February 7, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Magnificent 7, Bitcoin, Gold, Silver, Copper, USD, Canadian Dollar.
• Eric Hadik: (10:48)  Market Cycles, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Bitcoin, USD, Canadian Dollar, Energy Market, Lithium.
• David Brett: (43:48) Mining Industry, UNDRIP, Land Claims in British Columbia.

February 6, 2026 | The Economy into 2028

  QUESTION: Marty, January posted the largest January job loss numbers since the Great Recession of 108,435, which was a 118% increase from a year earlier. This seems to be in line with Socrates’ going into February where it projected a rise in volatility there as well and a Directional Change. Plus, consumer confidence started […]

February 6, 2026 | Tech’s Momentum Breaks — And the Market Scrambles for Alternatives

Technology investors are discovering that nuance cuts both ways. Markets are no longer reacting simply to whether a company is “in AI” or “not in AI”, they’re reacting to how AI reshapes business models. And this week, that shift in mindset produced some of the sharpest rotations we’ve seen in years. Earnings season made the divide painfully […]

February 6, 2026 | Will New Fed Head March to Trump’s Drummer?

No concept of risk in today’s market

February 5, 2026 | All Is Well or Is It?

“If you depreciate the money, it makes everything look like it’s going up.” – Ray Dalio “People don’t realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people who don’t realize they’re living a lie” – Edward Snowden My government overlords and their legacy media propaganda outlets tell me the […]

February 5, 2026 | Will Interest Rate Policy Change With New Fed Head?

Will there be any safe havens if market crashes?

February 5, 2026 | Market, Metals, Bitcoin Correction Predictable

Is it time to abolish the Federal Reserve?

February 4, 2026 | Washington Launches $12B Rare Earth Minerals Reserve

The Trump administration is moving to create what is being described as a strategic stockpile for rare earths and other critical minerals, branded “Project Vault,” with reported financing of around $12 billion, involving a major loan structure and private participation from large industrial users. This is a defensive move akin to a petroleum stockpile and […]

February 3, 2026 | Home Prices are Round-Tripping

Home price deflation is underway in many high-population centers in Canada and America, see Housing Market Is Shifting Back Toward an Advantage for Buyers on the front page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: “The proliferation of discounts and incentives offers the latest evidence that the housing market is tilting back in the buyer’s favour.” The US housing […]

February 2, 2026 | United Nations Facing “Imminent Financial Collapse”

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the organization could face “imminent financial collapse” unless member states pay their dues in full and on time or unless the underlying financial structure is fundamentally reformed. “The crisis is deepening, threatening programme delivery and risking financial collapse. And the situation will deteriorate further in the near […]

February 1, 2026 | Microsoft’s Plunge Pricks AI Bubble

Pity the J-school rookies who are paid to explain why the stock market did what it did on a given day. On Thursday, Microsoft shares lost nearly a half-a-trillion dollars of value. But why? Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing called it a ‘rap on the knuckles’ for the company’s huge spending on AI projects that seem increasingly unlikely to […]

January 31, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for January 31, 2026

Margin Call Comex April gold futures reached a record high of ~$5,627 during the overnight session on Wednesday (January 28). Then they began a dramatic 40-hour sell-off that reached a low of ~$4,700 during the Friday day session. Top to bottom, the sell-off was ~$927, or ~16.5%. Despite the swift decline, Comex gold posted a record-high monthly […]

January 31, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Silver, Copper, Oil, Bitcoin.
• Victor Adair: ( 11:25) Gold, Silver, Currencies, Cuba Oil Embargo, World Outlook Conference.
• Martin Straith: (39:13) Gold, Silver, Fed Chair, USD, Stock Markets, Bitcoin, Decentralized Financing.  Special Offer!

January 30, 2026 | Physical Bank Branches Disappearing – Relationship Banking is Dead

Physical bank branches are disappearing along with relationship banking. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) files state that the US lost a net total of 339 bank branches in December 2025. The S&P Global and Federal Reserve found that the US has been losing, on average, 1,600 bank branches per year. Santander […]

January 30, 2026 | Silver Key Indicator for Metals and Markets Health

Gold and Silver drop dramatically

January 29, 2026 | Potential Homebuyers Walking Away at Record Pace

  We are witnessing an unmistakable shift in the US housing market, not a bubble pop like 2008, but a market regime change characterized by buyers retreating as inventory rises and affordability remains strained. Recent data from Redfin shows that roughly 40,000 US home-purchase agreements were canceled in December, representing about 16.3% of homes that […]

January 29, 2026 | The Secret Theory Behind Gold’s Charge to $5000

Why you should be wary of the term “tokenization”?

January 29, 2026 | Ground Hog Day – Does It Affect the Markets?

Gold and Silver marching into uncharted territory

January 28, 2026 | The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing

From Scheer Post A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of their 2025 profits to shareholders. Goldman Sachs returned $16.78 billion on $17.18 billion in earnings, meaning 97.7% of its earnings went to shareholders. Wells Fargo, […]

January 27, 2026 | Zelensky – NATO’s puppet

QUESTION: The Kremlin refuses to end the war in Ukraine unless the Donbas region is surrendered. Zelensky has previously stated he will not hand over the Donbas region to Moscow. This looks like what you have said. No resolution. Are we headed into more warfare in February/March? DG ANSWER: Zelensky is a piece of shit […]

January 26, 2026 | China is Coming for Our Gold Miners

With the world hurtling towards a monetary reset, everyone suddenly wants the gold miners. Just this morning: China’s Zijin Gold to buy Canadian miner Allied Gold for about $4 billion (Reuters) – Chinese miner Zijin Gold will buy Canadian miner Allied gold for C$5.5 billion ($4.02 billion) ​in cash, the companies said on Monday, as […]

January 25, 2026 | What Rough Beast?

If you can’t guess what commodity the chart shows, you must be living on Mars. It is in fact a long-term picture of silver, which went ballistic in December.  The price has doubled since, blowing out a $50 top that had stood since 1980. That price became a part of silver’s legend, since it is […]

January 24, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for January 24, 2026

Trump fatigue? The S&P gapped lower and closed on its lows on Tuesday after the MLK long weekend (blue ellipse), following Trump’s bellicosity over Greenland and ahead of his scheduled Davos speech on Wednesday. (US bonds and the USD also fell sharply on Tuesday in a “sell the USA” wave.) The S&P rallied on Wednesday, when […]

January 24, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Victor Adair:  Stock Markets, Silver, Gold, Copper, Uranuim, Energy Sector.
• Ann Vandersteel: (10:45) Shorting, Naked Shorting, Uptick Rule.
• Allan Angell: (37:00) Housing Market Stats, How to Find a Real Estate Agent.