The Last Asset Standing™: Book Release January 2026
By Peter J. Merrick, TEP® and Adrian C. Spitters, CFP®, co-authors of the international bestseller It Starts With Gold™ and the forthcoming book Guns, Gold & Land™
This analysis continues a series of long-form investigations published in The Merrick Spitters Reset Report™
We Are One Minute To Midnight!
That is not hyperbole. It is the reality we now live in. The World Economic Forum calls it “The Great Reset.” Klaus Schwab, its founder, calls it “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” They are not hiding it. They have announced it, written it down, and are building it in plain sight. Their vision is a world where you will own nothing and be happy, but someone else will own everything, including you.
This is why we are writing The Last Asset Standing™, to be released in January 2026. It is the follow-up to our international bestseller It Starts With Gold™, which struck a nerve with readers around the world. That first book introduced a simple yet powerful framework: Owning Your Assets in Order of Asset Confiscation. In other words, if something can be seized, frozen, taxed into dust, or digitally erased, it is not truly yours.
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In The Last Asset Standing™, we go all the way to the end of that line.
We ask the one question most avoid: What do you still own when everything else is gone?
The answer is your final asset. The one they cannot touch unless you sell it.
Your soul.
Your beliefs. Your convictions. Your ability to say no, to choose your own way, to think freely, even when the system demands obedience. That is what Viktor Frankl meant when he wrote, “The last of human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
This is not just a nice quote. It is the foundation of The Last Asset Standing™.
Adrian and I have spent more than 70 years combined working deep within the financial-industrial complex. We know how it works. We know where it is going. And we know that most individuals are still asleep to what is being built around them. A system where every asset is tracked, every transaction is monitored, and every freedom is contingent on obedience.
This book is a warning, yes, but it is also a call to remember who you are. Because in the end, all the gold, real estate, currency, or corporate shares mean nothing if you trade away the only thing that is truly yours.
Your soul is The Last Asset Standing™.
And The Last Asset Standing™ is not just a title. It is a truth. When the lights go out, when the system turns on you, when everything external is gone, what remains is the one thing they can never truly take unless you hand it over willingly.
Never sell it. Not for comfort. Not for fear. Not for approval. Not for anything.
Because once your soul is gone, you are too.
There Is Still Hope, But Only If We Act
We are not powerless.
We must expose what is happening, prepare for what is coming, and reclaim our right to own, save, and pass on what we have earned.
Speak. Organize. Prepare. Own what is real. Draw your line now, or there may be no line left to draw.
At our firm, we assist clients in structuring wealth by Owning Assets in Order of Asset Confiscation. We prioritize the most secure assets and safeguard those that are most vulnerable.
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We explore these urgent themes in greater depth in our #1 international bestseller, It Starts With Gold™, co-authored by Peter J. Merrick, TEP® and Adrian C. Spitters, CFP®.
In the book, we reveal how ownership of tangible assets, particularly physical gold, can protect you from the rising wave of financial control and taxation. We break down how to preserve wealth across generations, reduce your vulnerability to policy shocks, and restore financial sovereignty in a world that increasingly seeks to take it away. Visit ItStartsWithGold.com while you still can.
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