Friday, January 23, 2026
5723: International Public Notice: You Heard It Here First. from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
This is for those who need help understanding what has happened, not only to the silver market, but in general.
The banks were allowed to cheat.
They
noticed that on any given day, depositors asked for only about 10% of
their money back. That left 90% sitting in the vault, drawing low-level
bank interest, if it was in a savings account, and earning nothing at
all, if it was in a checking account.
The bankers thought to themselves --- gee, think of what we could do, if we could invest all that "idle" money?
They could play the stock market. They could invest in private enterprises.
So
they created the "fractional reserve system" which allowed them to
extend credit equal to ten times the actual asset value held by their
bank.
If
they had a thousand pounds of gold deposited in their bank, they could
loan an amount of credit equal to the value of ten thousand pounds of
gold--- and buy stocks and bonds and acquire interests in physical
assets through loaning this credit ---- which, if truth is told,
belonged to their depositors every bit as much as the actual physical
asset that the credit was based upon.
The
bankers explained their new "system" but as the responsibility for it
rested on the banks and the bankers, people didn't consider it their
business and didn't inquire deeply into it. It seemed to be an
accounting issue or a risk management issue for the bank.
Once
they slipped the leash, the bankers started wheeling and dealing with
all that "idle" money. They converted the value of the actual physical
assets into 10X as much credit, and then loaned the credit out at
interest via loans. They used the credit thus created to set up a
sidebar business for themselves ---loaning credit based on their
depositor's assets. They also bought investments -- stocks, bonds,
retail properties, etc., and became known as "investment banks".
The
system first collapsed in the 1930's less than two decades after it was
allowed. Following the 1929 crash, the U.S. Congress passed laws that
prohibited the banks from putting their depositor's money at risk and
prevented them from acting as investment banks. Glass-Steagall and
other Depression Era legislation held the line so that the banks could
not put their depositors' actual physical assets at risk, but they found
ways to continue to create credit based on those assets and they
continued to put their depositor's credit at risk.
Over
the years the protection offered by these Depression Era laws
weakened. The banks created new kinds of "financial instruments",
cooked up new "securities", and evaded the laws by acting as security
brokerages instead of banks -- without telling their customers, of
course.
They
even redefined the meaning of "depositor" to be an incorporated entity
or public trust, in order to evade the parts of these laws designed to
protect living people operating as private lawful persons and
unincorporated small businesses.
In
time, people forgot the purpose of these laws and the bankers and their
attorney friends and their Ponzi's in Congress got more and more
creative. Following the Subprime Mortgage crisis and the Big Short on
Wall Street, Congress erased more and more provisions of the Depression
Era laws designed to protect average people --- instead of doing what
they should have done, and beefing up and updating those same Depression
Era laws.
By
2016, what most of us thought of as private bank accounts in small town
"local" banks, had been redefined yet again, and deposits made into
these accounts became property of the bank. Instead of the banks being
liable for returning the deposits and keeping them safe, and instead of
entering new deposits as bank trust liabilities, the banks began
entering new deposits as bank property and bank assets.
Of
course, they never told you, Joe Average "Depositor", about any of
these convenient unlawful conversion activities, and if you didn't
object, you were purportedly agreeing with it --- voluntarily.
If
you did object, they simply "debanked" you --- closed your account,
took any remaining digits in your account, and left the impression that
you were doing something shady to deserve this.
In
2023, all local bank accounts were converted into FedNow accounts, so
that even though the local bank continued to service your account(s),
the actual account(s) and all deposits were held as assets belonging to
the Federal Reserve.
They
didn't tell you anything about this, either, except in tiny, tiny, tiny
print in obscure legalese language, buried in the back of a colorful
brochure about modern banking and their dedication to serving you.
The
key piece of fraud, which led to all this other fraud and criminality,
was always the "fractional reserve banking system" and this key piece
was never dismantled.
No
matter how they twisted and turned and redefined things, the banks
doing business as securities brokerages were continuing to use other
people's assets to generate ten times the value of those assets as
credit. The credit actually belonged to the people whose assets were
put at risk, but the banks continued to use the credit for their own
benefit and never cut the depositors in on the profit.
Because
"fractional reserve banking" was allowed to continue, the central banks
that had licenses to rig commodities began using the fractional reserve
banking system, too, and the same essential fraud scheme entered the
commodities market.
So,
the bullion banks and commodities traders were allowed to sell --on
paper -- ten times more silver than they actually had in their vaults.
Instead
of calling the imaginary silver "credit" they called it "unallocated
silver" and they sold delivery contracts on silver the same way they
sold collateral interests in physical bank deposits, houses, and even
the labor of living people.
It
was all based on the same schtick, the expectation that all they needed
to keep in their vaults was 10% to cover the daily draw.
If
anything went wrong with this fraud scheme, and more than 10% was
required, they had it all set up via a system of arbitrage to get silver
from other sources or they could get an emergency loan from the Fed to
buy enough silver on the open market to cover their delivery deficit.
No matter how you stack it, they were selling silver they didn't have.
Over
the past month, their safety net system failed, and they were caught as
one cowboy described it, "buck naked in a snowstorm".
The
"fractional" part of "fractional reserve" banking increased overnight,
and suddenly, everyone holding matured delivery contracts wanted
delivery of actual silver. Right now.
The commodity exchanges couldn't meet this demand because they never possessed that much silver to begin with.
As
sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate confirmed, CME, the largest
metals exchange, had only 11% of the actual silver demanded. The rest,
89%, was thin air and paper--- the "unallocated silver" that people had
already paid for, but which didn't actually exist.
As
a result, potentially millions of investors worldwide who thought they
bought physical silver as a hedge against inflation, are being told that
no, well, actually, you didn't buy actual "allocated" ounces of silver
that had your name on it. You bought "unallocated silver" -- silver
that could have, in theory, been identified as yours.... but wasn't.
The
system didn't assign any actual factual silver to you when you paid for
it; it waited until you came in and actually demanded delivery of
silver--- and at that point, specific ounces of silver would be
allocated to you. In theory. Assuming that there were actual ounces of
silver available they could be delivered, but as of January 20th 2026,
there were no stray ounces left to allocate.
For
the first time in history there were no sellers of silver listed on the
Commodities Exchange. None. That's why the Commodities Exchange
"suspended trading" in silver. It takes two to tango, and all the
silver sellers had already sold out or left the marketplace.
Why?
Because
the Sellers knew that the price of silver had been ruthlessly
manipulated by the central banks and exchanges for decades. They knew
that in a traditional free market, the price of silver always (in the
past) has settled at about 65% of the price of gold in the same
market.
If
gold is selling for $5000 an ounce, the traditional free market price
for silver would be about $3250. But that market price ratio was
established back in the days before silver became a major component in
solar panels and car batteries and electronic equipment. Today, the
price of silver in a free market might be higher than gold, because of
its industrial applications.
What
we are looking at is a $3100 dollar spread between the traditional
unmanipulated market price and the $100 per ounce silver price being bid
as the spot price.
Now
what? Thousands, maybe millions of people, who thought they were
buying actual silver as a hedge against inflation, and counting on using
that vast market spread as their financial insurance, are being told
that they have no such investments. No such silver. The best the banks
and exchanges can do is pay them back in the same paper currency that
they used to -supposedly- buy silver.
The
fraud reeks, and it's the same fraud applied to commodities that the
banks applied to physical asset bank deposits in the 1920s.
It's also a reprise of the Greenbacks fraud first pioneered by Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Treasury Secretary.
Lincoln
issued "Treasury Bonds" that matured in either 10 years or 40 years,
leading them to be called "1040 Bonds". These bonds advertised very
favorable interest rates, but the only way you could buy them was by
using Federal Reserve Notes.
People
had to convert their gold and silver coins into Federal Reserve Notes,
buy the Treasury Bonds, and wait either 10 or 40 years to collect. When
they later attempted to cash in the bonds, they expected to be paid
back in gold or silver, but instead, all they could get in recompense
was Federal Reserve Notes. Paper.
The
banks and the Lincoln Administration tricked people into turning in
their gold and silver in inequitable exchange for paper "bank notes".
They bought paper, exchanged it for paper, and were cashed out in
paper. The gold was permanently gone.
The same basic fraud is being pulled again, right here, right now.
Investors
buy silver (they think) with paper debt notes, but when it comes time
to collect the silver, all they can collect is more paper.
It's what the Old Timers called a "pig in a poke" or a "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" fraud.
You
are led to believe that you are buying something, a specific commodity,
but no, there are hidden terms and conditions of deceit, and here you
are, five years later, no silver in hand, no asset hedge, and the
opportunity to buy physical silver outright --- which is what you
intended to do five years ago -- is gone.
No
matter how much of this "unallocated" silver you are stuck holding,
your opportunity costs alone are staggering. There's the cost of
holding a non-productive paper asset for however many months or years.
There's the cost of the investment opportunity you lost when you had the
chance to buy actual physical silver on the open market.
Now
all you can do is contribute to the looming hyperinflation, because no
matter what you do with the "cash settlement", the cash is worth less
than when you decided to buy silver as a hedge, and it continues to
bleed value. You have lost the opportunity to profit from the increase
in the price of silver that would have protected you and your family
from the ravages of inflation.
People
need to understand that in the present market, every increase in the
price of silver or gold marks a decrease in the value of the Federal
Reserve Notes they carry in their pockets.
When
we say that the entire world financial system has been criminally
mismanaged by the central banks, we aren't overstating it.
And
this is nothing new. These institutional fraud schemes have been
ongoing for over a hundred years with no consequences for the banks and
securities brokerages promoting them, no reckoning for the treasury
managers and politicians.
The
"unallocated silver" fraud also echoes the "mortgage backed securities"
fraud scheme of the 1980's. The banks and securities brokers came up
with a brand new "financial investment product" -- they would bundle
mortgages together and sell interests in the whole bundle. They pitched
this as a "self-insuring" investment suitable for pension funds, a
means of reducing risk: if one or two mortgages went south, all the
others in the bundle would continue to perform and limit risk to
investors.
But
like the "unallocated silver" there was no specific interest assigned
to any particular mortgage in the bundle. Upon further evaluation, there
was no security in mortgage backed securities at all, and billions of
dollars worth of pension fund money was already invested in these
nebulous undefined securities packages.
The
current meltdown in the silver commodities market reflects the same
potential problem in every corner of the ComEx, especially in the realm
of future delivery contracts. Traditionally, futures were used by
commodity producers to lock in prices and secure buyers for new season
agricultural products. For producers, futures contracts function like a
hedge fund. For non-producers of a commodity, commodity futures are
totally speculative.
This
is the difference between having actual skin in the game, and being a
bystander placing bets, and also the difference between holding actual
silver in your hand, and holding a paper contract.
This
is the set up that the members of the U.S. Congress and Treasury
officials and London Silver Moguls have constructed as a means to bilk
the American Public and make sure that they stay bilked, while the
criminals responsible for this finagle to create a worldwide banking
monopoly for themselves and present themselves as heroes, here to save
the day.
We are not deceived.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
January 22nd 2026
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