Some people call you unrealistic when you talk about the life you want. They say it with a calm face like they are doing you a favor. What they are really doing is pulling you back into the range where they feel safe. They want your desires to match the size of their courage. They want your goals to fit inside the limits they accepted years ago. A person who has surrendered always panics [music] around someone who still believes. Their world only makes sense if your hunger be

One preposterous flim-flam after another Everything, every asset class...every shopping decision...and every dollar has been distorted, stretched...twisted, puffed up and corrupted. There goes the neighborhood. Up the river from us in Ireland...comes another rich guy. The Irish Times: With a rumoured pricetag of between €20 to €30 million, Strancally Castle has been bought by Meta giant, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. This morning, The Irish Times reports that

Why Comfortable People Don't Revolt: Propaganda, Debt, and Control The question serious analysts must ask is not "why do governments expand?" That is self-evident, a structural feature of any bureaucracy. The appropriate question is "why do populations permit it?" The answer requires understanding the propaganda apparatus that Western states have built, refined, and now operate at industrial scale. The modern architecture of consent management dates to the First World War. Wo

Let's Not Make a Deal Interest rates are probably on their way to all-time highs. And if that is so, it is the single most important financial news you’re likely to get today, this week, or this year. Yesterday, we noted that the celebrity dealmaker who runs the USA seemed unable to make a deal. The deals either never come together...or come apart immediately thereafter. And now that we have the makings of another ‘deal’ with Iran, comes the Wall Street Journal with cruel moc

You fell maybe you stayed down longer than you should have maybe you curled up in your defeat and called it a phase maybe you convinced yourself that this was just how life is now quiet empty directionless you watched others pass you by carving lives from ambition while you sank further into silence you kept telling yourself you'd return When the time was right when you were ready when the pain dulled but the truth is you didn't want to come back you wanted the world to apolo

Yield Curve Control: How the Fed Will Quietly Confiscate Your Wealth Yield curve control, or YCC, may sound like an obscure technical policy. It is not. It is one of the most important tools of financial repression. In plain English, yield curve control means the central bank decides what interest rate the government should pay on its debt—and then uses its money-printing power to enforce that rate. If the free market demands 6% to lend to the government, but the central bank

Knock the Temple Down Trump has accumulated 35% of America’s national debt SINCE 1776... Let that sink in... —The Rest is Politics: US The drama over the weekend came when thousands of Moroccans surged into a Spanish enclave on the African coast. But what sense did it make? They still couldn’t get to Europe. And Ceuta is a tiny Spanish city. There was nothing for them to eat...and nowhere for them to sleep. So, they surged back home. Forbes: Most Migrants Who Crossed Into Ce

The Kingdom Of Gene Silencing This is Verum Liquid Biotechnology – where Nikos presents a revamped portfolio to capitalize on the next biotech bull market. The details of the recommendations – and the specific names of the companies and buy prices – are for paid-up subscribers only. Why RNAi Is The Next Monoclonal Antibody – And How To Own It Silence one gene and you can silence almost any gene. That is the whole investment case for gene silencing – part of what we call bi

The Moves (And Money) Made Between A Deal Announced And A Deal Done Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The deal was recently halted by a federal judge, leading to another round of share-price fluctuations for both companies. Marty views the merger from the perspective of the traders who work the deal along its long path to success or failure. If anything moves markets, it's the tortuous path of a big-time merger – as most recently seen with the ongoing attemp

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