The Civilization Cycle Podcast
Jul 23, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
In this commodities intelligence briefing, David DuByne sits down with Jake Bell of Noble Gold Investments to analyze the accelerating erosion of the global fiat system and "Math of the Precipice,"…
Jake BellGuest
David DuByneHost
And one of the things I wanted to start with for your audience was talking about the global money supply.
So it's no surprise that we are experiencing oppressive inflation still here in the middle of 2026.
And I do see it as a continuation of COVID, the disastrous policies, the monetary policies that we were forced to endure.
And so I, I think most of the public wants to look past it, and they underappreciate the magnitude of those decisions.
So again, it is in, in my viewpoint, seeing this as a continuation, the continued snowball of monetary issues and policies since essentially COVID.
And you could walk that back and say that was the Band-Aid from the 2008 and '09 financial crisis that got just rolled forward, and we're just dealing with it finally.
Now, just to say that, that-- those numbers are so incomprehensible for most people.
And then put the derivatives in there, and you're talking about quadrillions of dollars.
For humans to see that many zeros, it just-- it's really, when you look at that many zeros, it doesn't make sense.
But then our federal interest payments here, for anybody, you know, on your, uh, tallying notes out there, 1.2 to 1.4 trillion.
Add in the Social Security, the Medicare liabilities that we have moving forward with our full population in America, takes us over 4 trillion.
And one of the things I wanted to start with for your audience was talking about the global money supply.
So it's no surprise that we are experiencing oppressive inflation still here in the middle of 2026.
And I do see it as a continuation of COVID, the disastrous policies, the monetary policies that we were forced to endure.
And so I, I think most of the public wants to look past it, and they underappreciate the magnitude of those decisions.
So again, it is in, in my viewpoint, seeing this as a continuation, the continued snowball of monetary issues and policies since essentially COVID.
And you could walk that back and say that was the Band-Aid from the 2008 and '09 financial crisis that got just rolled forward, and we're just dealing with it finally.
Now, just to say that, that-- those numbers are so incomprehensible for most people.
And then put the derivatives in there, and you're talking about quadrillions of dollars.
For humans to see that many zeros, it just-- it's really, when you look at that many zeros, it doesn't make sense.
But then our federal interest payments here, for anybody, you know, on your, uh, tallying notes out there, 1.2 to 1.4 trillion.
Add in the Social Security, the Medicare liabilities that we have moving forward with our full population in America, takes us over 4 trillion.
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