The likelihood of a full "crash" or collapse of the U.S. Dollar (USD) in 2026 — meaning a sudden, catastrophic loss of value, hyperinflation, or end of its global reserve status — is extremely low, based on current economic forecasts and market consensus as of mid-January 2026.
The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the USD against a basket of major currencies, is currently trading around 99 (near multi-month lows after a roughly 9-10% decline in 2025, its weakest year in over a decade). Major institutions like Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and others project a volatile but managed path for 2026: most expect a further weakening in the first half (potentially dipping to the low-90s, around 92-94), driven by continued Federal Reserve rate cuts (targeting 3-3.5% by year-end), narrowing interest rate differentials with other economies, and fiscal/policy uncertainties. However, this is followed by a likely rebound in the second half, potentially back toward 99-100 or higher, supported by resilient U.S. growth, fiscal stimulus (e.g., tax cuts and spending bills), sticky inflation requiring higher-for-longer rates, and the dollar's safe-haven status during global stress. Overall, forecasts describe a downward bias with choppy volatility, not a straight-line crash — many see the dollar ending 2026 modestly lower but resilient, with structural advantages (e.g., dominance in global trade, reserves at ~57%, and no viable immediate alternative) preventing a true collapse.
Risks to further weakness exist, including accelerated Fed easing if growth slows sharply (e.g., recession probability ~35% per J.P. Morgan), debt ceiling fights, an AI/tech sector bust triggering margin calls and outflows, or gradual de-dollarization efforts by BRICS nations (e.g., local-currency trade, gold accumulation). These could amplify volatility or extend downside, but experts emphasize they are unlikely to trigger a systemic collapse this year — the dollar's hegemony faces long-term pressures but remains firmly intact in the near term. This is not financial advice; currency markets are inherently unpredictable and influenced by evolving data, geopolitics, and policy shifts.
It's not fear of a doller collapse, in my opinion. Retail doesn't move the market much. They have been suppressing the price for 50 years and they don't have the physical metal to continue their game. Demand is a billion plus ounces and mining is about 800,their has been a deficit for years using up the stockpiles. People that need silver for manufacturing see the numbers and are buying it up while it's avaliable. People stood for delivery this month at 3x normal numbers,and the month is only half over. They have increased margins 3 or 4 times recently and they only get small dips. In the past that would have completely smashed the price. They diped it 6 dollers last night and it's mostly gone.
941 thousand SLV CALLS are in the money with max pain at 55 dollers for tomorrow's expiration. A bunch of banks and hedge funds are going to be wrecked, also the same is true for calls on mining companies. Tomorrow's expiration is the " leap" calls that were bought last year.
All this pain on options is on top of the Futures pain.
https://chartexchange.com/symbol/nyse-slv/optionchain/summary/
NCSWIC tommorow.
Keeping an eye on UBS and Deutsche Bank...
They're primed for a righteous cornholing from what I've read...
We'll see...
The problem is, they're referential and they'll also hurt others...
Yes they are interconnected a lot.
I've moved my 401k to cash. I might lose a bit of upside,but I consider the downside more likely. I've been wrong before. NFA
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u/#pepecozy
No miners?
I ask because I’m considering going into cash then repurchasing after the crash.
I have a lot of miners,I'm going to hold them for now.
Miners - good ones - are the wave of the future, especially the silver and rare earths.
Their profits have been squashed and held down by silver manipulation, but as the price (value) of Au and Ag and Rare Earths rise, their under surface assets increase in value.
For folks who feel like they 'missed out' on silver and gold at lower prices, the miners are the place to look for opportunity, imo.
My last silver buy was at 25 oz,I'm buy miners and calls right now.
I refused paper silver for forever, but I picked up a little bit of SLV and PSLV a couple weeks ago, thinking it will probably get a short boom (it's already +30%) before it crashes into oblivion. The hope is that the paper silver will increase while GME/DJT will stay about the same (or hopefully even go down). The plan is to dump it after a couple multiples of my investment, then use the proceeds to buy more GME/DJT. It's a gamble, but nothing I can't afford.
At the same time I also got some AG. I don't know anything about silver or miners. What are the good miner stocks?
I just bought the big three, AG - first majestic, HL - hecla and PAAS pan American and a few other smaller ones,and one Junior minor long shot.
HL is mostly American and Canadian if you don't want the risk of Mexico or Peru.
...also HSBC and Citi
HSBC is the one to watch right now as China is calling their debts. HSBC owes China like 6 billion ozs of silver that was supposed to be in their vaults. They only had 47 million ozs when audited. HSBC has until the 31st of this month to fill the deficit. HSBC has to buy every oz they can find- no matter what it costs.
"... The core of the scandal UBS holds a combined silver derivatives short position of around 5.2 billion troy ounces. This figure exceeds:
more than eight times the global annual production of silver more than 200 percent of UBS's core capital any risk exposure officially reported by the bank to date Based on this position alone, the calculated loss amounts to around CHF 223 billion. This means that UBS is already insolvent on its balance sheet today, solely due to its silver exposure.
How this came about In the course of the Credit Suisse takeover in 2023, it was not possible to carry out a complete due diligence of all derivative positions due to the extremely short time frame. UBS relied on the information provided by Credit Suisse for complex commodity derivatives. It was not until the end of 2025, when the trading systems were technically merged, that the full extent became apparent. For years, Credit Suisse had maintained a separate, not fully consolidated trading book for silver derivatives, primarily through off-balance sheet OTC structures in the London metals trade. The officially reported silver position was around 400 million ounces. In fact, this concealed an additional volume of around 3.8 billion ounces. Together with the existing UBS position, this resulted in the current total exposure of 5.2 billion ounces.
Reaction of the Swiss National Bank After the discovery, UBS immediately informed the Swiss National Bank. In a crisis meeting, the SNB made it unmistakably clear that this position posed a threat to the stability of the Swiss franc.
The SNB gave UBS an ultimatum:
80 percent of the silver position must be reduced by February 10, 2026 otherwise all emergency liquidity will be withdrawn UBS would then be insolvent within 48 hours ..." https://www.vereinwir.ch/ubs-ist-faktisch-insolvent-und-niemand-sagt-es-euch/
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Yep...saw that a few days ago.
Let's see what creative phuckery they'll come up with to weasel their way out and make citizens pay...
Once you REALLY look at history, you realize there's really nothing new under the sun. ALL the same theiving phuckery has ALL been done before. Really not that long ago either... like the creation of the bank of England & the City of London Corporation.
In Germany it´s now called a fake in the trustworthy alternative media. I´m not an expert so let´s wait and see. As I´ve acquired physical Ag and Au since 2010, stopped that five years ago, I see myself on the safe side.
Oh yeah... that trustworthy German media...
Still jailing 90yr old holohoax deniers???
"trustworthy alternative media" We have that, too. :-)) And so far our MSM don´t jail people. However, when I reflect on it...
JNews you can trust!We can only hope and pray.
You're much more optimistic than I am after studying history...
This is going to take decades and I'm not certain this population has it in them to see it all the way through...
But they said that about "the greatest generation" in the 1920s before they grew up quick and did WW2... so maybe there's hope.
BofA as well
^^^^^ This ^^^^^
Silver consumption has outpaced silver supply for at least 5 years - that shortage is why their suppression techniques are no longer working. Industries that have to have silver will pay the price that those with silver want, no matter what the paper silver futures say it should be worth.
Understand, and appreciate your input.
I don't think any social media blogs, YouTube, x.com content is beating the drums to motivate institutional investors to acquire more silver. And while Retail doesn't move the market much, it is that Retail buyer that is the target if the many soothsayers preaching via social media to buy, buy, buy more silver. It seemed to me their scare factor was that "if you have cash on hand, that in short order, it will be worthless, so "GET SILVER NOW".
Hypothetical: If I have x amount of cash sitting in bank, it is better to convert that cash into silver, at any price, than to keep that cash in bank.
They won't.
The past several decades you mention PM to any investment "pro" you might ss well be a 6 year old with chunks in his drink toddling over to the adult table. They'd practically laugh right in your face, like you just suggested investing in pink and green monopoly dollars.
The entire idea that PM should be part of ANYONE'S portfolio in the past was forbidden. No mining stock, no paper and ABSOLUTELY no physical...it might as well be cryptonite to these people...
That's because London has educated, propagandized and TOLD them what bullshit to say and buy in order to be a "clever boy" in the casino.
Only recently has JPM and others recommended keeping 20% in gold... like 6 months ago.
Knuckle draggers like you and me have been stacking for years because we were looking for whatever was used for the entirety of human history AND something that didn't have a middle man involved that we could 100% control. We found it. Everything else can piss off.
You have a way with words! "KNUCKLE DRAGGERS "🤣 I was going to grab a banana but,reached for an apple instead. (suddenly felt self-conscious).
LoL
Smart. Keep them doctors FAR away from you!
Haggai 2:8-10 King James Version 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
I don't watch any of that fear/ hype crap.
When Biden was their i did have serious concerns,and I did buy physical metal as a hedge against the doller blowing up. Now with Trump in charge I'm not as concerned. Their is still a lot of risk,but not as bad. IMAO
Thanks Joe.
You tricked me into buying a shitload of shiny......
Kek
I have some gold filling in my teeth.
Does that count?
The SS made bank with that in the 1940's
Only if it’s not your front teeth. 😈
I've done VERY well with coal stock (BTU) because of FJB - bought some around $10 per share when FBJ was talking about shutting down coal production - it sits at $36.06 per share right now. Thanks Joe!
IMO … Hell yes!
US Dollar is fake (fiat) currency, but Silver/Gold are money.
Silver is in more demand than gold.
Pbman2...your essay shows a lot of insight, however, as we get "CLOSER" to the edge, what will happen when ALL THE PAIN COMES TO THE FORE-FRONT of the calls????? Hold 'em, or Fold 'em....WHICH IS THE BEST COURSE!!!!!
Call options in the money just get paid out i belive. You can take delivery of shares,but that's uncommon. My SLV calls are .50 away from being in the money, I will have to do more research,I usually just sell them on a big spike,and buy them again,with a later date.
I know a little,but I'm not expert on these things.
I no nothing about options but they intrigue me. I bought a $20 Jan27 call on AG and it's up double what the stock is since I purchased. But I don't know what the strategy to maximize options is or when to sell
You must have paid up to get that one,I buy a little farther out of the money, and I buy more time. If the price is higher than 20 dollers on expiration,you get the difference times 100, each call is for 100 shares. If the price is 30 dollers or whatever,you can buy the 100 shares for 20 dollers Ifyou want,it's called exercising your option. I usually sell/ close them when they spike up a bunch and wait for the next big dip and buy new ones with more time. Time is the killer,if we trade sideways,they go to nothing on expiration day if they haven't gone above the strike price. I'm usually looking to close when I'm within a month of expiration as they can lose value faster and faster.
Their is a lot of math to really understand these things. In the past I've held them to long....
I should have said jan2027 and yeah it was like $400
Much better,it should print money.
There may be a dollar collapse, but I don’t think that’s the way it will go down.
IMO there is a parallel system running now that will replace the current cabal (central bank system). This has all been planned out to minimize the impact on regular people, but devastates the elites. Their ill-gotten Trillions (Quadrillions) will be confiscated and redistributed to the people of the world. Also a debt jubilee and sound (appreciating) money.
Truly a Golden age.
That would be very nice. I want to see that movie.
It's not "fearmongering" or "panic buying" It's market correction. As others have pointed out, silver is THE most suppressed asset on the planet. By pretty much ANY standard you use silver SHOULD be more valuable than gold, in the thousands per ounce at this point based on supply and demand. At an absolute MINIMUM several hundred an ounce.
But the system if finally failing and it's slowly being corrected.
Beyond that, the dollar's collapse isn't a matter of "if" it's a matter of "when". Any AI (assuming this is an AI answer) or "expert" will give you some technical answer like this on why it WON'T collapse. But they never account for obvious black swan events that all of us see the writing on the wall over. If you have global governmental collapse, combined with global financial collapse from all the various asset and debt bubbles popping at once, AND the pedophile crap coming out, basically all at once, then you have a once in EVER (as in it'll probably only happen once in history) black swan event, that creates dynamics that will never be replicated and drive "safety assets" values FAR beyond the moon.
About the only thing comparable would be like, the collapse of the Roman Empire, because they controlled most of the known world at the time. And even then it's not EXACTLY the same because they didn't have a fiat monetary system which amplifies all of this by many fold.
SHOULD be more valuable than gold, in the thousands per ounce at this point based on supply and demand.
So much of the demand for silver is due to industrial use. Sure a company can price in the increased production cost of rising silver prices, but there has to be a breaking point beyond which it make more sense find a substitute.
Silver remains irreplaceable in many high-performance cases, but viable alternatives exist for others.
I'm just saying, there's got to be a breaking point.
Not really, the amount used for any given device is so fractionally small that the cost averaged over units becomes a rounding error. For example, the amount of silver used in apple products is so small PER PRODUCT, that if silver was 100K an oz, it would only lead to an increase of like $50-100 per product to cover the cost.
What you're referring to only applies to small production companies that would have to absorb the price shock over a few hundred units for example. For large tech companies (apple, HP, NVIDIA, oracle, microsoft, etc. etc.) the amount used per product matter more than the price per oz since they can average that out over millions of units.
Likewise, production lines are DESIGNED for silver. You can't just automatically switch to something else. Things are standardized across MULTIPLE trillion dollar industries. To switch to something else would require years of testing and standardization, testing different materials and metallurgy to see what can be comparable for less, then ramping up production OF Those materials via mining, metal mixing, etc. etc.
BEYOND THAT, there's also the fact that after a certain point, the main use for silver will become that of a monetary asset rather than an industrial asset. IE, what happened with bitcoin and crypto. Originally they were designed as a means of decentralizing the internet via block chain tech, which is why you can build websites and apps off of crypto networks. But as soon as people started treating them more as monetary assets, that use become secondary and the main driving force behind their value is now their monetary value.
This ALSO ignores that fact that if we go back to a gold or bimetal monetary system once the fiat system collapses then gold and silver (even if its just a gold backed system) will become INFINITELY more valuable. Not in terms of dollar amount (since the amount of dollars in circulation will probably drop by an absurd amount), but in terms of BUYING power. An oz of silver now in a gold or bimetal world will probably be worth 100 ozs because the buying power increases so much (buy more with less).
This isn't a simple "X thing leads to Y thing" situation. It's a multifaceted, complex situation with no real historical precedent. And I haven't even mentioned ALL Of the factors yet, just what I could think of off the top of my head.
So yes there'd be a "breaking point" for small manufacturers, but for the large ones (the ones that matter) its just a rounding error because of their production capacity. And that argument ALSO ignores all of the other various factors playing into that "should be worth tens of thousands" figure I mentioned
And...
Most "viable alternatives" cost more than silver and/or are in shorter supply.
Exactly, which was part of my point. It's not IMPOSSIBLE to replace silver, but you'd need years of testing and setting up global supply chains to feasibly do so. The world is set up to run off of industrial silver. A comparable example would be like trying to switch EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE in the world off of oil and petrochemical in a hand full of years. TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE since the tech IS there, but economically impossible and functionally impossible since you'd need to replace the entire global supply chain for TRILLIONS to QUADRILLIONS of dollars worth of products.
And another point I didn't make, you'd also have to get global acceptance and approval for the new material from regulators. Silver is well documented and has more than a century of R&D to back it up. Anything new would need global approval or else what may be legal in, for example, CHINA, might not pass muster in the USA, Europe, etc. leading to global supply chain breakdowns.
As I said this is a multifaced situation with numerous factors at play that make it more complicated than "X thing happens, so Y thing happens"
The good news is that you don’t have to try and “catch the top” before it crashes back down. Silver is needed industrially so it won’t crash like a crazy oversold stock.
Be careful divining information from AI...
Stack...keep stacking and don't stop.
The fact of the matter is, the buying power of the dollar is NOT increasing anytime soon.
In fact, it hasn't increased really in any significant amount since 1912.
Stacking locks in your wealth against inflation.
They can report record low inflation etc - but that's all bullshit when you look at real world costs of everything.
Gold 10 years ago? $1100....Gold today? $4500+. That means the buying power of the dollar decreased quite a bit in just a decade.
The price of real goods, like food, tires, clothing etc have gone WAY up...and they've printed a TON of dollars bailing banks out and other magic wand things that dilutes the dollar...
Keep stacking...
"Dollar decreased" absolutely correct. The fiat dollar is disappearing...poof.
Stack, keep stacking and don't stop.
The price doesn't matter...
Whether you HAVE it in your hands or not DOES...
I'm STILL surprised* how few own ANY...even a single silver coin or ounce of bullion AT ALL.
**Not really given the low IQ of "public" wasting their money on stupid shit.
Agree. I saw a youtube that by the production of gold map there is only about an ounce of gold for every person on earth. Ive got 23 amd am about to take 50oz and trade for another. I have alot of 12-15 dollar a piece generics i bought 15 years ago or so. So i can get an ounce for what cost me less than 700 bucks. Im going to hold the other 1200 or so ounces and let the scarcity drive it to about 15/1. Tjen ill figure out of i want to sell it at all. I probably will always keep some because i think its going to become unobtainable eventually.
Yeah...I tend to try to anyway forget it even exists, because it ISN'T for His/Hers Vettes or bs like that...but if SHTF, to start anew or will it to kin. I guess I'm kind of amazed although I shouldn't be given the average IQ - How many got some recently and are expecting an immediate return or looking to "flip it" already like it's a used car they bought at a good price by beating up the seller pretty good...mainly so they could brag to friends about how jouish they are...
I worry that the 100oz will be quite difficult to unload going forward...Ag, not Au...although I did consider a kilo for a brief moment in time...they're only $152k right now...the 100oz ones are the low, low price of only $490k - but I think you might get free shipping...so, there is that. I mean, paper contracts use 5,000 oz bars - so...I'm probably overreacting...
u/#catdance
The buying power of the FRN is down, not that of a U.S. Dollar. The only real dollar is the American Eagle silver dollar, and the American gold eagles.
I feel that Soros and team are those responsible for crashing the dollar. I could be wrong, but the guy had admitted in interviews that he was more than happy to destroy countries currencies. IMO, the dollar should be stronger than ever given massive investment in the US, a strong and growing GDP, high interest rates for a couple years, our ability to pay off debt, and Venezuelean oil. Perhaps foreign countries are selling the dollar to buy massive amounts of gold and silver, but the dollar, IMO, is worth way more than any other countries and seems to be getting manipulated.
I find your take on this both insightful and refreshingly uplifting.
You put meat to the argument of WHY the dollar value is based on real things.
I think I'll read the comment a couple times just for good measure.
Thanks
Dollar = the cleanest shirt in the dirty clothes bin.
It's much simpler than this. Natural "Price Discovery" is all that's going on. Rubber-band effect.
You have to understand precious metals have been MANIPULATED since 1933, in one way or another, in order to drive the ILLUSION that our monopoly money has value. There were never any "precious metals markets", it's always been "previous metals manipulations".
What's happening today is, the manipulators are no longer to manipulate like they used to. Were they to be completely neutered, prices would rises 10-50% daily for months, with no noteworthy drops in price beyond tiny fluctuations.
The definition of a "dollar", per the currency act of the late 1700s was - 392 grains of silver. The amount of silver that once made up our "silver dollars"...literally. That's a little less than a troy ounce BTW, roughly 10% less.
Try to imagine the perceived "value" of things around 1800. Like a dozen eggs cost a nickel (.05 of a dollar). In those days, weekly wages for working 40 hours was in the neighborhood of 10 ounces of silver. What's the average wage today? Call it $5000/month. That's below the TRUE poverty level today. For a family of 4, anything less than $140K is below actual poverty. People earning between $70K-$140K, the "middle class" are being extinguished. You're better of making less than $70K and going on the communist gubmint dole.
So let's just say a "livable" wage today is $100K $8333/month). Current price of silver is $93/oz. That's equivalent to 90 ounces of silver a week, not 10. Thus, natural price discovery hasn't yet balanced. When silver hits $833/oz, we'll be closer to the reality and sanity snatched away from us by the controlling cabal.
And in all likelihood, the pendulum will swing the other way for a while as more and more people figure out what was done to the American people.
One thing I'll add to this (I agree with pretty much everything except one thing), going off of the value from the 1700s and 1800s doesn't work entirely. I say this because, in terms of ratio, supply and demand are much worse TODAY than back then. We have more in terms of absolute number figures, but the demand FAR outstrips the supply. And that's before we take into account any future return to a gold or bimetal standard as a means of replacing fiat.
To show this I did some VERY basic calculations (I don't have time for the in depth stuff I'd normally do for this kind of thing to help people get an idea) but roughly speaking, depending on how you quantify "a living wage" and several other factors, silver would have to be worth between 2-11K an oz and you wouldn't be getting 10 ozs a week, but probably an oz or less a week due to the changes in dynamics and supply/demand over 200+ years.
And again, that's without taking into account the plethora of other factors at play in something like this
100% WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREED!
But that's so far "out there" for most people to grasp. it seems only the simple explanations work for the masses. So I stick with those.
I've heard dozens of PM prognosticators suggest gold should truly be valued at $180,000/oz. But who can even remotely accept that.
And yet, that's probably accurate, just using "published" information too. Whatever the Fed has published is probably a millionth of what they've actually printed out of thin air.
But yeah, a 10:1 Silver:Gold ratio is also natural balance that we're still a long way from settling into. That would make silver $461/oz this moment.
$460-----$837----$2500/oz. All those figures seem ludicrous to the neophyte. I just went to the "Goldilocks zone" with this post.
Thanks for adding to the argument though. You're 100% right!
Excellent post, quite accurate.
I would add a zero to that number though when priced in FRNs.
IMO A great metric to use is GSR (gold/silver ratio). While both are priced in fiat (like USD) it’s the ratio that indicates the true value of Silver.
Yep, agreed. 10:1. $461/oz as of today. That's about 1/5th the way there...
Eh, I ain't selling.
Why do we allow AI posts here?
It more with the fact we have outpaced silver by-product mining. Industry has used more silver in products than we have in the past. With that said, two more silver hogs are coming to market. Samsung has new battery technology giving 600 miles from a 9 min charge. ALL car makers want this new battery which needs ~54oz of silver per battery. Also, solar has new or upgrade technology which uses more oz. We don’t and wont have enough physical silver for industries over the next sevenish years. Demand is very high and Supply is running dry.
I for one am tired of waiting for the dollar collapse. We know there's no way to pay off the $40 trillion debt without massive inflation. And every day we wait, we're paying billions in interest to entities who are effectively our enemies. So I am disappointed but not surprised that we might not get it this year. I'm so burned out waiting for anything to change that I honestly just don't care anymore. But I sure as hell am not paying my taxes this year. Not a chance.
Thanks Mods!
I hope gold silver will moon and we can just write a crypto check , backed by gold on ledger to pay off the entire debt and say bye bye to Federal reserve
Its not a panic. Its a true once in a life time opportunity. For those of us doing this since silver was 10 bucks an ounce it is life changing since many of us stacked thousands of ounces. Silver is scarce in terms of demand. Manynof us do not want to convert back to monopoly money. Im one of those. As the GSR drops i am trading 10 to 20 dollar silver at about 52 ounces to one for an ounce of gold that is not as sought after since it has less commercial demand. So im getting an ounce of Gold for the equivelent of about 750 bucks. A prediction or opinion of many is that gold will be revalued by our treasury to back our future money currency with gold. A new currency that is only speculated on at this time. We are sliding out of the federal reserve fractional banking system into sound money. Most of our woes as a planet have to do with the world bankers pulling the strings. Without this change we would be deluded to think we achieved anything resembling MAGA.
The net of this post was mainly railing against those who preach incessantly that the dollar is just around the corner from total collapse, that we are diving headlong toward a state of run away hyper-inflation. I don't believe this is true. Sure a dollars purchasing power is decreased by inflation, but that is a long way from a catastrophic condition that puts the dollar in Wall Paper statue. That may be coming eventually but we are a good ways off from that.
Let me lay something on you. IMHO, when the SHTF, meaning society devolves into chaos, silver as a barter item will be worth nothing. Can't eat silver, and there will be no financial system for silver to participate in. The value of having silver will be realized during the post collapse/recovery period where some financial system starts to take shape. But let me tell you one hugely overlooked item that will be worth more that Gold or Silver, or Tobacco or Whiskey, and that is Chlorine Dioxide (MMS)
An MMS Kit stored properly will last a long time, and within the two four ounce bottles is a years worth of cures for most any illness, and any infection.
When you barter for some goods vs someone's life, that is some good leverage my fren.
Order a couple kits of MMS, and store in the fridge, will last forever.
Oh, and any hint, any language that might give away that you're stacking, I suggest is best keep to yourself. Someone is watching everything we say out here. Count on it.
Already have them as ive been prepping since 2008. however i dont think the "collapse" of the money system.will be catastrophic tje way tje white hats are managing it. I do believe we will simple discontinue the fiat system for rhe treasury gold backed curencies. Plural. I think some blockchain digital currency will be part of it all. I think there will be paper cureemcy just not fed bucks. If they do what they have planned. The nation will smoothly slide out of tje federal reserve system. Studying nations whose currency collapsed there wasnt a apocolyptic collapse. Bosnia comes to mind when i think about what you speak about and that was truly SHTF scenario. Here the slide is being controlled. Im. Prepared either way wi th extra everything. If it went that far silver is the recovery curremcy but also is one hell of an antibiral, bacterial and can be used to purifybwater for drinking. Ive got some pretty advanced EMS type of bacground so i alsonhave suture kits, dental kits etc. Plenty of food, fire and a great bug out spot along with a dece t group of likeminded people which like me are all former mil. But like I said. K owing trump i dont think it will come to that. Tha ks for the post its angood comment.
One major caveat is that "hyperinflation" is not just high inflation but abandonment of the currency. It is essentially a psychological not an economic phenomenon so everything looks fine until it doesn't -- so it is not predictable. Von Mises called it the "flight into real goods" (gold or silver being just two examples) or the crack-up boom as people scramble to buy anything. In pre-Hitler Germany people were getting paid twice a day so they could buy anything, including cuckoo clocks and shoes that don't fit instead of holding a depreciating asset (money) even for a day. When Hemmingway was asked how he went bankrupt he said; "Two ways, gradually then suddenly" applies to countries too.
We currently live under a debt-based-money banking system with the government backstopping it as the "lender of last resort", i.e. money printing. When debt is paid off or defaults it reduces the amount of money in the system which makes it more difficult for others to get cash to pay off their debts. This normally isn't a problem but if the retiring debt or debt defaults gets big enough it feeds on itself and starts to spiral. This is how the Bears Stearns and Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 led to the collapse, not just of the mortgaged-back securities market, but of many investment and regular banks and ultimately non-financial companies. When Bears Stearns and Lehman could not pay their bills it cascaded to other companies that were expecting payments from Bears Stearns and Lehman so they could then pay their bills. As the debt spiral spreads others are forces to sell stocks, bonds, property and other assets in an attempt to stay ahead of the collapse which causes a collapse of the bond, stock and real-estate markets which then causes other companies to fail.
The Fed admitted to creating something like $8T dollars to "save" the too-big-to-fail banks in 2008 but I think it was probably at least double that amount in secret payments ($16T). The Fed also admits to creating about $4T just for the US in response to covid but I think the secret payments (especially to foreign govts and entities) was probably 10 times that number ($40T) due to the world-wide collapse of production. It gets a bit complicated to explain why all this money printing hasn't led to more inflation or hyperinflation yet (it has to do with balance sheets not debt levels) but the system is still inherently unstable and more so after the 2008 and covid busts.
In any case, the world banking system is, by design by evil people, a sophisticated and dishonest Ponzi scheme with dangerous positive feedback loops that can be triggered at any moment. The tl;dr is everyone should own at least some (real, not paper claims to) gold and silver as insurance.
The u..s. dollar is already the walking dead. Cant believ they still take it for trade for gold and silver.
The fed must go or MAGA is a pipedream.
what happened tu "buy low, sell high?"
It's now buy high and sell much higher.
That works for me, although every thing I touch turns to sh!t, mostly.
I'm glad I'm too poor to worry about it
Same here.
Reminds me of one of my favorite lines from the book "A confederacy of dunces"
Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.
With all this commotion about silver lately I keep thinking about what Jesus said in the Bible."where your treasure is that is where your heart is".
"The LOVE of money is the root of all evil"
I'll probably catch some flack on here about it but I care less. I'm very content to live in my old RV trailer I have plenty to eat and my old car still runs and I get to play Bass that my church what more could a guy want. And the Lord has blessed me with good health. Have a great day brother
No flack from me.
Truth is truth brother. Good reminder.
Thank you brother.
Lucky you. I consider myself quite fortunate as well. And the only thing that truly matters, in the end, is my relationship with Jesus Christ.
Amen brother. You will be in my prayers hang in there
"The LOVE of money is the root of all evil"
True. But the fear of becoming penniless isn't evil, and doing your best to protect youself and your loved ones from it is just simple prudence.
I never started stacking as a means to get rich. I did it to create a safety net in case the worst happens -- which is not impossible.
That's awesome
This is exactly where we are going as a civilisation and it is scary. My kids waste money on what I consider crap but it is perfectly logical - why not, they are priced out of doing anything meaningful with the money like buying a house.
you all are thinking too hard... just buy what peloosy buys and you'll be sitting good.
The sad thing is theres no thinking happening here - this is an AI generated post. Op is letting AI do the thinking for him
Just to prove to you how badly silver's cost is manipulated, the historical ratio of silver is between 8-15 to one. Even with the big jump it is still over 51 to 1
51 to 1 could be, and most certainly is a manipulation of both Gold and Silver, right?
Don't forget about the high use in things like missles.
You mean missiles right?
lol, I understand fellow. I such a bad speller that lots of time spell checker cannot even find the word I'm intending to use, so I have to pick another word.
BTW AG-17
just sayin
Quick overview of the world banking system.. IMF, BIS Federal etc.. The "Bankers" and the "Banking" system is corrupt, the U.S. dollar is worthless as it is backed by nothing. For example, the dollar used to be backed by physical precious metals like Gold & Silver. We are watching the systematic destruction of the elite banker parasites usury banking system. And for the super retarded twot~waffles out there... the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is neither 1)A bank 2)A reserve 3)Federal It is privately owned, privately operated. It literally charges/one might say taxes the U.S. Gov't for printing worthless fiat currency. Hypothetically situation: U.S. Congress approves $1 Billion for baby diaper changing kiosks throughout Minnesota. The Federal Reserve creates out of thin air and charges 30% interest. Make that make sense.
"the U.S. dollar is worthless as it is backed by nothing"
The value of the U.S. dollar is not "based on nothing"—it's firmly rooted in the immense economic, institutional, and geopolitical strength of the United States. As the world's leading reserve currency, the dollar benefits from deep, liquid financial markets, the size and productivity of the U.S. economy (still the largest or near-largest by nominal terms), and widespread global trust in U.S. institutions like the Federal Reserve and Treasury securities. This creates powerful network effects: the more the dollar is used for international trade, invoicing commodities like oil, and holding reserves, the more valuable and stable it becomes. Central banks and investors worldwide hold trillions in dollar-denominated assets precisely because the U.S. economy delivers reliability, innovation, and consistent rule of law—factors that no abstract commodity like gold can match in a modern, dynamic global system.
Furthermore, the dollar's strength is reinforced by America's unmatched military and alliance power, which historically aligns with reserve currency status. From the transition of dominance after World Wars (when the dollar supplanted the British pound) to today, scholars note that military might reassures global actors that the issuing nation can protect its economic interests, deter threats to stability, and maintain credibility even in crises. This isn't coercion but a credible commitment: the U.S.'s ability to project power supports the perception that dollar-based obligations will be honored, underpinning low borrowing costs and global confidence. Without this broader foundation of U.S. power, the dollar wouldn't enjoy its "exorbitant privilege."
In short, claims that the dollar is worthless fiat ignore that all currencies derive value from collective trust and the real-world strength of their issuer. The dollar stands out because it's backed by the world's most powerful economy and security apparatus—not nothing, but the tangible might and dynamism of the United States itself.
The USD is backed by something far more important than gold and silver, its military.
If the FED was actually federally owned - It's private
u/MuckeyDuck
Who did you ask?
Obviously AI, as brother u/ILearnedToCode says.
And yet, are all AIs the same?
Rhetorical question. No.
So I repeat, who, or what, did you ask, specifically?
It's a relevant question, and if you don't think it is, then I don't know what to say.
Sauce is still important, yes, even in the era of "AI".
I am sorry fren if I did not provide adequate answer.
I ask Grok - 4
Specifically grok-4-0629 / grok-4-prod-2025w26
Obviously AI
See my reply to the Duck.
You will own nothing and be happy—2030 is closing in.
Controlled demolition. There is always an equal and opposite reaction, just as the mirror is an opposite image, Ying/yang. Christ/AntiChrist
In the USA we still have many guns and ammo. If you guys are correct there is going to be millions of people without common stuff.
The banks will forfeit and all of our properties will go to auction. If we have people who hate their white skin color while we have those who demand their skin color is the superior race.
I can really go on with this, yet if hyper inflation happens we can pay our fixed rate homes off -IF- we can get to the people controlling the system. They have been rigging that in preparation. This is also why they want many to sell before this happens. Trump put a stop to that of late.
Now imagine no food at the grocery stores, and really no food at the democratic city grocery stores. What will all these people do? They are programmed to attack without remorse.
I am jumping around but you guys are smarter than me. One might say I am fear mongering. OK. I will take that. Yet I don’t think I am.
It is going to be a quiet night and by the next night it will be changed. The military will need to protect while the NG will need to arrest. How to tell friend from foe? See the sleepers are our neighbors. One day we say hi and the next they know you have something they require. These foreigners are tools to encourage the neighbors. Most these foreigners are easy to identify.
Would one have the ability to protect themselves from a 120 lb woman that is your neighbor and she went full zombie?
Silver is a hedge. We need to hedge the incoming drought. I don’t know how. If we all get thru it, those with silver and gold will be the winners.
If fighting starts in the USA with media on the side of evil. Well it is going to be the worst fight in USA history. When it is over we will need leadership and that could turn dictatorship pretty fast. Real dictatorship.
I believe this is what Trump and his people see, but with better clarity and understanding. Greenland would be a good place to have open prisons with little warmth…. I hate to say it. But many people will never wack up guys.
I will be blasting Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On -
What you say makes sense.
I would not be any where near a large lefty population area or any blue state big city When the Music Stops-P2 -- When the Music Stops-P1
"The collapse of the dollar is eminent. Buy our gold."
I got to tell you I hate this age where everyone on the Internet is motivated to say what ever they might in order to get clicks, shares, views etc..... And a high percentage of content is pure AI created.
I think I heard that even old music recordings are being pitch corrected, and/or auto tuned. They are actually taking music recording that were made prior to this artificial tuning technology and running it through this tuning.
Nothing is real anymore, and I hate it.
There is no limitation to the number of x.com post where someone takes a years old video and post it under the title of BREAKING news! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
lol the harping to buy, buy, buy reminds me of the two Duke brothers at the end of movie Trading Places with their desperate pleas to Sell, Sell, Sell.
https://youtu.be/obAoPP1bdIM?t=52
Zero. Selling 96 put thru 2029.