not worth my time, and so I found myself getting caught up in that as a gold buyer, I was spending a lot of time trying to find the best deal on this and that, and then I would be like, man, I just spent an hour and I saved 20. I might as well be delivering pizza again, right? Like, that's the equivalent of what was happening. So, what I do now is I just have a membership. I pay my monthly membership and I go into my wholesale shop and and I basically, I just go in and I buy whatever I want to buy and I pay wholesale pricing.
Right? So, that's the first component of this. Like, you want to obviously understand precious metals and then, you want to be able to buy at the very best pricing. These are the first two points of being a gold and silver purchaser, right? So, if I'm buying a store value, I want to know how it works. I want the education, I want the information, I want the connections, and then, I want the best introductory pricing the best purchase price, okay? Now, the other aspect of this is, okay, well, I've bought it.
Now, what? Right? Now, what? And so, when I buy it, I have to store it. It's not digital. It's not a piece of paper that goes into, you know, some some custody company in New York and they never give it to me. No, no, they're going to send it to me and I'm going to store it or they're going to send it to a vault for me and I'm going to store it there and I'll pay for storage.
So, gold appreciates, meaning it can go up in price. Later on, it can sell at a profit but it does not pay me an income and this is this is why I say it's not an investment. It doesn't pay you an income. This is one of the fundamental flaws with with trying to treat gold as an investment. It doesn't pay an income. Now, if it doesn't pay an income, but I have to store it, that means it does have a cost. Right? It's either going to have a cost or it's going to have a risk. And what I mean by that is I'm either going to store it myself, which is free, but there's risk there. It could get stolen, it could get, you know, I could have a fire, and it could get melted and damaged, you know, it can get misplaced. Um, all sorts of and so there's going to be a risk there.
Even if I store it at home, I'm going to pay for a for a safe and I'm probably going to pay for insurance. So, there's still a cost there. If I send it to a vault, there's no risk. There's nothing is going to happen to it but there is a cost of storage, right? So, what this means is while I'm holding the gold and it's appreciating, there's going to be a holding cost. And that holding cost is not being covered by income. So, it's a negative cash flowing asset in that regard, okay? So, it might be appreciating at eight to 10% a year but in storage, it might actually cost me 1% a year in actual dollars that I have to pay to somebody for them to store it, right? And that or that 1% of in in in dollars is not being compensated until after I sell it on the back end, right? So, this is the other thing is, okay, so when I'm storing, I also want to be able to get wholesale pricing.
This is one of the keys. I want to be able to get wholesale pricing when I sell. I want to get wholesale pricing when I store. I want to get wholesale pricing when I buy. So, we talked about buying. We talked about selling. We or we haven't talked about selling. So, we talked about storing now, okay? So, when I store, I'm also then looking at where can I get the best deal on storage? Okay. Now, when I'm storing gold, if I'm sending it to a vault, which is what we're going to talk about here, there are couple of things that I'm looking for, okay? So, I want to make sure that I'm sending it to a legitimate depository vault. Meaning, it's actually a a regulated actual deal. It's not somebody's basement, right? It's not just this, you know, my buddy down the road has a has a retail office space with a safe downstairs, right? Like, it's evolved. So, what does this mean? This means that it is secure, right? It actually has a vault.
A lot of these vaults are state-of-the-art. They've got, you know, like, like so much security that, that, you know, like, earthquakes and different things and these different, you know, even even or a a sorry, these, these, factors of, of, you know, just the atmosphere around it can be detected with the vaults. Right? So, it's, it's something like, you know, secure, it's not going to be able to be broken into, it's not going to be able to be, you know, compromised, they're not lending out. It's something that actually has to be a legitimate storage, right? The second aspect of this is it needs to be allocated, right? Meaning, when I send them my medals, they're actually keeping them. They're not lending them out. They're not leasing them to other people. If I give them 10 ounces of gold, somewhere in their vault, there's ten ounces of gold that says Jerry Feda on it.
Right? And I say this because not all of them are allocated. Right? This is this is the the unallocated bullying is the fractional reserve system at work. I gave them my bullion to store and they're going to loan it out to other people. They're going to lease it out. They're going to make on it. I'm going to pay them fees.
I get nothing. I don't want that. So, it has to be allocated, right? I also want to make sure that it's insured and then, I also want to make sure that it is audited. And usually by a third party. right? So, these are the big ones. Now, the other one you could do is also called segregated. Okay, this is more important if you're doing collectors items. If I send them a very significant piece of of gold or silver, it's important that they give me that exact piece back, right? That's called segregated. Now, if I just send them ten ounces of of gold and it's a generic bullion, personally, I don't care if that's the one they give me back. As long as they give me 10 ounces back, right? So, segregated means they're literally going to pull your gold and hold it separately from everyone else's and when you ask for it back, they're going to give you your very piece of gold Now, again, that's not something I personally care about.
One ounce of gold is one ounce of gold. I don't care if it's a different brand or if it looks a little bit different when I get it back. It melts down to the same thing, right? So, segregated is not as important but it is on there but these are the big form. Secure, right? Allocated. You want it to be insured. You want it to be audited, okay? So, these are the big ones you're looking at. Now, generally speaking, you're going to usually pay retail one to maybe one and a half percent per year of what you're storing. This can vary from everybody like but the thing is is you don't want to pay that much.
If you can get it down below that number, you're going to be able to save money and you're going to have less cost to hold, right? This is no different than paying a management fee on a mutual fund. The longer I pay this fee, the the more the price of bullion goes up, the higher dollar amount that fee becomes. So, I want to get that fee down as low as I possibly can, right? So, that's the storage piece of things, okay? Now, the other aspect of this and and I'm going to jump into some questions again soon as selling.
Okay, this is the dirty little secret of the bullying industry that I didn't know about in till I actually spoke with Matt and his company and they're like, hey, we don't charge sellback fees and I was like, what? What do you mean sellback fees, right? And so, when I started looking around, most dealers charge sell back fees. Okay, a sellback fee means that when I buy booyan, right? Like, think about it. If you buy gold, how many people in your life are going to buy it from you when you're ready to sell? Okay, for me, like my friends and family, they're not people that are like, you know, yeah, yeah, we have 20 grand, we'll buy your gold from you at at spot price, Jerry. Go ahead and sell it to us. That's not, that's not them. Right? So, I have to out who I sell it to. It's not going to be a pawnshop. I know that they're going to rip me off. So, I would generally speaking, I would go back to the place I purchased it from or whoever the the big name is in the market.
I'm going to find online like Best Buyin or whatever. I'm going to look there and I'm going to say, hey, well, you guys buy my boot, okay? So, this is the thing that nobody knows because they don't tell you upfront until you go to sell, okay? These bullion companies usually charge sellback fees. okay? So, a sellback fee looks like this.
When I go to a sell, they're going to look at the market and they're going to say, okay, what's the market? Is there a lot of of bullion available and if there is, then, you know, it's plentiful. We don't really need it that bad and so, we're going to charge a really high fee 'cuz we can go buy it from anyone.
So, if you want us to buy yours, you know, make us an offer, you know, pay us a good fee and they're usually going to charge one to 3 percent. of the sale price. right? Now, that might not sound like a big deal. You're like, oh, that's not huge. Okay, but think about this. When you sell it, you're selling it for more than you pay, right? Why would you want to tax the the harvest? Why would you want to pay fees on on the higher price at the end? You already paid fees to purchase it.
Right? Why would you, why would you also pay fees on the back end? Okay, and this is why the bullion shops do this. If they can buy, they buy a spot, right? So, they're looking at paying spot. If they can buy a 97% a spot, meaning they're buying at a 3% discount and then when they sell they're going to sell it for 3% more than Spot. They just doubled their profit on the same bullion. Same amounts of gold, they're going to make 6% now instead of three. This is how used car dealerships work. Same exact system, right? You turn in your car, you already know you're not going to get a good price for it. You already know that they're going to pay you under market value because that's how they make the profit and then when they sell it, they're going to market up and they're going to charge way more than it's actually worth and that's how they make their profit on the sale. Bullion is the same exact way, okay? So, I don't want to pay those sellback fees ever, right? To me, that's stupid.
Why would I pay to purchase and then also pay to sell. When I'm selling, I'm helping them. I'm giving them inventory. Even if I sold it to them at Spot, that's already a deal because they can't even buy that spot from a Wholesale it. The wholesaler is going to charge them spot plus a fee, right? So, so I don't want to, like, I'm already going to give them a deal at Spot.
I don't want to pay them 3%, or two percent, or 1 percent on top of that just to sell the bullion on a larger number, right? So, I want to show you guys the math on this really quick and then, I'm going to open this up for some more questions. So, let's say that I buy $20, 000 worth of gold. Okay, I'm just going to show you the difference here. Okay, so I buy $20, 000 worth of gold And we'll say, retail And then we'll say wholesale. Okay. I'm going to do this on my calculator so you guys won't be able to see all of the numbers but I'm going to type them out as they go. So both of them I put in 20000 dollars, right? I'm going to buy 20 grand worth of gold. Okay, on retail, let's say that I pay a 3% fee. Which means that I'm only actually going to be able to buy 19, 400 worth of gold, right? So I've got nineteen thousand 400 worth of gold.
Let's say that I sell it or or sorry, I store it in a vault, right? And I, and I keep it there for 10 years, and entire time it's earning an 8% annual rate, right? So, I've got, I put in 20, 000 and I did that times 10 years and it's earning eight percent per year while it's there. Okay, so we're all tracking with this so far, right? Now, 20, 000 in but I paid those fees because it's retail, right? Let's say that I'm also paying storage and my storage is one percent. Okay? And then, at the end of that 10 years, what do I have? Okay, so we're going to look at this whole equation.
So, I put it in twenty thousand, paid a 3% fee upfront, paid 1% annually in storage. I make 8% a year and when I when I sell it, there's a sellback fee of let's say 2%. Okay, they charge me 2% to buy my buoyan back, okay? So, that means that I'm only actually getting 98% of what I'm selling for because I'm paying them two percent to sell it back to them. So, at the end of this, I did make money right? But I'm going to have forty-two thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents. Okay, after 10 years, right? So, the difference here, let at Wholesale. Wholesale, same deal. I buy it, hold it for 10 years At 8% a year Okay, but on wholesale, there's no fees. I'm I'm getting my money's worth for bullying. They're not charging me extra fees, right? So, I'm actually getting the true value of what I'm putting in, okay? So, 20, 000 goes in.
Let's say that my storage is is, you know, point 75 instead of 1%. I'm able to save 25 basis points on storage, right? And you can get it down even lower. You can maybe even go. point 5 zero but let's let's just give the benefit of the down and say, I get point seven five percent storage cost instead of 1%, okay? So, what does that do for me, right? So, at the end of because I didn't have any selfies. Or sorry, yeah, yeah, no selfies, no, no, no buy fees, and then cheaper storage. At the end of this, this comes out to 44 thousand three hundred ninety-two dollars and eighty cents. right? So, I made over $2, 000 difference Okay? And that's that's on a very small amount. If you scale this out, this is on $20, 000 put in once. Imagine, like some of my clients, I had a guy send me a picture today and I can't post it here. I wish you could. Like, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold. Okay, and this adds up. So, if you look at the, just the scale of this, on a tiny, little 20 thousand dollar purchase over a ten-year period, this came out to over $2, 000 difference.
Retail cost me two grand. Wholesale, I made more than two grand, just because I had lower fees, right Now, if we scale this out and we say, well, what if it was 1 00thousand? Okay, what if it was half a million? Like, what if it was some real serious numbers we're playing with at that point, okay? So, this is how you get the advantage on Bullion. This is, this is literally like you you you're making your money back on on literally just the savings. Right? Same exact purchase, same exact everything. The difference is I didn't have to pay the fees to get in. Okay, I didn't have the same storage costs, right? And then I didn't have the selling fees. Now, storage, let's, let's look at what if we could get that down to.
50% instead. so if I go point 5zero% instead Hope it doesn't look like my calculator will let me do that. I don't want to dink around with this. But you guys get the picture, okay? So, this is, this is how you save money on Buoyan. Now, the other aspect as well, and I'm going to open this up for questions in a little bit. When you're buying from these larger Mark says, you didn't include the membership fees in the wholesale price. Yeah, so membership fees and again, you only bought once, right? So, membership fees for 1 year is thirty-nine dollars a month times 12 months. So, you paid $468 in membership fees. Right? So, we can subtract that out but that's a, you know, if you just have the membership once because you're keeping it there, you're buying it one time and that's it, right? Now, if you're buying ongoing, that's different math but Mark has a point.
So, you pay $460 for one year of membership fees to buy that $20, 000 worth of gold. So, When we look at the other aspect, when you're buying from and this is the last thing I'm going to cover before we jump into more questions. When you're buying from these larger online dealers, right? You know, and I'll go ahead and name a few names, Jambuyen, right? You go there. Some of these bigger shops. When you're buying from them, a lot of times they're selling like, like, at the prices they're selling. You might compare it against them against others and be like, hey, this is this is cheap, right? This is very cheap. The reason why they're selling at some of the prices they're selling at, it's called a lost lead. They're willing to lose money on the bullion because that's not where they their money. Okay, they make their money when you sell it back to them like we covered. They make their money in storage and then, they also make their money by selling your information, right? So, they will sell your personal information to marketing companies and that's how they make a profit That way, information, no different than Facebook.
Why is Facebook free? They sell your information, right? You are the product. So, with a lot of these really big box discount online shops, you are the product. They're selling your information and that that can be personal information and then, that can also be your trade orders. Mean when when when they have a big enough client base, they can say, here's our orders, like, here's what people are buying and selling right now, they'll take that list and sell that to a hedge fund. The hedge fund will pay a really good money for that list because they now have insider information on what the bullion market's doing. Right? JP Morgan in twenty20, they paid a $2 billion dollar fine for rigging the silver market. And they still made profit after the fine, right? So if they can get information to rig a market or manipulate a market, these hedge funds are will to pay for that and so a lot of these bullying need not all of them but these bigger the bullying shops they'll sell your trade history, your order history for profit on that end as well.
Right? So if they can get you in purchasing, they can now sell your personal info, they can sell your trade history, and then when you sell it, you gotta come back to them and they're going to make fees when it costs more anyways. They're willing to be really cheap on the front end. They're willing to lose a little bit of money. So that's another thing like, for me, with Matt's company, Mint Builder, they don't do that. They're not selling your info, they're not charging you sell back and so I appreciate that.
We're the same way. When clients buy from us, all of that stays private, right? So, I'm going to open this up for some questions but the big thing that I want to get across from you is you know, when you're buying gold and silver, again, it is a store value. It's not an investment. It's not a speculation, right? And the main things you want access to is you want access to education. You want access to like low low front-end costs, low holding costs, and low selling costs and if you can get four of those things that's perfect And so that's what I do. That's what my company does.
That's what we encourage people to look for, right? Now, the final thing that I do want to touch on is the, the, the broker thing. So, if, if you're going to pay a fee, right? So, when you're paying a fee, if you're going to buy from a broker, sometimes our clients will buy from us as a broker where they're like, hey, well, you do the order. So, if I'm doing the wholesale thing and I'm paying for a membership and I'm just trying to get the cheapest cost, that said, do it yourself system. Meaning, I have a membership I'm going to log in. I'm going to shop my order.
I'm going to place my order. I'm going to pick what I want. I'm going to do it all by myself. And that's why that's cheaper. Is it self service? Right? You're getting wholesale pricing and you're self-servicing. Now if I need help or if if I'm looking for convenience that's where I would pay a broker. I'd say, hey, I don't know what I'm doing. So, I'm not going for the cheapest. I just want to make sure I don't get in trouble. I want to make sure that I get the right thing and I will pay you a fee to help. And that's where you'd hire a broker. Right? So where where would I hire a broker? I would I would pay a fee to a broker if A, I didn't know what I was doing yet, and they were giving me help.
I would pay for convenience like, hey, I just, I'm busy, right? I have some clients who are like, yeah, I know I could go do the wholesale but I would rather just have you guys do it every month, right? Just, just send it to me, bill my account, I don't want to think about it, I just want to have the gold show up. So, that's another time I would pay a broker.
The other thing is if they have access to like connections, information, things that I wouldn't get from anywhere else, right? And so, if I can get something like that where it's like, okay, I'm actually getting, you know, for example, we help our clients borrow against their gold. We help them lease their gold out for income. We help them set up IRAs. There's a lot of different things we do as a broker that other people might not do, right? And so, those are things that when I'm paying a broker, I'm justifying, okay, what if, what am I getting for the fee, which is what I said at the beginning. So, if I'm going wholesale, do-it-yourself system, I place my orders, I remind myself to place orders, I do everything myself If I'm going for a broker, I'm really leaning on their expertise and and I'm making them earn that fee is the point that I'm making. So, I'm going to open this up for some questions here. If you guys are on Zoom, go ahead and drop your questions in the chat and if you're on Facebook drop them in the comments and we'll we'll answer them that way too.
So, let me check Facebook first and see if we have any questions here. Alright, I don't think I see any new questions on on Facebook. Good. So, let me see Zoom here next. Mark has a good question about the about a the membership. Like if you if you have a membership fee and you're buying. Alright, so we have Mark back here. Mark, well, go ahead and ask you a question about the the just the cost benefit on the fee. Oh, yeah, yeah, Jerry. For, for me, like, I only purchase precious metals maybe at the most once a quarter, say four, four, at the most five times a a year. So, you know, I wish I knew you 30 years ago when I started investing in gold and I I would be a regular customer, that's for sure. But for me, I, I, I'm more interested, in, in the charismatic part. I I'm more of a collector than a storage of value type of bullying goal. Although I have both. So when I do buy, you know, gold and silver, I primarily buy it in the numismatic field, graded, proof, MS certified, and all, you know, all of that stuff.
Uh I I just love gold and silver. Um as the coin, numismatic part of it. Um more so than I do in the bullying part. only reason I started investing more in the Bullion part of it is because of the current economic situation that's going on. So I kind of changed my strategy as far as accumulating more precious metals but yeah I I think if any anybody's new in buying gold and silver you're you're environment is excellent and I I if I didn't have you know in an relationship from people over the years, I would definitely hop on and with with you Jerry. I spoke with Nano I think a week ago and I ordered your your book and you guys are top notch. That's all I got to say. You know, I love your training and I've been following you for a while though I'm not an active client.
I still wholeheartedly appreciate all of the information and value that you bring to the masses. Um I really appreciate that part of it. Uh Jerry. You're you're awesome. Yeah, thank you Thank you. and and Mark is right. So, when you're, when you're doing a membership system, you know, like, you do want to look at how frequently am I ordering, right? So, if I'm ordering like Matt's like, Mark said, I'm ordering once a year and it's like, I'm not doing a ton or I'm ordering twice a year, then, you know, sometimes it might be cheaper for me to pay retail on that one or two orders if they're just one-off type deals. So, that's again, where I would go like Matt, like Mark said, having, having, you know, having established relationships.
I would go to my broker and just say, hey, I want to by this and I'm going to do it twice this year and and I'll pay 3% because that's cheaper and and it's not going to be the same as the membership, right? Now, if I'm buying every month, then, it's like, okay, you know, like, like Costco, right? I'm going to go buy cheaper groceries at Costco. Although, I don't think they're cheaper anymore.
I think they just say they're cheaper. Same thing with Amazon, right? But these are the membership things. If I'm buying frequently or if I'm buying a large quantity. So, if we do the math on it, let's say that I'm paying, you know, 2% more on gold retail versus buying wholesal right? So, a membership with with Mint Builder with us is $39 a month. Um if we do the backwards math on that, thirty-nine dollars divided by point zero two means that I would need to be spending at least nineteen fifty a month, right? In in gold. So, that's basically one ounce of gold a month and that one ounce I'm making back my membership already. Um that might be several ounces worth of silver. Now, that's just on the buy. The other aspect is the storage. Um with with Mark, I don't know if Mark is throwing at home or not. I I saw him comment which I agreed.
Never store in a in a safety deposit box at a bank. The bank is the enemy. Like don't, don't, like, you've heard the phrase, what is the phrase, don't let the fox guard the chicken coop, okay? Don't put the chicken in the foxhole. Like, storing your your gold in a bank is putting the chicken in the foxhole. It's not even letting the fox guard the chicken coop. You're putting the chicken in the fox's home. What do you think is going to happen to the chicken? Right? So, that is the other aspect with the membership. Matt says banks don't even store their own gold, right? Like, what are banks even for at this point? This is ridiculous. Um but the storage is the other aspect. So, I'm I'm looking at, okay, if I buy one ounce of gold a month, I'm making my membership back just on that. If I'm storing and I'm getting cheaper storage, I'm making my membership back on that.
When I'm selling, same thing, I'm making my membership back on that. If I'm doing collateral loans and I'm not having to pay taxes on my gains because I borrowed instead of sold, I'm making my membership back there as well So, depending on your use but but Mark is totally right. If you're doing just a couple here and there, the membership might not make sense. Mark, I know we do numismatic and so that's something we can talk about if if you if you want to add that to your repertoire of of, you know, places you can go look at.
Mark says, banks are only good for Helox and paying monthly bills. Yeah, let me borrow against my house and and let me pay my bills and even then, it's like, you know, the the the bill pay thing is kind of arbitrary. I don't like paying money to you know, move paying fees to move money from my left pocket to my right pocket. Like that doesn't make any sense to me. But that's the business banks are in. So, Mark is right on those points. Good. So, let's see what are the questions we have here. Daniel has a question. Let me see if Daniel is still on. We're on with oh he's got the little guy on.
Hey, Jerry. Hey, Dan. How are you today? Awesome. Um, loving the webinar. Awesome. How's the little dude doing? Oh, man. He's getting big. So, the question here is you you know, you see the market. Uh there are a lot of inflation going on and we're we're seeing about 8% increase in gold per year but, what, what, what, what has to happen in the market for it to spike, to go above that. Yeah, that's a good question. So, gold is interesting because there's, there's, there's manipulation that goes on, it's also a tier 1 asset, which means it, it, it competes with the US Treasury for banks. So, like when treasury rates go down, banks buy more gold, then the price of gold goes up, treasury, treasury rates come up, and then like, oh, we want to own treasuries again, they get rid of gold or lessen their gold buying. So, there's a lot of factors. The biggest one is supply and demand, right? With any economic factors, supply and demand.
So, gold already has a limited supply. Limited quantity, there's only enough gold in existence for every single human being on Earth to own one ounce. That's it, okay? Now, the problem is the demand lies within financial literacy. I'm going to say this really bluntly. Stupid people won't buy gold. Right? Like people that don't understand money, they're not going to buy gold. They're they're just because they don't do smart things with their money. So, enough has to happen economically for the masses to be like, we're going to buy gold and when that happens, everyone rushes for gold and that jerks the price back up, right? So, in the nineteen 30s, everyone owned gold, right? By by definition, if you owned a dollar, there was gold underlying it.
People go down physical. We got off that system. We went to the Bretton Wood system where we had gold back dollars but they were fractional. People still owned some gold based on dollars and seventy-one. That was done. The dollar no longer was linked to gold and now only 12% of America owns gold which means the demand for gold on a consumer level is not there like it should be and that is due to financial illiteracy which is part of what we're solving, right? So, your question.
That's the aspect. There's always going to be industrial demand. There's always going to be banking demand. There's always going to be, you know, you know, like I said, the tier one asset aspect and all these different things but until the the American citizen says, that's a store of value. I'm done with the dollar and I'm not going to speculate. That's something that has to really click, I think, for us to see gold. You know, realize what it should be at and until then, it'll continue producing like it has been but I think what Dan is asking is when when do we see it, you know, like, exponentially, up. Um and I think that's the point where that would occur.
That's a great question too. I think we've got a maybe a couple more more questions here. So, Nana says, Jessica was asking what is meant by 19fifty. Was that, was that 1950 a month? Yeah, exactly. So, so the Mint Builder membership is 39 a month. Let's say that if I'm buying gold at retail, and I'm probably paying more than 2 percent. It's probably more like 3%. So, I'm paying 3% extra retail to buy gold and so, with that being said, if I'm saving that, I divide $39 dollars by point zero three. And that actually comes out to $1, 300 a month. So, so depending on where you're buying, what you're buying from, that's going to be your monthly order in order for your Mint Builder membership to basically pay for itself just on purchasing and then, again, the storage, selling, taxing, all these other things come into it as well but that's just done buying. Matt adds, you can also pause your membership for three months without losing your position.
Yeah, so that's another thing is if you, this is I think back to Mark's point. If you have, infrequent gold buying and you're like, I want the I'm not going to be using a ton. You can start it and then you can pause it for three months and then after 3 months, you can reup it again, make another purchase. I don't know how many times you can do that. Maybe Matt can answer that for us. But that's, that's something you can do if you're kind of an intermittent gold buyer, but I don't like the intermittent thing. I think if you're going to buy it, Mess says no limits.
You could literally start it, pause it for 3 months, start it again, buy some, pause it for 3 months, and just every quarter, you could be putting in gold orders, and that gives you access a membership. So, you pay for for the use of it, right? Mark says, that's a good aspect. Yeah and I'm literally four payments a year. Yeah, exactly. And I'm not a intermittent buyer. If you guys know me, what I recommend and I'll wrap up on this point is commit to just like with your sacred account, commit to a monthly amount that you know you can put in the gold and silver no matter what. And that's like your base. That's your base contribution. You're going to put that in. As you have more money show up, you start dumping in more. right? So, so what I do is I'll have a monthly amount where I know every month I'm going to kind of do X and I'll stay in that zone and then, as I have cash show up, then, I'll dump more in more on an unscheduled basis.
So, if you're a sacred account client, it's kind of like the paid up editions writer. Um Let's see here Nano says this would be a good practice regardless. It's a forced savings plan. Exactly. Yeah. So it's a forced savings plan and that that takes discipline out of it. It automates that process. Good. And then Jessica says she's buying a hundred dollars a month not including membership.
Yeah, so you're still saving on the hundred, to answer Jessica's questions. So, Jessica's saying she's buying a 00 dollarsa month of gold with a membership. So, she's still saving on the membership. Um, there are other benefits to it, that, that as you're, because you're a member, you have access to certain things. So, if you're smaller and you're not doing, you know, a thousand, 2000, 3000 a month yet, having that membership, having that relationship does give you access to things down the road that you wouldn't have otherwise. Um, so it's kind of an investment in that aspect too. But and then the other thing Jessica says to says cool things. The other thing too is you know the the the use of it.
So, it's, if I have a membership, what am I doing with it? If I'm never using it, it's kind of like a gym membership, right? I can sign up for a gym membership. I used to be a personal trainer. People do that all the time and they never use it and then, it's like, yeah. You probably shouldn't have one, right? But even if I go and you know, a little bit and I go on a little bit more than I would have because I have a membership. That That is like a a factor and it might not be mathematical. It's more behavior. If it causes me to buy more gold than I would have, had I not had the membership. If it causes me to go to the gym more than I would have if I didn't have a membership, then it's giving me a return on investment by creating behavior change, right? Cuz eight percent of zero is zero, right? So if it's causing me to buy more gold, it's causing me to use it more.
That's the other aspect of it too. And that's the, that's the part that I like. It's not like you have to do a 000 a month. Um, Good. I think that's all of our questions. Mark says the education alone is worth the membership. Yep, I agree. This is, this is, I keep saying I'm going to wrap up. Last thing, and then, I promise I'll wrap up. I could talk all day about gold. Um, and I think we just got a couple more comments on Facebook too. Okay, so, so gold, this industry is very old. Um, and so, what I mean by that is kind of a good old voice club, right? There aren't a lot of young people in it, there aren't a lot of women in it, there aren't a lot of other, other ethnic groups, and it's kind of like old white men. And I, and I don't mean to get to that that conversation but there's not a lot of, like, it's not open to a lot of people.
The barrier to entry was very high. I was talking to Matt about when he got his first wholesale relationship, and, and, like, you know, they, they did everything but script search him. To be like, okay, cool. We'll let you join our club and we'll we'll sell Bullion to you, right? Same thing with me, like we're going through a lengthy application process. So, just the fact that we can, you know, I hate to use the buzzword, decentralize or democratize, being able to get into gold, and get the information like this and it's not like you have to be in this, you know, country club or or know the right people.
It's like, no, you can, you can go log in and go train and go learn. That's, that's something that I love about this. Maya has a couple questions on on Facebook. Maya says, what happens if the bank stores it? Why is that bad? So, that's a great question. So, first things first is, the bank has ours, right? And so, if I need my gold and the banks not open or it's a holiday, I'm basically out of luck versus with a deposit whenever I request it, they're going to send it to me. So, that's the first thing. The second thing is the the deposit boxes in the bank are not covered by FDIC insurance. Okay, that's just your deposits. So, if something happens, your goal isn't protected.
Third, like, Matt was saying, the banks don't even store their own gold. So, if they won't even store their own product, use their own storage product, then, I don't, I don't want to trust them with my gold and silver and then, last is banks are able to do what's called a bail in. If a bank goes in solvents, they can keep their deposits and and not give them to their customers in order to stay afloat before the government will bail them out. Um and so that's something that puts you at risk there as well. And then finally they're expensive. Um I think the the couple times we've used depository boxes with banks and this was years ago. They were charging like three or four hundred dollars a year for like a fourteen square inch box. Um and so they're they're charging for actual space because it's a box.
You stick it in and pull it out. Right? Versus sending it to a vault. It's just a vault. They're going to stick it wherever it fits and it doesn't. It's not if I if I want more space, I'm going to, you know, pay for the space. It's based on the amount that I'm depositing. So, those are all of the reasons, there's probably more of them. All of the reasons why I wouldn't store in a bank. Maya says, you can pay bills for free on QuickBooks. That is true. Maya says Matt's not old. Justin says, I'm not old either. Uh yo, that's what I mean. Is is is Matt, Matt, and me and and people like us. We've made this into not the good old boys club. The other people that we've talked to and worked with in the past with gold and silver, they're all like 60 and 70 years old. They've been doing it since the 1980s and it's like, you know, like just that whole scene, right? So, that is a younger guy.
I am younger. Justin is younger as well. Justin exercises every day and stays young. Mark says I'm old. Mark just, Mark admits it. That's alright. Mark is is is young at heart I can tell. Mark asked, does the IRS, does the IRS track your precious metals? From a sales tax standpoint depending on your state, that can be a factor. So, if you buy in certain states, you do pay sales tax on your purchasers and that's going to be at the state level, not the IRS level. I don't think from an IRS level, I don't think on purchases they do. I think from anti-money laundering, there are some things there if you buy over a certain amount over, I think it's 10000 is usually a threshold with cash, that might trigger, trigger some, some record keeping on like anti money, money laundering, generally speaking, like, for example with us. We don't report your gold buying to the IRS. So, you buy it from us. Sure, we report our revenue and our profits but we don't say who bought what.
That's not their business. So, it does give you privacy in that aspect. You do need to report when you sell it at a game. So, that is your responsibility to report your taxes. don't commit tax fraud. Maya and I can't help you get out of that if you do that. So, be honest with that even though you're not being tracked. Okay, good. I think that that's it. I think we can finally say we're wrapping up for tonight Nano says I'm Latino and I'm young. Very true. Yeah that's it. Good. So guys we're going to wrap up for tonight. If you're watching and you have not got a copy of my book yet. Blueprint to Financial Freedom. Grab one here. Um Jerry Feda. com forward slash B2 F. If you haven't set up a call with Nano and you want to do a free consultation. Reach out. Get connected with Nano. If he sent you a DM in the comments don't be a weirdo and ignore it. Um and then lastly if you are a client of mine has at least a sacred account.
We're doing a get together in my house tomorrow night here in Tampa. Um 6 PM Eastern Time. We will have Matt's going to be there. I was I was going to say that. Matt will be there so you guys will be able to see Matt meet him as well. Um ask him questions about gold, silver, mint builder, whether he's old or young. He's one of those people you can't tell when you meet him. So I'm I'm going to let I'm going to leave that that interesting part of Matt up to you guys to determine his age. Um but that's it. 6PM tomorrow night. We will be back again next week. Um Nano says I'll dress up as Matt tomorrow. I don't think that's possible. Uh Matt's not Latino but Nano try it. I want you to try it and I would like to see how this turns out. This is a good idea. Um this is one of your better ideas.
Alright, Greg. Guys, we're going to tune out.
Read MoreHow To Retire At 30 Living Off Investments
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in order to live off of
your investments completely. And I know that the title of this video may sound crazy about retiring by 30, and there are a lot of people
out there selling a pipe dream of you can retire by 30
as long as you invest in this course, or go buy real estate and while that may work for some people I'm not here to sell you guys a course or to pitch you on any
kind of product like that. What we're going to
simply talk about here is how much money you need to have invested in order to live off of your investments and essentially not have
to work to earn your money. And believe it or not, there's
actually countless people out there who have in fact
retired as early as 30 years old, by following this exact strategy
that I'm going to outline. So if this idea of retiring early and not having to work for your money is something that interests you. What I want to ask you
guys to do is go ahead and drop a like on this
video just show your support.
I really do appreciate
that as it helps out with the algorithm and allows this video to get shared with more people. But what we're going to look
at in particular in this video is something called the 4% rule, and that essentially
shows you just how much money you need to have set aside, in order to live
off of your investments. Now you can in fact live off of different types of investments like real estate or the stock market for
example or a business that's providing income for you. But what we're going to use in this video as an example is a passive
stock market investment, and we'll show you exactly
how much money you need to have invested in order
to live off of that income. So the goal here with this
strategy is to simply invest your money and have a large
amount of money invested and then you would
essentially be living off of the interest income or
the growth of that money without touching the principle.
And as I'm sure you guys can imagine if you're not touching the principle or your initial investment, then your money could
foreseeably last forever. Now, the sooner you're able to retire is all based on how much
money you're able to save up and how little money you are
spending each and every month, and there's actually a
whole movement of people that are following this
exact strategy, and it's something out there called FIRE, and FIRE stands for financial
independence retire early. And there's a lot of
people who are doing blogs and videos and all kinds of
stuff about this concept, and there are countless
examples out there, of people who have retired
as early as 30 or even less. By following these strategies. Alright guys so there's
basically three steps you have to follow in order to do this, and as I'm sure you can imagine, step number one is to be frugal or to spend as little money as possible, because ultimately what
you're looking to do is save and invest enough
money that the interest or the dividends, or
whatever the growth is pays for your monthly living expenses.
And as I'm sure you guys can guess if your monthly expenses
are $6,000 versus $3,000, you're going to need a
lot more money invested to cover those expenses. So being frugal and saving
as much money as possible is actually going to serve
two different purposes here. Well, number one, the
less that you're living on the more of your paycheck
you're able to save up, and the more of your paycheck
you're able to save up, the more you're able to
contribute to that freedom fund, which will eventually be paying for all of your living expenses. And then second of all by spending as little money as possible
every single month, you actually don't need
to save up as much money to potentially live off of the interest or the growth of your money.
And we're going to go over
those exact numbers right now. Alright guys so step number two
that you have to follow here is going to be a tough one, but that is going to be saving 50 to 70% of your take home income and again, if you're looking to
retire by 30 years old, let's say you want to work from 20 to 30, and then not work for
the rest of your life, you're going to have to take
some drastic actions here.
And that is why you need to live off of a microscopic amount of money. And that's why step number
one is so important, by cutting down as much as possible on those monthly expenses. So people who are trying to do this, you're not going to see
them driving brand new cars, you're not going to see
them going on vacations, they're probably going to be,
you know, eating canned beans and doing campfires in the
backyard as summer entertainment. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they are literally spending
as little money as possible, because they're focusing
on the long term picture of what they are trying to do. So people who are following
this FIRE movement are often aiming to save 30
times their annual expenses, and that will allow them to
withdraw about 4% per year without basically touching that principle and that is where that
4% rule comes into play.
And that is basically where you're able to draw from an account about 4% per year, and over a long period of
time based on the growth of that account and those investments, it shouldn't be chipping
away at the principle which should in theory
give you unlimited money. So what you're aiming
to do here is to lower your monthly expenses as much as possible.
Figure out what it costs
you to live per year, multiply that by 30, and then
save up that amount of money by saving 50 to 70% of your
paycheck every single week or month, or however often
you are getting paid. Alright so now the question
you guys have been waiting for, just how much money do
you need to have saved up and invested to live off of that money following the 4% rule. Well if your annual expenses
are $20,000 per year, they would recommend having 30 times that amount of money saved and
invested, so $600,000. If your annual expenses were $35,000, that number becomes 1.05 million. If you're somebody
spending $50,000 per year on your living expenses
you would need to have $1.5 million saved and invested,
and for the final figure here, if you spent $100,000 per
year on cars and housing and food and all of that,
you would need to have about $3 million to successfully
follow this strategy.
So I'm sure this goes without saying guys, the best way to follow the strategy and to reach that retirement as quickly as possible is going to be
to keep your monthly expenses as low as possible. And just to put it in
perspective for you guys, every additional $100
that you spend per month, if you follow this is
an additional $36,000 you need to have set
aside in that freedom fund to support that $100 of monthly spending. So if you're serious
about this and you want to retire at 30, or even younger, you are spending literally as little money as humanly possible. Alright so the final step
to following this strategy is going to be passively
investing in the stock market. So most people following this strategy are actually following
the Warren Buffett style of passively investing in index funds. And if you're not familiar,
index funds are basically a way for you to have diversified
exposure to the stock market. Where you're not essentially
picking what stocks are going to outperform,
you're just passively owning the entire market.
So people following this strategy are not out there trying
to beat the market, they are not stock
traders or stock pickers they simply passively invest
in these low fee index funds, one of the most popular ones being VOO or the vanguard 500 fund. And essentially what you are doing, is buying a small piece of the 500 largest publicly traded companies out there, and all the different
dividends those companies pay are all collectively put together, and then you earn a quarterly
dividend from that ETF.
And over the last hundred
years or so the stock market, on average, has returned
about eight to 10% per year. So if you were only drawing
4% from that account, based on historical data, you should never be
touching that principle over a long period of time. And that is how you would
be able to live off of 30 times your annual income, if you save that money and invest it. Now that being said that
is the perfect segue into the sponsor for this
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thing I want to do here is to put all of this together, and go through a real
example of how you could in fact follow this strategy and even retire by 30.
Now again, this is going to
require some very drastic saving because essentially you're trying to work for about 10 years of your life and then not have to work
for the rest of your life. So most people will never
be able to accomplish this, because of the amount of
sacrifice that is required, with that being said, let's go ahead and run
through the numbers now. So let's say you're earning
a salary of $75,000 per year from your job, and ideally,
you don't have any, you know school loans,
student loans, medical bills, or anything like that. So you haven't gotten
sucked into the consumerism and you don't have like a brand new car so your expenses are as low as possible.
And I know this sounds like
you know theoretical situation, but this was actually
about the same situation I was in, when I graduated
college I was 20 years old, now I was making about $68,000, so a little bit less, but I had no debts, I had no car payment,
and so I was somebody who could have potentially
followed this strategy. So after you pay your
taxes, your take home pay is going to be around $56,250. Now we know already in
order to pull this off, you need to save 50 to
70% of that take home pay in order to actually build up enough money to live off of that income. So we're going to assume
you are saving 70% of that take home pay. So you would need to live off of 30% of that post tax income, which
amounts to just over $16,000, or around $1400 per month.
Now, is that possible? It absolutely is. Is it easy? Absolutely not, you're certainly not going to be going out to the
bar and buying beers or going out to dinner,
you're probably going to be living in a tiny apartment driving an old car and eating at home for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But if that type of
sacrifice is worth it to you for the long term picture, it is something you may
be willing to do yourself. So each year you would
be saving and investing a staggering amount of money, which is 70% of your take home pay
or just over a $39,000. And that is how you would
be able to pull this off, and assuming you kept that
cost of living the same at around $16,000, just over 16,000. your freedom number, or 30
times your annual expenses, would be just over $506,000. So, how long would it take
you to save up that money? Let's go ahead and answer that now.
Well if you took that
$39,375 per year of money that you are saving and
invested in the stock market, earning 8% return, and
as we said, historically, it's an eight to 10% so we're going to go on the conservative side, well in 10 years at 8%
return career you would have $570,408.40, meaning you could then, if you kept those living
expenses the same, following that 4% rule, not have to work for your
money past that point.
And just to circle back
guys what this really comes down to is the level
of sacrifice involved. Are you really willing to live
off of about $1400 per month, or do you want to have vacations and going out to get dinner
and things like that? So it's not people who are doing this that are out there traveling and dining it's people that are living
as frugal as possible and finding enjoyment
in other areas of life other than just, you know,
spending money on dining and things like that. Now, is this a strategy I
would personally follow? Probably not because I
am one of those people that enjoys traveling, I enjoy dining, and I do spend a little bit
more than the average person, so my freedom number would be
multiple millions of dollars, but instead I follow the
strategy of earning as much as possible and saving a
lot of that earned money, and then eventually allowing
that to supplement my income by having that interest
or the growth of my money paying for a lot of
those things that I want.
And believe it or not,
guys, there are honestly countless people out
there that have followed this exact strategy and
retired at 30 or less. One of the most well known people being Mr. Money Mustache, he has a whole blog where he documented this whole journey of becoming financially
independent and retiring early with both him and his wife. So I'm going to link up his blog down in the description below
as well as a couple of other stories about
people who have followed this exact strategy and
retired at 30 or less. So that's going to wrap
up this video guys, thanks so much for watching. If you're new to this channel, make sure you subscribe and
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Retirement Planning FACTORS | Age and Income
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Is gold a good investment in 2023? – Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Clark, Charles Goyette
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(upbeat music) – [Narrator] This is "The
Rich Dad Radio Show." The good news and bad news about money. Here's Robert Kiyosaki. – Hello, hello, hello, Robert Kiyosaki, "The Rich Dad Radio Show." The good news and bad
news about this here. This is cash, and this trash. So today we're going to be
talking about the hottest subject on the market today, and it's not real estate, what it is here is this is gold, and this is silver, and of course there's Bitcoin.
So those are the three things. And the reason they're the
hottest subjects on the earth right now is because our money is fake. So this is one of my
favorite books here, "Fake." I'll tell you a quick story
before we get into why gold, silver, and Bitcoin is,
that I was at Safeway, and I'm kind of a guru at
the salad counter at Safeway.
(Robert laughing)
All the women were coming up to me going, "Hey,
what should we invest in? What should we invest in?" And I just happened to be
having in my pocket here, this is a pre '64 US quarter, and it's given to you by
my friend, Dana Samuelson, he's in Austin, Texas. He is American Gold
Exchange in Austin, Texas. Dana Samuelson. So he knows I'm a silver nut. So this is a pre '64, and
pre '64 means it's silver. After '64, it became fake money. It became this here. So I held this up here to the ladies, they want the hottest tip,
and I said, "Buy this here." They went, "Oh!" A quarter? I can afford a quarter." I said, "Yeah, but I'll
charge you $3 for it." And you should have seen their brains, the salad was flying all over the place. (all laughing) (Robert speaking gibberish) I said, "Okay, I'll tell you what, $2." (Robert yelling) They were screaming,
not screaming, but just, "Why would I pay you $2 for a quarter?" And I said, "But this is pre '64." They just could not figure it out.
Now, that's the lesson of today, is that people don't know
that our money is fake. And that's why Rich Dad
exists and all this. But the sad thing about it is, is that AARP turned on my article because I wrote a story of
my mother, I used to save real quarters, cause when
I was 17 years old, in '64, I saw the quarter go to copper.
It was fake. It was an alloy. So I started collecting
dimes and then quarters and half dollars. I had this big bag of real silver. And my mother says, "What are you doing?" I said, "This is real money." So this is, '64, '65, I
go to school in New York. '66, I come home, my mother spent it all. (all laughing) And so I wrote the story for
AARP, they turned it down. I said, "The lesson is
poor people are poor cause they don't know fake money." They don't know the
difference between real money and fake money. So this is a very important lesson here. I have some two friends here from years, and like I said, Dana Samuelson
of American Gold Exchange in Austin, Texas. This is a special category of silver.
It's called numismatic. And numismatic means
collectible and antique. And the reason I respect
Dana is because he was head of the American Numismatics. So I don't buy numismatic, I
don't buy collectible coins, I buy real gold, silver. But if I want numismatic,
like an antique Dodge or something, whatever it is,
if I want an antique coin, I see Dana because there's
a lot of fakes out there. A lot of fake coins. So you got to be very careful today.
But like I said, this
is the hottest subject. I have two great friends here. So Jim, and this is Charles Goyette here. This is his book here, "Red
and Blue and Broke All Over." (men chuckling) So Jim, how long have you
been in this business of gold? – 50 Years. – 50 Years.
– Yeah. – Our time is coming
on this one, isn't it? – Well, I thought it was
coming in 1973 when I got in the business. And it was just a year
and a half or so after Nixon had removed the gold and we got everyone off the gold standard. – The dollar was backed by this here. This is real gold. So in '71, this was pulled out too, right? – [Jim] Right. – Because you just print
as much as you like. – Well it was no longer
backed by anything. It was a Federal Reserve
note, which is no more federal than Federal Express. And we were required
to take that as money, whether we liked it or not. – Right. Right. Another thing too, I
was in Vietnam in '70. '71, I was on my way
over, '72 I was there, and '73 I returned and I
bought my first gold coin.
It was a South African Krugerrand. And the Vietnamese woman, gold was $35 for years, and then in '71 it floated
to about 50, let's say. And so I thought, "Well,
I'll go talk to her." She was behind enemy lines, I
flew my helicopter in there, tried to negotiate with her. I said, "Look, I'll give you 40 of
these for one of these. And she's going, "Spot." I go, "Let me say it again. 40 of these. for one of these," she goes, "Spot." I said, "What the hell
is she talking about?" Well, she was saying spot that day was 50. And all of a sudden here, I'm
a college graduate, hopefully, with my other college graduate,
two pilots standing there going, "We don't know
shit about money, do we?" So spot meant that on
that day, it was 50 bucks.
And I thought because she
was behind enemy lines, I could get it for 40. No such deal. Gold is gold. Spot is spot. Silver is silver. This is real money. So Mr. Goyette, Charles,
why did you write this? Tell us something about your background, why did you write this book here? – Well, one thing is Jim and I
were in the business together a very long time ago that
he was talking about. But you just reminded me about spot. I remember seeing the
"National Geographic" special, this is back in the 70s,
and they went to these guys, these kind of third worlders
in the Amazon rainforest, way deep in the jungle, and these people didn't have any clothes, didn't have any electricity, but they were panning for gold there.
And the camera crew came up
and tried to buy their gold and they knew what the
London goldfish was that day. (all laughing) They totally knew what the
world price of gold was, spot price of gold,
cause it's international, it's all over the world, and it's a real price
for real money, isn't it? – Yeah, the sad thing about
it is I think Americans are the least to know about money. Because we have the Federal Reserve note. I'll tell you one last
story; I was in Peru, I bought a gold mine in Peru. There's no rain, there's just baron hills, mountains up in the Andes. And I see these little
holes up there, I go, "What the hell's that?" And my little Inca guide says, "We've been drilling gold
here for thousands of years, asshole." (all laughing) I said, "I'm not the first guy up here?" "No, you're not the first guy up here." "My great, great, great,
great, great, great grandfathers were yanking
the stuff out for years." And Bizarro came to Peru
and killed them all, took their gold.
– [Charles] Stole their gold. – And so that's why the
Spanish became the empire at the time. Someone from Spain, England, America, America's gone now. So that's what we're
here to talk about today. And we're old enough, the
three of us, to understand that this here is real and this here is fake. But most people would rather have this. This is the problem. – Robert, I saw one of those
YouTube videos where the guys on the boardwalk in Santa
Monica, it's kind of like jaywalking, like what's
the name of the moon? But he's walking around
with a chocolate bar and a silver coin, and he says to the people, he said, "Would you rather have
this chocolate bar," or I think it was a silver bar. – [Jim] A silver bar. It was Mark Dice.
– Yeah. And the people go, "Mm, I'll
take that chocolate bar." (all laughing) So they get a $2 chocolate bar, or a- – It was a 10 ounce silver
bar, it was about $300. And they'd rather have the chocolate bar than the silver bar.
– [Charles] They know no better, it's Jaywalking America. – And I'll say this again, it's the most important lesson: poor people don't know the
difference between real money and fake money.
And that is what it comes down to. So it was in '71, this used
to be a silver certificate, now it's a Federal Reserve IOU. It used to be backed by gold up to, no, this was '67, '64, excuse me, it was silver. And then in '71, Nixon
took the gold out of it. Johnson took this out of
the silver certificate. – Yeah, I remember I was
telling you that story the other night. I remember in 1964 where
we're sitting around the TV, Johnson came on and said,
"Silver has become too valuable to be used as money." And just as I'm sitting here, my dad said, "That son of a bitch.
They're going to take the silver out and they're going to leave
us this garbage coins." And he didn't really
understand it, but he got it. And from that point on,
he saved silver coins. He had about $8,000 worth by
the time he cashed them in in 1980. – Yeah. And I was in South Carolina
where I have a home, and this guy said that his
father ran the theater, and his father said, "There's
just yanking out all the silver coins." The lesson again, is poor
people don't know the difference between real money and fake money. And that's why in "Rich
Dad, Poor Dad" I said, "The rich don't work for
money because it's fake." So the reason I like to have
Jim here and Charles is because this stuff is getting
harder to find right now.
And I was panicking cause I
deal with a lot of guys who have gold and silver. So I called my friends up,
"We cannot get silver." I went, "What?" This is about what,
seven, eight months ago, we couldn't get silver. So you guys are Republic
Monetary Exchange. – [Jim] Yeah.
– Yeah. On Camelback. And I called these guys,
they said, "We got plenty." – Jim has been very,
very good over the years at making sure that the
inventories are high. He could see when these
runs are starting and stuff and the premiums are
starting to go up and stuff. And he's always put his clients first. He makes sure, we're going
to commit a lot of capital to make sure that our
clients can come in the door and get their gold and silver.
The worst thing in the world
is these companies that say, "Well, give us your money now and then we're going to deliver
your gold or we'll send you your silver in six months or something." Don't do that! Don't do that. So Jim's just really
created a name for himself in his ability to always
deliver to his clients. – Well I've always stayed ahead
of the curve, that you can anticipate needs after
50 years in the business. – Well, not everybody can,
because I was panicking, Okay, well step back.
You have the spot price. So let's say today the spot's 20 bucks. There's a premium on top of this coin, or this coin, should I say. What does the spot and the premium mean? – On that particular coin,
it's typically between $4 and $5 an ounce over the spot price. – So spot is the price
all across the world? – Right. And then all of the
products and coins and bars and so forth, they will
be priced accordingly based on the availability, the demand, the cost of refining and
putting them in the coins and shipping and distributor
markup, dealer markup, our markup and all that.
So there's always a premium that you pay to get the finished product. – That's like the tip at
the end of the dinner. (all laughing) – No, it's worse than that. – Yeah! I was watching Fox News
this morning, Fox Business, and they were bitching
about how, she went, where did she go? Oh, she went to the dry cleaners and she charged her, she
put it on a credit card for her dry cleaning; it said, tip 20%.
She goes, "Why do I have to
tip you for my dry cleaning?" (all laughing) People are so desperate to
money because this is fake. It's terrible. – Well, and because they can print it so much that the value
is dropping every day. They print up billions every day. Look at the bills that they
signed of, 1.7 trillion. Where's that money coming from? Well, they've got to print it. Or they've got to create something through a keystroke entry. That means all the rest of
those Federal Reserve notes out there become worth just
that much less everyday.
– Yeah, this is trash. So I'll say it again, the
difference between rich people and poor people; rich people
know the difference between this and this. And so the Republic Monetary Exchange, there's a lot of people out there. Dana Samuelson, my friend,
he's my expert in numismatic. And I was impressed because
you guys had inventory. My other friend, Jerry Williams was out. And I said, "What the
hell?" This is a while ago, "What the hell's going
on?" It was running.
So it must mean there's
something going on because people would rather have this than this now, except for
the ladies at Safeway. (Robert laughing) – But they know now.
(all laughing) – It fried their brains. "Why would I give you $2 for that?" And I said, "That's the
riddle of the day, ladies." We're laughing, we had a great time. But it fried their brains. Said, "What, what, what, what?" And I said, "I have a book here for you, It's called 'Fake.'"
(Robert laughing) And this whole system is fake right now. So we come back, we're going more into how people lie, cheat and steal because anytime there's money,
there's a liar and cheater and stealer around there. I've been saying this for
years, this is God's money. This is fake money.
I like Bitcoin. I call it people's money. Now I don't know much about Bitcoin, but I'm just glad I bought it at six. That's all I know right now. So when we come back with
going more how you can know real money from fake money. Some of the other advantages of right now. I've been saying this for
years, I used to work for Lear, I still have Lear Capital Ads, I said, "Buy silver." And the reason is
everybody can afford this. I think this is about 30 bucks. How much is this today? – Just under $30 for one of those, yeah. – Everybody in the world
can afford 30 bucks. But they'd rather have this.
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And again, we're talking
about this stuff is fake and this is real money. We have friends, dear
friends, this is Jim Clark from Republic Monetary
here in Phoenix, Arizona. And Charles Goyette, here's
his book, "Red, White and Blue and Purple All Over." And we we're going broke. And so you guys have been
in the business for a while. I've been in the business
since '72 when I first bought my first gold coin. I still have that gold coin. – [Jim] Wow.
– It's not stored in America though, it's
stored someplace else. – [Charles] Where is that? Oh, you don't have to tell. – I'm going to open my
blabber mouth on TV. (all laughing) That's like my attorney
stands in front of this crowd, he says, "Yeah, I have a lot
of gold, I keep it at home." I said, "Why don't you just
tell everybody where to go? Why not just give them your address too." (all laughing) Attorney's aren't the
brightest guys on earth.
(all laughing) – Well I have strangers that will ask me, "Now, where should I store this?" I said, "I don't know and I don't care." – [Charles] And don't tell me.
– Well don't tell me. So the FBI come, "Did you know?" So Jim, tell us about
what you have right here. You have silver and you have gold. – So I have the kilogram of
silver, which is 32.15 ounces, and then I have a 10 ounce gold bar. And of course, when you
see something that big, how do I know that's real? So we have a device, it's a spectrometer, that we can put, that X-rays the bar. And I've got it all set up. So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to point the device at the silver and I'm going to get a reading. Put it on there maybe
four or five seconds.
It will read right into the bar. It'll come back. And if you can pick that up, right on the screen it says
AG, which is the chemical sign for silver, 99.99% pure. You know that this bar is absolute. We can do the same thing with- – Is there such a thing as fake silver? (crosstalk) Not too long ago, they caught some. – There were some companies
years ago that were making the silver and gold and it
wasn't coming out exactly pure. And what happens then is if
we find that, we just throw it in the melting pot and
then bring it up to pure. Cause you don't want to sell
a bar that's 94%, 95% pure. So it's out there, which
is why we spent $20,000 on this piece of equipment that we can find a counterfeit bar.
If it's not pure gold, we know right then, and this is paid for
itself many times over. Because so many times
somebody will come in and say, "Well hey, I've got this big block of gold and I want to sell it." Okay, let's have a look at it. You go through it, it's pyrite, or it's copper, or it's zinc. – Jim Recer was telling
us, in the New York Bank, he says they found some fake silver. – The bigger the bar, the
better chance that there is. So I'm going to do the
same thing with this gold. Because that's really the valuable. With a $20,000 piece of
metal, you want to make sure that it's what it's supposed to be. Same thing. We come up, AU, gold. 99.99% pure. Which is exactly what it's supposed to be. – So this is January, 2023. What would this cost me, if
I walked into your place, Republic Monetary
Exchange on Camelback Road in Phoenix, Arizona, What would that cost me? – Just over $900 for that. – For that?
– Yeah.
– My God. And how much is this thing here? – That's going to be
around 2,000, over 2,000, 2,050 or more. – This is 2,000, this
is a gold, what is it? – Eagle. American Gold Eagle.
– American Gold Eagle. And that's 900? – Right, that's a kilogram of over. This is going to be close to
$20,000 for this gold bar. – What is that now? – 10 ounces of gold. – [Charles] That feels like
real money doesn't in, Robert? – Can I trade you this for this? (all laughing) – Go get 20,000 more of
those and we'll do it. (all laughing) – You're a little light. (all laughing) – Actually, on that subject,
we were talking about this the other night, Robert,
about cash for gold. I'm one of the few people
who absolutely despise cash for buying gold, and
you'd think just the opposite, that I couldn't wait to get cash. But banks don't want it. Try and deposit $20,000
or $50,000 in cash.
They'll turn you away and
say, "Well, we got to do this, that and the other, and
we've got to file this form and we got to do that." Hey, I would rather have a
bank wire than cash anytime. – Jim's story really
illustrates something with- – Wait. He doesn't want cash. And I thought the reason is
because it might be dirty or it's hot money or whatever it is. It's just a pain in the butt. – Well, it's that, but you know what else? I'm thinking down the road, let's say I acquire $1
million or $2 million in cash that the banks don't want to take.
When this currency is repudiated,
I'm going to be stuck. Just like the people in Germany were twice in the 20th century that they were hauling wheel borrows full of Deutschmarks for a basket of groceries. – Fake money and brought Hitler to power. The the Weimar Republic and
the Reichsmark and all this. Every time there's fake
money, tyrants rise up. Because people know something is wrong. – Yep.
So here we go in this country. – [Robert] Right. – But Jim's attitude now
about cash really illustrates that the government, the
deep state, has won this war without legislation,
without public debate, they have won the war against cash. They've been at war at cash
because it's anonymous, they don't track you,
they can't follow you when you use cash, and
they've won the war. And so, the only alternative
people have to be off the grid, not to be tracked, not to be surveilled, gold and silver. That's it. That's all. – So once again, this is 1964. 1964, I was 17 years old and I
started looking at that thing like this. It was copper. The Romans did the same thing way back in at the end of their empire. So what were they doing when
they put copper in this thing? It's a law called Gresham's Law. What does Gresham's Law mean? – Bad money drives good
money out of circulation.
– So this money went into hiding. So I had bags of it. They said, "Go caddy, take my dollars, go to the
bank and pull out all the real stuff and hide the real stuff." I didn't know what I was
doing. I was 17 years old. Wasn't the brightest kid on the block. But I just knew this was fake. This was fake now. And then I come back
from school a year later, my mother spent it. That was a powerful lesson. AARP turned it down, they said,
"You're cruel to your mom." And I said, "Okay." Anyway, poor people don't
know real money from fake money.
So that's why we have Sara here. So what happened in '71, this became debt. So our company, at Rich Dad,
we encourage people to use debt. This is my other friend here. He's a financial planner who
doesn't recommend the 401k. John McGregor's, this is "The Top 10 Reasons
Why the Rich Go Broke." One of the reasons they go
broke is they have a plan for their money, but they
have no idea what money is. – Well, and I've talked
to people all the time that are multimillionaires,
they sold their business, they did this, that and the other and came into all this cash
that's sitting in the bank and said, "Well, you think
I should buy some gold with some of this?" I said, "Well, you know what they're
doing with the dollar, you know that they keep printing them, they can't print gold.
Now you tell me how much
you can afford to lose of all that money sitting
in the bank, and I would say leave that there and get
the rest of it in gold." It's a bigger risk having paper money. It's depreciating.
– It's a guaranteed loss. – And eventually, these
are going to be worthless. And we're in the 51st year of
fiat money when Nixon closed the gold window. A currency has never lasted
more than 50 years until now. And we're in year 51. How are we any different than
anywhere else in the world? – That's '71- – To 2023.
How are we any different? Look what they've done in Venezuela. They were one of the richest
countries in South America, in actually, the Western hemisphere. Look what they've done to Argentina. Look what they've done in Cuba. Look what they've done in Mexico. Same exact economic principles
that they broke there, we're doing the same things here. – Somebody asked me once, "Charles, how many paper
currencies have gone broke, have gone worthless over time?" And the answer is all of them.
– [Robert] All of them.
And the ones that people still
hold are only on their way. They just haven't arrived at
their final destination yet. – It's like I said, I'm 17
years old in 1964 going, "Something's wrong here." That's Gresham's Law. And I think that's one of the
reasons I'm a rich person, is I know real from fake. And then, so when Nixon
took the dollar off the gold standard in '71, I didn't
really know what that meant. But the first course, I
was in Vietnam in '73, I came back, '74, they made this legal. Remember that? It was illegal. So I had to smuggle
that, I was in Hong Kong, I had to buy my South African
Krugerrand in Hong Kong. I had to smuggle it into the country. Why was that? – It was in '74?
– Yeah.
– Yeah, because it was illegal
to own in bullion form. – Well, in '73 I brought it in. – It was a felony. It was a felony. They could put you in prison
for 10 years and charge you $10,000 fine. They made it a felony for
Americans, free people, to own monetary gold and silver. Or gold anyway. It was a felony. Was it dangerous? Was it going to blow up? Was
it nuclear contamination? Was it going to kill your
neighbors with poison? What was wrong? Well, it was of course,
you know the answer, it's always the same
answer, the government grabs all the gold cause it wants it for itself, so you can't be allowed to have any. It's exactly what they did.
– At that time there were
two very good senators, Steve Sims and Jesse Helms, who introduced the idea of
Americans owning gold because foreigners could own gold
and Americans couldn't. And if there's anything to be
said good about Gerald Ford, it was that he signed the
bill after it passed through both houses to make gold legal to own.
Now unfortunately, at the
time, gold was around $200 an ounce, and over the
next year and a half or so, it dropped to 100. So a lot of the curiosity
of owning gold disappeared. But fast forward to the Jimmy Carter days, 1976, gold went to 100. And by the end of
Carter's term it was 850. And silver went from about
$3 an ounce to $50 an ounce in that four year period. – So during Carter's trend, this was 850? What is this today? – 2,050.
– So why would you save this trash? (Charles laughing) That's what I'm saying here. – It's fake. How about that to sum it up? That's fake. – [Jim] It's a trick. – Another thing I want to
say, cause I'm a history buff, it's about the only subject
I did well in school, the reason he doesn't like the 401k is in 1974 when Ford put us
back on, we could own gold, they put us on the 401k. (indistinct) And today, this is the biggest
reason you want to own gold. Because our pensions, as they
keep raising interest rates, our 401ks are going down. But not only this, my book
wrote with the Ed Siedel, is our pensions are broke. So as the firefighters, police
officers, school teachers, their pensions are gone. So the fed's going to have to print. That's my whole summation. – Well, and what's crazy
about it too is that you get your statement online
every month and it says, "Oh my god, look, I have
$500,000 in my pension plan. Boy, that's going to last
me till the year 2050." It's not going to.
The dollar's not going to
be there, first of all, and the pensions are gone too. But gold will be there forever. – This will be here. This is God's money. We used this as money
for about 5,000 years. But God put it here on the
earth, and that's when I was in the Andes with my old Inca friend, I said, "Geez, look at those holes." He says, "Yeah, we've been
digging longer than you have." And I was in Mongolia, same
thing, there's a place called the Checker Board. They call it the Checker
Board because the Mongolians, this is thousands of years
ago, were digging for gold. Now they didn't have internet,
they didn't have iPhones and all this stuff. Humans intuitively knew to look for gold. That's what blew me away. – Well, and when you think about- – Except for the women at Safeway. They don't know gold from silver. – [Charles] They need a salad bar guru. (Robert laughing) – When you read the stories
about all the Spanish ships that have sunk over the years
coming across the Atlantic, and the explorers go down there, they're not going down there
looking for the currency of the realm of the day and
see if the paper survived; they're going down there
looking for the gold, they're going down there
looking for the silver.
And they find it. And what's amazing is
that if this bar had been in the bottom of the ocean for 500 years, it'll still be in this pristine condition. It doesn't rust. It doesn't erode. It will do the same thing
now 500 years later. And they've brought some
amazing coins that have been in the Spanish ships that
were in pristine condition, that have graded out
un-circulated, like it was the day that it came out of the mint. – What's that joke? Who's the guy in the fed? – [Charles] Ron Paul.
– Ron Paul, he said if a Spanish ship went down with gold, another ship went down with dollars, people would stop diving for dollars.
(all laughing) They still dive for gold. It's kind of a funny thing, but it's sad. But another thing too is I had a pile of extra
silver I bought from you, and I was handing them
on his Christmas gifts. It's $30 let's say. And one woman had four kids. I said, "Give each one of
your children one of them." One silver coin. I said, "It'll there when they
graduate from high school." "No, they'll probably have spend it." I said, "Yeah, they probably will." But that's the problem. I save this. I say in "Rich Dad, Poor
Dad," savers are losers because they save this. If you save this, and if you save this, what is this here? – $30. – Yeah, well what? – Silver, it's a silver round.
Just a generic silver one ounce piece. – It's a buffalo.
– Yeah. I'll call up Jim and
say, "I want buffalos." So he knows what I'm talking about. There's different goofy
kind of coins out there. But I'd rather save this
cause this will be here 10,000 years from now. This won't. You can pass it on from
generation to generation to generation. – I'll be surprised if that
paper dollar is here even 10 years from now. – I doubt it. Yeah. So anyway, we're in very
serious, serious trouble here. And this is the hottest subject going. For years, I've been saying buy silver because everybody can afford silver. When I offer them this
for $3, they went nuts. They went, "Why would I buy that?" Because they'd rather have this. That's the lesson. Final words there, Mr.
Jim. – Well, we sure appreciate
all you do for the freedom movement, Robert. And speaking about gold and
speaking about the fake money that we're passing around, it's a great lesson
for the next generation whether we realize it or not. At our age, and doing all
this for 50 years or more, we've got a great legacy to
pass on to the next generation because they just don't know.
And you are a patriot in the
true sense of the word, sir. Thank you for having us. – Thank you. – Robert, let me ditto that
too, because we're in for some really rough sledding in this country. There's some rough patch of road ahead and it didn't have to happen and
now it's going to happen. And as bad as it's going to be
for the people who understand the lessons that you've been
doing in your educational efforts and teaching them about money, the ones that take action
based on those kinds of recommendations and that
learn about this stuff, they will be so much better off. And the more of them there are
the better off we'll all be because maybe we can have
some kind of commerce still continue when the whole
thing goes topsy-turvy.
So thank you, Robert. – How many of the layoffs
are just starting right now? This is January 2023. – 10,000 at a crack by these companies. 10,000 here, 10,000 there. – [Robert] Because
they're working for this. – Yeah, and this is horrible stuff. These are people that are
living paycheck to paycheck like we've never seen before,
and their personal debt has never been so high as it is right now. – It's a disaster. – And there's now called
the working homeless. They have jobs but they
can't afford to live. – [Charles] Sleeping in their cars. – Yeah. That's because this is fake.
– [Charles] Yep. – Well we have a lot more
information on our website by the way, Robert. – The reason I invited you guys
cause you actually do teach. If you were just promoting your company, you wouldn't be here. So what is a book you have
and what is your website? – Okay, the website is RMEGold.com. – Dot what? Com? – .com, and then my- – I thought you said .gov, I was going, I didn't know you were a fed. (all laughing) – And my book is "Real
Money for Free People, the American Gold Story." – In fact, people that are in
the Phoenix area can stop by, Jim will sign a copy of the
book and give it to him.
But his book is a really good book. And there's a ton of
information on the website too to bring people up to
speed, to learn the lessons that you teach, like
the lessons about fake. And we have a new post
going up, for example, about your book, about pensions. – [Robert] Oh, thank you.
– Cause it's so important right now, especially now the
Congressional Budget Office just announced that Social
Security's finished at 2033. – Yeah. And the reason I wrote this
book was because in '74, that's why McGregor wrote this book here. That was a 401k. But that's when the pension
started getting looted. And now our generation,
the Boomer generation's in serious trouble for retirement. Cause I don't think
it's going to be there. – The American people lost
26% in their 401ks in the last year, through October, so it's very grim. – And that doesn't even
take into consideration the depreciating dollar to go with it too. – So, okay, watch's your website again? – RMEGold.com. – RME.
And then your book here is, Charles Goyette, Red, Blue. – "Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America's Free Economy." – You're an optimist, aren't you? – My publisher said, "Write
that book about how to put it back together, I said,
"You know they're not going to do that." And they're not, but it's there anyway. – They're going to keep
printing this because this gets more valuable. – We're beyond the point of no return. – [Charles] Yeah. – The sad thing about it is,
as the price of gold goes up, everybody else gets poorer. That's what breaks my heart. I love those girls at Safeway
serving me their salad and coleslaw and all this. It just blew their mind, they said, "$2 for this?" But that's what America
has sold the world there.
That this is valuable and this is fake. This is real. This is fake. – I'll give you $2 for
it, Robert, right now. – I know you would, that's
why I'm keeping it tight here. Here's my silver; the Lone
Ranger had the silver bullet, this is my silver bullet
from Dana Samuelson. Bite the bullet. (all laughing) So thank you, gentlemen.
Thanks for being teachers. And they have inventory. When things were really tough
I was scrambling because- – We were never without anything. – I'll tell you why I was panicking, if I waited a few more
days, the price would go up. And then when I ran in
there and then you guys, not you guys, but my other friend couldn't deliver me silver, I went.
And I said, "What am I going to do?" So I bought it that day
anyway for future delivery. So it was a gamble, so
basically a future delivery. – [Charles] Right. Yeah. – [Jim] it sounds like you did all right. – Yeah. Two last things: there's a thing called distribution and accumulation. Price of gold and silver is low, and silver and gold and
oil, I'm accumulating. I've been accumulating since '72. I own more gold than most people. Most of the gurus on TV. I own gold mines, silver mines because I believe in this stuff,
cause this is God's money. This is fake money. Thank you, gentlemen.
– [Jim] Thank you, sir. – [Charles] Thank you Robert.
– Pleasure to be here. – And when we come back, Sara
be back with a final word here.
So thank you, gentlemen. (upbeat music) Welcome back, Robert Kiyosaki,
"The Rich Dad Radio Show." Thanks to Jim Clark, the
Republic Monetary Exchange, RME, and Charles Goyette of
Republic Monetary Exchange. Because this is the hottest
subject of all today. It's silver and gold because this is fake. So Sara, if you have friends and
family who are still hoarding this stuff here, haven't
listened to this program and discuss it with them,
because I'm now called the Salad Bar Guru. (all laughing) I thought it was hysterical,
but it fried their brains. What's the difference
between this and this? One's fake, one's real. So Sara, what questions do you have? – [Sara] Yeah, well,
just wanted to mention, my brother for my niece,
she's 11, he said, "No more presents.
From now on we only want
you to get her silver." So every year, each sibling
gets her some silver coins. And I was like, "Man, he's so smart." Anyway, I just wanted to
point that straight out. But my questions to you
are, can you briefly discuss the different markings? What does that identify on the bars? – Okay, so this has the size of the bar, which is one kilogram.
Valcambi is one of the
worldwide known refiners of silver. It has their logo on it. It's been stamped with the serial number and the finest of 3.999 fine silver. The gold, a little different. It lists the number of ounces and this is four nines fine. Also with the serial number. And as you saw earlier, we
put the spectrometer to it to show that indeed, both of those are pure silver and pure gold. And if there's any doubt with anybody buying silver
and gold, is it real? We can put the spectrometer to it and show that it is exactly
what the purity should be.
– [Sara] Awesome. The second question I have
is, Robert had held up his buffalo and you called it
a generic one ounce coin. What's the diff? – So the US Treasury
and various governments around the world, Canada, South Africa, make a coin of the realm,
meaning an American Eagle for the United States. So the treasury makes that coin. The premium is significantly
higher for that than it is for this, but it's
exactly the same properties, same weight, same size and everything. – Wait a sec, so if
this was a Silver Eagle, but this is, I call this a buff, what's the price difference? – It's going to be $6, $7 and ounce more to have the name brand,
but silver's silver. So it depends if you, "Well,
I only buy a name brand, I won't buy Costco brand of
something, but I will buy the real ones that you hear
on television all the time," even though it's exactly the same thing.
So you get more silver for
fewer dollars if you buy it in the buffalos or what we call generic. But recognized as being
a coin of the realm and something that you can be
sure that it's the purity that it's supposed to be. So reputable private,
refineries make the buffalo, the US Treasury makes the
American Silver Eagle. – Why would somebody pay the difference? – Why do they? – No, I mean-
– [Sara] Why do they buy- – Money's is no object
and they don't mind paying $6 an ounce more, and it's
a US Treasury stamped coin. But you get more when you sell it too. – I bought considerable amounts from Dana in Austin, Texas, and he traded out my Gold
Eagles for regular gold. And I said, "Why?" He goes, "I don't know,"
but he says, "You just made a lot of money." So instead of having 10
ounces of gold, I now had 15 ounces of gold.
But just because one from
Eagles to something else. All I want is the ounce of gold. And as long as it's pure,
I don't really care. But some people do, right? – Yeah. And either one of those,
it's all recognized for them. So it's personal preference at that point. – [Sara] That was a big
question, cause Robert, if you remember back in
October, the team made a big silver buy, and
that was a big question, when we got the price sheet, we were like, "Why would we pay, if it's
the exact same thing," but that makes sense.
Just a name brand difference. – This is when we couldn't take delivery, we're buying a lot, so we
bought it from Andy Schectman. It was a lot of silver and gold we bought. – [Sara] The last question is, in the beginning of the
conversation we had talked about why you didn't want to
take cash, and you said it's a hassle. Is it also true because cash is devaluing so fast,
it's not really a fair trade. I mean, not fair, but
you know, even trade? Do you feel that way at all? – Well, it's cumbersome. And banks typically
don't want to take cash, and ironically, they don't
want to give cash out either. So we've had situations,
people wanted to go withdraw $100,000 in cash
at the bank, they'll say, "Come back in three or four
days and we'll accumulate it for you, but we don't have it here." I say don't even do that.
Just
wire the money over to us. It's just boom, boom, boom. Simple, we don't have to worry
about any counterfeit cash, although our machines pick it up anyway. It's a cumbersome thing
to do, but I look at the big picture; some point down the road, this cash is going to be worthless. And if the banks don't want
to take it in deposits, I don't want to be stuck
with $2 million or $3 million in cash and lose that. I would rather have money in the bank. Not money, but I mean fake
money in the bank that I can buy real silver and gold with
and have that on the shelf rather than cash sitting there
that is devaluing every day.
– [Sara] Yep. Good. Great. That was it. – Final word, Mr. Goyette. – Hey, thanks for having
us on again, Robert. – And this is your book here. Got to plug the book. – One of one of several. And it's about "Red and
Blue and Broke All Over" and how the country is broke all over and the exact story you've been
trying to explain to people for a very long time, and now here we are. – Another thing we do, Sara, is I send out a newsletter every week, my blog basically, that gives a synopsis of
what's going on the past week and maybe what we're seeing down the road. And just keeping clients and prospects informed of
how we see the market. And whether I'm smart or
not, it doesn't matter, I've been at this 50 years,
I've got a lot of experience and I can share a lot of information that I've acquired over the years.
And I encourage people to go
to our website RMEGold.com, and you can sign up for the newsletter. There's no charge, we email
it out every Sunday afternoon or Monday morning, whenever we
put the finishing touches on. And I would encourage
people to sign up for that at RMEGold.com – And that's why we
invited Charles and Jim, because they are educators like Rich Dad. I buy, I don't sell this stuff. (Robert chuckling) I do trade occasionally. But anyway, so thank
you very much, gentlemen and thank you all for
listening to "The Rich Dad Radio Show," and remember, this is fake and this is real. How much is this today? – That's about $5, so
you were really cheap when you were saying $2 or $3. – Oh my god! I was going to get taken. The salad bar ladies
were going to take me. (all laughing)
– [Sara] That's why he said, "I'll give you $3 for it." – They were trying to cheat
me at Safeway.
My god. – You're behind the times, Robert. You forgot how quick
this dollar is devaluing. – And they're raising
the price of the coleslaw on top of that. (all laughing) So thank you, gentlemen. – [Jim] Thank you.
– [Charles] Thank you. (upbeat music).
How to Replace a $70,000 a Year Salary with Real Estate Investments and Rental Property
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning
How can I replace $70,000 a year in annual income with rental properties that is the subject of today’s video hi everyone I’m Clayton Morris the president of Morris invest let’s dive into it so how do we replace seventy thousand dollars a year in annual income with passive income with rental property income from tenants every month providing cash flow from the properties that we own you might think that that sounds like a tall order but it’s not and I’m going to show you how simple it can be to actually replace that annual income you know a little story about me that’s in fact how I got started I was frustrated sitting down with my wife one night I said we were frustrated with our bills and I said how come at the end of the month where we still have more bills to pay and we don’t have enough paycheck to cover it aren’t we doing well what are we doing wrong the problem was that we weren’t putting the money to work for us to start creating cash flow in our lives and creating passive income so I put together and it was really the foundation of my freedom cheat sheet it’s the number that changed everything for me by the way that link you can download a free pdf it’s like three pages long sit down with your husband or wife and go through it totally free the link is right below this video and it’ll walk you through step by step with some numbers and figures on exactly how to figure out how many houses it will take for you to recover that annual income but I want to tackle the $70,000 question specifically most of the houses that I buy and that my company rehabs and sells are in that forty to forty five thousand dollar range okay single family homes two bedroom one bath three bedroom one bath and some duplexes okay duplexes or you know door on each side typically and two bedrooms on each side or three bedrooms on each side those are the types of properties that I buy now I buy them low and I fix them up and I place a great tenant in the property each of those properties will cashflow about $700 let’s just say for round number $700 okay now think about how much is $70,000 a year how much are you probably making per week well let’s bring out the calculator so $70,000 a year let’s divide that by 52 weeks that’s about thirteen hundred and forty six dollars a week that you are earning from your paycheck okay thirteen hundred and forty six dollars a week so now let’s figure out how many houses it would take us to replace seventy thousand dollars a year in passive income seventy thousand dollars right it’s a simple formula if each of our houses is bringing in seven hundred dollars a month that’s a simple formula right seven hundred times 12 gives us $8,400 okay now let’s take that 70 thousand dollars and let’s divide it by eighty four hundred that’s eight houses that is eight point three properties eight houses bringing in seven hundred dollars a month now imagine if you’re buying a forty thousand dollar house if you had to bring a little bit of money to put down as a down payment or deposit you were able to reach out and get private financing or seller financing on a property then you’re able to accrue these properties very quickly now some of the things I didn’t talk about in this video and I can dive a little deeper now that we always want to take out money for for vacancy and repairs on our numbers right so that eighty four hundred dollars a year let’s multiply that now times point six so we’re gonna remove forty percent for vacancy repairs and expenses this is just to be totally conservative with your numbers so let’s take that eighty four hundred dollars and let’s multiply that times point six so we’re bringing in about five thousand and forty dollars per property per year okay so now let’s take that five thousand and divide it by seventy thousand so this will be a totally conservative number but this will help us really make sure that we’re totally covered should something go wrong maybe we have a vacancy for a few weeks or a month or two in one of our properties this will take in that into account so seventy thousand dollars let’s divide that by five thousand forty that gives us thirteen point eight properties so let’s round that up fourteen properties fourteen properties would bring you about seventy thousand dollars a year in net income that would replace that $70,000 paycheck that you’re making every year then in other videos in this series I’m going to go through exactly how to find properties how to acquire properties but just for the sake of this video I wanted you to start to put your mind in a place where you can begin to reverse engineer that number for a lot of people you don’t think that you’re going to be able to create passive income or bring in that much cash every year hogwash I do it hundreds of thousands of other investors out there do it every day they do it exactly the way that I do it some buy residential properties some buy commercial properties it doesn’t matter it can be done that’s what I do I’m Clayton Morris
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Read MoreHow to Retire in 9 Years Starting With ZERO (A 5-Step Guide)
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are you over the age of 50 with no plan in sight for your retirement don't worry there's still hope it's never too late to get started hey guys welcome back to the channel in today's video we're going to teach you some tips on how to plan for your retirement even if you are starting late in life first of all you need to know that retirement is freedom which means that when you retire you should be able to do whatever you want whether to travel to your favorite destinations spend more time with your family or work on your own projects so let me take you through the steps of your journey to financial freedom first step is to cut your expenses write down all your monthly expenses think of your main fundamental expenses as your running cost as if you're running a company things like rent builds groceries internet so you can watch more of our videos and car payment remember that you could always find cheaper alternatives for some of your main expenses for example you could always move to a cheaper house and save on your rent or if you have a rental car you could rent a cheaper car that also matches your needs the key here is not to minimize your quality of life but to minimize the amount you spend on that quality now write down the other expenses that you could survive without this might differ from one person to another it could be your netflix or amazon prime subscription or it could be the designer clothes that you usually buy these are the items that you could totally scratch from your expenses the more you cut the more you save and in the fifth step i'm going to tell you how we are going to use all this extra money to get you even more money always remember that it's not about how much you earn is what you keep you could be earning much more than others but you're also spending much more than they do keep monitoring your expenses you can do this through a simple written list or even through apps such as zoho expense or expense point second step is to set your expectations remember when we said in the beginning of our video that retirement is freedom well you need to think of your freedom figure which is basically the amount of money you expect per year after your retirement now multiply this number by 25 i'm sure you will get a crazy seven figure number this is going to be your goal i bet you're thinking now that it's impossible but please don't close the video yet because in the last two steps i'm going to show you how you can make this possible you need to lower your expectations for the time being in order to get those results in the future it's a match a fight if you will wealth versus cash flow set your own goals for now and for the future not based on what you see around you or on social media it doesn't have to be a 25 million dollar mansion in beverly hills a huge yacht and a supercar but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be enjoying your retirement it's about being realistic and aware of your situation what you can achieve in the future third step is to consider working longer now i know what you must be thinking i'm watching this video to know how to retire early but bear with me you may retire by the age of 60 or even 65.
But if you retire by the age of 70 you are increasing your social security check to nearly double plus there's also more money going into your 401k what's 401k oh you didn't know well i will explain this in the next step if you can't bear the thought of staying at your current job any longer than you need to then you should look into quitting your current job and finding another one something that you will enjoy more you you'll be surprised at the amount of companies that are currently looking for workers with experience be aware of your physical health keep up with your regular medical check-ups eat healthfully do any form of physical exercise could be something as small as taking a relaxing walk every day all this keeps you energetic so that you may continue working at the top of your game fourth step is to open an investment account this account could be funded by the money you save as a result of cutting expenses remember step one or you could open a 401k account if you don't already have one a 401k plan is a company sponsored retirement account where employers can contribute their income and employers usually match contributions up to a certain amount there are two basic types of 401ks traditionally and roth which differ primarily in how they're taxed with a traditional 401k employee contributions are pre-tax meaning they've reduced taxable income ban withdrawals are taxed during retirement employee contributions to rough 401ks are made with after tax income there's no tax deduction in the contribution year but withdrawals are tax-free so if you don't have a 401k yet what are you waiting for start one and make use of all this non-taxable income now it's time to invest your money which takes us to the last step the fifth and last step is to increase your income well you can always ask for a raise in your current job if the thought of asking for more pay sounds daunting then you can try looking for a new job with a better salary which may not be as challenging as you think there are many ways to promote your skills and experience to other companies you can upload your resume to sites such as indeed.com or linkedin.com let the companies come to you but there is an even easier way to increase your income through a side hustle one of the easiest ways to do so is through creating an amazon individual seller account it's free to create but you need to pay a commission of 99 cents for every sale that you make on amazon not intrigued yet hear this according to a recent survey of amazon sellers twenty percent make between one thousand dollars and five thousand dollars per month which i believe is great for a side hustle or even a decent second income you can even sell your own private label products on amazon around 67 percent of all amazon sellers run their business using the private label method private labeling is a process of manufacturing a pre-existing item preferably with product improvements putting your branding and logos on it and selling it to consumers sometimes it is referred to as wide labeling or brand creation the process has been around for years and is common in countless retail stores targets mainstays brand and walmart's great value are two examples of private label brands your site hustle could also be building websites or content writing there are millions of ways to start a site hustle it's all based on the set of tools that you possess be sure to check out my videos covering this topic and i'll post a link in the description below and remember you can always learn a new skill and this skill could be your next source of income so never stop learning another way to increase your income is by creating a passive income stream passive means you don't actually need to actively trade your time for money you are basically making money while you sleep there are three ways to earn passive income stock markets you don't need to call a local broker anymore there are plenty of applications that you can use to trade stocks that's what makes it the easiest way to gain passive income i'll post some links in the description below for some of my favorite exchanges that i use to trade stocks and crypto cryptocurrency is part of the new modern era with many ways for you to earn passively if you are willing to accept its high risk prices of cryptocurrencies including bitcoin have been falling in 2022 amid a worldwide crypto price crash this could also mark a perfect opportunity to buy with prices being so low check out this video i made where i go over the top five cryptos that billionaire kevin o'leary from shark tank is currently investing in but remember be wise when investing in crypto never put in more than you are willing to lose other options include real estate it's harder to get into it as you need to save up enough to pay for a down payment once purchase you can then get a tenant to rent out the house which will cover payments on the mortgage and hopefully a bit more use any cash flow to pay down the principal faster after a few years you will have paid off the house and can now enjoy some free cash flow from your rental property the earlier you start doing this the sooner you can pay off the mortgage debt now that we have been through each of the five steps of your journey to freedom keep this in mind your life is not going to change unless you take the initiative a nine to five job alone is not enough to build wealth have faith in yourself have faith in your abilities you're not alone in this situation and if other people can do it so can you improve your physical and mental health this will keep you more focused and energetic to work on your goals and it saves you from spending a lot of money down the road on treatment and medications this is it for me today i hope this video has given you as much hope as it did to me don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe to our channel watch our previous videos you never know what piece of information could change your life
Read MoreTop 5 Wealth Killers Only 1% of Rich People Know
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy
Virtually 6 in 10 Americans don'' t have. sufficient cost savings to cover a $500 or $1,000 unplanned expense. That’s definitely.
horrible because if something fails, you will certainly need to take unneeded lendings.
or, god forbid, pay a bank card passion. They might rise 20 and even 30 percent..
You have to be a moron to pay that much rate of interest. What else can you.
do if you have nothing else option.
Even those who actually.
conserve some cash apparently said they don'' t have much in their financial savings account. Certainly, cost savings went considerably higher during the pandemic age because we were compelled.
to remain at home and also collect stimulation checks yet that’s currently hunting us down with the greatest.
Regardless of the fed'' s best efforts to keep increasing prices, that hasn'' t helped.
never ever recognize that considering that we don'' t have a machine that can take us to a different truth. When virtually 60 percent of the population says that they have less than a thousand.
dollars in their interest-bearing account, you recognize that we have a problem because a thousand.
bucks is probably not enough to cover the rent. What occurs if you get ill, enter into an.
mishap, or obtain discharged? What do you do? I obtain, its hard to save when.
we are bordered by so many things pushing us to spend.Even before
the video clip.
begun, you probably saw an ad that called you to visit their website and also spend some cash. Let me make clear something, spending cash isn'' t bad. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting things you.
requirement or want. At the end of the day, what’s the point of generating income at the end of the day. On.
top of that, spending is what drives the economic situation forward. Without enough costs, we will certainly have.
depreciation that will reduce economic growth. What I see often takes place is that People typically.
grumble that they can'' t conserve due to the fact that they need to cover their standard costs yet wind up acquiring.
5-dollar coffee as well as avocado salute every early morning. Once again, there is absolutely nothing poor keeping that, as long.
as you are saving an excellent dimension of your paycheck.I don’t truly support the suggestion of saving every. penny feasible since life isn ' t practically conserving money. It'' s concerning experiences. And also component. of that is having a good time with friends and spending cash. If you are at the start.
of your journey, you can'' t manage to spend every cent you gain. You need to construct that.
funding that will certainly deal with your part of you. The issue is that there are few riches.
awesomes that drain your budget plan one of the most. If you can get rid of them, you will certainly be able.
to conserve a ton of money as well as develop that lot of money. If you prepare, give this video a thumbs.
up, as well as let'' s start with the initial one. Vehicle. If you have actually ever possessed an auto, you most likely recognize just how expensive it is to.
have a car.In truth, a lot of people that drive don'' t recognize exactly just how much their cars and truck costs. The average monthly payment on a brand-new car was $575 in 2020. That'' s much from the real cost of.
possessing a cars and truck. Which’s back in 2020. It’s far more than that given that there is a lack of.
chips and also high rising cost of living. Which’s simply your regular monthly repayments without taking into account.
insurance, gas, and particularly upkeep. What I also realized when I got my very first auto was.
how commonly I started to drive.I began driving anywhere, also when it wasn ' t essential. Gas is not inexpensive, specifically now, and also being embeded traffic daily can.
cost a lot of money. However if you have a household, certainly owning a car makes good sense, specifically.
when public transportation is not a choice. But if you are solitary, for god'' s purpose, save that.
You will thank me later on.
as an example. A fortune! 20 bucks here or 30 bucks there don’t appear like a lot, yet if you include it.
up throughout a month, it will add up. According to the Bureau of Labor Data,.
Americans invest regarding 1 percent of their gross yearly revenue on alcohol.For the average. household, that’s$ 565 a year, $5,650 in one decade, or a whopping $22,600 over a 40-year duration. That.
doesn’t appear much. However do not be tricked by this number. It takes right into account all Americans,.
consisting of those who don’t drink and those who consume once to twice a year. If you just.
take into account those who consume alcohol routinely, that number would certainly be much greater. A couple of hundred.
bucks a month is normal for regular drinkers. The same goes for cigarette smoking, gaming, and various other bad.
routines. The ordinary price of a pack of cigarettes is $6.28, which means a pack-a-day routine sets.
you back $188 per month or $2,292 per year. These numbers could not tighten you, however if.
you also count the opportunity price, you will possibly do away with these behaviors right away. If you toss that 2292 bucks yearly right into an index fund with a 7 percent return,.
with the power of compound rate of interest, you can expect to have $365,883 in 40 years. Add to that the medical expenses that you will certainly get as a result of your bad habit, as well as.
you might as well declare bankruptcy. 3.
Spending money on impressing individuals Back when I remained in institution, my self-confidence was.
really reduced since I was doing badly in college, yet as social animals, we want to be appreciated.
by the people around us. We want to be valued because we have so lots of insecurities..
As well as often, when we put on'' t understand how to fix these insecurities, so we spend cash.
to show everybody that we are comparable to them. Why do you think people acquire.
Rolex watches. Allow'' s be honest, a Rolex watch is actually solving one issue,.
which is informing the moment, but even Rolex holders typically utilize their phones to have a look at the.
time.But people still spend loads of hundreds of bucks on them due to the fact that they have effectively.
branded themselves as a deluxe brand that is used by well-known and also effective individuals. We buy them.
to send out a message to people that – look men, I make a great deal of money. I can afford a Rolex. Most.
individuals acquire that type of watch to impress people, which is not a problem if you can quickly pay for.
that. However if you can barely afford a Mercedes as well as still decide to get it, you have just.
tossed yourself into a massive financial trouble. 4. Paying high-interest prices. Bank card are great. It'' s possibly the best. means to build your credit report and also preserve it. It is extremely essential due to the fact that it will.
aid you to obtain finances and lower interest. Here is when things obtain awful. When you use.
a credit score card to pay for things you can not afford, what winds up happening is that, you.
will not be able to cover your credit scores card debt at the end of the month.
They might go as high as 20 or 30 percent. 41 percent of credit rating card customers reported that
they are failing to pay their. 5.
There will. constantly be a woman around you who will attract you, as well as if you can not control yourself, you are.
screwed. The world is filled up with them, but what ' s additionally particular is that your time and.
sources are restricted. Even if you have 100 million bucks, it is very easy to spend that.
cash on a lady in a glance of an eye. What ' s more vital than money is time, the. time you might invest building your'company, side rush, or whatever will certainly produce
. actual wealth.Unless you discover just how to regulate your desire to go after females, you will. never get to financial freedom due to the fact that there will constantly be a lady on whom you.
Thanks for.
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