The US Constitution’s Article 1, Section 10 explicitly prohibits states from making anything other than gold or silver legal tender for debt payment, emphasizing the importance of sound money for financial freedom.
States like Texas, Utah, Arkansas, and Florida are passing laws to create transactional gold systems, allowing citizens to use gold for everyday transactions and protect savings from inflation.
Gold is considered sound money, inseparable from freedom, while other forms of currency are viewed as “slave money”, maintaining its value for thousands of years unlike paper currency.
If you had $20,000 in 1970, you could buy a house in Salt Lake City, but the same amount in gold from 1970 could purchase three houses today, demonstrating gold’s value retention.
The book “Pirate Money” by Kevin Freeman has inspired lawmakers nationwide to pass legislation allowing gold and silver as legal tender, emphasizing citizens’ freedom to choose how they save.
The “Liberty and Finance” podcast hosted by Dunagun Kaiser provides a platform for discussing sound money, financial freedom, and offers resources for citizens to protect their financial futures.
Citizens are urged to contact their US representatives and senators to demand a full audit of the Federal Reserve and restoration of the gold standard.
The Texas Gold Bullion Depository, established in 2015, allows citizens to store gold and silver and use a debit card for purchases, providing a fee-free way to protect savings.
The gold to silver ratio is currently at 100, a historically screaming buy signal for silver that has consistently led to significant profits when the ratio reaches the 90s.
In precious metals bull markets, gold typically rises first due to better public understanding, causing the gold to silver ratio to expand into the 80s or 90s before silver catches up.
The gold to silver ratio has reached unprecedented levels in nearly 100 years, suggesting an exceptional opportunity to buy silver relative to gold.
Industrial demand for silver in solar panels, missiles, and electric cars is outpacing mine production, creating a deficit that’s depleting above-ground stocks and increasing the likelihood of a short squeeze.
The Basel 3 banking regulation change has elevated gold to a tier one asset, prompting banks to acquire gold without price sensitivity to meet new regulatory requirements.
Central banks and governments are accumulating gold regardless of price, preparing for potential currency backing needs in a shifting economic landscape.
Gold mining companies have recently reported improved financial results as gold prices have surpassed cost increases, signaling a positive trend for the mining sector.
The gold to silver ratio exhibits an inverse relationship with the GDX (gold miners index), serving as a useful indicator for tracking the precious metals bull market.
Excessive government spending and borrowing are weakening fiat currencies, potentially leading to a currency reset with gold playing a crucial role and being repriced significantly higher.
Despite elevated gold prices, silver has underperformed gold in recent time frames, but this gap has historically mean-reverted with silver eventually outperforming gold in percentage terms.
The Fourth Turning, a predictable societal cycle of boom, bust, and rebuilding, has become a global phenomenon, with America in the chaotic “bust” phase according to demographer Neil Howe.
Globalization’s decline, which began after the 2008 financial crisis, is accelerating under President Trump, who views it as a bad deal for the United States.
The rise of populist, authoritarian, and ethnocentric leaders in Southern and Eastern Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and Latin America since 2008 reflects the global nature of the Fourth Turning.
Trump’s administration acts as a catalyst in the Fourth Turning, but the outcome remains uncertain, mirroring historical examples like Napoleon and Caesar who unleashed primal forces without fully grasping the consequences.
Trump’s vision of a Golden Age includes deregulation, tax cuts, trade deals, manufacturing, and foreign investment, but faces contradictions in balancing trade deficits and capital inflows.
The Fourth Turning’s focus on building rather than experiencing will drive demand for materials and shift towards a new order centered on “real things” that transport us, as envisioned by Peter Thiel.
The millennial generation’s sensibility of investing in target date funds reflects a belief in community and collective support, contrasting with the individualistic approach of Gen Xers.
Fourth Turnings are characterized by a tightening of top-down control as governments impose new frameworks and the populace demands solutions to intractable problems.
In a Fourth Turning, prioritize absolute return and wealth preservation, focusing on risk management and hedging strategies rather than relative returns compared to indexes like the S&P 500.
Defense ETFs and gold have performed well in the new era and are likely to continue doing so as the Fourth Turning unfolds and the U.S. faces potential homefront problems.
Volatility will be continually underrated, presenting opportunities for tail hedging strategies and straddles, with sudden, huge market moves both up and down likely to occur.
Conflict, both internal and external, is historically necessary to reshape institutions during a Fourth Turning, with potential scenarios including a Supreme Court confrontation or threats from Iran, India-Pakistan, or China.
The U.S. may face unprecedented homefront problems in future conflicts, such as cyber warfare, EMP attacks, or satellite strikes, unlike in previous wars.
Inflation is a long-term concern over the next 10 years, potentially equalizing burdens during a crisis by reducing the impact on creditors holding nominal bonds.
The stock market is in a bear market phase with a long-term bearish signal, expecting a dead cat bounce rally before a much bigger correction.
Despite the bearish outlook, there’s a short-term bullish trend in the S&P 500 and NASDAQ, with the market likely to attempt breaking its highs before selling off.
Gold has rallied 22-24% in each of its 6 measured moves since 2020, with the current rally potentially being a crowded FOMO trade that could lead to a sharp pullback to $2400-$2200.
Gold’s bull flag pattern indicates a strong uptrend with a potential $3750 target, but it’s in nosebleed territory with high risk for sudden reversal.
Silver’s daily chart shows extreme volatility, with potential to rally to $38 in an explosive move, but it’s a tough trade due to its small market and tendency to wipe out growth quickly.
Google trend searches for inverse ETFs reveal a shift from bottom-picking in February-March to betting on falling prices after the April 3rd sell-off.
The gold-silver ratio exceeding 100 indicates gold outperforming silver, but silver’s bullish chart patterns make it a favorable asset for long-term holding.
The Fed’s interest rate decision on May 7th is expected to cause huge moves in bonds, gold, and stocks, potentially triggering significant market reactions.
Trump’s proposed $160 billion increase in spending, despite cuts to non-defense programs, highlights the challenge of reducing overall federal expenditure.
With entitlements and interest consuming ~75% of the $7 trillion budget, only $1 trillion remains for potential cuts, severely limiting the impact of proposed reductions.
Entitlement programs are considered the “third rail” of politics, making substantial reforms politically unfeasible.
Even with a “dream team” of budget cutters, Congress consistently rejects proposed cuts, demonstrating the need for fundamental reform in the budgeting process.
Increased military spending and border security offset cuts to non-defense programs, reflecting the administration’s priorities in resource allocation.
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of The Solari Report, warns that a global digital control grid is quietly being built—piece by piece—through digital IDs, CBDCs, social credit systems, and data control. While these measures appear harmless individually, together they form a system capable of financial and personal control, threatening liberty and constitutional rights.
CAF highlights that under the Trump Administration, initiatives like Stargate AI and the rollout of mRNA vaccines signal a shift toward the “Internet of Bodies.” She also lists red-flag actions—from crypto promotion to central bank consolidation—that accelerate control grid infrastructure, without addressing massive fraud or the $21 trillion in missing government funds.
FASAB 56, adopted under Trump, allows the U.S. government to keep financial records secret, removing transparency from public financial statements. CAF argues this secrecy renders U.S. markets unreliable, as there’s no clear view into government or contractor finances.
Despite concerns, CAF is bullish on gold and silver, citing the historically wide gold-to-silver ratio as a major investment opportunity.
CAF urges Americans to pressure elected officials—including Trump—to dismantle the emerging control grid. “If we can face it,” she says, “God can fix it all.”
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Bureaucratic status is tied to subordinate count, incentivizing excessive hiring to secure higher-paying positions.
In government, failure leads to increased funding, unlike the market where it results in business closure.
Government bureaucracies are cost maximizers, contrasting with private businesses that aim to minimize costs for profit.
The Deep State, a product of civil service reform, has created a permanent Washington DC bureaucracy that functions as a centrally planned society.
Civil service reform eliminated the spoils system but led to lifetime tenure for bureaucrats, making it nearly impossible to fire them without facing legal and union challenges.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and John Tyler fired 41% and 50% of federal bureaucrats respectively in the 1800s, demonstrating the feasibility of bureaucrat removal before civil service reform.
The New England Yankees who championed civil service reform were driven by a neopuritan Yankee culture and a belief in their inherent right to rule.
The Pendleton Act of 1883, signed by President Chester Arthur, established the civil service system as a Republican strategy to secure party bureaucrats before Democrat Grover Cleveland’s election.
Liquidity, not interest rates, drives economies, defined as the flow of cash, savings, and credit through global financial markets, with $70 trillion of $350 trillion global debt maturing annually requiring refinancing.
Excessive debt relative to liquidity triggers refinancing crises, as seen in the 1997-98 emerging market crisis, 2008 Lehman crisis, and Eurozone banking crisis.
Repo markets are central to the financial system, with collateral shortages signaling refinancing tensions and potential crises.
The pro-cyclical modern financial system amplifies recessions as private debt becomes less valuable collateral, necessitating central bank intervention to ensure adequate liquidity flow.
Bond market volatility near 14% per annum, double the normal 7%, causes collateral haircuts, reducing collateral multipliers and increasing credit risk.
A looming $70 trillion debt refinancing wall between 2025-2028 could trigger a systemic financial crisis, warns Michael Howell, CEO of CrossBorder Capital.
Gold and Bitcoin are monetary inflation hedges rising with 7-9% annual liquidity expansion, with gold shining as alluring collateral while Bitcoin’s 40% global liquidity composition may drive long-term value.
China’s devaluation of the yuan against gold helps reduce its real debt burden, with the yuan gold price more than doubling from 11,000 in early 2022 to nearly 25,000 now.
Revaluing US gold reserves from $42/oz to current market levels could generate a $1 trillion windfall gain, potentially easing the debt funding burden.
The term premium, responsible for 90% of bond market return swings since 2008, is rising, indicating the US Treasury has lost control of the long-end bond market.
Risk appetite has plunged significantly in the last three months, with a substantial drop in world and US investor exposure to risk assets.
World economic growth has slowed significantly since December 2022, based on AI monitoring of global economic activity.
US Treasuries and German bonds were main collateral in 2025, but gold’s allure as collateral has increased while government bonds’ appeal has dimmed.
Inverted yield curves and steepening are reliable recession indicators, while NBER announcements lag, making real-time reliance misleading.
Oil prices dropping to $57-58 from $70s signal recession as they decline due to demand expectations, potentially pushing next CPI print to Fed’s 2% target.
The two-year Treasury yield consistently leads the Fed funds rate, indicating markets are always ahead of the Fed’s decisions.
Gold, Bitcoin, and farmland are top picks for conservative investors, with gold expected to outperform due to economic uncertainty and liquidity events.
Gold’s performance varies based on recession type: balance sheet recessions may quickly bottom gold, while systemic liquidity events could cause further drops before rebounding.
Long volatility positions provide true diversification, hedging against simultaneous declines in commodities, equities, and real estate during increasing volatility.
The Fed distorts markets psychologically by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to malinvestment and misallocation of resources into financial markets.
Bailing out banks plays into market psychology but isn’t necessary for lending; allowing banks to fail and depositors to take haircuts would restore a free market economy.
The Fed manipulates rates but doesn’t control them; the real economy is driven by factors like consumer saving and AI, not just interest rates.
In recessions, deficits skyrocket due to plummeting tax receipts tied to equities, enabling the Fed to cut rates without CPI skyrocketing.
Tariffs aren’t the sole cause of recession, but uncertainty leads businesses to tighten spending, reducing aggregate demand and impacting GDP.
Political will to end financialization is fleeting, with quick bailouts and stimulus at first signs of recession, despite initial focus on the real economy.
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