To properly strategize you need a back up plan for a backup plan. The greatest lesson from the Weimar Republic was that people in the cities died of starvation while crops rotted on the farm because the currency hyper-inflated so fast the money was worth less by the time the farmer returned from selling crops. 1. Source local 2. Bitcoin in self custody 3. Gold in self custody. The Amish farmer isn’t going to accept bitcoin

What keeps me up at night? We killed the remnant of the gold standard with the petrodollar system. Is the petrodollar crumbling into a multipolar world? Is the petroyuan system developing? Is the petroyuan built on a fully reserved gold system? What happens if we run a paper derivative gold market but China’s is fully reserved? At some point we are going to be standing there with our dick in one hand and paper gold claims in the other.

I pray we are in a fourth turning. It gives me hope there will be a resolution to the crisis and an eventual high. Because if you extrapolate the current timeline out….

All that the analyst or historian need do is to assume, as an hypothesis, that people in government or lobbying for government policies may be at least as self interested and profit motivated as people in business or everyday life, and then to investigate the significant and revealing patterns. That he will see before his eyes.

This might be his best work

In the world of Bread and Circuses, the circus tickets have been rebranded as dollars.

It must be Tuesday because the White House is serving tacos

The Gold Standard Act of 1900 fixed the U.S. dollar as consisting of 25.8 grains (about 1.672 grams) of gold that is nine-tenths fine (90% pure gold). If this definition held today, a dollar would be valued at $249.68. Then we got the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. End the Fed.

Can I get a dozen hot wings, extra blue cheese, a Coors heavy, a full disclosure of the Epstein files and a side of what the fuck happened to Charlie Kirk?

Are we still pretending that Charlie Kirk was sniped by some random dude? Asking for a friend.

President Donald Trump says the US will "leave" Iran in "two to three weeks" when they are certain the regime cannot build a nuclear weapon "for years"

And yet the world’s greatest navy still can’t open the straight of Hormuz? Trump says the US now dominates Iranian skies, has destroyed its navy and its leaders are "begging to make a deal".

They aren’t even trying to lie anymore. Trump said the primary goal of curtailing Iran's ability to obtain a nuclear weapon has been reached and the US was now "finishing the job" I’m old enough to remember June when they told us operation Midnight Hammer completely decimated Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

I love Russians But I hate the Russian government I love Americans But I hate the American government I love Jews But I hate the Israeli government Notice the pattern. None of that makes me xenophobic, a traitor or antisemitic.

On a "core" basis, excluding volatile energy and food categories, consumer prices rose 0.2% from a month earlier and 2.5% from a year ago. Can anyone logically explanation why food is so volatile that it has to be excluded from “core?” I understand a flock has to get wiped out after avian flu and the price of eggs goes up. But how often does that happen? Other consumer goods can have supply chain disruptions. It’s because food and energy are essential commodities that can’t be papered over. It’s all bullshit.