Liberty Bullion

Liberty Bullion Australian bullion dealer operated by Sam Lawrie

10/05/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions about precious metals in Australia is the tax side.

Physical bullion doesn’t pay dividends, so generally you’re dealing with capital gains tax rather than income tax. Hold it longer than 12 months and there may be CGT discounts available depending on your circumstances.

There’s also no GST on investment grade bullion, and no stamp duty like you’d see with property.

But the funniest part of this conversation was why bullion dealers don’t accept card payments.

Think about it from a scammer’s perspective. If you had stolen credit cards, what’s one of the first things you’d buy?

Something with intrinsic value that can immediately be resold.

That’s why most serious bullion dealers stick to bank transfer and cash.

Watch the full conversation via the link in bio.

09/05/2026

Silver just closed above $80 USD once again 📈 is the bull run back on?

Silver up over 6.5% this week alone. Gold up nearly 2%. Platinum up nearly 3%. The metals are moving!

Technical analysts I follow are calling the end of the consolidation. The bull market is back on. I don't have a crystal ball, but when silver breaks out of a multi-month range and closes a week above $80... you pay attention.

What happens from here? My view is we continue higher. The macro thesis hasn't changed. If anything, it's strengthened.

What a time to be alive. Get in touch with Liberty Bullion.

05/05/2026

You’re earning more dollars. But you’re living worse. Welcome to bracket creep.

In 2016, you’re on $120k a year. By 2025, if you got a pay rise just in line with official inflation, you’d be on $150k. Sounds great, right?

Wrong. You’ve now crossed into a higher tax bracket. Your purchasing power after tax is actually worse than it was in 2016. The government collects more from you, you live worse, but they get to tell you you’re earning more.

Now let’s use real inflation. A 10% raise each year puts you over $300k by 2025. You’re now in the 45% tax bracket, handing nearly half of every dollar over $190k to the government. Compare that to the 30% you were paying before.

The government underreports inflation, your income creeps into higher brackets, and they take more while you buy less.

And with the RBA interest rate decision coming up, don’t expect any relief. They’re stuck between crushing debt and structural inflation. Either way, your purchasing power gets squeezed.

This is exactly why I hold assets outside the system. Physical metals don’t care about tax brackets or central bank decisions.

Get in touch with Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

05/05/2026

With the interest rate coming in tomorrow, let's have a little bit about inflation.

Forget the official inflation numbers for a second. How much have YOUR expenses actually gone up?

For me, it's 10-15%. And here's why the government has every incentive to underreport it.

Every government expense is indexed to inflation. Pensions, unemployment benefits, public sector wages. All of it. If they report 10% inflation, they need to pay out 10% more. But if they report 3.9%, they only bump payments by 3.9%.

That 6% gap might not sound like much. But compound it over 10 years and you've got pensioners living nowhere near the standard they used to.

The key takeaway is this: when the government has a financial incentive to manipulate the data, you can't trust the data. That's exactly why I hold physical assets with zero counterparty risk.

Get in touch with Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

02/05/2026

PRECIOUS METALS MARKET UPDATE!

Metals flat this week... but the Fed drama is just getting started.

Gold down 2%, silver down 1.2%, platinum down less than 1%. All this despite oil surging 8% for the week, which typically puts downward pressure on precious metals in the short term.

But here's what matters: Jerome Powell's last meeting as Fed chair turned into a major power play. He's staying on as governor, which is highly unusual and has already drawn criticism from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, calling it an "insult" to incoming chair Kevin Warsh.

This kind of instability at the institution that manages the global reserve currency? That's long-term bullish for precious metals.

What a time to be alive.

30/04/2026

Countries are moving away from the US dollar to gold, and you can profit from it.

In 2025, the US ran a ~$900 billion trade deficit and exported around $85 billion worth of gold. That’s close to 10% of the deficit effectively being settled in physical gold.

Instead of recycling surplus into US treasuries, trade partners are taking gold and moving it out.

That’s a major shift.

If this becomes the new baseline, countries will need significantly larger gold reserves just to secure energy, resources, and trade flows going forward.

Meaning that for retail investors, this shift in currency and value presents an opportunity to profit significantly.

Watch the full episode with Alex Scanlon, link in bio.

29/04/2026

Stocks. Real estate. Precious metals. What should you look at in 2026?

When you've got limited capital, and you need to pick one, I keep coming back to the same answer.

Precious metals have been outperforming for years. And I'm expecting that to continue.

The strategy is simple. Buy bullion. Put it in the safe. Zero counterparty risk. It's yours and nobody else can touch it.

You don't need to watch the market every day. You don't need to stress about earnings reports or interest rate decisions. You just enjoy the ride.
Buy and hold bullion. It really is that straightforward.

Get in touch with Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

28/04/2026

Physical Precious Metals or ETF? 🤔

The custodians behind most precious metals ETFs are investment banks. JP Morgan. Goldman Sachs. The same institutions that need a government bailout every time the global economy sneezes.

Here's the contradiction. You buy gold and silver because you think the financial system is under stress. So why would you trust that same financial system to hold your metals for you?

If things really do hit the fan, you're going to want physical. Not a claim on someone else's balance sheet.

Buy the real deal from Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

27/04/2026

Over the last 3 years, my precious metals portfolio is up 178.7%.

The best performing industry super fund over the same period? Not even close. And I’m doing the exact same thing today.

The macro case is straightforward. The last time we saw high inflation and rising interest rates was the 1970s. Gold went from $35 USD an ounce in 1971 to $850 by 1980. Stocks moved sideways for the decade. Bonds were the worst place to be. Real estate did nothing.

Australian super funds invest in stocks, bonds, and real estate. You can see why I’m choosing something different.

Add in deteriorating confidence in central banks globally, and BRICS nations buying gold at a record pace, and you’ve got a major shift in trust happening at the highest level. That’s a shift you can identify and position yourself ahead of.

My current split is 70% silver, 20% gold, and 10% platinum. That weighting reflects where I think the biggest upside is in this part of the bull market.

This isn’t financial advice. It’s just what I’m doing with my own money.

Get in touch with Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

26/04/2026

Precious metals market update 💛

All three metals are down this week. Gold -1.7%, silver -6.3%, platinum -4.4%.

The dip and restocking of silver kilos at our stores make this a perfect buying opportunity! Plus, the Wall Street kilo silver bars have some of the cheapest premiums over spot in Australia.

Trump putting the Iran war "on hold" has the Middle East situation sitting in limbo, which is keeping a lid on metals in the short term. But the macro hasn't changed.

Come in and grab some silver while it's cheap.

What a time to be alive.

26/04/2026

China just bought $3 billion of silver in a single month.

The monthly average is 300 tonnes. This March, they bought 836. That's not a coincidence. That's a calculated move by the world's largest economy to load up on silver before it runs.

At a conservative $300 USD an ounce, China's March purchase alone turns into $10 billion AUD in profit. At $1,000 an ounce, that's $36 billion from one month of buying.

The question isn't whether China knows something. It's whether you're going to act on the same information they are.

Get in touch with Liberty Bullion. What a time to be alive.

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