Entire column below; link includes 13 min 41 sec video on the topic (which I've not seen in full).
Just seems like a topic anons should be on top of.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-06-23/gold-nuclear-option-127-trillion-debt-crisis
Taylor Kenney walks through the arithmetic nobody in Washington wants done out loud. Take the $40 trillion debt everyone admits to, divide by the 261 million ounces the Treasury claims to hold, and a "gold revaluation" pencils out at $153,000 an ounce. Now add the $88.4 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises buried in the government's own 2025 financial report (a figure that somehow ballooned $10.1 trillion in a single year), and the real number creeps toward $486,000. [Yes, PER OUNCE]
Meanwhile $846 trillion in derivatives sits stacked on top of it all, and every government on earth is borrowing like the house is already on fire.
They keep insisting there's no crisis. So why does everyone in charge act like there is?
That should made silver $32,400 an ounce
15-1 ratio
While that would be lovely, I stack silver for one sole reason; i.e., in case the dollar collapses and is worthless.
If Trump manages to stabilize the dollar by backing it with something tangible, only then would I consider selling my pile.
Same...
Debt clock shows 8-1 in every example. 60,000ish. Crazy.
I will not complain
Me neither, but in the meantime…. Down, down, down… crazy.
Everything but the DOW is crashing through the floor, and I am getting some cash ready to buy
Ironically part of why I find the freakouts over spending hilarious. We’ve long passed the point any amount of belt tightening, cutting spending, and ‘Sound Fiscal Responsibility’ will actually change anything. The arguments are largely political at this stage and cutting off or funding one party’s policy goals.
Hell most of the metrics for economic health are ultimately pointless numbers that can be massaged to mean whatever they want.
At this stage of the game. Either they (Trump and Co) pull off a miracle. Or everything is going to inevitably blow up anyway. Regardless of what we do or don’t do. The math stopped mathing years ago.
Anything is possible as we all approach Weimar scenarios across the Globe.
Gold is great, but you can't eat or drink it.
Fresh water will be the new global resource of value in this century. Without available water... all the gold in the world means nothing.
Lake Superior enters the chat.
Unless the WH have WAY more than they are telling us.
yeah there is no way any of that is happening unless there is mega hyper inflation in general... if that happens sure a lot of things that hold "fixed" value might massively inflate (in relative USD) also... including some crypto... but what good does it do?
People will still hold assets that cannot pay for what they need even if its astronomical amounts of USD.
If you are in a relatively strong position you might be able to "cheaply" pay off your car loans, mortgages, and other stuff... which could be nice but if you still can't buy bread you're still gonna hate it.
Many have speculated it would wind up around $20k/oz...
I think that's realistic right now.
$486k/oz? Pfft...
Let’s talk about $61 silver…..
OK. Why that particular number?
This is my reply to a comment by Plebbitimmigrant below;
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASt1JYeK0/x/c/4ed3QWHBen2
I've reached the same conclusions but I exclude any magic or miracles or tricks that can save the day, e.g. free energy, tariffs, AI, gold, bringing home manufacturing, etc. The US isn't the first country to spend itself into bankrupcy but the scope of this is global because the dollar is the world's reserve currency. The US dollar probably could have been saved about 25 years ago but doing that would have been very difficult and was politically impossible so here we are.
From my research the US govt has around $40T in explict debt (outstanding bonds, T-bill, etc.) that can't be paid off even if the govt balanced the budget tomorrow and stopped adding $1T of budget deficit to it every 5-6 months. Right now just paying the interest on that debt is $1T/yr, more than defense spending. If the interest rates rise then the interest charges will swamp everything else on the govt budget.
This analysis ignores an estimated $120T in implicit debt or what is called unfunded govt obligations (medicare, medicaid, social security, various welfare programs, etc.) coming due as the boomers age out and try to retire. This also ignores that virtually every state and large/medium sized city or county is itself bankrupt and en masse holds trillions of unpayable debt. So all told there is something like $200T in unpayable debt on and off the books right now.
As you say, regardless of the wildest of assumptions, this can never be paid off.
Financially, there are only 4 ways to dig yourself or a govt out of a debt hole. Belt tightening and running a budget surplus is one option but that is in the rear view mirror now and no longer feasible. Another option is to lower payments by lengthening the term (years) of the debt or lowering the interest rate. That might work with your bank if you were big enough but for the govt they are too big (global) and not directly in control of the interest rates. If the holders of US debt got wind of such a plan they would immediately sell their debt which would spike interest rates and, as mentioned above, blow up the govt budget leaving nothing for other expenditures. Renegotiating debt terms is an implict default so another option is to just make the default explicit and announce we are only paying x cents to the dollar of debt where x is less than 100c. This would have the same effect as an implicit default. Finally, the last option is to keep inflating the currency and printing dollars (i.e. issuing more debt) until it finally collapses in hyperinflation.
Historically, countries faced with bankrupcy invariably just print money with abandon until the bitter end so that is what I see happening. Moreover, people throw the term "hyperinflation" around without understanding what it means. Hyperinflation is NOT high inflation but the abandonment of the currency, i.e. is no longer used in monetary exchange. $153K/oz or $486K/oz means that the dollar is still trading and in such a bizzaro world that would be "good" compared to its collapse to ${infinite}K/oz which means nobody accepts dollars anymore. In my view such numbers would be the prelude to its ultimate collapse and abandonment anyway, not save us.
Gold doesn’t have to be classed as magic or far fetched. Bitcoin’s value was hyperbolic and it’s literally nothing but a pyramid scheme and anonymous money gram. Gold is real and its value can be pegged to the real McCoy. If Gold goes hyperbolic it affects nothing but gold buyers and shorts. The world continues on just like it did when bitcoin exploded but our debt disappears. If we dismiss much of that debt as foreign acts of war, we lose the debt and emerge rich in Gold.
I agree on bitcoin, it's a ponzy scheme. I think it is a DS psyop to get people accustomed to a digital currency which they want and ultimately will try to control. Satoshi Nakamoto is a DS fiction of a CIA working group. Nobody can just vanish in today's world.
Also, I never said gold was magic but it going to $135K/oz and beyond is a bad sign and won't save us. You are reversing cause and effect or a symptom for the disease.
Dismissing debt, or writing off debt (i.e. refusing to pay for whatever reason) is a type of debt default as discussed. If that happens, you are correct that gold price would soar but so would interest rates which would bankrupt the govt and many businesses. Historically and typically the way govts default is by printing money. They are paying off the debt with dollars that are declining in value which I consider a trick.
$135K/oz gold and beyond doesn't mean you are rich when a loaf of bread or gallon of gas costs $200 instead of $5 with gold at $4K/oz as it is today. The point is that there is no way easy way out of this mess. $1T is $1,000,000,000,000 and we owe 200 of them which, in my opinion, is beyond the point of no return, the dollar is doomed and will be replaced.