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Market Mayhem Sparks Metal Moves with David Erfle

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz and David Erfle discuss the current state of the gold and silver markets, with Erfle predicting a 15% correction in gold after its strong 18-month rally. He expects gold to stabilize between $2,700 and $3,000, while silver, showing resilience, may be poised to catch up due to its undervaluation relative to gold. They explore how geopolitical tensions, rising corporate debt, and the shift of China and Japan from buyers to sellers of U.S. debt are fueling uncertainty, ultimately benefiting precious metals. Erfle also highlights increased merger activity in the silver mining sector, such as Pan American’s acquisition of MagSilver, and expresses optimism for junior mining stocks. The conversation wraps up with insights into the U.S. credit situation’s impact on Canada and the acceleration of mining projects in British Columbia amid global instability.

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Ukraine to Disappear! The Biggest Forecast Made Yet! with Martin Armstrong

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Read the full forecast and 14 years of uncensored interviews in The World According to Martin Armstrong, available here → https://bit.ly/4k7fbEr

In this shocking interview, Martin Armstrong delivers what may be the most important forecast of his career: Ukraine will disappear! This isn’t a guess. It’s based on decades of data from the Socrates AI forecasting system — and it’s never issued a warning like this before. We also cover:

  • Why Ukraine is finished, no matter what the West says
  • Why Europe needs war to stay afloat
  • How the next economic collapse will ripple from the periphery inward
  • And what you can do to prepare before the clock runs out

Armstrong’s model has never been wrong about direction — and now it’s pointing to something irreversible.

👉 This may be the last time you get the truth before the media spin hits. Get the full picture — and the full archive — in the new book. Order Here: https://bit.ly/4k7fbEr

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Real Estate, AI, and Inflation Collide with Lon Welsh

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz and Lon Welsh dive into real estate investing, emphasizing the long-term mindset that sets it apart from markets like crypto and stocks. Welsh explains why today’s market is stronger than in 2008, with homeowners holding record equity and many owning homes outright. They discuss inflation’s impact on real estate, noting housing’s major role in the consumer price index. The conversation also explores how AI could improve trade negotiations, and they share optimism about future market trends, with falling home prices and rent growth pointing to a potential CPI decline.

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Trump’s Qatari 747: Gift, Fortress, or Political Trap?

by Kerry Lutz
FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com

As of May 15, 2025, President Trump is back in the White House—and the media is once again losing its mind.

During a recent diplomatic visit to the Middle East, Qatar offered Trump a gleaming Boeing 747-8, formerly part of their royal VIP fleet. The jet, which looks more like a flying palace than a commercial aircraft, was framed by Qatari officials as a goodwill gesture—a symbol of allegiance, respect, and partnership.

To the mainstream media? It’s an “Emoluments Clause violation” and an outrage.

The irony is thick: Before Trump’s first presidency, the average pundit on the left couldn’t even pronounce the word “emoluments,” much less cite it. Now, they’ve turned it into the hill to die on—claiming that the gift, despite being intended for U.S. government use, somehow crosses a constitutional line.

The Musk Method: Power, Innovation & Free Speech with Dennis Kneale

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz sits down with Dennis Kneale to unpack lessons from The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. They explore how Musk’s bold bets—from Tesla to SpaceX—are reshaping industries and reducing carbon emissions without relying on subsidies. The conversation also dives into AI risks, the censorship crisis on social media, and why public perception often misses the mark on Musk. Plus, insights on media bias, political discourse, and social media strategy. A sharp, insightful episode for anyone interested in leadership, innovation, and the future of free expression.

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The Gold is Flowing, and So is the Cash with Gwen Preston of West Red Lake Gold

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Gold is flowing — and so is the cash. We sat down with Gwen Preston, VP of Communications at West Red Lake Gold, for a major update on the Madsen Mine and its stunning progress. The bulk sample results are in — with 97% gold recovery and reconciliation beating expectations, it’s clear this mine is primed for production. Gwen details how high gold prices, improved geology, and experienced leadership have set the stage for near-term cashflow and a bigger, more profitable mine than anyone expected.

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Moody’s Stated the Obvious, but Trump Just Might Have Bought America More Time

by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign

In the year 1980, a young computer science grad student from the University of Washington named Burrell “Bud” Tribble accepted a job at a hot tech startup you might have heard of: it’s called Apple.

Tribble went to work directly for Steve Jobs on Apple’s most ambitious project at the time– the Macintosh. And he quickly learned, along with the rest of the Macintosh team, that Jobs’ management style was relentless, maniacal, and irrational… bordering on insane.

Steve Jobs famously dismissed his engineers’ doubts about whether they’d even be able to design such an audacious product. And he certainly didn’t care about minor inconveniences like the laws of physics or what was technologically achievable at the time. To Jobs, nothing was impossible. Full stop.

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Biden’s Was the First Fully Deep-State Presidency

from Zero Hedge

Authored by Jarrett Stepman via The Daily Signal,

Biden’s Presidency Is a Scandal of Historic Proportions

The “presidency” of Joe Biden is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy.

On Friday, Axios released Friday night news dump audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

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Why is the Fed Quietly Buying Billions in Bonds – and Hoping Nobody Notices?

How the Fed’s ‘stealth QE’ is bullish for bitcoin, gold and commodities

by Charlie Garcia
Market Watch

The U.S. Federal Reserve just pulled off something stealthy — over four days last week, without fanfare, the Fed vacuumed up $43.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys. That’s $8.8 billion in long-dated 30-year bonds on May 8 alone, plus another $34.8 billion earlier in the week. Not exactly small change.

Quietly returning to the quantitative-easing trough isn’t standard Fed housekeeping — it’s like a bank robber returning to the scene because he forgot his car keys.

Let’s talk straight: This isn’t tightening. It’s stealth easing. It’s monetary policy on tiptoes. Some traders have begun to notice, and smart investors should too.

Financial analyst Lyn Alden counters that the Fed is simply reinvesting proceeds from maturing bonds to prevent rapid balance-sheet shrinkage. Technically true — but let’s be clear: bond buying is bond buying, whatever label you slap on it.

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Moody’s U.S. Downgrade AAA to AA1

by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics

Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the United States’ credit rating from a top-tier rating of AAA to AA1 due to rising government debt. Fitch Ratings lowered the US debt in August 2023 for the same reason in August 2023, and while Moody’s did not officially act at the time the agency warned that the US was at risk of a downgrade.

The United States has enjoyed AAA status since 1917—this downgrade is a dire warning. At the current trajectory, the $36 trillion+ deficit is expected to advance from 5.4% of GDP in 2024 to around 9% by 2035. Moody’s believes the United States still offers “exceptional credit strengths,” but debt and payment ratios are now “considerably higher than those of similarly rated sovereign entities.” The agency also cited political instability as a concern, as Republicans and Democrats have been unable to align on methods to meaningfully reduce the deficit.

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The Real American Dream: Starting Over

by Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds

It seems to me the real American Dream is not measured solely by money, it’s more a measure of the freedom to Start Over.

The conventional definition of The American Dream is anyone can achieve middle-class security if they work hard, work smart, persevere and are frugal / prudent / save and invest a healthy chunk of their earnings.

I don’t consider it demeaning to call this ordinary success: the whole point of The American Dream is that ordinary people can achieve middle-class security through their own efforts.

For some, The American Dream is to achieve extraordinary success of the sort reserved for the few: fame and fortune.

What struck me about the early 1800s was the great mobility of the non-slave populace in an era where roads were mostly muddy tracks and travel was slow and arduous. Americans were constantly on the move seeking better opportunities elsewhere, buying and selling farmland, starting home-based enterprises, finding a different employer or kind of work and so on, often far from their previous home base.

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Walmart and Target Are Really Jacking Up Their Prices

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

Are you ready to pay 80 percent more for a USB-C cord? Unfortunately, Walmart, Target and other major retailers have decided to start dramatically raising the prices of thousands of imported products. Of course our paychecks are not going up dramatically as well, and so our standard of living is going to go down. We live at a time when 70 percent of Americans are already more financially stressed than they have ever been before, and now big corporations are going to be hitting us with a tsunami of enormous price hikes.

If prices of many imported goods go up by 5 or 10 percent, we can handle that.

But apparently Target is going nuts with their price hikes. For example, it is being reported that the price of one popular USB-C cord is being increased by 80 percent…

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All Roads Lead to Chaos

by Adam Sharp
Daily Reckoning

On Friday, ratings agency Moody’s finally downgraded America’s credit rating from AAA to AA+.

Yawn.

A ratings downgrade is a classic lagging indicator. By the time it happens, the market already knows.

And, no, the downgrade had nothing to do with Trump’s tariffs. The other big ratings agencies downgraded U.S. credit long ago; S&P in 2011, and Fitch in 2023.

Moody’s appears to have delayed the inevitable for as long as possible. When it comes to downgrading the world’s largest borrower, politics plays a role.

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Japan’s 30-Year and 40-Year Bonds Crater, Yields Spike, Huge Mess Coming Home to Roost. Yen Carry Trade at Risk

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

The BOJ’s QT, inflation that’s higher than in the US, an atrocious fiscal mess, a devalued yen, it all comes together.

Japan, which now has substantially more inflation than the US – 3.6% overall CPI and 3.2% core CPI – is watching in astonishment as its very-long-term bond yields spike in a dramatic manner, while the Bank of Japan has accelerated QT this year, which it started in mid-2024.

The superhero is the 40-year JGB yield, which jumped another 11 basis points at the moment, for a spike of 100 basis points since the beginning of April, to 3.56% at the moment. A rising yield means a falling price.

Continue Reading at WolfStreet.com…

Chaos to Infinity and Beyond

by Richard Mills
GoldSeek

Yesterday Silver47 (TSX.V:AGA) came out with what to me was a bit of a surprise very big announcement.

Bob Moriarty, Founder, 321gold:

Well obviously it’s a big deal, now what the impact of that’s going to be is hard to say. Silver47’s property in Alaska is nothing short of brilliant, it’s got $5 billion of VMS, it’s a high-grade VMS and it would not be difficult to build a road into it.

That project is going to go into production so what they’re doing is diversifying by doing a merger with Summa, and they’re doing it at no premium. It’s not as if they went in and bought it at a 25% premium. It’s an even swap. So, we’ll see but I love Silver47, I love their project, I’m not familiar with Summa other than what’s in the agreement, but I think combined it’s a brilliant company with a brilliant future.

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Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Government-Linked Sources

by Jason Hopkins and Philip Lenczycki
DailyCaller.com

Numerous Chinese government-linked entities have bankrolled a nonprofit accused of offering tips on how to evade federal immigration authorities, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

House Republicans recently launched an investigation into the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) — a New York-based nonprofit that’s been awarded over $1.4 million in tax-payer dollars since 2022 — after an undercover video surfaced purportedly showing CPC staff coaching illegal immigrants on how to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehension. A review of CPC’s financial records discovered Chinese government-linked sources have been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the nonprofit in recent years, raising concerns of potential foreign obstruction of U.S. immigration enforcement.

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Trump Threatens Walmart Not to React to His Tariffs

On the bright side, at least Trump finally admitted his tariffs are, indeed, paid by Americans.

by Joe Lancaster
Reason.com

President Donald Trump growled at the world’s largest retailer over the weekend, ordering it not to raise prices in response to his tariffs.

After weeks of saber-rattling between the United States and China, the countries agreed to a detente, during which American tariffs on China would come down to 30 percent (plus a 10-percent baseline), from as high as 145 percent. Still, that’s higher than they were before the trade war, and Walmart—the U.S.-based retail giant with over $600 billion in annual global sales—cautioned last week that it may soon have to start raising prices as a result of Trump’s trade barriers.

“Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!”

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Universal Income? It’s Already Here.

by Kevin Brady
American Thinker

Bernie Sanders and AOC just completed their tour of America to sell-out crowds. Their message was a familiar one: oligarchs (mainly Republicans) are becoming more and more wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Is this true?

In reality, this is not a true or false proposition. The answer is much more intriguing and way too subversive of their politics for Bernie and AOC to even contemplate.

I spent much of my working life in the field of taxation. I have heard all the jokes about death and taxes, green eyeshades, and accountants walking into bars. So, bear with me as we take a closer look at the government’s efforts to narrow the wealth gap.

The data are pretty clear. In 1990, the top 21 percent owned 61 percent of the country’s wealth. By 2023, they owned 70 percent. So, yes, the rich are getting richer.

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Comey Peddles Unbelievable Excuse for His ‘8647’ Sea Shell Post…

Aw shucks…

by Steve Watson
Modernity News

Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey is playing dumb and innocent after essentially calling for President Trump to be assassinated last week, claiming he had no idea his post would be so controversial.

After Comey posted an image of shells on a beach he arranged to read ‘8647’, meaning get rid of Trump, The Secret Service questioned him, but then let him go without any charges.

Now, in an interview with MSNBC he claims he’s just a silly old fella who wears baggy jeans and sweaters and had no idea what he was doing.

“I don’t know how we ended up here. Never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that’s the time we live in,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

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Promises Made, Promises Kept: Memorial Day Set For Lowest Gas Prices in Over 20 Years

by John Carney
Breitbart.com

Americans celebrating Memorial Day by hitting the road will likely be paying the cheapest gas prices since 2003.

GasBuddy, a fuel savings platform, said Tuesday that it forecasts the national average price of gasoline to be $3.08 per gallon on Memorial Day. That would make it the cheapest since 2021 in nominal terms. After adjusting for inflation, it would be the lowest since 2003.

This is not expected to be short-lived. Prices of gasoline are expected to average around $3.02 per gallon between Memorial Day and Labor Day, with prices falling below three dollars on some days.

That’s likely to bring cheer to the 69 percent of Americans who plan on taking a road trip this summer.

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Silver Price Will Soon Explode to All-Time High

from King World News

The price of silver will soon explode to all-time highs but take a look at this…

Time For Small Miners To Outperform

May 20 (King World News) – Graddhy out of Sweden: This ratio chart shows that small/mid gold miners have broken out vs larger gold miners. This is what we want to see as it means the more speculative, smaller stocks are starting to outperform the larger stocks. This means the market is buying more risk, which is bullish.

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