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.

January 23, 2026 | Carney Takes a Risky Gamble with a Bet on China

High Risk, High Reward: Carney’s China Gamble Prime Minister Mark Carney has defied Washington by striking a sweeping trade deal with China—slashing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and dismantling long-standing barriers on agricultural exports. Under the agreement, China will cut import levies on Canadian canola, canola meal, lobster, crab, and peas. In return, Canada will sharply reduce […]

January 23, 2026 | The US Real Estate Investor Ban

Donald Trump declared at Davos that America would not become a nation of renters, much to the dismay of the “you will own nothing and be happy” audience. Trump is now talking about banning large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes, claiming this is about restoring the American Dream and ending the insanity where […]

January 23, 2026 | Will Silver’s Rocketing Momentum Continue?

What falling interest rates really indicate

January 22, 2026 | US Real Estate – 37.2% More Sellers than Buyers

  Redfin estimates there were 37.2% more home sellers than buyers in November, which is the largest gap since 2013 outside of last summer. The computer warned that the US would experience a buyer’s market until 2028. The imbalance does not translate into some 2008 era real estate crisis, but it highlights the confidence cycle […]

January 22, 2026 | Markets Reacting to Trump Greenland Comments

Metals continue to drive higher

January 21, 2026 | The “Dollar Debasement Trade” Goes Full “Sell America”

Suddenly, the whole world is either selling US assets or threatening to do so. And based on Donald Trump’s recent World Economic Forum speech, in which he demanded control of Greenland and ridiculed multiple globalist scams, “sell America” is a trend with legs. The main beneficiary? Gold, of course. See this from Kitco: Gold blasts through […]

January 20, 2026 | Trump Invites Russia to Join Board of Peace

  The Board of Peace was established in November 2025 to champion the Gaza-Israel ceasefire. Donald Trump will act as the first chairman and has begun inviting nations to join, including Russia. The headlines are reacting as if this is some radical, unprecedented concept. I have said repeatedly that the real objective for decades has […]

January 19, 2026 | Plan B

Happy Monday Morning! Asking rents in Canada fell again in December, falling for the 15th consecutive month according to Rentals.ca. Furthermore, December marked the slowest month for rental demand in two years, capping off five straight months of declining prospect counts. Source: Rentals.ca For those that have been following this newsletter, falling rents will come […]

January 18, 2026 | Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Bots Are Coming

Readers can be forgiven for wondering how long the ‘topping process’ I’ve alluded to over the last several months will drag on. As you will have long since concluded, no one can answer that question with confidence. For all that we supposed experts know, the bull market that began in 2009 could still be chugging […]

January 17, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for January 17, 2026

The Art Of The Deal I started this year with a “gut feeling” that events in 2026 would “rock our world.” When Trump snatched Madero, I wrote, “Here we go.”   This morning, Trump cranked up the “We have to have Greenland” pressure by declaring that Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and […]

January 17, 2026 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Market Record Highs, Gold, Silver, Copper, Uranium, Oil, Bitcoin, USD and Canadian Dollar.
• Rick Ackerman: (10:37) Silver, Copper, AI, Bitcoin, Lithium, Gold.
• Josef Schachter:  (38:27) Oil, Energy, Geopolitical Events in Venezuela and Iran, Alberta Independence.
• Robert Campbell: (1:31:12) US Economy, Interest Rates, Housing Market, Fitness Tips.

January 16, 2026 | Iranian Officials Funnel Money to Dubai Via Crypto

Nothing causes capital to flee offshore faster than an incoming war. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that Iranian officials are rapidly moving capital out of Iran ahead of US intervention. “As Treasury who carries out the sanctions we can see is we are now seeing the rats fleeing the ship because we can see […]