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David Morgan: US Debt Hits $40T - Treasury Doubles Long-End Buybacks

Mining Network Aug 19, 2026

Summary

Treasury doubles long-end buybacks from $2B to ≥$4B per operation to manage a yield curve strained by $40T debt.

Morgan aligns with Jim Sinclair's two-step path: an unbacked digital/MMT system tried first, then a gold-linked reset once confidence is lost.

Silver's industrial share has nearly doubled from 35% to ~60% over 25 years while mine-plus-recycled supply has plateaued near 1 billion ounces a year.

AI private credit backed by rapidly depreciating GPU hardware mirrors 2008 — opaque valuations on assets that lose value faster than loan schedules allow.

Buy physical gold and silver first; mining equities across majors, mid-tiers, and producers remain undervalued and offer the leverage if metals revalue.

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  • The host notes that Copper Giant's largest backer Frank Gustra co-founded Aris Mining, described as Colombia's largest gold producer, presenting that as evidence of in-country expertise and execution credibility.

David Morgan's takeaways

  • Top takeaway The guest argues the US is at a debt endgame — $40 trillion in national debt, roughly $1 trillion a year added, and 13-15% of federal spending going to debt service — and that the Treasury's newly announced doubling of long-end buybacks is effectively a return of QE to keep yields from exploding.
  • He frames Fed policy as a 'rock and a hard place': letting yields rise makes the debt service untenable, while printing to suppress them would 'skyrocket' gold and silver, because 'all fiat fails' and a debt-based monetary system must endlessly expand the money supply until it is worthless.
  • He says he is aligned with the late Jim Sinclair's thesis that the banks will first attempt a cashless, unbacked, digital, blockchain-based monetary system, then regroup with some kind of gold-tied system once that fails to restore confidence.
  • On silver specifically, he argues industrial demand is structurally tighter than widely understood (now 60% of a market producing roughly 1 billion ounces a year, versus 35% of 550 million ounces in 2000) and that fear-driven monetary demand, like in 1979-80, will spill over from gold into silver once the broader public is priced out of gold.
  • He warns an AI private-credit blow-up — a potential $2-4 trillion in opaque debt against rapidly depreciating hardware collateral, with no cash flow to service it — could trigger a sudden, 2008-style correction that the establishment will bail out, while leaving physical commodity assets as the cleanest survivors.

Jim Sinclair's takeaways

  • Top takeaway The guest says he is aligned with the late Jim Sinclair's thesis that the banks will first attempt an unbacked, cashless, digital monetary system, then regroup by reintroducing some kind of tie to gold once that initial attempt fails.