It&rsquo;s a July 2025 morning in rural Tennessee.
Fifty-year-old grandmother Angela Lipps is babysitting four young children at her home.
Then the U.S. Marshals arrive.
They&rsquo;ve come to arrest her &mdash; at gunpoint &mdash; not for anything she&rsquo;s done in Tennessee, but for bank fraud allegedly committed in North Dakota. A state she&rsquo;s never once visited.
Ms. Lipps would spend the next 108 days in a Tennessee jail cell before being extradited to North Dakota, held there without bail.
Eventually, proof of her innocence turned out to be mundane but irrefutable.
Bank records showed her buying cigarettes at a gas station and ordering pizza via Uber Eats &mdash; all in Tennessee &mdash; at the exact moment police claimed she was committing fraud in Fargo.
The case was dismissed on Christmas Eve 2025. And Ms. Lipps was released in snowy Fargo, wearing the same summer clothes she was arrested in back in July.
Your Rundown for Wednesday, April 1, 2026...
<h2 class="subhead nbp">An AI-Enabled Miscarriage of Justice</h2>
How did this happen?
Fargo police were investigating a bank fraud case in which a woman used a fake U.S. Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars.
Surveillance video showed the suspect; police ran the footage through facial recognition software &mdash; software contracted by the West Fargo PD.
Here&rsquo;s how the breakdown of due diligence took place:
First, Fargo detectives wrongly assumed their counterparts at West Fargo had also submitted the footage to the state-certified facial recognition hub.
Next, no one from the Fargo Police Department ever called to question Ms. Lipps. Instead, detectives looked at her social media and Tennessee driver&rsquo;s license photo and concluded she appeared to be the suspect based on facial features, body type and hair color.
The company behind this mockery isn&rsquo;t some niche AI tool. By 2020, Clearview AI had scraped over 3 billion photos from social media and websites, and held contracts with law enforcement agencies across the country.
Also in 2020, Clearview suffered a major data breach that exposed its entire client list. Company attorney Tor Ekeland&rsquo;s response was a masterpiece of indifference: &ldquo;Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century.&rdquo;
The same company that couldn&rsquo;t secure its own client list in 2020 is the one whose software put an innocent grandmother behind bars in 2025.
About three months after Ms. Lipps&rsquo; release on Christmas Eve, Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski issued a public apology &mdash; though not to Ms. Lipps directly.
So, one agency ran a scan they weren&rsquo;t licensed to run. Another agency trusted the result without verifying.
And a grandmother spent nearly six months in jail.
It&rsquo;s like the worst April Fools&rsquo; joke ever, courtesy of AI.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Market Rundown for Wednesday, April 1, 2026</h2>
S&amp;P 500 futures are up 0.65% to 6,615.
Oil&rsquo;s down 1.85% to $99.50 for a barrel of WTI.
Gold is up 2% to $4,741.40 per ounce.
And Bitcoin&rsquo;s up 0.70% to $68,275.

AI Imprisons Innocent Woman

Two weeks ago, we told you to look closely at your Social Security and Medicare statements &mdash; not because Washington was coming for them outright, but because the system was covertly <a href="https://newsyoucanacton.com/posts/your-social-security-is-being-skimmed">skimming around the edges.</a>
Now, the same government executing a war in Iran &mdash; a war that, early on, more than 70% of Rundown readers supported &mdash; is looking for ways to help pay for it.
And one place they&rsquo;re looking is&hellip; health care.
According to Axios, House Republicans are weighing a budget package that could include up to $200 billion for the Iran war and immigration enforcement.
To offset some of that cost, lawmakers are revisiting a familiar playbook: squeeze inefficiencies out of federal health programs &mdash; or at least that&rsquo;s how they&rsquo;re framing it.
Your Rundown for Monday, March 30, 2026...
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Math is Easy, Midterms Aren&rsquo;t </h2>
Start with the man driving this proposal: Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Arrington is revisiting several health care &ldquo;savings&rdquo; mechanisms.
ACA Cost-Sharing Changes Washington already ran the numbers on this &mdash; and here&rsquo;s what it shows:
<ul>
<li>Lower benchmark premiums ~11%</li>
<li>With some enrollees facing higher out-of-pocket premium cost</li>
<li>Leaving roughly 300,000 more Americans uninsured</li>
<li>While saving the federal government $30+ billion over time.</li>
</ul>
Medicare &ldquo;Site-Neutral&rdquo; Payments This would pay hospitals and clinics the same rate for identical services:
<ul>
<li>Estimated to save ~$11 billion over a decade</li>
<li>But strongly opposed by hospitals and rural providers, who warn of service cutbacks.</li>
</ul>
Medicare Advantage Crackdown Targeting &ldquo;upcoding&rdquo; &mdash; where insurers inflate diagnoses to receive higher payments:
<ul>
<li>Medicare Advantage is projected to cost about 14% more than traditional Medicare in 2026</li>
<li>That translates to roughly $76 billion in higher payments</li>
<li>A crackdown could yield tens of billions in savings, depending on scope.</li>
</ul>
Republicans, of course, are not pitching this as &ldquo;cutting benefits.&rdquo; They&rsquo;re pitching it as eliminating waste, fraud and pricing distortions.
But this is where the conversation shifts from policy to politics &mdash; and where things get uncomfortable, even within the GOP. Because not everyone is eager to touch health care, even under the banner of &ldquo;efficiency.&rdquo;
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), a moderate who tends to reflect the limits of what a swing-district Republican can support, didn&rsquo;t dismiss the idea outright. But he didn&rsquo;t endorse it either.
In a House where the margin is razor thin, it only takes a handful of members looking at their districts and deciding that anything tied, however indirectly, to Medicare is a bridge too far.
That&rsquo;s the real tension embedded in this moment.
Because the same voter base that, at the outset, broadly supported a tougher posture toward Iran is now being drawn into the question of how that gets financed. Not in theory. In practice.
And Washington is trying to reconcile a growing overseas commitment with an already strained domestic balance sheet.
To be clear, this proposal is still in its early stages. No final language. No settled coalition. It may stall entirely.
But the direction is unmistakable, and health care &mdash; vast, complex, politically-sensitive &mdash; sits at the center. Heading into a midterm cycle, that creates a consequential test, not just of policy, but of perception.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Market Rundown for Monday, March 30, 2026</h2>
S&amp;P 500 futures are up 0.70% to 6,455.
Oil is up 1.50% to $101.15 for a barrel of WTI.
Gold&rsquo;s up 1.55% to $4,562.90 per ounce.
And Bitcoin is up 2.20% to $67,800.

Iran War Hits U.S. Health Care

I&rsquo;ve been staring at my mortgage statement long enough to know it like the back of my hand. Same bank. Same number, month after month. Same ritual (of mild irritation).
But something happened this week that made me look at that statement a little differently &mdash; and frankly, it made the whole concept of &ldquo;buying a house&rdquo; feel like it just got teleported about fifteen years into the future.
Coinbase and mortgage firm Better Home &amp; Finance announced Thursday that Fannie Mae &mdash; yes, the $4 trillion government-sponsored enterprise that underwrites a significant chunk of America&rsquo;s home loans &mdash; will now accept cryptocurrency-backed mortgages for the first time in its history.
The program allows prospective homebuyers to pledge Bitcoin or the USDC stablecoin as collateral for their down payment, without ever having to sell a single coin. (Other cryptos including Ethereum and Solana may be added down the road.)
As of Thursday, interested borrowers can sign up for early access at Better&rsquo;s website. Here&rsquo;s how it works&hellip;
Your Rundown for Friday, March 27, 2026...
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Reading the Fine Print</h2>
A borrower can take out a standard 15- or 30-year Fannie Mae-backed mortgage through Better Home &amp; Finance for a home purchase.
Then, instead of bringing a traditional cash down payment, they take out a second loan backed by their crypto &mdash; held in custody at a Better/Coinbase Prime account &mdash; to cover that down payment.
Both loans sit with Better, and the borrower makes one combined monthly payment. The crypto assets stay locked and can&rsquo;t be traded, but critically, the borrower retains ownership and keeps any yield generated if they&rsquo;re holding USDC.
Once the loan is paid in full, the digital assets are returned.
The no-margin-call structure is what caught my attention. Once the loan is issued, Coinbase and Better have essentially agreed to absorb the collateral risk for the life of the loan.
If Bitcoin drops 50%, nothing happens to your mortgage terms. No call. No forced sale. The lender can only move against you the same way any mortgage lender can &mdash; if you stop making your monthly payments for 60 consecutive days.
The tradeoff? You&rsquo;re paying for it. Interest rates on the crypto-backed structure run about 0.5 to 1.5 percentage points above a standard 30-year loan, depending on borrower profile. (Plus, you&rsquo;re servicing two loans simultaneously.)
Here&rsquo;s the pitch: &ldquo;People who are sitting on Bitcoin or USDC can put a roof over their head without needing to sell it, without needing to incur capital gains,&rdquo; says Mark Troianovski, Coinbase head of consumer and platform business development.
Coinbase data shows 45% of younger investors own crypto, compared with 18% of their older counterparts &mdash; meaning an enormous chunk of would-be buyers are sitting on digital wealth they can&rsquo;t easily convert to a down payment without a tax bill attached.
As a sweetener, Coinbase One members are eligible for a rebate worth 1% of the mortgage value, capped at $10,000. Other crypto assets like Ethereum and Solana may be added down the road.
Is this for everyone? Not even close. But for the crypto-native generation staring at a housing market that feels out of reach, this could be a bridge between digital wealth and the most traditional American asset of all.
The fact that Fannie Mae is the one stamping it legitimate? That&rsquo;s not a minor detail. Zoom out further, and the systemic concern becomes hard to ignore.
The more crypto becomes accepted collateral in mainstream finance, the more a crypto crash becomes everyone&rsquo;s crash &mdash; not just a bad month for speculators, but a contagion running straight through the housing market.
Fannie Mae carries an implicit federal backstop, and the stress-testing frameworks governing conventional mortgages weren&rsquo;t built to absorb an asset class famous for 60% drawdown cycles.
It&rsquo;s not that this product is necessarily a bad idea &mdash; it&rsquo;s that novel financial instruments have a history of blowing up right after the government decides they&rsquo;re safe.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Market Rundown for Friday, March 27, 2026</h2>
S&amp;P 500 futures are down 0.25% to 6,500.
Oil&rsquo;s up 2.10% to $96.55 for a barrel of WTI.
Gold is up 1% to $4,420 per ounce.
And Bitcoin&rsquo;s pulled back 2.75% to $66,620.

Fannie Mae Says “Yes” to Bitcoin

On Monday, the air near Port Arthur, Texas smelled like rotten eggs.
That&rsquo;s sulfur &mdash; the calling card of heavy crude. And when something went boom at the Valero refinery, it rattled car windows across the Mid-County area and sent fire trucks screaming down State Highways 87 and 82.
You might not have known it Monday, but that boom was a warning shot.
Valero&rsquo;s Port Arthur facility isn&rsquo;t just any refinery. It processes 435,000 barrels of heavy sour crude per day &mdash; it&rsquo;s one of the ten largest operations in the country. A fire broke out at a diesel hydrotreater, causing severe damage. Part of the refinery shut down immediately.
Here&rsquo;s what rarely makes the news about American refining: Our shale patch pumps out light, sweet oil by the ocean-full. But U.S. Gulf refineries were engineered for the opposite &mdash; thick, sulfurous, heavy grades.
It&rsquo;s that heavy sour crude that frequently gets distilled for diesel, and Port Arthur was one of the key Gulf Coast facilities.
Then it caught fire.
Your Rundown for Wednesday, March 25, 2026...
<h2 class="subhead nbp">The Oil Shock Spreads Downstream</h2>
When news of the fire hit the wires, WTI crude &mdash; which had dipped toward $85 Monday morning &mdash; shot back above $90.
Diesel, which averaged $3.72 a gallon in February 2026, has surged past $5.50 &mdash; that&rsquo;s a 40-plus percent spike in less than three weeks &mdash; after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran. And Tehran responded by choking tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Sean Ring at The Rude Awakening observed the pressure building last week: &ldquo;Gasoline is the fuel for your car. Diesel is the fuel that runs the entire economy.&rdquo;
Diesel seeps into the price of everything. Every box of cereal on your shelf burned diesel to get planted, harvested, milled, manufactured and delivered. Same story for meat, lumber, your Amazon delivery.
Sean again: &ldquo;When diesel moves this quickly, it signals the entire physical economy &mdash; including trucks, farms, factories and ships &mdash; is under pressure. A diesel price above $5 is an economic warning shot.&rdquo;
On the consumer side: You can stock shelf-stable staples now, batch your deliveries and buy closer to home when possible. The longer the supply chain, the more diesel it burns &mdash; and the more you pay.
On the investor side &mdash; and we&rsquo;re not handing you a buy list here, just connecting dots &mdash; refining stocks have ripped higher in 2026. Valero, Marathon and Phillips 66 are all up roughly 30% to 40% year-to-date, with market caps now clustered in the $60&ndash;70 billion range
Meaning, the same chaos paining you at the pump is padding earnings of companies that process the crude.
At the same time, GasBuddy&rsquo;s Patrick De Haan warns: &ldquo;Until we see a meaningful resumption of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, upward pressure on fuel prices is likely to persist.&rdquo;
And unlike gasoline &mdash; which resets relatively quickly as inventories replenish &mdash; diesel can stay elevated even when the price of crude falls: Tight inventories and widening refinery margins can cancel out savings from cheaper oil entirely.
The rotten-egg stench in Port Arthur will fade eventually. But the price pressure on diesel? Will very much linger in the air.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Market Rundown for Wednesday, March 25, 2026</h2>
S&amp;P 500 futures are up 1% to 6,675.
Oil&rsquo;s down 5.70% to $87 for a barrel of WTI.
Gold is up 4% to $4,578.40 per ounce.
And Bitcoin&rsquo;s up 2.70% to $71,350.

The Stench of Supply Shock

This is supposed to be gold&rsquo;s moment.
War in the Middle East. Sticky inflation. Markets on edge.
If gold is ever going to behave like a true safe haven, this is when it should show up.
And yet, it hasn&rsquo;t.
Gold dropped 11% last week, posting its biggest weekly loss since 1983. The yellow metal, in fact, is down more than 14% since the war began &mdash; a drop so sharp the Wall Street Journal claims investors &ldquo;would have been better off in the tiniest microcap stocks than in the oldest source of safety.&rdquo;
(Now let&rsquo;s not get hyperbolic here, but point taken.)
And the usual explanations don&rsquo;t quite hold water. Yes, the dollar has strengthened since the conflict started, which typically pressures gold.
Yes, real interest rates &mdash; particularly yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) &mdash; have moved higher. When those yields rise, cash and bonds become more attractive, making assets like gold comparatively less appealing.
But those correlations only go so far. And on one of the most trying days of the conflict, the dollar actually weakened &mdash; while gold still suffered one of its steepest declines.
So if the macro story doesn&rsquo;t satisfy, what gives?
Your Rundown for Monday, March 23, 2026...
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Why Sell This Trustworthy Asset? </h2>
By the time this latest Mideast crisis hit, gold was no longer an overlooked hedge. It had become a popular trade.
Central banks have been buying aggressively, reallocating reserves away from dollars after Russia's assets were frozen in 2022.
That steady sovereign demand helped push gold prices to historic highs &mdash; the metal touched a record just below $5,600 an ounce in late January, capping a staggering 66% surge in 2025 .
Then institutional money followed. Then retail investors joined in, chasing the trend.
But when stress enters the system, popular trades tend to behave the same way &mdash; they sell. Not because they&rsquo;re broken, but because they&rsquo;re liquid.
Which is why some perspective from Paradigm&rsquo;s macro authority Jim Rickards is so invaluable. &ldquo;It's not unusual at the early stage of a crisis to see gold prices go down,&rdquo; he says.
&ldquo;Yes, it&rsquo;s a war, but it&rsquo;s also a financial and monetary meltdown&hellip; There is a private credit panic going on in the United States.&rdquo;
In other words, the visible crisis &mdash; geopolitics &mdash; is only half the story. Beneath it, stress is building in <a href="https://newsyoucanacton.com/posts/saas-stocks-crash">private credit</a> markets, private equity funds and other corners of finance that rely heavily on borrowed money.
Private credit refers to loans made by non-bank lenders &mdash; think asset managers like Blackstone or Blue Owl &mdash; directly to companies, rather than through public bond markets.
These funds grew enormously over the past decade. Retail investors eventually got access through semi-liquid vehicles &mdash; funds you could usually redeem quarterly, even though the underlying loans might not mature for years.
That mismatch is now the problem.
BlackRock, for instance, restricted withdrawals on its $26 billion HPS Lending Fund. And Morgan Stanley met only 45.8% of investor redemption requests in its flagship North Haven Private Income Fund in Q1 2026.
&ldquo;What happens when the redemption notices start piling up? It&rsquo;s a kind of run on the bank,&rdquo; Jim explains. In response, these private credit and private equity funds have &ldquo;put up the gates,&rdquo; he says.
&ldquo;So, if you're an investor, what do you do in a situation like that? One of the things you can do is sell gold&hellip; precisely because gold is relatively liquid and you can get cash.
&ldquo;It's not that people don&rsquo;t want gold,&rdquo; he adds, &ldquo;but it might be the only thing that they can sell.&rdquo;
That&rsquo;s the hidden logic behind gold&rsquo;s strange behavior recently. It&rsquo;s not abandonment &mdash; it&rsquo;s triage.
True, gold isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;skyrocketing,&rdquo; Jim notes. &ldquo;[The price] could bounce around&hellip; but that's not a crash. The strong hands are going to wait to see gold trend down,&rdquo; he concludes. &ldquo;At some point, they&rsquo;ll jump in.&rdquo;
In moments like these, it&rsquo;s important to remember that markets don&rsquo;t always behave the way they&rsquo;re supposed to. Safe havens don&rsquo;t always rise on cue. The first move in a real crisis isn&rsquo;t always a flight to safe havens.
It&rsquo;s toward liquidity. And sometimes, the very asset investors bought for safety is the first one they sell for cash.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Market Rundown for Monday, March 23, 2026</h2>
S&amp;P 500 futures are up 1.30% to 6,645.
Oil&rsquo;s down 5.40% to $92.80 for a barrel of WTI.
Gold is down 4.85% to $4,346.20 per ounce.
Bitcoin&rsquo;s up 2.65% to $70,175.

Gold Had One Job

Welcome to this week&rsquo;s Five Links.
(Please note: In rare instances, certain articles may be behind a paywall).
Some weeks, these will include any new developments on Trump&rsquo;s plan to unleash America&rsquo;s wealth through deregulation and expediting permits so companies and investors can thrive again. We&rsquo;ll keep an eye out on any new developments and pass them along with analysis.
We&rsquo;ll also be bringing other news in the economic, financial and political world worthy of your attention to your inbox as well. We hope you enjoy them to start off your week.
<h2 class="subhead">I. After Months of Street Fighting, SCOTUS Is Ready to Decide</h2>
For months we&rsquo;ve been writing about the street fighting going on in the federal court system concerning President Trump&rsquo;s efforts to close the border, deport illegal aliens, shut down government programs that undermine America&rsquo;s best interests and fire useless federal employees, among other initiatives. At every turn, the enemies of making America great again have been fighting him in the courts. The federal court system has three levels &ndash; the district courts (which handle trials), the circuit courts (which handle appeals on points of law) and the Supreme Court (which resolves conflicts among the circuits and has the last word on important legal precedents). Trump has been losing badly at the district court level. These losses are almost exclusively at the hands of rogue judges appointed by Biden or Obama. (By the way, Trump&rsquo;s opponents seek to file lawsuits in districts where the appointment of a Biden judge to hear the case is highly likely; a practice known as &ldquo;forum shopping&rdquo;). The abuses by these judges take several forms. The first is the issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) stopping Trump. TROs are issued with almost no briefs or hearings and sometimes the defendant (Trump) is not even notified. Many of these cases could wait for a more considered preliminary injunction or even a trial on the merits, but judges are racing to issue TROs. The second abuse is that the TROs are given nationwide effect. A district court judge is supposed to confine his orders to his particular district and to the named plaintiffs in the case to the extent possible. Instead, the anti-Trump judges are shutting down Trump on a nationwide basis involving millions of individuals. The third abuse is that the district court is ignoring separation of powers precedents and intruding egregiously on the powers of the executive branch including in matters such as defense, national security, foreign aid and diplomacy. There are literally hundreds of such cases. Trump has appealed almost all of them. The circuit courts are producing mixed results with a limited number of pro-Trump rulings but other rulings that allow trials to move forward at the district court level without undoing the TROs. Now the moment of truth has arrived. Appeals are finally being heard at the Supreme Court level. My expectation is that we will see 5-4 and 6-3 decisions supporting Trump and putting the rogue district court judges in their place. (Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have already indicated their support for Trump. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett are the swing votes needed to get the vote to 5-4 or better). Here is a good <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5298624-supreme-court-decision-season-guide/">guide</a> to some of the key pending cases and the Supreme Court&rsquo;s schedule between now and the end of June &ndash; the traditional end of their term. Keep it handy. The legal fireworks are about to begin.
<h2 class="subhead">II. When The Green New Scam Collapses, It Falls Fast</h2>
Good analysts and real scientists have known almost from the start that the entire narrative about &ldquo;climate change&rdquo; was a hoax. I remember when talk about a &ldquo;new ice age&rdquo; was widespread in the 1970s. Then came the &ldquo;hole in the ozone&rdquo; in the 1980s. This was followed by fears of &ldquo;global warming&rdquo; in the 1990s. Then when the world did not actually get that warm, the propagandists switched to &ldquo;climate change&rdquo; in the 2000s. What all of these phony narratives had in common was that they were always wrong. To be clear, climate change is a real thing. There was a Roman Warm Period around 250 BC. There was a Medieval Warm Period around 1000 AD, which enabled the Vikings to build farms in Greenland. There was a Little Ice Age from around 1350 to 1850 with an intense period of extreme cold around 1650. The Thames River in London was frozen over and &ldquo;ice fairs&rdquo; were staged by merchants on the ice. None of these climate change episodes had anything to do with carbon emissions. They were pre-industrial. Older ice ages were prehistoric. Climate change is slow and is caused by solar cycles, volcanoes, ocean currents and other large forces that have nothing to do with carbon dioxide, electric plants or automobiles. The Green New Scam has never been anything other than a false neo-Marxist narrative designed to transfer trillions of dollars of wealth from developed economies to China and other developing economies with the elite scammers acting as middlemen to skim billions of dollars for their own benefit. The <a href="https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-5-13-as-the-federal-government-abandons-the-climate-fantasy-new-york-doubles-down">good news</a> is that with the scam exposed, the Trump administration is dismantling idiotic regulations and prohibitions as quickly as possible. All of those ridiculous regulations on shower heads, toilets, dishwashers, gas stoves, washing machines and other everyday appliances are being repealed. Billions of dollars of wasteful green energy projects are being cancelled and the money preserved for better uses. Despite this progress on dismantling the Green New Scam, some individual Democrat states are continuing to waste their taxpayers&rsquo; money. New York State just approved $1 billion in expenditures on &ldquo;decarbonization.&rdquo; Never mind that China is building five new coal-fired electric plants per week and New York&rsquo;s efforts won&rsquo;t even show up in global measurements of carbon emissions. Nothing can stop a climate ideologue like NY Governor Kathy Hochul from wasting money if it passes her feel good test. Too bad for NY taxpayers, but the rest of us are finally catching a break. For the past 50 years, the Green New Scammers have been declaring the world would end in ten years and they have been wrong every time. Their credibility is now at zero and it&rsquo;s never coming back. The scam is over.
<h2 class="subhead">III. Democrats Scream &ldquo;No One Is Above The Law!&rdquo;. Now That Applies to Them.</h2>
How often have Democrats yelled &ldquo;No one is above the law&rdquo; in the past ten years? They aimed that claim at Trump during his first two phony impeachments. They aimed it at Trump again through his NY loan document trial that cost him $600 million. (That judgment is now on appeal). They yelled it again during the Stormy Daniels trial in New York, which was such a miscarriage of justice even progressive lawyers couldn&rsquo;t figure out what the charges were or how they were justified by the facts. (That conviction is also on appeal). And the Democrat loonies also screamed it during the Georgia vote fraud prosecution of Trump. (That case has fallen apart because the prosecutor was funneling state money to her lover, which he used to take her on exotic vacations). The claim &ldquo;No one is above the law&rdquo; was also being heard when an FBI goon squad stormed Roger Stone&rsquo;s door at 3:00 am and arrested him in his pajamas while terrorizing his wife who was sleeping in their bed. It was also the Democrat battle cry when Trump advisors Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon were sent to federal prison for asserting legitimate executive privilege, which Joe Biden chose to ignore. It&rsquo;s not clear if Biden pushed for those prosecutions or if it was authorized by his autopen. Well, now the shoe is on the other foot. Last week, a group of three Democrat congressmen from New Jersey and the mayor of Newark, NJ <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5301063-democrats-dhs-noem-ice-new-jersey/">stormed</a> an ICE detention center for illegal alien criminals. They assaulted ICE officers and tried to break into the center. The mayor was arrested, and the three congressmen may yet face criminal charges. At a minimum, those congressmen may be stripped of the committee assignments in the House of Representatives and possibly face censure. Members of Congress do have a right to inspect government facilities under their jurisdiction. But that&rsquo;s not the same as the right to storm the building and endanger law officers. There are standard ways of making appointments and arranging tours that are always respected. These congressmen didn&rsquo;t want a tour &ndash; they wanted a riot, and they got one. Of course, the Democrat leadership has rallied around these violent publicity hounds. AOC and Hakeem Jefferies have threatened Republican leadership and the Trump administration with resistance if the rioters suffer any legal consequences for their actions. Too bad. We need accountability and need to end the legal double standards. Someone should remind the Democrats that no one is above the law.
<h2 class="subhead">IV. The Western Diplomatic Clown Show on Ukraine Continues</h2>
It&rsquo;s not clear to me when the U.S. stopped producing world class diplomats. Whether you agree with their policies or not, there&rsquo;s no dispute that the long line of U.S. diplomats from Dean Acheson to John Foster Dulles, Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, George Schultz and James Baker produced momentous agreements that changed the history of the world and preserved the national security of the United States. Beginning with Bill Clinton, we began to have second-rate national security advisors and secretaries of state including Sandy Berger, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Rex Tillerson, Tony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan. In succession, they have produced wars in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and Yemen with India-Pakistan next in line. Until recently, my friends in China would ask me, &ldquo;Why can&rsquo;t you guys give us another Kissinger?&rdquo; Henry Kissinger was in his 90&rsquo;s at the time and the Chinese revered him but didn&rsquo;t understand why we couldn&rsquo;t produce more great diplomats. The latest <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/an-aide-diplomat-spy-who-is-putin-sending-turkey-2025-05-15/">example</a> of U.S. diplomatic incompetence is the &ldquo;summit conference&rdquo; in Istanbul last week intended to end the war in Ukraine. Istanbul was the site of a peace conference in March 2022 that almost ended the war soon after it started. But that agreement was blown up by Joe Biden and his flunky Boris Johnson. Zelensky said he would go to the new meeting in Istanbul, but that was a publicity stunt because Russian President Vladimir Putin had already made it clear that he would not attend. Putin will discuss an end to the war, but he will not agree to an unconditional ceasefire unless those terms are spelled out in enforceable form. Zelensky was insisting on an unconditional ceasefire knowing that Russia would not agree. Why should Russia agree? They are winning the war. The war will end on Russian terms and not any other. Russia also won&rsquo;t talk to Zelensky because he&rsquo;s a military dictator (his presidential term ended in May 2024) and has no authority anyway. This &ldquo;summit&rdquo; was done so that Zelensky could posture as a &ldquo;peacemaker&rdquo; and blame Putin as the one who &ldquo;refuses to talk.&rdquo; That is all just another western narrative lie. Until the West takes Putin seriously and internalizes the actual state of the war, then the slaughter will continue. Let&rsquo;s hope President Trump can put an end to this war when he talks with Putin this week.
<h2 class="subhead">V. Who Were &ldquo;Domestic Terrorists&rdquo; According to Joe Biden? It Could Be You.</h2>
This is one of our more unusual <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-05/DIG-Declassified-Strategic-Implementation-Plan-for-CT-April2025.pdf">links.</a>&nbsp;It&rsquo;s a copy of a recently declassified intelligence document. Prior to declassification, this document was classified as SECRET/NOFORN. The &ldquo;secret&rdquo; classification makes it sensitive but one level below TOP SECRET. The NOFORN label is short for &ldquo;no foreign intelligence access.&rdquo; In other words, this document could only be viewed by the U.S. intelligence community with a secret clearance or higher (and a need to know) but it was not meant to be viewed by any foreign intelligence service including the Five Eyes (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), who are the closest allied intel services for purpose of information sharing. Some parts of this were labeled &ldquo;U,&rdquo; which stands for unclassified and FOUO, which means &ldquo;for official use only.&rdquo; All of this is blacked out except the U, but I had no difficulty reading behind the blacked-out sections because of my own experience dealing with classified documents at the CIA. The title is imposing. It&rsquo;s called the &ldquo;Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.&rdquo; That sounds critical. Domestic terrorists could include anarchist groups like ANTIFA or racists groups like Black Lives Matter. It could also include domestic cells of foreign terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda or ISIS. So many terrorists were allowed into the United States by Biden&rsquo;s open border policy that it would come as no surprise if they had established a network of cells. Other sources of domestic terrorist could include the MS-13 gang based in El Salvador or the even more violent Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang from Venezuela. Mexican drug cartel cells are another source of domestic terror aimed at U.S. citizens. That&rsquo;s quite a list of bad actors. Are those the groups the Biden administration was targeting for counterterrorist action? Actually, no. If you read the document carefully and cut through all of the bureaucratic jargon, you&rsquo;ll see that Joe Biden&rsquo;s real targets are &hellip; you and me. The document refers to the &ldquo;role of gender women/girls and youth&rdquo; as a marker of terrorism. In other words, if you oppose men in women&rsquo;s sports or genital mutilation of children, you&rsquo;re a terrorist. Other terrorist suspects include &ldquo;active service military members.&rdquo; The policy also calls for providing &ldquo;financial intelligence.&rdquo; In other words, the government will work with the banks to spy on your bank accounts and credit cards. It also calls for programs to &ldquo;foster social cohesion&rdquo;, which means support for Democratic woke policies. A plan to &ldquo;mitigate xenophobia&rdquo; means you are a terrorist if you oppose open borders. This document is nothing less than an intelligence community plan to indoctrinate Americans and stifle domestic political dissent. It&rsquo;s repugnant. Good riddance to Biden and his neo-fascist agenda. By the way, we have the new National Director of Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard to thank for declassifying this Biden administration garbage. Just as Pam Bondi at the Justice Department has been working to release the Epstein and JFK files, Gabbard has been working to declassify intelligence community documents that cover-up Biden administration wrongdoing. Declassifying a document labeling everyday Americans as &ldquo;terrorists&rdquo; is a good start. Hopefully it won&rsquo;t be the last declassification.

When The Green New Scam Collapses, It Falls Fast… The Ukraine Diplomatic Clown Show Continues… And More!

This week&rsquo;s mailbag included some geopolitical questions on the Pakistan &ndash; India conflict, the BRICS summit, and the U.S. &ndash; Saudi connection.
Here are a few questions:
Q: How should investors react to the recent Pakistan/ India conflict? &ndash; Stuart S.&nbsp;
A: In regard to this conflict, we are on the brink of an existential war between two nuclear-armed powers.&nbsp; If this aggression escalates to the brink of nuclear war or a nuclear attack actually takes place, it&rsquo;s not inconceivable that the U.S. or perhaps a joint U.S.-Russia mission would attack and destroy both the Pakistani and Indian nuclear weapons system in a way that did not set off a nuclear explosion (radiation leakage may be an unavoidable byproduct of such a raid but it would be localized). The purpose would not be to choose sides in the conflict. The purpose would be to eliminate an existential threat to the human race. A game theoretic approach might call for this outcome to be communicated to India and Pakistan in advance to avoid escalation in the first place. With trade and tariff wars in full swing, the last thing the world needs is a shooting war between two nuclear-armed powers. Still, that&rsquo;s where we are. The best hope is that a ceasefire will hold, and steps can be taken to mitigate terrorist attacks if not the entire Kashmiri territorial dispute. But Pakistan&rsquo;s politics are perennially unstable, and India&rsquo;s ruling party has staked out a nationalist pro-Hindu platform. Those realities make compromise more difficult. While Trump is trying to unwind conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and avoid new ones, this may be one conflict where U.S. mediation and leverage are required. Meanwhile, investors would be prudent if they reduced their exposure to risky assets like stocks and increased their allocations to safer assets including Treasury notes, cash and gold.
Q: What should investors know about the upcoming BRICS meeting being held in Brazil? &ndash; Sarah P.
A: The next BRICS summit in Rio on July 6 promises to be momentous in terms of announcements related to the continued development of this new financial architecture and possible new members. The BRICS will not be announcing a new BRICS currency. There was a lot of speculation about that two years ago at the Leaders&rsquo; Summit in South Africa. It didn&rsquo;t happen then and it&rsquo;s not happening now. In fact, there may not be a BRICS currency for many years, maybe ever. The BRICS will also not be returning to a gold standard. When we use the term &ldquo;gold standard,&rdquo; we&rsquo;re referring to a system in which one or more currencies are pegged to a fixed quantity of gold and the currency is freely convertible into gold at that fixed rate. When more than one currency is on such a gold standard, those currencies are pegged to each other also by the transitive law. While the buzz about a new gold standard is overhyped, gold is still a central part of what the BRICS are all about. Those calling for a new BRICS currency seem not to realize that the BRICS already have a common currency &ndash; it&rsquo;s gold! In effect, gold is a leading reserve monetary asset for BRICS central banks. When held in physical form in a safe location, gold cannot be frozen or stolen by the U.S. And gold is freely acceptable by the other BRICS members. The BRICS summit in Rio may disappoint those who are predicting a &ldquo;global reset&rdquo; or the &ldquo;end of the dollar.&rdquo; But it will be momentous, nonetheless. The key is to watch for important moves in a direction that enables us to see the future of the global monetary system. There will be plenty of that on display in Rio de Janeiro this July. In the meantime, get your gold while you still can.
Q: What could the close relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabi mean for oil prices? &ndash; Ken G.
A: Last summer, I wrote a series of articles for readers on what I called a Petrodollar 2.0 between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. I described negotiations on a new financial and security arrangement that will supersede the old Petrodollar Deal. The new agreement would provide that Saudi Arabia will recognize Israel as part of the broader Abraham Accords initiated during the first term of the Trump administration. The U.S. would continue to offer security protections to The Kingdom but those will be expanded to include uranium enrichment technology. On the financial side, Saudi Arabia would continue to price oil in dollars but could agree to be paid in other currencies, primarily euros. The Kingdom would also continue to purchase Treasury securities alongside its holdings of gold. In short, not much would change from the current Petrodollar Deal except for the enhanced security guarantees. The reason Saudi Arabia allowed the existing deal to lapse was to gain leverage in the new negotiations and because the old deal would be replaced by the new deal in all events. The reason for the delay is that Saudi Arabia cannot recognize Israel until the Gaza War is over. There&rsquo;s an irony there because the Trump administration created the Abraham Accords and may be the one to complete the process by including Saudi Arabia under that umbrella. Trump&rsquo;s close relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and Trump&rsquo;s visit demonstrates that it&rsquo;s time for Petrodollar 2.0. This will stabilize oil prices and make the dollar stronger in global markets.

Allies and Enemies

(Please note: In rare instances, certain articles may be behind a paywall).
Some weeks, these will include any new developments on Trump&rsquo;s plan to unleash America&rsquo;s wealth through deregulation and expediting permits so companies and investors can thrive again. We&rsquo;ll keep an eye out for any new developments and pass them along and include some analysis.
We&rsquo;ll be bringing other news in the economic, financial and political world worthy of your attention to your inbox as well. We hope you enjoy them to start off your week.
<h2 class="subhead">I. More Proof That Mainstream Economists Are Clueless About Trump</h2>
On occasion, we highlight articles in which almost everything the writer asserts is not only wrong but dangerously so. And that&rsquo;s the point. It&rsquo;s not enough to read and circulate articles we agree with. It&rsquo;s important to read material we disagree with in order to sharpen our analytic skills and defend our own positions. This is one of those <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-tariffs-call-for-global-retaliation-to-eliminate-us-leverage-by-paul-de-grauwe-2025-05">articles</a>. The author is Paul de Grauwe. He&rsquo;s the Chair of European Political Economy at the European Institute at the London School of Economics. His title gives the game away. The London School of Economics is a fine school, but it&rsquo;s notoriously left leaning. The fact that de Grauwe is a scholar of European Political Economy at the European Institute is another clue because there are a growing number of analysts who are questioning whether &ldquo;Europe&rdquo; even exists in the political or economic sense. It is a place on the map (although many question whether it's a &ldquo;continent&rdquo; or just an extension of the Eurasian landmass), but it has no political or economic unity. A political group called the European Union (EU) exists but does not include all of the countries in Europe. A monetary union called the Eurozone exists but its currency, the euro, is not used by all of the countries in the EU or in Europe. Politically, European governments run the gamut from Hungary (heavily pro-Trump) to Ireland and Scotland (Trump-haters). No European country is in a position to defend itself militarily without U.S. support. So, there&rsquo;s something to the idea that Europe does not exist. Nevertheless, de Grauwe is a Europe scholar, which is better understood as saying he is a Globalist. Here are some of his more delusional ideas: de Grauwe says the U.S. stock market decline will derail Trump&rsquo;s tariff plans because Trump will have to abandon his program to save his billionaire friends. That&rsquo;s nonsense. MAGA is all about helping everyday Americans. Trump has even mooted the idea of raising income taxes on the rich. Trump has spoken about a stock market decline and possible recession as a price we may have to pay to transition to a new Golden Age economically. De Grauwe knows nothing about Trump or U.S. politics. His other idea is that the entire world should join together to defeat U.S. tariffs by applying economic pressure. He says the U.S. is only 15% of world trade so it&rsquo;s possible for the 85% to apply pressure. The U.S. may be 15% of world trade, but it&rsquo;s 27% of the global economy and 60% of global reserves. The U.S. is by far the most powerful economic and military country on the planet. And there&rsquo;s no chance that the &ldquo;other 85%&rdquo; (as de Grauwe puts it) will agree on anything. What we have here is a case study in globalist delusions courtesy of LSE.
<h2 class="subhead">II. Why Are the Globalist &ldquo;Champions of Democracy&rdquo; Destroying Democracy?</h2>
How many times have you heard left-wingers and neo-Marxists scream about Trump destroying democracy? You hear it from the woke Democrats night and day on MSNBC, CNN, and shows like The View. You hear it from Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada. You hear it from Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, the governing body of the EU. You hear it from the New York Times, the Washington Post and from commentators on ABC, NBC and CBS. You never stop hearing it. This claim is propaganda. We know that endlessly repeating claims that Trump is a &ldquo;fascist,&rdquo; &ldquo;Nazi,&rdquo; &ldquo;dictator&rdquo; and a &ldquo;threat to democracy&rdquo; is a tried-and-true technique for creating a narrative and getting the public to believe the narrative even if there&rsquo;s no truth to it at all. But narratives actually are powerful and can have consequences in terms of public opinion and public behavior even if the narrative itself has no basis in fact. So, what&rsquo;s the best way to rebut this narrative without more name calling? The best way is to look at hard facts and call them to the attention of the public. This will create a counter-narrative that the real threat to democracy comes from the woke politicians and not from Trump. What are the facts? In Ukraine, the West conducted a coup against a democratically elected president in 2014 and installed a puppet. Today, Zelensky is a dictator in Ukraine &ndash; his term as president expired in May 2024. In France, Marine Le Pen, the popular nationalist leader of the National Front party and potential future president of France, was convicted of crimes that are petty by French standards. (Her case is on appeal). Clearly, she was singled out for political prosecution in the same way Trump was. In Georgia, the conservative Mikheil Kavelashvili was elected president, but his EU-backed predecessor refused to recognize the election result. In Romania, the pro-Trump presidential candidate Calin Georgescu won an election six months ago, but that result was annulled by corrupt judges. It took a new election for another nationalist candidate, George Simion, to win. And a few days ago, the German spy agency <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-spy-agency-ranks-far-right-afd-extremist-2025-05-02/">branded</a> the pro-Trump nationalist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an &ldquo;extremist&rdquo; group, subject to special spying and exclusion from government agencies despite its strong election showing in recent elections. What all of these stories and others like them have in common is that globalist left-wing elites are trashing democracy every chance they get. When a nationalist or pro-Trump party advances anywhere in the world, they use prosecutions, corrupt judges, the media, or on-call activists to shut down democratic processes. The next time you hear some globalist shout about &ldquo;threats to democracy,&rdquo; ask them about Ukraine, Le Pen, Kavelashvili, Georgescu, Simion and the AfD. Turns out that the ones yelling about democracy are the real threat to it.
<h2 class="subhead">III. Here's How to Use Lies and Propaganda When the Truth Is Not On Your Side</h2>
Why are so many lies so popular? Most Americans believe climate change caused by human CO2 emissions is a threat to the planet. But there&rsquo;s no evidence that CO2 affects climate in a material way and the evidence for natural climate change (which does occur over time) is scant. In any case, the causes of climate change are events like solar cycles, volcanoes and ocean currents that humans can&rsquo;t do anything about. Millions of Americans believe that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and that Trump is a Putin puppet. But after multiple investigations, there&rsquo;s no evidence of that either. Americans were told that the COVID virus came from a &ldquo;wet market&rdquo;, but the evidence is clear that it was bioengineered in a military lab in Wuhan, China. Americans today are being told that tariffs will cause higher prices and inflation. But, in fact, prices are dropping. Oil went from $75.00 per barrel to $59.00 per barrel in just a few months. There are many other examples. Where do these false narratives come from? This <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/03/opinion/michael-goodwin-the-left-wing-media-creates-false-allegations-with-trump-back-in-the-oval-office/">article</a> describes the process. Step 1 is to create a narrative. Truth doesn&rsquo;t matter &ndash; just pick a narrative that suits your political purpose. Step 2 is to push the narrative through legacy media channels such as ABC, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post, the New York Times and others. Step 3 is repetition, repetition, repetition. It works. Step 4 is to create a &ldquo;permission structure.&rdquo; That means picking a spokesperson who&rsquo;s just like the everyday American to speak up in favor of that narrative. That makes it &ldquo;OK&rdquo; for others to do likewise. Step 5 is to disparage anyone who challenges the narrative. Call them &ldquo;conspiracy theorists,&rdquo; &ldquo;climate deniers,&rdquo; &ldquo;fascists&rdquo; or whatever it takes to denigrate their point of view. At that point, you&rsquo;re close to a successful narrative that is widely shared and believed even if it is completely false. Is there a way to fight back? Yes. It requires strong individuals who are not afraid of the name calling. It takes alternative media channels that don&rsquo;t support the narrative and give counterarguments a place to be heard. Defamation lawsuits are a good way to make the legacy media pay millions in damages when they throw false accusations around. The best remedy is reality. Eventually, the lies are revealed when reality refuses to go along with the narrative. But that takes time, and the reckoning often comes long after the social and economic damage is done. The greatest way to fight back is just to understand the narrative process. Be analytical. Be skeptical. And don&rsquo;t be afraid to call out the narrative lies whenever you see them.
<h2 class="subhead">IV. Another Step Toward the Destruction of The Dollar as A Global Reserve</h2>
Few topics in international finance are more confusing that the dollar&rsquo;s role as the leading &ldquo;reserve currency.&rdquo; The confusion begins with the fact that country reserve positions are not actually held in currencies. They&rsquo;re held in the form of securities denominated in a currency. So, it is correct to say that U.S. Treasury securities denominated in dollars are the leading reserve asset. But that&rsquo;s not the same as saying that reserves are held in dollars. They&rsquo;re not. That&rsquo;s an important distinction because it points to the fact that it&rsquo;s not enough to have a currency to be a reserve asset. You need to have a bond market. And not just any bonds. The reserve asset bond market needs to be quite large (some reserve positions are $3 trillion or more for a single country). The bond market needs to have various maturities from 30 days to 30 years (the U.S. Treasury is considering issuing new 100-year maturities called &ldquo;century bonds&rdquo;). It also needs liquidity provided by a dealer network (the &ldquo;primary dealers&rdquo; in the U.S.), futures and options markets for hedging, and above all, a good rule of law. The U.S. Treasury securities market provides all of the above. The only close competitors are Japan and Italy (which issues in euros), but that&rsquo;s about it. The only other widely held reserve asset is gold. This is why the position of the U.S. dollar goes unchallenged despite threats about a BRICS currency, Bitcoin, and other assets. Those may have store of value potential, but they do not have bond markets and cannot perform a large role. Is there anything that could erode confidence in U.S. Treasury securities as the leading reserve asset? One factor could destroy confidence quickly, and that is a breakdown in the rule of law. What good is a large, liquid bond market if your bonds can be stolen with a few keystrokes? That&rsquo;s exactly what&rsquo;s happening to Russian reserves held in the form of Treasuries. The U.S. and Europe are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/europe-hand-billions-frozen-russian-cash-western-investors-sources-say-2025-05-02/">stealing</a> those assets from Russia, either to fund the war in Ukraine or to offset losses by western companies in Russia occasioned by the war. There&rsquo;s not much Russia can do to stop the theft. There&rsquo;s a lot the world can do to avoid U.S. Treasury securities when they&rsquo;re no longer safe from U.S. confiscation.
<h2 class="subhead">V. Too Many Dangerous Criminals? Send Them All To Alcatraz.</h2>
As a kid, I watched The Untouchables. It was my favorite TV show. This was the original black-and-white televised version with Robert Stack, not the later feature film with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner. The best episode was called The Big Train, shown in two parts. The plot was simple. Al Capone was in a federal prison in Georgia. He was being transported to another prison by train. With help from a corrupt guard, Capone unlocked his leg irons at a critical junction. His cronies were there to meet the train and planned to take Capone to a hidden destination. Of course, Eliott Ness and the Untouchables got word and busted up the plan. The climatic scene was a street battle in which Ness and the Untouchables marched eight abreast with Thompson machine guns loaded with those round high-capacity magazines (and matching fedoras) to gun down Capone&rsquo;s crew. The backstory was that Capone was leaving Georgia, but he was heading to the most notorious prison in U.S. history &ndash; Alcatraz. I was always fascinated by Alcatraz. It&rsquo;s on an island in San Francisco Bay, not far from Angel Island and Tiburon. I&rsquo;ve sailed around it. It certainly earns its nickname &ldquo;The Rock.&rdquo; The legend was that no one ever escaped, although two prisoners in 1937 and three in 1962 went missing. Their bodies were never found, so it&rsquo;s impossible to verify if they actually escaped alive. Alcatraz was closed as a prison in 1963 and is now a tourist destination. Guess what? Trump just announced a plan to refurbish and reopen <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-directs-bureau-prisons-reopen-alcatraz-2025-05-04/">Alcatraz</a> either as a prison for hard core U.S. prisoners or as a detention center for the worst of the worst illegal aliens awaiting deportation. I&rsquo;m all for it. This idea is more than just a trip down memory lane. It&rsquo;s a powerful warning to criminals everywhere that if they keep committing horrific crimes, they could very well end up where Capone did &ndash; The Rock.

Another Step Toward Dollar Destruction…The “Champions of Democracy” Are Destroying Democracy… And More!

This week&rsquo;s mailbag included questions on China as a superpower, threats to the global financial system, and the best way to invest in gold.
Here are a few questions:
Q: Is China still on par with the U.S. both economically and militarily? &ndash; Barbara M.
A: Chinese GDP is often touted as a measure of success, but it is way overstated. Investment is roughly 45% of Chinese GDP compared to about 25% in most developed economies. Over half of Chinese investment is wasted. I&rsquo;ve been to China many times and have seen the empty ghost cities and the monumental train stations that are mostly empty. If that wasted investment were written-off, Chinese GDP would drop from 5.0% to 3.6%. With honest accounting for bad debt in the government-controlled banks, Chinese GDP would drop to 2.0% or lower. China&rsquo;s government debt-to-GDP ratio of 250% makes it impossible for China to grow faster than its growing debt burden. This dynamic makes future growth even more difficult. As for military superiority, China is not even close to U.S. capability despite the last administration&rsquo;s cuts in spending on new weapons and combat readiness. China touts its lone aircraft carrier without mentioning that it was actually built by Russia. China is trying to build an aircraft carrier fleet, but that&rsquo;s an immensely complex task that can take twenty years to fully implement. China threatens U.S. aircraft carriers with an attack from a Chinese hypersonic missile. That&rsquo;s possible, but the U.S. response would be to sink the entire Chinese fleet &ndash; something similar to what Japan did to Russia in 1905, and the U.S. did to Iran in 1988. An invasion of Taiwan is not in the cards despite continual threats. So, the China threat is not what the mainstream narrative makes it out to be. It&rsquo;s still a significant part of the global economy and a country to reckon with, but economic and societal threats will not keep China on par with the United States.
Q: What is the biggest threat to the global financial system today? &ndash; Martin S.
A: What the Fed and the Treasury have done (mostly under Biden) is to create a global dollar shortage, which is now morphing into a global liquidity crisis. China is not dumping Treasuries because they&rsquo;re distancing themselves from the dollar. Quite the opposite. China is selling Treasuries because they&rsquo;re desperate for dollars and can&rsquo;t get them from Japanese banks who have their own problems. The liquidity crisis then goes back to European banks who can&rsquo;t fund in Eurodollars and U.S. hedge funds who can&rsquo;t find collateral to support their derivatives basis trades. India is not immune either. The best description of a financial crisis I&rsquo;ve ever heard is that &ldquo;Everybody wants his money back.&rdquo; We&rsquo;re dangerously close to that situation right now. If it gets worse, trade, tariffs and stock markets will be a sideshow. Watch Treasury yields and foreign exchange markets if you really want to know what&rsquo;s going on.
Q: In your view, what are the best ways to invest in gold? &ndash; Larry P.
A: My long-time readers know I recommend allocating 10% of investable assets into physical gold. There are other options available as well, including buying paper gold like exchange-traded funds as well as shares of mining companies. There is also a way to collect gold profits without ever investing in the metal itself or investing in any companies that deal with the exploration or production of gold. Gold royalty and streaming companies have one of the best business models in the entire precious metals sector. Here is how the &ldquo;royalty&rdquo; business operates. In exchange for an upfront payment, a royalty owner will receive a predetermined percentage of the gross revenue from a mine&rsquo;s future gold production over that mine&rsquo;s entire future life. When costs for mining fluctuate, or if they aren&rsquo;t producing enough to meet expectations, it really doesn&rsquo;t matter. Royalty companies still get a cut off the top. These backdoor plays are a way to trade gold with fantastic upside leverage, combined with much less downside risk. And because we see gold ready to shoot higher, these companies don&rsquo;t even need that cushion &mdash; allowing them to bring in even higher profits that will spark a huge pop in gold royalty shares. We have made gains on some gold royalty stocks in the Strategic Intelligence portfolio and will be recommending more in future issues so keep an eye out for them.

The China Con

I&rsquo;m Byron King, senior geologist for Jim Rickards.
I&rsquo;ve been working with Jim on various publications for many years and have crisscrossed the globe in search of the world&rsquo;s best mining investment opportunities. You could say I have gained Jim&rsquo;s trust by being out in the field and reporting back on the latest intel in the precious metals and energy markets.
That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m reporting on something Donald Trump did recently that most investors missed.
Trump signed an executive order that fast-tracks the federal permitting process to mine our mineral-rich Federal lands. And that&rsquo;s a big deal. Why?
Because for many decades, America has been sitting on a $150 trillion fortune. But it&rsquo;s been locked up by bureaucrats and anti-development regulation.
Now, though, and for the first time in several generations, the government is going to monetize America&rsquo;s real, physical wealth. Not just with things like our nation&rsquo;s gold reserves. But with all the priceless metals and resources hidden under the surface on our Federal lands.
Investors like you who tap into these minerals right now could become wealthier than you ever imagined. In fact, this secret store of wealth is so valuable, it could turn every legal U.S. citizen into a millionaire. This is your American birthright in action!
Thanks in large part to President Trump.
How did we get to this point? Let&rsquo;s look at a map&hellip;
<h2 class="subhead nbp">Along Came Trump</h2>
Now, I don&rsquo;t work for President Trump, and he doesn&rsquo;t call me on the phone to discuss policy. But I can think of two key drivers behind his efforts to unleash your American birthright.
First, look at the 2024 presidential electoral map, especially by county. Trump won the American heartland big-time.

<img class="aligncenter" src="https://images.ctfassets.net/vha3zb1lo47k/68VMcANdOztTIK7Z1Kw8xa/04b36e657e0ff8e0f6ed75bd18583aeb/awn-update-04-02-25-img-1.jpg" width="300px" />

2024 presidential electoral map by county. Courtesy Washington Post.
Trump wrapped up his win for president based on solid wins across the industrial Midwest, from Western Pennsylvania through Ohio and Michigan, over to Wisconsin. And while Trump lost overall in states like Illinois and Minnesota based on the urban vote, look at the rest of those jurisdictions. In suburban and rural areas where many current (and former) mines, mills, and factories are located, voters casted ballots for Trump.
Right away, you can see where the working-class vote came out for Trump. People voted for jobs, jobs, and jobs, and that point was central to Trump&rsquo;s message. So anymore, when he talks about opening up America for renewal &ndash; the MAGA message, if not an American birthright &ndash; he reflects the desires of his voter base.
Another angle on Trump&rsquo;s policies goes back to 2020, early in the pandemic. People realized that the U.S. no longer manufactures most of its medical products and supplies. Then (and even now), America imported massive quantities of items from overseas, especially China.
In other words, it dawned on many that the country&rsquo;s medical supply chain relied on third-party foreign players. From antibiotics to pacemakers, blood thinners to bandages and much more, most U.S. medical products originated from abroad (eg, China and India), and still do in many instances. Or there&rsquo;s the issue that the items may be manufactured domestically but with precursor chemicals from abroad. Right away, this became a national security issue.
Meanwhile, we&rsquo;re now in the fourth year of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and one glaring takeaway is that the U.S. lacks a sufficient industrial base to supply and resupply its military. Examples are legion and range from the inability to mass-produce ammunition like artillery shells and missiles, to the glacial pace of output for aircraft, ships, submarines and more, including the latest battlefield development, drones.
Arguably, the U.S. is a superpower only in a legacy sense, meaning that war reserve warehouses are filled with equipment and ammunition produced long ago, in factories that are no longer there; or if they&rsquo;re still there, they have limited capacity.
Looking ahead, what if the U.S. had to fight a real war? Well, America is no longer that so-called &ldquo;Arsenal of Democracy&rdquo; you read about in history books. We have a strategic-level problem on our hands that the Deep State perma-bureaucrats in Washington do not want to publicize and overly highlight. Hey, they don&rsquo;t care, and their paycheck always comes on time, right?
But the national security issue is real and absolutely concrete. Military power is the first derivative of industrial power, and Trump wants rapidly to rebuild U.S. industry to reenable military strength. Of course, people write long books about these topics, and this is only a newsletter article.
What do all these industrial goals have in common? The country needs minerals and metals in manufacturing, whether it&rsquo;s for medical or military use. This is a framework through which to understand what we see with Trump and his policies.
The Man from Queens wants to open up America, to permit people to invest and reinvest in basic resources and wealth creation. He wants this land to be more for you and me to share the wealth, not just the special interests.
<h2 class="subhead nbp">What Does It Mean to You?</h2>
What should you do as an investor? The short answer is to invest in American companies that will benefit from Trump opening up federal lands, reducing regulations on development, and moving to reshore industry. That is, own hard assets like energy and resources, plus of course, precious metals.
Shares in steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs (CLF), an American steelmaking play, offer upside if Trump&rsquo;s metal tariffs remain in place for the longer term. Or look at a copper player like Freeport McMoRan (FCX), which has domestic and overseas production of red metal, along with a precious metals stream, extracting gold and silver from copper mining.
On the energy side, ExxonMobil (XOM) remains a solid play based on its domestic energy production, along with impressive future growth from its overseas operations, especially its giant discoveries offshore Guyana in South America.
With precious metals in the strict sense, keep Barrick Gold (GOLD) and Newmont Mining (NEM) on the table as strong plays that will only improve in a rising gold market. And Kinross Gold (KGC) also offers excellent upside opportunity as gold prices rise.
Please note, though, that some of these names are not official recommendations in our portfolio, although I keep an eye on all of them. I will keep you updated as needed.
In fact, a few of these names are included in your special report, <a href="https://my.paradigmpressgroup.com/media/the-american-birthright">The American Birthright: How to Claim Your Share of America&rsquo;s $150 Trillion Mineral Endowment</a>.
If you haven&rsquo;t reviewed this report yet, I urge you to take a look at five American Birthright plays that could make you a fortune.
And stay tuned for more on American Birthright analysis and opportunities from Jim on his next briefing call live next Tuesday, April 8 at 10 am ET. You&rsquo;ll get more information about this call in the coming days. 
With that, I&rsquo;ll sign off for now&hellip;
Thank you for subscribing and reading.

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Crisis Trader with Jim Rickards uses proprietary algorithms to peer into corporate balance sheets &mdash; uncovering the ugly secrets of popular companies.
You don&rsquo;t want these names in your portfolio. But you can set yourself up for massive profits when the truth inevitably comes to light.
Jim Rickards and Dan Amoss can show you how. They correctly predicted every move the Federal Reserve made to fight inflation. And now they believe we&rsquo;re on the verge of a historic economic downturn.
Most investors are completely unprepared for the wave of bank failures and corporate bankruptcies that will rock Wall Street.
Luckily, you don&rsquo;t have to be caught unaware.&nbsp;
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Jim Rickards&rsquo; Strategic Intelligence is designed to help you prepare and profit from the coming collapse of the dollar.
It&rsquo;s masterminded by Jim Rickards, New York Times bestselling author of the The Road to Ruin, Currency Wars, The Death of Money, The New Case for Gold and more.
He&rsquo;s spent over 40 years in investment banking, international economics, political and national intelligence advisory roles. As adviser on international economics and financial threats to the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community, he served as a facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.
To safely guide your investments, Jim has developed a revolutionary way of looking at the financial system and stock markets. He calls it &ldquo;complexity theory,&rdquo; which has been used by government intelligence agencies but never applied to the financial world.
Jim will use this theory to help you build safe investment positions in stocks, bonds, cash, art, land, precious metals and other hard assets.&nbsp;
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Insider trading is illegal. But that doesn&rsquo;t stop connected insiders from using their first-hand knowledge to take advantage of the market.
It can feel like you&rsquo;re always just behind the curve, only acting on news after it breaks.
But Jim Rickards' Insider Intel offers another way.
It helps you take advantage of stocks that insiders are quietly piling into.
We&rsquo;re not talking about following the paper trail that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires when company executives and institutions make big trades.
Instead, Jim and his team scan the markets for subtle signs of &ldquo;off the books&rdquo; trading &mdash; using the proprietary I-3 Indicator.
Once it&rsquo;s zeroed in on suspicious activity, Jim&rsquo;s team examines the macroeconomic and fundamental clues that could explain the signals.
If everything checks out, they&rsquo;ll tell you the best way for you to cash in on the expected move.

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It&rsquo;s the most dangerous time for investors since the 1930s&hellip; and new threats to your wealth appear every week.
That&rsquo;s why we created Rickards Uncensored &mdash; a weekly Zoom broadcast that takes you deeper into Jim Rickards&rsquo; research and analysis than is possible in any other format.
Each Friday, Jim, his team and special invited guests will share their absolute latest thoughts on what&rsquo;s happening in the world &mdash; helping you navigate today&rsquo;s troubled markets.
You&rsquo;ll hear from seasoned traders&hellip; retirement specialists&hellip; commodities experts&hellip; government officials&hellip; financial heavyweights&hellip; even Jim himself.
Members of this elite team predicted the 2008 housing bubble&hellip; the gold price spikes in 2010 and 2019&hellip;&nbsp; American Airlines&rsquo; bankruptcy in 2011&hellip; Donald Trump&rsquo;s election victory in 2016&hellip; the pandemic-fueled market crash in 2020&hellip; the bond collapse in 2021&hellip; and more.
So you can count on them to tell you the unvarnished truth &mdash; regardless of how controversial it may be&hellip;
They&rsquo;ll also answer viewers&rsquo; questions, ensuring you get the answers you need.
You won&rsquo;t find a better source of information on what&rsquo;s next for the global economy&hellip; and what you should do right now. Get it all in a LIVE broadcast every Friday morning.&nbsp;

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Soaring resource costs&hellip; crashing stock prices&hellip; chaos on Wall Street&hellip;
Today&rsquo;s markets may seem more unpredictable than ever.
But drawing on his experience with the Central Intelligence Agency, Jim Rickards has developed a system for pinpointing the best times to enter and exit a trade.
It reveals the exact cross-section where you have enough good information to be smart AND still have time to effectively act.&nbsp;
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He calls it the &ldquo;Kissinger Cross&rdquo; strategy&hellip; and it&rsquo;s only available in The Situation Report with Jim Rickards.
Jim and his team use it to detect big moves in gold, energy, currencies and commodities before they happen. Then it&rsquo;s just a matter of pairing that knowledge with the right trades &mdash; for chances to quickly multiply your money.
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With this membership, you&rsquo;ll have uninterrupted, lifetime access to Rickards&rsquo; Strategic Intelligence, Rickards&rsquo; Currency Wars Alert, Rickards&rsquo; Crypto Profits, Rickards&rsquo; Project Prophesy and Rickards&rsquo; Gold Speculator with Byron King.
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Digital money is the future of finance&hellip; and we&rsquo;re only just figuring out how it will revolutionize buying, selling, borrowing, exchanging and more. You&rsquo;ll want to get in now&hellip; because the market may never be this low again.
Be careful, though. The next stage of innovation won&rsquo;t happen with the everyday cryptocurrencies you see all over mainstream media.&nbsp;
Instead, the ground-breaking stuff is happening with the coins you haven&rsquo;t heard of yet. Each of these early-stage cryptos makes up less than 5% of the overall market.
But James has identified a powerful catalyst that will send these little-known cryptos to spellbinding new heights.&nbsp;
James Altucher&rsquo;s Early-Stage Crypto Investor is at the forefront of this emerging quadrillion-dollar market. It&rsquo;s your chance to get ahead of the inevitable rebound&hellip; locking in huge profits as it does.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is sweeping the world, disrupting everything from medicine to the legal industry&hellip; And of course, financial institutions are adopting it, too.
Hedge funds are using it to beat the markets&hellip; manage risk&hellip; and find new opportunities. Now you can, too.
Altucher&rsquo;s True Alpha uses a powerful AI algorithm to identify &ldquo;insider moves&rdquo; in the stock market &mdash; giving YOU a chance to cash in before anyone else.
This is your chance to turn the tables and start using AI to grow your own wealth, thanks to James&rsquo; patented Blue Spike indicator. It helps to identify &ldquo;behind-the-scenes&rdquo; market moves everyday investors simply don&rsquo;t know about.
In other words, the Blue Spike indicator knows when Wall Street&rsquo;s deepest pockets are positioning themselves for something big&hellip; and can signal you before the news goes mainstream.
Together, James and the ALPHA-3 system level the playing field. It&rsquo;s your opportunity to profit from the kind of market moves previously reserved for Wall Street fat cats.
The next big announcement could come at any time. So don&rsquo;t miss your shot at getting in ahead of tomorrow&rsquo;s headlines.

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With the simple mantra of &ldquo;Choose Yourself,&rdquo; James has built a massive following &mdash; helping people find new and unusual opportunities to generate inward success.
Now he wants you to achieve the next step: True financial freedom and independence.
He&rsquo;s tapping into the skills he developed as a hedge fund manager and venture capitalist to reveal every secret he&rsquo;s ever learned about building wealth.
And he&rsquo;s not alone.&nbsp;
James is connected to the biggest players in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. So he&rsquo;s hand-picked a team of investment experts and trading superstars to create Altucher&rsquo;s Investment Network &mdash; connecting you directly to their wealth of knowledge.
You&rsquo;ll learn tips for navigating Wall Street&hellip; personal finance strategies.. and tricks to boost retirement income. The team will also tell you specific ways to get ahead of hot investment trends like AI, cryptocurrencies, biotech, cybersecurity and driverless cars.
With Altucher&rsquo;s Investment Network, you&rsquo;ll have the tools to start building a personal financial fortress to live a life of abundance and true financial well-being.

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Altucher&rsquo;s Investment Network helps you tap into moneymaking trends, wherever they may be.&nbsp;
This &ldquo;elite&rdquo; level service takes his research to a new level.&nbsp;
It&rsquo;s specifically designed to cut through the noise and help you make a fortune from opportunities you won&rsquo;t find anywhere else.
You&rsquo;ll learn about companies pioneering incredible revolutions &mdash; ranging from self-driving cars to 5G&hellip; and cryptocurrencies to satellite technology.&nbsp;
It&rsquo;s your peek into up-and-coming digital coins and &ldquo;DeFi&rdquo; companies&hellip; cutting edge business ideas&hellip; even private investment deals in cutting-edge start-ups.
While Altucher&rsquo;s Investment Network can put anyone on the path to true financial freedom, Altucher&rsquo;s Investment Network Pro is your chance to get there using the fast lane.

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Microcap Millionaire is your gateway to explosive gains from some of Wall Street&rsquo;s smallest stocks.
James Altucher has successfully explored this area of the market for over 20 years. And he&rsquo;s developed a proprietary approach for identifying the very best microcap opportunities &mdash; companies he calls "Superstocks.".
It&rsquo;s not just about buying the cheapest stocks he can find. Instead, he focuses on small, overlooked companies in cutting-edge sectors like artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and more.
Then he and his team dig into the numbers &mdash; verifying that the company is trading at a huge discount to its long-term value.
The Superstocks he finds have the potential to deliver 1,000%+ gains in a single year &mdash; something you won't find anywhere else in the market.
And James&rsquo; system is finding more lucrative targets than ever before.
So don't miss out on what could be the biggest microcap opportunity in decades &mdash; set to deliver life-changing profits to anyone who gets in early!

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Microcap Millionaire: Your source for small, overlooked companies in cutting-edge sectors that could deliver once-in-a-lifetime profits.

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The Altucher Alliance is the most exclusive and valuable membership James has to offer. That&rsquo;s because the Alliance provides you with every Altucher service, including all future services, for life.
We want to introduce you to the people and opportunities that can make you a fortune. Opportunities that we hear whispered from James&rsquo; network of billionaire insiders and idea men and women. Previously invisible opportunities that James has kept to himself before now.
This membership is the all-encompassing &ldquo;Choose Yourself&rdquo; package. You&rsquo;ll have access to every pick, idea, sell alert, recommendation and update across all of our portfolios. That way, you&rsquo;ll never miss out on an opportunity to expand your wealth and secure your financial future.
The Altucher Alliance membership includes subscriptions to:
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<li>Altucher's Investment Network Pro</li>
<li>Altucher&rsquo;s True Alpha</li>
<li>Altucher&rsquo;s Early-Stage Crypto Investor</li>
<li>All future services we may offer.</li>
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We want to introduce you to the people and opportunities that can make you a fortune. Opportunities that we hear whispered from James&rsquo; network of billionaire insiders and idea men and women. Previously invisible opportunities that James has kept to himself before now. This membership is the all-encompassing &ldquo;Choose Yourself&rdquo; package. You&rsquo;ll have access to every pick, idea, sell alert, recommendation and update across all of our portfolios. That way, you&rsquo;ll never miss out on an opportunity to expand your wealth and secure your financial future.

The most exclusive and valuable membership James has to offer. That’s because the Alliance provides you with every Altucher service, including all future services, for life.

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The Map is your chance to navigate the ups and downs of the market&hellip;
Mason Sexton, developed a system using both mathematical laws and the laws of nature to make uncanny, specific predictions for the market.
Using his forecasting strategies, Mason predicted the top of the market in 1987 to the day.
Then, weeks before it happened, Mason predicted the epic crash of Black Monday and showed his clients how to profit from the fall.
And his work continues to this day&hellip; the name of this publication &mdash; The Map &mdash; says it all. Think of this service as your guide through what we expect to be a very difficult period for most investors.
In the weeks and months ahead, you can expect to learn about such topics as: Elliott Wave Theory, price/time equilibrium, the seminal works of W.D. Gann, and yes, even how the movements of heavenly bodies can impact the direction of markets, society, and everything in between.
These are not topics that we expect most readers will have heard of. And they&rsquo;re certainly not something you&rsquo;ll hear from your average financial advisor. But if you follow the average research, you will see average results.

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The Maverick makes accelerating your retirement as easy as 1-2-3, using little-known chart patterns tracked by former hedge fund manager Enrique Abeyta.
His research has revealed the stock market&rsquo;s #1 driver of gains in history. And you can harness its power with ordinary stock shares &mdash; for a chance to collect years&rsquo; worth of profits in as little as a few days.&nbsp;
Enrique has managed billions for Wall Street, developing unconventional methods for predicting big moves that others miss. He&rsquo;s identified high-performing stocks in sectors like AI, tech and energy. Now he&rsquo;s offering elite-level insights to everyday people like you &mdash; helping you spot undervalued stocks before they surge.
The Maverick, delivers timely research on top stocks, weekly fast-money trade ideas, live trading calls and exclusive insights into professional wealth-building strategies.
It&rsquo;s everything you need to reach your financial goals faster than you ever thought possible.

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Breaking Profits helps you get ahead of the headlines &mdash; identifying stocks that offer the biggest profits when news breaks.
From political shifts to technological breakthroughs, you&rsquo;ll know where to put your money before the rest of Wall Street catches on.
At the helm is Enrique Abeyta, a former hedge fund manager who spent 25 years managing billions of dollars on Wall Street.
His data-driven approach uncovers clues that others miss&hellip; letting him accurately predict where prices will go next. These insights have helped investors navigate every kind of market &mdash; bull, bear and sideways.
Now you can put his elite-level research to work for you.
Every month, Breaking Profits delivers deep-dive stock recommendations with Enrique&rsquo;s expert analysis and clear action steps. You&rsquo;ll learn exactly what to buy, how much to pay and when to take profits.
You&rsquo;ll also get exclusive reports on major investment themes, live strategy updates and a model portfolio to track every move.
Remember, a single headline can send the markets in an entirely new direction.
But with Breaking Profits, you&rsquo;ll have chances to cash in on the ride!

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Lifetime Income Report is dedicated to bringing you great stocks offering the biggest payouts.&nbsp;
But it&rsquo;s not just about looking for high yields. You want a company that can sustain its dividends &mdash; and increase them as its business grows.
Zach Scheidt, a former hedge fund manager, knows all the tricks for finding Wall Street&rsquo;s biggest values. In fact, his&nbsp; &ldquo;Three Pillars of Income Investing&rdquo; system is designed to zero in on the best of the best.
Each monthly issue of his Lifetime Income Report walks you through the research, showing you exactly why his latest discovery deserves a spot in your portfolio.
Expect to see a lot of household names as well as lesser-known dividend-payers in hot markets like&nbsp; alternative energy and cloud computing.&nbsp;
He&rsquo;ll also share strategies to reduce your taxes, earn extra paychecks, invest in commodities like gold and silver, even ways to pick up more cash outside of the stock market.
With Zach&rsquo;s help, you can build a diversified set of income streams so you never have to worry about money again.

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Lifetime Income Report Pro takes income investing to the next level by identifying high-growth companies to accelerate your returns.
As you may know, Lifetime Income Report revolves around a time-tested system for finding stocks with the right blend of safety, dividend yields and growth potential.
That&rsquo;s a great start &mdash; and more than many Americans saving for retirement have done.
But without a significant investment, traditional dividend stocks simply won&rsquo;t generate all the money you need to sustain your retirement.
So using this approach as a base, Zach Scheidt added extra benefits for his most dedicated readers &mdash; Lifetime Income Report Pro.
It&rsquo;s home to a new set of cutting-edge analytics and stock filters looking for ways to build your nest egg as quickly and safely as possible.
When the opportunity arises, Zach will share stocks that have historically demonstrated the ability to significantly outperform the market for both growth and income.
You&rsquo;ll also enjoy a monthly &ldquo;State of the Market&rdquo; call, where Zach will fill you in on anything that could affect the money you bring in.
If you&rsquo;re serious about building a bulletproof, cash-generating portfolio, Lifetime Income Report Pro is for you.

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The Income Alliance is your chance to add extra cash to your portfolio alongside a former hedge fund manager.
Zach Scheidt developed his &ldquo;Income Matrix&rdquo; when he was personally managing&nbsp;$20 million in individual client accounts.
Now he&rsquo;s using the Income Matrix for himself&hellip; and inviting you to follow the exact same trades he&rsquo;s making with his own money.
The key is his &ldquo;three lights&rdquo; system &mdash; three proprietary gauges that pinpoint when stocks are poised for big moves.
When all three trigger, it&rsquo;s time to make a play&hellip; setting you up for profits whether prices are going up or down.
Zach will also show you how to extract extra money from stocks practically at will &mdash; adding &ldquo;on demand income&rdquo; to your account.
The Income Matrix&rsquo;s two-pronged approach is the easiest way for you to build consistent wealth in any market environment.
And since Zach&rsquo;s money will be on the line, too, you can trust him to be with you every step of the way.

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The Profit Wire is your ticket to profits from the things that keep the world running.
That&rsquo;s because we&rsquo;re at the start of a &ldquo;commodities supercycle&rdquo; &mdash; where the prices for things like oil, wheat, gold and more will shoot much, much higher.
Wall Street insiders and deep-pocketed institutions are planning to use the commodities supercycle to make themselves even richer.
But Alan Knuckman will show you how to follow their lead &mdash; giving you chances to make similar moves that could deliver double- and triple-digit wins again and again.
Alan has spent 30 years in the investment markets, developing proven techniques to predict where prices are going next.
His accurate forecasts have made him a regular guest on financial news outlets like CNN, BloombergTV, Fox Business Network, Sky News, and CNBC, to name a few.
Now he&rsquo;s unleashing his most powerful tool of all &mdash; the Profit Spy indicator.
It combs through millions of data points&hellip; looking for where Wall Street&rsquo;s biggest players are placing their trades.
Alan combines the Profit Spy&rsquo;s signals with his proven momentum analysis and big-picture insights from veteran newsman Dave Gonigam.
The results are like an X-ray into the inner workings of Wall Street.
So don&rsquo;t let the fat cats claim all the commodity supercycle profits.
Harness Alan&rsquo;s expertise and game-changing Profit Spy indicator to help boost your portfolio, too!

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Ray Blanco&rsquo;s Catalyst Trader identifies tech companies on the verge of major news events &mdash; stories that could deliver huge gains overnight.
It could be an impending product launch&hellip; agency approval for a new drug therapy&hellip; even a breakthrough that could make current technology obsolete.
All you have to do is buy in before the rest of Wall Street catches on.
At the helm is resident tech expert Ray Blanco. He has a long track record of successfully identifying &ldquo;the next big thing.&rdquo; And does whatever it takes to bring you the full story &mdash; visiting sites and talking with the people in charge.
With those skills, Ray can separate companies with something big on the horizon from ones that are just spouting hot air. He&rsquo;s helped his readers to gains of 320% with NewLink Genetics Corp&hellip; 386% with Virgin Galactic&hellip; 259% with American Superconductors&hellip; 660% with Nvidia... to name just a few.
When Ray is satisfied that impending news is creating an oversized profit opportunity, he&rsquo;ll let you know right away. You&rsquo;ll get all his research and specific instructions on exactly what you need to do to act.

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Real Wealth Insider uncovers moneymaking resource and mining opportunities before they break into the mainstream.
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Real estate is the ultimate asset&hellip; and Ronan McMahon will introduce you to some of the hottest properties in the most beautiful places on Earth.
It doesn&rsquo;t matter if you&rsquo;re in the market for a dreamy vacation home&hellip; a future retirement pad&hellip;or straight-up investment &mdash; Ronan will find exclusive deals for you.
He&rsquo;s constantly on the move, checking out locales and negotiating to get his readers in at the lowest price possible.
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In the special video introduction below, I tell you a little bit more about my background and what you can expect from your membership.
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<h2>One of the Biggest Benefits of Your RETA Membership</h2>
I'm writing to you today to explain something very important &mdash; one of the tools and tactics that could make you some really fat profit from overseas real estate.
What I'm talking about is what I call a "deal launch." You'll hear that term used again and again in your&nbsp;Real Estate Trend Alert&nbsp;(RETA)&nbsp;alerts. I wanted to be sure the term's meaning was clear before we went any further.
As a Real Estate Trend Alert&nbsp;member, you&rsquo;ll learn about opportunities all over the world for ordinary people to profit from real estate. This could be the start of some serious gains for you. I'll recommend a lot of different opportunities and strategies that you can use to profit during your membership.
But the most valuable of these tools for profit is the&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;deal launch.
That's not something I say lightly, by the way. There are many benefits to your RETA membership: market analysis no one else gets access to... a team working full-time on your behalf to find new deals and opportunity for you to profit worldwide... from-the-road insights and market recommendations that could make you &mdash; or save you &mdash; tens of thousands of dollars. Free or discounted members-only scouting trips to exotic locales where we have opportunity. Members-only terms and prices that I negotiate exclusively for&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members. And much more besides.
But a "deal launch" is something that you won't find anywhere outside of your&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;alerts. They're exclusive to members like you...&nbsp; and when I write about one, I advise you to pay close attention. If you do, you could make a lot of money... on opportunities no one else will get a chance to act on.
So what is a deal launch? This is a deal I negotiate exclusively on behalf of&nbsp;RETA members... on real estate I expect will rise in value. I only bring you details of deals I would be happy to invest in myself. And for a deal to cut my muster, I have to see clear potential for us to double our money in five to seven years.
We get in before anyone else does... at pricing far below fair market value.
Every deal launch differs... but there are some common threads that lead to substantial gains for you.
<h3>How This Works</h3>
Let me break down how it works.
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<li>Way before I ever send you details of a deal launch, I identify a "big idea" that will lead to profit. There's a whole world of real estate out there. But most of it doesn't stack up when it comes to turning a profit. I'm in the business of identifying the trends, market forces and early-in opportunities that drive real estate markets... and give us strong returns. For months or even years before I send you details of a members-only deal launch, I've been researching... putting boots on the ground... and meeting high-level contacts in the destinations where I feel there could be a hot opportunity.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">By doing that, I identify the places where we can buy low in a market that's set to take off. The "big idea" differs from place to place. By "big idea" I mean the strategy, market quirk, or trend that's underpinning a profit opportunity. Once I've identified the "big idea" that will deliver a profit, I move on to step two.</li>
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<li value="2">I identify the best-in-class developer. Once I identify the right market, and the right strategy to use to profit from the "big idea" I've identified in that market, I identify the best-in-class developer. From there, I uncover the best project they have in the works. Next, I have my lawyer check the paperwork and permits etc.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">And then I go in and negotiate. I'm looking for a deal where Real Estate Trend Alert members get the best possible price... lower than the price anyone else pays... locking in significant gains from the get-go.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">Why do these developers agree to offer us the unbeatable pricing they do? Well, it's a simple win-win for each side. The developer gets quick and discreet sales from our group... allowing him to go to the local market with sales under his belt and the confidence to charge higher retail prices (i.e. the price everyone else pays)... and we get a deal at a price no one else can even dream of.</li>
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<li value="3">I launch the deal to you. Once everything is in place &mdash; only when everything is in place &mdash; I send you the details in a RETA alert by email (much like this one). I'll tell you what makes this deal so good, why it makes sense as an investment, and why I expect it will be profitable. I tell you to be ready on a certain day and certain time &mdash; when the deal will be open.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">The type of deal varies. It could be a condo in an up-and-coming neighborhood in a buzzing, growing city... a lot by a stunning tropical beach... or a luxury home in the Caribbean.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">Often on these deal launches, we're getting in "pre-release" &mdash; that means before the project is released to the general public at higher pricing. And, we're often buying "pre-construction" &mdash; that means that we're buying before building has started.</li>
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<li style="list-style-type: none;">By getting in so early, we can lock in the biggest upside.</li>
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<li value="4">You decide whether to act. If the deal is for you, you inquire, and the developer's sales team will walk you through picking the best available home or lot, figuring out the payment plan and financing, and any other questions that you might have. Usually, you'll pay a refundable deposit to secure your deal. And, maybe go on Members-Only Scouting Trip (a free or reduced cost trip to check out the deal &mdash; more on this in the coming days). You do your due diligence and then decide if the deal's right for you. Every deal won't suit your personal investment needs. That's okay. RETA is designed to bring you a range of deals so that you can choose the ones that suit your needs best. But all of them come with big profit potential.</li>
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You'll be getting details of a deal launch in the coming weeks and months. &nbsp;I recommend that if you're interested on any of the deal launches that you see, you act as soon as you get my email alert. These deals usually go very fast. So, you need to be quick to get in.
Remember, you'll always have the opportunity to reserve a deal 100% risk-free with a fully refundable deposit. This gives you time to do your own due diligence and make sure everything is perfect before committing to anything.
<h3>What to Do When You Hear About a&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;Deal Launch</h3>
When you hear that a deal is about to launch, it's important that you get ready... and pay full attention to what I'm telling you. When you get in on a&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members-only launch, you get in ahead of the local or any other market... and lock in significant gains; the kinds of gains other investors can only dream of.
Take one example of where&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members saw significant upside... and quickly... by acting on a deal launch.
On October 21, 2017, I sent&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members details about our first major pre-release deal in beautiful white sand-fringed Tul&uacute;m. This little beach town is the last stop on a Path of Progress that's rolling along Mexico's Caribbean coast &mdash; a coast where members of our little group have already done well.
When this deal launched,&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members had an exclusive chance to lock down luxury two-bedroom condos with members-only pricing starting from $154,500. By January 2018 &mdash; only three months later &mdash; members who acted were already seeing significant gains.
In January, the developer launched the project to the public, at much higher pricing. For example, the condo with a&nbsp;RETA-only price of $154,500 would have come with a list price of $224,724.50 &mdash; if one were available.&nbsp;(They had all sold out to&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members.) That's a paper gain of over $70,000 &mdash; an almost 50% increase in value in three months. And that's before the developer has even broken ground on the project.
But that's just one example of where we got in first before any connected locals. And we've been known to ruffle some feathers by doing that.
Take our&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;deal in the Siempre Playa project, in the beach city of Playa del Carmen, in April 2017. I had negotiated pricing for&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members on best-in-class condos. We were getting exclusive access and pricing. At our pre-release launch, members bought handpicked two-bedroom condos from the low $200,000s.
When word got out, there was shock and envy. Connected real estate guys in Playa were uneasy. Flat out incredulous. Cell phones were buzzing... private groups ruffled. These guys spend their time pitching comparable condos at $100,000 more than our&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;price. They all wanted to know what the hell was going on over in&nbsp;Real Estate Trend Alert. They were reaching out to folks who had access to me.
And there was one question that was being asked again and again:
"Is this for real?"
It was absolutely for real... but only for&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;members. We got in ahead of the crowd. Locked in some significant upside. And we're targeting even more gains.
As Siempre Playa is built out, I expect pricing on these condos to rise to $310,000... and for us to be aiming for rental income of as much as $57,477. (That's how much other ordinary "little guy" investors are making in Playa right now from similar two-bed condos close by.)
RETA&nbsp;members have also profited from deal launches in Mexico's Los Cabos, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Nicaragua, Brazil, and more places besides.
So, now you know why I say you always need to be ready when I tell you a new deal is about to launch. Because when you act, you get in at pricing no one else can... locking in a cushion of capital gains... and bumping up your rental returns.
<h3>Coming Up for&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;Members... </h3>
Throughout your&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;membership, you'll have the chance to act on more incredible deals, like the ones in Tulum or Playa that I just told you about&hellip; or the Panama deal I&rsquo;m working on right now.
How long these will take to happen changes from deal to deal. Sometimes these deals come very fast... sometimes a missing piece of paper or bureaucratic delay can hold things up...&nbsp; and if anything isn't up to par, I could pull the plug too &mdash; I'm extremely reluctant to recommend anything that doesn't look like a sure-fire winner, and walk away from 99% of the opportunities I come across.
That's why you always need to keep watching and reading your&nbsp;RETA&nbsp;alerts as I send them to you. You never know when the right deal for you is about to hit your inbox.

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