Bullion Stackers are the Ultimate Savers

Converting Depreciating Cash into Hard Assets Requires Fiscal Awareness

When it comes to money, two kinds of people exist: spenders and savers.

Precious metal stackers are in a league of their own. They’re the most farsighted, knowledgeable and patient of savers.

While most everyone shares traits of both spenders and savers, tendencies toward one or the other dominate, and unfortunately profligate spenders and perpetual debtors are confined to a lifetime of burdens, misery and stress unless they experience a great financial awakening and transformation.

Those who spend all of their wages before they earn them are extreme spenders. Like many Americans, they live for today, borrow from the future, subsist paycheck to paycheck and never let a dollar burn a hole in their pockets.

Reckless big spenders abhor budgeting, maintain lifestyles above their incomes and struggle to pay their bills. They consume more than they produce and make impulsive purchases with little or no thought of the long-term consequences. The most desperate are susceptible to get-rich-quick schemes, payday lenders and pawnbrokers, or turn to casinos or the lottery in hopes of off-setting their financial foolishness or overcoming their economic misfortunes.

Their lives are fraught with disappointment, distress, worries and woes about money.

Savers Anticipate and Envision the Future

Savers, on the other hand, look to the future. Realizing that not all days are sunshine and roses, they set aside part of their paychecks. They prepare for stormy weather, tough and troubled times, and unexpected expenses. They anticipate forthcoming challenges and plan for desired purchases.

They also envision opportunities and earmark earnings for continuing education and job training, business endeavors and investments, personal pursuits and retirement.

Most individuals who save a substantial portion of their salaries are fiscally conservative, not bold risktakers. They accumulate wealth gradually over a lifetime by maintaining a realistic budget, living below or within their means, and squirreling away some of their income. The truly disciplined detest debt and view savings as a financial reserve that provides peace of mind or a treasure to bequeath to posterity.

Appreciating the Value of Precious Metals

The wisest savers have studied history and are aware that hard and tangible assets—commodities, land and precious metals—have retained value and preserved wealth through the ages despite covert and overt efforts to control their prices via market manipulations and suppression schemes.

Bullion stackers, however, are in the minority. Eighty-four percent of American adults own neither gold nor silver, according to a survey conducted by the Gold IRA Guide in 2020.

Those who do accumulate precious metals are the ultimate long-term savers, the epitome of conscientious, forward-thinking individuals. They generally understand monetary history, know all unbacked currencies lose purchasing power over time, and recognize the enduring value of Au (gold) and Ag (silver) on the periodic table of elements.

As astute and prudent investors, they convert a portion of their savings in depreciating currency into money that has reigned supreme since antiquity and serves as financial insurance when government-issued fiat currencies flounder, falter and fail.

They recognize that as global debt surpasses $320 trillion, the national debt exceeds $37 trillion, and more deficit spending and public borrowing are on the way, the U.S. dollar and the world’s other unbacked currencies will be further debased and devalued against the monetary metals, whose worth will continue to appreciate for the benefit of ultimate savers.

If you’ve read this far, you’re likely a saver and possibly a bullion stacker.

© 2025 Stuart Englert. All rights reserved.

Englert is the author of “Rigged: Exposing the Largest Financial Fraud in History.”