ECONOMY & MAIN STREET • TRADE
Two days ago, Trump signed the Iran peace deal at the Palace of Versailles, and everyone on cable is still talking about the diplomacy. Nobody is talking about this: the Strait of Hormuz — 21 miles wide, carries one-fifth of the world’s oil — has been shut to commercial shipping since March 2. A hundred and nine days… twenty million barrels a day reduced to zero. That sent oil to $126 a barrel, shoved gas past $4 a gallon, and added $447 to your household energy bill. The ink is dry, but 109 days of lost supply doesn’t just snap back.
What happens to your retirement if the dollar drops another 25%?
Your retirement account still shows $500,000.
But that $500,000 buys what $375,000 bought in 2020.
Nobody warned you. Nobody asked your permission. The government printed trillions, ran up $39 trillion in debt, and your dollars quietly lost a quarter of their value.
Now the conditions for another 25% drop are worse.
A new Fed Chair taking over May 15th who wants to cut rates below inflation. That's not an accident. It's a strategy called financial repression. It makes the government's debt cheaper by making your savings worth less.
40 countries are abandoning the dollar. Central banks are dumping Treasuries and buying gold at the fastest pace in 60 years. The petrodollar system that held everything together for 50 years is cracking.
If the dollar drops another 25%, your $500,000 buys what $280,000 used to.
How long can you retire on that?
Same house. Same groceries. Same prescriptions. Same life. But every single month it costs more and your money covers less.
There's a reason central banks aren't holding dollars anymore. There's a reason there's legislation in Congress to revalue gold. There's a reason the Treasury Secretary is talking about "monetizing the assets."
They see the next 25% coming. The question is whether you do too.
A free report called "The Great Gold Reset" explains what's driving the dollar down, why the next drop could be faster than the last one, and how to protect your purchasing power in 15 minutes. No taxes. No penalties.
For 109 days, one out of every five barrels of oil on Earth had nowhere to go.
