America’s largest bank has all the systems in place to track your movements, your spending, and your sustainability. And they’re doing it, not by the old plastic card in your wallet, but by biometric scanning devices to identify who’s in and out. They’re already testing this on their own employees. […]
Is the U.S. about to experience another banking crisis? Shares in banks, and particularly regional banks, imploded yesterday. At one point the regional bank index (KRE) was down 7%. The issues pertain to two recent bankruptcies in the subprime auto-lending and auto parts manufacturing industries: TriColor Holdings and FirstBrands. About […]
The Thrill of the Wild “The whole way I’m driving out, I’m thinking I’m going to pull out this freaking $100,000 nugget.” The remark was recently made by 50-year-old Mike Hewlett, a welder from California. With gold now over $4,300 per ounce, he’s traded his hobbies of snowboarding, skiing, and dirt biking, […]
Shutdown Showdown At the time or this writing, the federal funding for the new fiscal year (FY 2026) has lapsed. The federal government bureaucracy is in partial shutdown. In Washington, D.C., and in federal offices across the nation, nearly a million people are either furloughed or clocking in for work […]
There has been a relentless rise in gold prices over the last three years. From a bottom of around $1640 in October 2022 to $4000/oz today, Gold has delivered a 35% CAGR over the last three years. Most analysts remain oblivious of the underlying causes and attribute the move in […]
The alarm clock reads 3:47 AM when Margaret checks her phone for the third time tonight. The headlines are relentless: inflation stubbornly above 4%, geopolitical tensions escalating, and her retirement account balance fluctuating wildly with each market session. At 58, she’s watching decades of careful savings slowly erode, not from […]
The bull market in hard assets is accelerating, NOT slowing down. Gold first cleared $3,800 per ounce on September 26th, 2025. Today, less than two weeks later, it’s over $3,900 per ounce. Gold is not the only hard asset ripping higher, either. Silver was below $46 two weeks ago. Today […]
At the end of August, contender for the Fed Chair. Michelle Bowman, told banks that “change is coming,” and unless you embrace AI and crypto your business will slowly die. With Powell’s retirement, and Bessent’s drive for stablecoin implementation to the save the US debt market, the next Fed Chair […]
The single most important chart in the world is flashing “danger.” The defining issue of the last ~45 years has been the secular bull market in bonds. From 1980 until 2022, the yield on the U.S. debt (called Treasuries) was in a downtrend. In the very simplest of terms, this […]
Last week I noted that the single most important chart in the world is flashing “danger.” By quick way of review… Central banks are fully aware of this situation and have been taking steps to prepare for what’s coming. As you no doubt are aware, there are three methods of […]