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Friday Night Meltdown: Trump Yanks MTG Endorsement, Mocks Massie's Remarriage After Wife's Death Capping a week in which he faced a coordinated blitz by Democrats and allied journalists working to implicate him in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump had a social media meltdown Friday night, lashing out at two GOP representatives who both enjoy deep national support among conservatives. Trump withdrew his endorsement of one and stooped to ridiculing the other for re-marrying 15 months after the death of his wife. It's likely no coincidence that both reps -- Marjorie […]

Climate Circus COP30: Capital Bazaar And Moral Rejuvenation Submitted by Thomas Kolbe From November 10 to 21, the latest climate summit, COP30, is taking place in Belém, Brazil — a global stage for fighting what is labeled the “climate-damaging gas” carbon dioxide. Germany has sent a 170-member delegation to participate — ostensibly to “save the planet,” but more realistically to distribute German taxpayers’ money among the world’s climate faithful. The German group travels in the slipstream of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who arrived in Belém early for a brief […]

Deep In The Fourth Turning: The Darkest Hours Are Before The Dawn Via Gold and Geopolitics Substack, Foreword I first thought to write this as a multi-part series, but I finally decided to group everything together as it wouldn’t do justice to this article. There’s a lot to unpack when discussing the ongoing societal changes, and I feel I barely touched on anything but the essence of that. Even then, standing at more than 6000 words, and spending nearly 10 full waking days refining it, the scope of what we’re witnessing feels almost too vast to capture in any single […]

Russia Still Open To Trump-Backed Peace Talks, But Ukraine Must Open Door: Kremlin Clearly the status of US efforts to find peace in Ukraine have stalled to the point of dying, following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska back in August. Since then attacks on energy sites by both warring countries have only intensified. The White House in the meantime unleashed its latest round of sanctions targeting Russia's two state oil majors Rosneft and Lukoil. All of this represented an inability to find compromise. But Russia has the upper-hand and saw no real effort from Washington to push […]

Major American Fast Food Chain Moo-ving To Popular 'New' Milk Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fast food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced in a Nov. 13 alert on X that it is changing its milk and chocolate milk to A2 beginning Dec. 1. A sign for the Steak 'n Shake chain restaurant in Middletown, Del., on July 26, 2019. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Steak ‘n Shake said the shift was due to A2 being easier on digestion and may help some customers avoid discomfort. The company will source A2 milk from cows that “only produce A2 type protein” […]

Humanoid Robot Roundup: Auto Industry Poised To Lead First Wave Of Adoption In last week's "Humanoid Robot Roundup" report, we provided readers with additional color on Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot following the company's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. Limited production of Optimus has already begun at Tesla's Fremont, California factory, with plans to scale production next year. In this week's robotics roundup, we highlight new insights from Goldman analysts led by Mark Delaney, who met with Sanctuary AI, a Vancouver-based robotics and AI company developing […]

Anti-Abortion 'Word Game' Referred To Aussie Authorities For Investigation Authored by Naziya Alvi Rahman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A fundraising “game” created by prominent anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe has sparked political backlash in South Australia. Joanna Howe speaks to supporters of an abortion law reform gather on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, Sept. 25, 2024. AAP Image/Matt Turner It has now been referred for investigation by the Attorney-General after questions were raised during a heated debate on late-pregnancy abortion laws. The […]

Consumers Ditch Restaurants For Groceries As Budgets Break  Goldman analysts led by Christine Cho attended the Restaurant Finance & Development Conference (RFDC) in Las Vegas earlier this week. The conference drew restaurant executives and founders, franchisees and multi-unit operators, private-equity investors and lenders, industry consultants, and other stakeholders across the broader restaurant ecosystem. Cho and her team met with many of these restaurant industry insiders and heard a very alarming and consistent message: the operating environment is deteriorating, […]

Today Nomi Prins, who has given speeches to the World Bank, IMF and Federal Reserve, told King World News that today is a historic day for these stocks. November 15

Bipartisan Congressional Report Finds CCP Manipulates Global Mineral Prices Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A bipartisan congressional report published on Nov. 12 revealed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manipulates critical minerals markets to further its global ambitions. A worker at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province on March 12, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP […]

RFK Jr. May Revive Food Pyramid Focused On Whole Foods Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, will be releasing new dietary guidelines in December to reset America's food supply chain away from toxic seed oils and highly processed foods toward real food, the kind our grandparents and parents ate many decades ago. Ahead of next month's release, a new Bloomberg report on Thursday night says the administration may roll out a revamped food pyramid centered on protein and whole foods. Sorry, Bill Gates, fake food and insects are […]

New Heart-Kidney Syndrome Affects 90% Of Americans... And You've Probably Never Heard Of It Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Nearly every American adult has a health condition that could lead to heart failure, yet nine out of 10 have never even heard of it. Now, the American Heart Association (AHA) is sounding the alarm on cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, a newly defined cluster of interconnected diseases that doctors have been treating separately for decades. The condition encompasses a cluster of interconnected […]

China Warns Citizens Against Travel To Japan Amid Serious Taiwan-Related Dust Up It's no secret that Japan and China have had a long history of animosity, which at times appears to cool but at others flares up to intensity again. The past week has seen historic tensions explode to the forefront once again, resulting in China summoning the Japanese ambassador in Beijing to vehemently denounce some recent statements by Tokyo leadership. The spat started when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments in a parliamentary meeting which made clear Japan could possibly […]

The Swamp Got Bigger, Better Paid & More Secretive Since 2020 Via Open The Books, If you were told a business increased their staff headcount by 5% over four years but its payroll rose 24% over that time, all the while withholding the names of 39% of their staff, would you invest in that company? Unlikely. But that’s just what the United State government does, funded by taxpayer dollars and operating as if accountable to no one. Open the Books analyzed the FY 2024 payroll records of executive agencies and found that 2.9 million federal employees were paid $270 billion, […]

Berkshire Builds $4.9 Billion Stake In Alphabet; Adds To Chevron; Sells More Apple And Bank of America With less than two months left until the Berkshire Hathway becomes just another company after the 95-year-old Warren Buffett exits as CEO at the end of the year, there is still some (waning) interest in what this massive long only fund with a record $382 billion in cash, is buying and selling, or as we recently discussed, mostly selling. Which is why today's 13F deadline is usually a reason for the Berkshire faithful to promptly check out the company's latest stock holdings on […]

US Agrees To $330 Million Sale Of Fighter Jets To Taiwan, Drawing Rebuke From China Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, The United States agreed a $330 million deal for the sale of fighter jets and other aircraft parts to Taiwan on Nov. 13 in the first such deal since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, prompting anger from China. The announcement of the proposed arms deal follows last month’s meeting between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea in a diplomatic bid to secure a trade deal amid the ongoing tariff war between the […]

Secret US Memo Links Venezuela To 'Chemical Weapons Threat' It didn't take long for the words Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, and chemical weapons to show up in the same US government national security memo. We've examined before various possible 'justifications' Washington might use for some kind of future military action on Venezuela, or even a full regime change operation. From Vietnam to Iraq to Libya, Washington is always looking for some kind of casus belli - even if it has to be manufactured - to sell war to the American people. And now we're quickly in WMD territory at a […]

Waymo Launches First US Freeway Robotaxi Rides In California And Arizona Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Waymo has launched driverless robotaxi rides on freeways in the United States, a first in the country for autonomous ride-hailing services. A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles on July 1, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times In a Nov. 12 announcement, the Alphabet-owned company said it will provide some riders with routes that include freeways in California’s San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles as well as in Phoenix, […]

Hegseth Announces New Military Campaign 'Operation Southern Spear' US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth late in the day Thursday announced a new major US military campaign, dubbed "Operation Southern Spear," which he said was ordered by President Trump at a moment of unprecedented build-up of naval assets and troops in the southern Caribbean. "President Trump ordered action - and the Department of War is delivering," Hegseth began in his message on X. "Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR." Source: US Navy handout The message was not accompanied by any additional […]

5,000 Dead People Getting SNAP; 500,000 Getting Benefits Twice: Rollins Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a recent interview that the department found that 500,000 people are registered twice for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, while more than 5,000 deceased people have also been receiving the benefits. In an interview on Nov. 12 with Fox News, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said that SNAP is one of the “most corrupt, dysfunctional programs” in U.S. history, adding […]

Chicago Mayor Asks The UN To Intervene In Trump's Deportation Efforts Chicago's Mayor, Brandon Johnson, has been an utter disaster for the Windy City since he took office in 2023.  Chicago is facing a $1.1 billion budget shortfall in 2026, a high unemployment rate and they had 44,840 licensed businesses operating in the area in 2024, which is fewer businesses than any year in the past decade. After declaring that his government would do everything in its power to make Trump's deportation efforts in Chicago impossible, Johnson stated in October that he was  “defending […]

How Do Empires Fall? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Our Democray (I'm Sure) "How do empires fall? Not by war, but by unbalanced minds disconnected from reality." - The Vigilant Fox on “X" By now, whenever you hear anyone invoke the phrase “saving our democracy,” that should be a signal that they are intent on destroying this republic, and with that, your natural rights to free speech, economic liberty, and public order. What began in 2016 as a simple, high-level plot to take out Donald Trump and squash Trumpism — a grassroots revolt against those very […]

The Nerve! DNC Union Furious Over A Five-Day, In-Person Work-Week Authored by Lincoln Brown via PJMedia.com, I have been employed at one job or another since high school. My first “real” job was as a busboy in a department store restaurant. Times were tough, so I had to pick up a part-time job after school. I’d get home from school, put on a pair of black polyester pants and a white shirt, both of which reeked of cooked food, and go to work. I’d bus tables during the dinner shift, and during lunch and dinner on the weekends, and do my homework or, more often than not, […]

It appears that despite the games being played in the paper markets, the physical metals shortage is real and this time it's global.

Trump Admin Rolls Back Biden-Era Restrictions On Alaska Oil And Gas Drilling Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration said Nov. 13 that it has finalized a rule rescinding Biden-era restrictions on oil and gas drilling in Alaska as part of efforts to strengthen U.S. energy security. The new rule, to be published in the Federal Register on Nov. 17, will revoke the measures imposed by the Biden administration that restricted drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve on the North Slope, according to the Interior Department (DOI). The petroleum […]

In 2026, more investors are choosing to buy precious metals as gold and silver gain traction in modern portfolios. With rising inflation, shifting institutional strategies, and growing demand from central banks, precious metals are becoming a core asset for diversification and long-term stability.

Democrats' Epstein Email Dump Backfires As Trump Sets DoJ On Clinton, Summers, Hoffman, Et Al. Democratic political operatives initiated a coordinated propaganda attack centered on releasing Jeffrey Epstein's emails and promoting a range of narratives targeting President Trump, including claims that he and Epstein shared a Thanksgiving dinner in 2017. The Trump team has since responded, with the Department of Justice and the FBI set to begin investigations into "Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Reid Hoffman." Let's begin here: The […]

Economic Reacceleration: A Contrarian View Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the past two weeks, we’ve addressed a persistent question: if the data signals weakness, why hasn’t the recession arrived? In “Slowdown Signals: Are Leading Indicators Flashing Red?” we examined the cracks forming beneath the economy’s surface. From deteriorating leading indicators to credit stress and cooling employment metrics, the evidence supported a cautious stance. In the follow-up, “Promised Recession … So Where Is It?”, we explored the tension […]

Wall Street may be celebrating new highs, but recession pressures are already spreading across the real economy. As China accelerates its covert gold accumulation and silver enters a fifth straight supply deficit, precious metals continue to show strength while speculative assets falter. This week’s News Nuggets breaks down the new...

Even with silver trading near an all-time high at $53, the silver price remains radically undervalued vs the 1980 high.

Another day in clown world - look at what just collapsed.

The bull market in silver is just getting started, plus another email about the gold and silver markets.

The government shutdown just ended, but the Fed's data problem is just beginning. With key economic metrics compromised or missing entirely, policymakers face tough decisions on rate cuts while gold climbs to fresh three-week highs around $4,207/oz. Add in Atlanta Fed President Bostic's retirement—opening a seat Trump could influence—and the...

Mike Maloney’s latest $200 silver prediction may no longer sound far-fetched. With central banks buying silver, nations restricting exports, and demand outpacing supply, silver is rapidly transforming from an industrial metal into a strategic, monetary, and national security asset.

Silver 2025–2030 forecasts point to sustained strength in the price of silver as soaring industrial demand, persistent supply deficits, and shifting global monetary trends reshape the market. Discover why analysts expect silver’s long-term outlook to remain one of the most compelling in the commodities sector.

We are now witnessing liquidity addiction that will end disastrously, and investors need to get prepared.

The government shutdown is ending after 41 days, but Americans face mounting economic pressures—job security concerns are spiking, and car loan delinquencies just hit levels not seen since before the 2008 crisis. Washington's response? Trump's proposed $2,000 "tariff dividend" checks that would require borrowing $100+ billion we don't have. As...

Remember 2008? Risk has never been higher that we are about to enter another great financial crisis.

Three central banks — Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia — have quietly begun buying silver, signaling its return as a true monetary metal. Mike Maloney explains why this marks the start of silver’s next major bull run and why owning physical silver matters more than ever.

Here is a look at 3 fascinating emails and why gold will soar even higher.

Turning 73? This guide explains how to take RMDs from your Gold IRA, including options for physical precious metals distributions, IRS requirements, tax strategies, and approaches to preserve your gold and silver holdings while staying compliant with IRS rules. Learn whether to take cash or in-kind distributions and navigate the...

Below is a fascinating email about the gold and silver markets from a man who grew up in the 1970s.

Gold and silver rallied Tuesday as economic warning signs mounted and JPMorgan forecast gold could reach $5,000 by 2026. The U.S. private sector shed jobs in late October while consumer spending showed fresh cracks, with even affordable chains like Chipotle feeling the pinch. As a record 42-day government shutdown nears...

It has been a wild 2025 for trading in the global gold market, but as we near the end of the year it appears China's gold market is in turmoil with West vs East seated at a poker table vying for control ahead of the reset.

In a world where everything — from your paycheck to your crypto wallet — claims to be “money,” Alan Hibbard asks a question few ever stop to consider:  What actually makes something a true store of value?  In Episode 3 of Hidden Secrets of Value, Alan breaks down the 12 properties that...

After a 40-day shutdown, Washington’s deal brings short-term relief — but not stability. Gold jumped past $4,000 as investors saw through the political theater, betting on more volatility ahead. With the Fed flying blind and global confidence cracking, hard assets remain the one certainty in an uncertain world.

Gold remains one of the strongest-performing assets, and the gold rally 2026 shows no signs of slowing. Driven by central-bank demand, rate cuts, and fiscal weakness, experts say this bull market could extend well into next year — here’s why.

At the New Orleans Investment Conference, Mike Maloney answered a crucial question: are bonds still a safe haven? His answer was clear — in an era of endless debt and currency creation, gold and silver, not bonds, are the true insurance against systemic risk.

Gold climbed back above $4,000 this morning while silver rebounded near $49, extending a rally fueled by political gridlock, missing economic data, and Fed uncertainty. With the government shutdown leaving investors in the dark on jobs and inflation numbers, markets are reaching for safe-haven assets. Meanwhile, silver just earned a...

At the 2025 New Orleans Investment Conference, Mike Maloney and Kerry Stevenson unpack why investors are lining up to buy gold at record highs — revealing how emotion, policy, and distrust in fiat money are driving the latest gold and silver mania.

Gold steadied near $4,000/oz Thursday amid dollar weakness and shutdown concerns, while U.S. companies announced record October job cuts. With the "Buffett Indicator" at extreme levels and Bitcoin diverging from gold's traditional safe-haven role, investors are reassessing portfolio hedges. Meanwhile, Cambodia's decision to store reserves with China signals a geopolitical...

Gold spot price signals reveal much more than the current value of gold — they reflect global confidence, investor sentiment, and the flow of money across markets. Understanding how these signals work helps investors see gold not as a speculative asset, but as a real-time measure of economic trust and...

Gold bounced back nearly 1% on Wednesday after hitting one-week lows, driven by bargain-hunting and risk-off sentiment. The move comes as the World Economic Forum warned of three potential bubbles—crypto, AI, and sovereign debt. Bitcoin validated those concerns, briefly crashing below $100,000 and wiping out billions in leveraged positions. Plus:...

At the New Orleans Investment Conference, Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard reveal why central banks’ steady gold and silver buying has created a lasting price floor — signaling that smart money is positioning early, not late.

Gold dipped below $4,000 Tuesday as fading Fed rate cut hopes and a stronger dollar pressured precious metals. The pullback comes despite Treasury confirming inflation remains "above target" at 3%—exactly the environment where gold historically thrives as an inflation hedge. Meanwhile, tech stocks tumbled on AI bubble fears and Bitcoin...

When money loses integrity, freedom fades. Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard explore why gold as honest money is essential to preserving trust, independence, and financial freedom in a collapsing fiat system.

The gold-to-silver ratio has guided investors for centuries — and the 80/60 rule makes it easy to use. When the ratio tops 80, silver is undervalued; near 60, gold offers better value. By following these thresholds, investors can rebalance with data, not emotion, and build a smarter, more balanced metals...

Markets are struggling to find direction as the government shutdown drags on, delaying key data releases and forcing traders to rely on private reports. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s public clash with the Fed adds to the uncertainty, while gold holds steady above $4,000 and silver regains momentum. With political tensions...

Gold and silver wrapped up a historic October, with gold topping $4,000 as global demand surged to record highs. But inflation data released today showed the Fed’s fight isn’t over—headline prices are easing, yet core inflation remains stubbornly high. As policymakers debate the next move, uncertainty is keeping safe-haven demand...

U.S. households now hold a record 80% of their wealth in stocks — an all-time high that signals a dangerous concentration. As Alan Hibbard warns, when both stocks and bonds move together, traditional diversification fails. History shows these moments often precede major market resets — and gold may once again...