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With concerns of a potential recession looming, people are ditching credit card chaos for something surprisingly old-school: predictability.

In a world where “YOLO” spending and “buy now, pay later” culture have dominated headlines, something unexpected is happening: Americans are getting surprisingly practical about money. A new survey reveals that a massive 77% of Americans have fundamentally changed how they manage their finances due to ongoing economic conditions, and their new priorities might actually restore your faith in financial sanity. Continue reading →

Germany Stores 1,200 Tons of Gold at the Fed… Now Trump Fears Are Sparking Repatriation Demands
Ever since the end of the Second World War in 1945, a rehabilitated Germany has built close ties to the U.S. and committed to Western democratic values. The country has put its money – or rather, its gold – where its mouth is.

That financial commitment to the U.S. is now being put to the test, as calls from within Germany grow louder to pull the country’s vast stock of gold reserves out of the Federal Reserve.

Germany has the world’s second-highest stockpile of official gold reserves, at 3,352 tons. More than a third of that, around 1,200 tons, is stored in the Fed, equivalent to about $130 billion in value. Yet President Donald Trump’s adversarial rhetoric against the country and its allies has prompted calls to check on those reserves, and, if possible, bring them home… (Continue to full article)

Bank of America Eyeballs $4,000 Gold and $40 Silver
Bank of America is eyeballing $4,000 gold and $40 silver by the end of the year or early 2026.

Last October, the big bank projected $3,000 in 2025.

BoA analysts said trade-induced geopolitical uncertainty would continue to support the metals, with growing concern about the U.S. government’s fiscal situation possibly catalyzing the next leg up.

If you are to model silver, the main drivers are of course the price of gold, because silver is largely a precious metal, but also what’s going on with industrial activity. Right now, industrial activity is going to be weaker, so that’s one of the reasons silver has lagged on the large upward lift in gold prices; it’s really that weaker industrial factor we’re seeing today… (Continue to full article)

The Middle Class Is Collapsing: Nearly 1 Out Of Every 4 Americans Is Now “Functionally Unemployed”
Do you ever feel like you are “functionally unemployed”? If so, you are definitely not alone. There are lots of people out there that cannot pay the bills each month even though they have jobs. In fact, there are lots of people out there that literally cannot afford to put a roof over their heads even though they are employed. Yes, there are many hard working Americans that are now living in their vehicles or in “tent communities” because that is all they can afford.

In recent years, the cost of living has been rising much faster than paychecks have, and so now a substantial percentage of the population is living in a state of constant financial stress. The middle class has been collapsing all around us, and we are witnessing an extraordinary amount of economic suffering all over the country right now… (Continue to full article)

Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Quietly Planning New ‘Digital Dollar’ After US Penny Set to Disappear
The banks are considering the option of a joint “digital dollar,” per PYMNTS.

It would be operated through a stablecoin, notably a form of cryptocurrency that’s tied to a “traditional” currency, which, in this case, would be the US dollar.

Together, they’d work to use some existing networks to facilitate transactions using’ ‘the digital dollar token, such as Early Warning Services, which operates Zelle, and The Clearing House… (Continue to full article)

Egg Prices Collapse — Here’s the New Crisis
Egg prices decreased by 12.7% in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average price for a dozen Grade A eggs fell to $5.12, marking the first monthly decline since October. However, prices remain high due to a bird flu outbreak that has resulted in a 79 percent increase over the same period last year, when the price was $2.86.

The bird flu outbreak has led to the culling of over 169 million birds since early 2022. Recent outbreaks in Ohio and South Dakota affected more than 927,000 egg-laying hens, worsening supply issues.

To address high prices, the Trump administration imported hundreds of millions of eggs and invested $1 billion in efforts to combat bird flu, including biosecurity measures, farmer relief, and vaccine research… (Continue to full article)

Your Grocery Bill Is About to Get a Lot More Expensive
We’re going to see high prices in many categories. But one that I think could catch us off guard are groceries. We import many of the regular things that we are buying every day. And think about avocados or tomatoes, tropical fruits, things like that will be higher priced. And I think that’s going to surprise a lot of consumers. For many categories, we have a few months simply because merchandise is being shipped over. However, anything that’s perishable, for example, like flowers, foods, things like that. We could be seeing those prices right now…. (Continue to full article)

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JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Calls on US to Stockpile Bullets, Rare Earth Instead of Bitcoin
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March establishing a Bitcoin reserve, which he described as “a virtual Fort Knox for digital gold.”

“We should be stockpiling bullets,” he continued.

Like, you know, the military guys tell you that, you know, if there’s a war in the South China Sea, we have missiles for seven days. Okay, come on. I mean, we can’t say that with a straight face and think that’s okay. So we know what to do. We just got to now go about doing it. Get the people together, roll up our sleeves, you know, have the debates … (Continue to full article)

Couple Finds a Gold Nugget Measuring 7.5 Inches Across and Weighing More Than 9 Pounds
They were just out for a little adventure with a metal detector. Few imagined that a casual pastime would lead to an astonishing item destined for auction.

This enormous piece, famously labeled the Golden Beauty, was discovered in 1979 by John and Frances Aggiss in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields of Western Australia.

It is now on display for interested collectors and enthusiasts, with an opening bid that has already reached $400,000… (Continue to full article)

DOLLAR SHOCK: 2026 American Gold Rush
There is not enough gold on planet earth to back dollar for dollar all the fiat currency the US Treasury Department has printed, but there’s enough to re-peg it! Is Trump’s monetary reset a gold-backed dollar?

“All great inflations end with the acceptance of real money – gold – and the rejection of political money – paper.” – Ron Paul

As the United States stands at the precipice of a financial turning point, a radical but historically rooted idea is regaining traction: reinstating the gold standard. With debt soaring and the value of the dollar increasingly questioned, the concept of “sound money” is no longer a fringe fantasy; it’s fast becoming a political flashpoint.

Since gold cannot back the dollar for dollar, it has to be either indexed or the dollar has to be re-pegged… (Continue to full article)

Here’s How a Cashless Society Will Impact the World
Aside from economic collapse scenarios, many countries are in the process of eliminating physical cash and coins. Instead, everyone has an account that holds their money. You cannot purchase goods or services without access to government-based cryptocurrency. Even if the currency itself is still backed by faith in the government, you have to use this electronic system.

The result is multiple problems that could leave you in a situation where you have the money in the bank to pay your bills and purchase goods and services, yet you cannot do so… (Continue to full article)

After more than two centuries the US government has finally decided to kill the penny.

The Treasury Department will stop minting new pennies and putting them in to circulation by early next year.

The penny currently costs more than four times its value to make and the Treasury lost $85 million minting the coins last year alone … (Continue to full article)

Jamie Dimon – America’s Most Powerful Banker… Stuns With Warning US Faces Something Worse Than Recession

JP Morgan the Pirate (Jamie Dimon)

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that the threat of stagflation could still strike the US economy.

Stagflation is the combination of economic stag-nation and in-flation. Prices continue to soar at the same time as unemployment rises and economic growth slows – a triple whammy of problems.

It’s higher inflation and weaker economic growth that is the result of policy – tariff policy and immigration policy…. (Continue to full article)

We Are Looking Down The Barrel Of A Worldwide Credit Market Crisis That Threatens To Be Absolutely Horrific
National governments around the world are collectively more than 100 trillion dollars in debt. The United States accounts for about 35 percent of that total, China accounts for about 16 percent of that total, and Japan accounts for about 10 percent of that total.

For a long time, national governments were able to fund their debt binges very cheaply, but now nervous investors are demanding higher interest rates to hold long-term government debt. This is driving up borrowing costs, and it has thrown credit markets around the globe into a state of chaos. If bond yields continue to rise at a very brisk pace, there is a risk that investors could become so nervous that credit markets actually start freezing up.

If that were to happen, the entire global financial system would go completely haywire… (Continue to full article)

United Hell Care’s Alleged Plan to Cut Costs? Just Let the Elderly Die
If you ever wondered what would happen if private equity logic were incorporated into America’s healthcare systems, look no further than United Hell Care.

According to a report from The Guardian, United Hell Care has allegedly been pressuring nurse practitioners to flip elderly patients’ status to “Do Not Resuscitate,” even when these patients have explicitly requested to be resuscitated. If the report is correct, then United Hell Care is choosing to kill the elderly as a cost-cutting measure.

One former practitioner who spoke to The Guardian says that United Hell Care is “pretending to make it look like it’s in the best interest of the member…but it’s really not.” The reality of it is that it looks more like a ploy to reduce hospitalizations and to jack up profits. This wouldn’t just be unethical; it’s potentially criminal… (Continue to full article)

GOP Senators Rail Against Staggering $4.7 Trillion in Untraceable Treasury Payments
Nearly one-third of Treasury payments a year lack proper identification codes, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified to Congress recently

Prior to the discovery, Treasury Account Symbol (TAS) identification codes were optional for $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments, so they were often left blank and were untraceable. The field is now required to increase “insight into where the money is actually going,” the Treasury Department and DOGE announced in February.

“Of the 1.5 billion payments that we send out every year, they are required to have a TAS, a Treasury Account Symbol. We discovered that more than one third of those payments did not have a TAS number,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government earlier this month… (Continue to full article)

GOP Budget Bill Favors the Rich, Takes from the Rest
Tax cuts in House Republicans’ megabill would lead to increased assets for the richest Americans, while reducing them for the lowest-income households through cuts to federal spending on Medicaid and food aid, according to a new preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.

The analysis, requested by top Democrats, gives fuel to Democrats’ attacks on the bill that it would lead to gains for wealthy Americans while taking away benefits for lower-income people

We are Screwed, Blued and Tattooed!!! (Continue to full article)

When you don’t have enough money to pay the bills, it can make for a lot of sleepless nights. If you are in that position right now, I want you to know that you are definitely not alone. I have heard from so many people that are being absolutely crushed by our ongoing cost of living crisis that seems to have no end in sight.

Just about everything has become substantially more expensive over the past five years, and now the global trade war threatens to push prices for foreign-made goods into the stratosphere. Continue reading →

A new warning from Brazilian pulp exporter Suzano SA has raised concerns about the potential for toilet paper shortages and price hikes in the United States. While store shelves currently remain well stocked, the company reports that ongoing supply chain disruptions and new U.S. tariffs are already affecting shipments.

Suzano SA, the world’s largest exporter of pulp – a key raw material in toilet paper manufacturing – said it experienced a 20% decrease in shipments to the U.S. in April. The company’s leadership told Bloomberg News that the added costs from tariffs are now being passed on to American buyers and could soon be reflected in consumer prices. Continue reading →