Ben Farrugia

Stacker, investor, future millionaire

[Ben Farrugia @BenSavvyStacker]

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[Ben Farrugia @BenSavvyStacker]

@Lisa9Sophia His terms are acceptable.

[Ben Farrugia @BenSavvyStacker]

@BikoKonstantin1 Yeah. Their country of origin

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

We're fukt.

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

This is insane.

1971:
-Gold was $43/oz
-Average hourly wage was $3.70
-Time needed to buy one oz of gold: 11.6 hours

2026:
-Gold: $5,000/oz
-Average hourly wage: $28
-Time needed to buy one oz of gold: 179 hours

What does this mean?

Your time is literally less valuable today than it was 50 years ago. Look at it this way:

In 1971: Work 12 hours ➡️ get 1 ounce of gold

In 2026: Work 12 hours ➡️ get 0.07 ounces of gold

Gold is still gold. One hour is still one hour. Wtf is happening?

We haven't used sound money since 1971, when U.S. President Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard. Money became infinitely printable, with nothing required to back it.

So they printed money, over and over. And over. And over. And over again.

Every time they printed new dollars, the dollar became worth less. Think about it like this:

If there's 10 copies of a rare painting, and then they make 1,000 new copies, all the copies become worth less. That's what happens when you increase the supply.

That's what's been happening to the dollar since 1971. And guess what?

The money you use represents your time.

You give time and energy to the market, the market gives you money in return. That money reflects the time you gave.

It's no wonder that time has become less valuable as the dollar has become less valuable.

We don't use gold to measure our time and energy. We use a money that can be printed out of thin air by a small, central group of elites that we have no real say over.

Anybody with the power to print money from nothing will eventually abuse that power. That's what's been happening since 1971.

As a result, it now takes more of your time to earn the same amount of gold, which is completely backwards from a species that is supposed to be progressing.

It should be going the other way. As we develop new technologies and bring more productivity to the market, it should take *less* time to earn the same amount of gold.

The only way -- THE ONLY WAY -- to stop your time from becoming less valuable is to use a different form of money. You must exit the dollar system. You cannot escape time-debasement if you are in a system with monetary-debasement.

You need a system that cannot be debased.

We have a monetary system that was explicitly created to prevent monetary debasement once and for all. We have evidence for those that have chosen that system.

If your money was Bitcoin, this is how much time it would take to buy one ounce of gold:

2012: 208 days

2016: 2 days, 22 hours

2020: 4 hours, 28 minutes

2024: 56 minutes

The dollar loses value over time, because it can be infinitely debased. The longer you use it as money, the more time you lose.

Bitcoin gains value over time, because it is the only money that cannot be debased. The longer you use it as money, the more time you gain.

The game is alignment.

Choose wisely.

[Clemente @clementetv_]

Interstellar but Cooper's son is the worst trader of all time

[Ben Farrugia @BenSavvyStacker]

@kevinchenny @zerohedge Lol people dont follow this amateur that does not understand what a proof coin is.

[𝒮𝒫 @Sholly_Pee1]

If you’re a trader, you’re a millionaire already.

It’s only a matter of time.

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i will succeed!

[PolyBackTest News @PolyBackTests]

The dollar is fake.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

🇻🇪 Venezuela President Maduro on Israel:

“They have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism.

They justify raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs"

they'll come for the Christians, Catholics."

This is why he had to go.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Grateful to whoever made this video 🙏

[Machiavelli @TheRISEofROD]

Maduro dropping truth bombs

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Ben Farrugia @BenSavvyStacker]

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[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

If you want the best financial advice you’re likely to get, you don’t go to bankers, brokers, or fake billionaires

Go ask loan sharks and pawnbrokers

They’ll tell you the real story

(Yes, I’m a former pawnbroker… stop giving these politicians and banker assholes your money)

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