Das ist nicht goodenzee! Das ist Shiza!
Das ist zer Weimar Republic or America?
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 reason, once one looks at the hard, empirical data, a thing I am most often loathe to do, if simply because the topic has a tendency to put people to sleep. But what the American society is about to experience over the next decade is unlike anything man has experienced over the course of human history, and if one manages to survive it, in any good fashion, it will be because they recognized the warning signs and prepared well in advance of the catastrophe. Continue reading
In January 1933, a farmer named Wallace Kramp was about to lose everything. A lender in Wood County, Ohio was foreclosing on his farm over an $800 mortgage he couldn’t pay.
I am constantly amazed at how long America has simply plodded along accepting the manner in which the U.S. government constantly pushes for more GDP growth that never seems to quite ever benefit them nearly as much as it benefits those in power and at the top of Corporate America, in large part due to the Federal Reserve’s numerous financial schemes and scams derived from printing excessive amounts of money and facilitating high inflation and its manufactured boom and bust cycles.
Xi’s plan to position China’s currency, the yuan, for “international trade, investment, and foreign exchange” is perfectly matched to Trump’s plan to destroy the dollar for all of those same purposes. Thanks to the Trump Tariffs against all nations, China is on the road to becoming the alternate trading partner in the United States’ former lead position with a currency big enough to match the dollar’s old role. 
Gold’s violent pullback has rattled latecomers to the trade, but for long term investors it may be the last deep breath before a speculative sprint toward $10,000. With forecasts for four and even five digit prices colliding with algorithm driven calls for a parabolic spike, the real question is not whether to own gold, but how to position across miners and ETFs before the next leg higher.
We just got a massive dose of trade whiplash, as the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services rocketed up 95 percent in November 2025, hitting $56.8 billion. That huge spike, according to the latest data from the Commerce Department, completely undoes the previous month’s perceived progress and proves just how volatile President Trump‘s tariff strategy has made the global economy.
When the economy and the financial system are both greatly shaken at the same time, the consequences can be extremely painful. Most of you still clearly remember what life was like in 2008 and 2009. It was such a dark chapter in American history. But there have been other times when we have had a financial market crash but no recession. 1987 is a perfect example of that. Of course there have also been many instances when economic conditions have been very poor but the financial markets weathered it just fine
You can throw out all of the old rules, because they simply don’t apply anymore. The dominance of western financial institutions is faltering, and cracks in the system are starting to show up all over the place. They can’t keep the price of silver from exploding, they can’t stop the price of gold from relentlessly marching upward, they can’t stop the extremely alarming decline of the U.S. dollar, and they can’t stop debt levels from soaring into the stratosphere.
