In Latin American silver producing countries, where the top five producers represent close to half of global supply, silver’s surge is revealing a quiet shift in monetary behavior. What appears as commodity revenue is increasingly treated as balance sheet exposure. Local currencies remain essential for wages, taxation, and political stability. But excess value is being reallocated into dollar denominated stablecoins, not as a vote of confidence in the dollar, but as a preference for neutral settlement infrastructure. This reflects a broader pattern in resource economies. Risk is being de dollarized at the sovereign level while settlement remains dollar based at the transactional layer. The system is not being rejected. It is being bypassed selectively. This is less about ideology and more about financial architecture adapting to fragmentation.
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Traditional banks are racing to lock in time-for-wages credit models, before AI makes large parts of employment structurally unbankable.
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I don’t know how high gold can go in this cycle. However, I’m confident about one thing. The next true peak in gold won’t be reached until after 2140.
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