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The ECB has triumphantly finished all the “technical prep work” for the digital euro, and Christine Lagarde assures us that all that’s left is for the ever-efficient political machinery to wave it through. On December 23, 2025, the Council finally adopted its official negotiating stance—setting the thrilling stage for a potential rollout by 2029, assuming the regulators remember to pass the rules by 2026. The digital euro will feature online and offline payments, because nothing says “progress” like peer-to-peer transfers between certified devices that are almost as private as actual cash… for low-value purchases, of course.

Naturally, the ECB insists the digital euro isn’t here to banish cash—fear not, you can still hoard your coins and paper bills. And don’t worry, it’s all perfectly “safe”: holding limits and fancy safeguards are in place to stop anyone from actually moving big piles of money out of commercial banks. Stability guaranteed… or so they say.

https://cryptonews.com/news/eu-digital-euro-offline-digital-euro-payments/

In a nutshell, while Europeans were feasting, the ECB and Council quietly greenlit the digital euro’s “offline privacy mode” and set the stage for a 2029 rollout of its CBDC.

The #dollar is in demonstrable freefall versus real #money— #gold and #silver are repricing violently higher, yet the mainstream financial media remains conspicuously mute. Decades of post-WWII dollar hegemony have conditioned the public to confuse currency with money, eroding any understanding of intrinsic value and purchasing-power preservation. Bitcoin, the speculative sideshow, oscillates like a synthetic yo-yo, offering volatility without monetary permanence. The critical signal is clear: the price to hedge in real money is accelerating, and the dollar’s erosion is structural, not cyclical. Ignore the signal at your own risk.

This is no longer a red-versus-blue spectator sport or partisan cheerleading exercise. The macro reality is brutally apolitical. The United States is functionally bankrupt, as Ron Paul has warned for decades, and the evidence is now manifesting in collapsing purchasing power. The price of acquiring real money—gold and silver—has surged roughly 200% in just two years, a silent tax that represents systemic looting via monetary debasement. We are drifting toward a sovereign debt crisis unprecedented in the entire history of fiat currency regimes. Even conservative frameworks, like Jim Rickards’ back-of-the-napkin gold revaluation tied to balance-sheet realities, imply a potential trajectory toward $27,000 per ounce. You don’t need to be a “gold bug” to recognize risk management: allocating even 10% of depreciating Federal Reserve notes into real money is simple capital preservation. It’s not about upside speculation—it’s about avoiding total annihilation if real money reprices 10x or 20x against collapsing paper claims.

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The trajectory is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: the U.S. dollar’s global reserve status appears structurally unsustainable over the long arc of time. As fiscal dominance, chronic deficits, and monetary expansion compound, the dollar risks reverting to a purely local fiat—no different in principle from any other depreciating currency.

What’s revealing is not just rising consumer prices, but the exploding cost to acquire real money. Gold continues to reprice higher, and silver pressing into the ~$70 range is a flashing signal. In just two years, the price of acquiring real money has surged roughly 200%—meaning you can now buy only one-third as much silver as you could previously. That is not “inflation control”; that is monetary debasement in motion.

When measured correctly—in ounces, not dollars—it becomes clear that fiat purchasing power is eroding rapidly. Jim Rickards’ crisis-scenario back-of-the-envelope math pointing to $27,000 gold may sound extreme, until you recognize that reserve currency transitions are nonlinear, violent, and fast. History suggests this is not a question of if, but when.

This is not a replay of the Hunt Brothers episode, nor a transient speculative squeeze. The structural accumulation base in silver today is vastly broader, deeper, and institutionally embedded. In both 1980 and 2011, silver’s advance stalled near $50—first crushed by Volcker’s emergency-rate shock, later capped in the post-GFC deleveraging cycle. That historical ceiling has now been obliterated. At ~$73.50, we are operating in an entirely new regime. Exchange inventories are being systematically drained, registered stocks on COMEX are collapsing, and London vault liquidity is deteriorating in real time. Silver has now eclipsed Apple as the third most valuable asset globally, a signal that transcends commodity price action. This is not cyclical volatility or a speculative yo-yo—it is a monetary repricing event. What is unfolding is a structural reevaluation of real money relative to fiat, fundamentally distinct from textbook hyperinflation. The transmission into consumer goods and services will lag by years, not months. History offers no close analogue for what comes next. All prior reference points are obsolete.

Only 30 days since silver decisively cleared the $50/oz threshold, and the implications are being badly misunderstood. A sustained daily compounding rate of ~1.36% mathematically resolves into a ~50% monthly repricing. That is not consumer price inflation; it is a monetary revaluation event. Silver is not “getting more expensive” in real terms—it is accelerating away from a structurally debasing USD. This is what hyperinflation looks like in asset space first: nonlinear, reflexive, and concentrated in monetary metals before it ever shows up in CPI prints. No one can time the duration, but the velocity suggests this process is in its early innings. If the market continues to print clusters of uninterrupted 1.36% days, the compounding alone forces an exponential outcome. This is not a trade—this is a regime shift.

Jim Rickards' $27,000 gold calculation is a model for a financial crisis: he takes the U.S. M1 money supply (~$18T), applies the old 40% gold backing ratio (requiring ~$7.2T in gold), divides that by the U.S. gold reserves (~261.5M oz), yielding roughly $27,500/oz, signaling a massive jump in gold's value if the dollar were backed by gold during a collapse.
The Calculation Steps
Start with U.S. Money Supply: He uses the current M1 money supply, around $17.9 trillion (as of recent reports).
Apply Gold Backing Ratio: He applies a hypothetical 40% gold backing ratio, similar to the U.S. system from 1913-1946, requiring $7.2 trillion in gold ($17.9T * 0.40).
Divide by U.S. Gold Holdings: He divides that required gold value by the U.S. gold reserves of approximately 261.5 million troy ounces.

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The U.S. government is nearly $40 trillion in debt, a fact that pretty much guarantees exciting times ahead. Coleman Church on what comes next.

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These are actually legitimate questions

They’re gonna rewrite the entire windows kernel to Rust using AI.

The levels of slop are gonna be out of this world.