CORPORATE APARTMENT, BALTIMORE – As I’ve warned you many times in these Postcards, the United States government is preparing to default on its obligations.
This is a HUGE insight because it’ll determine the primary investment trends in the markets for YEARS to come.
You must get on the right side of these trends now if you’re going to preserve your money and wealth. (Hint: Most investors are not positioned for these trends, at all. They own stocks and bonds. They’re going to get boiled alive over the next few years.)
But don’t take my word for it. The people in charge – including the president himself – are telling us what they’re planning to do in language that’s so clear, they might as well be ringing a bell…
Living on the Fringe
Greetings from Baltimore!
My family and I are modern American gypsies, living on the fringe of society. We have no home, no neighbors, no possessions. I don’t have a “job,” and the kids don’t go to school. We don’t even have health insurance.
We just drift from place to place, dragging our little suitcase behind us. In the last two years, we’ve been to 30 countries and slept in more than 150 beds…
Right now we’re in Baltimore. We’re squatting in an empty apartment that’s been loaned to us.
We’re going to rest here for a while… and show the kids the city. We’ll go to Philadelphia… and Washington, D.C. Then we’ll go somewhere else… probably Argentina… where it’s cheap and the living’s good. We can teach the kids Spanish.
Why do we live like this? We feel comfortable… and free.
Here in Baltimore, the kids are so happy to have a place to rest for more than a night or two. And for the first time in two years, they have toys. Here’s Penny reunited with her dolls…
Penny and her dolls, reunited after two years on the road
Can’t Get Clearer Than This
The custodians of the world financial system have been telling us in plain language about the default that lies ahead. Trump has been calling for lower interest rates and a weaker dollar on Twitter. Translation: They’re going to devalue the dollar.
Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, called for more government spending in her maiden speech. Translation: They want to stoke inflation and devalue the euro.
Mark Carney, head of the Bank of England, has been promoting the idea of a new form of reserve currency built around crypto. Translation: They’re exploring alternatives beyond the soon-to-be watered-down dollar.
And this weekend, they were ringing the bell again…
Bonds Are Dead Money
The Wall Street Journal tells us the Federal Reserve is considering “curve control.” That means it’s thinking about doing two things:
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Buying trillions of government bonds, and…
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Pegging interest rates at all points along the yield curve, not just overnight rates. (It already controls overnight rates now.)
How does the Fed buy trillions of government bonds to control the entire yield curve?
By printing money, of course!
As I said in my postcard from November 20:
Bonds [like stocks] will also be dead money over the next decade. But I don’t expect bonds to crash and I certainly wouldn’t bet against bonds.
The Fed will print money. If necessary, it will nationalize the entire yield curve like it did in WWII, or like Japan is doing now. They call this “curve control.”
Like I said back then, they’ve done this before – during WWII. I knew they’d raise this idea again sooner or later.
It’s the reason I’m not interested in shorting government bonds, even though the government has entered default…
Gargantuan Borrowing
The default began on September 17, 2019. That’s when the “repo” market spiked to 10%. Why?
Because the government – which is borrowing extraordinary amounts of money – was not able to borrow what it needed at prevailing interest rates. Rates spiked and the Fed had to intervene.
Since then, the Fed has printed nearly 500 billion additional fake dollars.
This is just the beginning. The Fed is going to be enabling the government’s gargantuan borrowing requirements for years to come… and not just at the short-term interest rates. Soon they’ll have to control 2-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 30-year interest rates, too. Curve control.
I expect the Fed’s balance sheet to rise above $10 trillion in the next three years. (The Fed’s balance sheet is where we keep score of how many dollars they’re printing.)
If there’s any sort of recession or economic slowdown, it’ll happen sooner. Because a recession will cause the government to borrow far more money than it is even today.
“Soft” Default: Already Here
Here’s the chart of the Fed’s balance sheet today. It’s currently at $4.2 trillion…
The upward reversal in the chart shows when the default – and the Fed’s bailout – began.
If I’m right about all this… and I think I am, because the president and the central bankers keep signaling exactly what’s coming… gold is going to keep rising.
Gold is hard money. And hard money is the only way to avoid getting boiled by the government’s default over the next decade.
Kate and I have already put everything we own into gold and silver. But now, I’m considering buying call options on gold.
They’re ringing the bell. I’m taking action.
– Tom Dyson
P.S. When a borrower can’t pay back its debts and refuses to pay, that’s called a “hard” default. The U.S. government will not “hard” default. It will “soft” default by paying its obligations in watered-down dollars.
There won’t be any dramatic press releases or conferences to announce this. Most people won’t even realize it’s happened. They’ll just notice their cost of living is rising rather quickly. They may even notice gold and silver ads on television, but otherwise it’ll be a very stealthy default…
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