$30,000 Gold? Russia's About to Change Gold & Silver Prices Forever - Martin Armstrong

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]I know a lot of these people just, you know, they they turn it almost into a religion. If you just take, okay, fine, the national debt was a trillion in 1980. Gold was at $875. National debts at 35 trillion. If if gold really responded on a proportional basis, it should be $30,000. And he is saying making jokes about confiscating assets of from Jews and Russians. What most people don't realize is that he married a Christian girl and his his kids are uh baptized. He was pretending not to be Jewish before the election because he was a neo-Nazi. You know, this is why his his hatred of of Putin is unbelievable. But suddenly he becomes president and now he's Jewish. Friends of mine in Israel are basically saying he is no Jew. The global financial system is entering a dangerous transition period where debt, geopolitical tension, and capital concentration are beginning to reshape the world economy. Governments continue to spread at historic levels where confidence in traditional institutions continues to weaken. In this environment, hard assets such as commodities, infrastructure, and land as well as the tangible productive capital are becoming increasingly important.

[00:01:19]Martin Armstrong, a vetan financial forecaster known for his long-term economic cycle analysis, warns that the world is moving towards a period of major instability driven by sovereign debt problems and rising geopolitical conflict. According to Armstrong, capital is no longer moving solidly on the basis of growth opportunities. It is moving towards safety and survival. He explains that gold continues attracting global attention because investors no longer fully trust government policy and central bank management. Armstrong also points to increasing pressure on Europe and growing concerns surrounding war banking stress and global political fragmentation. At the same time, he believes volatility across currencies and bond markets could intensify in 2026, creating conditions where gold and tangible assets attract investors seeking security and outperform traditional investments due to their resilience during turbulent periods.

[00:02:20]Now, we present the clips from Martin's interview. Before we discuss this, please hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, and ring the bell icon.

[00:02:28]Thank you and enjoy the video. Gold is too small of a market to absorb everything. Um I know a lot of these people just you know they they turn it almost into a religion. All right. If you just take Okay, fine. The national debt was a trillion in 1980. Gold was at 875.

[00:02:50]The national debts at 35 trillion. If it if gold really responded on a proportional basis, it should be $30,000.

[00:02:58]>> All right. Uh, it's not all right.

[00:03:03]If you just look at the German hyperinflation when it collapsed, they started a new currency 1925 uh, and was backed by real estate.

[00:03:12]That's what makes the transition. It's all tangible assets. It's not just gold.

[00:03:19]Uh so it's it's it's companies with physical assets, you know, um real estate, art, you know, things of this nature. Uh you know, it's not just gold. Uh gold is more of a um international something you can, you know, it's the same thing in China as it is here. So it has a mobility to it, okay? versus a piece of art, per se, or land that you you've got in Chicago or Florida or wherever. They can't move that. It's not a movable asset. So, that's that's the advantage of gold. Um, but capital will move into the private sector, etc. I mean, you know, back in in um the 1980s, I got kind of blamed for starting the the you know, the takeover boom, but it was just that everybody was so psychologically told that, oh, the stock market's evil, the bond market's where you should be, trust government. And the low in uh the book value of the Dow actually took place in 1977.

[00:04:34]and I did advise most of the the takeover boys, you know, I knew Alan Bond, etc., all those guys. And just looked at it, I said, "Look, the company, we could buy it, sell its assets, and triple our money. Is the stock overvalued?"

[00:04:52]And that's why the Dow went from like a thousand to 6,000 real fast, >> you know? It was just psychologically uh I mean look that I remember that from my father you know stocks are kind of evil and speculating you know you know good old treasuries the government you got to trust that's that was the attitude coming out of the great depression um it finally gave way in the 70s but you know that's that's really the way it was the main reason you have all these countries you know uh turning to old was um simply bricks. When they put in the sanctions against Russia, that sent off a red flag. Uh >> hey, if you don't do what Blinken tells you, we can remove you. And the idiot even threatened China. You help Russia and we'll remove you from from Swift.

[00:05:48]Oh, really? Okay. Let's see. Let's crank up our system, you know. Um it's >> so you know the gold bugs have to understand they're not buying gold because they think it's going to go up.

[00:06:00]They're not investors and they don't give a if it goes down. All right?

[00:06:05]It's neutral. All right? They you know you've got China and Japan dumping euro debt. They know what's coming and they don't want to have all dollars because okay fine. What do you what what happens if there's a geopolitical issue with the United States? All right. So, gold is neutral.

[00:06:24]It's not that that, you know, I'm not buying it because I think it's going to double in price. They're not a speculator. All right? I mean, I mean, I deal with a lot of the central banks. I mean, this is not that question never even comes up. Gee, you think we should buy some gold or it might go up? I've never heard that from a central bank ever.

[00:06:44]>> Uh, and it's just it's >> it's geopolitical.

[00:06:49]That's the whole issue with with gold.

[00:06:52]That's why all the gold right now you're seeing it leaving London and Switzerland.

[00:06:57]The same thing happened for World War I and World War II. US ended up with 76% of the world's official gold reserves at the end of World War II. That's what made the dollar the reserve. You know, Germany finally took some back. France took their some of their gold back in 1971.

[00:07:15]But, you know, a lot of it is stored in, you know, even not Fort Knox, but actually in the New York Fed. Yeah. It's it's stored there for other countries.

[00:07:26]Um, so it's look, you know, a lot of these gold bugs, they just constantly make it a religion type thing, and it's that's not that's not the issue. A major part of Armstrong's warning focuses on the growing divide between governments and the private capital. He argues that many countries are reaching a point at which debt cannot be controlled through normal economic policy. As trust declines, investors begin moving money internationally in search of stability.

[00:07:58]That shift creates strong momentum behind safe haven assets, especially gold. Armstrong believes geopolitical uncertainty and weakening confidence in institutions are pushing investors towards assets outside the traditional banking system. He also warns that political leaders continue to underestimate the long-term consequences of excessive debt and foreign policy escalation. Another important point is the rise in global fragmentation.

[00:08:26]Nations are increasingly prioritizing self-interest over cooperation which could place additional pressure on currencies, trade and international market. In periods like this, Armstrong suggest volatility become the new normal rather than a temporary phase. Now let's get back to the interview. It's absurd.

[00:08:46]Anyhow, but um my sources long before and and there was a a a local journalist uh LRA who I knew in Ukraine and he came out and he tied um Zalinski's funding to become uh president with the same guy funded you know Hunter Biden and um then he basically said, you know, look, if you just have to look at a timeline, I mean, this whole war was created by the West. It not Putin. Um, and they just lie about absolutely everything. I mean, Zalinsky stood up even the day before and said, "We're going to rearm with nuclear weapons."

[00:09:37]that made the Daily Caller and Trump, you know, should pay attention to and I I think he is paying more attention to this timeline because I mean I know quite a few people around him and and I've gone back and forth spoken actually with you know RFK. Um I mean I don't see anybody really has any real respect for Zalinski. I think they realized that he was now a plant. Um, and I even have uh videos which I did post on my site of him on stage uh as a comedian before president and he is saying making jokes about confiscating assets of from Jews and Russians.

[00:10:31]What most people don't realize is that he married a Christian girl and his his kids are uh baptized.

[00:10:38]All right?

[00:10:40]He was pretending not to be Jewish before the election because he was a neo-Nazi. You know, this is why he's his hatred of of Putin is unbelievable. But suddenly he becomes president and now he's Jewish. Friends of mine in Israel are basically saying he is no Jew.

[00:11:00]Um, I mean, everything has just been plotted out. I mean, he he won't run for election because he knows he wouldn't win. I mean, if your son was kidnapped off the street, sent to the front line, your house has been bombed, are you really going to be out there cheering Zillinsky?

[00:11:23]I mean, it's like I said, only 13,000 people were dead before.

[00:11:28]And um when he came to power, it's now 1.1 million and growing.

[00:11:35]Um the people there are are not so bullish on him. And it's the Ukrainians that have all fled that are listening to the propaganda from the press. Oh, he's a hero. He's this. He's that. Whatever.

[00:11:51]You know, it's just nuts. But um they want to take down Russia period and they think that they can. NATO was even trying to raise a hundred billion before the election and they called it to Trump proof the war. I mean this is it. This is like the old Roman Empire. Let's invade Russia and and take all the spoils. uh and they really think and as deranged as this may sound but because they don't understand the economics all right but they think if they they take Russia they get those assets then the European economy will be bigger than United States and US will be subservient to to Europe they don't even understand anything um the European model is like the old merkantile model. We just build stuff and sell it to somebody else. They keep their taxes very high. I mean, just Google it. The average net worth of a German is less than that of an Italian.

[00:12:58]China has looked at the US model and the European model. What are they doing?

[00:13:03]They're following the US. They're trying to build a a consumer-based economy, Silk Road, etc. They're not going the way Europe was. Uh, and Europe is is I don't care how much money they get, they have to surrender this Marxist agenda that they all are on. And I don't see that happening. Uh, our computer says that Russia, you know, would actually win and that Europe is going to fail for a third time. Basically, you're looking at it breaking up.

[00:13:37]Um I mean I I met when they were forming the euro they came to me and I sat down okay fine this is how we current you know create a currency and I can tell you you know they were saying oh everybody's going to pay the same interest rate all that stuff that would be fine if you consolidated the debts but uh Cole who was the champ you know the the chancellor of Germany He knew if he allowed the German people to vote on joining the euro, he would lose. And he even admitted it he would lose 7 to three. Germany into the euro uh on an executive order. No vote, nothing. He knew the Germans would be very upset about the debt. So he insisted no consolidation of the debt.

[00:14:28]And I warned them. I said, "Listen, you know, this is going to fail. You don't understand what you're doing. You know, like Tom would know. I mean, as a trader, basically, you you bought the Deutsch mark, you sold the LRA. Okay.

[00:14:43]>> You just moved it from there to the bond markets.

[00:14:46]>> If I'm bullish Germany and bearish Italy, I just do it in the bonds.

[00:14:50]>> You know it. And I told them, I said, "Fine, US has a single interest rate for the Feds, but all 50 states pay different rates depending upon their credit rating." I was told at that meeting in 1998, we just have to get the euro through.

[00:15:08]We'll worry about the debts later. Here we are in 2025. They still have not consolidated the debts. This is why the euro has never been able to challenge the dollar >> because as a fund manager, okay, I can buy10 billion worth of US treasuries.

[00:15:25]Well, Europe, let's see, who do I want?

[00:15:28]Uh, Germany, Italy, France. still got to make the same decisions. Of course, you know, they're equivalent of a of a Congress. Oh, yes. We're going to vote for for Zillinsky. We want him. Cut off the money. You'll see how many of them run.

[00:15:43]>> He's right. This has been going on a long time.

[00:15:46]>> Yes.

[00:15:47]>> All right. It It was back honestly for the 2000 election. I ended up in the middle of that attempted regime change.

[00:15:56]I was asked to put in 10 billion dollars into Hermedage Capital and that was >> 10 billion.

[00:16:04]>> 10 billion. Yes. Uh with um Bill Browder and Edmond Saffron and I refused. Boris Barisnowski even attempted to call me. All right. I said I'm not involved in in regime changes. I was promised I'd get a hundred billion back. Uh Edmmond was a gold bug and they were talking about all their gold, all the oil, diamond, everything from Russia would be going through the New York trading desks.

[00:16:40]>> And I said, "I'm sorry. I'm out. I'm not interested." Uh so, and I was shown skids of $100 bills that were coming from the treasuries. And there was a magazine that even called it the money plane. I think it was the New York magazine.

[00:16:58]>> Yeah.

[00:16:58]>> Um I mean I was shown in the basement.

[00:17:01]Look, we've got them. Edund put on a a uh paid for an IMF dinner and rented the entire National Gallery in Washington. Um I was invited to that. Every politician was there. I was even, you know, everybody who was anybody. I was even talking to Paul Vulker at that one. Um, and it was all like, "Come on, join us. We got the IMF in our pocket." I mean, this I said, "I'm sorry. I don't care who you have.

[00:17:36]You know, my computer says Russia, you're going to fail." you know, and um but they were trying to rig the election of 2000, blackmailing uh Yelson to step down and simultaneously because they had blackmailed and was using Bank of New York, the the Russian communists filed an impeachment emotion against Yeltson. So he was getting it from the West and getting it from the communists.

[00:18:06]That's how Putin came in. He turned to Putin because he wasn't a communist and he wasn't an oligarch.

[00:18:13]And his last words to him were, "Protect Russia." So this attempt at regime change, I was in the middle of it. And I'm talking, you know, that's back in 1999. I have firsthand knowledge of all that stuff. Martin Armstrong's broader message is that the world may be approaching one of the most significant economic turning points in decades. The combination of rising debt, geopolitical conflict, banking instability, and weakening public confidence is creating conditions that historically lead to a major shifts in capital flows. According to Armstrong, governments are running out of traditional solutions. Higher interest rates damage economies while lower rates risk fueling inflation and currency weakness. That leaves policy makers trapped between two difficult outcomes. In this type of environment, investors often move towards tangible assets drawn to their intrinsic value and independence and away from financial promises dependent on political stability. Armstrong also highlights the growing possibility of international realignment. As global trust weakens, countries are becoming more economically and politically defensive. This creates uncertainty not only for currencies and bonds but also for global trade and equity markets. Gold continues benefiting from that uncertainty because it remains outside the political system and is perceived as a reliable store of value when financial stability is under threat. Armstrong believes the next phase of the cycle could bring even larger moves in precious metals as institutional and private capital search for protection against systemic risk. If these trends continue accelerating into 2026, the financial landscape could look very different from what investors have become used to over the last decade.

[00:20:10]Share your thoughts about this interview in the comment section below. If you find this video helpful, please hit the like button, subscribe to the channel, and ring the bell icon. Thanks for watching.