On this day in 2019, Young Dolph & Key Glock released Dum and Dummer, one of the most iconic independent rap collaborations of the decade. 🐬🔥
The project featured fan favorites like “Major,” “Baby Joker,” “Water on Water on Water,” and “Back to Back,” helping solidify Dolph and Glock as one of hip-hop’s top duos.
What’s your favorite song from Dum and Dummer? 👀👇
You can take $250K from the banks, buy $250K in gold bars, store them in a private vault, and use the gold as collateral to borrow ANOTHER $200K from a different bank at 4% interest that you use to pay off the original 0% cards
You now have $200K in cash, $250K in gold, and your only debt is a 4% collateralized loan against an asset that has gone up every single year for 24 straight years
This is how billionaires avoid taxes and it works at any scale
Here's the chain:
Step 1: Stack $250K in 0% business credit. Standard play. 6 banks, bureau sequenced, 11 days
Step 2: Liquidate $242K (after processing fees) into your business checking
Step 3: Buy physical gold. Not GLD. Not a gold ETF. Physical gold bars and coins from a dealer like APMEX, JM Bullion, or SD Bullion. At current prices ($2,300/oz) that's roughly 105 ounces. About 6.5 lbs of gold. Fits in a shoebox
Ship it to a private vault (Brinks, Loomis, Delaware Depository). Storage cost: $150 to $300/year for this amount. The vault is insured. Your gold sits in an allocated account meaning those specific bars belong to you, not the vault company
Step 4: This is the magic part. Take your vault receipt showing $242K in stored gold to a bank or private lender. Apply for a Securities-Based Line of Credit (SBLOC) or a collateralized precious metals loan. Multiple lenders offer this: banks, credit unions, and specialty lenders like Vaulted or BOLD
They lend you 70 to 80% of the gold's market value. 75% of $242K = $181,500
Interest rate on a gold-collateralized loan: 3.5 to 5.5% depending on lender and LTV. Call it 4.5%
You now have $181,500 in cash from the collateralized loan. Use it to pay off $181,500 of the original credit cards. Remaining credit card balance: $60,500. Pay that off over 6 months from income or savings
What you now own:
$242K in physical gold (in a vault, appreciating)
$181,500 in collateralized debt at 4.5% (interest-only payments available)
$0 in credit card debt
All original credit lines still open and available
Interest-only payment on $181,500 at 4.5%: $680/month
"$680/month for what?"
For holding $242K in gold that historically appreciates 8 to 12% per year. Gold has had a positive annual return in 20 of the last 24 years. It returned 13% in 2023. 27% in 2024. It's up 23% year-to-date in 2025
If gold returns 10% this year, your $242K in gold becomes $266K. You made $24,200 in appreciation. Your interest cost on the collateralized loan: $8,160/year. Net profit from the spread: $16,040
You're being paid $16K/year to hold gold that the bank's money bought
And here's where the tax play comes in. This is the part that makes accountants get emotional
You NEVER SELL THE GOLD. If you sell it, you pay capital gains tax (28% on precious metals, the highest rate for any investment asset). Instead you borrow against it. Loans are not taxable income. When you borrow $181K against your gold, the IRS doesn't consider that income. It's debt. Even though you have $181K in cash from the loan, your tax bill: $0
This is the same play billionaires use with stock. Elon Musk doesn't sell Tesla shares and pay 20% capital gains. He borrows against them at 2 to 3% interest from Goldman Sachs. He gets cash. Pays no tax. The shares keep appreciating. He borrows more against the higher value. Repeat forever
You're doing the identical play with gold instead of Tesla stock. Bought with bank money instead of PayPal founding shares. At 0% initial cost instead of whatever Elon's cost basis was
The perpetual loop:
Year 1: Gold at $242K. Borrow $181K at 4.5%. Use cash to pay off credit cards and live
Year 2: Gold appreciates to $266K. Refinance the collateralized loan at 75% of new value = $199K. Pay off old loan ($181K). Pocket $18K cash tax-free. New loan interest: $746/month
Year 3: Gold at $293K. Refinance again. Pull out more cash. Loan gets larger but so does the collateral
Year 5: Gold at $355K. Collateralized loan at $266K. You've pulled out $85K in tax-free cash over 5 years from refinancing against appreciation. Paid $0 in capital gains. Gold is still in the vault. Still yours
The $680/month in interest is the only real cost. And it's deductible as investment interest expense if you itemize. At a 37% tax rate that $680/month costs you effectively $428/month after the deduction
$428/month for a self-funding gold position that generates $16K+/year in appreciation and unlimited tax-free cash access through collateralized borrowing
"What if gold drops?"
If gold drops below your loan-to-value threshold the lender issues a margin call. You either deposit more collateral (more gold or cash) or they liquidate enough gold to bring the LTV back in line. At 75% LTV, gold would need to drop 25% before a margin call. Gold hasn't dropped 25% in a calendar year since 2013. And even then it recovered within 18 months
The chain again:
Chase lends you $250K at 0%
You buy gold
You borrow against the gold at 4.5%
You pay Chase back with the gold loan
Chase got $0 in interest
The gold lender gets 4.5% (tax deductible for you)
The gold appreciates 8 to 12% per year
You never sell the gold so you never pay capital gains
You borrow against the rising value tax-free
Repeat until you die
This is how generational wealth works. Not by earning income and paying 37% tax. By acquiring appreciating assets with borrowed money and borrowing against those assets instead of selling them. The tax code was written for this exact behavior
the IRS taxes income. the IRS taxes sales. the IRS does not tax loans. borrow against everything. sell nothing. the billionaires figured this out 50 years ago. you can do the same thing with a credit score and 105 ounces of gold in a vault lmfaooo
(we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. what you buy with it and how you structure it is between you and your accountant. link in bio)
Most people miss the *BEST* time to visit Latin America's top cities...
Here's when you should actually be going:
🇵🇪 Lima - Dec to May (sunny season, peak vibes)
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires - Oct to March (warm weather, energy is unmatched)
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro - Dec to March (summer paradise)
🇨🇴 Bogota - Year-round (but avoid rainy season April-May)
🇲🇽 Mexico City - Oct to May (perfect weather)
🇨🇷 Guanacaste - Dec to April (dry season, ideal beach weather)
🇺🇾 Punta del Este - Dec to March (summer only, dead otherwise)
🇵🇾 Asuncion - April to Oct (avoid brutal summer heat)
🇨🇴 Medellín - Dec to March (driest months, perfect spring weather)
🇨🇱 Santiago - Oct to April (warm, clear skies, Andes views)
🇧🇷 Florianópolis - Dec to March (Brazilian summer beach perfection)
🇵🇦 Panama City - Dec to April (dry season, avoid the monsoon months)
🇲🇽 Playa del Carmen - Nov to April (before hurricane season + humidity)
🇨🇴 Cartagena - NEVER GO
Timing matters more than people realize
Go to these cities during the wrong months and you'll wonder what all the hype was about
Go during the right months and you'll understand why people never want to leave
It was 6pm.
A client told me:
"I got a date in an hour"
"What should I do?"
I sent him 8 questions to ask her.
Later that night,
He told me she's at his place.
Here are the questions:
If you bought a $1MM dollar home in San Francisco in 2010
It’s worth around $2MM today
If you had put the money in the S&P 500 instead
It’s worth about $7MM
Most arguments that homes are good investments are more related to the judicious use of leverage than the underlying performance of home prices
The decision to buy a home should be a hard one because the opportunity cost of your capital is so high
A home has to bring you immense joy compared to $7MM 😅
Keep an eye on this one ✍️
Rep. Jackson just disclosed his first ever buy of Robinhood
This comes as $HOOD is trailblazing the way to digital assets
Coincidentally, he literally sits on the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets
Holy cow we got ANOTHER box from College Park!
After getting a great box from the Basketball program, here's the Maryland FOOTBALL Team with one of the best boxes we have seen.
Thank you Coach Locksley and @TerpsFootball for sending this generous box! Go Terps!