Ryan Stancil,
Editor
Aug. 21, 2026
Do you have an extra $359,000 lying around?
If you’re like the overwhelming majority of Americans, the answer is no.
And yet, that amount is your share of the national debt.
When accounting for every taxpayer, that $359,000 per person amounts to about $40 trillion. That’s an eye-watering amount of money that’s hard to comprehend. Worse still, without serious interventions, some estimates have it reaching $50 trillion in just a few short years.
It won’t be long before the interest payments alone begin taking an outsized chunk out of the country’s spending.
That’s the backdrop that informed recent action by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced that the Treasury Department will more than double the size of its government debt repurchases. It previously limited itself to $2 billion in buybacks, but that number will go up to at least $4 billion.
This was all done to combat climbing Treasury yields, which affect affordability. Broadly, those higher yields mean things like higher business loan costs and higher mortgage rates. On a more personal level, it can mean higher credit card interest rates for consumers at a time when credit card debt has climbed to near-record highs as consumers struggle to keep their heads above water.
Right out of the gate, this action by the Treasury offered some relief. Yields fell and stocks rallied almost across the board, giving the market some breathing room from September to November, the timeframe in which the policy is set to run. Once the period passes, the Treasury is expected to update the market on further policy plans.
It’s the proverbial act of kicking the can down the road and sidestepping the pain of actually addressing an issue that’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
And with the government having no clear interest in addressing the elephant in the room — ballooning debt — the stage is now set for savvy investors to profit in the assets that are poised to climb in this kind of environment. Because the longer this sort of thing goes on, the weaker the dollar gets.
And as we’ve seen time and again, the dollar has an inverse relationship with gold and silver. So the government’s unwillingness to do what needs to be done only emboldens those assets and enriches anyone who invests in them.
The signs that this was the path things were going to follow have long been present, and Gerardo Del Real has been building an appropriate investment strategy to best profit from gold’s natural reaction to it all.
Now, all of that is beginning to pay off. The upward movement is only just now starting to gain momentum, but the longer this goes on, the more pronounced the gains will be.
He lays out his thesis, strategy, and the companies he’s backing to benefit from it all in the pages of Junior Resource Monthly. It’s the same kind of involved strategy that has allowed him to make multi-bagger gains time and again throughout his career in the resource space, no matter the economic environment. Now he’s doing it again.
If you want to sidestep the government inaction that’s only making the nation’s debt crisis worse, check in with Gerardo in the pages of Junior Resource Monthly by clicking here. His insights are exactly what you need to navigate what’s coming.
Keep your eyes open,
Ryan Stancil
Editor, Bizarro World