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Beware the Ides of October?

QUESTION: Marty, you have been targeting the last week of August and the first week of September for over a year on your geopolitical models. I confess, your...

They Will Do Anything to Avoid Returning to Cash

Switzerland is developing a nationwide system that will allow consumers to make card payments even when internet and telecommunications networks are unavailable....

Europe’s Digital Euro Is Coming in 2029

The European Central Bank is moving ahead with the digital euro and expects to begin a 12-month pilot during the second half of 2027. Thirty-six banks and payment...

CBDCs Controlling the Debt Market

India is preparing to launch its first tokenized corporate bond in September, and this experiment exposes where the digital monetary system is ultimately heading....

Moscow & Secret US Plane Landing

    QUESTION: What is going on? You were on Russian TV again today, and now there’s a question about a U.S. military transport aircraft that,...

Functional Unemployment in USA Reaches New High

The government claims unemployment stands at 4.1%, yet a new analysis cited by CBS News found that 24.9% of American workers were functionally unemployed in July....

Brazil’s Rare Earths and the Coming Resource War

The West suddenly discovered that Brazil is sitting on one of the most strategic mineral reserves in the world. The Associated Press reports that Brazil has the...

Indiana’s Blackout Exposes America’s Decaying Power Grid

Tens of thousands of people in northwest Indiana have been living without electricity for more than a week, yet this disaster received little national attention...

Saudi Arabia Is Borrowing to Preserve Vision 2030

Saudi Arabia recorded a budget deficit of 125.7 billion riyals, approximately $33.5 billion, in the first quarter of 2026. That is almost as large as the $44...

Will the Diesel Crisis Decide the 2026 Elections?

The political class watches the price of crude oil and gasoline because that is what appears in the headlines, but the real warning is diesel. The average retail...