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My 2023 macro forecast

I made a ton of good calls for 2022, which I will highlight below quickly before getting into my 2023 view. I wanted to do this to get my thoughts down on paper so I'm on record. Unlike some out... Continue Reading →

Fractional Reserves and gold backing – oil or dollars?

BLUF (bottom line up from for the squirrels): I look at how I believe the mistake of "sound money" may be pegging cash to gold. I believe gold is real money and should be pegged/fixed to energy. I believe cash... Continue Reading →

Opinion – Russian sanctions will be removed inside of 3 months (and lessons learned from this)

I have two parts to this - first is my opinion, but at the end I have bullets here of "lessons learned" that I think can provide great value to those tracking geopolitics. Many of you may already understand a... Continue Reading →

Why not pay in gold?

Like the meme I created? This is the West, at this moment, when being told to pay in gold. I wanted a short(er) follow up to my piece yesterday which has over 100,000 hits. I added a Q&A section to... Continue Reading →

Silver shorts – Don Durrett’s goldstockdata, metals Options Expiration, Gold for oil, nickel

Don Durrett's GoldStockData.com I'm not a mining stock expert - but I would consider myself a jedi in training that has devoted 2.5 years of his life and every waking moment to understanding the metals and mining better. To me,... Continue Reading →

The dominoes are falling – is this the beginning of the end of our system as we know it?

Yes, I believe it is the beginning of the end of the system, as we know it. It's not all doom and gloom, stick around until the end. To me, the nickel market was probably the most defining element of... Continue Reading →

How to prepare against cyber attacks

This topic took me a graduate degree in MS to master, so I am going to stick to some high level items here and what may be relevant to most of my readers who are in the FinTwit/gold/silver sectors. About... Continue Reading →

What are the end goals of a Russian invasion of Ukraine? Hint: follow the yellow brick road

Due to the nature of my day job managing a massive IT team (including cybersecurity) at a very large organization you all have heard of, I can't talk about specifics on anything about this subject - so I keep things... Continue Reading →

Theory – bitcoin is to equity indexes as NUGT is to gold, a theory studying a RISK ON store of value?

I'm getting hated on by the bitcoin crowd, and it's understandable. I am a sound money guy, and bitcoin, to me, is another form of fiat. My working theory here is that bitcoin is a RISK ON store of value... Continue Reading →

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