February 20, 2025 | Has MAGA Firepower Dimmed on the Markets?

Gold continues its charge higher

February 20, 2025 | Over a Quarter of Canadians See US as an Enemy

    The once strong alliance between Canada and the United States has come to an abrupt halt. More so than tariffs, Canadians were offended when President Donald Trump continually stated that America should absorb Canada as the 51st state. A recent poll found that over a quarter of Canadians now see the US as […]

February 19, 2025 | New Listings Spring Early

Despite snow banks and cold temps in much of Canada, property owners are getting a jump on what they hope will be strong spring demand. New property listings leapt 11% nationwide from December to January, the largest monthly increase in almost two years. The supply influx boosted the inventory of homes for sale in Canada […]

February 18, 2025 | Bid-Ask Spreads Wide Under Canadian Shelter Prices

Despite a 200 basis point drop in the Bank of Canada’s overnight rate, Canadian mortgage rates have more than doubled from the pandemic’s easy credit days when buyers were engulfed in bidding wars (5-year fixed rates offered by banks, below since April 2020, courtesy of WOW.ca).So far, sellers’ high hopes have kept asking prices elevated, even […]

February 17, 2025 | Washington in Meltdown as Bureaucrats Flee

  (“Swiss bank” (yellow), “offshore bank” (green), “wire money” (red) and “IBAN” (blue)) Google search results for “lawyer” have skyrocketed by 400% in Washington D.C. since Trump took office, according to WikiLeaks and Google Trends. The elites in Washington already have lawyers and methods to conceal their backdoor dealings, but their aids and others are […]

February 16, 2025 | Wonks and Eggheads Still Don’t ‘Get’ Trump

Trump promised everything but a cure for cancer during last Thursday’s press conference, and there was no doubting his sincerity or his commitment to helping to shape a better world. Can he do it? One thinks of Teddy Roosevelt, who possessed seemingly limitless energy and zeal for taking on big projects, including building a national […]

February 16, 2025 | Pharmaceutical Marketing – Billions Spent to Make You Sick

  The United States and New Zealand are perhaps the only nations that permit direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising. Big Pharma is permitted to use every marketing tool at its disposal to glamorize medications to consumers, who are then expected to go to their doctors and ask for the latest and greatest pill, treatment, or […]

February 15, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Bob Hoye: Stock Markets, Gold, Silver, Oil, USD, Canadian Dollar.
• Martin Armstrong:  (5:33) 2025 Canadian Report “Can Canada Survive Intact?”, Tariffs, Trump, Corruption.
• Eric Hadik: (32:23) Trading Cycles, Gold, USD, Bitcoin, Oil.
• Martin Straith:  (49:17) Get Politics Out of Your Portfolio, World Outlook Financial Conference. Special Offer!

February 14, 2025 | Higher Inflation Could End Rate Cuts For This Year

Higher inflation returned this week. The numbers for January CPI inflation came in hotter than expected. A significant upturn in Core CPI on a monthly and annual basis raised eyebrows, although the markets were not rattled for long. Is this the end of rate cuts? Will rate hikes be next? The U.S. CPI released on […]

February 14, 2025 | Is March to $3000 Gold Unstoppable?

Have Central Banks ever been able to stop a recession?

February 13, 2025 | China’s Real Estate Bust Leads Other Countries

Anyone who plays Monopoly can experience how quickly real estate holdings drag once cash in hand proves insufficient. Bubbles may seem fun on the way up, but they’re universally brutal in the inevitable deflation stage. China’s stimulus boom helped inflate global demand and real estate prices after the 2008 recession, but mean reversion has been […]

February 13, 2025 | What is the VR Trader Annual Forecast Calling For?

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February 13, 2025 | Is Trump’s Goal to Deliberately Boost Inflation?

Will Gold be a safe haven if stock market corrects?

February 12, 2025 | US Total Consumption Falls While Commercial Crude Stocks Rise

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have given Hamas until noon on Saturday to release all remaining hostages (alive and the bodies of the dead) as Hamas has not met the phase one conditions. If the release does not happen then Trump’s ‘All hell is going to break out’ could escalate the fighting in the […]

February 12, 2025 | Is This Time Different?

“We will not have any more crashes in our time.” – John Maynard Keynes, leading British economist, in 1927 “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I […]

February 11, 2025 | Trump About to Hit Canada with Category 5 Hurricane – You Won’t See it Coming, Warn Insiders

“Fentanyl is just the cover for what’s really wrong. What’s wrong is massive money laundering by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a huge scale,” reveals Marc Cohodes, legendary short seller and investor. In a powerful roundtable discussion, Cohodes joins Canadian investigative journalist Sam Cooper and our own Daniela Cambone to expose the deep-rooted corruption, […]

February 10, 2025 | Cooper: Canada is a Major Fentanyl Portal

Today we’re speaking with Canadian investigative journalist Sam Cooper, whose deeply researched book Wilful Blindness exposes Canada’s damning role in the opioid trade. This might explain why the Trump administration is going on the offensive with our northern neighbor. Sam’s research uncovers an intricate network where the inputs to make synthetic opioids like fentanyl move […]

February 9, 2025 | China’s Underground Banking Empire: How Drugs & Money Corrupt America | Sam Cooper



February 8, 2025 | Attack Rapidly, Ruthlessly, Viciously, without Rest

QUESTION: Would you comment on Trump’s agenda? Paul ANSWER: Those in Washington have lived a privileged life. During the Mortgaged Backed Security Crisis, when real estate declined, it did not decline by much at all in Washington because the government is like a broken gun without a firing pin – it won’t work, and you can’t fire […]

February 8, 2025 | This Week in Money

• Ross Clark:  Stock Markets, Gold, Bonds
• Robert Campbell: (12:27) US Real Estate, Tariffs, Unemployment, Recession
• Hilliard MacBeth: (55:50) 51st State, Natural Resources

February 8, 2025 | Why Americans Love Bitcoin More than Gold

Platinum, Palladium and Silver catching Gold fever

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 7, 2025 | Central Bank Rate Cuts Not Road to Prosperity

California fires boosting insurance rates

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 […]