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To: TobagoJack who wrote (218890)	1/1/2026 11:16:33 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 219784

Q: What would Heinz say about silver today, for 2026 ? Silver: The Ghost of Money Past and Future By Pater Tenebrarum One is almost amused by the recent flurry of excitement surrounding silver. The commentariat, having finally noticed the metal’s spectacular price appreciation, now scrambles to explain it away with convenient narratives of “green energy” demand and electric vehicle production. While it is certainly true that silver possesses unique physical properties that make it indispensable to industry, to focus on this aspect alone is to miss the forest for the trees. It is to admire the color of the canary while ignoring the toxic fumes filling the coal mine. The awakening of silver is not an industrial story; it is a monetary story. It is the ghost of money past, stirring from its long slumber to haunt the central bankers who thought they had banished it forever. For decades, the price of silver has been a study in managed decline, a tragicomedy of paper market manipulation. The great fiction of the COMEX and other paper exchanges was that a limitless supply of paper claims could be created to suppress the price of a finite physical asset. This arrangement, a cornerstone of the post-1971 fiat monetary order, served to obscure the relentless debasement of the currency by making real money appear cheap. But such fictions can only be maintained for so long. The structural supply deficits that have plagued the market for years are not a new phenomenon, but the inevitable result of prices being held artificially below their market-clearing level. Now, as the physical market asserts its primacy—with soaring premiums, draining inventories, and a palpable sense of panic among those who need to source actual metal—the paper charade is reaching its final, ignominious act. The disconnect is not a temporary anomaly; it is the sound of a fraudulent market breaking apart under the weight of its own contradictions. To ask what silver will be worth in 2026 is to ask the wrong question. The correct question is what the US dollar—and by extension, all fiat currencies—will be worth. The price of silver, when denominated in a currency that is being created with reckless abandon, is merely a measuring stick of that currency’s demise. The industrial demand, while significant, is but a catalyst accelerating a process that was already inevitable. It provides a floor for the price and a constant drain on physical supply, making the paper manipulators’ job ever more difficult. But the true engine of this revaluation is the dawning realization among a growing number of people that their paper savings are melting away like ice in the sun. Silver, the “poor man’s gold,” has always been the monetary asset of the people, more accessible and transactional than its wealthier cousin. Therefore, one should not be surprised to see the price denominated in dollars reach levels that seem fantastical to the Keynesian witch doctors and their spreadsheet models. Forecasts of $100 or $150 are not outlandish; they are likely conservative, for they fail to grasp the non-linear nature of a currency collapse. When confidence in paper money evaporates, it does not do so gradually; it vanishes in an instant. In such a world, silver will not be valued for its use in solar panels, but for its five-thousand-year history as a store of value and medium of exchange. It will be valued not for what it can do, but for what it is: real money, a tangible anchor in a sea of worthless paper promises. The future of silver is not to be found in industrial forecasts, but in the immutable laws of economics, which dictate that all fraudulent monetary systems must eventually return to dust.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (218890)

1/1/2026 11:25:05 PM

From: Box-By-The-Riviera™

Respond to of 219784

Elon Musk & Bill Gates Warn of Jobpocalypse and Why Working Will be Optional - Forces UBI & the Destruction of the Dollar!

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The numbers are in, and they are a death knell for the American economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has recently confirmed what we have been warning about for months: the jobs market is beginning to break.

The unemployment rate has surged to 4.6%, its highest level since the post-COVID chaos of 2021. A paltry 64,000 jobs were added in November, a number that is a rounding error in a workforce of 164+ million people.

This isn’t a temporary downturn. This is a structural demolition of the very concept of labor. Don’t take our word for it. Listen to the architects of this new world.

Elon Musk: “A.I. and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional.”
Bill Gates: “Humans won’t be needed for most things.”

Wall Street will call this a “softening.” The media will call it a “return to stability.” They are lying. This is not a soft landing; it is more likely the beginning of a nosedive into a world where human labor has no value.

For the first time in history, a cyclical economic downturn is colliding with a structural technological revolution, and the most likely outcome will be a permanent underclass of millions of unemployable Americans.

You need to understand the terrifying mathematical certainty of the coming A.I. Jobs Apocalypse.
You need to understand how this structural unemployment crisis; has been foreseen by the very men building the technology.
You need to understand how this will force the Federal Reserve to unleash a monetary tsunami in the form of Universal Basic Income (UBI).
You need to understand how this program will vaporize the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and trigger a historic flight to the only real money that exists: gold and silver.

The crisis is here, and only those who understand the terminal velocity of technology will survive it.

Let’s Dig Into The Following:

Why the headline numbers, as grim as they are, only tell part of the story. The weakness is systemic. While the government-propped sectors of healthcare and construction added jobs, the productive economy is bleeding. Where the job losses occurred, combined with slowing private wage growth is the classic signature of the start of a major unemployment cycle. Why we are not in a classic cycle!
Why the data is assuming a “normal” unemployment cycle this time around. If this cycle is worse; and there is every reason to believe it will be, we could be looking at 7 to 10+ million newly unemployed. At that scale, the financial system does not just strain; it breaks!
The critical point that most analysts are missing. A.I. doesn’t hit the labor market like a cyclical recession, with mass layoffs announced on the evening news. It arrives as dry rot. Why the hollowing out of the job market from the inside long before the structure collapses has begun.
In every previous recession, there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Workers who were laid off knew that, eventually, the economy would recover, and they would be rehired. That assumption is now dangerously obsolete, a relic of a bygone era. Why the rise of Artificial Intelligence has fundamentally broken the cycle of employment and there may be no turning back!
Why even if a worker attempts to learn a new skill, they are in a race against a technology that is improving exponentially. By the time they complete a training course, that new job may also be on the verge of automation. This is the A.I. Replacement Cycle!
Why when millions of people are simultaneously cut off from the ability to provide for their basic needs, the social fabric doesn’t just fray; it disintegrates. The implicit promise of a modern society; that if you work hard, you can build a life for yourself, is rendered void. What follows is not a recession; it is a crisis of survival!
Why a government facing a crisis of this magnitude; a full-scale social unraveling, has only one tool left: the printing press. The political pressure to “do something” for the millions of permanently unemployed will be overwhelming. The solution will be sold to the public as a compassionate and necessary safety net!
And as the reality of permanent money printing and currency destruction becomes undeniable, a great reallocation of capital will occur. Why investors will flee from paper assets, whose value is tied to the very currency being debased, and stampede into the only things that are real, tangible, and finite!