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| Five Questions |
| The Asset Nobody Can Freeze |
| Why the institutions that run the financial system hold something outside of it. |
Sanctions have been everywhere in the news again. Behind the headlines sits a question most savers have never had a reason to ask. Until now.
Q: Can money in the financial system actually be frozen? |
| It has been, at the largest scale imaginable. In 2022, Western governments froze roughly $300 billion of Russia's central bank reserves. Not cash in a vault in Moscow. Accounts and securities held inside other countries' systems. | |
| Q: What did the world's reserve managers learn from that? |
| That an asset held inside someone else's system carries someone else's permission. Economists, including in research circulated by the IMF, have linked sanctions risk to the surge in central bank gold buying since then. Metal held at home answers to no foreign government. | |
| Q: Is this still going on? |
| Yes. In late August, CNBC reported Washington rolled out a global sanctions program aimed at cutting Iran off from the world economy. And central banks bought a record 288.9 tonnes of gold in the second quarter, up 62% from a year earlier, per the World Gold Council. | |
| Q: What does any of this have to do with an ordinary saver? |
| Nobody is sanctioning your 401(k). That's not the lesson. The lesson is about what the most sophisticated institutions on earth value: an asset with no issuer, no counterparty, and no off switch controlled by somebody else. Physical gold is the only major reserve asset that fits that description, which is exactly why they keep buying it. | |
| Q: What's the practical takeaway? |
| Diversification. A portion of savings held in something physical and direct, alongside everything else. The tax code allows eligible IRA, 401(k), TSP and 403(b) savings to be diversified into physical gold and silver through a properly structured self directed IRA, generally without a taxable distribution when done correctly. | |
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| The people who run the system hold something outside it. That's worth understanding. |
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