How 60 Years of Monetary Hubris Ended in Today’s Silver Breakout
Sometimes history doesn’t repeat — it just waits.
And what we watched this Thanksgiving weekend, when silver refused to be controlled, capped, or contained, was the end of a long arc that began on a single day in 1965.
This story isn’t just about silver.
It’s about monetary sovereignty, political hubris, and the consequences of believing you can replace physics with policy.
Let’s connect the dots — from Lyndon B. Johnson to $54 silver, to the suppression failure we are witnessing right now.
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🔙 A Quick Flashback: When Money Lost Its Ring
Last week’s article and video — “When Money Lost Its Ring: The Silver Switch That Changed America” — laid out the moment America traded honest coinage for political convenience.
On July 23, 1965, LBJ signed the Coinage Act that:
- removed silver from dimes and quarters ❌🪙
- cut silver in half in the 50¢ piece
- ended America’s last link between everyday money and precious metal
That was the first domino.
He held up a quarter and said with full confidence:
“The value of the dollar is not dependent on silver.”
Now fast-forward 60 years…
And the tiny market he dismissed has become the single biggest systemic risk in global finance.
You couldn’t script irony this good.
🧬 The LBJ Chain Reaction (1965 → 2025)
Here’s the sequence nobody teaches you:
1️⃣ Remove the silver → 1965
2️⃣ Hide inflation with paper → 1965–1971
3️⃣ Close the gold window → 1971
4️⃣ Create futures markets to control metals → 1974
5️⃣ Weaponize suppression → 1980–2020
6️⃣ Run out of physical metal → 2020s
7️⃣ Systemic stress explodes → Today
The suppression only “worked” when the world didn’t need silver.
But 2025 is not 1965:
- Solar
- EVs
- AI servers
- Defense electronics
- Medical imaging
- High-density data
Demand is exploding.
Supply is not.
This is the physics problem LBJ unknowingly set in motion.
💥 The Suppression Failure of Thanksgiving 2025
This week, silver:
- jumped above $54 in a holiday market
- refused to stay down
- blew through resistance
- exposed the brokers’ weak hedging
- triggered margin stress
- forced clearinghouses to raise collateral
- revealed how thin the physical market truly is
This was not a “random spike.”
This was a structural failure.
A failure caused by 60 years of pretending that paper can replace metal.
LBJ removed silver from our pockets.
Now silver is removing liquidity from the entire broker-dealer system.
Truly — the authors of their own demise.
🏦 Even the Brokers Are Now at Risk
People think mining companies are the big story.
Not today.
Today, the brokers felt the first tremors:
- CFD brokers
- unhedged metals desks
- leveraged ETF issuers
- options writers short volatility
- clearing firms using outdated models
All of them built business models on the assumption silver would remain a small, boring, irrelevant market.
But when you suppress a vital industrial metal for decades…
and physical stocks run out…
…your entire financial architecture becomes a house of paper sitting on a foundation of shrinking ounces.
LBJ started the paper era.
2025 ends it.
🪙 What Comes Next?
Three things:
🔹 1. Forced mergers in mining
Mid-tier miners without reserves or cash are done.
🔹 2. Forced mergers in brokerage
Silver volatility is nuking risk models.
🔹 3. The end of artificial price ceilings
The difference between $54 and $75 is only a short squeeze away.
Armstrong’s 75-level call?
Not speculation anymore.
That’s math.
That’s derivatives stress.
That’s physical scarcity speaking louder than paper.
📚 If You Want to Understand This Cycle — Read the Playbook
Everything we’re watching now — the sovereign debt crisis, the metals breakout, the collapse of confidence — is explained through the lens of the Armstrong Economic Code.
👉 The Armstrong Economic Code (Amazon link):
🔥 A #1 bestseller for a reason.
It’s the roadmap for understanding why the monetary system is cracking now — and why silver is leading the charge.
❤️ Final Thought: History Doesn’t Care About Politics — Only Consequences
LBJ didn’t know he was lighting a 60-year fuse.
But that’s how history works:
Systems fail slowly… and then the silver market moves $2 on Thanksgiving morning and exposes every lie at once.
The ring of real money is back.
And the system built to suppress it is finally collapsing under its own weight.
Stay tuned.
The next phase will move even faster. ⚡🪙🔥
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