Snyder: What Have They Done To Our Food?

Most of the pre-packaged garbage that we are being sold in our local grocery stores is “Frankenstein food”, but even though this is widely known most of the general population just keeps gobbling it down anyway. This is something that I have been wanting to write about for quite some time.

The major food companies fully understand that they are destroying our health, and they are going to keep on doing it because nobody is going to stop them. We are talking about a crime against humanity of epic proportions, and they are totally getting away with it. It isn’t just a coincidence that cancer, heart disease and diabetes are exploding in our society today. What we are eating is making us sick, and those responsible are raking in billions of dollars. Continue reading

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Why UBS Says You Shouldn’t Ditch Gold Even After It’s Tumble Into a Bear Market During the Iran War

UBS has a message for investors worried about gold’s tumble into a bear market: don’t ditch the precious metal now.

The investment bank’s global wealth management office doubled down on its bullish stance on gold in a note published on Monday. Analyst Wayne Gordon and his team said that despite the recent declines, they think investors should stick with gold as a defensive hedge.

That might sound strange, given that the metal has seen its price drop sharply during the Iran war, an event that would typically see investors flocking to the metal for its safe haven status. Continue reading

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Hickman: Jerome Powell tells Congress ~ “Good luck with that debt problem…“”

George Washington handed Alexander Hamilton an impossible task in September 1789.

America owed about $75 million in debt from the Revolutionary War. Individual states had already defaulted. Foreign creditors considered the new country a total joke. And domestic bondholders at home were selling their worthless government IOUs for pennies on the dollar.

So, Hamilton came up with a solution. It was highly controversial, but he managed to convince Congress to approve it.

In short, Hamilton issued brand new bonds to investors that effectively rolled up all existing state and federal debts. These new bonds were backed by dedicated tax revenue– including, most controversially, a tax on whiskey. Today that would be the equivalent of taxing Instagram use. Continue reading

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Owning a Piece of History: Why Artifacts Matter

Do historical objects matter? Are ancient artifacts anything more than old scraps of paper, moth-eaten fragments of fabric, or rusty hunks of metal?

In frenetic modern life, with its emphasis on the now and the brand new, most people are more concerned with owning the latest iPhone than owning some relic of the past. But that’s a mistake.

Let me illustrate. Recently, I purchased four ancient Roman coins, dating from the late A.D. 200s to the late 300s. On one side, they bear the firm visages of Roman emperors gazing into the distance. On the other, they depict human figures and the standards of the legions, symbols of the Roman military might that made them masters of the world. Continue reading

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U.S. Treasury Declares Insolvency with $47.8 Trillion Liabilities

The U.S. government has been declared insolvent by the Treasury Department, according to its consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025. The report shows total assets of $6.06 trillion against liabilities of $47.78 trillion as of September 30, 2025, a stark financial picture that has largely gone unnoticed in the media.

Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare — those are disclosed separately in the off-balance-sheet Statement of Social Insurance (SOSI).

The government’s consolidated balance sheet position, excluding the SOSI, deteriorated by nearly $2.07 trillion between FY 2024 and FY 2025, reaching a staggering negative $41.72 trillion. Total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of reported assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in federal debt and interest payable (now $30.33 trillion) and a $438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veteran benefits payable (now $15.47 trillion). Continue reading

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Gold’s Biggest Fire-Sale In 43 Years: Perception vs Opportunity

If you are new to gold, or if you are a speculator in gold (or even worse, a levered speculator in gold), you are likely asking yourselves what in the “H. E. double tooth-picks” just happened to gold?

It lost over 9% in the futures market in a single session and saw its worst week of price declines since February 1983.

What gives? Gold loves chaos, and isn’t the current war, whatever you think of it – pure chaos?

And what about gold-loving oil shocks, as we and others have often written and spoken?

And what about gold as an anti-inflation asset?

Shouldn’t gold be ripping north in a world careening under the weight of oil-driven “everything” and “everywhere” inflation?

All fair questions to say the least. Continue reading

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The Daily Headlines! March 16, 2026:

The National Debt Isn’t $39 Trillion. One Economist Says It’s Actually $100 Trillion

We all saw it coming and its finally here

The U.S. national debt is nearly $39 trillion. One of the country’s top fiscal economists says the real number is closer to $100 trillion — and that Washington’s own accounting rules are designed to hide it. (As this went to press, the national debt clock stood at $38.92 trillion, per Treasury data.)

According to Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model and one of the country’s most respected fiscal economists, that $39 trillion number is a polite fiction. The real tab, he argues, is closer to $100 trillion.

It has to do with the accounting distinction between explicit obligations — legally binding debts the government must repay — and implicit “pay-as-you-go” obligations — expected future spending commitments that carry moral or political, but not legal, force. “What we call implicit obligations are twice the size of explicit obligations… (Continue to full article)

Thanks To The War In Iran, A Moment Of Reckoning Has Arrived For The Entire Global Economy

A worst-case scenario could be just weeks away. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been essentially paralyzed by the war with Iran, and there is a lot of speculation that the Houthis could soon bring commercial traffic through the Red Sea to a screeching halt. If such a scenario actually materializes, it would be catastrophic for the global economy.

The good news is that so far we are not witnessing widespread panic among investors. Most of them still seem to believe that this crisis is just temporary. So even though the price of oil is up over 40 percent since the start of the war, the overall global financial system is still relatively stable at this stage…

If the price of oil surpasses $150 a barrel and stays there for an extended period of time, it will cause widespread panic.

What investors would really like to see is an end to the war, but an end to the war is not even on the horizon at this stage… (Continue to full article)

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No Longer Outrageous: Gold Now Has a Path to $10,000 by 2029

A few years ago, the idea of gold prices going to $10,000 was seen as ridiculous, but now it is looking like a real possibility as global debt continues to create deepening structural shifts in the geopolitical landscape, according to one market strategist.

In an interview with Kitco News, Chantelle Schieven, Head of Research at Capitalight Research, said that because of the level of uncertainty surging through the global economy, it would not be difficult for gold prices to reach $10,000 an ounce in five to seven years. Continue reading

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Garrison: President Trump Is Gonna Tariff Even Harder

By majority decision, the Supreme Court has ruled the tariffs put in place by President Trump to be unlawful. Three so-called ‘conservatives’ on the court sided with the lefty judges. Chief Justice John Roberts along with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch should have sided with Trump and his efforts to make America great again. Instead, they want America to fail, resulting in America becoming a globalist, socialist cesspool. Continue reading

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Gold price will hit $6,200 by June: Precious, Industrial Metals Set for Further Gains as Volatility Eases

While commodity prices were volatile at the end of January, precious metals, oil, and industrial metals all posted gains for the month, and as volatility subsides, gold and other key commodities will enjoy supportive fundamentals, according to Dominic Schnider, Head of Commodities & APAC Forex CIO at UBS Wealth Management.

“Precious metals prices, while volatile, rose in January as political, geopolitical, and economic uncertainties drove ‘safe-haven’ demand,” Schnider wrote in a commodity update on Monday. Continue reading

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