Xi Just Flew to Pyongyang. Nobody Is Talking About Why.

Xi Just Flew to Pyongyang. Nobody Is Talking About Why.

Dear Reader,

Bloomberg confirmed it this morning. Xi Jinping is flying to North Korea this weekend. June 8. First visit in seven years.

The mainstream press calls it diplomacy. Xi engaging the region. Nothing to see here.

I call it something else. I call it timing.

America is fighting a war in the Middle East it cannot afford. The Strait of Hormuz closed. Oil spiked. Inflation just re-accelerated to 3.8%. The Fed has not moved in months. GDP is grinding down to 1.6%. And the national debt just crossed $39.2 TRILLION.

And while Washington stares at Iran, Xi just flew to the man with nuclear weapons.

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• The one hard asset strategy I have used since 1965. It is working right now.

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Let me give you four numbers. These are the numbers nobody on CNN is putting together.

• 1: America's national debt is $39.2 TRILLION. That is up $2.7 trillion in twelve months.

• 2: Inflation just re-accelerated to 3.8%. The Fed's own preferred gauge sits at 3.3%. Both above target. Both moving up.

• 3: GDP growth is 1.6% annualized. The economy is slowing while prices rise. That is stagflation. The Fed has no answer for stagflation.

• 4: 78,000 Pentagon civilian workers were fired this year. No plan. No analysis. The GAO said so.

"DOD didn't consistently analyze the impacts of these reductions, either in 2025 or in prior years. DOD also doesn't have a plan to assess lessons learned from its 2025 workforce reductions."

Three defense agencies refused to tell Congress how or why the cuts were made. The Pentagon agreed they should develop a lessons-learned plan. Then gave no indication they would actually do it.

That is your war machine. $39 trillion in debt. Firing workers blind. No plan. No accountability.

And while this circus runs, Xi is boarding a plane to Pyongyang.

I have studied history my entire life. Every empire that tried to fight wars it could not pay for made the same mistake. Rome borrowed to fight the Goths. Britain borrowed to fight the Boers. Then the Germans. Then everyone else. The pound stopped being the world's reserve currency in 1944. Not with a bang. With a spreadsheet.

China knows this pattern cold. Xi did not fly to Pyongyang for diplomacy. He flew there to close a circle. Russia on one side. North Korea on the other. America bogged down in the Middle East on a credit card it cannot pay off.

While Washington argues about Iran, Beijing is building the next world order.

"Bitcoin is below $69K, a peak first reached in Nov. 2021, nearly five years ago. However, during that time period the NASDAQ is up 73%, gold is up 138% and silver is up 218%."

Schiff is right about gold. He has been right about gold for twenty years. Gold is up 138% since 2021. Silver is up 218%. These are not speculation. These are votes of no confidence in the dollar.

Right now gold sits at roughly $4,500 an ounce. Silver at $72. Both down from their February highs. Both in consolidation. I have seen this before. In 1971. In 2008. In 2020. Every pullback in a secular bull market feels like a top to people who are scared. It is not a top. It is a buying window.

I have been buying gold since I was 23 years old. I bought my first silver in 1965. I am not guessing. I am watching a pattern repeat for the third time in my life.

There is one specific ratio I watch when empires are in transition. It tells me more about where the dollar is headed than any Fed statement ever could. I want to show you exactly what that ratio is doing right now.

The gold-to-debt ratio.

Every time in history the government borrowed beyond its ability to repay, the price of gold priced in that currency eventually reflected the full extent of the debasement. Not sometimes. Every time.

At $39.2 trillion in debt and gold at $4,500, the ratio is already screaming. And the debt is still growing at $2.7 trillion a year.

My poor dad trusted institutions. He believed the dollar was real. He worked hard and saved. By the time he retired, inflation had eaten most of it. My rich dad did not trust paper promises. He bought assets governments cannot print. Real estate. Oil wells. Gold and silver. He got richer every time the dollar got weaker.

That is not a coincidence. That is a system. And the system is working right now exactly the way it always has.

Xi flying to Pyongyang is not a diplomatic event. It is a signal. The world is reorganizing. The alliances are hardening. America is overextended, over-borrowed, and increasingly unable to project credible power. The countries that see this clearly are moving their chips.

The people in the B and I quadrant are watching. They are not panicking. They are positioning.

Gold. Silver. Hard assets governments cannot inflate away.

Not because I am afraid. Because I have read the same chapter before. And I know how it ends.

To your freedom, Robert Kiyosaki

P.S. The gold-to-debt ratio I just described is one of the signals inside my Patriot Income Plan research. It tells you not just what to buy, but when the window is open. If you want to see what I am watching right now, click here to see the full briefing.