On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt(FDR) signed Executive Order 6102, forcing ordinary Americans to surrender their gold coins, bullion, and certificates to Federal Reserve banks for $20.67 per ounce. The government soon revalued gold to $35 per ounce, effectively confiscating 40% of their wealth overnight. Under a fiat […]
News headlines are focused on AI innovations. Not so much on the input, but on the output. The good, the bad, and the ridiculously ugly parts. It’s mostly entertainment. They want the spectacle—the robot that will fold their laundry, do the dishes, and guide them to their next best purchase […]
Gold has served as humanity’s most trusted store of value for millennia, but recent enforcement actions have revealed a darker side to modern precious metals markets. Over the past decade, major financial institutions, institutions we are told to trust, have paid billions in fines for systematically manipulating gold prices, proving […]
From my monthly Bitcoin Capitalist Letter to subscribers, after a lengthy look at bond yields, and how they’ve been going the wrong direction ever since the Fed’s half-point cut last September, I remarked on the following: “The US is flooding the bond market with so much supply to fund deficit spending, that […]
Silver is the new silver. Always has been. The chart looks exciting, but anyone looking at the bigger picture should be ecstatic. Silver has a long way to go. If you look at the silver price historically, you can see silver has touched the $50 glass ceiling twice before. So, […]
Originally posted by Lau Vegys at International Man: What if I told you that something bad is happening with the U.S. government’s biggest creditor on Earth—and it could have very serious implications for your portfolio? This story caught my eye a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been meaning to […]
Most of Trump’s campaign promises have been cancelled by the Federal courts. The reason is… They’re protecting from government overreach. At least, that’s what they say, or that’s how they see their role. And, in fact, that is the classical role of the legal system in the whole formation of […]
The Fed is buying treasury bonds… An old system under a new name. After the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007–2008, the Federal Reserve implemented quantitative easing (QE) to stabilize the economy, restore confidence in financial markets, and spur growth. Back then, the Fed’s QE programs involved large-scale asset purchases […]
Government policies, regulations and interventions can make or break markets. They can make ’em. And then they can break ’em. That’s what happened with clean energy policy back in 2021. The Biden administration issued the “Inflation Reduction Act(IRA).” Except it wasn’t about inflation reduction. It was a big money printing […]
Countries around the world are actively seeking alternatives to the US dollar for international trade and reserves. This trend has dramatically increased in 2025 as numerous countries are adopting different approaches to wean themselves off the American currency, reflecting a vital change in the world’s financial system since World War […]