Scott Valpey

Entrepreneur, Business and Nonprofit Startup Specialist, Trusted Advisor, Family Man with a Super Successful Wife and Father of 4 Amazing Young Adults.

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

My Alma mater! Way to go RIT!! https://t.co/92UyBqr6Si

[RBJ @RBJdaily]

RIT gets grant to expand campaign to fight terrorism - Rochester Institute of Technology will receive $149,000 ... https://t.co/9UDqRuhGha

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Washington Is Backing Price Floors For Strategic Metals… What About Silver?🚨

👉A US government-funded buyer is backing minimum prices aka price floors, for rare-earth materials from Brazil. The goal: give a producer more certainty & help build a supply chain outside China.

🏭USA Rare Earth says its Serra Verde subsidiary began shipping in October & received payments in November under the 15-year deal. This isn’t just a proposal anymore: material is moving & payments have started.

🥈Silver isn’t part of this contract, but stackers can ask the same question: what would it take to strengthen silver supply with price floors?

👉The price floors in this contract:
🔥Neodymium & praseodymium: $110/kg each
🔥Dysprosium: $575/kg
🔥Terbium: $2,050/kg

👉If the relevant market price rises above the floor, the company gets 70% of the amount above it, subject to separation-cost adjustments.

🏛️This isn’t a one-off approach. In July 2025, the Pentagon agreed to a separate $110/kg neodymium/praseodymium floor with MP Materials.

🥈Silver joined the US critical minerals list in November 2025, but it isn’t covered by this rare-earth agreement. Being called “critical” doesn’t automatically give a metal a government-backed price floor!

🦀Crustacean Nation: Should Washington support silver supply with similar contracts, or leave prices to the market?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

👉Sources:
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[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Gold And Silver Face A Huge Week: CPI, PPI And $125 Billion In Treasury Auctions!🚨

📅Inflation, Treasury auctions & Fed speakers are on deck!

👉The full Weekly Watchouts report explains what these events mean for gold & silver, including potential bullish & bearish scenarios.

👉All times EST. Unconfirmed times may change.

📅Sunday, November 8:
🔥6:00 PM: COMEX gold & silver reopen.
🔥8:00 PM: Shanghai’s Monday day session opens.
🔥8:30 PM: China October CPI & PPI.
🔥Evening: Market-open livestream.

📅Monday, November 9:
🔥2:00 AM: SHFE Nov. gold & silver deadline.
🔥10:00 AM: Final wholesale inventories.
🔥11:00 AM: NY Fed Consumer Expectations Survey.
🔥1:00 PM: $58 billion 3-year Treasury auction.
🔥After close: Endeavour Q3 results update.
🔥6:50 PM: Bank of Japan Oct. meeting.
🏦Fed Speakers: Bowman 8:40 AM, Goolsbee 10:00 AM & Barkin 12:15 PM.

📅Tuesday, November 10:
🔥6:00 AM: NFIB Small Business Optimism.
🔥8:30 AM: October CPI & real earnings.
🔥11:00 AM: NY Fed Household Debt & Credit report.
🔥Noon–12:15 PM: EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook.
🔥1:00 PM: $42 billion 10-year Treasury auction.
🔥1:30 PM: Bank of Canada Summary.
🏦Fed Speakers: Waller 4:00 AM, Logan 10:50 AM, Schmid 1:30 PM & Bowman 3:30 PM & 6:30 PM.

📅Wednesday, November 11:
🔥2:00 AM: Germany final October CPI.
🔥OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report.
🇺🇸 Veterans Day: US stocks & benchmark COMEX gold & silver remain open. SIFMA recommends closing relevant US-dollar fixed-income markets "bonds."

🇺🇸 To all who have served, thank you for your service & sacrifice.

📅Thursday, November 12:
🔥2:00 AM: UK Q3 & September GDP.
🔥8:30 AM: Initial and continuing jobless claims.
🔥10:00 AM: Existing-home sales.
🔥Noon: EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
🔥1:00 PM: $25 billion 30-year Treasury auction.
🔥2:00 PM: Monthly Treasury Statement.
🔥4:30 PM: Fed H.4.1 balance-sheet release.
🏦Fed Speakers: Hammack 8:30 AM, Barr 10:00 AM, Goolsbee 11:15 AM, Daly 1:10 PM, Schmid 1:30 PM & Williams 6:30 PM.

📅Friday, November 13:
🔥4 AM: IEA Oil Market Report.
🔥5 AM: Euro-area Q3 GDP estimate & employment.
🔥8:30 AM: October PPI.
🔥1:30 PM: End SHFE Friday-night session.
🔥COT report: delayed until Monday.
🏦Fed Speakers: Logan 8:40 AM; Collins during the 9:00–9:30 AM session; Bowman 10:50 AM, Daly noon & Jefferson 7:00 PM.

👉All Week: Watch Iran & Hormuz shipping, energy, post-election policy proposals, real yields, the dollar, China’s industrial outlook, Indian physical demand & contract-specific delivery deadlines.

🦀Crustacean Nation: Which event are you watching most closely before adding to your stack?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

👉Read the full report: Why can hot CPI pressure metals? How can Treasury auctions move yields? And why does the gap between a dealer’s selling price and buyback offer matter? Get the breakdown here: https://t.co/XtVW9dPRYp

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

Get On Here Now!!

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🔴LIVE NOW: Market Bloodbath, Banking Chaos & What’s Next For Gold And Silver?!🥇🥈

🦀Crustacean Nation, grab your snacks! We’re breaking down a WILD week & what it could mean for stackers!👀

📰Today’s Breaking News:
📉Record Wall Street Losses: $2.9 Trillion Wiped!
📊Jobs Surprise: 165,000 Added! Fed Hike Next?
📅Tuesday’s CPI: Inflation’s Next Big Test
🥇Digital Gold: Hong Kong’s Tokenized Gold Pilot
🚨Heraeus: Fresh Metal-Testing Allegations
🥈Silver & Gold: Is The Rebound In Trouble?

👉Will the bloodbath continue… and are metals cooked, or is this a stacking opportunity?👀

👉Join Us Live: https://t.co/3nU4LvKiVJ

🦀Crustacean Nation: What’s YOUR biggest watchout?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🔴LIVE NOW: Stock Market Bloodbath! 📉🥇🥈

👉Grab your coffee, Crustacean Nation! 🦀☕

🚨Today’s Breaking News:
📉Wall Street’s Record $2.9 Trillion Loss!
🌏South Korea Trading Halted!
📅US Jobs Report At 8:30 AM ET!
🇵🇱 Poland Hits 700 Tonnes Of Gold!
🐻2,000-Year-Old Gold Bear Found!
🚨Ten Charged In Gold-Bar Fraud!
🥈COMEX Silver Volume Picking Up?

🚨Will the bloodbath continue? Are metals cooked? 👀

👉Join Us Live:
https://t.co/KLf2o6gbpb

🦀Crustacean Nation: Are you buying, holding or waiting?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

@ihteshamali I’d like to leave a waft of broccoli infused methane from Earth on the Moon.

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨239 Years Ago Today, America Made Gold & Silver Constitutional Money!

🪙This Day In Sound Money History: September 17

🇺🇸1787: Delegates signed the US Constitution—& its monetary language was remarkably direct:
🔥Congress received the power to coin money, regulate its value & punish counterfeiting.

🔥States were prohibited from coining money, issuing bills of credit or making anything except gold & silver coin legal tender for debts.

🔥Important distinction: The gold-and-silver restriction applies specifically to states—not as a blanket prohibition against federal paper currency.

🏛️1965: Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Philadelphia Mint near Independence Hall.

🔥That happened during the same historic year that the Coinage Act removed silver from new dimes & quarters & reduced half dollars from 90% to 40% silver.

🔥The groundbreaking & the Coinage Act were separate events—but together they make 1965 one of the most transformational years in modern US coinage.

🚨2008: As the global financial crisis intensified, investors fled toward precious metals.

🥇Gold futures gained $70 during regular trading & surged as much as $90.40—or 11.6%—after hours.

👉At the time, it was gold’s largest one-day dollar gain ever.

🥈Silver futures also jumped more than $1.15.

Three September 17 milestones:
📜1787: America established its constitutional monetary framework.

🏛️1965: The country broke ground on a new Philadelphia Mint during a historic transformation of its coinage.

🔥2008: Financial panic demonstrated gold’s enduring safe-haven appeal.

🦀Crustacean Nation: Which September 17 event carries the biggest lesson for today’s stackers?

👇Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

@IntlStacker No problem… rest up brother

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Your Paycheck Is Bigger—So Why Does It Buy 84% Less Gold?💵

👉@fthegurus highlights that In 1990:
🏠Median household income: $29,943
🥇Gold: $383.51/OZT
⚖️Income measured in gold: 78 OZT

👉Latest household-income & today’s gold price:
🏠Median household income: $83,730
🥇Gold: approximately $4,433/OZT
⚖️Income measured in gold: 19 OZT

👉Now look at wages:
🔥In 1990, the $3.80 federal minimum wage bought approximately 0.0099 OZT of gold per hour... At today’s gold price, that same amount of gold would be worth approximately $44 per hour!

🔥Today’s $7.25 federal minimum wage buys only 0.0016 OZT of gold, approximately 0.051 grams.

👉That is roughly 84% less gold per hour than the federal minimum wage bought in 1990.

👉More dollars does not automatically mean more purchasing power... Measured against gold, the unit Americans are paid in has lost enormous ground!!!

🦀Crustacean Nation: Is gold becoming more valuable—or is the dollar revealing how much value it has lost?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

On our national debt, the average coupon on maturities beyond ten years is 3.44%. That's way below current long-term rates. Buying that debt back now is like a homeowner refinancing a 3.44% 30-year fixed-rate mortgage into a 4% one-year ARM. Who would be dumb enough to do that?

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

“The Treasury is doing the Fed’s job…”

[TheDebriefing17 @TheDebriefing17]

🤔The Treasury Is Doing the Fed's Job. Nobody Asked the Fed.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury announced it was doubling the size of its long-term bond buyback program starting September 9.

Within hours, $820 billion flowed into gold and silver. Gold hit record highs.

Here is what happened and why the market moved that fast.

What a buyback is

The U.S. government borrows money by selling bonds. When it sells a 30-year bond, it's promising to pay you back in 30 years, plus interest.

A buyback is when the government buys those bonds back before they mature. It goes into the market and says: I know I owe you in 2054, but I'll pay you now.

When the government buys its own long-term bonds, it puts cash into the market and pulls long-term debt out. That pushes long-term interest rates down. It's the same mechanical effect as what the Federal Reserve does when it buys bonds what they call "quantitative easing."

Except this isn't the Federal Reserve doing it. This is the Treasury Department.

Why that matters

Managing interest rates across the yield curve has traditionally been the Federal Reserve's job. The Fed is supposed to be independent. It sets interest rates based on inflation and employment data, not on what the White House wants.

The Treasury Department reports directly to the President. The Secretary of the Treasury is a cabinet member. When Treasury buys bonds, it is the executive branch managing interest rates.

Same mechanism. Different chain of command.

And the Treasury just doubled the program.

Now add everything else that happened this week

This wasn't the only thing Treasury did.

Sunday. Treasury published the proposed rules for how stablecoins digital dollars will be regulated. Every stablecoin issuer in America must be licensed. Every foreign stablecoin that wants to reach American consumers must come from a country that has a deal with the United States. And every licensed stablecoin issuer must hold U.S. Treasury bonds as reserves.

Read that last part again. The government just created a new class of mandatory bond buyers. If you want to issue digital dollars, you must buy government debt to back them.

Monday. The Treasury International Capital data showed that foreign governments sold $29 billion in Treasury bills in June alone. The traditional buyers of American debt foreign central banks are leaving.

Tuesday. Treasury doubled the buyback program. The government is stepping in to buy its own bonds as the old buyers exit.

Also Tuesday. Treasury and the IRS proposed new rules restricting tax credits by immigration status.

Last week. Congress banned the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar. The Fed cannot compete with the private stablecoin system that Treasury is building.

Also last week. FinCEN a Treasury bureau killed the requirement for American companies to report who owns them. The same FinCEN same bureau, same week issued a record $125 million fine against UBS for not watching its own transactions closely enough.

The pattern

Here is what Treasury did in one week:

Wrote the rules for the digital dollar.

Created mandatory Treasury bond buyers through stablecoin reserve requirements.

Doubled its own bond buyback program as foreign buyers left.

Issued the largest bank fine in its category's history.

Killed a transparency rule for domestic companies.

Restricted tax benefits by citizenship status.

And the IRS which sits inside Treasury helped trace cartel money in a narco-terrorism case two weeks ago.

Here is what the Federal Reserve did in the same week:

Nothing.

Where is the Fed?

The Federal Reserve is not writing the stablecoin rules. Treasury is.

The Federal Reserve is not chartering the stablecoin issuers. The OCC a Treasury bureau is.

The Federal Reserve is not managing long-term interest rates through buybacks. Treasury is.

The Federal Reserve is not enforcing anti-money-laundering law. FinCEN a Treasury bureau is.

The Federal Reserve is not issuing sanctions. OFAC a Treasury bureau is.

The Federal Reserve is not setting the rules for the digital dollar. It is prohibited by law from even building one.

The Federal Reserve still sets one rate the overnight rate that banks charge each other for short-term loans. That power hasn't been touched. But everything else that matters in the financial system right now digital currency, enforcement, bank chartering, debt management, sanctions, and now yield curve management is being done by Treasury.

The Fed wasn't fired. The Fed wasn't overruled. The Fed was routed around.

Nobody revoked its authority. Nobody amended the Federal Reserve Act. They just built the entire next generation of financial architecture in agencies the Fed doesn't control, using laws the Fed doesn't administer, and then banned the Fed from the one new area where it might have reasserted itself.

Why gold moved

The market saw the doubled buyback and did the math.

If Treasury is buying its own bonds to manage interest rates, and Treasury is also creating a new class of mandatory bond buyers through stablecoin rules, and foreign governments are selling then the buyer of last resort for American government debt is becoming the American government itself, plus private companies that are required by law to hold it.

Gold is the asset that sits outside that entire system. You can't sanction it. You can't freeze it. You can't require anyone to hold it as reserves. It doesn't need a license, a charter, or a reciprocal arrangement.

$820 billion moved into gold and silver in hours. That is the market saying: we see the architecture being built, and we're buying the one thing that isn't inside it.

The bottom line

For seventy-five years, the Federal Reserve was the most powerful financial institution in America. It set interest rates. It regulated banks. It managed the money supply. It was independent by design insulated from the political pressures that the Treasury Department answers to.

What happened this week is not the end of the Federal Reserve. The Fed still sets the overnight rate. That matters.

But everything else the digital dollar, the debt buybacks, the bank charters, the enforcement actions, the sanctions, the stablecoin rules, the financial architecture of the next fifty years is being built by Treasury.

One department. One Secretary. Reporting to one President.

The Federal Reserve is watching.

Timelines. Patterns. The general's words, not mine. All I did was read the receipts.

I am the guy on the couch, and you have been debriefed.
@CouchGuy17 @Homeranger17 @drawandstrike @SecScottBessent

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨The US Just Hit $40 TRILLION in Debt — And the Clock Suddenly JUMPED! 🇺🇸💰

👉The official US national debt has now crossed $40 TRILLION for the first time. But here’s what caught my attention...👀

👉Just days ago, the real-time debt clocks still appeared to have a decent way to go before $40T.

👉Then suddenly — BOOM!🔥

👉The official Treasury data showed debt above $40.047 TRILLION... It appears the real-time estimates may have been playing catch-up with Treasury’s actual daily numbers — but regardless, $40 TRILLION IS HERE... And what does this mean for us?

👉More debt → more interest expense → more pressure to borrow → & ultimately more pressure on the purchasing power of our currency.

👉It’s a giant game of monetary musical chairs!🪑

👉Except the number of dollars keeps growing… And for me, GOLD & SILVER ARE THE CHAIR!

👉When the music eventually stops, I know where I want to be sitting... Do you?

🦀Crustacean Nation: $40 TRILLION DOWN… how long until $50 TRILLION? Do you believe that if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay Stacked!

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

It’s a loooong read, one of the best I’ve read, a great argument for stacking silver and gold…

[Cole Walmsley @Cole_Walmsley]

This is insane.

This is INSANE.

This is a blatantly obvious sign of the impending doom of the U.S. Dollar and all fiat currencies.

Here's the situation:

The United States Treasury issues bonds and other investment securities.

They call these, “treasuries.”

The U.S. Treasury issues treasuries when the U.S. Federal Government spends past its budget, resulting in a “budgetary deficit.” The sale of treasuries makes up for the loss.

The treasuries are sold and tacked on as debt. This is the substance of the big $40 trillion debt number in the United States.

Key point: The U.S. Federal Government has been in a budgetary deficit in 51 of the last 55 years, with the last surplus year being in 2001.

Here's how it actually plays out:

A year passes. The government spends too much money, creating a budgetary deficit. The government finances that deficit by selling debt (in the form of treasuries). The government receives money to cover its spending, and tacks on the sold debt to its debt total.

Next year comes around. The government spends too much money again, creating another deficit. Same mechanism... government sells debt, receives money, and tacks on more debt. But there's an issue. Old debt is coming due. But the government doesn't have the money to pay for it - it has been spent. What does the government do? It issues new debt to pay off the old debt.

Round and round this goes, year after year. This is how the government operates.

Key point: The U.S. Treasury, which is part of the U.S. Federal Government, has to sell new debt to new investors to pay off the old debt from old investors. This is because of 1) the constant budgetary deficits and 2) the debt from years past coming due.

Key point: Given that the definition of a Ponzi scheme is, “An investment scheme where new investor money is used to pay off old investors.” …The U.S. Federal Government is running a Ponzi scheme. To the tune of $40 trillion, and counting.

Trillion is just a word. Let’s make sure we note the significance.

A *billion* seconds ago was 1994 (32 years ago).

A *trillion* seconds ago was 30,000 B.C.

Multiply that trillion by 40. That's 1.2 million B.C.

*Over a million years' worth of debt*

That’s the scale of the United States debt bill.

But WAIT. It gets worse.

Key point: The U.S. Treasury always has to have buyers of its debt, because if it doesn’t, the government won’t be able to pay off 1) its deficit spending and 2) the old debt coming due (and the interest on the debt). If it fails to pay those off, the Government would default and collapse.

Well, then, who buys all the U.S. Government debt?

Key point: The largest single buyer and owner of the U.S. Federal Government debt is THE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF.

Don’t trust, verify (picture attached below):

TAKE A SECOND TO CONTEMPLATE HOW INSANE THAT IS.

The U.S. Government runs a budgetary deficit, then issues treasuries to pay for the spending, then, at a bigger rate than anybody else, buys the treasuries to cover the loss. An unbelievable Ponzi scheme.

The U.S. Government is the director of the Ponzi scheme, the old investor, and the new investor. A true masterclass.

But how do they do this?

They have a money printer. It's that simple. The debt might as well not be real.

Welcome to the world of fiat currency.

Key point: The United States is not the only country that runs this playbook. 161 of the 189 countries with available data are in budgetary deficits. That's over 85%. The Ponzi scheme is everywhere.

The U.S. is the kingpin of the modern monetary world. They are the head honcho, the high priest, the big cheese.

The current global financial economy is built on the backs of the United States.

There would be a massive problem if the United States had debt buyer troubles.

In short, an increasing number of investors are growing scared of the United States debt situation, turning them away from the purchasing of U.S. Treasuries.

Recent headlines:

"Foreign Private Investors Cut US Treasury Purchases as US Debt Funding Risks Grow" -August 19, 2026

“Bonds Are Getting Hammered, and Wall Street Says the Rout Won’t End Anytime Soon” -August 19, 2026

“Foreign holdings of US Treasuries fall in June, led by Japan, UK, China, data shows” -August 17, 2026

“US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001” -August 14, 2026

With weakening demand and surging Treasury yields, the US Treasury has just announced "it will double the size of long-term US government debt buybacks following the rapid surge in US Treasury yields.

Repurchases of $2 billion will now be increased to "at least" $4 billion, the US Treasury said.

The move is intended to provide "liquidity support" for bonds maturing in 10 to 30 years as total US debt nears $40 trillion."

Translation:

"Nobody wants our bonds, thus, we are going to print money to buy our own bonds. And our previous buyback operation wasn't enough, so we're doubling it."

But that money printing causes inflation, which is a dangerous outcome.

Here's where the cookie crumbles:

The U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, has a 2% inflation target. Inflation has not been at 2% recently, and in fact accelerated higher in the first half of 2026.

The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates elevated as a method of discouraging borrowing and spending, and taming inflation.

But it's not working. And there's a bigger problem.

Key point: The U.S. Federal Government pays interest to investors who own the treasuries, and this interest is part of the budget.

High interest rates = higher interest payments.

Higher interest payments = more federal spending.

More federal spending = bigger budgetary deficits.

Bigger budgetary deficits = more debt issuance.

More debt issuance = higher supply of treasuries.

Higher supply of treasuries = lower demand.

Lower demand = fewer buyers.

Fewer buyers = Treasury printing money to buy its own bonds.

Treasury printing money = higher inflation.

Higher inflation = higher interest rates.

Higher interest rates = higher interest payments.

A catastrophic feedback loop.

It's math. And the math is brutal. The interest paid out by the Federal Government has EXPLODED in recent years (image attached below).

Start the chain at "higher interest payments" and you realize the fate of the system...

The United States Dollar is screwed.

This is a debt spiral.

There is no way out.

You are witnessing it live.

These are years that will go down in the all-time history books.

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Every fiat currency has failed, and for the same reason. Turning on the money printer is too tempting.

Don't forget, the U.S. Government will never let the Treasury market fail, because that would result in an automatic default on the debt and an unbelievably chaotic avalanche of collapse.

They will always turn to the money printer to bail things out. The Treasury will continue to print more money to keep the system afloat. Today's increase in government debt buybacks is simply additional evidence. But inflation is the fatal flaw.

The Ponzi scheme is in its final chapter. The endgame is here.

The inflation train has left the station, and it's never coming back.

Covid put the ruin into hyperdrive. Inflation ran away, now it cannot be tamed. It is feeding on itself, and will continue to do so, over and over, gradually, then suddenly.

And then, poof. It's gone.

Worthlessness.

If you haven't noticed, the U.S. Dollar has been heading toward the "worthless" direction for quite some time (pull up your favorite USD purchasing power chart).

It is inevitable. The U.S. Dollar, and all fiat currencies, will die.

The Phoenix will rise from the ashes.

An innovative, specifically designed, global, unprintable, incorruptible, verifiable, instantaneous digital monetary system will emerge, unchained from the grasp of bankers and governments, once and for all.

Fix the money, fix the world.

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨1,300 Years Underwater… And the GOLD Was Still There!🚨

👉A Byzantine ship that sank near the Croatian island of Mljet in the late 7th or early 8th century has yielded an incredible treasure!

👉And the finds are WILD:
🔥More than 19 Ozt's of gold recovered — over 1.3 pounds!

🔥Largest amount of gold ever recovered from an archaeological shipwreck site in the Mediterranean!

🔥Gold coins issued by FOUR emperors of the Heraclian dynasty!

🔥Elaborate gold jewelry decorated with rubies, emeralds & pearls!

🔥A gold signet ring suggesting someone VERY important may have been aboard! A high-ranking individual & their entourage traveling on the ship.

👉Stanford archaeologist Justin Leidwanger described it as “the most important shipwreck of its period!”

👉Think about that…
🌊A ship disappears beneath the Mediterranean.
⏳More than 1,300 YEARS pass.
🥇And its GOLD is still there!

👉Empires rise and fall... Gold survives!

🦀Crustacean Nation: Would you rather own a piece of recovered Byzantine gold with 1,300 years of history… or the same weight in modern .999 bullion?

👇Drop your pick below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

👉Source:
https://t.co/CHL4xbMzYa

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

History of Money…

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Gold Lost at Sea… Then 21 Years Later, THIS Happened to Silver!👀

🪙This Day In Sound Money History: August 20

🥇August 20, 1857 — California GOLD Heads East, the S.S. Sonora left San Francisco carrying more than $1.6 MILLION of California Gold Rush treasure!

👉Including freshly minted 1857-S Double Eagles, earlier gold coins & heavy gold ingots.

🌊On September 12, the legendary “Ship of Gold” sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Hundreds of lives & a fortune in gold went to the bottom of the Atlantic — where much of it remained for roughly 130 YEARS.

👉The loss of so much gold added to financial strains during the Panic of 1857. Recovered 1857-S Double Eagles are now among America's most famous shipwreck gold coins!

🥈August 20, 1878 — Carson City Begins Striking Morgan Dollars! Following the Bland-Allison Act, silver-dollar coinage returned to US Mints.

👉And on this day, the Carson City Mint began producing the iconic 1878-CC Morgan Dollar!
🔥90% silver
🔥“CC” mintmark
🔥Mintage: 2,212,000

👉Struck in the heart of Nevada's silver country, these became some of the most recognizable coins in American numismatics.

🥇A doomed California gold shipment... The birth of Carson City Morgan silver dollar production.

👉Two incredible precious-metals stories. Same date... 21 years apart!

🦀Crustacean Nation: If you could add ONE to your stack… An 1857-S Double Eagle recovered from the S.S. Central America or an 1878-CC Morgan Dollar?

👇Drop your pick below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked!

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

@IntlStacker Pre 33 Morgan’s

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Gold Just Did Something VERY Different… Alasdair Macleod Says It’s REAL!

👉Capital Cosm just sat down with Alasdair Macleod — a longtime precious-metals & monetary analyst with decades of experience studying gold, credit & the global financial system — & he believes something BIG has changed in the gold market:

🔥The risk is shifting away from GOLD… & toward CREDIT & FIAT CURRENCIES.

👉Macleod says gold’s recent breakout is the real deal — & lays out why:
🛢️OIL: He argues suppressed oil prices have helped mask inflationary pressures — but expects oil to move substantially higher as those pressures unwind.

🇯🇵 JAPAN: Macleod sees Japan as particularly vulnerable, pointing to its enormous government debt, rising borrowing costs & dependence on imported energy.

📈BOND YIELDS: Yields have been climbing across major developed economies. To Macleod, that’s a warning that investors are demanding more compensation to hold government debt.

🏦CENTRAL BANKS: He argues central banks buying gold aren't simply chasing price — they're responding to growing risks in fiat currencies & government bonds.

🥇And THIS is where it gets interesting… Macleod says gold & silver have recently shown strength even while oil & bond yields were rising.

🔥He calls that a “fundamental change...” But why?

👉 The old thinking was: Higher oil → Higher inflation → Higher rates → BAD for gold.

👉But Macleod believes the market is beginning to see something different: Higher inflation + higher yields may eventually become a threat to the CURRENCY & the CREDIT SYSTEM itself.

👉And if investors begin questioning the measuring stick… GOLD becomes the escape valve!

👉His preferred protection?
🥇Physical Gold
🥈Physical Silver

🔥No counterparty risk or final settlement. And his late-stage warning is even bigger:

👉Macleod argues governments & central banks will ultimately choose to support financial markets & the economy rather than defend the purchasing power of their currencies.

👉Eventually, ordinary people realize something:
🔥It isn't just that prices are going UP… the purchasing power of their currency is going DOWN.

👉When people begin dumping currency for real assets while they still can, Macleod says you enter the Austrian economists' “crack-up boom.”

🦀 Crustacean Nation: Do you agree with Macleod that something FUNDAMENTAL has changed for gold — or is this breakout another trap?

👇Drop your take below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked! 🦀🥇🥈

🎥Full interview:
https://t.co/rdqHy20iup

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

How I let the deals dictate my buys!!

Learn more about Gold & Silver Stacking at:
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*Not financial advice. Stay Stacked!

[Scott Valpey @ScottValpey]

@IntlStacker still stacking!

[International Stacker @IntlStacker]

🚨Mike Maloney Just Connected the Dots… And It Leads to SILVER!

👉Mike Maloney just released what he calls “one of the most important videos I’ve ever done” — & near the end, he connects the dots directly to SILVER!

👉Here’s the chain he’s laying out:
🔥ENERGY: He says the Strait of Hormuz disruption has impacted roughly 20% of the world’s energy output.

🎈HELIUM: He says roughly a THIRD of global helium production has been disrupted — & advanced AI chips cannot be manufactured without it.

💻AI CHIPS: Less helium → pressure on semiconductor production right as the world races to build AI infrastructure.

⛏️COPPER: Less oil refining means less sulfur → less sulfuric acid → potential problems processing copper ore.

🥈SILVER: Meanwhile, Maloney says silver has been underinvested in for DECADES & has already faced a structural deficit for 7 YEARS.

👉And here’s where it gets interesting… The companies dominating the US stock market — especially the tech giants powering the AI boom — depend on enormous quantities of:
⚡Energy
💻Advanced chips
🔌Copper
🥈Silver

👉Maloney’s warning is that we could be entering a VERY strange inflationary environment:
📉Asset prices like stocks & real estate fall.
📈The things people actually need — energy, food, transportation & critical commodities — surge!

👉Then he goes straight to silver:
🔥“Silver has been underinvested in for decades. There’s been a structural deficit for the last seven years. You may want to consider looking at silver.”

👉Whether his broader geopolitical predictions prove correct or not, the core question is worth asking:
🔥What happens when the AI buildout needs MORE energy, MORE chips, MORE copper & MORE silver… while the supply chains feeding all four are under pressure?👀

🦀Crustacean Nation: Is Maloney onto something here? Does this strengthen your case for physical silver — or is he getting TOO bearish on the broader economy?

👉Sound off below!
*Not financial advice. Stay stacked! 🦀🥈

🎥Full Mike Maloney video: https://t.co/pUBMXR9Lbn

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

HOW THE APOSTLES DIED.

1. Matthew. Suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia, Killed by a sword wound.

2. Mark. Died in Alexandria, Egypt , after being dragged by Horses through the streets until he was dead.

3. Luke. Was hanged in Greece as a result of his tremendous Preaching to the lost.

4. John. Faced martyrdom when he was boiled in huge Basin of boiling oil during a wave of persecution In Rome. However, he was miraculously delivered From death.
John was then sentenced to the mines on the prison Island of Patmos. He wrote his prophetic Book of Revelation on Patmos . The apostle John was later freed and returned to serve As Bishop of Edessa in modern Turkey . He died as an old man, the only apostle to die peacefully

5. Peter. He was crucified upside down on an x shaped cross. According to church tradition it was because he told his tormentors that he felt unworthy to die In the same way that Jesus Christ had died.

6. James. The leader of the church in Jerusalem , was thrown over a hundred feet down from the southeast pinnacle of the Temple when he refused to deny his faith in Christ. When they discovered that he survived the fall, his enemies beat James to death with a fuller's club.

This was the same pinnacle where Satan had taken Jesus during the Temptation.

7. James the Son of Zebedee was a fisherman by trade when Jesus Called him to a lifetime of ministry.

As a strong leader of the church, James was beheaded at Jerusalem. The Roman officer who guarded James watched amazed as James defended his faith at his trial.

Later, the officer Walked beside James to the place of execution. Overcome by conviction, he declared his new faith to the judge and Knelt beside James to accept beheading as a Christian.

8. Bartholomew. Also known as Nathaniel. He Was a missionary to Asia. He witnessed for our Lord in present day Turkey. Bartholomew was martyred for his preaching in Armenia where he was flayed to death by a whip.

9. Andrew. He Was crucified on an x-shaped cross in Patras, Greece. After being whipped severely by seven soldiers they tied his body to the cross with cords to prolong his agony.

His followers reported that, when he was led toward the cross, Andrew saluted it in these words, "I have long desired and expected this happy hour. The cross has been consecrated by the body of Christ hanging on it". He continued to preach to his tormentors For two days until he expired.

10. Thomas. He Was stabbed with a spear in India during one of his missionary trips to establish the church in the Subcontinent.

11. Jude. He Was killed with arrows when he refused to deny his faith in Christ.

12. Matthias. The apostle chosen to replace the traitor Judas Iscariot. He was stoned and then beheaded.

13. Paul. He Was tortured and then beheaded by the evil Emperor Nero at Rome in A.D. 67. Paul endured a lengthy imprisonment, which allowed him to write his many epistles to the churches he had formed throughout the Roman Empire. These letters, which taught many of the foundational Doctrines of Christianity, form a large portion of the New Testament.