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Tax Talk: Chaos and Change with Chris Hervochon

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

The discussion focused on the challenges of the upcoming tax season, with Kerry Lutz emphasizing the need for organization and patience as deadlines approach. Chris Hervochon, a CPA, advised clients to stay informed about potential tax legislation changes, including speculation about tax relief for individuals earning less than $150,000 and the uncertain future of provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Lutz also addressed Florida’s property tax elimination proposal, advocating for alternative funding sources and questioning the seriousness of balanced budget efforts. The conversation highlighted the complexities of evolving tax regulations and the mixed effectiveness of digital tools for taxpayers, with Chris noting that while technology aids some, many still face difficulties.

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Marco Rubio Ends State-Sponsored Censorship, but is Free Speech Really Back? – Robert Ian Reports

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

In a bold declaration, Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. has officially ended government-sponsored censorship through the State Department. In this episode, Robert Ian of ConquerChange.com breaks down Rubio’s April 17th, 2025 interview where he claims the Global Engagement Center—the controversial censorship arm of the State Department—was shut down in late 2024. Rubio reveals how this censorship infrastructure, originally created to counter radical extremism after 9/11, was quietly weaponized to silence American voices, especially during the 2020 election and early pandemic. NGOs were used as proxy hitmen, tagging U.S. citizens as “foreign agents” to justify de-platforming. Now, Rubio promises transparency, a deep investigation into who ordered the censorship, and a commitment to free speech as the antidote to disinformation. But questions remain: Will this effort truly dismantle the censorship machine? Can the U.S. push back against European Union censorship laws targeting American speech abroad? Or is this just another PR move? We explore it all—with hard questions, historical context, and a close look at what this means for freedom of expression in the digital age.

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Will Government Confiscate Your Bitcoin?

First They Pump It… Then What? No One Saw Them Coming for Your Gold in 1933

by Kerry Lutz
FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com

When I originally floated the idea that Bitcoin could be used by the U.S. government to help pay down the national debt and recapitalize Social Security, the reaction was swift—and not always polite.

Critics told me I didn’t understand how Bitcoin worked. That the government would never touch it. That this was all fantasy.

But let’s be clear: my original thesis wasn’t about confiscation. It was about price manipulation—the government allowing, even facilitating, a monumental Bitcoin bull run so that it could liquidate its own strategic holdings at the top and use the windfall to stabilize a collapsing financial system.

In other words: a government-engineered pump and dump.

One-Star Reviews, Five-Star Sales with DJ Sprague and Scott Brandley

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Today’s conversation is with DJ Sprague and Scott Brandley of Shopper Approved. The discussion focused on the significance of reputation in the purchasing process, particularly for high-value items like gold and silver. Kerry Lutz highlighted the importance of trust signals, such as reliable ratings and personal recommendations, while Scott Brandley warned about the prevalence of fraud in the market. DJ Sprague pointed out the potential manipulation of online reviews by companies, advocating for the use of multiple sources to ensure authentic feedback.

He emphasized the need for working with Google review partners to maintain credibility and prevent the deletion of negative reviews. The participants discussed the differences between open and verified review platforms, noting that consumers often lack awareness of these distinctions.

The conversation also examined the role of negative reviews in establishing brand trust, with DJ citing research that shows consumers are more likely to convert when they see authentic negative feedback. They agreed that a perfect five-star rating can reduce trust, while a rating between 4.2 and 4.9 is more credible. The importance of brands responding to negative reviews was emphasized as a demonstration of commitment to customer service.

DJ explained the legal ramifications of manipulative advertising practices, while advocating for verified review platforms that ensure feedback comes from actual customers.

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Tax Hacks That the IRS Fears Most with Anne Gannon

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Kerry Lutz interviewed Anne Gannon, a CPA specializing in tax advice for real estate investors, focusing on critical tax reporting issues. Gannon highlighted a common error among investors: misclassifying property improvements as repairs, which can complicate loan applications. She emphasized the necessity for clients to remain informed year-round to prevent surprises during tax season, citing a specific case where improper expense categorization led to mortgage difficulties. The discussion also covered the implications of bonus depreciation on tax returns, with Gannon noting the potential reduction from 100% to 40% and its significant impact on investment decisions. She clarified the different tax treatments for short-term rentals versus residential properties and mentioned that many clients are now undertaking cost segregation studies to enhance their tax understanding. Gannon offered to provide a checklist to help clients navigate these tax complexities.

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The Ultimate Reset: Bitcoin to Erase U.S. Debt in 2026

by Kerry Lutz
FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com

The United States is drowning in debt—$37 trillion and counting as of April 2025 . Politicians and economists wring their hands over this colossal IOU, debating painful solutions: draconian spending cuts, massive tax hikes, inflating the dollar to make old debts cheaper, or even default. None of these options are palatable. But what if there’s a radical Plan B lurking in the shadows? What if Washington’s ultimate “reset” button is Bitcoin? In a scenario straight out of a financial thriller, imagine the U.S. government secretly hoarding cryptocurrency and waiting for the right moment to wipe out the national debt in one fell swoop. Sound far-fetched? Perhaps—yet the pieces of this speculative puzzle are falling into place.

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“Biggest Copper Opportunity I’ve Seen in 25 Years,” Says Coppernico Metals CEO Ivan Bebek

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

We sat down with Ivan Bebek, CEO of Coppernico Metals (🇺🇸 CPPMF — 🇨🇦 COPR), to for a sponsor update to discuss the company’s latest drilling program and the booming metals market. Ivan shares exciting updates on their first 20 drill holes in Peru, revealing promising signs of a massive copper system. With new targets like Raso and a permit expansion underway,

Coppernico is gearing up for a game-changing phase of exploration. Ivan also weighs in on rising copper prices—pushing past $5/lb—driven by global electrification and supply shortages, predicting a slow-but-massive bull market ahead. Plus, he hints at a potential U.S. copper project to diversify their portfolio.

Don’t miss this deep dive into Coppernico’s strategy and the future of copper!

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Dolly Varden SIlver Uplists to NYSE-American with CEO Shawn Khunkhun

from Kerry Lutz's Financial Survival Network

Dolly Varden Silver’s (🇺🇸 DOLLF – 🇨🇦 DV) CEO Shawn Khunkhun returns to the Financial Survival Network for a powerful sponsor update with host Kerry Lutz. With gold at record highs and silver back at $32, Khunkhun breaks down Dolly Varden’s latest drill results at the Homestake Ridge property—highlighting a major silver-gold discovery at Homestake and an impressive 160+ gram-meter intercept that points to a potential new high-grade zone.

He explains why a 10% rise in silver prices can lead to a 30% pop in share value, and how Dolly Varden’s $33.9 million war chest is fueling an aggressive 2025 drill program targeting 40,000 meters of exploration across key zones like Wolf, Homestake, and a new area called Red Point.

He announced the company’s uplist to the NYSE-American. Its inclusion means that multiple ETFs, institutional backing, along with the ease of purchasing share will help DV become a Top 10 silver company, Dolly Varden is well positioned for breakout growth—or a potential acquisition by a major.

Learn why Khunkhun says Dolly’s ounces in the ground are more discounted than ever—and why that spells opportunity for investors now.

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

👉 Visit: https://DollyVardenSilver.com/

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Oil Priced in Gold is Near All-Time Lows

by Alasdair MacLeod
Gold Money

Crude oil priced in gold has reached the second lowest levels in history. This is mainly due to record high gold prices rather than low oil prices. In our view, gold is more efficiently pricing in future dollar devaluation than oil prices as oil prices remain bound to near-term supply and demand dynamics of a potential global recession. But also other asset classes such as real estate appear “cheap” on a historical basis when priced in gold. We believe that this is the result of the market realizing that further currency devaluation is inevitable and gold prices that in better than any other asset

Crude oil priced in grams of gold has reached the second lowest level in history (see exhibit 1). The only time a gram of gold bought more oil was in March 2020, at the height of the COVID19 lockdowns when the world lost a record 30% of oil demand overnight. (As for comparison, at the peak of the 2008-2009 great financial crisis, global oil demand was down just 3%)

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Dow to Gold Ratio Breakdown: What’s the Downside Target for Stocks?

by Money Metals
GoldSeek

The U.S. dollar has been breaking down as capital continues to flow out of America, creating a strong tailwind for gold.

Meanwhile, the yellow metal rallied to $3,500 in last night’s overnight session but has since pulled back to trade near yesterday’s close of $3,437.

[…] Frenetic Chinese buying is a major driver fueling this month’s gold rally, but so is the rotation of capital out of stocks and bonds into the best-performing asset class of the year, by far.

The Dow: Gold ratio is breaking down badly – i.e., stocks are doing even worse in terms of gold.

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The Collapse of U.S. Home Sales is Here

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

This is a very difficult time for real estate agents and homeowners that are trying to sell their homes. As I have documented below, sales of previously-owned homes in the United States just fell to the lowest level that we have seen during the month of March since 2009. Needless to say, in March 2009 we were in the middle of the Great Recession. Meanwhile, the number of unsold homes that are currently on the market just continues to pile up. This is likely to put an enormous amount of downward pressure on home prices in the months ahead.

Of course the collapse of U.S. home sales that we are now witnessing did not actually begin during the Trump administration.

In 2024, while Joe Biden was still in the White House, sales of previously-owned homes hit the lowest level in almost three decades…

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Deepfake Threats – Federal Government Urges for Increased Data Collection

by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr is urging banks to begin collecting behavioral and biometric data from customers to combat deepfake digital content created through ID. These deepfakes are capable of replicating a person’s identity, which “has the potential to supercharge identity fraud,” Barr warned.

“In the past, a skilled forger could pass a bad check by replicating a person’s signature. Now, advances in AI can do much more damage by replicating a person’s entire identity,” Barr said of deepfakes, which have the “potential to supercharge identity fraud.”

“[We] should take steps to lessen the impact of attacks by making successful breaches less likely, while making each attack more resource-intensive for the attacker,” Barr insists, believing that regulators should implement their own AI tools to “enhance our ability to monitor and detect patterns of fraudulent activity at regulated institutions in real time,” he said. This could help provide early warnings to affected institutions and broader industry participants, as well as to protect our own systems.”

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Trump: Russia’s Concession to Ukraine is Not Taking Over the Entire Country

from Zero Hedge

Amid stalled US-led peace talks, Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, including raining down ballistic missiles on the center of Kiev, unleashing large-scale death and destruction.

At least nine people have been reported killed and over 70 injured in the capital city, in what was one of the largest and deadliest missile strikes on Ukraine in months. Some other cities, including Kharkiv, were also hit.

Anti-aircraft systems began engaging inbound missiles and drones at about 1am local time. But after drones and missiles were able to make it through, several buildings – including a factory – and a house, as well as cars, were set on fire.

BBC writes, “An apartment block was completely flattened during the attack and the windows of surrounding buildings were blown out and balconies ripped down.”

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Sales of Existing Homes Drop to Worst March Since 2009. West, South, Midwest, Northeast All Get Crushed. Supply Surges to Highest Since 2016.

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

The 3-year 50% price explosion has caused epic demand destruction. Prices are way too high. But mortgage rates are back in the historically normal range above 6%.

The feverishly anticipated spring selling season is starting out as a dud. Sales of existing homes – single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops – that closed in March fell by 3.1% from the already frozen volume a year ago to 315,000 deals, not seasonally adjusted, down by 31% from March 2022, which was when home sales began to plunge after prices had spiked in many markets by 50% or more in just three years, to ridiculous levels, thereby destroying demand.

Demand destruction on display: The seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales of existing homes fell by 5.9% in March from February, and by 2.4% year-over-year, to a rate of 4.02 million, the worst March since 2009, according to the National Association of Realtors today. From the Marches in prior years (historical data from YCharts):

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Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?

by William L. Anderson
Mises.org

Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, nonetheless it has energized American progressives and other environmental true believers.

The goals for the GND were right out of Central Planning Fantasyland, something that is obvious from reading from the website:

The Green New Deal starts with a WWII-type mobilization to address the grave threat posed by climate change, transitioning our country to 100% clean energy by 2030. Clean energy does not include natural gas, biomass, nuclear power or the oxymoron “clean coal.”

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Democrats Spent Years Running Their Cities’ Budgets Into the Red. Now That Tab is Finally Coming Due.

by Ireland Owens
DailyCaller.com

Several major blue cities in the U.S. have been marred by a slate of massive budgetary problems in recent years.

City officials in Chicago and Los Angeles are currently grappling with how to address substantial budget shortfalls. Meanwhile, Philadelphia is struggling with various financial issues across several sectors, with both its school district and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the city’s public transit system, facing massive budget deficits.

Chicago is facing a projected budget gap of nearly $1.2 billion for fiscal year 2026. The city’s budget deficit has largely been exacerbated by soaring pension costs, declining state revenue and rising personnel costs.

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Disgraced New Mexico Judge, Wife Arrested After Allegedly Harboring Tren de Aragua Gang Members

by Bob Price
Breitbart.com

A disgraced New Mexico magistrate judge and his wife are under arrest after they allegedly harbored reported Tren de Aragua gang members. The judge resigned from his position last week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested a Venezuelan man said to be living on his property.

ICE law enforcement officials arrested recently resigned Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy, at their home in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Thursday. ICE officials executed a search warrant and probable cause warrant and took them into custody, Fox 14 El Paso reported. Joel Cano is currently charged with tampering with evidence and his wife is charged with conspiracy to tamper, the report states.

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Glenn Greenwald: Americans’ Liberties Are in Danger

The journalist joins the show to discuss due process, immigration enforcement, and the growing tensions between the courts and the executive branch.

by Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe
Reason.com

Why was a man who was legally protected from deportation sitting in one of the world’s most notorious prisons in El Salvador? This week on Just Asking Questions, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald returns to discuss a case that cuts to the heart of American constitutionalism and due process. Greenwald, known for his reporting on the National Security Agency and his founding role at The Intercept, has become one of the most consistent civil libertarian voices in politics. He joins Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller to break down how and why the Trump administration ignored a court order to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and why this defiance should concern everyone, regardless of their politics.

But this episode goes beyond one case. It’s about the creeping normalization of lawless executive power—from the misuse of antiterror labels, to the fast-growing deportation dragnet sweeping up even lawful residents, to proposed federal overhauls of speech and campus expression.

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Secretary Hegseth Threatens the Deep State

by J.B. Shurk
American Thinker

It’s been three months since Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary. The Deep State worked hard to scuttle Hegseth’s nomination in December and January with a steady drip of news stories calling his character into question, but President Trump and his trusted veep stood by their man and applied enough pressure on wayward Republican senators to secure his confirmation. Suddenly, corporate propagandists posing as reporters are back with fresh stories meant to undermine Secretary Hegseth and get him fired from the Pentagon’s top post.

It’s almost as if the Deep State tabled its sabotage campaign for a neat ninety days. Do you think there’s a section in some clandestine handbook on the dark arts of information warfare that recommends a three-month cooling-off period before ramping up operations against a given target? Our domestic spooks have gotten so tiresomely predictable!

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Note From a Gold Pawnbroker

from King World News

Below is an email a gold pawnbroker sent to King World News.

April 24 (King World News) – Email from one of the King World News global readers who is a gold pawnbroker: I hope all is well with you. Well what a journey we have all been on and still hold and ride along. Sure to be some big bumps along the way but it’s far from over.

Anyway not sure your team saw this news:

The surge in gold prices triggers the “Doomsday Wheel” effect: multiple Shanghai gold options contracts skyrocket, with the maximum increase of 9800%!

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What Happens to Us if President Trump Loses the Existential War with the Evil American Establishment?

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org

A few readers thought I went a bit too far in my column two days ago when I expressed concern that if President Trump loses the existential conflict between Mega Americans and the corrupt anti-American Establishment, a return to power of the Democrats will mean oppression for traditional white ethnic Americans. Not in America, they said. But, yes, especially in America.

White heterosexual gentiles, especially males, have been second class citizens in the United States ever since Alfred Blumrosen at the EEOC stood the 1964 Civil Rights Act on its head and defied the clear statutory language in the legislation and imposed racial and gender quotas on white gentile heterosexual American men. These quotas have been in effect for 60 years, supplemented during the Biden regime with DEI-imposed quotas.

The American judiciary, despite the 14th Amendment absolutely requiring equality under the law and the clear unambiguous language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, did nothing to enforce the Constitution and the Law.

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An Industry Insider Explains Why the Coming Shortages Are Going to Be So Crazy

by Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream

The United States imported 438 billion dollars worth of goods from China in 2024. All of a sudden, most of that trade is being cut off. Tariffs on Chinese goods are now so high that it no longer makes economic sense for Chinese companies to export products to us, and it no longer makes economic sense for U.S. companies to import products from China. As a result, container bookings are absolutely plummeting, and retail CEOs are warning that store shelves all over America will “soon be empty”. Yes, retailers will attempt to find replacement items from other sources when it is possible to do so. But in many cases, things that are made in China are not made anywhere else. As retailers run through existing inventory levels, shortages will begin to emerge.

I do not believe that we should have ever started trading with China.

And I would love to see a day in the future when we no longer trade with China.

But at this moment we are deeply, deeply dependent on China.

Nobody can deny this.

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LGBTQ™ Roundup: Groomers Gone Wild, Pt. II

by Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell

Originally published via Armageddon Prose:

LGBTQ™ Propaganda Roundup: Nip/tucking the latest social engineering fisted from on high upon the American public.

Public school butt plug instructor confronted by based father

This public school butt plug enthusiast looks exactly like you might expect a public school groomer teaching the kids about the proper application of butt plugs to.

Upon being confronted, her reflexive strategy is to spin the father’s objection to her training his kid to enjoy a little butt plug fun into an “anti-queer” hatecrime, a vapid and stupid argument which he expertly shuts down in real time.

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