Episode 1: The Gold & Silver Wake-Up Call | The Gold Show with Walt Philips

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From the center of America's precious metals conversation. This is The Gold Show your source for insight on safeguarding wealth and uncertain times. Hosted by Walt Philips and brought to you by Reagan Gold Group, we help educate Americans on physical gold and silver, and the role precious metals can play in a diversified retirement strategy. To learn more. Call 800-702-2212 or visit GoldGoodLife.com. That's GoldGoodLife.com. Now here's your host Walt Philips.

Walt Philips

All right guys welcome to The Gold Show. I am your host Walt Philips. And this show is sponsored by my good friends at the Reagan Gold Group. Let me tell you something. Right out of the gate about who I am and why I am sitting behind this microphone today. Precious metals are my life. I've spent decades in this space. I live it, I breathe it, and I study the markets every single day so that you don't have to. I'm not a commentator reading off a sheet of paper. I believe in this so deeply that I move my own mother's retirement. Bless her 90 year old heart, I moved all of her annuities and her IRAs entirely into physical gold and silver.

And that's what we're going to be talking about today. That's how convicted I am about where this world is headed. And that's what this show is about, helping you safeguard what you have built. So let's get right into it. Before we dive in, I want you to grab a pen. I want you to write this number down. 1-800-702-2212. Again. 1-800-702-2212. That is a direct line to the precious metals specialists at Reagan Gold Group, the company that sponsors this show. If anything that I say today resonates with you, which I'm hoping it will. That is the number that I want you to call. They will answer your questions. They will walk you through your options and help you figure out if physical gold and silver makes sense for your situation, but I believe they make sense for every single person's situation.

Everyone's situation. The calls completely free. Guys, there's no obligation. Just write the number down 1-800-702-2212. And before we get into it, I just want to give you guys a quick disclaimer. I am not a tax advisor or a financial planner. The information I share today is based on my personal opinion, decades of experience, and verifiable market data. That is all. All right guys, so let's start with the elephant in the room. And that is inflation. Inflation. The politicians in Washington they get on TV. They tell us the economy is booming. They tell us inflation is under control. But guys I want you to look at your life. Look at your own life. Look at your grocery bills. Look at your property taxes.

Look at your utility bills. Does everything feel like it's under control to you? Of course it doesn't. And the math proves it. Guys, math does not lie. Math never lies. Just this past month, the consumer price index hit 3.8%. That is the highest it's been since May of 2023. It's not slowing down, it's accelerating. But here is the real crisis. Our national debt just crossed $39 trillion. Let that number sink in $39 trillion, and we're adding roughly 5 billion to that debt every single day. Every day. The government can't tax us enough to cover that kind of reckless spending. It is mathematically impossible. So what are they going to do? What do they do? They print more money out of thin air.

They print out IOUs, and they hand them out to every single one of you. And every time they print out another trillion dollars, another trillion IOUs, the dollar sitting in your savings account, the dollar sitting in your IRA become worth less and less. It's a stealth tax on your wealth. It's a tax on the American dream. If you have $100,000 sitting in cash right now and inflation runs, let's say for 5%, something like that a year, in ten years, that $100,000 is going to buy you about $62,000 worth of goods. They're quietly draining your life savings and telling you everything is fine. You have home insurance, right? I mean, I do, I have home insurance, you know, in case of a fire, in case of a mishap, you have car insurance. It's not legal to not have car insurance in case of a wreck in case of an accident, anything like that.

But let me ask you a question. What's insuring your life savings against the fire or the accident will call it of inflation, government debt. You need an anchor. You need something real. And if you were in your 60s or 70 and you spent 40 years building a nest egg, this is the moment that matters most. You don't have 15 years to wait around for the market to recover if things keep going south. You were in the preservation phase of your life. Right now, you need an anchor. So this is what I want you to do. Guys, I want you to pick up your phone. I want you to call that 1-800-702-2212. That is the direct line to the precious metals specialist at Reagan Gold Group, the company that sponsors this show and the company that I personally trust with my own family's wealth.

When you call, you're going to speak with a real human being, not a robot, not a voicemail. A specialist who is going to answer every question you have, every single one about physical gold and silver, how to buy it, how to store it, how to roll your IRA or 401 into physical metals without paying a single penny in taxes or penalties. They're going to walk you through all of it completely free of charge. No pressure, no obligation, just real information that could change the trajectory of your retirement. And if you're a first time buyer making a cash purchase, Reagan Gold Group will send you a free safe to store your medals at home. Plus, depending on your purchase amount, you could qualify for up to $10,000 in bonus coins.

Guys, again, call 1-800-702-2212 right now. Again, that's 1-800-702-2212 or visit GoldGoodLife.com the specialist are standing by right now on the weekend. The call is free, the information is free and it could be the most important phone call you make this year. All right guys, let's get into something else here I want to talk about the concern that every freedom loving American should be having right now. We are watching a massive push towards a digital currency system. They want everything tracked, traced and controlled. We saw what happened a couple of years ago. We saw people's bank accounts frozen because they supported the wrong political cause. We saw Donald Trump Jr. Talk about how they froze his father's business accounts. When a bank can just turn off your access to your own money with a keystroke, you don't own that money.

It's not yours. The bank owns it. They're just letting you use it. That is not the American way. Our founding fathers understood this. They mandated that our money be backed by gold and silver, because they knew that fiat currency, paper money printed by politicians always led to tyranny. Think about this. And I really want you guys to wrap your head around this. Remember earlier when I mentioned moving my own mother's retirement into precious metals? Let me tell you what that process actually looked like when I went and tried to get her money out of JPMorgan Chase Bank. They fought me tooth and nail, guys. They interrogated me. They demanded to know why I wanted her money out. And, you know, I asked them, you know, that's none of your business.

That's that's our family's money, you know? Eventually, I had to tell them. I told them, listen, we're moving it into the physical metals and precious metals, and they. It's like I tripped every alarm in their building. Guys, you would think that we were in a mission impossible movie. It took them two agonizing months to release her funds, but once we had it, it took me 24 hours to secure her future in physical gold and silver. Two months of fighting with a bank. 24 hours to invest in real money that tells you everything you need to know about who the banks are really working for. Here's the thing, guys. Let's say you have $200,000 in the bank, right? And this is something I like to talk about a lot. Try to go get it. I dare you try to get it.

The bank isn't going to have that kind of cash on hand. And if they do, they're going to read you the riot act. They're going to ask you why you need it. They're going to going to report it to federal agencies. They're going to make you feel like a criminal for asking for your own money. And even if you did get that 200,000 in cash, you would need three duffel bags and 50 pounds each just to carry it out of the door.

Not so inconspicuous, right? But that same $200,000 in gold. In physical gold, it fits in a shoebox with room to spare. That's the power of physical wealth. That is the difference between paper promises and real money. When you hold physical gold and silver, you were stepping outside of the control grid. You're holding an asset. A digital dollar is just an IOU from a government that's $39 trillion in debt, a physical gold coin in your safe, in your pocket, even, is real wealth that nobody can freeze. Nobody can track it. Nobody can print it away. It's financial independence in the palm of your hand. And for all my seniors that are listening right now, who remember a time when a handshake meant something and a dollar was actually backed by something real. This is how you take your power back. You don't have to ask a bank teller for permission to access the wealth you spent a lifetime building.

Now, I want to talk about something that I think is the most important conversation that we can have on this show, period. And I want you guys to really listen up. And I'm going to be very, very clear here. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, guys. I'm not a doom and gloom guy. I'm a guy who looks at math, and the math is telling us something very, very, very important right now. The United States went off the gold standard in 1971. That was 55 years ago. For 55 years, our dollar has been backed by nothing but the full faith and credit of the United States government. And for a while it worked. America was the dominant economic superpower. The world needed dollars to buy all we had leverage. But that leverages eroding guys.

The math is catching up in the world we're living in today in 2026. Now, here's what I need you to understand about fiat currency, aka paper money. It is backed by nothing but a government promise. Every single fiat currency in human history has failed. Every single one. Not most of them. Not the majority of them. Every single one. The Roman denarius, the French accent, the German mark, the Zimbabwean dollar, the Venezuelan boulevard, all of them. They all followed the same pattern. Governments spent more than they had printed money to cover the gap, and eventually the currency became worthless every single time, without exception. Every last time. Now, I'm not sitting here, guys, and I'm not going to tell you that the US dollar is going to collapse next Tuesday at 3:16 p.m..

I'm not telling you that at all. What I'm telling you is that the pattern is the same when you look at it. The math is the same. And we're 55 years into an experiment that is never once succeeded in the long run. I mean, think about that, guys. Think about that. Think about what a dollar was worth. In 1971, when Nixon took us off the gold standard, $1 and 71 has the purchasing power of about $0.08 today. $0.08? Eight pennies. That means if you had $100,000 saved in 71, the purchasing power of that money today has been reduced to the equivalent of about $8,000. The dollar didn't collapse overnight. It slowly, quietly, year after year. And a lot of people, you know, you're not paying attention to this kind of stuff every single day while you're busy working and living your life, the value of your savings are being quietly drained.

Now, here's the part that I think is fundamentally unfair, right? You went to work every single day. You broke your backs. You traded your time, your energy, your health, your years times what times with your family, your your precious moments, the most valuable things that you have in exchange for dollars. You earn those dollars with 100% of your effort. You backed every single one of those dollars with your hard work. And then the government, through reckless spending and money printing, quietly erodes the value of those dollars they are taking the purchasing power of your hard work without ever asking your permission. That's not right. That's not the American way. And that's why I am so passionate about precious metals.

And frankly, that's why all the countries right now are trying to hoard them. Physical gold and silver, physical gold and silver. How, how do you say no to it, guys, when you hold physical, precious metals, you're holding an asset that no government can print. They can't create more out of thin air. There are no printing presses for gold. The supply is. The supply is finite. That is why when the dollar loses value, gold goes up. Because gold is the measuring stick. It's not gold that's getting more expensive. It's the dollar that's getting weaker. Gold is just holding its ground the same way it has for 5000 years. Guys, it ain't going anywhere for the seniors that are listening right now, okay?

Who spent their entire lives doing the right thing, working hard, saving diligently, planning for retirement. You deserve to keep every dollar that you've earned. You put in the work. You deserve to keep the reward. Physical gold and silver are how you make that happen. Guys, I want you to take control of your financial destiny today. True diversification means holding something outside of the banking system. It means holding something you can touch, feel, and control. If you have a 401, an IRA, or a pension from an old job just sitting there exposed, you can roll a portion of that into a self-directed gold IRA without paying a single penny in taxes or penalties. I want you guys to call Reagan Gold Group today. 1-800-702-2212 again, guys.

1-800-702-2212. They make this process incredibly simple. You call them, you tell them Walt Philips sent you, and they will walk you through exactly how a gold IRA works. And if you're a first time buyer making a cash purchase, they will even send you a free safe to store your medals at home. Plus, depending on your purchase amount, you could qualify for up to $10,000 in bonus coins. Guys, call that number 1-800-702-2212. All right guys, let's get into this next topic over here. And I want to talk about what is going on with big banks and watching what they do. The very institutions that are printing the fiat currency or dumping it and buying physical gold and silver at a record pace, the World Gold Council forecasted central banks are going to buy 850 tons of gold this year alone.

The BRICS nations, which are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, they are actively dollar rising. They are hoarding gold to back their own trade because they see the writing on the wall. They are developing their own gold backed settlement currency and while they are stacking gold, the industrial world is quietly draining the silver supply. These two metals are moving together and the smart money is positioned in both. And it's not just foreign governments. Wall Street sees it, too. JPMorgan, one of the biggest banks in the world, just forecasted that gold is heading to $6,000 by the end of the year, possibly 6300. We're sitting at around 4500 an ounce right now. Do the math. On that upside, guys. Do the math on it. Gold is now America's number one export.

For five consecutive months we have exported more gold than oil, more gold than pharmaceuticals, and the wealth of the West is being drained and shipped to the East, because they understand that physical assets are the only true safe haven. The momentum is building. The people in power know that the fiat system is reaching its mathematical limits. You cannot run 2 trillion annually in deficits forever. Judy Shelton, a former economic adviser for Mr. Donald Trump, recently said that gold is signaling a monetary reset. We have a leaven. States including Texas, Florida and just recently Alaska, that have passed laws recognizing gold and silver as legal tender. When state governments start passing laws to treat precious metals as actual money, they are signaling that they don't trust the federal fiat system either.

If you're retired, you cannot afford to ignore these signals. The central banks are preparing for a massive shift. Guys. The billionaires are preparing. The states are preparing. If the people who print the money are converting it to gold, what does that tell you about what you should be doing with your retirement savings? The window to position yourself ahead of the crowd is closing. Don't wait until the dollar loses another 10% of its purchasing power. Don't wait until gold hits JPMorgan $6,000 target and Silver's back up at 90, and you're forced to buy at a premium. Whether you want physical gold and silver shipped directly to your front door, fully insured, or you want to roll over a portion of your retirement into a gold and silver IRA stored in a world class vault. Reagan Gold Group is your partner. I want you guys to pick up the phone. Make the free call. It costs you nothing. Guys, call 1-800-702-2212. Again. 1-800-702-2212 or go to GoldGoodLife.com.

Now guys, really quickly I want to talk about something that most people have absolutely no idea is happening right now. And when I tell you this I wanted to really sink in. Guys, there is a silent war being fought over physical silver and it's happening right here on American soil. Those same brick nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa just added 663 tons of gold in nine months. That's $91 billion worth of gold. The shift from dollar reserves to hard assets is not a prediction. It's a trend. And when fiat fails, silver is going to reprice as well. And guys listen, we are going to get into that more. And I'm not here to be a doom and gloom type of guy. Guys, I'm a realist. Again.

I look at math, I look at the geopolitical landscape and I look at history, right? Every single fiat currency. I'm going to say it again, guys, because this fact is so astounding to me. Every single fiat currency in human history has eventually failed. Gold has survived for 5000 years. It is outlasted empires, wars, depressions, pandemics, guys, pandemics. You have worked too hard for your money to let it be inflated away by politicians in Washington who can't balance a checkbook. Take control of your financial destiny. It's just so important, guys. It is so important. I cannot say enough the importance right now of getting into physical gold and silver is the most paramount choice that you can make. You want to stay ahead of the curve that again, that is why I'm on the radio right now. When you were listening to me, I'm not here because it's some job to me.

I'm here because it's a passion. I genuinely want to help people. I want people to understand what's going on in the world right now. Guys, there's a major, major, major shift happening, and our seniors are going to be the ones that are affected the most. People that are unknowing, that are unbeknownst to all this new information that's happening every single second. All this news, guys, is breaking every single day. New stuff, more new stuff around gold, more new stuff around silver. And a lot of people just can't keep up with all of it. So that is exactly why I am here. Because I want to be your sound piece. I want to be your vault, your store of information that you can come to reliably.

So you go, guys know what's going on up to the very minute. All right guys. So we're going to take a quick commercial break now. But when we come back in the second half of the show, I'm going to break down exactly how the gold IRA rollover process works step by step, and why Wall Street is quietly draining the physical silver supply from the COMEX vaults. You do not want to miss this. While we're at commercial, grab your phone and call 1-800-702-2212. The specialists are waiting. I'm Walt Philips again. That number is 1-800-702-2212. You are listening to The Gold Show and we will be right back.

And welcome back to The Gold Show, guys. Once again, I am your host, Walt Philips, and we are brought to you by my good friends at the Reagan Gold Group. I don't know about you guys, but I just poured myself a fresh cup of coffee here in the studio and I'm excited to get into it with this next segment. Guys, if you're just tuning in for the first time, let me get you up to speed really quick. In the first half of the show, we talked about inflation. We talked about the $39 trillion national debt, and we talked about how every time the government prints more money, the dollar sitting in your savings account quietly lose their value.

We talked about the push towards a digital dollar and what that means for your financial freedom. And we talked about how the central banks around the world, the very institutions that print fiat currency, are quietly dumping it and buying physical gold at a record pace. If you missed the first segment, I really encourage you to go back and listen to it. It lays the foundation for everything we're going to cover right now in this half of the show. We are going to get into the incredible opportunity sitting right in front of us in the silver market. We're going to talk about the massive demand coming from new technologies that most people have never even thought about. And most importantly, I'm going to explain exactly how you can move your retirement funds, your 401(k), your IRA, your old pension into physical gold and silver without paying a single penny in taxes or penalties.

Because that's the number one question I get, and that's what I want to answer clearly for everyone here today. Before we dive in, guys, grab a pen. Right now I want you to write this number down if you haven't already. 1-800-702-2212. That is the direct line to the precious metals specialist at Reagan Gold Group, the company that sponsors this show and the company I personally trust with my own family's wealth. If anything, I say in the next 22 minutes again resonates with you. That is the number I want you to call. 1-800-702-2212. And just a really quick disclaimer. As a reminder, I am not a tax advisor or financial planner. The information I share is based on my personal opinion and verifiable market data. All right guys, so let's get into it.

All right. And I want to talk about something different here. And this is an opportunity with silver. White gold is the ultimate anchor for your wealth. Silver is the ultimate opportunity. And right now there's a quiet run on physical silver happening right under our noses. I hear people say all the time, Walt, I missed it. Silver's already at $75. I missed the boat. Guess what? Let me tell you something. Today's price does not matter. And I'm going to tell you why. On January 29th of this year, in 2026, silver hit an all time high to be exact of $121.67 an ounce. That already happened. Triple digits are not a theory anymore. They're not a forecast. They are a fact that already occurred in this calendar year.

The current price, around $75, is far from a ceiling. It's a discount from a confirmed high. Think about that for a second. If you could buy a stock that hit $121 earlier this year and it's now sitting at $75, would you call that a missed opportunity or a second chance? That's exactly where silver is sitting right now. And here's the deeper context. Silver's all time high in 1980. Prior all time high rather was $49.45 an ounce. People look at that number and say, well, silver already blue past that. But when you adjust that 1980 peak for inflation, when you account for 46 years of the dollar losing its purchasing power, that 4945 becomes $198 in today's dollars, guys, $200 at $75.

Silver hasn't even reached half of its inflation adjusted all time high. The runway on this metal is enormous, and that's why I need to make sure to talk to you about it. Now, let me give you the ratio math here, because this is the part that really opens people's eyes. And this is where it's going to make sense. Guys, there is something called the gold to silver ratio. It tells you how many ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold. Right now that ratio is sitting at about 60 to 1. Historically, going back centuries, the average ratio has been 15 or 20 to one. That's not a fringe number. That's not a historic that's the historical norm.

So if gold sitting at $4,500 an ounce and this is really, really simple math guys, and you apply that historical 15 to 1 ratio silver prices out at $300 an ounce. Think about that. 300 times 15 is the price of gold today. That's not me being dramatic. That is basic math. And I will say it over and over again. Math does not lie. I'm not the only one saying it either. Bank of America has silver price target of $309 by year's end. Robert Kiyosaki, the author of one of my favorite books, Rich dad, Poor Dad, one of the most widely read financial books in history, is publicly calling for $200 silver. 200 to $300 isn't even a question, it's just a matter of when, not if.

So, why are the faults running dry? And guys, I'm going to keep posing these questions and giving you these answers because I want you to understand the metals. I want you to understand them down to a molecular level. So there's two reasons that the vaults are running dry. And they are supply and demand are completely out of balance. And they have been for six straight years. The Silver Institute, which is the leading authority on global silver supply and demand, just confirmed that 2026 marks the sixth consecutive year of a structural supply deficit. That means, guys, six years running, the world's been consuming more silver than is pulling out of the ground. Since 2021, 700,000,000oz have been permanently drained from above ground stockpiles.

That's not a blip. That's not a one year anomaly. That is a sustained structural imbalance that does not resolve itself quickly. You cannot just flip a switch and open new silver mines. It takes over ten years to get a new silver mine online, and it takes billions of dollars to bring a new mine online. The supply side cannot keep up with what is being consumed and what is consuming it. A lot of things, guys. First off, technology. The modern world runs on silver and most people have no idea. Let's start with solar energy, right? Solar panel production consumed hundreds of millions of ounces of silver last year alone. Silvers used. It is used in the conductive paste on every single solar cell. There is no substitute for it. It is the most conductive metal on Earth, period.

And global solar capacity is projected to grow five times over by 2035 times. That demand is not going away. It is accelerating. Then there's electric vehicles. Every EV needs roughly twice as much silver as a traditional combustion engine. So that Tesla that's sitting in your driveway right now, that puppy is running on silver. The silver is used in the battery management systems, the charging components, the circuit boards. Samsung. They just paid $7 million. Guys said this was a conversation I was having another day with a friend. They just paid $7 million to lock up the silver mine for two years. Not because they wanted to, but because they couldn't source enough silver on the open market for their new solid state batteries. A company the size of Samsung.

Think about that. $1 trillion company with all the resources and supply chain relationships, had to go pay a premium to lock up a mine that tells you everything you need to know about how tight this market is. And then there is artificial intelligence. Guys, this is the one that most people aren't even talking about yet. AI runs on silver. It's built on silver. Every AI chip uses silver for thermal conductivity. It's the best conductor. Like I just said. Guys, I'm sorry. Of electricity and of heat. Of heat on Earth. And when you're running chips at the speeds required for AI processing, heat management is everything. Every day to center that powers AI uses silver in its connections and cooling systems.

Industrial demand for silver now makes up nearly 60% of all silver mine globally. Think about that, guys. When the paper claims on the comics Exchange can no longer be settled in physical metal because the tech companies have already bought it. That is when the real price discovery begins. In that moment is getting closer and closer. Every single day, every hour, every minute. For my seniors that are listening right now, do you remember when Silver Quarters were actually money? When they were actually made out of silver? A 1964 silver quarter contains about 18oz of silver. At today's prices, that quarter is worth over $5 in silver content alone. Think about that. The face value says $0.25. The real value says $5. That is what happened.

When real money holds its ground in paper, currency loses its purchasing power. Silver has been real money for thousands of years, and right now, the biggest financial institutions and the biggest technology companies in the world are fighting over it. The question is, are you going to be on the right side of that trade? So guys, if you are not positioned in physical metals right now, you're missing one of the greatest wealth transfers in modern history. But it's not too late. Picking up the phone to make a free phone call takes five minutes of your time, but it could alter the trajectory of your retirement. Guys, I want you to call Reagan Gold Group right now. 800-702-2212 I'm going to repeat that 1-800-702-2212 when you call, you were going to speak with a real human being.

You're not speaking to a robot, not a voicemail. An actual specialist is going to answer every question you have. And if you're a first time buyer making a cash purchase, they will send you a free safe to store your medals at home. Depending on your purchase amount, you could also qualify for $10,000 in bonus coins. Guys, that does not sound like a bad deal to me. I want you to call 1-800-702-2212 again 1-800-702-2212. And I want you to tell them that Walt sent you. All right, guys, now, now, we just spent a lot of time on silver, okay? But I want to bring it back for a second here to the foundation, because I don't want anyone to walk away from this show thinking it's silver or gold.

It's not either or. It's both. While silver is the opportunity, the growth engine. Gold is the anchor, the stability, the thing that has held its value through every war, every depression, every currency collapse in recorded human history. You want to have both working together. And that is true diversification in the precious metal space. And that brings me to the question I get more than any other. And this is what I want to talk to you guys about. People call me, they email me, they stop me and they say, well, I get it. I see the inflation, I see the national debt. I see the banks are draining the silver vaults. I want to own physical gold and silver, but all my money is tied up in my 401 or my IRA.

I can't touch it without getting hammered by taxes and penalties. What do I do? What do I do? Walt, I hear this almost every single day, and it's the biggest misconception in the entire precious metal space. And I'm going to tell you why you absolutely can move those funds into physical gold and silver, and you can do it 100% tax free and 100% penalty free. It is called a self-directed gold IRA rollover, and it is one of the most powerful financial tools available to the American investor. And most people have never even heard of it. And that's exactly why I'm telling you about it right now. So guys, here is how simple the process is. If you have an old 401 from previous employer and it's just sitting there doing nothing for you, you can roll it.

If you have a traditional IRA, a Roth IRA, a TSP from government service, or a 403 b from a school or a nonprofit, you can roll it, you can roll a portion of it, or you can roll the entire thing. The IRS allows this. It is completely legal, completely above board, and it has been available to American investors for decades. Now, decades. When you call my friends at Reagan Gold Group, their specialists will handle 95% of the heavy lifting. Here is what that process looks like, guys. And here's how easy it is. You spend about 15 minutes on the phone with one of their specialists. They help you set up a new self-directed IRA with an IRS approved custodian.

Then the funds are transferred directly from your old account to the new one. You never touch the money. You never take a distribution, which means it is not a taxable event. No taxes, no penalties. The money moves from one qualified retirement account to another, and the IRS has no issue with it whatsoever. Once the funds arrive in your new self-directed IRA, you choose the physical gold and silver products you want to hold real, tangible bars, coins, American Gold eagles, American Silver eagles, Canadian Maple Leafs, gold and silver bars from accredited mints products that you can hold in your hand.

Those medals are then shipped to a world class, highly secure depository vault. And here's the part that gives people real peace of mind. Your metals are fully insured by $1 billion insurance policy through Lloyd's of London, the most respected insurer in the world. Your money is completely safe. You own the physical metal. It is in your name. It is allocated specifically to your account. It is held completely outside of the Wall Street system, and it acts as the ultimate anchor for your retirement. Something that does not go to zero, something that cannot be printed away. Something that is held its value for 5000 years. Now I want to address something that comes up constantly. Guys. People say to me, Walt, if gold and silver are such great investments, why isn't my financial advisor telling me to buy them now?

Guys, this is a fair question, and the answer has nothing to do with what is best for your portfolio. It has everything to do with how the financial industry is structured. And I want to be very clear here, guys, extremely clear. So make sure you listen to this. I am not here to trash financial advisors. Many of them are very good people and they are doing their best within a system that is not designed to serve your interests first. So basically, here's the reality, guys. Most financial advisors operate on what's called an AUM model assets under management. They charge you a percentage fee, typically 1 to 2% a year. It can vary based on the total value of the paper assets they manage for you in the stock market. That sounds reasonable until you do the math. All right.

Let's say you have a half $1 million portfolio. That's 5 to $10,000 a year coming out of your retirement every single year, whether the market goes up or down, whether you make money or lose it, they get paid. Now, here is the conflict of interest. If you take $100,000 out of your brokerage account and buy physical gold that you hold in a private vault, your advisor can no longer charge you a management fee on that money. It's gone from their revenue. Furthermore, guys, most traditional brokerages literally do not have the capacity to sell you physical deliverable gold. They can sell you a paper ETF, but you want to stay far away from that. A fund that claims to track the price of gold. But they cannot put a gold coin in your hand. So of course they're not going to recommend it.

It's not in their financial interest to do so. Guys, I'm not saying that they're bad people. Again, I am not saying this to bash them. I'm saying the system is not designed to give you that option. So you have to go outside the system to get it. And that is exactly what Reagan Gold Group is here to help you do. For anybody listening right now that is nearing retirement, that is that is about taking the wheel that you spent decades letting fund managers making decisions with your money. You trusted the system for a long time. The system worked. But we're in a different environment now, guys. $39 trillion in national debt, inflation that is not going away and a global shift away from the dollar.

This is the moment where you have to take that wheel. You have to take control. You secure what you have earned with an asset that does not rely on Wall Street's permission to hold its value. You have to safeguard yourself. So, guys, listen, do not leave your entire life savings exposed to a market that you do not control. That's the whole point here. True diversification means taking a percentage of your portfolio off of the digital grid and putting it into hard assets that you own outright, you and nobody else. All right, guys, so at the end of the day, what we are really talking about here is peace of mind. And I don't think that gets said enough in this industry.

That is what physical gold and silver provide, not just financial or financial return. Certainty. An anchor in an uncertain world. When you hold a gold coin in your hand, you are holding 5000 years of proven purchasing power. It does not rely on a Wi-Fi connection. It doesn't rely on a bank's permission. It doesn't rely on a government's promise. It is yours, free and clear the moment you take possession of it. You know, it's funny to me when people call gold an alternative investment, as if it's some fringe, exotic asset that only survivalists and conspiracy theory theorists hold. Let me flip that around for you guys. Gold is not the alternative. Fiat currency is the alternative. Paper money is the experiment.

Gold is the original. Gold is what money was. What money for was. For the vast majority of human history, the paper dollars only existed in its current unbacked form since 1971. That's 55 years that gold has been money for. That's 55 years. Gold has been money for over 5000 years, guys, for over 5000 years. So which one is the alternative? Is what I'm asking you. The dollar is being printed into oblivion. The national debt is 39 trillion in climbing, and the paper system loses credibility. Gold does not just hold its ground, it gains ground. It is not keeping pace with inflation. It is outpacing it every single time. The government prints another trillion dollars. Over time, confidence in the paper system erodes a little more.

Gold absorbs that value. It becomes worth more of everything, including suits. That is the difference between holding real money and holding paper. Paper loses purchasing power every single year. Gold gains it. And a world where the fiat system is overextended and is mismanaged as it is today, that gap is only going to widen. The measuring stick is not moving. The dollar is shrinking against it. That's what I want for you guys. I want you to give yourself some peace of mind and give your family the security that it needs. I want you guys to call Reagan Gold Group right now at 800-702-2212. Let their specialist answer your questions, guys. Let them show you how easy it is to get started.

Whether you want physical gold and silver, ship directly to your front door, fully insured, or you want to roll over a portion of your retirement into a gold and silver IRA stored in a world class vault, they will walk you through every option. That number is 800-702-2212. Don't wait until Monday. They are standing by right now to take your call. 1-800-702-2212. All right, folks, that's all the time we have for today on episode one of The Gold Show. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for spending part of your day with me today. This show exists for one reason, to give you the information that the mainstream financial media is not giving you. To tell you the truth about what is happening to your money and what you can do about it.

Remember, this wealth is not just about making money, it's about keeping it. It's about making sure that the years you traded away, the early mornings, the late nights, the weekends you worked instead of resting. It's about making sure that those years are not quietly stolen from you by inflation and reckless government spending. You earned every dollar you deserve to keep every dollar value. Gold does not lie. It has been the ultimate store of value for 5000 years, and it will be the ultimate store of value for the next 5000. And silver, the most undervalued asset on the planet right now, is getting the right and ready to make a move that most people will be talking about for decades. Next week, guys, on The Gold Show, we're going to talk.

We're going to go deep on the BRICS nations and their plans to launch a gold backed trade currency, and what that means for the dominance of the US dollar. This is a story that is unfolding right now, and it has a massive implications for every American who holds savings in dollars. You will not want to miss it, guys. Until then, stay informed, stay vigilant, and keep stacking. I'm Walt Philips. God bless you. God bless your family. And I'll see you guys right here next week on The Gold Show.

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