The investing world is currently falling for one of the greatest trojan horse operations in history. The term “trojan horse” relates to the famous Greek poem Aeneid, which chronicles the 10-year siege of the city of Troy by Greek soldiers. In its simplest rendering, after years of failing to enter […]
End of an Era Imagine you found a magical bank that lets you borrow money at 0 percent interest. Naturally, you’d take that free money and put it into a high-yield savings account or the stock market to pocket the difference, right? That, in a nutshell, is the Yen Carry […]
I want to talk to you about what is happening with silver today. As you no doubt are aware, silver has gone parabolic, rising from $45 per ounce at the end of October to over $85 per ounce today. Throughout that period, the precious metal has had only two significant […]
Well, it looks like critical minerals are now worth fighting for. This week, after consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the White House declared the critical mineral supply including silver, copper, palladium, and platinum a threat to national security. For over five decades the world has quietly known oil to […]
“Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.” –Ovid Four Dominant Themes for 2026 Do you like the world around you? Are you eager to take another trip around the sun? Like it or not. Eager or not. The New Year is here… We intend to make the best of it. We […]
The silver price has doubled over the last 2 months. Demand for physical silver continues to grow while capital is also flowing into the silver paper market, and starting to leak into the minors. The money is coming from still overbought US equities. Yet, charts from October could have predicted […]
Rack and Stack The 2026 fiscal year started on October 1. The Treasury, so far, has reported its spending for the first two months. The dismal results should come as no surprise. The U.S. government has already run up a deficit of $458 billion – and there’s still 10 more […]
U.S. government finances are failing. But instead of allowing things to continue to their inevitable demise, the central planners are looking to pull off another switcheroo. Like the issuance of Greenbacks during the Civil War or FDR’s gold confiscation in 1933, the U.S. government is scheming to radically change the […]
Let me start with an “AI” summary of the article, since that’s the most likely step for readers. The bubbles referred to above have been in the making for quite a few years now – perhaps even more than a decade. The fact that the bubbles have grown bigger (e.g., […]
Most people don’t understand why Digital IDs and CBDCs will soon be welcomed by the masses. Here’s the story so far… Poverty is Growing, Becoming More Common, and More Exposed Recently, there has been a lot of talk about poverty. Mostly because during the government shutdown, the federal government food […]