Guest Post by Nick Giambruno
In the early ‘90s, legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed the “Samson Option,” a secret Israeli nuclear deterrence strategy.
It states that in a scenario where its enemies were about to overrun the country, Israel would respond with massive use of nuclear weapons as a last resort.
The concept comes from the biblical figure Samson, who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and the Philistines who had captured him.
In short, the Samson Option is a threat that says, “if we’re going down, we are taking you with us.”
I am bringing this up because governments also have a financial Samson Option… and they could soon use it to a devastating effect.
Thanks to central banking and fiat currency, governments can steal a nation’s savings through inflation. In the event of a bankruptcy, or other existential situations, governments can tap into the wealth of a nation as they desperately try to survive.
There’s no doubt they’ll exercise that option before they go down.
It gives a government the ability to bankrupt everyone—at least those unprepared—as it goes bankrupt. “If we’re going down, we are taking you with us.”
In short, that’s the government’s financial Samson Option. And they are preparing to use it soon.
What Happens Next
The last time the US government faced an imminent financial crisis was in March 2020.
At the time, it was the height of the stock market crash amid the COVID hysteria. People were panicking as they watched the market plummet, and they turned to the Fed to do something.
In a matter of days, the Fed created more dollars out of thin air than it had for the US’s nearly 250-year existence. It was an unprecedented amount of money printing that amounted to more than $4 trillion and nearly doubled the US money supply in less than a year.
For perspective, the daily economic output of all 331 million people in the US is about $58 billion.
At the push of a button, the Fed was creating more dollars out of thin air than the economic output of the entire country.
The Fed’s actions during the Covid hysteria amounted to the biggest monetary explosion that has ever occurred in the US. It’s a strong indication they won’t hesitate to use the financial Samson Option.
When the Fed initiated this program, it assured the American people its actions wouldn’t cause severe price increases. But unfortunately, it didn’t take long to prove that absurd assertion false.
As soon as rising prices became apparent, the mainstream media and Fed claimed that the inflation was only “transitory” and that there was nothing to be worried about.
Of course, they were dead wrong, and they knew it—they were gaslighting.
The truth is that inflation is out of control, and nothing can stop it.
Even according to the government’s own crooked statistics, which understates reality, inflation is out of control. That means the actual situation is much worse.
These rapidly rising prices have pressured the Fed to raise interest rates to fight inflation.
However, there is one fatal problem…
The amount of federal debt is so extreme that even a return of interest rates to their historical average would mean paying an interest expense that would consume more than half of tax revenues.
If that were to happen, interest expense would eclipse Social Security and defense spending and become the largest item in the federal budget.
Further, a return to the historical average interest rate will not be enough to reign in inflation—not even close.
A drastic rise in interest rates is needed.
However, if that happened, it would mean that the US government is paying more for the interest expense than it takes in from taxes.
In short, the Federal Reserve is trapped.
Raising interest rates high enough to dent inflation would bankrupt the US government.
In short, the US government is approaching the financial endgame. It can no longer disguise its bankruptcy.
When the next crisis comes—and I think it could be imminent—the US government will have no choice but to implement its financial Samson Option.
In other words, as the US government goes bankrupt, they will drag everyone down with them as they make a desperate wealth grab.
There will be enormous implications for the stock market, the US dollar, and monetary alternatives such as gold and Bitcoin.
The most important thing you can do is store your savings in something that they won’t be able to seize, confiscate, or use inflation to siphon its value away.
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“The most important thing you can do is store your savings in something that they won’t be able to seize, confiscate, or use inflation to siphon its value away.”
Uhhhh, any ideas for your readers?
“your pocket” leaps immediately to mind. If you can’t touch it, you don’t own it. And if you can touch it, you’d best be able to carry it at a dead run!
If you aren’t buying lead, you are buying the wrong precious metal.
And canned food.
Not only canned, freeze-dried, and wild game for as long as that’s safe.
I have a pretty good savings account in lead, but you just can’t seem to amass enough of the precious metal.
If he gave an idea, he’d be called a shill and people would crawl out of sewers to come tell us that whatever he recommended is manipulated and you can’t eat it.
Here’s his idea. Subscribe to his newsletter and “special” reports. I’ve watched part of one of his many “scary” videos. I don’t know about you but if I had some very important information that might help not only me but my friends and family – I’d tell them about it. For free!! His ideas are buying gold and speculating in gold mining stocks. He might also suggest bitcoin. (disclosure – I purchase and own bitcoin and suggest others do also.) But this guy Giambruno is only hoping you’ll buy his newsletter.
There is a lot of folk out there like that that money is more important than the message and the community / welfare of the people.
A lot of fragile ego children too that thinks if others have another view on a subject it somehow makes them look weak or ignorant.
>>>There is a lot of folk out there like that that money is more important than the message and the community
We’re in this for the species, boys and girls. Whether or not we like it.
Thanks, figured after reviewing his stuff briefly. I’m in all of those…but need to get as much money out of the market and out of fiat asap. Most financial elites and savvy investors are saying the best place to be right now is still…cash…because it’s losing less than the other asset classes still (and they expect more downside for stocks, crypto, etc). They say stack cash and be ready for some big deals. The question is, how long do we wait and keep holding cash — if there is a risk for an implosion and bail-ins? Will there be one more round of QE and the ponzi scheme, to run up assets before the bigger crash? How much time do we have and when do we need to get out of cash, seems to be a different opinion, depending upon who you talk to. Robert “Rich Dad Poor Dad” would have you buying as much gold and silver as you can. Others would say keep DCA’ing into BTC. Others would say have a little gold/silver and stack cash, to buy cheap companies, emerging markets, real estate and BTC in the coming near future. I dunno. Been holding / building cash for a while now, trying to decide what (and when) to deploy.
OK.
If cash is held to pay down fixed contracts (such as a fixed rate mortgage), it is impervious to inflation, as the interest rate and term are fixed.
Holding cash for this purpose keeps a roof over your head while others may be losing theirs.
Absent a banking system collapse, this makes sense to me.
Any counter-comments are appreciated…
I agree, with maybe some twists.
I believe the system is going to implode, and with it the idea that pensions are sacred, or that they will take away your house when everyone on your block is facing the same predicament.
I think the biggest challenge at this time is to think what will be needed, not what looks to be investible. The kind of economic thriving that will be envied after a massive hit to the financial system will likely bear little resemblance to what makes sense now. Don’t be caught fighting the last war. We are going into Injun Territory and nobody alive now has ever come this way before.
Thanks.
That is along my thought process.
Make purchases on revolving, unsecured debt (wasn’t doing appliances or vehicles; more along the lines of PMs and ordnance).
Credit card debt is the hardest to collect when in default.
Pension seizure by .gov is a given, never relied on that or SS.
Haven’t ever gotten a straight answer from anybody screaming “pay down your debt” as to why, when default on unsecured debt is a viable option.
As you say, with civil court overly encumbered, they can stand in line.
Just thinking that the mortgage should be covered.
As a Plan A option to keep the roof over one’s head.
But just in case, have a plan B and C (and D)…
Fugijm,
Everybody’s point of reference is different. How much do you make, save, what are your debts, where do you live, how old are you and what’s your general health, etc.
Big picture, have no debt (outside of a mortgage). That’s one good thing to have in an inflationary period (paying it back with cheaper dollars).
The US is bankrupt and historically, countries try to inflate the debt away…cash is a bad position there.
Best bet generally speaking: low/no debt, have the items you’ll need to survive a collapse like land with a water source, away from cities in a food producing area. Basic knowledge of how a life without/low energy is lived. A community…nobody can make it alone. The means to protect what you have. Precious metals: Gold for capital preservation and silver for barter.
“they” seem determined to crash the energy and food sectors with massive printing to hyperinflate the debt is my guess.
Good Luck
Certain exotic and classic cars.
Old but running clunkers.
Firewood
Build a still. People will barter to get drunk and forget their problems for a while. I have one and I don’t drink, so won’t be dipping into the profits.
Old smuggler’s rule: never get high on your own supply…
From where I sit there is nothing on the planet that cannot be taken by someone.
And the end is being accelerated by the non-western world’s move away from the petrodollar.
Saudi Arabia Just Killed The Petrodollar
The last 24 hours have marked another major waypoint along the path to my long-held contention that Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are going to make a massive, collective push to try and dethrone the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency…
Put simply, I believe there is a historic divide in the making between the BRICS nations, led by Russia and China, and the West, led by the United States…
Andy Schectman on this podcast.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-01-18/saudi-arabia-just-killed-petrodollar
Savings don’t matter if there’s nothing to buy.
depends on what you’r saving
As the Meme Goes:
“The Lifestyle you have ordered is no longer available.”
And thank you for shopping at Carl’s Jr.
The Biblical Sampson was a moran. Delilah kept trying to trick him into giving her the secret of his strength. Too dumb to figure it out, well, he kept falling for her bullshit. He finally revealed the truth when the skank ho starting crying. Thus, the real lesson from the story of Sampson is;
—1) Stop chasing pussy
—2) Never ever believe the Tears of a Woman
—3) Don’t drop out of Yeshiva School (Get a brain moran!)
I do not know how this relates to ‘Murika’s financial woes, however.
I, for one, think Stop Chasing Pussy would have wound up as one of the Ten Commandments if the stone tablet was just a little larger. I’ll never understand why that was not incorporated by reference somewhere in the margin.
Were there no good Jewish lawyers back then?
Go Forth and Multiply
That MEANS chase pussy. I would chase pussy, if I weren’t old, ugly, lame, broke and happily married, wouldn’t you?
Let’s see:
I’m old,
ugly (always have been),
less lame (new hip),
and technically broke (.corp owns it all, but I have killer perks).
But the bod still rocks, so pussy chases.
I guess it’s a combo of the bad boy and the daddy complex, but who knows?
BTW, been shooting blanks since chemo 18 years ago, so there’s no paternity concerns…
Gonna have a bourbon and think this through…
One of the greatest moments of my life was when a gold digger ex confronted my buddy a few weeks after he dumped her.
She claimed she was pregnant with his kid (3 months). He said “must be the other guy you fucked while we were together”. She came unhinged screaming that she never cheated and he was just trying to avoid responsibility.
He calmly said ” I had a vasectomy 7 years before I met you”.
I have never seen a woman’s face go quite that white before.
BUSTED!
Interestingly enough, I do know a feller that had one that after was still shooting live rounds, and had to go get a repeat.
It does happen.
Buddy had his when he was married. Divorced a couple of years later. No more kids in that time. Don’t know if he ever had a swimmer test later.
He never heard from her again so I suspect he was right.
It is there. You just have to read a little more closely. #7. Thou shalt not commit adultry.
Jesus says just lusting after a woman is the same thing.
So if I lust, may as well go the whole nine yards? Already guilty, right?
Cool.
Lust is equated with coveting in the Word, I don’t think most men especially on this site connive on how to steal a beautiful woman, they simply admire the beauty of the feminine form.
It was on the third tablet that Moses dropped while descending. He decided not to tell anyone.
“Dropped.”
The coming collapse is just another case of there being a few winners and lots of losers-all choreographed in Grand Finale style just like on TV . Sampson like devastation provides the winners plenty of cover to go their merry way. Sucks to be poor, doesn’t it?
Actually, no.
I’m poor as the proverbial church mouse.
Skimmed over by lawyers and gold diggers looking for the deep pockets.
Lack of obvious money sorts out the skell quite quickly…
>>>Sucks to be poor, doesn’t it?
But they say it really pays off in the next life.
For some odd reason he doesn’t do the samson option justice. The samson option isn’t just about taking the aggressor down, it is about taking the whole world down.
“In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. The Israeli Ambassador warned President Nixon of “very serious conclusions” if the United States did not airlift supplies. Nixon complied. This is seen by some commentators on the subject as the first threat of the use of the Samson Option.”
“Some have written about the “Samson Option” as a retaliation strategy. In 2002, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter which the American Jewish author Ron Rosenbaum writes “goes so far as to justify” a Samson Option approach:[32]
‘Israel has been building nuclear weapons for 30 years. The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past, and they have ensured against it. Masada was not an example to follow—it hurt the Romans not a whit, but Samson in Gaza? What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away—unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans—have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?[33]'”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
Are we blessed yet?
The Jews understand what passive and powerless acceptance of doom has meant for them in the past
Really?
Just about everybody there took the shit shot.
The very definition of ‘passive and powerless acceptance’.
Nick has been a Limited Hangout since the mid-90s, maybe earlier. Started as part of the shysters HQed in Baltimore, Davidson et al. Did a 1 yr. sub to a newsletter of theirs, cancelled but every year had to contact AMEX to get it cancelled again and again.
if the sampson option was a secret, how could it have been a deterrent?
Only Kissinger can answer that question.
I suspect that was why cutouts talked about it. Though we do have the report of trying to intimidate Nixon into providing assistance. I’d hazard a guess that wasn’t an isolated incident as far as governments go. And I don’t think any of us believe governments are anywhere near forthcoming about what goes on behind the scenes as it relates to anything, but in this case international relations.
Stop the Federal Reserve and myriad politicians from laundering our personal money through a combination of taxation and interest rates; put them on the cross and let the buzzards eat them alive.