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“Yes, I do believe we are in the financial context, because in terms of profitability and the likelihood of cutting, I think the Republicans are probably more likely to make these moves than the Democrats, but you also have to take into consideration the impact…”

“We're at a civil war internally, and we're at an international war simultaneously.”

“I think we're going to see fragmentation of states from the central government. I think you're going to see big fragmentation in the world, not just in the United States, on the failure to agree on Most things.”

“Things like the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, all of those are obsolete, and so we're going to have, again, might is right, and so it's going to be a period of greater conflict.”

“The profit system alone does not direct resources adequately.”

“It'll be a long time before those intuitions and those imaginations are created by computers. Ok, but it won't be a long time before computers produce better quality thinking.”

“Gold is not a precious metal that's speculated on, like most people have come to think of it as. It is the most established money that, it's the second largest reserve currency that central banks hold.”

“Central banks are not going to want to buy Bitcoin and being able to hold it.”

“For example, 60% of all Americans have below a sixth grade reading level.”

“I think that it's likely down the road.”

“I think when we have, we're going to have the midterm elections, you're going to go past the midterm elections with probably that Democrats will take the house and be, and maybe, I don't know, it's going to be difficult. And you know what? Nobody can succeed b…”

“It looks to me like AI basically is eating everything and it might eat itself. And what I mean by that is not produce adequate profits.”

“Their technologies are almost as good as ours, because they are, they're not far behind”

“Gold is the only money That you can have and nobody has to give you anything to have it. Other money, all other money is dependent on somebody giving you something. Okay. Whether they give you, and so it's unique in that it's confiscation risk is less than oth…”

“So what you're getting paid for is credit risk, right? So it's not gold. It's a promise to get your gold back, right? Then that's what money was. And that's why it would have an interest rate. You have an interest rate that on the promise to get your gold back…”

“An individual, and most investors should have between five and 15% of their portfolio in a gold or an alternative money.”

“Bitcoin is limited in supply, and its perception of money, it is a form of money, it, it's perceived as money, as a storehold of wealth, that is unlikely to be significantly held by central banks, and many others, because of a number of Problems it has.”

“So in my opinion, we're in a bubble. Okay. By various measures of it being in a bubble and people feeling very wealthy, but you have that vulnerability.”

“That world order has gone from a world order that it was a multilateral world order, sort of with rules like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization and the World A health organization, and the world, this is, you know, the world bank, and the worl…”

“Because if you look at the history of wars and so on, there are winners of the wars, losers of the wars, and neutral countries. The winners of the wars lose, meaning they still get deeper in debt and they have the consequences of the wars. The losers of the wa…”

“I think the technology war is the most important war that almost whoever wins the technology war will win almost everything.”

“The inventiveness of new chips and the most advanced chips the United States is a bit ahead, is, is ahead. And then but the application to use the chips, whatever AI there is, to be able to integrate it into life and making it for the society Most applications…”

“India is going to have probably the, has the best fundamentals to have the best growth rate in that, because you're going from not having enough money to having, that has infrastructure.”

“In either case, you don't want to hold that debt, because either there's a debt service problem, or there's a depreciation, you get paid back with a greater supply and cheaper Money, and that is the dynamics, and that's the mechanism”

“Gold is the third largest reserve currency, by the way. Dollars euros, gold, and then yen.”

“Like, I think the Chinese are a bit behind in the chips and But they're ahead in the applications.”

“A great company that gets expensive is much worse than a bad company that's really cheap.”

“I don't think the profit impact and the financial impact on productivity is going to be nearly enough, near enough to deal with the supply demand issue that we now have.”

“When you talk about 10 years, there's gonna be a period in that 10 year period where it's going to, it's gonna be hellacious. In that 10 year period where, you know, the coordination of dealing with our problems will be greater and the cooperation for dealing …”

“You can't lose the technology war because you'll lose the military war.”

“As you can see, they transpired in overlapping cycles that lasted about 250 years, with 10 to 20 year transition periods between them.”

“Typically, these transitions have been periods of great conflict, because leading powers don't decline without a fight.”

“I think Modi is a Deng Xiaoping.”

“So as we have this conflict between the United States and China and its allies, Russia, and so on, as we see that line up, countries that are in the middle, like India, are gonna be net beneficiaries of that.”

“I think that in the next five years, I think year by year, we're going to go through a time warp. You're going to see radical disorder in the next five years as each one of those things comes to path.”

“We're going to have an interesting two years between where we are now. And let's say, almost a few years, and let's say early, ah 2025, ok? And not just interesting because we're going to have unbelievable elections, and we'll see whether, how power, how we ca…”

“Whatever success I've had in life has been more due to meditation, I think, than anything else. Maybe my curiosity, because it gives one an equanimity and a creativity that's really, really great.”

“The speed of I'm going to use algorithms to make quick bets on these things will probably at some time make very important decisions, be very major mistakes. And since we're all connected, that scares me.”

“And if you really look at that, the marginal benefit of diversification is much more powerful than the marginal benefit of goodness.”

“The one that you're referring to is there's a test call in workplace inventory, which is called concern for others, and it doesn't really mean concern for others. What it means is that when faced with the choice of whether the mission is Or the individual's fe…”

“There is the top 40% and the bottom 60%. And if you just carve out and you say, what is the economy and life like of the bottom 60%? There hasn't been income growth, prospects of having a better life than your parents.”

“The problem that most people have at that point is that either there is an autocratic decision maker or a democratic decision maker. Neither of those work well. The autocratic decision maker is just the guy who's the boss who says, okay, well, now I'm going to…”

“There are going to be people who are riding the algorithms that will replace the people who are doing jobs. And so there's going to be a bifurcation, and I think that learning how to code is like learning how to read and write for the next generation”

“We now have that two trillion dollar deficit. Half of that is interest payments, plus we have to roll over nine trillion dollars of debt That has been accumulated and is maturing.”

“If you didn't know what gold was likely to do, and you had no view on gold, one should have between five and 15% of their portfolio in gold because of the fact of how it works with the other components.”

“The way I learned to invest, ah, was to write down my criteria when I was making a decision. Every time I'd make a decision, I would then think, why am I making that decision? And then I write down the criteria and see how it would have worked in the past.”

“On August 1519 71, President Nixon defaulted on his obligation, the U.S.'s obligation to give gold paper market.”

“So I hold a little bit of Bitcoin. I have a little bit of Bitcoin, but for me, it's not as attractive as gold for the reasons you asked me my thoughts.”