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64 Trillion Reasons to Buy Gold and Silver

By The Coin Shop NYC

Let's talk about something that should be keeping every American up at night — but somehow gets buried after the third segment on the evening news. The United States national debt is projected to hit $64 trillion within the next decade. That's not a typo.Sixty-four trillion dollars. That works out to roughly $190,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country. Your newborn niece already owes more than most Americans earn in three years — and she hasn't had her first birthday yet.

Here at The Coin Shop NYC, we've spent decades watching governments spend, print, and devalue their way through crisis after crisis. And every single time, the same two metals have done what they've always
done for thousands of years: held their ground. So let's have an honest conversation about what $64 trillion really means for your savings — and why gold and silver aren't just glittering relics. They may be the most
rational financial decision you can make right now.

The Demand Problem Nobody Is Talking About

When the federal government spends more than it collects — which it does, pectacularly, every single year — it finances the gap by issuing Treasury bonds. For decades, those bonds were considered the safest investment on the planet. Foreign overnments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds lined up to buy American debt because the dollar was the world's reserve currency.That world is changing fast.

China has been steadily reducing its reasury holdings. Japan, currently the largest foreign holder, is grappling with its own rising interest rates that make American bonds less appealing. The BRICS nations are openly discussing ways to conduct trade outside the dollar system. These aren't fringe academic conversations — they're happening inside finance ministries. When the buyers who have propped up American debt for generations start stepping back from the table, someone has to fill the gap. And the most likely candidate is the Federal Reserve,
printing dollars to buy bonds nobody else wants.

That means more dollars chasing the same amount of goods. That means inflation. And that is precisely why gold and silver belong in your portfolio right now.

Inflation Was Supposed to Be the Escape Hatch — It Isn't Working

Here's a dirty little secret about sovereign debt: moderate, controlled inflation has historically been one of the ways overnments quietly reduce the real burden of what they owe. If you owe $30 trillion and inflation runs at 4% a year for a decade, you're paying back old debt with cheaper new dollars. Governments throughout history
including our own after World War II — have leaned on this strategy.

The critical difference is that it only works if you stop adding new debt faster than inflation erodes the old debt. Think of it like bailing out a sinking boat — it only helps if someone plugs the hole first.

We never plugged the hole. The spending never slowed. The deficits never closed. So what we got was the worst of both worlds: inflation that crushed working families and gutted purchasing power, while the national debt kept climbing as if the inflation never happened. The American household absorbed all the pain of a devalued dollar with none of the debt relief that was supposed to come with it.

Gold doesn't care about Washington's inability to balance a ledger. It held its value through every bout of inflation in modern history. So did silver. That's not a oincidence — it's thousands of years of proof.

What Happens to the Dollar From Here

The U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency is the single greatest financial privilege this country possesses. It's why we can run deficits that would bankrupt any other nation. When the world
needs to buy oil, it buys dollars first. That baseline demand has propped up the dollar's value regardless of Washington's fiscal
behavior.

But reserve currency status isn't guaranteed. The British pound was once the world's reserve currency too. Ask a British pensioner what that's worth today.

As the debt load grows, foreign investors will increasingly demand higher interest rates to compensate for the risk of holding U.S. paper. Higher rates mean the government's interest payments balloon further, creating a feedback loop that's genuinely difficult to escape. We're already spending more on interest payments than on national defense. The emergency brake light isn't a warning anymore — it's been on for a while.

A weakening dollar doesn't happen overnight. It's a slow erosion you feel in the grocery store, at the gas pump, and when your utility bill looks nothing like it did five years ago. A gradual devaluation of purchasing power over the next decade, driven by debt monetization and diminished global confidence, isn't a fringe prediction. It's increasingly the base case among serious economists.

That slow erosion is the exact environment in which gold and silver have historically done their most important work.

What It Means for Your Savings — and Why Precious Metals Are the Answer

If you're holding a significant portion of your wealth in cash, savings accounts, or fixed-rate bonds yielding below real inflation, you are losing ground every single day. It won't show up on your bank statement. But the purchasing power of those dollars is quietlydeclining.

The traditional advice — save diligently, invest conservatively — was built for a world with stable currency, moderate deficits, and a government committed to fiscal discipline. We don't live in that world anymore.

Hard assets have historically held value better during periods of currency debasement. Among all hard assets, gold and silver carry a unique and time-tested distinction: they have functioned as money for thousands of years, in every culture, on every continent, because they cannot be conjured from thin air.

The Case for Gold: The Asset Governments Can't Print

Central banks around the world — in China, India, Poland, and throughout the Middle East — have been buying gold at a pace not seen in decades. They're not doing this because it looks nice in a vault. They're hedging against precisely the scenario we've been describing: a U.S. dollar under structural pressure from unsustainable debt, and a
global financial system in the early stages of realigning away from dollar dominance. When the very institutions that issue currencies start stockpiling gold, that tells you everything you need to know about
their confidence in paper money.

Gold has a characteristic that makes it uniquely powerful in a $64 trillion debt conversation: governments cannot print it. There are approximately 212,000 metric tons of gold above ground in the entire world, and annual mining adds only about 1% to that total each year. Compare that to the dollar supply, which the Federal Reserve can expand with a few keystrokes. Scarcity, in the long run, consistently wins against abundance when you're trying to preserve wealth.

During periods of currency uncertainty, high inflation, geopolitical instability, and debt crises — the exact environment we appear to be entering — gold has consistently served as a wealth preserver. It doesn't necessarily make you rich overnight. What it does is keep you from getting quietly poor.

At The Coin Shop NYC, we carry a full range of gold coins and bullion — American Gold Eagles, South African Krugerrands, Canadian Maple Leafs, Gold Buffalo coins, and more — for investors at every level. Whether you're making your first purchase or adding to a substantial existing position, physical gold in your hands is the most direct form of ownership with zero counterparty risk.

The Case for Silver: The Underdog With Two Tailwinds

Silver carries much of the same monetary heritage as gold — used as currency for thousands of years, proven as a store of value across countless economic cycles — but it comes with a powerful twist that gold
simply doesn't have. Silver is also an industrial metal, and a critically important one.

The explosive growth of solar panels, electric vehicles, semiconductors, and advanced electronics has created a genuine and growing industrial demand for silver that adds an entirely separate engine of value beneath the monetary one. Solar panels alone require significant quantities of silver per unit. As the world builds out green energy infrastructure over the coming ecades, industrial silver demand is projected to grow substantially. This gives silver a dual identity — monetary hedge and industrial commodity — that allows it to benefit from two separate tailwinds simultaneously.

Then there's the valuation argument. The gold-to-silver ratio — the number of ounces of silver it takes to buy one ounce of gold — has historically hovered around 16:1, eflecting the natural occurrence ratio of the two metals in the earth's crust. Today that ratio sits dramatically higher, often above 80:1. Many precious metals analysts argue this means silver is historically undervalued relative to gold. Whether that ratio eventually normalizes is debated, but the argument for silver as an asymmetric opportunity in an inflationary environment is one that deserves serious attention rather than dismissal.

Silver's smaller market does mean it can be more volatile than gold — it moves faster in both directions. But for investors willing to accept that volatility in exchange for greater potential upside, silver presents a compelling case. At The Coin Shop NYC, we carry American Silver Eagles, Morgan and Peace Dollars, 90% junk silver bags, silver rounds, and a wide selection of silver bars — from 1 oz pieces all the way up to 100 oz bars — offering accessible entry points for every
budget.

Physical Metal vs. Paper: Why the Coin in Your Hand Is Different

You can get exposure to gold and silver through ETFs, mining stocks, and futures contracts. Those instruments have their place in certain portfolios. But there is a fundamental difference between owning a
financial product that tracks a metal's price and holding the actual metal in your hands.

In a genuine financial stress scenario — the kind that a $64 trillion debt crisis could eventually produce — paper assets carry counterparty risk. An ETF depends on a custodian, a clearinghouse, a financial
institution. Physical gold and silver depend on nothing and no one. They have been accepted as stores of value across every major civilization in human history precisely because they require no intermediary, no
institution, and no promise from any government to back them.

The professionals who understand what's happening are already adding physical positions. At The Coin Shop NYC, we see it daily.

The Honest Bottom Line

There are only a handful of ways a $64 trillion debt story ends. Dramatic spending cuts and tax increases — politically nearly
impossible. Explosive GDP growth — increasingly unlikely given demographic headwinds. Outright default — catastrophic and almost unthinkable. Or the path governments have always chosen when the bill comes due: inflate, devalue, and hope the public doesn't notice until it's too late.

The uncomfortable reality is that this level of debt represents a transfer of wealth — from savers to debtors, from future generations to
current ones, from ordinary families to those wealthy enough to hold inflation-resistant assets.

Gold and silver sit squarely at the ntersection of that reality. They are, at their core, a vote of no confidence in the ability of overnments to manage their finances responsibly. The fact that central banks, institutional investors, and a growing number of everyday
Americans are casting that vote right now says something worth hearing.

The people who understand what's coming are already adjusting. The question is whether enough ordinary Americans get the memo before the bill arrives — not in a distant government ledger, but in their own
wallets, retirement accounts, and the cost of everything they buy.

There are 64 trillion reasons to consider gold and silver. Come see us.

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This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Please consult a qualified financial professional before making investment decisions.