Mark Stopa

It’s time to (re)tell the story of my prior (law) career. You might find it interesting w DOGE stuff we see now. The short version: From 2008 - 2018, I was Florida’s best foreclosure defense lawyer (by a lot). Won 2,000 cases for homeowners. (For comparison, nobody else in FL won 200.). I also created many of the favorable appellate decisions for homeowners. After my work cost banks billions (yes, not exaggerating), banks hired private investigators to create a dossier against me in an effort to take me out, which they then circulated anonymously to FL gov’t. This dossier was never the subject of any court proceeding, but it became justification for govt to attack me relentlessly. Endless attacks by my state Bar. A “raid” on my office, w the raid leaked to media. Then media hit pieces. I was never arrested, much less charged or convicted, of anything. Heck, I wasn’t even sued in civil court about any of the false stuff they alleged. And I’d spent my career helping the poor. So why did govt use the dossier as an excuse to keep attacking me, esp when I’d devoted my career to helping the less fortunate? I got a judge to testify that the pay raises of all FL judges, statewide, were tied to their foreclosing faster for the benefit of banks. Judges got large pay raises for capitulating — $2M in extra pay (lifetime) for highest judges in state. That’s when it all clicked for me. The hostility I so often felt from the judges before whom I appeared was a byproduct of their large personal incentives to rule against me & my clients. The whole system went into the tank. Not one judge stood up & said “this is wrong” bc they were all benefitting from it. In aftermath of 2008 GFC, the judiciary went into the tank, aligning w Wall Street & throwing Main Street under the bus. Why? So judges w de-facto lifetime appointments could get more pay (This same dynamic existed across USA. It’s why no bankers went to jail after crashing global economy in 2008 GFC) The result? Two million foreclosures pushed thru the system in FL alone … homes taken from middle class & redistributed to banks, hedge funds & investors. Ever since, home prices have continued to grow faster than median income, making housing unaffordable for so many. All by design A illustration of how badly the judiciary twisted the laws to help banks (and themselves)? Florida now has a statute of limitations for everything except homicide & mortgage foreclosure. And it’s now almost impossible to find a lawyer who can help homeowners. They didn’t just crush me—they eliminated help for consumers altogether When I wrote a book about this, I thought I could change how the system operated. The story was so compelling, it felt like a movie script. What did I realize? A Pulitzer winning journalist told me she couldn’t cover my story bc her editors wouldn’t let her. A national PR firm liked my story so much they worked on it for a year for free, only to realize media was never going to cover it Freedom of the press was created to expose govt secrets, but in practice, it protects corrupt govt. (This is why Elon is now getting attacked, even though he’s a grifter (corporate subsides) too) Wall Street, government and media aren’t just in bed together. They’re all the same thing And the public? It ensures the system never changes by arguing D v R endlessly Some people will never believe me. That’s ok. My life is great. I use my unique knowledge of the system to make a career in investing, and I love my life That said, I’ll always be sad at how many ppl got crushed in aftermath of 2008 … How many couldn’t pivot like I did … And part of me will always want my friends to see just how corrupt & irredeemable govt is … so they can tune out the endless BS and improve their lives So, if you see me post about corruption, this is part of where I’m coming from. It’s real, it’s worse than you think, and it absolutely fucks the bottom 99% 😊💪

@leadlagreport Not Epstein files. 9/11 Epstein files did not include anything in 18 months before 9/11 To the extent this war is a distraction, it’s from that.

They will LITERALLY SEND GROUND TROOPS TO IRAN TO DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES FUCK OFF

@TheLastDegree Appreciate you.

877 gold ounces. 35,816 silver ounces in the vault. Six years of accumulation. Six years of being called wrong, early, or crazy. The physical repricing is already in full force. Gold at all-time highs. Silver moving. This isn't a theory anymore. its playing out, in real prices.

@leadlagreport Talk to me in a few months. (Insiders buying gold call options at $15-20k expiring in December.)

Gold collapsing is bringing back the flight to safety trade in Treasuries. They will stand alone. I'm right. I'm FUCKING RIGHT.

Insiders are buying call options on gold for $15-20k expiring in December. As I said. Lex Luthor.

Everything in USA is a manipulation. “Free markets” don’t exist. Thriving means thinking like an evil mastermind. Lex Luthor. If Lex Luthor were in charge, what would he do? That’s your answer.

“What’s happening in metals?” My educated guesses (in order of confidence): Prices being manipulated downward in short term: 1. So big players can accumulate (before Joe Public is aware of repricing/reset) 2. COMEX is going to default on deliveries, call it “force majeure,” and settle claims via $$, instead of metals, at artificially low prices 3. Rumors/whispers that govt is imposing price floors on metals in coming months.

@leadlagreport Lmao at any notion of raising rates when USA has $25T of debt to refinance.

@FFChalupaBatman Bring this to next live SFB, ok?

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@DonaldW60852684 Thank you for sharing what you’re doing, good and bad. It’s helpful and appreciated.

Absolute disaster. Silver down -9.4%. Gold down 4.4%. Personally I will need to sell several $ million of HL at a loss in order not to get a margin call. I'll be lucky if I'm down to only $5 million in equity today. I started this venture December 2024 with $1.2 million equity so it isn't catastrophic even though it feels that way right now. For those who started following me especially after my posted tweet, this is an excellent lesson where greed has blown apart a good idea. All great investors develop a plan and stick to it. My deviation was to go above my margin limit. Then when things went south I let the margin stay too high thinking the silver price would rebound. I should have sold HL shares at a loss and rebalanced. Instead I will be selling the shares at a much larger loss today. I'm not going to be ending my journaling on X. I will continue to post my progress despite the pain. The heavy use of margin was not the problem, it was my misapplication of my own strategy.

@Silver__Santa Don’t be mean to the guy. I appreciate those who post their mistakes.

Who's calling ? Margin is ! 📞📞📞

@MBAeconomics1 What JPMorgan Chase wants, JPMorgan Chase gets. Thanks for sharing.

The #Comex is probably begging the US govt for a price floor in April. The comex is going to fail to deliver #silver in May as it stands. So force majure either way. But if the force majure is because of a price floor and not a failure to deliver, their reputation is saved.

@scottmelker Your conclusion was right, but for completely the wrong reason. Retail fomo has not hit metals in USA in many decades, if ever.

I’ve been saying silver will go back to $50 since the top. Every asset trading on retail fomo is the same.

@GoldFishCharts Yes. But paper markets are detaching from physical commodities. Seeing it in metals and in oil. Can only manipulate via paper for so long

I ponder that gold is being 'as controlled' as oil is - there's 2 prices - the one the US Futures markets want you to believe & the real one out in the world today. It is clear much market action is contrived & after watching a lifetime of price manipulation by the Gov't to control the price narrative it is very clear & easy to see it unfolding now as it is. When chaos enters the PPT move to do their job of quelling volatility & nudging the prices in the wanted direction. I learnt a lesson on going short the SPX in 1998 for the LTCM crisis only to seem my large wins stolen when the gov't ramped the US markets within 24 hours. Still have all the screenshots & evidence of that market manipulation. I learnt a lesson in 1994 when long goldstocks large & the US Gov't shafted the price down so as to stop the breakout. I've been watching these markets for many decades & see gov't interference so many times - many blatant - many superficial where you have to look deeper to find them. These markets are not freely trading.

@AaronQuinn716 @YardsPerPass Yeah. Avoiding a repeat of 2022 draft, where obvious need at CB induced Chiefs to trade above bills & get McDuffie … An underrated move in recent history of this rivalry.

@MarkStopa @YardsPerPass I think Doubs and Pierce both being mid and draft not stockpiled with talent forced the overpay.

I still can't believe they gave up a 2 for this contract Flags fly forever... better get a flag (Note, the below is what the contract could look like if/when the Bills restructure his 2027 deal, which they most certainly would do)

@AaronQuinn716 @YardsPerPass What Steelers did w Pittman is a good comp For me, Beane desperation at WR induced him to overpay.

@AaronQuinn716 @YardsPerPass There’s a long history of WRs falling off after age 30. I agree w @YardsPerPass here. I’m ok w Moore salary or draft compensation, but both … yeesh.

@getwhatugive @adamobrien For me, anyone who thinks Saylor is getting a leg up on everyone else underestimates the power of those who make the rules (banks, central banks, governments).

@MarkStopa @adamobrien What if an unintended consequence of corporations, governments and institutions ADAPTING and sequestering Bitcoin is network growth stalls out and…power law no longer applies? Gradually, then suddenly Saylor / $MSTR stacking Bitcoin…checkmates network effect and mass ADOPTION.

Saylor is buying bitcoin by the billions and people are still debating whether they should buy a few hundred dollars worth? The gap between the people who understand this and the people still "waiting to see what happens" is going to look embarrassing in hindsight.

@ekballer If govt confiscated 100% of the wealth of all billionaires … just took it all … it would fund govt for less than a year. Raising taxes can never fix the problem.

You fuckwads gave away a trillion in tax cuts to the ultra wealthy and corporations and now you’re spending $1B/day on a needless war Fuck off Nikki you’re part of the problem

@adamobrien Yeah. If banks, central banks & governments were buying (like they’re buying metals), I’d be in with size. But Saylor buying more? Pfft. He needs to go away.

@MarkStopa I agree The problem (and the post) is that that most people won’t buy, while these people buy it all

@GaryBohm5 JPMorgan Chase is effectively a branch of U.S. govt. That’s my guess.

The official gold reserves of the United States stand at 8,133.5 tons, the largest reported national stockpile in the world. The gold being used to settle the trade deficit with China, however, does not appear to be coming from these registered reserves, as they remain stable going back over the last 4 months. This raises a deeply uncomfortable question: where is the gold coming from? Whatever the source, the fact remains: the U.S. is bleeding gold to China, and the rate of that bleeding is accelerating.