{"podcast":{"title":"Reinvent Money","slug":"reinvent-money-7113646","podcast_index_feed_id":7113646,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c25d6818/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/ReinventMoneyVideos/featured","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/32509014/32509014-1666001429181-c5ba2610ccf1d.jpg","author":"Reinvent Money","episode_count":80,"summary":"Welcome to reinvent.money where Paul Buitink conducts insightful interviews with leading people in the macro and money space in order to improve public understanding of what's wrong with our financial system and how it can be improved. Paul has been active in both the mainstream and alternative finance space, having worked at a bank, credit insurance company, gold companies and a Bitcoin exchange. He was also one of the driving forces behind the campaign to establish a full reserve bank in The Netherlands, called depositobank. Paul lives in The Netherlands.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646"},"episode":{"title":"Luke Gromen - \"NATO Countries Buying Up All the Silver\"","slug":"luke-gromen-nato-countries-buying-up-all-the-silver","published_at":"2026-01-27T14:58:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646/luke-gromen-nato-countries-buying-up-all-the-silver","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reinvent-money/episodes/Luke-Gromen---NATO-Countries-Buying-Up-All-the-Silver-e3e8ob2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c25d6818/podcast/play/114630434/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-27%2F416935788-44100-2-3a23a6e31749e.mp3","summary":"Paul Buitink talks to macro analyst Luc Gromen, founder of FFTT.They discuss the escalation between protesters and ICE in the US as well as the risks of civil war. Luke analyses Trump's performance so far and weighs in on how Europe should respond to escalations. Selling of treasuries and repatriation of gold are amongst the options.Luke believes Trump is like a cornered animal and the world could move to autarky.He believes gold is the only way out of the debt crisis and could go ninefold. Europe, US and Japan are behaving like emerging countries given their high debt load. Luke also zooms in on Japan. Furthermore he suspects that NATO countries are buying up silver.At this point he thinks Bitcoin behaves too much like a leveraged tech stock.Follow Luke here:https://fftt-llc.com/https://x.com/LukeGromenFollow Paul on X here:https://x.com/paulbuitinkTimestamps:0:00 Intro1:20 Luke Gromen and FFTT3:47 Tensions in the US, risk of civil war?7:38 Is Trump delivering11:12 Europeans dumping treasuries14:23 US supply chain issues22:19 New Plaza Agreement24:24 Why gold is needed for the reset28:32 Japan's debt struggle and unwinding of carry trade33:22 Should Europe repatriate gold35:33 The case for silver39:19 Gold to become the foundation of a new financial system42:48 Confiscation of gold and silver46:15 Luke's Bitcoin outlook51:07 Outro","meta_description":"Paul Buitink talks to macro analyst Luc Gromen, founder of FFTT.They discuss the escalation between protesters and ICE in the US as well as the risks of c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3096,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reinvent-money-7113646/episodes/luke-gromen-nato-countries-buying-up-all-the-silver/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646/luke-gromen-nato-countries-buying-up-all-the-silver.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}