An excerpt from the GTA Member Q&A Hour on July 14, 2025.
Transcript edited for print.
So the global monetary restructuring is going to be part of what the second Trump administration is going to be about.
In terms of Canada and the UK—these tariffs, what’s happening to the stock market—Trump threatens more tariffs, and the stock market goes up. What does that mean? It means all these countries are basically going to submit. The market already knows these countries are going to give in to Trump. They don’t have a choice.
They depend on trade settlement. If China loses half of its revenue from the U.S. because of trade tariffs, they go into a catastrophic depression. Now, everybody’s saying they’re already in a severe recession, bordering on depression. I argue it’s a depression already, but let’s just say it’s a recession.
If those tariffs don’t get worked out while they renege on the tariff agreement—whatever they work out—there’ll be a catastrophic depression in the second-largest economy in the world.
So everybody knows, if that’s the case with China, then the UK, the European Union, Canada, France, Germany—they’re going to kiss the ring and give in. They’ll negotiate a deal and they’ll give in.
The Bigger Problem: The World Needs the U.S. Dollar
Here’s the bigger problem. They need the U.S. economy, they need to trade—but more importantly, what do they need more? They need the U.S. currency.
Without our currency coming into their economy, as their currency continues to debase, their currency continues to lose value faster and faster. So they’re caught between a rock and a hard place. And that’s going to be the bigger problem as we get closer to the Saturn–Neptune.
The fact is, the labor government in the UK faces a 30% tariff—they’re going to give in. They’re all going to give in. What else can they do?
Will President Trump get the U.S. turned around before he leaves office?
Well, it’s very difficult to say.
Trump has made a lot of good strides in the first six months implementing tariffs, regulation, AI tech, all that stuff. He’s prevented a recession—at least for now. We’re seeing boosting economic indicators. We’re seeing stock markets hitting new record highs.
However, here’s the big problem: global fragmentation due to currency debasement. This is more of a global issue.
When you ask, “Is it going to turn around? Is your life going to get better?” the question becomes: only if you’re properly invested.
Here’s what I want you to understand: The U.S. stock market has gone up to record highs. On paper, everyone’s getting richer and richer investing in the stock market. Look at that—it’s gone up.
Now, if we price it in gold, you’re losing money.
If I draw it as a straight line, you lost money. That’s the point. When you price everything against gold—because the dollar keeps getting debased—you see what’s really happening.
And people will say, “Well William, why don’t you try another company like Nvidia or Meta?”
Okay—Meta is one of the exceptions. If you price Meta in gold, you did make money.
But most of the big names? How about Apple—did you really make money from 2020 on if you price it in gold?
How about Amazon? You basically broke even. It’s been flat.
So for the past five years, no matter what you’re investing in, when you price it in gold, the real story shows up. Interestingly enough, Costco is another exception—priced in gold, you actually made money.
But most everything else? iShares, the Russell 2000—straight line down. You lost money.
That’s what I’m getting at: because of the debasement, you’re losing money. On paper, the Nasdaq went up. QQQ—the Nasdaq 100 tech stocks—went up on paper. But priced in gold, it went down.
So what does that mean? You’re basically flat. Maybe you made a little, but it wasn’t worth the risk. You started here, you finished here—did you really make money? The answer is no.
Did you beat inflation plus debasement—which is about 12%? No.
Now, measure it against Bitcoin. Look at that. Most things aren’t just losing against gold—everything else is hemorrhaging against Bitcoin.
And that’s what I’m talking about with the Trump administration. The bigger issue is that the Federal Reserve is destroying the world currency system—and that’s what he’s going to have to deal with next.
Should I sell my gold?
The question is: if you’re going to sell gold, what are you going to put that into? Because here’s the thing—take gold as your denominator and take the U.S. dollar. Here’s the problem: the U.S. dollar is hemorrhaging against gold.
If you sell the gold, you have to put it into something where you’re not bleeding. Against Bitcoin, it’s even worse.
So what I’m getting at here is: you sell the gold and then what do you do with it? You have this money, besides the fact you’re going to be taxed—what are you going to do with the money?
Because the debasement—keeping anything in cash doesn’t make sense anymore.
Who cares about gold being at an all-time high? Who cares about downward pressure in gold? It doesn’t make sense. You’ve got to understand: you sell the gold, you are bleeding.
The moment you go into dollars, you are bleeding money. Because the dollar is imploding faster and faster and faster, and you’re getting poorer and poorer on paper.
“Oh, let me put that into a money market fund, make 5%.” On paper, you made 5%. But if I measure it against gold and Bitcoin—any money market fund or bond fund, any Class A bond fund—against gold, look at that.
Every bond fund, every pension fund, every CD, you’re bleeding. That is what I’m trying to get across to everybody.
Which industries are most likely to undergo disruptive innovation?
CPAs, doctors, tax preparers—out of business. Only high-level CPAs and high-level doctors. High-level consultants—fine. Everyone else? No.
Marketing—there’s no need to have a marketing company anymore. Marketing, copywriting—over.
I would even say most of the type of counseling people get from social workers, etc., they’re going to be displaced or impacted.
So a visionary entrepreneur should learn how to integrate AI into their system. Because any type of business is just a set of systems that can be monetized for profit and optimized. You optimize your business, and that’s the only way to be successful.
But I think a lot of the white collar is going to be impacted. I think the white-collar entitlement strata is going to be turned inside out, upside down over the next five years, because they will be made irrelevant.
They’re going to realize: “I didn’t jump on this, and I’ve become irrelevant.” Including Jungian analysts.
Right now, you could just say, “ChatGPT, you have the mind of Carl Jung. Let’s go into a therapy session. Here’s what’s going on with me,” and get a better rapport. You could put it in voice mode and give it a Swiss accent if you want—make it sound like Carl Jung—and then all of a sudden it’ll be as good or better than some of the best Jungian analysts in the world.
And the question will be: “Well, William, it’s not transference.” Is it not? Is the collective unconscious of the AI any less collective than the human collective unconscious where you have that type of transference?
I would argue: you’re going to get just as much transference with that as you would with a human therapist. That’s a controversial statement, but that’s where I see it going.
How might AI impact the way brands communicate, especially in terms of authenticity? Does it make sense to use AI avatars?
AI avatars are going to be more effective than regular people, because they will come off authentic.
My answer would be: AI is going to drive marketing, and the technology is such that if they didn’t disclose it was an AI avatar, you wouldn’t know the difference. It would come off authentic.
Everyone’s going to do it. Everyone’s going to have an AI avatar.
It’ll be like: “Listen, I have a product I want to push. I need to get more clients. Write up something I can say in five minutes that I could push out on Facebook with my AI avatar that looks and sounds just like me,” but it sounds real and authentic, and it could even be interactive.
How many industries are already using that now?
AI is going to take that over completely.
Nobody’s making a television commercial anymore by shooting it. It’s all going to be AI-generated commercials.
And the AI will know if that commercial is working or not, and it will change the commercial instantly.
In other words, let’s say it creates a commercial for a product and it says: “Okay, I’m going to push this out on YouTube or on the internet, then I’m going to see the responses. I’m also going to measure and track the sales and see who’s buying it and who’s not.”
Then it dynamically changes the whole commercial in real time, and keeps fine-tuning it until it hits the numbers.
So that’s all coming. Why do you need marketing people anymore? Maybe you’ll have marketing people at the very top, setting strategy and implementing tools. But in terms of what’s driving it, most of it will be AI-driven.
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William Stickevers is a strategic astrological advisor, advising clients from 28 countries for nearly four decades with strategy and cosmic insight and foresight to gain an asymmetrical advantage in their investing, business planning and decisions, and to live a more fulfilled life according to their soul’s code and calling.
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