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February 11, 2025 | Gold Outlook: Murky For the Metal, Bright For the Miners
It’s another great day for gold, with $2,800 in the rearview mirror and $3,000 in traders’ crosshairs. This means it’s time to take a deep breath and consider gold’s — and the miners’ —near-term prospects. Reasons for Caution Let’s start with seasonality. Winter is usually a good time for gold, while spring and early […]
February 7, 2025 | Exposing the Empire’s Secrets In Real-Time – USAID is just the beginning…
The US political class has created a constellation of taxpayer-funded grifts and sinecures that provide swamp creatures a lifetime of employment for a minimal amount of work. All that’s required is moral flexibility. A graduate of, say, Georgetown University, can build a “career” by cycling through the following entities: Congressional/White House staff Washington think tanks […]
February 6, 2025 | Health Prepping: Vitamin D Prevents Tooth Decay
Vitamin D is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s already known to prevent cancer, heart disease, and dementia. And according to new research, it also prevents and/or fixes cavities. Here’s an excerpt from a much longer article on the subject by Dr. Joseph Mercola: Remember that sharp pain while biting down on popcorn? Or the dreaded dentist visit […]
February 3, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, February 2025
Making America fun to watch again… Transforming government with the stroke of a pen. (Sensitive readers should skip this one.) And in case anyone still needs to be reminded, never believe anything you haven’t personally witnessed:
January 31, 2025 | The Casino Enters “Peak Complexity”
Finance hasn’t been simple for a long time. Starting more or less in the 1980s, traditional instruments like stocks and bonds were joined by futures, options, private equity, junk bonds, and bespoke derivatives like credit default swaps. “Quants” now build “black box” trading algorithms to arbitrage the relationships between these things, and clients place bets […]
January 29, 2025 | Recession Watch: Did the Everything Bubble Just Pop?
Real estate, being expensive to finance and highly volatile at market peaks, is frequently a catalyst for recessions. And as Wolf Street’s Wolf Richter reports, housing is sending “peak cycle” signals. The supply of new houses for sale is spiking to previous bubble levels: In some formerly hot markets, it’s even worse: Houses aren’t selling at today’s price/mortgage […]
January 25, 2025 | Trump’s Biggest Policy Change Is Great For Gold
The president has definitely hit the ground running. But his most impactful policy move isn’t an executive order or cabinet appointment. It’s this: President Trump says he’ll ‘demand that interest rates drop immediately’ (CNBC) – President Donald Trump lobbed his first volley at the Federal Reserve, saying Thursday that he will apply pressure to bring down interest […]
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 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 13, 2025 | Is the Catalyst For the Next Financial Crisis…Homeowners Insurance?
In October, two brutal hurricanes hit the US southeast. And last week, Los Angeles went up in flames and is still burning as this is written. These natural disasters are, obviously, a nightmare for the people directly impacted. But they might be part of something much bigger and far-reaching. Migration and Inflation Over the […]
January 10, 2025 | The UK’s Strange Collapse
In theory, the UK dodged a bullet by withdrawing from the EU back in 2020. Once again in control of its borders and budgets, it had the chance to slow immigration to a manageable rate, rationalize its tax, spending, and regulatory regimes, and chart its own course as a free, wealthy financial center and mid-tier geopolitical power. […]
January 8, 2025 | Rhyming History: Weimar Germany’s Hyperinflation
There have been some epic hyperinflations over the centuries, but none was as brutal — and consequential — as Germany’s in the early 1920s. Here’s a quick Chat GPT summary followed by some graphic images and a list of lessons the world should have — but apparently hasn’t — learned: Context of Post-World War I Germany: After […]