by Nick Giambruno, International Man:
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.
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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.
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