Week after-week, month-after-month, despite gold prices soaring 45 percent this year and nearly 30 percent last year when we had forecast 2024 would be a Golden Year for Gold, hardly a peep from the mainstream business Presstitutes; media whores who bow down, suck up and put out for the Wall Street White Shoe Boys, their corporate pimps and government whore masters.
Debt + fragile credit = meltdown path. Below I have broken down TEN red flags, with each one feeding off the other.
At the end of this year’s second quarter, worldwide debt had climbed to $337.7 trillion as the world’s economy weakened, central banks reduced interest rates, and the U.S. dollar’s value continued to slump, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) reported.
Several stories this past week continued to underscore the energy realism forecasting of our 2025 Top Trend, “GEN AI KILLED THE CLIMATE CHANGE STAR” (2 Jan 2025).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech last week at the UN was filled with “rhetorical tricks” and “gimmicks” to try to influence public opinion even as Israel continues to ramp up its massacre campaign in Gaza, Nir Hasson, a journalist for Haaretz, wrote.
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House last week that he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank—appearing for the first time since his reelection that he may have stood up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Brendan Carr, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, has immersed himself in the middle of the culture wars when he came out strongly against Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination.
U.S. President Donald Trump—who was visibly upset over a broken escalator and teleprompter—addressed the UN General Assembly last week and asked: “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week said he is in favor of the EU essentially stealing $164 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s war and argued in an op-ed for the Financial Times that there needs to be a “new impetus to change Russia’s calculations.”
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s national security council, issued a warning to Kyiv and the U.S. on, Wednesday just as U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his war rhetoric against Moscow and Pete Hegseth, the Fox News clown playing the role of secretary of defense, called for an urgent meeting with generals.