This might not apply to all sheep-types, but many of the ones I have encountered simply do not care. This could be the reason we can’t seem to get through to them with the facts we are constantly shoving down their throats. Of course, the ones I’ve talked to may just be saying they don’t care to shut me up, but I really don’t think so. They seem pretty sincere. How could they not care? Now, that is the $64,000 question. People, in general, do not care about things they do not

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood – Otto von Bismark Since I wrote the first part of this theme in late April, things have largely advanced like I expected including the current locations of important US warships designated for what’s coming. And as expected, the noise has been deafening even as little has changed. The “noise” has been a brilliant “cat-and-mouse” game with the media and the ma

The Pricking Is Coming': Dalio Warns AI Bubble Will Burst Like Dot-Com, But Tech Will Endure Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio today and delivered a measured yet cautionary assessment of the artificial intelligence investment frenzy. He highlighted classic bubble dynamics - sky-high valuations, rampant speculation, and "paper wealth" vastly outpacing actual cash flows - while drawing direct parallels to the 2000 dot-com era. "All great technology changes produce bubbl

Why Hasn't Oil Hit $150 (Yet)? Global oil inventories and floating storage have acted as temporary shock absorbers against the Hormuz disruption. OPEC spare capacity has stabilized markets, but it cannot fully replace lost Persian Gulf exports indefinitely. Prolonged disruption could eventually exhaust market buffers and trigger a much sharper oil price surge. I think most energy analysts would have been shocked to learn that roughly three months into a total closure of the S

The Iran War Could Trigger Gold's Return as Money No matter what happens, I am confident the Iran war will be a major tailwind for gold. Here is an overview of how I see the conflict unfolding and its major financial implications. The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important energy corridor. Iran now has undisputed control over Hormuz. Stripping Iran of that control would require a successful full-scale ground invasion of Iran, a country roughly 40 times the size of Swi

The Rarest Minds Always Leave the Herd | Friedrich Nietzsche There are mines in this world, rare minds, minds that were never built for the crowd. In thus spoke Zerahustra, Nietze tells the story of Zerahustra, a man who descended from his mountain filled with fire, wisdom, and a desperate desire to teach mankind. He believed humanity was ready. But when Zerahustra began speaking to people, something unexpected happened for him. The more he spoke, the more alone he felt among

WILLIAM BLAKE: The Man Who Painted the Occult If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake is considered a key figure in esotericism. A visionary artist, he transformed his experiences and perceptions into poetry and images, creating his own symbolic universe in which imagination becomes the key to unlocking the hidden

Why We Sabotage Ourselves - The Psychology of Self-Handicapping “The self-handicapper reaches out for impediments, exaggerates handicaps, and embraces any factor reducing personal responsibility for mediocrity…” Steven Berglas and Edward Jones, Drug Choice as a Self-Handicapping Strategy Rather than simply contending with external obstacles to success, many of us actively collaborate in our own defeat. We are our own worst enemies and our inability to achieve goa

The modern West is in decline. Economic stagnation, rising tax burdens, moral disorientation, political corruption, bloated bureaucracies, and soaring levels of poverty, drug addiction and homelessness, all point to a faltering civilization. While many agree that the West is faltering, explanations as to why vary; some blame the collapse of religion and the loss of a shared moral order, others the rise of consumerism and hedonism, or the dumbing down effects of

Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franz’s primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths, fairy tales contains timeless wisdom that teaches us about the human condition. Jung believed that so much wisdom was contained in the fairy tale that he once told von Franz that “when you study fairy tales you can study the anatomy of man.” (Marie-Louise Von Franz

The Price of Glory The founders, insiders, and anyone who already owns stock in these companies can’t wait for you to fill up your pension and 401(k) with shares. You are the liquidity they need to exit with a fortune. Well, how now, Dow? The big blue-chip index made a record intra-day AND closing high today. It went into the Memorial Day weekend strong, with a close at 50,579. But wait! In gold terms, the Dow is at 11.2. That’s higher than in the last few months. But it’s a

No Wonder Men Are Opting Out The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, the counterculture and a desire for personal freedom. They were rejecting the cultural ideology that had s

This Market's Rally Isn't Healthy The stock market seems incredibly strong right now. Wall Street headlines are celebrating daily. Corporate profits are beating expectations at a rapid pace. And the major market indexes are hovering near all-time highs. If you only look at surface-level numbers, everything seems fine and dandy... But a closer inspection reveals a deeply split market. Simply put, the rally we're seeing today is not healthy. It's highly concentrated and driven

Why Young People Are Gambling to Get Ahead It seems like a growing number of young people have concluded that saving, working hard, and investing prudently won’t get them anywhere. So they’re turning to sports betting, meme stocks, crypto speculation, and lottery-style trades. Is this simply bad judgment, or is it a rational response to a broken financial system? First, we should define our terms. Namely, what's the difference between saving, investing, speculating, and gam

America 2029: The Fourth Turning What Happens When A Great Empire Runs Out Of Money Editor’s note: Last month, Porter published a new version of his best-selling book The End of America. The new edition, 2029: The End of America, describes America’s continuing economic, political, and cultural decline. Using the generational framework of the Fourth Turning, his new book describes the underlying forces that are destroying America’s way of life. Here’s an excerpt from the book

Every tolerated weakness leaves a mark on the nervous system, not visibly at first. No scar opens across the face. No alarm rings through the room. Yet something inside records the surrender. The body learns what the mind permits. The mind learns what the standard truly means. When you say you will train and then do not, your body hears the command collapse. When you say you will focus and then feed distraction for hours, your attention learns rebellion. When you allow people

Funny Money Express Massie stops precisely nothing. He votes ‘no,’ but he is like a hollow gong...out of tune with the new Trumpians. And the Funny Money Express just keeps picking up speed. US government debt is up more than 9,000% since the value of the dollar was severed from gold in August of 1971. This has permitted massive deficit spending by Washington and a national debt approaching $40 trillion ‘I have a stone in my shoe. You can remove it.’ --The Godfather Today is

The Iran War Is Accelerating the US Debt Spiral—and Creating an Inflation Crisis Wars have historically been one of the biggest drivers of major jumps in US government debt. The war Between the States in the 1860s was the first true explosion: federal debt rose from about $65 million in 1860 to roughly $2.7 billion after the war—an increase of over 4,000%. (The percentage growth is so large because the debt was starting from such a low base, with President Andrew Jackson havi

Bonds Are Screaming "Something's Wrong" Bond yields are doing exactly what I warned about yesterday: forcing reality back into a market that had become increasingly detached from it. Bond yields are doing exactly what I warned about yesterday: forcing reality back into a market that had become increasingly detached from it. Heading into Friday’s cash open, U.S. equity futures are under pressure, with S&P 500 futures down roughly 1% and Nasdaq futures off even more sharply as