Gold as Hedge Against Policy Choices

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has officially identified this as the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. As the Federal Reserve begins its two-day policy meeting today, it faces a "nightmare setup": energy prices are soaring just as the U.S. labor market begins to soften.

In this interview, Larry McDonald, founder of The Bear Traps Report and author of How to Listen to Market Speak, reveals why this isn't just a macro scare—it is the "exhaustion of the paper-credit system itself". From the 70% collapse of subprime lenders like Goeasy to Morgan Stanley’s 8% default warning for private credit, the "truth bleed" has begun.

In this episode, we break down:
-The "Grocery Bill" Shock: Why the 8-million-barrel drop and the spike in urea fertilizer (up 28%) are hitting the real economy during planting season.
-The Fed’s Dual-Mandate Trap: Why Powell is caught between an energy-driven inflation spike and a 2008-style credit crisis.
-The AI Credit Disruption: How the "CapEx lunacy" in Silicon Valley is triggering a wave of defaults in software-heavy portfolios.
-The Hard-Asset Manual: Larry's tactical picks in Uranium, Coal, and Volatility, and why gold miners could face a 30% drawdown before the real rally.

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Video Timestamps

00:00 Energy Shock Opens 
01:22 Fertilizer & Food Inflation 
03:19 Gold Miners Cost Squeeze 
06:17 Refining Bottlenecks 
08:45 Housing & Rates Pressure 
10:17 Private Credit Inferno 
11:42 Fed & Financial Repression 
14:16 Hard Assets Power Plays 
17:29 AI Disruption & Credit Contagion 
26:07 Rotation Into Energy 
30:32 How to Trade Drawdowns 
32:08 Midterms & Volatility Hedge 
35:29 Closing Takeaways 

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