Before the Well Runs Dry
One Resource. One Window. One Shot.
By Justin Boren
The clock is running. America is $40 trillion in debt and adding $2.5 trillion more every year. The solution is sitting in the ground right now — and it belongs to you.
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Imagine waking up one morning to find that your savings account, your pension, and twenty years of hard work are worth half of what they were yesterday — and the morning after that, half again.
That is not a hypothetical. It is what happens when a government runs out of road. And America is closer to that road’s end than anyone in Washington is willing to admit.
Forty trillion dollars in debt. Two and a half trillion added every single year. Foreign creditors quietly walking away. A Federal Reserve trapped between two catastrophic choices. And a bond market that is beginning to ask a question no government ever wants to hear: what if they can’t pay it back?
But here’s what nobody is telling you: we already have the solution. It’s sitting in the ground right now, worth trillions of dollars. It belongs to you. And we are running out of time to claim it.
Before the Well Runs Dry is the book Washington doesn’t want you to read — not because it’s radical, but because it’s obvious. A trial attorney lays out the case that America’s debt crisis is not unsolvable. It is simply unsolved, because the people who benefit from the current arrangement have every incentive to keep it that way.
Norway figured this out decades ago. A small country with far fewer resources than America built the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth — and every Norwegian citizen owns a piece of it. We could have done the same thing. We still can. But the window is closing faster than most people realize.
By the time you finish this book, you’ll understand exactly how we got here, exactly what the solution looks like, and exactly why the next few years may be the last chance America gets to act on its own terms.
The oil is in the ground. The debt is on the books. The clock is running.
What’s Inside
Chapter One: The Currency War The battlefield is real, the stakes are higher than ever, and the clock is running out. Here’s what’s actually happening in the bond market — and why it matters to every American.
Chapter Two: The Price of Other People’s Oil What has America’s dependence on foreign oil actually cost us — militarily, financially, and strategically? The number will shock you.
Chapter Three: What’s Ours Trillions of dollars of oil sits beneath American soil right now. It belongs to the American people. So why aren’t we capturing its value?
Chapter Four: A Wartime State of Mind Every time America has faced an existential threat, it has acted boldly. This moment is no different — and the playbook already exists.
Chapter Five: The Norwegian Principle How a small country with far fewer resources built the largest sovereign wealth fund on earth — and what America can learn from it.
Chapter Six: Answering the Critics The hard objections, addressed honestly. No spin, no dodge — just the evidence.
Chapter Seven: The American Sovereign What it looks like if we get this right. A vision for what America could become if this generation rises to meet the moment.
Justin Boren is a trial attorney in Indiana. He has spent his career doing what attorneys do — examining evidence, weighing arguments, and presenting the clearest possible case. Before the Well Runs Dry is that same process applied to the most important financial question facing America today.
Boren studied in Norway, lived in Europe, and has spent years watching America’s debt crisis deepen while Washington looked the other way. He is not an economist or a policy expert. He is someone who looked at the evidence and refused to pretend it pointed somewhere else.