The FED is PRINTING MONEY! $40B and counting!

Published December 12, 2025

  • YouTube Video Transcript

    The Federal Reserve is cranking up the
    money printer, starting with $40 billion
    of asset purchases, and they also
    dropped interest rates today by another
    one quarter of a percentage point. This
    is the third rate cut in 2025. Every
    time the Federal Reserve uh reduces
    rates, it’s a indirect way of printing
    money because the way they reduce rates
    is by buying or in the or selling assets
    into the marketplace. And in doing so,
    when they uh buy assets from the
    marketplace, they do it with madeup
    money out of thin air that they create
    with a magic money printer and that’s
    how they push interest rates down. Well,
    now because so many people were
    complaining about the inflation that was
    caused by the Federal Reserve, they have
    gotten creative and now they are doing
    roundabout ways of pumping free money
    made up out of thin air into the
    economy. So today they announced that
    they’re dropping interest rates by a
    quarter of a percentage point, which
    again will cause the $7 trillion in
    money market funds to slowly try to find
    a better home as those interest rates
    come down for the money that the
    government will pay you for free to sit
    on the sidelines in a money market fund
    or a high yield uh savings account at a
    bank or things like that. But in
    addition, the Federal Reserve, they
    already announced that as of December
    1st, they were going to stop letting
    assets roll off of their balance sheet.
    So, previously, the Fed Federal Reserve
    has been trying to shrink their balance
    sheet uh due to inflation. And uh so, as
    of December uh 1st, they are no longer
    shrinking their balance sheet. And now,
    as of today, literally today, they have
    announced they are expanding their
    balance sheet. And they’re doing that
    over the next 30 days by buying $40
    billion of government treasuries. So
    basically the government issues debt
    which is how it funds itself because the
    government is $2 trillion. It’s running
    a $2 trillion a year deficit. And that
    deficit is paid for with debt. And
    because nobody’s not nobody but not
    enough people are dumb enough to give
    the government money to loan the US
    government money. Uh, not enough people
    are dumb enough to do that because they
    know the government can print unlimited
    amounts of money and therefore cause
    inflation and so you loan the government
    money at 4% interest and then the
    government prints 7% more money and you
    end up 3% worse off. That’s how that
    works. Well, because not enough people
    are willing to loan the government money
    and because the Federal Reserve is
    trying to find roundabout ways to print
    money out of thin air and inject it into
    the economy, they are doing this $40
    billion uh asset purchase where
    basically they make up $40 billion out
    of thin air. They run around and buy
    government debt with it and then whoever
    had the government debt now has $40
    billion that did not previously exist.
    magically the money appears out of thin
    air. So part of the reason the Federal
    Reserve is doing this is so that they
    can massively amp up these programs in
    the future. They’re preparing for some
    significant uh issues in the economy as
    a result of how indebted the entire
    economy is from consumers to businesses
    certainly governments. They are deeply
    indebted and when they’re deeply
    indebted it requires a constant supply
    of new money to pay those debts.
    Otherwise, everybody ends up with high
    interest rates and they start defaulting
    on their debt. So, when you have a
    debt-based economy where everybody’s
    drowning in debt, the government
    continues to try to print more money out
    of thin air to try to keep it all from
    seizing up. The problem is in doing so,
    they debase the currency, meaning they
    make the currency less valuable, which
    causes inflation. And the inflation
    makes everybody mad and uh it’s bad for
    everybody and especially wage earners
    who make their money from wages by
    getting paid by the hour. Because
    although wages rise slowly, inflation
    rises faster. Meaning you might get a 3%
    cost of living increase at work, but the
    government is printing 7% more money
    every year, making your life 4% harder
    to live. So, they’re printing a bunch of
    money, $40 billion over the next 30
    days, plus lowering interest rates,
    which they do by printing even more
    money. And in the future, they will
    print vastly more money on top of that.
    And the result of that will be high
    inflation. And Bitcoin is sitting at
    $92,500
    as I record this. And as that money
    pumps into the economy and causes people
    to start chasing assets with that money,
    it will push the price of assets up,
    especially the assets that are most
    impacted and the the go-to assets that
    people flee to when the government is
    undermining and diluting their currency,
    foremost, Bitcoin. So, we’ve already
    seen big increases in the price of gold
    as a result of central banks buying gold
    to try to get ahead of their own money
    printing. So, they’re effectively
    printing money out of thin air, buying
    gold with it, and then that’s insulating
    the central banks from their own
    irresponsibility. But obviously, that
    does not insulate anyone else. Uh,
    Bitcoin is the best asset that that an
    average person can own to insulate
    themselves from inflation. and uh great
    time to buy it at $92,500.
    Eventually, Bitcoin will relatively
    quickly rise from 92,500
    to over $150,000. I don’t know when
    that’ll be. You know, could be weeks,
    could be months, I don’t know. I would
    certainly expect by the first half of
    2026, but I don’t know. And as that
    happens, uh a bunch of people are going
    to get left behind who are not buying
    Bitcoin right now because they feel like
    they don’t need it and it’s been mostly
    going sideways for a year. And we will
    get to uh next year. There will be
    massive amounts of money printing by the
    Fed. Prices will start rising. Everyone
    will end up worse off. People will try
    to start buying Bitcoin to shield
    themselves from inflation. But a lot of
    the increase that’s caused by this money
    printing will have already happened. And
    so, how do you get ahead of that? You
    buy Bitcoin now instead of waiting for
    the effects of all this money printing
    uh to take effect. The best way to
    shield yourself from inflation is when
    the government’s printing a ton of money
    out of thin air, go ahead and buy the
    Bitcoin now so that when the inflation
    and the money printing all hit, it does
    not hit your finances cuz your assets
    are shielded from that inflation because
    they are in the form of Bitcoin. So, buy
    as much Bitcoin as you can and hold on
    to it for as long as conceivably
    possible. Same advice as always.

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