Rule One: Tell No One About “The Floor Money”

The world is on a blitz in gold purchases, and there's little reason it should slow down. The Fed and the Treasury are about to face one of the most difficult years in their histories in 2025.

Dear Fellow Expat:

The old Florida Republic property in Bonita Springs sat on 1.5 acres of farmland.

The house itself was an old rancher with a large master bedroom closet.

An industrial safe was buried in the closet floor. Its door was exposed through a small aluminum door.

Inside, I kept ammunition and a few ounces of physical gold.

One morning, Amelia—then five—wandered into the room while I was adding a few ounces of gold and some cash to the stash.

“Daddy,” she asked. “Why do we have money in the floor?”

I explained that it was for an emergency… She deduced that if we needed money and couldn’t go to a bank, we could get the money from the safe.

Of course, I wasn’t going to tell her about a scenario in which ATMs stop working… or someone tries to rob the house. Or something that might scar her, like: “Your father doesn’t trust central banks...”

But I then told her a very important rule: Never tell anyone there’s gold in our house.

At the end, she nodded: “I can’t tell anyone about the floor…