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Gold Is the Nuclear Option for a $127 Trillion Debt Crisis

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by ITM Trading
Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026 - 16:41

Taylor Kenney walks through the arithmetic nobody in Washington wants done out loud. Take the $40 trillion debt everyone admits to, divide by the 261 million ounces the Treasury claims to hold, and a "gold revaluation" pencils out at $153,000 an ounce. Now add the $88.4 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare promises buried in the government's own 2025 financial report (a figure that somehow ballooned $10.1 trillion in a single year), and the real number creeps toward $486,000.

Meanwhile $846 trillion in derivatives sits stacked on top of it all, and every government on earth is borrowing like the house is already on fire.

They keep insisting there's no crisis. So why does everyone in charge act like there is?

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