May 30, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for May 30, 2026
Leading global equity indices hit new record highs The S&P has closed higher for 9 consecutive weeks, up ~20% from the March lows. The Nasdaq has also closed higher for 9 consecutive weeks, up ~32% from the March lows. The Japanese Nikkei index is up ~31% from the March lows. The South Korean ETF is up […]
May 30, 2026 | This Week in Money
- Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Canadian Dollar, Oil, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin.
- Martin Straith: (9:47) Stock Markets, Oil, US-Iran War, Consumer Confidence, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, AI, Semi-Conductor Sector.
- Hilliard MacBeth: (39:45) Collapse of the Canadian Real Estate Market, Recession, Alberta Separatism, Electric Vehicles.
May 29, 2026 | The $4 Trillion Test Coming To The Stock Market
The stock market is about to face a $4 trillion test it has never seen before. Three companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic — are preparing to go public in the coming months, together seeking roughly $4 trillion in new capital from investors. To put that in perspective, the total of all U.S. IPOs from […]
May 29, 2026 | Medical Kidnapping Legal in Canada – Biophysicist Silenced for Dissent
The Nicholas Wagter case has exploded online because many people believe it represents something far more dangerous than one isolated mental health dispute. According to widespread claims circulating online, Wagter, a widely published doctor in biophysics, was forcibly detained under Canada’s psychiatric intervention laws after becoming increasingly vocal about financial systems, patent disputes, institutional […]
May 29, 2026 | Canada’s Bubble of Everything is Bursting
Are Oil markets being deliberately manipulated?
May 28, 2026 | Swiss Bank Accounts are DEAD – The New Banking Hub
For decades, Switzerland sold one thing better than perhaps any country on earth: privacy. That became its true export. People think of watches, chocolate, pharmaceuticals, or skiing resorts, but Switzerland’s real business was protecting capital from governments. That was the foundation of modern offshore banking. Switzerland has destroyed the very industry that made it […]
May 28, 2026 | Stock Markets Appear Heavily Manipulated
Big disconnect between crude and gasoline prices
May 28, 2026 | Could SpaceX Create an Investment Vacuum?
New US Government regulations could boost price of Gold
May 26, 2026 | Truth about ‘Investing’
The segment below offers some real talk about the madness that passed as investing savvy in Canadian real estate over the last decade. Until the ‘easy money’ tide goes out, most have no idea how ill-advised and self-destructive their behaviours are. Revelations tend to spread as prices drop and losses compound. The Shocking Contrast between […]
May 26, 2026 | The AI Revolution: Where Capitalism Meets Socialism
from Scheerpost Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will in the relatively near future produce an economy of extraordinary abundance – one in which most labor is automated. The contention of Elon Musk is that this development will require some form of government-issued “Universal High Income” (UHI) to […]
May 25, 2026 | Distressed Listings
Happy Monday Morning! Despite the sharpest house price correction in more than three decades, mortgage arrears in Canada remain low. Recent data from the Canadian Bankers Association shows the national arrears rate was a paltry 0.28% (as of February 2026), which means just over a quarter of a percentage point of mortgages are in arrears. […]
May 24, 2026 | Preparing To Say Goodbye (To Our Junior Miners And Explorers)
The commodities investment thesis goes like this: The price of gold, silver, copper, uranium, etc, will rise as production stagnates and demand increases (also as fiat currencies are inflated away). Higher prices will give the best miners lots of free cash flow. The miners will then raise dividends and buy back shares. As the cash […]
May 23, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for May 23, 2026
Another all-time high for the S&P, up ~18% from the March lows The S&P has closed higher for 8 consecutive weeks, something that has happened only 6 times since 1998. The S&P is up ~56% from the April 2025 “Liberation Day” lows (blue ellipse), and ~115% from the 2022 lows (pink ellipse) when the market began to […]
May 23, 2026 | This Week in Money
- Ross Clark: Stock Markets, Oil, Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, USD, Canadian Dollar.
- Victor Adair: (11:05) Iran War, Stock Markets, Space X, Oil, Currencies, Metals Markets.
- Bob Moriarty: (40:24) Rich and Poor, Iran War, Copper, AI, Lithium, Uranium, Silver.
May 22, 2026 | The Xi Trump Summit and The Thucydides Trap
When Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap at the Trump-Xi summit in May 2026, he was doing more than referencing ancient history. He was signaling something about the present. The Thucydides Trap theory comes from Graham Allison’s 2017 book Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Allison, a professor at Harvard, draws on the […]
May 22, 2026 | Cuban Crisis Escalating
The Cuban crisis is becoming far more dangerous than most people understand because this is no longer simply about Cuba. This is about the global war cycle accelerating exactly as the models projected years ago. Once great powers begin directly confronting each other in each other’s spheres of influence, history shows that events start moving […]
May 22, 2026 | The New Fed Head Seems Right
Bonds, not the Fed, control most interest rates.
May 21, 2026 | Britain Desperate for Oil
Britain is now discovering you cannot dismantle your industrial and energy base, wage war on domestic production, impose endless climate regulations, and still expect to maintain a functioning economy. Reality eventually arrives no matter how many politicians attempt to legislate against it. The UK is quietly loosening oil and gas restrictions because the country is […]
May 21, 2026 | SpaceX IPO Excitement Rocketing
Will change in Fed head make a difference?
May 21, 2026 | Surging Stock Market Ignoring the Economy
Living to 120 will soon be normal
May 20, 2026 | EU Commissioner Blames Stagflation on War
Europe is now openly admitting it faces a stagflation shock, but this crisis did not suddenly appear because of the Iran war. The war merely accelerated a collapse that was already well underway due to years of catastrophic policy decisions. Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, described the situation as a “stagflationary shock” […]
May 19, 2026 | Recession Watch: Inflation Spikes, Bonds Rebel
The latest Middle East war is approaching its three-month anniversary, and the price of everything related to energy and fertilizer is way up: As go energy and fertilizer, so goes food. Beef, for instance, was already rising. But now it’s spiking. See Wolf Street’s Food Inflation in America by Product: It Boils Down to a Sharp Acceleration on […]
May 18, 2026 | Medical AI Breakthroughs – The Future of Medicine
For years, many people dismissed artificial intelligence as little more than a threat to jobs or another speculative technology bubble. Yet beneath the political noise and media hysteria, one of the most important medical revolutions in modern history is quietly beginning to emerge. Artificial intelligence is now helping doctors detect diseases earlier, develop drugs faster, […]
May 17, 2026 | Becoming Invisible, Part 19: You Only Think You Own Your Car
Modern vehicles had already become “rolling surveillance devices” by the beginning of this decade. But that’s just the start. Much more dystopian tech is in the pipeline. Consider the following, from a couple of recent X posts: In new patents filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (Serial No. 20250104469), Ford is envisioning a future where […]
May 16, 2026 | Trading Desk Notes for May 16, 2026
The S&P has its biggest down day on Friday since late March After rallying nearly 19% from the March lows to record highs on Thursday, the S&P slumped on Friday as bond yields soared, front-month Brent crude oil rose to ~$110, and Hormuz remained a Gordian knot. The S&P has closed higher for seven consecutive […]














