Your shares of stock, your index funds, your bond holdings. All converted into digital tokens on a blockchain ledger.

They say it is faster. More efficient. The future. What they do not say is what happens when the system has a problem.

We already know. Crypto exchanges have been hacked for billions. Tether, the largest stablecoin in the world, has frozen over $4.4 billion in tokens. $344 million in a single afternoon.

Here is the part that should keep you up at night. The GENIUS Act, signed into federal law in 2025, requires digital token issuers to maintain the ability to block, freeze, and reject transactions. That is not a rumor. That is the law of the land.

If your stocks become digital tokens, and digital tokens can be frozen with a keystroke, what protects your retirement?

Meanwhile, central banks have been buying physical gold at record levels. Over 1,000 tonnes per year, three consecutive years. The institutions building the digital system are loading up on the one asset that cannot be tokenized, frozen, or programmed.

Physical gold sits in a vault with your name on it. No blockchain. No keystroke. No one can flip a switch and lock you out.

I was recently sent a free 27-page guide called the 2026 Wealth Protection Guide. It explains what tokenization means for your retirement and how you can move a portion of an existing IRA or 401(k) into physical gold and silver. No taxes. No penalties. About 15 minutes.

Go to JohnLovesGold.com or call (800) 748-4383.

That’s JohnLovesGold.com or (800) 748-4383.

-- John Kiriakou

It passed without a press conference, without a presidential statement, and without a prime-time segment on cable news.

Here’s why that number matters, especially if you’re in retirement or close to it.

It took 200 years to borrow the first trillion. We now add a trillion about every five months.

That money has to come from somewhere. So they do the one thing they still can.

They print it.

Every new dollar they create makes the dollars already in your retirement worth a little less. You see it at the gas pump, from $2.17 a gallon in 2020 to over $3.30 today. But the one place you don’t see it is on your brokerage statement. The balance looks fine. The purchasing power leaks out through the floor.

A $500,000 retirement at 3% inflation quietly loses about $15,000 in buying power every single year.

Since 1997, the IRS has allowed you to hold physical gold and silver inside your existing IRA, 401(k), or TSP. No taxes. No early-withdrawal penalties. Your part of the move takes about 15 minutes.

I came across American Alternative Assets a few months back. They put together a free guide for retirees who are watching the dollar lose value and don’t know what to do about it. It walks through how the move works and the five questions to ask any precious metals company before you move a single dollar.

Visit JohnLovesGold.com to download it for free now.

Washington isn’t going to warn you about any of this. The dollars in your account are, from their perspective, part of the solution. Not something to protect.

Thank you,

John

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