Category Archives: The Mine or the Shaft

Silver Outshines Gold: Prices Surge 6% to $77 The ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran propelled gold and silver prices to nearly two-week highs. Silver outperformed gold, with spot prices surging over 6% to $77.64 per ounce, while gold … Continue reading →

Trump Officials Prepping for ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Where Oil Hits $150-a-Barrel – and Unleashes More Pain at the Gas Pump White House officials are bracing for oil prices to surge past the $150-a-barrel mark as the Iran war stretches into its … Continue reading →

George Washington handed Alexander Hamilton an impossible task in September 1789. America owed about $75 million in debt from the Revolutionary War. Individual states had already defaulted. Foreign creditors considered the new country a total joke. And domestic bondholders at … Continue reading →

The U.S. government has been declared insolvent by the Treasury Department, according to its consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025. The report shows total assets of $6.06 trillion against liabilities of $47.78 trillion as of September 30, 2025, a … Continue reading →

The National Debt Isn’t $39 Trillion. One Economist Says It’s Actually $100 Trillion The U.S. national debt is nearly $39 trillion. One of the country’s top fiscal economists says the real number is closer to $100 trillion — and that … Continue reading →

I feel quite exasperated right now. Everyone knows that the economic numbers that federal bureaucrats in Washington are feeding us each month are fraudulent. It has been that way for a very long time. The employment numbers are a perfect … Continue reading →

Das ist nicht goodenzee! Das ist Shiza! America’s republic will soon be riding a massive economic Leviathan while holding a tiger by the tail, that breaks the limits of an ordinary man’s imagination and stretches the limits of logic and … Continue reading →

Workers wages are being devoured, and the economy is shrinking because of it. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has managed to raise the federal debt another $700-billion dollars just during the first four months of his existence in the present fiscal … Continue reading →

JP Morgan has reiterated a firmly bullish outlook for gold, even after precious metals suffered one of their sharpest selloffs in decades. In a note released late Sunday, the U.S. investment bank said it sees $6,300 per ounce by year’s … Continue reading →

President Xi of China has announced that he has set China’s yuan on a “strong” course to become a global reserve/trade currency. President Trump has set the US on a course to help him out. Xi’s plan to position China’s … Continue reading →