Derek Merkel

People are starting to realize how large of a crisis this oil, fertilizer & helium shock is to the global economy It's basically 2020 lockdowns, 2008 credit bubble, 2001 tech bubble, 1970s oil shock all wrapped into one. The only comparable period is the great depression of 1929

Gold & Silver friends, I have good news

Justice for the Gays of Hormuz

Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Fascinating

🚨🌍🇬🇧 British Wholesaler explains the insane exponential prices rises being experienced in just the last week "This time last week I paid £9.90 for a Box of Spanish Broccoli- this week £24per Box" "Morocco Tomato's - £7.00 per box, this morning £20.00 per Box" "Lettuce has gone from £7.00 to £13.00" "These shortages are caused by Bad Weather..." Incoming Engineered Food Shortages....

Kevin O’Leary explains you should aim to have $5,000,000 in treasury bills… “You should strive very hard if you're an entrepreneur to have $5,000,000 in T-bills”

Insiders buying $900 silver calls for December 2026. Silver's at $70 right now. That's a 12x move in 9 months. They're not gambling that big on a guess.

Little reminder: After Germany blew up their nuclear power plant cooling towers, last year they blew up one of their biggest coal power plants. Right in time for the biggest energy crisis in history to hit… The coal plant was: - Only 6 years old - Cost €3 billion - Produced 1,650 MW Germany is doing everything in its power to create a perpetual energy crisis.

The gold standard worked because it made every government deficit a direct assault on the nation's money supply—and markets punished politicians immediately for their fiscal recklessness. Under gold, when Congress spent beyond tax revenues, the Treasury had to borrow real money from real savers. No magical money printing. No Federal Reserve buying government bonds with newly created dollars. Politicians faced the same constraint as every household: you can only spend what someone else saved first. And foreign creditors could demand gold redemption at any time, creating an automatic brake on inflationary spending. The mechanics were beautifully simple. Britain's pound sterling maintained its gold parity for over 200 years because the Bank of England raised interest rates whenever gold flowed out of the country. Higher rates attracted foreign capital and made domestic credit scarce—forcing the government and private borrowers to compete for the same limited pool of savings. Deficit spending meant crowding out private investment, and voters saw the immediate consequences in higher borrowing costs. You can see this discipline in action during the Panic of 1893. Cleveland's administration faced massive gold outflows as investors lost confidence in America's fiscal position. Instead of printing money, Cleveland arranged private gold purchases from J.P. Morgan and European bankers—paying market rates for the privilege. The federal budget had to balance because the alternative was national bankruptcy and gold standard abandonment. Modern economists call this "barbarous" because it prevented their beloved countercyclical spending. Damn right it did. Politicians couldn't promise infinite benefits funded by invisible taxes on savers. Every war, every welfare program, every government expansion required convincing actual people to lend their actual savings.