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August 27, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, September 2025
The Russia/Ukraine peace talks seem to be going pretty well… Meanwhile, the US took a $10 billion stake in a major chipmaker. And that’s apparently just the beginning: Trump Vows To Nationalize As Many Private Companies As It Takes To Defeat Socialism (Babylon Bee) – President Donald Trump announced this week his administration plans […]
August 26, 2025 | Big News For Silver: It’s Now A “Critical Mineral” Let the stockpiling begin
The US just included silver on a list of things that the economy can’t do without. Which means whoever doesn’t already own the metal will have to start stockpiling it. GoldCore TV has just posted a video explaining how dramatic a change this might be. Here it is, followed by a partial transcript: Partial transcript: Silver has […]
August 24, 2025 | Soaring Inventory Is (Finally) Cutting Home Prices
In just the past few years, US houses have gone from pricey to historically unaffordable: Since people can’t buy what they can’t afford, home sales have cratered to ridiculously low levels: History now predicts a housing crash In a typical housing bubble, prices get too high, buyers go on strike, and then sellers panic. […]
August 22, 2025 | Mike Adams on the “Depopulation Agenda”
The aristocrats who rule the world are greedy. They’re implementing tech to replace most workers, whom they view as competition for crucial resources. And now they’ve decided to cull the herd. That, in brief, is a theory that’s gaining a lot of adherents these days. Mike Adams, of NaturalNews and Brighteon, just posted one of the best (and […]
August 17, 2025 | We Now Have the Problem Everyone Wants Is it time to take profits?
In the last five years, gold has done this: And so far this year, GDX (an ETF that owns most of the large gold miners), has done this: As a result, we now have the problem that every investor wants: serious paper profits that we’d like to protect. But how do we do that? Is […]
August 13, 2025 | Health Prepping: So Now Cheese Is Poison?
When Big Pharma and Big Food collaborate, the result is frequently creepy. The following X post claims that American cheese is made with genetically engineered black mold (!), among other things, and labels aren’t required to show it: Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970 Because Of Pfizer, 90% Of US Cheese Is Made Using GMO Corn & Black Mold, CRISPR […]
August 10, 2025 | Portrait of a Crack-Up Boom, in Four Charts
The Austrian school of economics (the only good school of economics) has a concept called the “crack-up boom” that perfectly explains today’s world. Here’s an AI-generated summary: A crack-up boom is an economic crisis characterized by the collapse of a monetary system due to sustained, expansionary monetary policy leading to hyperinflation and a complete loss […]
July 31, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, August 2025
But now Epstein has competition, from the Russiagate scandal: Also not going away…the public health establishment’s catastrophic fall from grace: And of course, the usual random signs of societal decay: Why life is so hard for our grandkids: The ECB is soliciting design ideas for future euro bills:
July 24, 2025 | Japan’s Bond Market Crisis Intensifies – Has BOJ Finally Lost Control?
Japan, with its highest in human history per capita government debt, has been an accident waiting to happen for a long time. But somehow, it has always managed to slip out of whatever trap the financial markets set for it. Until now? Japanese interest rates have been rising, increasing government interest costs and leading traders […]
July 20, 2025 | Tomorrow’s Job Market: DO NOT Learn To Code – Do Become a Mining Engineer
In late 2023, I posted an article on how to develop the skills necessary to get through a protracted supply chain disruption: Skill Stacking, Part 1: Handymen Will Inherit the Earth. But since then, the stakes have gotten even higher. A financial/supply chain crisis is still coming. But now AI is altering the job market in […]
July 18, 2025 | Health Prepping: Eliminate Those Forever Chemicals
All roads lead to the microbiome Of all the environmental horror stories circulating out there, “forever chemicals” might be the creepiest. It seems that we live in a miasma of artificial molecules that, once inside the human body, refuse to leave. Instead, they build up until they trigger cancer or some other lethal condition. Here’s […]
July 15, 2025 | Housing Bust Intensifies As Inventories Surge
One of the reasons so few houses were on the market over the past few years was the disparity between 7% current mortgage rates and the 3% mortgages that many homeowners had. It made no sense to sell a house with a cheap mortgage and buy a new house with an expensive mortgage, so millions […]
July 14, 2025 | Smart States Are Embracing Gold And Silver
It’s nice that states are separating themselves into “smart” and “stupid” categories so Americans can tell where and where not to live. The issue of sound money, in particular, is indicative of a whole range of other likely tax/spend/regulate policies that affect quality of life. Let’s start with a flashing “don’t move here” signal […]
July 13, 2025 | Jesse Colombo: Silver Has Broken Out
Jesse Colombo’s Bubble Bubble Report produces a lot of high-quality, in-depth reporting on precious metals. His latest digs into silver’s technicals and concludes that the long-anticipated run to $50 and beyond is now underway. Here’s an excerpt: Silver’s Bull Market Has Officially Begun Silver has officially broken out in a big way, kicking off its bull market. […]
July 11, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, Epstein Edition
Let’s just put it out there: Team Trump has decided to hold onto the Epstein files and use them to blackmail swamp creatures. This makes strategic sense, but leaves the administration looking us in the eye and lying, apparently in the hope that something else will come along to distract us shortly (maybe another pandemic?) But […]
July 10, 2025 | A Closer Look At Germany’s Death Spiral
Subscriber Bill G responded to yesterday’s post on Germany’s financial/cultural death spiral by asking: “And when did debt to GDP cease to be a good measure of economic health? https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/germany/usa?sc=XE02” His point is that if Germany’s government debt is only 65% of GDP, that country is — by definition— in way better shape than the US […]
July 9, 2025 | Europe’s Death Spiral: Now Germany Is the Problem
The flaws in Europe’s financial system — and the eurozone dissolution that will inevitably result — have been obvious for a while. Here’s a list of posts on this topic from the past few years: Can The Euro Be Saved? (4/23/23) Easy Money Makes You Stupid, Europe Edition (6/19/23) Europe is Falling, and France Is Leading the […]
July 2, 2025 | Why the Gold Bull Market Has Legs, in Six Charts And silver…
There are a lot of “xx priced in gold” charts floating around, most of which show that stocks, houses, and pretty much everything else aren’t actually going up in real (i.e., gold-adjusted) terms. They only appear to be in bull markets because we’re measuring them with declining fiat currencies. Here’s an unusual example: The Porsche […]
June 30, 2025 | Art of the Collapse, July 2025
Another month, another war. And more AI babies… This week, Florida opened “Alligator Alcatraz.” Speaking of AI, it seems to no longer care what we think:
June 28, 2025 | Is Tokenized Gold the Future of Money?
When cryptocurrencies first emerged, the blockchain (a distributed ledger that tracks ownership of bitcoin and other cryptos) caught the attention of gold-standard proponents. What if, they mused, gold is the base money of the post-reset financial system, but — without ever leaving its vaults — it transacts on a blockchain, giving it the frictionless mobility […]
June 27, 2025 | Black Swans: What If Mexico Nationalizes Silver?
Bad for some miners, great for physical silver Mexico is by far the world’s biggest source of silver: So what happens there matters to all silver investors. And things seem to be changing: Sheinbaum maintains Mexico’s freeze on new mining concessions (BNAmeicas) – Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated that no new mining concessions will be […]
June 26, 2025 | Copper Squeeze: A Great Story Playing Out as Expected
Gold and silver have generated a lot more buzz than copper in the past couple of years. But that might be changing. On metals exchanges, copper inventories are falling while demand surges, leading to speculation that a “squeeze” will soon spike the metal’s price. As Bloomberg reports: Copper Faces Historic Squeeze With LME Stockpiles Depleting […]
June 25, 2025 | How to Finance Foreign Real Estate
Geographic diversification — that is, buying and/or storing assets overseas — is a good way to hedge against the increasingly real possibility that the US government will go a little crazy when the fiat currency experiment fails. But it’s not simple. Over the years, I’ve come close to buying real estate in Costa Rica and […]
June 22, 2025 | It’s Official: We’re Back in the 1970s But with Even Bigger Risks and Opportunities
Okay, let’s see: We now (as of yesterday) have a Middle East war that’s threatening to interrupt the supply of oil. And… Deteriorating government finances. Civil unrest and political chaos. A revolting bond market. Soaring gold and rising silver. Yep, it’s official. We are back in the 1970s, which, for younger readers, was a decade […]
June 18, 2025 | Recession Watch: Should We Really Be Piling Into Equities and Options?
Auto prices have soared in the past decade, while auto loan interest rates have more or less doubled in the past two years. The result: hugely expensive “car mortgages” and spiking loan delinquencies: But as ominous as auto loans seem, they pale next to credit cards and student loans, where delinquencies have gone parabolic. Over […]