Bri Teresi
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Why the U.S. May WANT a Weaker Dollar | Andy Schectman | Free the Money Ep. 33 In this episode, I'm joined by Andy Schectman, founder and CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, to discuss what he believes is the quiet restructuring of the global monetary system. We explore why central banks are aggressively repatriating their gold reserves, the expansion of new gold vaulting, clearing, and settlement infrastructure across Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Mumbai, Saudi Arabia, and the Belt and Road Initiative, and why Andy believes these new financial rails are laying the foundation for an alternative to the Western monetary system. Andy breaks down why he believes Triffin's Dilemma is at the heart of America's manufacturing decline, arguing that reserve currency status has hollowed out U.S. industry while the nation faces an estimated $200 trillion in total liabilities. We also discuss how proposals from Judy Shelton and Paul Winfree for gold-backed Treasury instruments could restore confidence in the Treasury market, weaken the dollar, rebuild American manufacturing, and provide a path out of the debt crisis. Andy explains how the GENIUS Act creates structural demand for short-term U.S. Treasuries through stablecoin issuers. He points to Tether, which already earns billions of dollars in interest from its Treasury holdings and has become one of the world's largest private buyers of gold. Andy also shares his theory that Tether could be acting as a proxy for the U.S. government—or even the Exchange Stabilization Fund—to quietly accumulate gold while keeping the government's direct involvement out of the market. We also discuss China's record silver imports despite falling prices, what massive physical gold deliveries could be signaling beneath the paper market, whether a gold revaluation is possible, AI's impact on jobs and the economy, and why Andy believes gold, silver, and financial privacy will become increasingly important in the years ahead. Remember to subscribe and hit the bell "🔔" icon to get notifications. Want financial privacy? Check out my favorite privacy coin Zano. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: 0:00 Central Bank Gold Repatriation & the Global Shift Toward a New Monetary System 4:01 Paul Winfree, Judy Shelton & Gold-Backed Treasury Bonds Explained 9:41 Ending Reserve Currency Status? Triffin's Dilemma & Bringing Manufacturing Back to America 12:32 The GENIUS Act: How Stablecoins Could Transform Global Dollar Payments 14:34 Exchange Stabilization Fund, Tether & the Mystery Behind Massive Gold Deliveries 20:03 Why Andy Continues to Accumulate Gold (transition before AI discussion) 22:33 AI, Technological Deflation & the Rise of a K-Shaped Economy 26:07 SLR Changes, Treasury Demand & the Bond Market Trap 31:42 Gold & Silver Price Suppression: Paper Markets vs. Physical Delivery 38:14 Will Gold Be Revalued? Liberty Bell Coins & Mark-to-Market Speculation 41:52 The AI Bubble: Is History Repeating Itself? 45:50 Stablecoins, Tether & the Road to Financial Surveillance 47:23 FUSD, Zano & Why Financial Privacy Matters
Bri Teresi88,204 views • 15 days ago
Stablecoins are quietly becoming the rails of the new financial system. Andy Schectman explains how Tether has demonstrated it can freeze wallets and blacklist funds. Whether you agree with those actions or not, the capability exists. As of today, Tether has frozen more than $4.2 billion in USDT. I personally use Freedom Dollar (FUSD). Freedom Dollar is the world's first private, censorship-resistant decentralized stablecoin built on Zano. Unlike centralized stablecoins, FUSD has no admin keys, blacklist switches, or issuer that can seize balances, if you hold the keys, you hold the money. Private Money for a Public World.
Bri Teresi58,799 views • 11 days ago
The Bank Surveillance Secrecy Act: How America Lost Financial Privacy | Free The Money Ep. 31 As we approach the United States' 250th anniversary, it's worth asking whether we've stayed true to the principles the country was founded on. In this episode of Free The Money, I sit down with Nick Anthony, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), to examine the Bank Secrecy Act and how it transformed banks into de facto law enforcement and has led to decades of expanded surveillance every American. Our Founding Fathers saw how general warrants were used to ransack people's homes, searching for anything authorities could use against them. They recognized this as a fundamental threat to liberty, which is why the Fourth Amendment was created to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and government overreach. Yet today, because of the Bank Secrecy Act, millions of financial records are collected yearly, monitored, and reported to the government without a warrant. What began as a tool to combat tax evasion has evolved into a vast financial surveillance system where banks have effectively become an extension of law enforcement. Nick reported that in a single year, U.S. financial institutions spent an estimated $59 billion complying with the Bank Secrecy Act. During that same period, they filed roughly 28 million reports on their customers, yet those reports generated just 275 investigative leads for the IRS. Of those 275 leads, we don't know how many resulted in arrests or convictions. Nick argues these numbers are evidence of a broken system that subjects millions of law-abiding Americans to financial surveillance with very very little to show for it. Building on that, we also discuss the Third-Party Doctrine, the legal theory that allows the government to obtain information shared with banks and other intermediaries without a warrant. What began as financial surveillance has expanded into something much broader. In an increasingly digital world, where nearly every transaction, communication, and interaction passes through a third party, this doctrine gives the government access to vast amounts of personal information that previous generations would have considered private. As Nick explains, the government is no longer ransacking physical homes, it is increasingly able to sift through our digital lives, collecting information that reveals who we are, where we go, who we associate with, and what we believe. The result is a level of surveillance that would have been unimaginable to the Founders, raising serious questions about privacy, government overreach, and the future of protections in the digital age. Subscribe to Nick’s Substack: Want financial privacy? Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: Sign up for iTrustCapital using my link for a $100 funding bonus and see why more people are opening tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRAs to diversify and protect their future wealth: 0:00 Intro 1:17 The Real Origins of the Bank Secrecy Act: How Financial Surveillance Began 4:16 $60 Billion Spent, 30 Million Reports Filed, Only 275 IRS Leads Generated 6:34 CTRs vs SARs: The Reports Banks File on Ordinary Americans 9:26 Why the $10,000 Reporting Threshold Makes Less Sense Every Year 14:20 How America Exported Financial Surveillance Worldwide & Enabled Transnational Repression 19:27 Zano- Private By Default 21:27 9/11, The Patriot Act & the Explosion of Financial Surveillance 25:03FinCEN: The Agency Collecting Millions of Americans' Financial Records 26:46 ITrustCapital 28:22 The Third-Party Doctrine: How the Fourth Amendment Was Bypassed 32:54 The Lawmakers Fighting to Reform or Repeal the Bank Secrecy Act: Rep Warren Davidson 🇺🇸, Congressman John Rose, & Senator Mike Lee and a handful of others 35:50 Active Lawsuit Against FinCEN Flagging $200 Remittances at Southern Border 39:08 FinCEN's 2013 Crypto Guidance & How It Changed the Industry 43:32 Privacy Isn't Suspicious: Why Privacy Technology Matters 49:19 CBDCs, Stablecoins & Nick Anthony's Hot Take on the CLARITY Act 53:21 Financial Freedom in Nigeria: Why People Are Turning to Privacy Coins 55:15 BIS Revealed that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is Still an Active Participant in Project Agorá 59:52 Book Recommendations: Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell, The Theory of Monetary Institutions by Lawrence White, The Triumph of Fear by Patrick Eddington & Rodigan by David Rodigan
Bri Teresi100,334 views • 26 days ago
"If you can't use crypto in your daily life, it's not going to work." That's the realization that led Rahul (ZebPay) Pagidipati and his family to invest in Brave. Rahul believes the browser is the missing piece. With more than 121 million monthly active users now, he believes Brave's roadmap will integrate BAT Basic Attention Token (BAT) much more deeply into the browser, allowing it to be used across AI services, creator rewards, premium features, and eventually agentic commerce. That's why he calls BAT one of the most undervalued assets in crypto. "People aren't connecting the narrative of how it all fits into the ecosystem."
Bri Teresi20,124 views • 5 days ago
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According to Aaron Day, Howard Lutnick’s firm Cantor Fitzgerald invested $600 million into Tether and secured the contract managing the U.S. Treasuries backing it. He argues the biggest beneficiary of the GENIUS Act is Cantor Fitzgerald. Dig deeper and the story starts tying back to Brock Pierce and Jeffrey Epstein. Aaron says the same network of people funded the hijacking of Bitcoin’s development, helped fund USDC, co founded Tether, and backed U.S. CBDC pilot programs.
Bri Teresi112,161 views • 4 months ago
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If you’re getting dressed up for your chickens you’re not doing it right. 🐓🤣🐣
Bri Teresi61,646 views • 2 months ago
Ep. 24 | Free The Money | America’s $200 Trillion Problem… Why Bitcoin Wins with James Lavish I sit down with James Lavish who is a Chartered Financial Analyst, co-founder of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, and author of The Informationist to break down the reality of the U.S. debt crisis. With roughly $200 trillion in total liabilities, Lavish explains why the system is stuck in a debt spiral with only one real path forward: currency debasement. We explore how this has fueled a “casino economy,” where people feel forced into speculation just to get ahead, and how it all ties back to broken money. From there, the conversation turns to stablecoins and why issuers like Tether have become major buyers of U.S. Treasuries, and why big banks are pushing back against the Clarity Act. Lavish breaks down the Cantillon Effect, showing how those closest to the money printer benefit first, while everyone else falls behind—making a compelling case for Bitcoin as a long-term solution. Lastly, we dive into AI and its impact on jobs and the broader economy. If a large percentage of knowledge workers are displaced, could it trigger a crisis on the scale of 2008? While AI is deeply deflationary, driving down costs and increasing efficiency, it may ultimately force central banks to print even more money to sustain a debt-driven system, setting up a long-term collision between deflationary technology and inflationary policy. Subscribe to James Lavish’s newsletter The Informationist here: Help support the show & sign up for ITrustCapital with this link for a $100 funding bonus. See why people are opening a tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRA for their future: 0:0 Intro, From Pro Hockey to Wall Street 3:32 Discovering Bitcoin..The Moment Everything Clicked 4:29 Inside the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund 8:52 A Word From Our Sponsor: iTrustCapital 10:20 MicroStrategy’s STRC & Strive’s SATA Explained (Perpetual Preferreds) 19:23 “Casino Economy” – Broken Money & America’s $200 Trillion Problem 26:28 Stablecoins & U.S. Treasuries – Why Tether Is a Top Buyer 32:10 The Clarity Act: Big Banks vs Crypto 37:26 The Cantillon Effect Explained 43:28 Author Hayes and AI Disruption .. Impact on Employment 49:46 AI’s Impact on the Dollar- Deflationary Pressures of Tech 53:25 Bitcoin & Agentic Commerce – The Future of Autonomous Transactions 55:44 The Dollar Milkshake Theory 1:05:00 Book Recommendations
Bri Teresi57,463 views • 2 months ago
Rob Cunningham on Trump, XRP & the New Financial System | Free the Money Ep. 28 In this episode of Free the Money, Rob Cunningham returns to discuss what he believes is a massive transition in the global financial system. We discuss Trump’s recent executive orders, the Federal Reserve exploring “skinny master accounts” for fintech and crypto firms, and why Rob believes America is moving toward a blockchain-based financial system built around tokenization, digital settlement, and greater transparency. Rob shares his thoughts on: • RLUSD & Treasury-backed digital dollars • Trump’s trip to China and the possibility of a new monetary order • Gold, debt, bond markets & a potential “Jubilee-style” reset • The City of London, central banking & global financial power structures • Why he believes the system is shifting from opacity toward transparency Whether you agree with every point or not, this conversation will definitely make you think. We covered everything from macroeconomics and sound money to faith, sovereignty, and the future of finance. Watch now and let me know your thoughts below 👇 Sign up for iTrustCapital using my link for a $100 funding bonus and see why more people are opening tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRAs to diversify and protect their future wealth: Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: 0:00 Rob Cunningham’s Wild Background: Pilot, Banker, Truth Seeker 4:35 Trump Quietly Ordered the Fed? Skinny Master Accounts & Treasury Control 7:25 The Tokenization Revolution 9:11 iTrustCapital 15:16 Zano 17:43 Trump’s Executive Orders Could Fast-Track America’s Blockchain Financial System 22:41 Trump’s China Trip, Global Power Shifts & the New Monetary Order 30:22 Gold, China & the Global Power Struggle: “Those Who Hold the Gold Make the Rules” 35:04 Jubilee-Style Debt Reset? Biblical Finance, Global Debt & the Fourth Turning 39:13 Victory Notes, Ending the Federal Reserve & RLUSD’s Potential Role in America’s New Monetary System 49:16 Religion vs Faith: The Hidden Difference Most People Never Question 54:28 The City of London Explained: Central Banking, Global Power & Financial Control 58:36 The Future of XRP: Liquidity, Sovereignty & the Internet of Value
Bri Teresi36,905 views • 1 month ago
Lyn Ulbricht: A Mother's 12-Year Fight to Free Ross Ulbricht | Free The Money Ep. 30 Lyn Ulbricht joins Free The Money to share the extraordinary story of her 12-year fight to free her son, Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road. She reflects on the shock of Ross's double life sentence plus 40 years without parole, why she believes the punishment was politically motivated, and how a grassroots movement ultimately helped secure his freedom. We also discuss the War on Drugs, the prison industrial complex, and the devastating impact harsh sentencing has on families and communities. Lyn explains why she founded Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing and why her advocacy continues even after Ross returned home. The conversation then turns to the growing prosecution of privacy technology developers, the future of financial privacy, free speech, and innovation in America. From Ross Ulbricht to Roger Ver, Tornado Cash, and Samourai Wallet, we discuss how these cases are making examples of individuals whose ideas, technologies, and beliefs threaten the existing system. This is a powerful discussion about faith, perseverance, freedom, and a mother's endless love. Cruel sentencing policies have made the U.S. the biggest incarcerator in the world. To find out more about MACS or to help, visit: Sign up for iTrustCapital using my link for a $100 funding bonus and see why more people are opening tax-advantaged Crypto, Gold & Silver IRAs to diversify and protect their future wealth: Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: 0:00 Introduction: 1:22 Ross Ulbricht's Life Sentences: A mother’s perspective 5:59 The War on Drugs.. Life in Prison for Marijuana 8:00 The Prison Industrial Complex: Who Profits from Mass Incarceration? 12:15 Was Ross Made an Example? Politics, Bitcoin & Harsh Sentencing 14:50 Atlas Shrugged, Ron Paul & Ross's Libertarian Roots 15:59 Zano 18:35 Faith, Prayer & Never Giving Up Hope 21:53 Why President Trump Couldn't Believe Ross's Sentence 23:07 Mothers Against Cruel Sentencing: Lyn's New Mission 26:37 The Hidden Victims: Families Torn Apart by Prison 29:22 Crypto Developers Under Attack: Privacy, Code & Freedom in America 35:41 iTrustCapital 38:50 Lyn's Message to President Trump on Crypto Prisoners 44:27 How Angela McArdle Helped Secure Ross's Freedom 47:48 Roger Ver, Gag Orders & the Fight for Free Speech
Bri Teresi27,567 views • 1 month ago
The Founding Fathers created the Fourth Amendment to protect Americans from unreasonable searches and government overreach. Today, nearly every transaction, communication, and interaction passes through a third party. Under the Third-Party Doctrine, information shared with banks and other intermediaries can be obtained without a warrant. As Nick Anthony explains, the government no longer needs to ransack your home. It can increasingly sift through your digital life instead without a warrant. As we approach the United States' 250th anniversary, it's worth asking whether we've stayed true to the principles the country was founded on.
Bri Teresi18,403 views • 24 days ago
Who has stood for delivery on over $60 billion worth of gold this year? Tether become one of the biggest private buyers of gold in the world. Why did Bo Hines leave the White House to become CEO of Tether U.S.? Coincidence? Or is the Exchange Stabilization Fund quietly accumulating gold through a proxy? Andy Schectman Miles Franklin Precious Metals
Bri Teresi12,387 views • 15 days ago
Free The Money | The Dollar’s Last Act: Metals, XRP & The Flip of the System This episode is a macro-level reality check. Versan Aljarrah - Black Swan Capitalist from Black Swan Capitalist joins me to unpack what he believes is the final stretch of the fiat money experiment and why 2026 could be the year that separates the “prepared” from the “unprepared.” We dive into why gold and silver are ripping, what the rush into hard assets really signals, and how paper markets (paper silver/gold) could unwind as trust in institutions erodes. From China’s silver export restrictions to BRICS, Basel III, stablecoins propping up T-bill demand, and the growing push toward digital IDs and CBDCs, Versan connects dots most people only see in fragments. On the crypto side, Versan makes his case that XRP isn’t “just crypto", it’s infrastructure: a potential neutral settlement layer designed to sit above the system, not inside it. We discuss XRP’s price and velocity, why regulation could be the turning point, and explore what a future could look like where gold circulates digitally via new rails. 2:05 – What 2026 Has in Store 5:23 – Why Silver Is Exploding 8:09 – The Paper Market Scam 10:01 – China’s Export Ban 11:52 – How Stablecoins Prop Up the Dollar 13:26 – BRICS vs the Dollar System 17:52 – XRP, Japan & the Carry Trade Unwind 22:02 – Why XRP Is So Misunderstood 27:18 – Ripple’s Quiet Role Behind the Scenes 28:54 – What the Clarity Act Really Means for XRP 30:44 – Zebec & the Future of Payroll 36:54 – The Privacy Coin Reckoning 43:44 – Only God Can Save Us 46:25 – The Dollar’s Last Lifeline
Bri Teresi103,173 views • 6 months ago