Navigating the Economic Abyss: Is Silver the Answer?

Mar 23

Secure Your Wealth: Silver as a Safe Haven in Economic Uncertainty

The Fragile Illusion of Modern Finance

When the global, generational, debt-based, fiat, Ponzi scheme finally implodes, what will the economy look like? Will it become a totally chaotic mess, including suicides, runs on banks, and mass bankrupcies, as it did during the Stock Market Crash of 1929? Will the economy shutter, quake, and shake, as it did during the recessions of 1974, 1989, and 2008, finally realigning itself and continuing along as before? Or will it make a “peaceful transition of power”, which we witness every time a new US President takes office, out of the digital illusions of wealth and into a new silver age?

Chris’ new coin, “Silver Age”, raises those questions, and many more. How you answer them will determine the route your future financial plans should take. These are crucial conundrums that need to be addressed today, not tomorrow because there are many people who believe the national debt is unsustainable and near collapse.

Understanding the Risks: Beyond Traditional Investments

Here are some other things to consider as well. First, do you trust the “powers that be” who control your financial investments, including your pension funds? The bankers, stock brokers, hedge funds salesmen, pension trustees, and government regulators, most of whom you don’t even know personally? Are you comfortable with the way your money, whether personal, private, or public funds, are invested? Do you even know where your money is, or how it's being invested?

Do you know if your money is even being invested by fiduciaries, who are legally obliged to put your investment interests above their own? Is your money being invested in one asset class or is it being spread evenly across traditional investments, such as stocks, bonds, and real estate?

Another consideration is that with the arrival of the “Tech Age”, there has been a recent trend, among pension fund managers in particular, to lean away from traditional investments and towards alternative investments. These include putting your money into private equities, high-yield bonds, hedge funds, commodities, crypto and derivatives.

These new forms of investments are much more difficult to understand and control and have much less predictable outcomes than traditional investments. The reason for this anomalous behavior is that they are all relatively new entities, and as a result, they have very short track records. Who really knows how they will play out?

If you are one of those people who try to stay up-to-date with these more volatile investments, you know it can be a nerve-wracking ride. Most people have come to realize that since the profession of “investing other people’s money” became acceptable, many “reputable” financial pundits have screwed up your money, your investments and/or your nest egg.

One example is that over the years they have routinely scared investors with dire warnings of broken asset classes. If you are heavily invested in those assets you can be unnerved by the outcomes of these warnings. In many cases, the pundits undermine confidence by alerting investors about the possible death or the long-term viability of certain asset classes.

For instance, in 1979, they predicted the “death of equities”. In the 1990s, they reported that REITs should no longer be considered when looking to diversify a portfolio. 1999 saw headlines stating that oil was cheap and that it would stay cheap. Others declared in 2019, “Does Investing in Emerging Markets Still Make Sense?” During that same year, influential pundits caused this headline, “Is Value Investing Dead? It Might Be and Here’s What Killed It.”

Luckily, dire warnings forecasting the destruction of certain asset classes rarely comes to fruition. But, the roller coaster rides can be nerve-wracking. Their warnings can literally keep investors up at night, especially when it dawns on them that they really have no way of controlling what happens to their money. The reality is that it’s all simply smoke and mirrors.

So, many investors cancel their Financial Times subscriptions, stop watching CNBC’s Jim Cramer, stop checking their investments portfolio every day and just hang on for the ride.

But, no one has to live like that nor should anyone be forced to live on an out-of-control roller coaster with an invisible engineer at the helm.

*2025 "Silver Age" Silver Proof Round, by Chris Duane*

Why Silver? A Tangible Asset in Uncertain Times

The answer to all these questions and concerns is to stack physical silver. Silver will never die. It won’t disappear in a cloud of smoke. No one can misappropriate it, push the wrong button, and make it evaporate into thin air, or transfer it to their wife's Swiss bank account. Once you take possession of physical silver, you own it and it is yours forever!

You can hold it, feel it, smell it or just admire it. You can give it to your kids, bequeath it to your grandchildren or leave it to your friends and remaining relatives. Or better yet, you can easily convert it to cash for emergencies, knowing it will always be available when you need it.

The new Silver Age is dawning. Get off the roller coaster.

And rather than roses, wake up and smell the silver.