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Aug. 4, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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The Financial Big Bang Part 1: The end of the line on selling debt to international buyers
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Welcome to this exclusive special report called The Financial Big Bang, How to Position Yourself for the Greatest Wealth Creation and Destruction Event in History.
I'm Mike Adams.
I'm known as the Health Ranger.
I'm the founder of Brighton, all the Brighton platforms, including Brighton AI, which is trained on a lot of the information that you're about to hear.
I conduct over 200 interviews a year on average.
and I've been doing that for many years and I've interviewed many many of the top experts from Martin Armstrong to Andy Sheckman and John Rubino of Dollar Collapse and so many others, experts in gold and silver, such as David Morgan, the silver guru, etc.
And I also consume a tremendous amount of information.
I read the books and watch the interviews of people like Jim Rickards, George Gammon, and many others.
Oh, of course, I have to mention Alistair Crook, of course.
I mean, there are just so many well-informed people who know what's going on.
And because I don't watch television at all, don't even have one connected to And I don't socialize much.
I work on my ranch.
And as I'm working on my ranch or exercising outdoors, jogging, whatever, I'm absorbing information from all of these top experts, listening to audiobooks or interviews, and then using my AI engine for extensive research.
the engine that my company built, which is called Enoch.
It's free to use at Brighton.ai.
It's been trained on thousands of books and millions of pages of content on a number of topics, but most notably on honest money, Austrian economics, G. Edward Griffin books, such as The Creature from Jekyll Island.
It's also trained about the history of the Federal Reserve, the definition of money, precious metals, gold and silver, platinum, etc., and also the history of economic collapse or fiat currency collapse.
So the bottom line is you put all of this together.
And most people consider me to be someone who's got a lot of ties to a lot of well-informed people on this subject.
Now, I'm not the best informed on gold or silver, but I know the people who are.
I just interviewed Catherine Austin Fitz, for example, and I've interviewed Colonel Douglas McGregor and, again, many, many other top people.
I believe that you're about to find that I'm the best aggregator of this information, and I've been able to connect the dots in a way that is so profound.
It has even altered my own actions and my own outlook on what's about to happen in our world.
And so I decided to share this with you publicly because I want you to survive all of this that's coming and now I realize that many people will not survive this.
They will not financially survive it and they will not even physically survive it.
So there is a singular event coming and now I'm absolutely certain of it because I've seen the Federal Reserve white papers on this.
It is now abundantly clear this event is going to happen and it seems very likely it's going to happen before the end of 2026.
This event will determine who is impoverished versus who is wealthy from that day forward.
It's basically an event horizon.
And I'm going to cover this event, and it's an event that is completely outside of our control, but we can position ourselves to protect our assets as this event takes place.
And for those who do not protect themselves, they will be wiped out.
absolutely decimated, impoverished, and they and their families will join the sad history of people who were wiped out and homeless and just did not participate in the future of civilization.
Of course, I want you to do well, and I'm already well positioned to do well in this because I plan to be here.
I plan to continue to build tools and provide free tools of free information for people for many, many years to come.
So I've made sure that I'm positioned here.
And in this report, I'm just going to share with you how you can be positioned in order to benefit from this.
Now, the other thing worth mentioning here, some important context, is that Donald Trump, President Trump, and his advisors here, Whitcoff and others, Bassent, his advisors and treasury officials, etc., they are about to unleash a bold, daring move to try to save the United States financially.
And that's important to understand.
Because even though I'm going to offer some criticism or some, what I think are holes in this strategy, I want you to realize that I'm coming at this from a point of view of recognizing that Trump and his people are trying to save America.
I mean, financially.
They're trying to save the debt market.
They're trying to save the dollar.
Oh, and I should mention I just did an interview recently with Andy Sheckman, who said that Trump is going to have to sacrifice the dollar in order to save the bonds, you know, the debt market.
So that's part of this.
We'll talk about that coming up.
But Trump wants the dollar to remain the global dominant currency.
Because it is from that that the U.S. derives tremendous power, geopolitical power, the power to punish countries with tariffs, right?
Which that's a power Trump has wielded like a weapon prolifically.
The power to print money and then spend it on anything you want, while a lot of those dollars are being absorbed by the other countries around the world.
It's an incredible power.
And the United States has exclusively had this power since Bretton Woods at roughly the end of World War II until today.
And this power is threatened by the BRICS nations and the rise of BRICS settlement systems, which are already moving much of the world's trade away from the dollar, as you might expect.
And that is an existential threat to the dollar.
And if the dollar debt market collapses, then the dollar disappears and Washington, D.C. implodes and the United States of America, as we know it, ceases to exist.
Now, whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing, Trump is trying to prevent that.
So a lot of what you're going to hear involves the tactics that Trump is unleashing right now.
I've been able to put together the pieces of this puzzle.
Okay?
But that's just my opinion.
And of course, I'm not operating with the same information that he has access to or that Lutnik or Besent have access to, et cetera, or Powell at the Fed.
And so I don't have their information.
They may know things that would render my opinion incorrect.
So what I'm going to try to do is indicate to you what is happening.
I'm going to cite the documents.
I'll give you the titles of those documents, where you can find them, et cetera.
And I'll make sure that you can verify things that I say.
Like when I say the United States government claims 262 million ounces of gold on its balance sheets, you can look that up.
I mean, that's easy to verify.
But then I'm also going to say some things that are my conclusions, such as why I think this isn't going to work.
And then obviously you are free to accept that or discard that or...
Now, Catherine Austin-Fitts said that she thought that these efforts, and yes, we're going to talk about stablecoins.
We're going to talk about revaluing gold and many other things.
Fitz thought that this could give the U.S. dollar another 10 to 15 years of runway before the collapse.
She's a bright, informed analyst.
She may be absolutely correct.
In my opinion, I don't think that the dollar will last that long.
And I think it can collapse all of a sudden, although I don't know when, and I don't know what the trigger event for that might be.
But whatever the case may be, it's up to you to decide the proper course of action for you and your circumstances.
And so my disclaimer for.
this report is that you should do your own research, you should draw your own conclusions, and you should talk to your own experts and get professional advice about what you wish to do with your assets or your money or your dollars or your gold or what have you.
I'm just going to give you some data points that I am certain most of you have never seen before, and yet you can verify each one of them, and when you do, it's going to paint a picture for you that will be incredibly shocking and it will alter, I believe, it will alter your decisions from this point forward.
And I think that's a positive thing because it's going to put you in a position to participate in the greatest wealth creation in the history of our world.
And if you miss out on this, if you don't know what I'm about to share with you, you will suffer from the greatest wealth destruction event in the history of the Western world.
And obviously I don't want you to suffer from that.
So that's the premise of this report.
So here we go.
So welcome to chapter one, the end of the line on selling debt to international buyers.
In order to understand this, and I'll keep this.
chapter as brief as possible.
We have to back up and understand the history of how we got to where we are.
After World War II, the U.S. engaged in some really clever agreements, such as the so-called petrodollar arrangement in Bretton Woods and doing deals with the Saudis, et cetera, in order to make sure that nearly all of the oil purchased around the world was purchased in U.S. dollars.
So this created intrinsic demand for dollars.
I mean massive demand for dollars.
And this created a very large global dollar money supply, which allowed the U.S. to print money after 1971 when we removed the dollar from the gold standard.
At that point we could just start printing unlimited amounts of fiat currency and the world would absorb it.
So in other words, America would be exporting inflation because the world needed dollars to buy oil because countries like Saudi Arabia would only sell oil in dollars and nothing else.
Same thing with Iraq and other countries.
In fact, the real reason behind the war on Saddam Hussein, it had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction.
That was all.
fabricated fake intelligence.
It was all about the fact that Saddam Hussein declared he was going to start selling oil in currencies other than the dollar.
That's it.
And so the U.S. went to war.
Desert storm.
And at the conclusion of that war, do you know that the United States receives every dollar from every oil well in Iraq?
It goes to a bank in New York City.
to be controlled and spent by the organizers of a certain trust.
And guess who they answer to, you know, the deep state, etc.
So the U.S. actually pillaged the oil of Iraq as punishment because the leader of Iraq threatened to sell oil in some currency other than the dollar.
All right.
So as long as this scam continued, it was a great deal for the United States.
The U.S. could print unlimited currency.
It could use that currency to fund the CIA, to run color revolutions, assassinations, and political coups all over the world, just like what the U.S. did in Ukraine in 2014, or a
So the money printing power was the power to destroy, it was the power to fund anything in an almost unlimited way.
And this is what made the United States so incredibly powerful on the world stage.
Well, The problem is that this arrangement, the petrodollar arrangement, is now ending.
And it's ending dramatically.
Saudi Arabia sells oil now in other currencies in addition to the dollar.
And because of the extreme Western sanctions on countries like Russia, cutting off Russia from the SWIFT system, for example, seizing $300 billion of Russian assets held in Western banks, many countries are working in every way possible to move away from Western currency controls, that is the SWIFT system and also the dollar.
So you're seeing that most of the trade, for example, between Russia and China is carried out in their own domestic currencies, the ruble and the yuan.
Same thing between Russia and India.
It's no longer carried out in dollars.
It's carried out in non-dollar currencies.
And as of this year, the dollar dropped below 50% in terms of reserve currencies for the world.
So the dollar is no longer the dominant reserve currency of our world.
Now, it's also crucial to understand that Saudi Arabia and other oil-selling countries, they committed to reinvesting a large percentage of their oil revenues into U.S. Treasury debt.
Right.
So this created a market where the U.S. could sell treasuries at almost no limit to the countries that were subcontracted.
Now, understand that the debt market is many times larger than the stock market, by far.
The debt market is the most important market, and by the debt, what I mean is treasury bonds, okay?
It's the most important market in the world.
The world runs on credit.
which means it runs on debt.
And U.S. Treasury debt, such as 10-year bonds, are the most liquid form of assets in the world.
What makes them liquid?
Well, there's always buyers available, or there have been, but not so much anymore.
So effectively, I mean, this is wild that this situation ever existed.
When anybody in the world would buy oil, that would allow the United States government to print money from nothing and to give countries like Saudi Arabia a bunch of IOUs.
while we collected the dollars that the other nations had to buy from us basically in order to purchase oil.
So this was basically a financial perpetual motion machine where the United States could generate wealth from nothing.
And in order to carry this out, the U.S. had to maintain a very powerful navy and it had to maintain compliance with this system.
That was maintained through force, primarily bombing countries that refused to go along with it.
invading them in the case of Desert Storm, Iraq, or assassinating leaders, overthrowing countries, etc.
Again, this is, you know, Ukraine or any number of South American countries or even Panama back in the 1980s.
So the United States enforced this system at the end of a gun, basically, upon threat of assassination or bombing or economic collapse or economic sanctions.
The U.S. was the global financial mafia, you could say.
By enforcing this, the U.S. maintained the power to create money from nothing and to spend that money on anything it wanted.
But by doing so, a lot of U.S. dollars were, of course, exported.
And as a result of the demand for dollars, the currency became very strong compared to other currencies.
And when your currency is strong, then it punishes domestic producers because it's more expensive for foreign countries to purchase your domestic products when your currency is strong.
It's more expensive to buy your currency in order to buy your goods using your currency.
So what this led to over the past few decades was a migration of manufacturing out of the United States.
This is what Ross Perot was warning about in the 1990s when he warned about the giant sucking sound that was going to take all of our factories and jobs away and send them to Mexico or China or somewhere else.
Well, he was right.
That giant second sound has run its course and the U.S. manufacturing base has been all but completely gutted to the point where now the U.S. can barely manufacture munitions or anti-air defense missiles or tanks or artillery shells or drones or frankly much of anything.
This is one of the costs of being the world reserve currency for a while is that it tends to push all your manufacturing out of your country.
So Trump is now trying to reverse that.
He's trying to re-industrialize America while maintaining global dollar dominance.
And that is where I think he's going to fail.
But he's giving it a very heavy try, let's say.
The problem is that countries like China are dumping U.S. Treasury debt as quickly as they can.
They're not renewing any treasury debt that expires.
When it does expire, they're getting paid and then they are buying gold with it, essentially.
All the other countries out there are collecting gold, not dollars.
Japan, which has been a long-time reliable purchaser of U.S. Treasuries, is just essentially holding steady with what it has because Japan has its own financial crisis.
Western Europe is an economic wreck that's also suffered from deindustrialization.
Part of that is America's fault for bombing and destroying the Nord Stream pipelines.
The United States, meanwhile, is suffering economic decline.
Horrendous job losses across the board.
Inflation is very bad even though the White House doesn't admit it but prices are much much higher for food and health insurance and car insurance and home insurance and many other things and you can see that for yourself the bottom line is that fewer and fewer countries around the world are interested in buying U.S. Treasury debt and if this isn't reversed then it means that the U.S. will have to resort to hyperinflationary printing of money itself to buy its own debt.
Now that process has already begun.
The Fed is printing money to buy treasuries right now.
That's going to get a lot worse.
And it would lead eventually to a hyperinflationary event, although not overnight.
It would take time for that to happen.
So Trump and his posse of finance cowboys, they are desperately trying to find a way to sell treasury debt to a new group of suckers.
Okay?
You got that?
Or to somehow use some...
accounting magic to come up with some money.
And one of the strategies is to try to pay down the current $37 trillion in national debt that's on the books for the federal government.
Because if you could pay that down, and if you could reduce the debt to GDP ratio, which is currently over 120%, which is, that's in the catastrophe zone, by the way.
But if you could bring that down to something closer to 70%, let's say, then guess what?
Then you could reduce reliably You could find more buyers for your Treasury debt at lower interest rates or lower yields, which makes your debt less expensive to maintain as the United States of America.
See, this is the crux of the issue, Trump knows that he needs to sell debt.
He's got to sell all kinds of debt.
In fact, he's got to sell something like $28 trillion in debt in the next year.
Somehow, he's got to finance this massive amount of debt that's coming due.
I don't know if it's exactly $28 trillion, but it's somewhere close to that.
And I had a conversation with Andy Sheckman about this.
And a lot of what we're about to talk about here are the various methods by which Trump plans to pay off some significant portion of the national debt, that is the official debt, in order to bring down the debt to GDP ratio,
in order to make the yields on tenure treasuries much lower so that the U.S. can refinance at lower interest rates and thereby stop the hemorrhaging of the financial blood of the country and maybe slow down this train a little bit before the final collapse comes.
That's what Trump is trying to do.
And that's why he's about to push out Powell from the Fed and he's going a possibility, I guess we'll see.
And she advocates a return to a gold standard, by the way.
But Trump is going to replace Powell, and whoever he puts into the Fed is going to lower the interbank lending rate, which is what we generally consider to be interest rates, which sometimes tends to lower the yields on Treasury bonds, but not always.
And George Gammon in particular has said that he believes that even if the Fed lowers interest rates to 3.5%, let's say, it doesn't mean that the yield on tenure bonds is going to go down to three and a half it might actually go up it might go up to six percent which would be a disaster and that would blow apart trump's plans completely so understand that the fed doesn't actually set the yield rates on treasuries the free market sets the yield rates
and the only way to keep yield rates low is to have lots and lots of new buyers of treasury debt So there's the question for you right now.
Where is Trump going to find buyers for $20 something trillion?
in Treasury debt that needs to be rolled over in the next year.
And I guess when I say expiring, I should use the term maturing because that's what the financial markets use.
So the amount of debt that is maturing in 2025, this year, is known to be something like close to $8 trillion.
And 2026, I couldn't find the exact number, but it's probably in that neighborhood, somewhere around there.
Again, Andy Schackman said it was.
$20-something trillion, but he's got better numbers than I do.
So it's a lot of money just to pay off the holders of the current debt.
It's a lot of money, not to even mention paying down the existing debt.
So what we're about to talk about here in the subsequent chapters are a couple of different strategies that Trump is clearly going to turn to in order to try to raise a bunch of money, find new buyers for Treasury debt, and basically refinance America's future at a lower rate.
If Trump succeeds in this, it will be genius.
If he fails, it will be catastrophic, and it will spell the end of the dollar and the end of the United States as we know it.
As all of this is happening, like I mentioned earlier, there's going to be a singular event that will take place.
I'll just tell you what that is right now, and then we'll talk about it later.
That event is going to be the government revaluation of gold.
And very likely they will revalue silver as well because silver is on their books.
This revaluation of gold will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for all of us living today.
When it happens, if you're on the right side of it, you will be wealthy.
If you're on the wrong side, you will be destroyed.
So we're going to talk about that in chapter three.
But just understand that what's happening here is Trump is trying to find new ways to refinance the debt and find new buyers for the debt to give the U.S. some hope of maintaining dollar hegemony.
I don't think it's going to work.
I'll explain why in the coming chapters, but I might be wrong.
He might be able to pull it off.
Even if he does, listen carefully, even if Trump pulls this off, people who hold primarily dollars will be wiped out.
Trump will have to sacrifice the dollar.
This is just like what Andy Schackman said.
Trump will have to sacrifice the dollar, which means the purchasing power of the dollar will be destroyed.
He'll have to sacrifice the dollar to save the debt market, to save the country, in essence.
So all those Americans that are out there with their savings in dollars and their holdings in dollars and their bank accounts in dollars, they have no idea what's coming they're going to be wiped out and Trump will call it a success because he if he pulls it off he will have prevented the entire country from collapsing financially so we'll talk about this more in the next couple of chapters when you're ready for
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