Okay one last go on the D dollarization Topic for now hopefully this will bring Us back to the topic of gold after all Of this without that unnecessary fear I Mean it'll still be there We'll just know how to better avoid it The death of the dollar Has been a long Topic in part one I Focused directly on the US Dollars the Story that is dominant World Reserve Currency role is an immediate Jeopardy Is just really pervasive around here That we're gonna see hyperinflation Because of it and your dollars are more Or less worthless now that's not my take I made a few points on that in part two I figured that we would look directly at Where this actual threat to the dollar Is coming from It's coming from China and I talked a Little bit about their strategy with This belt and Road initiative explained The massive infrastructure program Talked a little bit about who it Benefited this last part is going to Focus a bit more on the problems with China's programs maybe things are going Quite as well there as some people seem To think because the whole point of this Series was to get a better look the Actual risk that we're looking at with a Possible downfall of the dollar try to Get a handle on what any of us might be Able to do about it rather than just
Curling up in a ball now YouTube has This analytics screen it's called Content your audience watches it lists The top 15 videos of people who watch Your content also checked out and every One of those videos all 15 of them are Warnings like all caps dire warnings Eight of them feature bullion dealers Kind of sad maybe we should be worrying Less about Metals working on dual Citizenship is some kind of Escape Plan I Portugal's nice maybe I can even get a Travel agent on the show well don't do That yet in this one we're going to tie Off the topic for a little bit we're Going to get back to what we can Actually do Adapt and overcome Now the last one I touched on some of The problems that China's had with their Belted Road initiative let's get some More color on that but don't get me Wrong here there's definitely Merit to The strategy China is working to Corner The market on energy and on Metals but Things are not all coming up Aces and We're going to look at that and then a Little deeper in I'm going to introduce Sponsor for this video but I will let You know when we get there this sponsor Lines up with what we're talking about Here but this has not been like a Three-part lead up to a sales pitch Don't worry this is just a great company
Who's allowing me to put some more time Into these videos Let's get back to China the Belton Road Initiative it's typically looked at as An infrastructure plan and it could be Argued that that's true but if you look Closely we'll see that the Infrastructure connects import export Lanes to important mining resources now China's top investments in the Bri fall Under the energy category now I Mentioned in the last one that they are Cornering markets on Cobalt on copper Gold lithium and uranium and yeah it's Not getting an outlier there because China's also aggressively pursuing Gold Mining rights as well ranked by total Capital their Investments go like this It goes energy first Transportation Second commodity Metals third now there Are others in play too you have Telecommunications you have real estate But those three are the big ones Countries that have the investment Dollars coming in they still own the Investment rights but China gets a cut Via the extraction in the production and They ensure their continued access to Those resource going forward now if I Can jump out of order for a minute China's highest lending exposure is in Russia so their support to Russia is Self-serving they aren't providing Military Support they're providing
Liquidity options they're looking after Their Investments and they're trying to Lock down resources so things there Might not be quite as tight as you think I talked a little bit about how China Operates in the last one for the Bri China rolls into a poor country and they Offer a deal on needed infrastructure Projects Chinese Banks they range of Financing Chinese contractors they Complete the projects it means that China ships in the workers and then the Chinese operators manage projects once They're complete that seems like a great Deal for both parties unless the host Country defaults now China can try to Take ownership if they do they can walk Away if they have to but one way or Another the country ends up indebted to China or sideways with them and many of The projects don't have a large enough Return to pay off their costs so the Country is stuck with a bad loan and no Good way out you add to that many of These countries with these Bri projects Going on are in serious financial Distress right now China currently has 600 billion dollars in debt out we've Heard about evergrand the Chinese real Estate developer in trouble could Potentially crash Chinese economy well This is twice the amount of debt that Evergrant has so in addition into the Potential real estate crisis that they
Have domestically they're running into Trouble outside the country as well You want to talk about Russia well China Has invested over 300 billion dollars There and things they're not going well There are these days their credit rating Is dropped the sanctions on the country Are having a big impact that alone could Be a big issue for China more than 60 Percent of its loans made through the Bri are currently in distress and they Have a huge exposure I've seen numbers As high as 1.2 or 1.3 trillion dollars In loans out so while China is out there Trying to quarter the markets on Resources they're taking huge economic Risks and no serious Economist that I've Seen or read has said China's in any Place to overtake the world Reserve Currency anytime soon Rather than just saying that though let Me give you a few examples in Sri Lanka They defaulted and had to sign over the Rights to a strategic Seaport that was a Few years ago Pakistan's another country They signed up under the Bri and they Owe a third of their foreign debt to China right now they also have a major Port project that's in trouble as well Zambia is probably the best example They're having similar problems they Defaulted in 2020 on a sovereign loan And they're trying to restructure right Now with China as well now there's also
Considerable political Fallout over These bad deals so there's even more at Risk the obvious issue here is that China needs to recover their financial Investment but those countries are now Accusing China of luring them in to Borrow too much they're left feeling Like they were sold on those projects Only to end up being effectively Foreclosed on in regionally strategic Locations or left trying to restructure Those loans on projects that may never Pay off so if part of China's plan was To gain political influence and soft Power in these countries Well just ask anyone in Zambia how they Feel about China right now so look China Is Far and Away our largest threat and Really the largest threat to any Western Country been very smart about locking Down resources and possibly beginning to Broker trade deals around the US dollar And if I didn't mention it they're also In the Middle East they're in Iraq and Saudi Arabia as well but they do have Their own problems so this is where I'm Coming from when I say that I expect a Gradual decline of the US dollar rather Than fire and brimstone the more likely Case is that we'll see a global Recession it's far more likely than the Loss of the dollars World Reserve Currency status and the distinction There is that China is not poised for
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It's it's 50 for the sake of easier math The second is this idea that if we do See a gradual decline I have some kind Of background asset that I can bring Forward now I don't think of them as Separate things but I actually do have Them stored separately I use a vault for Metals that I don't expect to need to Get at quickly now in that sense I'm Doing this more for my kids than I am Really for me and my wife there's just No way to predict what's coming Especially when we're talking about Decades from now but that's how I'm Planning now I have my own retirement Pretty well planned out if I was looking To start over though I'd probably look At what I'm doing for my kids and I've Set up custodial brokerage accounts for Stocks it's not a wild amount in there It's just basic stuff from energy to Tech in it about half of those pay Dividends I also dollar cost to average A small amount into Bitcoin and ether For them so you can see where this is Going I'm just trying to keep that Diversification there they also have Savings accounts of course and I'm just Assuming that a big part of any gold That I'm buying is going to end up going To them so that's how I'm operating I'm Not scrambling because the end is June I'm looking out a decade in further so There's more to this topic I'm a little
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