In this YouTube monologue, Alexander Lorenzo warns viewers to be extremely skeptical of any investment that promises a "fixed" or guaranteed high return, especially above 10%. He explains that the term "fixed" implies a guarantee that is unrealistic in real-world markets, and such promises often signal fraudulent or Ponzi-like schemes. Lorenzo uses the Terra Luna incident—where a 20% fixed-yield product collapsed after massive liquidity withdrawals—as a concrete example of how these promises can unravel, leaving investors with losses. He outlines how to spot deception by examining the promised return rate, the language used, and the lack of underlying cash to support the yield, urging listeners to treat any "fixed" high-return claim as a red flag.
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This is where like you got to remember these. There's like specific financial principles that you never forget, and one of them is the word fixed. Okay, the word fixed. If you're going to write something down, write down fixed. When someone offers you a fixed return, you need to be skeptical as heck. Like I'm talking about skeptical to like the. I don't know how else to exaggerate this, but do not believe them. What does fixed mean? Meaning they're offering guaranteed. Now it's fixed over a certain amount. So like once we start getting above the 10% territory, right? Once people start offering, oh, they got 10%, 12%. Yes. But when you read the terms and conditions of it, it can fluctuate to 8%. But when they say fixed above 10% and they're saying guarantee, you need to be like, you are running probably a Ponzi scheme. Terra Luna, they offered, they had their own USD and they were like of the most legitimate organizations. They were offering 20% fixed. Fixed. You cannot offer— there's nothing in like human world of— this is like maybe a natural law, but like on a consistent basis, there's like nothing in the world that produces 20% fixed guarantee no matter what. That doesn't exist. There's nothing— it doesn't exist. Well, when you say the word fixed, that's where you got to be careful. So there's one way you can actually identify if somebody's like a liar. It's based off their perception of how much they think they can return in a year. Because they're just they're not in tune with reality. It's like no, like there's outliers. There is outliers like of situations. But when you get the word fixed involved, it's like no. Now you're just lying. You're running a Ponzi scheme. So Terra Terra Luna was offering 20% fixed yield, and then somebody pulled a whole bunch of money from the liquidity pool billions of dollars, and everybody got wrecked. And then just the Ponzi scheme started falling. And then it really wasn't 20% fixed. Really, there was some like background. Hoopla going on. They got exposed because they didn't have the cash, and then they couldn't, uh, feed the liquidity back. Does that make sense?
