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Profit From Property, Live Free with Gary Brode

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz and Gary Brode discussed strategies for optimizing office space for rental income, with Kerry estimating potential earnings of $12,000 to $13,000 monthly during peak seasons. They explored the idea of collaborating on a book focused on real estate strategies, emphasizing the importance of finding quality tenants. Kerry suggested a concise format for their discussions. Gary shared his experiences transitioning to a more flexible lifestyle in Connecticut, highlighting the benefits of renting out his home to a reliable family. He noted the ease of the rental process, facilitated by his real estate agent, and expressed a willingness to extend the lease if both parties were satisfied. The conversation also touched on the financial aspects of real estate investments, with Gary detailing his approach to analyzing rental properties, including accounting for various expenses. He shared insights on how having tenants cover costs can alleviate financial burdens, allowing for a more comfortable lifestyle. Additionally, Gary discussed the advantages of remote work, noting increased creativity and productivity while traveling.

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Dolly Varden is Becoming a Silver Unicorn with CEO Shawn Khunkhun

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

We caught up with Shawn Khunkhun, CEO of Dolly Varden Silver Corp (🇺🇸 DVS – 🇨🇦 DV) — the rare “silver unicorn” rewriting the rules of silver exploration in North America. While most of the world’s silver comes as a byproduct from mega-mines in Mexico and Peru, Dolly Varden’s British Columbia project is a high-grade, primary silver mine in a top-tier jurisdiction — making it one of the few pure silver plays left standing.

Shawn breaks down how his team has defied brutal junior mining conditions to:

✅ Secure an NYSE American uplisting — joining an elite club of only ~10 pure silver equities.
✅ Complete three strategic acquisitions with minimal dilution — growing the land package from 15,000 hectares to over 100,000 hectares in just months.
✅ Launch an aggressive 35,000-meter drill program, already underway with four rigs turning — with eyes on adding another 20,000 meters if the data supports it.
✅ Lock in an oversubscribed $28.75 million financing at the highest share price in company history — doubling the treasury and avoiding a dreaded down round.

We also dug deep into why the big silver and gold producers are getting rewarded — but advanced juniors like Dolly Varden remain undervalued… for now. With historic high-grade past producers now consolidated under one roof, supportive major shareholders like Hecla and Eric Sprott, and multiple catalysts on deck, Dolly Varden is positioned to break out as silver approaches historic levels.

👉 Don’t miss Shawn’s forecast for drill results hitting before the Rick Rule Symposium in Boca Raton — and why this cycle might turn silver stocks into the tech stocks of tomorrow.

📈 Ticker Symbols:
🇺🇸 DVS (OTC)
🇨🇦 DV (TSXV)

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The Latest Calls On Iran, Ukraine and $50+ Silver with Martin Armstrong

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

In this episode, Kerry Lutz and Martin Armstrong discuss the success of their book The World According to Martin Armstrong, which has sold over 1,800 copies through strong YouTube and email promotions. Armstrong highlights his accurate market forecasts, including a predicted Dow 45,000 by December 2024. They address online troll attacks but remain focused on their work.

Armstrong explains how extreme market sentiments cause rapid reversals and poor investment choices, criticizes politicians’ misunderstandings, and introduces his global market watch system tracking human-driven patterns. On geopolitics, he supports Ukraine’s people but condemns neoconservative and Western roles worsening the conflict, emphasizing the heavy casualties and historic tensions in Donbass.

Turning to the Middle East, Armstrong analyzes U.S. involvement, Israel’s military stance, and Iran’s nuclear threat, warning of escalating risks and linking past government manipulations to current crises. He foresees growing unrest rooted in deep historical conflicts.

Finally, they predict a rise in precious metals like gold and silver—silver potentially surpassing $50—highlighting their importance as hedges amid global instability.

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Silver Breaks $35: What’s Driving the Decade-High Surge? with Byron King

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz and Byron King analyze silver’s climb past $35 an ounce—its highest level in over a decade. Byron attributes the surge to gold’s strong performance, rising industrial demand, and major government stockpiling from China, India, and Russia. He also highlights growing institutional interest, pointing to a long-term bullish outlook and urging investors to consider silver shares. They discuss how falling diesel prices are improving mining margins despite rising labor and material costs, though drill rig shortages persist. Byron stresses patience and sector focus in precious metals, noting that price dips often present buying opportunities. The conversation also covers increased defense spending tied to the Ukraine-Russia war and the need to rebuild U.S. shipbuilding.

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The Global Reset Closer is Than You Think with Bob Hoye

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz welcomes Bob Hoye for a deep dive into the shift from a massive financial bubble toward a possible global depression. They explore gold’s rising real price and the strength of the gold mining sector, especially junior miners like Kosigo Resources, which is gaining traction ahead of its Colombia drilling. Bob draws historical parallels to past crises and examines how a strong U.S. dollar strains global debt. The conversation also touches on Bitcoin’s potential role in managing U.S. debt, seasonal market patterns, and the growing need for a global debt reset.

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TrumpGPT: The AI-Generated Battle for the Future (as Predicted by Martin Armstrong) with Kerry Lutz

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

In this episode, we break down the real-world clash between Elon Musk and Donald Trump — and why it was all predicted. The AI knows. TrumpGPT knows. Don’t miss the latest from Johnny Depth’s red-pill dispatches from the simulation we call reality. 

Watch the matrix bend in real-time. 

As discussed at the 2024 Martin Armstrong Conference. 

The resistance Trump faces? Foreseen. The patterns? Modeled. 

When AI sees the battlefield before it unfolds… TrumpGPT becomes prophecy. 

Read the full Substack article here: https://bit.ly/4kODWFk

Subscribe to Financial Survival Network Substack https://khlfsn.substack.com  

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Next-Gen Wealth: AI Meets Family Offices with Richard Wilson

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz talks with Richard Wilson about the evolving role of family offices in managing ultra-wealthy portfolios. They explore how these offices offer strategic planning, tax advantages, and personalized investment strategies—often focusing on industries where the wealth originated, plus real estate and public markets. The conversation shifts to AI’s growing impact on finance, investing, and legal services, including concerns over white-collar job displacement. Richard also highlights family offices’ cautious interest in crypto and emerging tech like robotics, and the critical need for personal relationships in a tech-driven world.

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America’s Economic Crossroads is Here with Ed Siddell

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

America’s economy stands at a pivotal moment. Kerry Lutz and Edward Siddell analyze today’s financial crossroads—breaking down soft interest rates, inflation uncertainty, and what could trigger the next big move in the markets. Edward warns of a potential slowdown unless rates drop further and questions the University of Michigan’s 6.5% inflation forecast, pointing to energy prices and tariffs as key influences. They explore the global impact of tariffs—especially on China—and the shift in supply chains, with Kerry backing Trump’s trade strategy and introducing “Trump GPT,” a new AI tool to optimize deals. Both call out Congress’s inaction on budget cuts and stress the need for tax reforms and the reconciliation bill to avoid recession. Despite current caution from JP Morgan and Walmart, Edward remains optimistic—forecasting a 20% market surge by June 2026 if action is taken. The conversation wraps with a look ahead and an invitation to stay connected through Kerry’s platforms for deeper financial insights.

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Fifteen Companies Tesla Could Obliterate with Unsupervised Full Self-Driving

Changes can happen much faster than the consensus believes…

by Kerry Lutz
Kerry Lutz’s Substack

Tesla’s rollout of unsupervised Full Self-Driving isn’t just a product launch—it’s an extinction-level event for any business still chained to yesterday’s transportation models. With FSD now capable of operating with no human driver, the fallout will hit far more than just car companies. Think aviation. Insurance. Ride-hailing. Real estate. Even roadside pit stops.

This isn’t evolution. This is detonation. And it’s due to be released in early June, while empty Teslas have already been driving themselves around in Austin Texas for weeks.

We’re entering a world where machines drive themselves, nobody owns a car, and software eats what’s left of the middleman. So here it is—15 companies and sectors that may be headed straight for the windshield.

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Bitcoin Whale Trace Mayer Explains Why He Bought Bitcoin From the Very Beginning and Never Sold

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

In a recent conversation with Trace Mayer, he revealed a little-known but critical fact: nearly 50% of Republican political donations are now flowing through cryptocurrency channels. This isn’t just a fundraising tactic—it’s a strategic shift. Crypto enables anonymous, cross-border, and rapid funding without the red tape of traditional finance. While the media obsesses over Trump’s polling numbers and courtroom drama, the real revolution is happening behind the scenes. The GOP is embracing crypto not just for money—but for autonomy. It’s bypassing legacy donor networks, financial gatekeepers, and even regulatory friction. It’s Web3 meets MAGA. Mayer wasn’t guessing. He was laying out a roadmap: crypto wallets as digital war chests, smart contracts for donor validation, and tokenized loyalty systems for grassroots engagement. This isn’t future talk—it’s already happening. The Democrats, meanwhile, are stuck in fiat fantasyland. They’re still beholden to the old machine: unions, PACs, and legacy media money. But the red wave isn’t just political—it’s technological. And it’s riding the blockchain straight into 2026 and beyond.

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Doug Casey On the End of the Penny and the Next Phase of Currency Debasement

by Doug Casey
International Man

International Man: President Trump has ordered the Treasury to stop minting pennies after 232 years, citing the fact that each one costs more than two cents to produce—calling it a waste of taxpayer money.

What’s your take on this move?

Doug Casey: It may seem odd that we’re talking about something as trivial as the disappearance of the penny while we may be staring World War 3 in the face any day now. We can visit that next week since the situation is so fluid.

But let’s turn our attention from a potentially traumatic war to a gradually degrading coinage, starting with a fun fact. People have forgotten that the US used to have a half-penny coin, which circulated from 1793 until 1857; it was pure copper and only slightly smaller than our current quarter. The debasement of coinage is a long-standing trend in the United States.

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We’re Eight Years Away From an Automatic 23 Percent Cut in Social Security Payouts

Social Security’s board of trustees expects the program to be insolvent in eight years.

by Jack Nicastro
Reason.com

Reckless spending has been driving Social Security toward a fiscal cliff. Scheduled benefits will have to be cut by 23 percent in 2033 to keep the program solvent.

This is the grim conclusion drawn by the trustees of Social Security’s Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds, who published their annual report this week. OASDI comprises two trust funds, but the main one—the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund—is on track to be depleted in 2033. That means all retirees receiving benefits in that year will face a 23 percent cut to their monthly checks.

The trustees’ report also warns that OASDI will become insolvent in 2034. The trustees calculate this earlier depletion date in part because of a law Congress passed late last year to expand Social Security benefits to some workers who previously did not receive them.

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The Ants’ New Weapon

by Robert Gore
Straight Line Logic

In an instant, everything has changed.

For most of history, weapons have been top-down. Rulers tried to monopolize new technologies of violence, giving themselves an advantage over external forces that didn’t have them and their own subjugated populations. Nuclear bombs are emblematic of this historical pattern. Drones are transforming warfare from the bottom up, and will transform the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.

In three years, the Ukraine-Russia war has introduced a dramatic and dynamic new type of war, one that makes much of which has preceded it obsolete.

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Americans Wary of War – Is Iran the Enemy?

by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics

The American people do not want war. The Iranian people do not want war, nor do the Russians, Ukrainians, or Israelis. Politicians lead nations on paths of death and destruction. The military-industrial complex succeeds, the neocons succeed, governments topple one another in search of power—but the people always lose.

King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at the Battle of Asculum (279 BC) but suffered massive, irreplaceable losses. He reportedly said:

“Another such victory, and I am undone.”

Kings and politicians have been waging wars for thousands of years. They seem to have no problem sending people to their deaths, all for some strange reason that appears to be the same human trait that wages sports, and we have to beat the other team to pound the chest and hold up the trophy. The French King Louis XIV, on his deathbed, lamented that he loved war too much.

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ICE Agents Now Face 500% Increase in Assaults While Trying to Arrest Illegal Aliens

by John Binder
Breitbart.com

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are now facing a 500 percent increase in assaults as they attempt to locate and arrest illegal aliens living in the United States, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data exclusively obtained by Breitbart News revealed.

“Today, the Department of Homeland Security released new data revealing that ICE law enforcement is now facing a 500% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Breitbart News.

McLaughlin pointed to the recent arrest of Roberto Carlos Munoz, an illegal alien and convicted child sex offender, who dragged an ICE agent 50 yards with his car as he attempted to evade arrest in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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Central-Banking Myths That Fed Critics Believe

by Ryan McMaken
Mises.org

There are many reasons for disliking the Federal Reserve, and readers often encounter a wide variety of these reasons in articles and commentary by financial writers and economists. It is often the case, however, that many critics of the Fed attack the Fed for the wrong reasons.

For example, one will often see Fed critics attacking the Fed for not lowering interest rates enough or soon enough. This is just one variation of the idea that the Fed is not doing things “correctly.”

Another criticism is that the Fed is not acting “independently” enough or that the Fed has abandoned its old way of doing things in some imagined golden age of central banking.

These sorts of criticisms, however, are generally premised on the idea that the Federal Reserve would be a benign or beneficial institution if only the Fed did “its job”—whatever that means—in a way the critic finds to be satisfactory.

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Survey Indicates Central Banks Plan to Keep Buying Gold

by Mike Maharrey
GoldSeek

Central banks have gobbled up over 1,000 tonnes of gold for three straight years, and most central bankers think the buying trend will continue.

Last year was the third-largest expansion of central bank gold reserves on record, coming in just 6.2 tonnes lower than in 2023 and 91 tonnes lower than the all-time high set in 2022. (1,136 tonnes). 2022 was the highest level of net purchases on record, dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971.

To put that into context, central bank gold reserves increased by an average of just 473 tonnes annually between 2010 and 2021.

Looking at the broader perspective, the central bank gold buying trend is now entering its 16th year.

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The Condo Bust is Here: Prices Dropped Already 10% to 23% in 20 Bigger Cities, Unravel the Most Splendid Condo Bubble Ever

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

Oakland, Austin, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, San Francisco, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, Arlington, Tampa, Reno, Seattle, Denver, Mesa, Chandler, Portland, Aurora, Phoenix, San Antonio.

It was the most splendid condo bubble ever, topped off with a mania, driven by the Fed’s interest-rate repression that included trillions of dollars of purchases of MBS, which pushed down mortgage rates below 3%, triggering wild and woolly speculation from FOMO buyers and breathless investors – thinking of short-term rentals, long-term rentals, leveraged capital gains forevermore, a second or third home in the sun, a combination, or whatever.

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Michelle Obama Cannot Contain Her Contempt for Barack

by Andrea Widburg
American Thinker

If you want to know whether someone’s marriage is going to fail, you can’t predict it by the volume or frequency of fights or by the fact that the couple prefers “alone” to “together” time. Instead, the single greatest indicator that a marriage is over is contempt. And while the media are passing off Michelle Obama’s explanation for her gratitude that she never had a son as a joke (and it may well have been), it is one of the most contemptuous statements I’ve ever seen one spouse say publicly about the other.

There’s been a lot of speculation lately about whether Michelle Obama wants to divorce Barack. Admittedly, most of these rumors come from reading the tea leaves, but Michelle has rather consistently complained about Barack, often in ways that are singularly inappropriate:

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No Such Thing as a Triple Top – Gold Price Analysis

by Craig Hemke
Sprott Money

With gold prices falling backward on Monday, you’ll soon hear another chorus of top-callers on the internet. As such, just a quick post this week to remind you that there is no such thing as a “triple top”, and recognizing this fact can help you structure orders to buy the dip.

How To Analyze Gold Price Charts Effectively

Perhaps the simplest way to explain these features is via price chart. As I type on Monday morning, June 16, the daily chart of the front-month August gold looks like this:

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Guess What Israel is Going To Do if Trump Doesn’t Give the Green Light For U.S. Air Strikes in Iran?

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

War with Iran is the biggest news story of 2025 so far, and it is also one of the biggest events of this entire period in human history. Decisions that global leaders will be making in the weeks and months to come will have very serious implications for all of us. Right now, we are waiting to see if President Trump will give the green light for U.S. air strikes in Iran. Earlier today, we were informed that Trump will make this decision “within the next two weeks”…

President Donald Trump said there was a “substantial chance” of U.S. negotiations with Iran and that he would decide within two weeks whether diplomacy keeps America out of the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

The statement took down the temperature as the world waited for news of whether he would commit U.S. forces to Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program.

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Iran Threatens Energy Market Meltdown as it “Reviews” Closure of Strait of Hormuz

The world’s energy nerves are fraying.

by Dr. Tilak K. Doshi, The Daily Sceptic
Modernity News

With Iran and Israel in full-on war, the world’s energy nerves are fraying. Central to this anxiety is a narrow strip of water just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point — the Strait of Hormuz.

More than a chokepoint, Hormuz is the jugular vein of global energy trade. When Iran’s leadership, in a fit of strategic bravado or calibrated brinkmanship, threatens to block it, global oil and gas markets jolt awake.

For government planners and defence chiefs in Asia, the region most dependent on oil and gas flows through the Hormuz chokepoint, an extended period of the total blockade of the Strait presents a nightmare scenario. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshide Suga, for instance, stated in May 2019 after the tanker attacks in the Strait that it is a “matter of life and death of our country in terms of energy security”.

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Silver: The Tide is Turning

from King World News

When it comes to the silver market, which remains well below the $50 all-time high, it appears the tide is finally turning.

SILVER: The Tide Is Turning

June 19 (King World News) – Graddhy out of Sweden: SILVER: This chart is what contrarian investing is all about.

Blue breakout is now confirmed, as the chart now has a higher high above pink line breakout high. This also means the blue backtest is finished.

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Putin Stands Aside From Iran

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org

From John Helmer:

Putin has given a green light:

The Kremlin has finally ( 14:30) got around to posting the full Russian text of the press conference; there is still no official English text.

Putin also reveals that he arranged with Netanyahu not to hit the Bushehr reactor where there are 200 Russians at work: “We have agreed,” Putin said at the presser, “with the leadership of Israel, which will ensure their security.”

Finally, according to this Q&A:

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