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Somebody's right. What about stocks? What about gold? I will give you no recommendation about gold. Gold is something I've never understood beyond the fact that it's a psychological phenomenon. So I don't give advice on things which I don't consider an investment. And gold can act as a hedge, there's no doubt about it in some circumstances, but not necessarily reliably. And I wouldn't call it an i…

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Will this event inspire better cinema scripts? Well let me put it this way. So I've been telling you that we're on the cusp of the Golden Age and then this happens. And so you say to yourself, well Scott I guess you got this one wrong. You're way wrong. This doesn't seem so golden to me. But it feels like a movie and we just hit the third act. If you watch any drama movie, actually any movie, the third act is that thing that's sort of closer to the end than the beginning in which the hero of the story is in an impossible situation and the audience can't even imagine how it could be solved. It's like unimaginable there's any solution. That's the third act. That's where we are. And just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean it won't get solved because we're not the ones who know how this stuff works. Luckily the experts do imagine it and they have a better idea of where it's going. But it does feel weirdly like a movie script and we're right in the middle of the third act. And how does the third act go? Always the same way. Always the same way. The hero wins. That's how it works. So if you think this is a simulation that we're in and that it's following movie script form, which it seems to do by coincidence or design, I don't know, probably coincidence, but you'll see it often.

Somebody says hopefully not the fourth act. Inflection point shows fake or real weakness or strength. Yeah I didn't understand that.

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The video conferencing companies are going crazy. Somebody says will you admit you're wrong? What do we do? Don't see many deaths like China and Italy. Why would I? Is there something you don't understand about my opinion that that question made sense? Because I'm not one who said we're all doomed. The danger is if you don't act. But we're acting. And the panic of my god millions could die is what…

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