January 24, 2025 | Trump’s Revolution, In Context

As you watch Trump shred the old order, are you wondering about this revolution’s historical and philosophical roots? For instance, how does MAGA relate to the Fourth Turning? Or to the deep state? Or the Monroe Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson’s globalism, George Soros’ “open society?” or Klaus Schwab’s one world government? Could you, in short, use […]

January 24, 2025 | Gold Juniors Carry High Potential

Is it market exuberance or plain insanity?

January 24, 2025 | Trump Outlaws CBDC – Telling Schwab and the WEF to Stuff It!

President Trump Signs Executive Order To Ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). As I have been warning and appeared in the movie CBDC, the End of Money, that it would have been unconstitutional for the Federal Reserve to create a CBDC, and my sources had confirmed that the Fed would not make a CBDC. This […]

January 23, 2025 | Could the US Drop Canada as a Trade Partner? Trump Threatens FREE Trade

Donald Trump is prepared to drop Canada as a trade partner based on his recent comments in Davos at the World Economic Forum. “We don’t need them to make our cars, and they make a lot of them. We don’t need their lumber because we have our own forests,” he continued. “We don’t need their […]

January 23, 2025 | Loonie Dives to 22-Year Low

Canada’s loonie (CAD) traded at .6939 U.S. this morning, the lowest since January 2003. Part of the weakness comes from the Canadian overnight rate at 3.25%, which is expected to be cut to 3% on January 29, 133 basis points (bps) below the current U.S. effective funds rate at 4.33%. Foreign capital flows where it’s […]

January 23, 2025 | Stocks Driven Higher by AI Energy Demand

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January 23, 2025 | The US Definitely Needs Canadian Oil and Gas

Canadian inflation under better control than in the US

January 22, 2025 | Why Biden’s Pardons Are Unconstitutional and VOID

  QUESTION: YOu said that Biden’s pardons are probably unconstitutional. Please explain this since nobody in the press has taken that position. Thank you for your insight LD ANSWER: The only pardon that has any real validity is that for Hunter. All of these “preemptive” pardons are not valid. The Supreme Court made this issue […]

January 22, 2025 | WTI Falls >US$3/b Over The Last Week As Markets Await Trump Tariff Decisions

Outgoing President Biden made some last minute questionable pardon decisions that caused a distaste as he exited the stage. Were these individuals (family, J6 committee members and staff or Dr. Fauci, etc.) really guilty or was it to save them from Congressional testimony. Putting the past behind would be the best for America as it […]

January 22, 2025 | Trump Astride Most Over-Valued Stock Market

President Trump comes back to office amid one of the most over-valued stock markets of all time, even more inflated than at President Hoover’s inauguration months before the Black Tuesday crash of 1929. See WSJ: Make America Cheap Again. The CAPE is just one of a long list of historically prescient indicators ringing alarm bells. Of […]

January 22, 2025 | Mining is Hard: Mali Demands a Bigger Cut

The East African nation of Mali experienced a military coup in 2021. After settling in, the new “junta” turned its attention to the country’s miners, claiming a bigger stake in projects and demanding commensurately higher tax payments. First in the crosshairs was Perth-based Resolute Mining. When the company’s CEO came to town to negotiate a new […]

January 21, 2025 | DoubleLine Round Table 2025

More moving parts than usual in 2025…For a few new ones, see Everything to Know about Trump’s Use of Executive Orders. The discussion below further elucidates. During the macroeconomic segment of Round Table Prime’s 2025 edition, participants, among other issues, deliberate the future path of inflation, premature Trump administration assumptions at the Federal Reserve, the hidden but […]

January 21, 2025 | Canada Created its Own Trade Barriers

  Stéfane Marion, chief economist of the National Bank of Canada, has urged the Canadian government to reconsider their own trade barriers amid criticism of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in a 2019 study that Canada’s own restrictions are “regarded as the most comprehensive analysis of internal trade barriers.” Rather […]

January 20, 2025 | Listening to Fools

  COMMENT: I had assumed you were just a Trump supporter. It has been emphasized that I was wrong and that you are in the middle of forecasting the events economically. I was told you recently said that Trump could go down as Herbert Hoover and that he cannot prevent the recession from occurring. Would […]

January 20, 2025 | Balance Sheet Recessions Take Years To Repair

The winds of change are blowing around the globe. 74 countries representing half of the world’s population held national elections last year. Many of them — including the US — saw a replacement of the ruling incumbent by the opposition, often one promising a more nationalistic agenda. With so many new leaders and their accompanying […]

January 20, 2025 | The Cash Cow

Happy Monday Morning! Highlighting a good piece from the BMO economics team this past week. Per BMO, The Canadian housing market should firm modestly this year, but it’s still a long way back to the 2022 highs. Activity and prices have recently improved alongside Bank of Canada rate cuts, and that moderate upward momentum should […]

January 19, 2025 | Microsoft

Get Microsoft right, as I continue to remind you, and your forecast for the stock market can’t go far wrong. The tech giant is among the most valuable companies in the world, with extraordinary profit margins tied to an 80% market share in operating systems. The subscription-based revenue model the company has put in place […]

January 19, 2025 | Why Macron Wants to Create World War III – For a Dictatorships

A reader from France elaborated on the real motives behind Macron’s wanting to send troops into Ukraine, knowing this would start World War III. He looks at this from a personal power perspective, like any dictator fearing a loss of power. The reader wrote: “To follow up on the Post “Macron Considers Sending Troops to […]

January 19, 2025 | A Possible Storm

Rain can be either refreshing or destructive. It can make plants grow or produce devastating floods. But in all cases, it’s largely outside human control. Or is it? True, we have little control over whether rain will fall. We have a lot of control over how it affects us, though. Sturdy homes and good infrastructure can keep […]

January 18, 2025 | The DEEP STATE – Exposed

  

January 18, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Gold, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar.
• Eric Hadik:  (9:46) Market Cycles, Gold, USD, Oil, Nasdaq, Bitcoin, Interest Rates, Lithium.
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January 18, 2025 | Tech Talk for Saturday January 18th 2025

The Bottom Line Focus this week is on fourth quarter earnings reports released by large cap U.S. companies. Results released to date (9% of S&P 500 companies) have exceeded consensus estimates. Just a reminder: U.S. equity markets are closed on Monday.

January 17, 2025 | Roosevelt Also Confiscated Silver in 1933

QUESTION: I made a bet that a friend was wrong that Roosevelt also confiscated silver. I never heard of that, only gold. He said I should write to you and you will decide who wins. Thanks FD   ANSWER: Sorry, you lose. He must have been at one of my conferences when we discussed that […]

January 17, 2025 | Musk Will Take a Chainsaw To Government Spending

The Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, is headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Elon Musk is well known as the world’s wealthiest entrepreneur, while Ramaswamy was a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2023. The goal of DOGE is to “cut the federal government down to size”. This could have a positive […]