By: Gary D. Barnett
“Every dollar they saved was worth less with every financial crisis, while the government just printed more money to preserve the stock markets, the financial status of the elites, and the banks who served them.”
~ Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade
Well, it is a new year, and much more manipulation is happening in the paper silver contracts, as regulators under the idiotic banner of “market stability” have raised margin requirements and position limits twice in a few days. This is of course, all done to protect the institutional short sellers, mainly the banks, as they face great losses when silver or other commodities rise against their shorts. Also, this is a way to hold down the price of precious metals, especially silver, in order to cover up the inevitable collapse of the dollar. Given that most banks are on the verge of bankruptcy, and that the dollar is going down the drain, these criminal interferences in the markets simply attempt to push down the road the inevitable financial and monetary failure.
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While I do not want to get very technical in this space, it is important to understand some basic things about what is currently happening. In the past few days, metal margin requirements have been raised aggressively in order to bail out the banks; which not only profits them greatly, making them billions of dollars, but allows them to cover the derivative (paper)bets that would bankrupt them. While valuable metal margin requirements were being increased some, silver margins went up 30%. Obviously, this was aimed at silver first. But there is more, as the Federal Reserve yesterday, December 31st, had to inject $74.6 billion into the banking system in one day, made up of $31.5 billion in treasuries, and $43.1 billion in mortgage backed securities. This was the fourth business day consecutively that the Fed had injected liquidity into the banking system; totaling over $120 billion in the four day period. All of this coincides with the increased margin requirements, so is this a signal of panic? Of course it is.
So what does all this mean? It means that the financial system is so fragile and bankrupt, that it is close to failure, and extreme measures are being taken by government and the Federal Reserve just to keep it afloat. This is certainly attempting to kick the can down the road a bit further, but the can itself is obviously coming apart. This is leverage upon leverage, vastly increasing debt, and who knows where all this is going and when? One thing is for sure; monetary debasement is greatly expanding, and massive price inflation will follow.
The metals signal is crystal clear, as gold and silver are indicating that this debt-based financial system is ending. The acceleration of debt, of high inflation, of massive price inflation, with the cost of living completely out of control, and of wealth transfers from the general public to the super rich at levels beyond imagination, something is going to break, and the fallout will affect all but the ‘claimed’ elites and their bought and paid for politicians.
Central banks worldwide, especially China, Russia, and India, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds. and even retail investors as well, are loading up on precious metals, which in many cases is real money, while moving out of other asset classes and fiat currencies. This is an accelerating phenomenon, and silver in my opinion, is leading the way due to many factors, from huge industrial needs, AI, data centers, solar, electric vehicles, medical, military applications, among many other reasons, including the fact that it is a monetary force, and now is also classified as a strategic metal.
All of these things and more indicate a magnificent shift in the financial makeup of domestic and global markets, which is a flashing sign of worldwide turmoil and reset of economies. This reset, if done by the controlling faction of societies, and implemented by governments, would be devastating, but if done due to natural forces as a way to eliminate the current power structure in favor of more freedom and monetary control by the people, a new paradigm of progress could be possible. Without resistance to governing forces, this turmoil and collapse will be used to advance AI, full digitization, digital IDs, total mass surveillance, monetary shifts to allow control, and human programming to hold down dissent and dominate behavior, leading to an advanced next generation slave State environment.
Many would suggest that this financial and political system is failing, but as I see it, the failure has already occurred, and the mainstream narrative control is already underway. This is a new era, and one that will make or break not only financial markets and financial security now and in the future, but will also expose whether or not humanity is finished. I do not say this lightly, but given all past history, the complete moral breakdown of societies, the seemingly full dependence of most all on an authoritative organized crime cabal, and the mass indifference of this population in particular, one must consider all options, including the doomsday scenario.
Economic depression, monetary failure, war, transhumanism, poverty, mass food shortages, technocratic police state rule, and total digitization in a dystopian hell are possible without some type of collective outrage; enough so that individuals en masse refuse to bow down and comply with government rule and mandates.
We have reached a tipping point where the ultimate outcome could be irreversible. All your worst fears could come true, and in a manner much deeper and more brutal than has been faced in the past. This could also be devastating to each of you financially, politically, and technologically. In other words, without great resistance, your lives could be altered in such a way as to destroy all you considered to be the essence of life.
Government and its enforcement arm are the problem. Rule by the few is the problem. False authority, which is the linchpin of rule, has to be eliminated in favor of natural law and freedom if sustaining humanity is desired. This requires actionable resistance to government at every level, where disobedience is crucial.
Do you want financial ruin? Do you want mass surveillance, programmed living, and poverty? Do you want continuous aggressive war? Do you want your children trained as controlled cogs in the wheel of an enslaved society? Do you want to live in a depression era environment for eternity? Do you want murder and mayhem? No? Then do something -anything- about it! Apathy and indifference will only guarantee your demise.
“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”
~ Ludwig von Mises
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