Not Backing Down, Not Backing Outand No Backup Plans I heard Vladimir Putin’s speech. The short version of it is that the war rages on and there’s no scenario in which Russia doesn’t either win on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table of...
If We Could Only Print your Way to Prosperity It’s got to be so upsetting; you’re looking at your government giving money to many foreign interests you’re thinking to yourself “WHY? What’s the return on investment for foreign aid?” These could...
I Am Shocked By This Data I was walking home with my daughter one day and this dog ran up to us barking with his teeth showing. Sensing that it could jump on my little girl with its weight, scare her, scratch her, or worse, I instantly began throwing fists, screaming,...
February 20th, 1939 While speaking with a friend yesterday who was concerned with where the world is headed, he posed this question to me: “Am I being too dramatic? It seems like the world is going to hell…” For a couple of seconds, I thought about how to...
Powell is Completely Blindto the Leading Indicators On July 1st, 2005, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke was interviewed, and here is one Q&A that will live in infamy: INTERVIEWER: Tell me, what is the worst-case scenario? We have so many economists...
Powell’s Disinflation Thesis I’m going to share my take on equities and where we believe they’re headed on Sunday because today I want to show you why gold and silver continue to show signs of bottom formation and a break before a ferocious move...
LBMA Registered Ratio Dropping On a flight to Costa Rica 5 years ago, someone two rows over realized that he boarded a metallic tube crossing the ocean using a few man-made jet engines. Talk about a panic attack; he wanted out! I’ve watched Fear Factor and Bear...
Gold Collapses The Federal Reserve’s statement last week about what’s causing inflation was very interesting. One part is that the effects of their monetary policy are just starting to be seen in the interest-rate-sensitive parts of the economy, which are...
99 Years Old Amazingly, Henry Kissinger is still alive. He was Richard Nixon’s right-hand man who went to the Saudis when the French sent a military boat to the shores of New York as a sign that they wanted to redeem their dollar holdings for gold bars. This was...
Biggest Threats of 2023 In 2010, I took on debt. Searching for deals in the housing sector after the 2008 bust, my agent brought me a seller-financed listing. It was a triplex that was newly built by an investor who partnered with a constructor. Because of the...