The Secret War on Cash
The U.S. Government and Federal Reserve are fighting against cash on many fronts. Banks must now report cash withdrawals or deposits of $10,000 or more. Furthermore, banks must report to the government any financial behavior on your part it arbitrarily deems "suspicious" or "unusual." The World Economic Forum and World Bank are touting the creation of an international digital currency, an increasing number of businesses and venues in the U.S. have become "cashless" and the devaluation of the dollar has been in full swing in recent years. Swiss America CEO Dean Heskin says we need to be aware of the campaign against cash due to current and coming policies and prepare for what is to come through our podcast, THE SECRET WAR ON CASH, powered by Swiss America.
Episodes
But extraordinary technological growth does not automatically guarantee extraordinary investment returns.
In Episode 316 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin is joined by longtime friend and Swiss America Trading colleague Bill Mentis, whose background includes investment banking, private equity, brokerage and...
But Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos argue that focusing only on the latest daily move can obscure the much bigger monetary story.
In Episode 315 of The Secret War on Cash, the Swiss America Trading hosts examine the competing forces m...
In Episode 314 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine a fiscal 2026 budget deficit approaching $2 trillion and a national debt that has now reached $40.25 trillion.
The federal government brought in approximately $5.4 trillion while spending roughly $7.4 trillion.
Chris translates those enormous numbers into something easier to und...
In Episode 313 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading connect those two developments.
The episode begins with China’s latest gold purchase. The article discussed by Dean and Chris reports that the People’s Bank of China added 23 tonnes in September, its biggest monthly pu...
In Episode 312 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack’s warning about an “inflationary mindset.”
Hammack argues that smaller policy adjustments made r...
In Episode 311 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the appointment of economist and longtime gold advocate Judy Shelton as counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
S...
Hospitals have been quarantined.
Contacts have been monitored.
And U.S. officials are asking Moscow for more information.
But what actually happened remains uncertain.
In Episode 310 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the developing mystery surrounding the death of a 28-year-old worker at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Inst...
In Episode 309 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading begin with a sudden decline in India’s equity markets.
The hosts discuss three pressures identified in the article they examine: continued selling by foreign institutional investors, sharply elevated oil prices and government tax policy affect...
That creates an uncomfortable question for policymakers.
Are the Fed’s traditional tools still working the way they once did?
In Episode 308 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the latest pressure in the Treasury market and what higher yields could mean for the broader economy.
It could also produce one of the largest investment bubbles.
In Episode 307 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine warnings from Michael Burry and Ray Dalio about the financial structure developing underneath the AI boom.
Burry has raised concerns about roughly $3 t...
So why does de-dollarization continue to attract so much attention?
In Episode 306 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine China’s upcoming role as BRICS chair in 2027 and what it could mean for efforts to increase local-currency trade among member countries.
The conversati...
In Episode 305 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine the enormous energy requirements behind America’s rapidly expanding AI data-center industry.
The article discussed in the program forecasts that U.S. data centers could eventually consume extraordinary quantities of...
In Episode 304 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine expectations for another Federal Reserve interest-rate increase and the conflicting economic pressures behind the decision.
Higher interest rates are one of the traditional tools central banks use to slow inflation. By making borrowing more e...
In Episode 303 of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos of Swiss America Trading examine rising gasoline and diesel prices and the wider economic consequences of higher energy costs.
The hosts begin with fuel-price reports from Labor Day weekend and the continuing uncertainty surrounding t...
In Episode 302 of The Secret War on Cash, Swiss America Trading’s Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos examine reported central-bank gold purchases in July, including approximately 20 tons attributed to China out of 23 tons discussed in the program.
The hosts connect that buying with a longer-term reserve-diversification t...
In this episode of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos discuss figures showing roughly $47 billion in central-bank gold purchases over a three-month period, following several years of strong institutional demand.
Chris notes that central banks had often been purchasing around $10 billion per quarter, making the latest incr...
Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos begin with an article stating that annual U.S. interest expense has reached its highest share of federal revenue since 1991.
According to the figures discussed in the episode, interest costs are approaching 20% of federal revenue.
Chris compares the ...
In this episode of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos examine why financial reporting has increasingly focused on debt, Treasury securities, dollar weakness, and the consequences of years of deficit spending.
Chris notes that silver is approaching the $70 level discussed in the program wh...
In this episode of The Secret War on Cash, they examine why federal debt can become self-reinforcing.
When debt levels rise, Treasury investors may demand higher yields to compensate for increasing financial risk. Those higher yield...
In this episode of The Secret War on Cash, Dean Heskin and Chris Agelastos examine two dramatically different but potentially connected silver-price forecasts.
The first comes from Citi analysis discussed in the program. The bank sees a short-term target around $75 and a potential move t...
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