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September 29, 2026
Guest post from Shanmuganathan N, author of RIP: USD: The US 10-year Treasury has been rising at an unprecedented pace since the start of this decade. From an all-time low of 0.32% in March 2020, it is at 5.22% as of Sep 2026. While such a pace of increa ...
September 29, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: Imagine your grandson signing the lease on his first apartment. He has a job, a small balance in his bank account, and several decisions he has never faced before. Does he have someone to call who will read the ...
September 29, 2026
Originally posted by Mark Thornton on Mises.org: Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and famed investor Stanley Druckenmiller worked for George Soros during his famous coup of the UK pound crisis back in 1992. Druckenmiller has since gone on to be an ...
September 29, 2026
Summary The narrator argues that the Sassoon family, Baghdadi Jewish refugees who settled in British-ruled Bombay after David Sassoon fled persecution in the late 1820s, built a fortune dubbed “the Rothschilds of the East” primarily by smuggling Ind ...
September 29, 2026
Summary Nomi Prins argues that gold’s pullback from about $5,500 in January to a stable $4,300 to $4,400 range is a temporary, headline-driven dip, and she maintains a $6,000 gold forecast around year-end as ETF inflows, strong miner margins, and central ...
September 29, 2026
Summary Lawrence Lepard, author of The Big Print and manager of a gold stock fund with a couple hundred million dollars under management, argues that the US is “trapped by the math” of $40 trillion in debt and 6 to 7% of GDP deficits, so the Fed wil ...
September 25, 2026
Summary Thiel says AI has retroactively proven his 20-year-old stagnation thesis (progress in bits, not atoms, since the 1970s) and may be bigger than the internet, and while he concedes a 5 to 10% AI extinction risk is “pretty bad,” slowing down wo ...
September 25, 2026
Summary The guest argues that da’wah (Islamic evangelism) is collapsing because the internet has made hadith on Muhammad’s character, Quranic contradictions and the “Islamic dilemma” viral, so that Muslim outreach tents can no longer cou ...
September 25, 2026
Summary Garcia frames the situation as pure arithmetic: the US owes $40.1 trillion, interest is the largest line in the federal budget, the 12-month T-bill now yields 100 basis points above the 3.49% average rate on existing debt, and $7 trillion in bills must ...
September 25, 2026
Summary Thompson argues that government bond yields are rising in lockstep across the US, Europe, Japan, the UK, Canada and Australia to 20 to 30 year highs, and that rolling over record debt loads (near the highest debt to GDP outside wartime) at these rates c ...
September 25, 2026
Originally posted by Per Bylund at the Mises Institute: Uncertainty is on the rise again. At least in terms of social science research, where uncertainty is getting renewed attention. This is about time, since uncertainty is an ever-present problem that ...
September 25, 2026
Originally posted by Nomi Prins on her substack: In August, investors poured $18 billion into gold-backed exchange-traded funds. That was the second-largest monthly inflow in the history of gold ETFs. Total holdings reached an all-time high of 4,189 tonnes, whi ...
September 22, 2026
Originally posted by Quoth the Raven on his substack: At some point, probably sooner than most people think, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is going to hit 100,000. And when it does, you can already picture the scene. It’ll be like every major milestone the ...
September 22, 2026
Originally posted by Nolan Denaro at the Libertarian Institute: The Republican midterm convention was recently held in Dallas. If that sounds strange, your instincts are correct. Usually, the two major political parties hold their national conventions in ...
September 22, 2026
Summary Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, argues that the 40-year bond bull market ended in 2020 with the 10-year yield below 1%, and that the current bear market, now at 5%, will run “indefinitely” toward 6% and beyond, since the US is a w ...
September 22, 2026
Summary The video argues that the Medici Bank, founded in Florence in 1397, built an early version of modern international finance by turning trust and a network of branches into outsized profits, at one point holding roughly 100,000 florins of papal deposits i ...
September 22, 2026
Summary Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute, author of The Skyscraper Curse, argues that the Fed’s first rate hike in three years, which Chairman Kevin Warsh described as removing “a dose of accommodation,” is not real tightening, since it le ...
September 22, 2026
By Matt Morgan, The Daily Bell Money is the easiest thing a family can lose, and even easier to pass to your children and grandchildren. But the skill that made the money is much harder to hand down, and it is worth far more. A Japanese temple builder sp ...
September 19, 2026
Summary Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin argues that the world is undergoing “detreasurization” rather than simple de-dollarization — for the first time in over a hundred years foreign investors are buying more US securities than Treasuries — an ...
September 19, 2026
Summary Ron Paul argues that inflation is a monetary phenomenon caused by secret Federal Reserve money printing, that it will persist “until it collapses,” and that the collapse — the Austrian “crack-up boom” — may not be far off, de ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.US: This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group In recent months I’ve been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Conner O’Keeffe at the Mises Institute: Calls to regulate the artificial intelligence (AI) sector have reached a fever pitch over the last week. Fearmongering about the prospects of a totally unregulated AI industry has been around as ...
September 19, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at the Mises Institute: The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced that it will increase the target federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 4.0 percent. This comes after nine months of the FOM ...
September 14, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan at TheDailyBell.com: What will your grandchildren inherit from you besides whatever money remains? Maybe a house, some savings, and a few things they will keep because they belonged to you. But will they know how to earn a living when a j ...
September 14, 2026
Summary The speaker argues that roughly $500 billion in big tech AI debt is only the visible portion, and that committed AI purchases and leases across Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle total nearly $3 trillion, about 10% of US GDP, exceeding the do ...
September 14, 2026
Summary The speaker argues that BRICS as a collective organization is “all talk,” and that after 17 summits and 17 communiqués it has produced exactly one operating institution, the New Development Bank, plus the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, whi ...
September 13, 2026
Summary Tucker rejects the collapse narrative entirely, arguing Bessent’s tripling of long-term debt buybacks to $6 billion makes complete sense as part of a deliberate plan: stablecoins are creating enormous structural demand for 91-day-or-less T-bills, ...
September 13, 2026
Summary Summers argues the 1982-2022 bond super cycle is over — a tectonic shift — but that Bessent’s escalation of Treasury buybacks from $2 billion to $4 billion to $6 billion per operation is verbal intervention rather than a bazooka, since the Fed ...
September 13, 2026
Summary Thornton argues the Trump administration is “whistling past the graveyard,” using short-term maneuvers like Bessent’s “Operation Economic Outcast” sanctions on Iran and its trading partners — which Bessent called “t ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Quoth the Raven on his substack: It was reported yesterday that the Netherlands just shifted approximately 86 tonnes of its gold reserves from New York and Ottawa to London, explicitly citing “increasing geopolitical unrest” and the n ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at Mises.org: Bond yields are ripping today, with the 10-year climbing above 4.9% and at the highest level since 2007. Meanwhile, the 30-year yield has risen above 5.3 percent, the highest level seen since 2002. There are man ...
September 13, 2026
Originally posted by Frank Landymore at Futurism.com: The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ finan ...
September 09, 2026
Summary Lyn Alden and Luke Gromen argue that the global bond market is undergoing an orderly but consequential deterioration as foreign Treasury demand weakens, domestic buyers become constrained, Japan gains incentives to repatriate capital, and US fiscal domi ...
September 09, 2026
Summary Tom Luongo argues that the central geopolitical struggle is not primarily nation versus nation but a battle over control of global capital flows, with the United States attempting to reclaim financial sovereignty from a British/European-centered system ...
September 08, 2026
Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com: For more than a century, oil powered the global economy. It moved cars, ships, and aircraft. It fed modern farming and made mass production possible. Nations that controlled reliable oil supplies gaine ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Gary Tanishian at his blog Notes from the Rabbit Hole: Operation Twist 1.0 was a stroke of pure (evil) genius by Ben Bernanke 15 years ago, and two modern day Wizards may be trying to engineer something similar today “Sanitize” B ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Jordan Roy-Byrne at The Daily Gold: The bottom is well behind us. The more important question now is what comes next for Gold and gold stocks. There is a key development taking place beneath the surface. Gold stocks are outperforming Gold n ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Ron Paul at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity: Albert Einstein is credited with saying, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Whether he actually said it ...
September 04, 2026
Originally posted by Noland Denaro at the Libertarian Institute: It has been accepted for months that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was instrumental in convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that war with Iran was a good idea. In February, The New ...
September 04, 2026
Summary The speaker argues that socialism is profoundly unjust and destructive, but that the neoliberal and neoconservative Washington establishment’s alarm over rising democratic socialists is hypocritical because the political order it built made this p ...
September 04, 2026
Summary Adam argues that humanity is repeating Rome’s mistake with the Praetorian Guard, which Augustus created in 27 BC to protect the emperor but which ended up assassinating emperors like Galba (69 AD) and Pertinax (193 AD) and auctioning the empire to ...
September 04, 2026
Summary Charles Nenner says his cycle work called gold’s top near $5,500 and a bottom in August, and that a major low is now forming with gold headed to a $6,500 target and silver rising alongside it well into next year. He argues the US is running out of ...
September 01, 2026
Summary Middelkoop argues that his 2014 book “The Big Reset” is now unfolding in real time, with the US losing its unipolar superpower status, the petrodollar deal with Saudi Arabia collapsing, and the world moving from an era of cooperation to conf ...
September 01, 2026
Summary Michael Every argues that the entire global system, spanning security, geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geofinancial architecture, is coming apart at the seams, some of it unplanned and some deliberately ripped or snipped, with the US clearly overstretche ...
September 01, 2026
Summary Zeihan reports that at midnight between the 21st and 22nd, the United States imposed 50% tariffs on a suite of Canadian goods with no plans for future negotiations, confirming the Trump-Canada trade war is alive and well while bilateral NAFTA talks with ...
September 01, 2026
Editor’s Note: The ratio introduced in Prins blog, below, is interesting. The United States produces about 680,000 tonnes of primary aluminum a year, while China produces 43 million. Canada alone supplies more than half of what America imports, which show ...
September 01, 2026
Originally posted by John Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute: “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.“ —Theodore Roosevelt What began public ...
September 01, 2026
Originally posted by Ryan McMaken at Mises.org: Flock cameras, and the online surveillance network behind them, offer many ways for law enforcement officials, and other government bureaucrats, to abuse their access to information about the personal lives of the ...
August 28, 2026
Originally posted by Angelo Monaco at The Libertarian Institute: I remain amused at the outrage expressed over the revelations from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary and his behavior in front of a U.S. Senate committee. After all, Dr. Fauci fulfilled his role in exac ...
August 28, 2026
Originally posted by Connor O’Keeffe at Mise.org: Recently, Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to just 33 percent, the lowest of his presidency. Last week, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll exposed one reason for this drop: most Americans believe that ...
