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Today's situation is much worse than the 1970s, why isn't gold performing as expected?

Why Credit Creates Bubbles That Break The Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The asymmetric scaling of credit has inflated The Everything Bubble that will burst with devastating consequences for the real economy. When credit scales faster than it can be absorbed by productive investments, the resulting credit-asset bubbles break the economy. This is the result of asymmetric scaling: credit (i.e. debt, money borrowed into existence) can be created in virtually limitless billions with a few keystrokes, while productive investments scale only […]

US Naval Escort Won't "100% Guarantee" Tanker Safety In Hormuz Chokepoint: Report The paralyzed Hormuz chokepoint is becoming the worst disruption to global energy flows ever, as actual barrels quickly disappear from oil markets, driving prices sharply higher in Asia toward $150 per barrel and potentially setting the stage for demand destruction in the weeks ahead. The oil market has fragmented: Oil is now trading for $150/bbl in Asia (except the occasional sanctioned Iranian tanker) where demand destruction has started. China and India most pressured. Meanwhile it is still […]

UK Lawmakers Seek Moratorium On Crypto Donations To Political Parties Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, A cross-party parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom has urged the government to impose an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties until stronger safeguards are in place. In a report published on Wednesday, the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy said the government should amend the Representation of the People Bill to impose an “immediate moratorium on crypto donations” until the Electoral Commission […]

Owner Of Failed UK-Based Private Lender MFS Hit With Worldwide Asset Freeze When we reported on the collapse of the first major UK-based private credit lender, Market Financial Solutions (or MFS), the UK mortgage lender that borrowed more than £2 billion ($2.7 billion) from Wall Street backers, and which collapse in spectacular fashion, we pointed out that the mastermind behind the operation, Paresh Raja, may have opportunistically fled to Dubai, although he may have since fled again for obvious reasons.  Now, Bloomberg reports that officials overseeing the wind-down of have […]

'Restore Britain' Vows To Execute Pedophiles, Deport Millions Of Migrants, Outlaw "Incompatible Cultural And Religious Practices" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A new force in British politics is making waves with an uncompromising vision for national restoration. Just weeks after its launch as a full political party in February, Restore Britain has already overtaken the Conservative Party in membership numbers, reaching over 114,000 supporters and becoming the fourth largest party in the country.  The growth has been entirely organic through social media and […]

2020s: The Billionaires' Decade? Billionaires' wealth remains undeterred by global crises, rising by 25 percent between early 2025 and early 2026, a Forbes World's Billionaires List release showed yesterday. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when tech stocks soared, it took an even bigger step up, rising 64 percent between 2020 and 2021. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, the number of billionaires worldwide surpassed 3,000 for the first time in 2025 and climbed to more than 3,400 this year. You will find more infographics at Statista The number of […]

"We Can't Live Like This Anymore!" - Residents Demand Action As Migrant-Linked Violence Spirals In Rome Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Residents in Rome’s San Lorenzo district are sounding the alarm over a surge in violence they say is increasingly driven by homeless migrants, after another brutal street attack left a man hospitalized and renewed calls for urgent security measures. The latest incident unfolded in Piazza di Porta San Lorenzo, where a 30-year-old Gambian man allegedly slashed a Moroccan man with a broken bottle in the middle of the street, striking […]

17 Veterans Kill Themselves A Day Waiting 17 Days For Help Authored by Sean O'Connor via RealClearDefense, Every day, roughly 17 veterans take their own lives. For two decades, that number hasn't budged.  VA Secretary Doug Collins said that despite spending billions of dollars, we're losing the same number of veterans every year. For veterans under the age of 45, a recent report shows suicide is the second-leading cause of death. They’re not faceless statistics, but fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters who couldn't survive the wait for help.  What makes this […]

Former Air Force Officer Claims UFOs Disabled Nuclear Missiles A former U.S. Air Force missile launch officer says unidentified flying objects once disabled several nuclear missiles at a base in Montana during the Cold War, according to the NY Post. Robert Salas, now 85, said the incident occurred in 1967 at Malmstrom Air Force Base, where he was on duty monitoring LGM-30 Minuteman I missiles. Speaking on the The Danny Jones Podcast, Salas recalled that guards above ground reported strange lights flying over the base late one night. According to Salas, the guards initially […]

WHO Convenes Global Session To Dictate How The Coming Influenza Pandemic Will Be Run Authored by Jon Fleetwood via substack, The World Health Organization will convene an online international pandemic control session on Wednesday, March 18, centered on the unelected globalist group’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework, according to a WHO press release. PIP is the international structure through which the WHO, a foreign syndicate, dictates how influenza virus samples are transferred worldwide, and how pandemic vaccines, antivirals, and diagnostics are allocated […]

Teacher Who Resigned Over DEI Says "Ideological Takeover" Is Getting Worse In a recently released NY Post op-ed, teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe described why she publicly resigned from the Dwight-Englewood School in 2021 after witnessing what she calls an ideological takeover of K-12 education. She writes that the shift began after faculty trainings on privilege and the hiring of a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer whose goal was to “transform” the school. According to the op-ed, DEI ideology soon spread through curriculum, faculty training, and student programming, […]

AI Insiders Warn Of Dangers Of 'Emergent Strategic Behavior' Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As the landscape of autonomous artificial intelligence systems evolves, there’s growing concern that the technology is becoming increasingly strategic—or even deceptive—when allowed to operate without human guidance. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock Recent evidence suggests that behaviors such as “alignment faking” are becoming more common as AI models are given autonomy. The term alignment faking refers to when an AI agent […]

Australia Has One Month Before Energy Crisis And Fuel Rationing If there is one prevailing misconception about the war in Iran, it is the idea that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will hurt the US the most.  This is simply not the case.  In reality, only around 7% of US oil imports actually travel through the Hormuz to get to American markets.  The potential long term instability in the strait is far more damaging to economies in the East, and by extension, Australia faces potential crisis. Direct petroleum imports are not the biggest problem for Australia; around 15% of […]

Qatar Expels Iranian Diplomats After Strike On LNG Hub; Israel Attacks Iran's Navy In Caspian Sea Summary Israel strikes Iran Navy in Caspian Sea. Iran FM Discusses Strait of Hormuz with EU's Kallas, oil dumps, amid reports of Iran launches on KSA. Largest Qatar LNG export hub hit by Iranian missiles. Doha expels diplomats. Some Gulf states want to ensure Iran's missile arsenal destroyed for good, as EU, Russia, China demand ceasefire; Beijing ignores Trump's Hormuz plea Israel says Iran's intelligence chief Esmail Khatib was eliminated overnight as pace of top […]

"Fully Stretched": Some US Airports Face Possible Closure If Government Shutdown Prolongs Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Some U.S. airports may be forced to close down if lawmakers fail to reach a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and end the partial government shutdown, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) official said on March 17. Passengers move through one of the terminals as multiple flights have been canceled and delayed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on March 16, 2026. Andrew […]

200,000 Immigrant Truck Drivers Begin Losing Licenses Under New Trump Admin Rule About 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States could lose their commercial driver’s licenses once they expire under a new rule backed by the administration of Donald Trump, according to VNY. Which leads us...and everybody else to ask: we had 200,000 immigrant truck drivers in the United States? We had 200K immigrant truck drivers??? https://t.co/3XOBiCqdzE pic.twitter.com/lJuKDOubZj — Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) March 16, 2026 But we digress. The policy bars asylum seekers, […]

How The Iran War Could Trigger A Global Credit Crunch Authored by Ryan Smith via OilPrice.com, The Iran war’s shock to oil and gas prices has, understandably, dominated much of the recent market news.  Though the downstream effects have yet to be fully understood, there is no question that we are in the throes of the greatest energy crisis in modern history, with significant implications for every facet of the modern economy. One particular aspect that is just beginning to be appreciated is the financial one.  The onset of this latest Persian Gulf war is poised to […]

Chinese State Bankers Face Bonus Cuts Of At Least 30% Senior bankers at China’s state-backed financial institutions are preparing for bonus cuts of at least 30% as Beijing presses ahead with sweeping pay reforms across its $69 trillion financial sector, according to Bloomberg. At two major state-owned banks, senior managers — including department heads — saw their 2025 bonuses reduced by 30% to 50%, according to people familiar with the matter. At a mid-sized national lender, division chiefs experienced roughly a 40% drop in variable pay last year. The cuts are part of a […]

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once Authored by No1 at Gold & Geopolitics substack, Let me start with a number. In 1980, when the Iran-Iraq war disrupted global oil supply, the volume lost was around 4 million barrels per day. Painful. The world went into recession. Volcker raised rates to 20% to kill inflation. It nearly killed the economy in the process. We called it a crisis and we meant it. The current Hormuz blockade is running at roughly 20 million barrels per day. The futures market, in its infinite wisdom, is pricing a quick resolution. Trump says the war is […]

Why The Left Is More Distressed, Anxious, & Filled With Hate Than The Right Authored by 'Sallust' via DailySceptic.org, There is an interesting article in the Telegraph by a psychotherapist called Jonathan Alpert, called ‘There’s a reason the Left seems more psychologically distressed than the Right’ (you can read it here). This is how he opens: In my clinical practice, one pattern has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Among a subset of patients on the political Left, hostility toward political opponents goes beyond dislike or even hatred. It sometimes […]

Gold fell 3.75% to $4,820 as February PPI surged to 3.4% — double expectations. The Fed held rates at 3.50%–3.75% with no cuts in sight. Here's what the data says about the gold price outlook and whether this dip is a buying opportunity.

Every great empire follows the same arc: sound money, public works, military expansion, war, debasement, loss of faith, collapse. Mike Maloney's Seven Stages of Empire framework explains why currencies fail — and what history says comes next.

Vance Embraces 'Fraud Czar' Role, Dems Plan To Make It A 2028 Liability Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, Democrats began laying a trap the moment that President Trump announced during his State of the Union that Vice President JD Vance would lead a new “war on fraud,” salivating at the possibility of political liability and dubbing the MAGA heir apparent the “fraud czar.” “It will be blocks of cement around his ankles,” a senior Democratic official told RealClearPolitics last month after the speech to Congress. Another operative predicted that, […]

Ready For War? New B-21 Raider Activity Spotted Over Mojave Desert There has been increased activity of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, suggesting the Department of War is on an accelerated path to bring the next-generation bomber platform into service, with the USAF targeting an operational date in 2027. Earlier this month, plane spotters appeared to capture the highly secretive B-21 refueling behind a KC-135R tanker over the Mojave Desert. Nice! You spotted the new baby B-2, the B-21 Raider! Bet you took that photo in Kern County, California 🤠 https://t.co/8gAWbP3xvS […]

Did US Intel Agencies Hide Chinese Interference In 2020 Election From 'Vulgarian' Trump? Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, Questions over the integrity of the 2020 election continue to linger after the revelation that analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese interference from then-President Donald Trump. Never before reported upon comments found in a January 2021 report written by analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf show that intelligence analysts downplayed evidence of China’s meddling because of their disdain for […]

Everyone seems to believe this crisis is temporary, but look at who just warned this crisis is going to last more than a year.

Schiff: This War Is "Going To Cost A Lot Of Money We Don't Have" Last night, ZeroHedge hosted investor Peter Schiff and Rabobank's Michael Every to debate the question: Will the war in Iran accelerate the U.S. dollar’s collapse or is it a geopolitical chess move that could strengthen its hegemony? Moderated by Cornell professor Dave Collum, Schiff - based in Austrian economics - argued that the war will do nothing but harm the American economy via higher prices and interest rates, while the dollar weakens. Every believes Trump can pull a rabbit out of a hat and come out of […]

Fed Remains On Hold (As Expected) Amid 'Uncertain Implications' Of War With Iran Tl;dr: Rates on hold as expected with a hawkish tilt to 'uncertainty' around the Iran war clouding the outlook. The Dot-Plot showed no real change (7 on hold, 12 at least 1 cut in 2026) but inflation expectations surged in the SEP. *  *  * A lot - and we mean a lot - has happened since the last FOMC meeting (Jan 28th). Oil is up 54% since the last FOMC meeting, bitcoin has tumbled. Gold and stocks are also down notably while the dollar has strengthened... Both growth and inflation data have […]

Silver crashed 30% from its January 2026 all-time high. Alarming — unless you've studied silver price crash history. The 1970s and 2011 both saw violent pullbacks inside raging bull markets. Here's what happened to investors who held, and those who didn't.

Choosing between a Gold IRA and physical gold ownership? Understanding the key differences in tax treatment, storage requirements, costs, and liquidity is essential for making the right investment decision. A Gold IRA offers tax-deferred growth and professional storage within a retirement framework, while physical gold provides immediate control and access...

The Fed announces its rate decision today as oil approaches $100 and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The U.S. economy outlook looks solid on the surface — but fragile underneath. Here's what gold investors need to watch.

Michael Oliver, the man who is well known for his deadly accurate forecasts on stocks, bonds, and major markets, sent King World News a note warning the public has it wrong once again when it comes to the gold sector.

Rising gas prices, shifting gold-silver ratios, and a Federal Reserve caught between inflation and slowdown are sending a clear signal: uncertainty is building again. As energy costs climb and policy clarity fades, investors are increasingly turning to gold as a strategic hedge. Meanwhile, central banks continue quietly accumulating the metal—reinforcing...

Most precious metals investors know how to buy — but few have a plan for when to sell. Here's the ratio-based exit strategy that tells you when to start selling, how to do it in stages, and what to rotate into before you ever touch fiat currency.

People across the earth need to buckle up because a massive wave of inflation is on the way.

Gold runs first. Silver waits — sometimes for years. Then silver surges past gold and doesn't look back. Here's what 50 years of data reveals about one of the most consistent patterns in precious metals investing, and how it just played out again in real time.

Gold already hit a record $5,600 in 2026. Now two powerful forces — a slowing U.S. economy and escalating Middle East conflict — are building the case for even higher prices. Here's what the data says about gold's path to $6,000.

Gold is holding near $5,000 as the Fed meets, oil stays above $100, and Wall Street's 2026 price targets keep climbing. J.P. Morgan sees $6,300. Bank of America sees $6,000. And one century-old chart suggests gold is right where the math says it should be.

Fortunes will be made: Look at what is getting ready to explode on the upside!

Gold briefly dipped below $5,000 Monday as a stronger dollar pressured metals. Oil eased but gas prices keep climbing. With the Fed meeting kicking off tomorrow, the stagflation question is back on the table — and it matters for precious metals.

Sprott says this is why gold futures continue to trade above $5,000 an ounce.

Why is silver leaving COMEX vaults? Many investors assume shrinking inventories signal a coming silver squeeze. But COMEX deliveries, warehouse warrants, and inventory shifts don’t always mean metal is physically leaving the system. Here’s what the data really shows.

The US still values its gold at $42.22 an ounce — a price frozen since the 1970s. Here's what revaluing those reserves would actually mean, and why the math doesn't add up the way politicians hope.

Central banks have been accumulating gold at the fastest pace since the 1950s. Discover the economic, geopolitical, and monetary forces driving this historic shift in global reserve strategy—and what it means for investors.

As gold prices climb, producing nations like Ghana are raising mining royalties to capture more value from the boom. The move highlights a growing debate over who benefits from rising prices — and what it could mean for the long-term gold supply outlook.

Today one of the greats in the business stated silver is about to be a home run investment.

Today Nomi Prins, who has given keynote speeches to the World Bank, IMF and Federal Reserve, predicted that the price of oil is going to skyrocket way above $100 a barrel. She also discussed where gold, silver and uranium prices are headed as the war with Iran drags on far longer than people believe.

Look at what is happening behind the scenes in the gold and silver markets.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints, carrying a massive share of global oil and LNG trade. Any disruption here can ripple through energy markets, influence inflation, and potentially drive demand for safe-haven assets like gold.

Gold has a centuries-long reputation as a safe haven during economic turmoil — but does the historical data back it up? From the Great Depression to the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 recession, gold has consistently preserved wealth when equity markets faltered. This article examines the data behind gold's...

Ray Dalio calls gold "the safest money" and recommends a 5–15% portfolio allocation. Here's what his gold investment strategy means for your portfolio and why his view matters more than ever in today's economic climate.

Oil is above $100 and the Strait of Hormuz is nearly shut. Yet gold is trading sideways. The Iran war has scrambled every market assumption — from Fed policy to global energy supply. Here's what the data says and why the bigger move in gold may still be ahead.

Look at who just warned we will see economic depression, bail-ins, capital controls and bank closures.

Gold has outlasted every currency it has ever been compared to. But does 100 years of data actually prove it's a reliable inflation hedge? We break down the key periods — from the Nixon Shock to the 2024 all-time highs — to show exactly when gold shines, when it struggles,...

Is the world entering a silver supply deficit? Mike Maloney argues that rising industrial demand and slow mine supply could create years of shortages. If the trend continues, silver may become far harder to obtain—and prices could move much higher.

The Iran War is reshaping global markets in real time. Oil has topped $100, the largest emergency reserve release in history didn't stop prices from rising, and the gold price keeps climbing. Here's what investors need to know today.

In early 2025, the gold-silver ratio approached 90. Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard discussed why extreme ratios often precede strong silver rallies. Since that video, silver vs gold performance has been striking—outpacing gold, stocks, and bonds by a wide margin.

Silver often moves more dramatically than gold—but the reason isn’t random. Learn why silver is more volatile than gold, from its smaller market and rigid supply to industrial demand and leveraged futures trading. Understanding these forces can help investors better navigate silver’s bigger price swings.

The February 2026 CPI report landed in line with expectations — and almost immediately beside the point. With the Iran war already reshaping oil markets, the real inflation story doesn't show up until March. Here's what traders and investors need to know.