ITM Trading, Released on 5/9/25

“Gold and dollars would have saved you definitely,” says IE Business School professor Daniel Lacalle, referring to the widespread power outage in Spain that also crippled communications and access to water recently. In today’s interview, he tells Daniela Cambone that in a crisis like that, electronic fiat money doesn’t work. “You go to a store and you have to use this gold ring and you get food. That’s for sure.” He also points out that the blackout was caused by politically driven energy policies that overly rely on volatile renewable sources without sufficient backup from stable power sources like nuclear and hydro. “The ideology of energy makes no sense… renewables are left-wing and nuclear is right-wing? That makes no sense.” Additionally, he argues that the attack on cash reflects the elite’s effort to tighten social control, referring to a promotional video from the ECB that touted the digital euro’s viability even without electricity or internet. Watch the video to learn how you can better prepare for situations like this one.

00:00 Was Spain’s blackout planned?
08:10 Government pushes their agenda.
10:58 The war on cash is on.
15:20 Gold in a blackout.
18:44 Racing towards net zero.

Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020) and Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017). He is a professor of global economy at IE Business School in Madrid and Chief Economist at Tressis SV. Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017 by Richtopia, he holds the CIIA financial analyst title, with a postgraduate degree in higher business studies and a master’s degree in economic investigation. He is a member of the advisory board of the Rafael del Pino Foundation and Commissioner of the Community of Madrid in London. His work can be found here.

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