How the System BROKE When Gold Was Removed | Dr. Stephen Leeb
How the System BROKE When Gold Was Removed | Dr. Stephen Leeb
Lynette Zang: 1-25-2026
What really changed when gold was removed from the monetary system?
In this interview, Dr. Stephen Leeb explains how abandoning gold led to short-term thinking, exploding debt, lost innovation, and growing systemic risk.
From the collapse of long-term research to the erosion of fiscal discipline, this conversation connects money, power, and societal decline.
If history is any guide, gold doesn’t disappear forever — it returns when systems break.
Chapters:
00:00 Why Gold Still Matters More Than Ever
03:01 How the Gold Standard Was Quietly Destroyed
06:20 America’s Innovation Collapse After Leaving Gold
09:00 Central Banking, Short-Term Thinking, and Endless War
11:54 Inflation, Broken Families, and Social Decay
17:01 How Russia and China Passed the United States
22:52 Gold as Money, Power, and Spiritual Anchor
30:18 Why Gold Forces Governments to Behave
39:59 Venezuela, Resources, and the Global Reset Ahead