Catherine Austin Fitts walked out of HUD rather than break the law, beat the Justice Department in court, and has spent a generation saying trillions never got a clean audit. In a new talk with Daniela Cambone she argues the next control tool is not a CBDC. It is a stablecoin with a switch. ...Read More
Iran's navy says the channel is mined and shut. The White House had said the mines were gone. A Houthi grab at Perim and a dark Saudi pipeline are the other barrels in the same week. ...Read More
Goldman's London tape has China taking 35 tonnes in July. Beijing's published number is smaller and late. Poland, the Bank of England vaults, and a slow walk away from Treasuries are the rest of the story. ...Read More
Energy was turned into a weapon from Omsk to Ras Tanura. Fuel and food jumped. Births fall when kitchens empty. Powerful people spent decades saying the world needed fewer people. Read the list. Read the quotes. Decide if that is luck. ...Read More
The industrial fuel that moves rock just printed a U.S. record. Gold can still rise in a stagflation squeeze. The miners that keep more of that rise are the ones that burn less diesel per ounce. ...Read More
The metal is pinned between $63 support and the high $60s. Wednesday's FOMC text lands first. The silver price forecast for next week is the hangover from that text. ...Read More
The FOMC sits for two days with markets almost sure of a hike. Gold has already had three down weeks. The dots and the chair's tone will decide whether this is a gold pullback inside a bull tape or a break of support. ...Read More
The metal printed fresh highs, then slipped when the Fed and tariffs spoke louder for a day. The build-out behind the tape did not pause. The question is whether the next leg is price or just more time. ...Read More
Silver trades near $64 after a slide from January highs. Mercado Minerals CEO Daniel Rodriguez argues the washout has gone far enough. Equities can move more than the metal if that view is right. ...Read More
Spot gold trades near $4,280-$4,340 after a third down week. The Fed may hike on Wednesday. Big-bank research still treats the metal as a core 2026 holding. Everyday buyers have not dumped the line. The gap is the story. ...Read More
Vladimir Putin stands under a "Russia Calling" banner and talks about international payments, exclusion, better technology, and Western banks. The wrapping post turns that into a new monetary system, gold-backed BRICS Pay, half of world output, and China's golden decade. ...Read More
A Sunday graphic titled "27 Years of Putin" lists a stronger Russia from 1999 to 2026. Alex Jones posted it with a caption that NATO launched a war to stop that rise. The numbers on the card are not invented. Several match World Bank, IMF, and Bank of Russia prints. The caption does not. ...Read More
American support for Ukraine has lived for years in two rooms. One room is principle: a smaller country was invaded. The other room is the receipt: taxes, weapons, and now the cost of moving a truck. This weekend the receipt got a name. In Ireland, Donald Trump said Volodymyr Zelenskyy has to stop knocking out diesel in Russia. ...Read More
Baltasar Graci?n's Maxim 43 is the whole job. Think with the few and speak with the many. Truth is scarce. Error is common. Shouting the scarce thing from the roof is how you get crushed before you get paid. The other half of the job is this: the few are not always right. Sometimes the crowd sees the crack first. ...Read More
Jim Cramer can fill a weekend with one word: crash. In the clip now making the rounds he stands in front of a red week on the Dow, talks 1987, and says he cannot be constructive about Monday if the damage is not fixed. Some viewers hear a prophecy. People who have watched him for twenty years hear a familiar noise. ...Read More
In a Fourth Turning, people lose faith in institutions because the institutions protect the story instead of the public. Senator Ron Johnson's opening at the Allison Inquiry is not a new disease file. It is a case study in rot. The colors on the official map have been running since day one. The pace is quickening. Investors have to plan as if the legend on that map can smear overnight. ...Read More
The singular idea this weekend is a fork. One branch says Ottawa came back to the table because a U.S. sanction on a Canadian bank felt real. The other branch says President Trump did what he always does: talk a deal into existence on a job site while the paper stays unsigned. Investors who treat either branch as fact are trading a story. Stories gap. Filings do not. ...Read More
The big idea is simple. Governments are no longer treating tungsten like a quiet industrial input. They are treating it like a strategic stock. Scrap that used to leave the United States must stay home. China already makes about four of every five tonnes. That is why a Northwest Territories project that sat quiet for more than forty years now has two drills turning. ...Read More
The weekend argument in Washington was about whether America should slow artificial intelligence. President Trump said no. Former President Obama told Democrats to write rules. The labs that actually train the models sided with speed. That fight is not a software debate for a mining desk. It is a power debate. Power is copper. ...Read More
Some sources now say Saudi Arabia is on the verge of a devastating collapse. That sentence is traveling because it is simple. The documented week is uglier and more specific. The Gulf door was already tight. The Red Sea workaround just took a hit. The island in the throat of the Bab el-Mandeb changed hands. ...Read More