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Posted on 01/23/2026 9:03:31 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
RAY DALIO SAYS THE MONETARY ORDER IS BREAKING DOWN AND FIAT IS NO LONGER A CENTRAL BANK ASSET.
GOLD AND SILVER BECOME THE ANCHOR WHEN PAPER CONFIDENCE CRACKS.
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When something completely intangible and without any backing, like Cryptocurrency, can flourish, paper currency surly can, too.
Don’t tell me what you think, Ray. Show me your portfolio.
I’ve heard that the big time financial giants like Goldman Sachs dumped $847 billion in US Treasuries last year. They know what’s coming...
SILVER has surpassed a major milestone today and its new high is $101.01.
GOLD appears ready to surpass a major milestone today and its new high is $4988.10.
So what you are saying is precious metals are volatile and unstable...
Another person posted, correctly, that a Nation’s worth is best measured from all that Nation’s assets. A Fiat system, properly managed that reflects a Nation’s total assets, will provide proper economic stability that the people of that Nation need...
Dalio’s holdings?
Here they are:
Ray Dalio’s largest holdings as of the latest 13F filing include:
iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV): $2.71 billion
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY): $1.71 billion
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL): $645 million
Microsoft Corp (MSFT): $568 million
Salesforce, Inc. (CRM): $476 million
Largest holdings, I should have added.
“I’ve heard that the big time financial giants like Goldman Sachs dumped $847 billion in US Treasuries last year. They know what’s coming...”
What they bought would be more instructive than the fact they lowered their Treasury holdings.
Silver just hit $100. 😊
They said they want to remain “flexible”. I’m sure they are expecting rates to head way up at some point.
Precious metals are actual money, unlike the toilet paper masquerading as money. At the moment people believe that toilet paper is actual money, but when the ruinous national debt finally collapses the economy and causes Weimar level hyperinflation those “volatile and unstable” precious metals will prove their actual monetary value.
The bond market is not happy at the moment.
The 10 year govt bond interest rate on Oct 21 2025 was 3.96%
Today the 10 year govt bond interest rate is 4.3%.
While the gold and silver market has been soaring in value, the paper money and crypto money markets have been declining in value.
On one hand this makes a lot of sense to me. OTOH, it seems that the monetary value of metal also depends on a shared belief that it, somehow, has value.
[Don’t tell me what you think, Ray. Show me your portfolio.]
The big question is whether Xi Jinping’s current hand over fist purchases of precious metals is in preparation for Taiwan or Pacific War 2, because he fears Chinese assets abroad will be frozen, as Germany’s and Japan’s were. If war breaks out, stocks could tank, precious metals retain their value or zoom. The wild card is China’s current buying in preparation for the big game, when its trade is sealed off, as wartime Japan’s was. A China with its container ships getting sunk through unrestricted sub warfare will be selling, not buying precious metals. That supply from China liquidating to pay for smuggled war materials could lower precious metals prices in wartime.
Primary Drivers: Increased gold buying is largely driven by emerging market central banks aiming to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar, citing sanctions risks and a desire for safe-haven assets.
This is a direct result of various and nearly continuous financial sanctions by the US over the last 50 years. If you hold dollar assets or otherwise depend on them, you are at risk.
Still, the dollar in one form or another is still the most widely held asset by central banks at 47%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/gold-overtakes-euro-as-second-biggest-global-reserve-asset.html
The embarrassing comments in this thread reveal great ignorance about basic economics among conservatives.
On one hand this makes a lot of sense to me. OTOH, it seems that the monetary value of metal also depends on a shared belief that it, somehow, has value.
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The price depends on demand. Demand depends on what uses something can have. There are industrial uses for the metals, so that ensures there is a minimum price. Other uses, such as jewelry, produce additional demand and higher prices. There is a reason why the price of precious metals never went to zero, unlike paper money.
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