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Bill’s latest interview with Liberty & Finance – (Also posted under Interviews)
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“A pretty good synopsis! I would add this: gold nor silver can default in a world that is in the process of mathematically defaulting…”
Ronald-Peter Stöferle Reveals The Six Vectors of Gold Remonetization
A look at monetary history reveals that the question of “sound money” was never purely academic in nature but has always been of central importance for economic stability and social order. The past five decades of the pure fiat experiment are, measured against 5,000 years of monetary history, a brief anomaly. And anomalies tend to be corrected.
Our thesis of a remonetization of gold may seem bold at first glance, which makes a clear conceptual framework all the more important. Those waiting for the reintroduction of a classical gold standard will be disappointed: Governments have no incentive to voluntarily relinquish the fiscal and monetary flexibility that the fiat regime offers them. Rather, what is meant is a process in which gold regains monetary relevance. Not necessarily as money in the strict sense, but certainly as the ultimate reference asset for value, trust, and settlement.
Bill’s Commentary:
“What happens to your world when this is “structural” and not a technical glitch?”
Credit card outage hits convenience stores, other merchants across Japan
TOKYO – Credit cards could not be used at convenience stores and other merchants across Japan for hours on Thursday following a system outage that also affected some transportation companies’ credit card-linked electronic money apps.
Major credit card issuer Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co. said the trouble began around 8 a.m. when card payments could not be processed at some merchants, while Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co. reported a similar problem.
The card companies said the trouble was caused by an outage in an international credit card brand’s network connecting merchants with card issuers. Sources familiar with the matter said the outage occurred within Visa’s network.
Bill is interviewed by Dr. Dave Janda – (Also posted under Interviews)
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“And he knows this how… without an audit since the 1950’s? I can show you on the back of a napkin how China has accumulated 35-40,000 tons of gold.”
Fort Knox Standoff: Bessent Says All The Gold Is There, Says America ‘Used To Be Backed’ By It
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has once again assured the public that America’s gold reserves remain fully intact, pushing back against years of speculation surrounding the legendary vaults at Fort Knox. In a Fox News interview with Jesse Watters that aired Monday night, Bessent reiterated his standing assurance that every ounce of the nation’s bullion is “present and accounted for” – while making no plans to visit the Kentucky depository himself.
“I am happy to say all gold is present and accounted for. The U.S. has the largest pile of gold in the world, over a trillion dollars, at current market value,” Bessent told Watters.
His comments come amid renewed calls from lawmakers and gold advocates for a comprehensive, independent audit – the first large-scale public verification since 1974.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Trump’s base is fracturing…”
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Jeremy Grantham has had a very long career at being correct, ignore his warnings at your own risk!”
Bill’s Commentary:
“If you live 10 more years, CBDCs will be the reality…”
BOOM: IT’S FINALLY LAW! The FED is OFFICIALLY BANNED From Issuing a Digital Dollar – PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY FOREVER [VIDEO]
U.S. SENATE VOTES TO BLOCK FEDERAL RESERVE DIGITAL DOLLAR UNTIL 2030
In a stunning move that’s already shaking the global financial system, the United States has passed a bill that bans the Federal Reserve from creating or issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) until at least 2030.
The bill was passed in the Senate with a landslide 89–10 vote, sending a clear message: America is slamming the brakes on the digital dollar.
This is being celebrated across the country as a massive win for freedom, privacy, and individual financial rights. Critics of the CBDC have long warned that a government-issued digital dollar could become a tool for financial surveillance and centralized control over everyday Americans.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“A blast from the past… Jim back in 2021 “sitting on a mountain of gold!”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Worth your time to read”
The Gold Story Nobody Is Connecting — But Should
The Number You Need To Understand First
Before we start, one number puts everything in context.
Fort Knox contains 147,341,858 fine troy ounces of gold. At current market prices near $4,000 per ounce, these reserves represent around $600 billion. But at the legal book value of $42.22 per ounce, fixed since 1973, the assets are officially valued at only $6.22 billion on the Treasury’s books.
America owns $667 billion worth of gold. But it is recorded on the books at $6 billion.
That $660 billion gap is the thread that connects everything that follows.
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The latest from USA Watchdog – (Also posted under Interviews)
Bill’s Commentary:
“We have been lied to for years regarding supply and demand numbers on silver… got silver?”
The Silver Institute: A Wonderland of Compounded Errors
Over the last year or so I have sent out many a missive on silver — and the Silver Institute, but I have yet to put it all together in a comprehensive supply and demand balance sheet, and then compare my balance sheet to the one put out by the Silver Institute; so here we go.
Over the years there have been many changes in methodology in their reports; some years photography is included in industry, in others it is not. Solar only became a line item in 2010, for several years before that it was not itemised. I have been very careful to make sure that I am always comparing apples to apples.
Sorry for the length of this essay, but the more apples I turned over, the more rotten ones I found, barrels of them.
Bill’s Commentary:
“More on China, physical versus paper markets…”
Gold Collateral Revolt: How China, Singapore and Hong Kong Are Quietly Building a Post‑Dollar Gold System
This article is about the following:
Hong Kong’s latest push to become a gold reserve hub is not an isolated policy tweak – it’s a key piece of a broader Asian strategy to turn physical gold into the backbone of a post‑dollar collateral system
GOLD COLLATERAL REVOLUTION
- Asian policymakers are openly positioning Hong Kong and Singapore as frontline gold hubs just as trust in the dollar‑centric system erodes.
- Gold expert and central bank insider Gregor Gregersen sits on a Singapore central bank committee for its new gold hub and advises on Hong Kong’s emerging gold strategy, giving him direct visibility into how these plans are being built from the inside out.
- The core shift: move away from leveraged paper claims toward physical bullion used as high‑grade collateral in a world where dollar IOUs are increasingly questioned.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“So, $100 million in unfulfilled orders?”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Treasonous…”
@TonySeruga
🚨 THE MCCONNELL-CHINA TIMELINE: THREE DECADES OF COMPROMISE, ONE CARDIAC ARREST, AND A WIFE WHO FLEW TO BEIJING WHILE HE WAS GETTING CPR — AND THE MEDIA WON’T EVEN ASK WHY 💥
Thirty years. Half a billion in CCP-dependent contracts. A $25 million gift. A Senate office run by unelected staffers. And when the 84-year-old flatlines, his wife’s first move is a strategic sit-down with the Chinese Vice President.
The question isn’t whether Mitch McConnell was compromised. The question is whether there was ever a single day in his entire Senate career when he wasn’t.
🧵 Again, The Question Isn’t Whether — It’s How Long and How Deep
The posts below lay out the current Potemkin operation masquerading as McConnell’s Senate office, but they barely scratch the surface on the CCP angle. Let’s connect the dots the institutional media has spent 30 years refusing to connect.
🇨🇳 The Chao Family: Not Just “Ties” — Structural Integration
Elaine Chao’s father, James Chao, grew up with Jiang Zemin — the man who became President of China and General Secretary of the CCP. They attended navigation school together in Shanghai. This isn’t some distant acquaintance; James Chao met with Jiang at least six times after Jiang rose to power, including inside the CCP’s secretive leadership compound in Beijing in August 1989 — mere months after Tiananmen Square.
The Chao family shipping empire, Foremost Group, doesn’t just do business in China. It’s built on Chinese state contracts:
– Angela Chao (Elaine’s sister and Foremost CEO) sat on the board of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation — the entity that builds warships for the People’s Liberation Army Navy
– In 2017 alone, Foremost signed contracts with CSSC subsidiaries for six massive bulk cargo ships, deals valued at roughly half a billion dollars
– The signing ceremony for one deal included the Consul General of China and CSSC representatives at Foremost’s New York office
– James Chao was publicly celebrated by Xinhua (Chinese state media) and the CPAFFC (a known CCP united front organization) as a “vanguard of China-US exchanges”
💰 The Money Trail: Follow the $25 Million Gift
In 2008, James Chao gave Mitch and Elaine a gift valued at between $5 million and $25 million — overnight, McConnell vaulted into the ranks of the richest senators. As Peter Schweizer documented in Red Handed, this wasn’t just generosity. It was financial fusion.
The Foremost Group’s entire business model depends on CCP goodwill. If Beijing decided to pull the plug on contracts, the Chao family fortune — and McConnell’s, by extension — would evaporate. That’s not influence. That’s leverage.
Plus: 13 members of the extended Chao family have funneled over $1 million into McConnell’s campaigns and leadership PACs since 1989 — starting before he even married Elaine.
🛑 The 2017 Scandal Everyone Forgot
When Elaine Chao became Trump’s Transportation Secretary:
– She conducted a private photo session with her father and Foremost Group employees inside the Department of Transportation headquarters with Chinese media present
– She attended a Foremost contract-signing ceremony with Japan’s Sumitomo Group — a company subject to DOT oversight
– Senior DOT aides arranged an “off limits” VIP tour of the U.S. Capitol for Chinese Communist Party officials from the home region of Chao’s mother, coordinating directly with McConnell’s Senate staff
– She had to cancel a planned China trip after U.S. Embassy officials in Beijing raised ethical concerns about her plan to bring family members from the shipping company to official events
🏥 June 2026: The Timeline That Screams
Now connect this history to the current crisis:
View image below.
Let that sink in. Your husband of 30 years suffers cardiac arrest — CPR on the floor of his home — and three days later you’re in Beijing meeting with CCP Vice President Han Zheng, discussing “strategic stability” in U.S.-China relations.
That’s not a wife visiting family. That’s a handler checking in.
🔍 The “Office of McConnell” as Continuity of Operations
My original posts 💯 nail the current structure: McConnell is a brand identity, not a functioning senator. His staff — Josh Holmes, Shannon Saylor, Don Stewart — run a shadow operation maintaining the institutionalist-uniparty firewall against Trump’s populist agenda.
But the Chao-CCP dimension adds a darker layer: the people running “McConnell” aren’t just protecting K Street and the MIC. They’re protecting a three-decade financial entanglement with the Chinese Communist Party that would make the Burisma-Biden connection look like small claims court.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Happy 250th America!”
Bill’s Commentary:
“The precious metals market is about to change!
Per the two articles below, China’s banks are shutting down leveraged access to paper gold assets for individual investors on July 24, 2026. This will ultimately force funds toward physical metal… these funds have been directed away from physical and into paper for many years in the West. Make no mistake, China will be THE global hub for physical gold and silver trading worldwide. They have built the infrastructure and logistics to handle huge movements of metal. China has imported massive amounts of gold this century, they also produce about 400 tons per year with none exported. It can be illustrated on the back of a napkin that they have a minimum 40,000 tons. Compare that to the US claiming to have 8,300 tons (without an audit since 1956)?
The bottom line is this, we have waited for many, many years for the mathematically inevitable, while China has methodically prepared for the same event by accumulating gold and building out the infrastructure to trade… the real metals. They know that COMEX and LBMA are paper frauds. This is a HUGE signal from China – paper bad, gold good. China waited patiently while we bankrupted ourselves with mathematical certainty. From a financial standpoint, China is in the driver’s seat. They have blown up about 1,000 fiat currencies throughout their history, they know how this ends.
The above said, I believe current pricing for gold and silver is a gift at these levels. The paper yoke of the West was broken back in December, with one last hurrah for the past 4 months. China will dictate price going forward from a physical exchange, paper will ultimately become irrelevant. If you sit on large bank balances while this earthquake shift hits, good luck sourcing product. The time to move is when you have the funds and the ability to source product, the time to “get out of the system” is now!”
Standing watch,
Bill Holter
Chinese banks rein in retail gold trading on volatility – MINING.COM
End of Retail Bank Gold Leverage in China as ICBC Halts Trading | NAI 500
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Valid criticism and certainly not good optics…”
MAGA Voters Rip Trump for Making $2B While in Office During Searing MS NOW Vox Pop: ‘I Don’t Think He Can Make Up for It’
MAGA voters in Florida unloaded on President Donald Trump for getting “richer and richer” in office, telling MS NOW that it was “frustrating” to see the president’s income swell during his first year in office while the middle class was getting “poorer.”
Trump’s latest annual financial disclosure, released on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, showed the president more than tripled his income in 2025, the year he returned to the White House, making over $2 billion.
The president’s business empire generated more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency-related ventures in a filing that also listed more than $635 million from a licensing agreement with Celebration Coins and roughly $500 million in proceeds from token sales distributed by World Liberty Financial LLC, the Trump family-backed crypto company launched in 2024, according to the documents.
Bill’s Commentary:
“In less than 18 months…”
$TRUMP Meme Coin Value Plummeted 98% as Over 740K Investors Lose Money: Report
The $TRUMP meme coin that’s added another $635 million to the bank account of President Donald Trump has plummeted 98% in value, CNN reported Thursday.
On top of that, Inside Politics host Dana Bash noted over 740,000 people who invested in the coin have since lost money.
“So this is the $TRUMP meme coin, just to be specific, and crypto analytics firm estimates that 58 investors into the $TRUMP coin made profits above 10 million,” Bash said while joined by several journalists, including Kristen Holmes and Zolan Kanno-Youngs. “At the same time, 764,000 wallets lost money, per The New York Times.”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this a bad joke?”
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