from Sydney Watson
Gold’s Roadmap to $15,000
from King World News
Here is gold’s roadmap to $15,000, plus a look at bulls & bears, and fear & greed.
Gold Roadmap
July 7 (King World News) – Graddhy out of Sweden: Been sharing this roadmap chart for many, many years.
Stated at blue line breakout that should get a huge lockout move with no blue line backtest, and with no large pullbacks. That is exactly what we got.
Said it would blow through pink line. And it did. Still on track.
This is Going to Keep Happening as Long as They Keep Artificially Modifying the Weather
by Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
It should be illegal for anyone to artificially modify the weather. That is something that we should all be able to agree on. Unfortunately, as you will see below, it has now come out that this has been happening all over the western half of the United States. In fact, cloud seeding operations were being conducted in Texas just two days before horrific flooding killed a whole bunch of innocent children. The information that I am going to share with you in this article is explosive, and I hope that you will share it with as many people as you can.
The company that has been conducting cloud seeding operations in Texas is called Rainmaker Technology.
Rainmaker Technology CEO Augustus Doricko is claiming that his company had nothing to do with the recent flooding because his company did not do any cloud seeding in Texas on July 3rd or July 4th. But he is admitting that his company was doing cloud seeding in Texas on July 2nd…
Omniwar: Weaponization of Everything with Catherine Austin Fitts
by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), publisher of “The Solari Report,” is back with a new cutting-edge publication called “Omniwar.” Mankind is under attack from all angles, and it’s not simply to control us but to kill us too. CAF says, “Omniwar is the weaponization of everything. It’s the weaponization of all the different systems we use, including food, health and finance. . .. There are literally injections that are bioweapons, and this is the weaponization of our healthcare system. I do a screen for a mutual fund, and one of the funeral home companies is a stock, which has more than doubled or about doubled since we bought it. So, you’ve got a recent healthcare insurance stock going down 40%, while the funeral homes are going up significantly. People have been observing this because this is not the first insurance company to take a nosedive from the drop in life expectancy and acceleration of the deaths.”
The poison we are getting is being delivered to us on purpose. It is high tech, and it’s not just in the CV19 bioweapon injections. Fitts says, “We are ingesting these nanoparticles or nanobots. We have done interviews at Solari.com about the mysterious ingredients in the food. So, it’s in the injections, it’s in the spray and it’s in the food. This is one of the things I believe causes all this sickness. . .. This is all part of the great poisoning. I have subscribers who have been hip to this for more than a decade. They understand the great poisoning is happening. They are in a war, it’s an Omniwar and they started to take action on how they organized their health, food and finances. You know something, they are doing great. . . . I know it’s depressing.
The Deadline For Moving Money Out of the U.S.
by James Hickman
Schiff Sovereign
The Senate passed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and it’s about to make America’s financial house of cards a whole lot shakier.
Already today interest on the national debt costs more than the entire— very large— defense budget. The runaway national debt is literally a matter of national security.
And the bill will add about $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, in addition to the $22 trillion the Congressional Budget Office already-projects for the same period.
Do the math, and by 2033, the US national debt will hit a jaw-dropping $56 trillion.
And that’s only if they decide not to pass another big beautiful budget buster next year. It assumes control of the government doesn’t swing in 2028 giving the Left another shot at free college, universal basic income, reparations, or a green new deal.
Mid-Year Update with The Golden Jackass
by Craig Hemke
TF Metals Report
It’s a three-day U.S. market holiday so you know what that means…an update from our old pal, The Golden Jackass himself, Jim Willie. As always, this holiday special is available to all so please feel free to download and/or forward to anyone you know who might enjoy Jim’s unique perspective.
It has been a few months since we last spoke to Jim and so much has changed while so much has remained the same. For this call, I really only had two questions for Jim but, as you might imagine, his answers were wide-ranging and thought-provoking. The two questions can be summed up with these two tweets that have both been active topics here at TFMR over the past week:
Could Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?
by Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
People continue to ask if Bitcoin will replace the dollar. They believe that the recent surge in Bitcoin indicates that it will topple the USD as the world’s reserve currency, but that is merely propaganda. You must understand that Bitcoin is simply a trading vehicle, not a currency. I cannot stress that point enough. My opinion has been unpopular, and clients have walked away due to my stance on crypto. That’s fine, as I am not in this for the money. I can only adequately inform my clients of the unbiased truth and hope that those willing to listen will heed the computer’s warnings.
To begin with, there is much speculation about the founder(s) — Satoshi Nakamoto – who created Bitcoin (BTC) on June 3, 2009. The mystery person or group (or government agency) has been MIA since 2011. Yet 1 million Bitcoins remain in their original account, untouched. His wallet is estimated to be worth over $81 billion at the time of this writing, and if this is indeed an individual, he or she is one of the top 15 richest people in the world. They have never moved a fraction of a BTC from their account. So, one wallet contains 5% of all mined bitcoin. Will this person or entity perpetually hold?
Cage Match
“. . . [W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We’re making sure this is done correctly. But it’s absolutely getting done.” Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI
by James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Who knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U. Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane?
We are told now by the FBI that there is no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation against the politicos of Western Civ, or that a “client list” existed, or that JE was murdered in his jail cell. It well might be true that there is no evidence, strictly speaking.
Messrs. Patel and Bongino, coming into office rather late in the Epstein game, were apparently left with big bag of nuthin. What else can they truthfully report? So, they had to put it out there, knowing a whole lot of people would be miffed. “We’ve got nuthin, sorry.” Were they chagrined to do that? Evidently so.
To Make America Great Again, Start Here
by Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it’s no longer even seen as corruption, it’s just BAU–business as usual.
It’s a big ask, but let’s depoliticize the phrase “make America great again” and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists’ grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page Congressional bills, but as a restoration of the fundamental foundations of greatness.
In the conventional contexts of the current era, this boils down to ideology and finance. If we dial back culture-war over-reach and free up “market forces,” for example, this will restore America’s greatness.
The problem with all this kind of thinking is it’s superficial and banal, for it ignores the real source of America’s decline: the moral rot that has eroded every institution and every nook and cranny of our society. Whenever I mention this moral rot, I get immediate push-back of this sort: corruption has always been around, so today is no different from previous eras.
First Half 2025 Precious Metals Summary
by Alasdair MacLeod
Gold Money
It’s been a spectacular 2025 for precious metals so far. Will it continue into H2? With fiat currencies losing credibility, the answer is a resounding YES.
In quiet trading during a week foreshortened by US Independence Day, gold has held up well, while silver has been squeezed higher. In European trading this morning, gold was $4,340, up $65 from last Friday’s close and silver at $36.80 was up 86 cents.
Monday was the last trading session of the first half of this calendar year, and precious metals have beaten the socks off all other investment categories. Platinum is up 47%, palladium 24%, gold 23%, and silver 22.7%. Even copper previously recognised as monetary in coinage was up 21%.
On behalf of their clients, portfolio managers hold almost none of these categories or their derivatives. Their mindsets are stuck in Nasdaq, up 6%, the S&P up 4%, and the 30-year T-bond up 1%. On these numbers, no one appears to be complaining to their managers —yet.
What Rothbardians Should Think About States Rights
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
LewRockwell.com
States Rights has been a dominant theme in American history. We all know about the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the Tariff of Abominations, the War Between the States, the battle over the civil rights movement, and so on. But I’m not going to rehash American history in this week’s column. Instead, I’m going to ask a more fundamental question. What should Rothbardians think about states rights?
For Rothbard, the key question in all political issues is how to promote freedom. As he says in The Ethics of Liberty, “Libertarianism, then, is a philosophy seeking a policy. But what else can a libertarian philosophy say about strategy, about ‘policy’? In the first place, surely-again in Acton’s words-it must say that liberty is the ‘highest political end,’ the overriding goal of libertarian philosophy. Highest political end, of course, does not mean ‘highest end’ for man in general. Indeed, every individual has a variety of personal ends and differing hierarchies of importance for these goals on his personal scale of values.
The Housing Markets of Europe: From Most Splendid Housing Bubbles to Go-Nowhere Markets
by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Portugal
This is our second annual wild ride across sales prices of existing homes of all types (“dwellings”) in the 16 largest economies that are either in the European Union (EU) or in the European Economic Area (EEA), based on data from Eurostat through Q1, released on Friday. The data goes back to 2005 for some countries, and less far for other countries.
Some countries have or had indeed the most splendid housing bubbles, and a few of those have deflated some. Other countries had the most splendid housing bubbles 15 or more years ago. A few didn’t have any housing bubbles at all. And one essentially went nowhere over the past 15 years. So a wild ride across the spectrum.
Silver is Very Close to a Mania Phase
by Hubert Moolman
Silver Seek
Silver is getting very close to a mania phase based on signals from the Dow/gold ratio previously presented. Furthermore, since it is normal for silver to lag gold’s performance, and given that gold has performed so well over the last couple of years, it is expected that we would likely see an even better performance by silver over the coming years.
Here is a long-term silver chart compared to a long-term Dow/gold ratio chart:
[…] On the silver chart (the top chart), I’ve highlighted the significant Dow/gold ratio peaks with a blue line. In every case, silver made a significant bottom some years after the Dow/gold ratio peak. These were signals for the (then-coming) silver bull market.
Once in the bull market, significant silver peaks occurred within 8.5 years (marked in red), as measured from the Dow/gold ratio peak, with the Great Depression silver peak occurring the soonest (6 to 7 years after).
Dependence Day
by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org
I usually do this in textual format, but not this time.
We’re out of time, to be blunt and polite at the same time. The data is on the table both in the budget and also in public companies (e.g. Centene) showing that the vertical acceleration in areas of the economy we cannot absorb is fully underway.
This must be stopped and not on some “10 year promise” (that will be broken) either — it has to stop now, conclusively and immediately. The current economic pattern is an existential and present, not future threat to this nation’s finances and your finances.
Listen for the full episode and then choose on this 4th of July — a day that should stand for and reinforce independence as a nation.
The choice is yours.
The Deeper Dive: Labor Data is Actually a Lot Worse Than it Looked, and it Already Looked Bad!
by David Haggith
GoldSeek
Just as I expected, the government’s report on jobs this past Thursday totally contradicted ADP’s past Wednesday payroll data report. The stock market ignored the abysmal ADP report but then soared with relief when the government report came in, saying what investors wanted to hear. Here are the raw numbers to show the difference:
ADP Reports Private Sector Lost 33,000 Jobs in June. Economists Expected 95,000 New Ones
That compared a day later against …
U.S. payrolls increased by 147,000 in June, more than expected
Well, 147k might have been more than expected, for which the stock market rejoiced, but it is still below the bare minimum of 150,000 net job additions each month that are necessary just to keep up with the population growth rate as it feeds into the labor pool. So, it is a slightly recessionary number.
Tokenization Begins: A New Way to Buy Private Shares
by Davis Wilson
Daily Reckoning
Want to own shares of SpaceX or OpenAI?
How about owning shares of other real-world innovators shaping the future?
As of today, buying shares in these private companies outright isn’t possible for most investors.
But a recent move from Robinhood could be the first real glimpse into a future where that changes.
It’s called tokenized trading, and today I’m breaking it down into simple terms – no crypto fluency required.
