AIQ

LOTS OF “ANALYSTS” TRASH TALKING THE AI PHENOMENON WHICH IS LEADING THIS STOCK MARKET EVER HIGHER.MOST COMMENTARY SAYS THIS IS THE GREATEST BUBBLE IN THE HISTORY OF BUBBLES ( TULIP MANIA ON STEROIDS) YADADADADA

BUT AS RAMBUS ALWAYS SAYS …IGNORE OPINIONS…IT’S ALL…(THE SUM TOTAL OF MILLIONS OF OPINIONS)…. IN THE CHARTS

AIQ IS A LARGE AI ETF …BROKE OUT WITH TODAY …WITH A BREAKOUT GAP TO BOOT

No Time For Complacency

The price action in Gold & Silver since my post yesterday, has been even better than I expected.  Especially from the two leaders, NEM & HL. Hecla reports earnings after today’s close.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        While it wouldn’t be surprising if it has a quick pullback tomorrow after the strength today,  it is just as likely that given their recent release about their drilling activity at their various mines,  an upside explosion is not out of the question.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Newmont also acts fantastic but one looking to get in should see a pullback over the next two days.  Friday, is likely to display upside follow thru, which would be bullish for next week and beyond.  As I posted yesterday, THIS IS IT!

Defeating the Idiocracy

“someone who has studied the best minds, filtered them through good values, and tested everything against reality. That person is the opposite of what the system produces. That person is the civilizational counter-move. Every such child is a small defeat for the Idiocracy and a small victory for everything this series has been arguing. ”

https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2079501863880110286

more – Star Wars, a retake

https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2076646915198931196

BLANCHE FOR AG

RINO Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis have CAVED and agreed to advance Todd Blanche for US Attorney General, after grandstanding on a revenge tour

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2084634086392348980

BESSENT

NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS …BUT IT SURE SOUNDS GOOD !

Bessent Is Not Reacting. He Is Forcing Bretton Woods 2.0, and getting out in front.

Bessent is emerging as the most consequential Treasury Secretary since Alexander Hamilton and much of the policy establishment still does not see it. This is not a random turn in markets. It is the long-delayed reckoning for decades of excess leverage, central bank overreach, and willful policy blindness.

The roadmap was written in Japan. Postwar growth, fueled by mercantilism and Bank of Japan-directed credit, was supercharged through window guidance and artificially suppressed rates. The result was predictable: a historic asset bubble followed by collapse.

What came next, zero rates, quantitative easing, and a permanent liquidity trap, was not bad luck. It was the logical endpoint of sustained market distortion. U.S. policymakers studied it, then repeated it after the Global Financial Crisis.

The United States drifted into its own version of secular stagnation. Now, that era is ending. Supply-side reform, deregulation, and pro-growth tax policy, set in motion under Trump, are colliding with a repricing of capital and the return of private markets as the arbiter of credit and interest rates.

The reality is unavoidable: the global economy is buried in debt. It cannot function with structurally high rates. Rates must come down, not to stimulate excess, but to allow the real economy to breathe again.

Enter Bessent. What he is executing, alongside the Federal Reserve, is not traditional yield curve control—it is strategic control of the long end. The 10-year yield is the fulcrum of the global system. This is not volatility. It is policy.

And it carries real risk: the rise in long-end yields and the yen’s devaluation are fault lines. The lessons of LTCM remain as relevant as ever. Bessent is getting out in front .

The Keynesian response is predictable, hand-wringing over Treasury-Fed coordination. But this critique rests on a false premise: that the Federal Reserve should operate in isolation from elected leadership and national economic strategy. It never has. It never will.

Bessent is moving with intent: cutting off the IRGC’s financial lifelines while managing the unwind of the yen carry trade. These are not isolated developments. They are coordinated moves to unwind distortions decades in the making.

This is Bretton Woods 2.0, not just a financial system, but a strategic one. Rules matter. Standards matter. The Clarity Act is not a side issue; it is a signal. The United States is writing the rules for the next era of capital formation, digital assets, and financial power. That some, particularly on the Warren left, fail to grasp this is not surprising, but it is consequential.

Bessent is not reacting to markets. He is disciplining them and in the process, redefining the system itself.

https://x.com/DrJStrategy/status/2084462194322813232

SQUAWK

On
@SquawkCNBC

Secretary Scott Bessent

says there could be an Iran deal today or tomorrow to open the Strait, with “freedom of movement” and no tolls, with energy prices “settling back down” as thousands of ships move through, allowing fertilizer, energy, and other products to ship.

https://x.com/MarkHalperin/status/2084607622053789946

WHAT ABOUT BOB ?

WEEKLY

DAILY

Compound Interest in reverse

https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2084338683113611316

the “Instagram Generation”

https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/2084415319704285374

Anarchists, Jan Hus, Flock U & More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

China’s AI Knife Fight: DeepSeek’s New Model Runs 100x Cheaper Than Anthropic’s Flagship

Cheaper and cheaper we go… 

The price of artificial intelligence just printed a new low. DeepSeek’s V4-Flash, officially released Friday, costs roughly three cents to run through a standard battery of benchmark tests, according to San Francisco research firm Artificial Analysis. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 costs 86 cents; OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, $1.86; and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, the industry’s top-scoring model, $3.15. In realized terms, the Chinese model is more than 100 times cheaper to run than the American flagship, according to Reuters.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/chinas-ai-knife-fight-deepseeks-new-model-runs-100x-cheaper-anthropics-flagship

TARP 2.0 — can you ‘smell’ it coming?

https://x.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2084346809971794431

ABSOLUTE FIRE FROM AARON ROGERS

I PLEAD THE FIFTH LIKE THAT ASSHAT TONY FAUCI…3 MIN

https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/2084338121101983920

Re Yen

It looks to me like long term the USD is pegged to the Yen, also the Canadian even the AUD and the NZD. The GBP and the EUR and CHS all go opposite.

The Dollar I believe has been pegged to the Chines Yuan (allowed to fluctuate very little) I assume to protect the US companies that off shored there.

https://finviz.com/futures_charts?t=CURRENCIES&p=m

ISM BLOWOUT

The best read on manufacturing expansion in over four years!

“Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in July for the seventh consecutive month… The Manufacturing PMI registered 55.6 percent in July, 2.3 percentage points above the June figure and the highest reading since May 2022

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2084287977795055876

WARNING: The Japanese yen has come down to major long-term technical support challenging the 1987 Crash Levels.

https://x.com/ArmstrongEcon/status/2084158889688182915

This weekend Houston’s streets were turned into a foreign parade ground once again.

https://x.com/AmyMek/status/2084204204089037074

AND in Dearborn Michigan

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/2084020406877336063

https://x.com/AmyMek/status/2084046586221600795

 

So has Europe finally arrived in USA????

Suicidal empathy

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2084109495827931344

JAN 6 – new news –> Rep. Clay Higgins dropped evidence that changes EVERYTHING.

Capitol Police and Metro officers walked into rooms INSIDE the Capitol… still in uniform… and came out dressed as Trump supporters and construction workers.

Trump was STILL speaking outside.

Higgins: “We have other evidence, including specific observations of police officers Capitol Police and Metro entering rooms here in the Capitol in uniform and coming out as Trump supporters and construction workers.”

This wasn’t a spontaneous riot. This was coordinated.

https://x.com/17QStorm/status/2083998769947770949

3 minutes

 

More confirmation that theories are correct! Does Trump know this exists?

Everybody Knows

JHK

https://www.kunstler.com/p/everybody-knows?

BGM and DD, two people you should be following

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXBOi-hKaJw

CNBC: “On manufacturing — comes in much better than expected, 55.6%. That would be the best read in over four years, since May of ’22.

MANUFACTURING JOBS ALSO AT A 4 YEAR HIGH AND RISING

SCOTT PRESLER

I’M IN TEARS

I’M SCREAMING

The Pennsylvania Department of State just conducted one of its biggest purges ever.

Democrats lost TENS of thousands of voters.

It’s happening — it’s actually happening.

Our work to clean the voter rolls is actually working.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

This is a massive, earth-shattering earthquake of epic proportions.

Wait until you see how close we are to flipping Pennsylvania

My heart sings a tune loudly for all to hear.

https://x.com/ScottPresler/status/2084261988247470201

It’sTime!

After this 6 month, tedious correction for gold and silver, this week should mark the turning point.  It is likely to be a relatively narrow, range bound week for the PM’s ,but any surprises are more likely to be on the upside.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   My two favorites continue to be, NEM for Gold and HL for Silver.   The next month or two could very well be a slow steady climb, but by year end, the old highs from late January will be approached and possibly exceeded.

Foreign-born population, 1990 vs 2026:

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2083607944554238336

Apple received a $2.2B tariff refund this quarter.

Consumers were stuck with the price of tariffs, with corporations now receiving massive refunds from the government, effectively passing Trump’s tariffs, which the president promised wouldn’t hurt consumers, onto the very people he promised to help.

https://x.com/AFpost/status/2083985238074564670?

 

An interesting observation – even if dictated by a judicial ruling………

A senior Army nuclear scientist who oversaw our NUCLEAR arsenal has been placed on leave by Sec. Hegseth, and could face CRIMINAL prosecution after being EXPOSED BY James O’Keefe

He is accused of divulging NUCLEAR SECRETS and MISSILE locations.

https://x.com/Tironianae/status/2084012028222456112

3 minutes

India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out

The notion that India should shackle its economy by adhering to restrictive climate policies, while its people still grapple with energy deficits, is illogical and morally indefensible.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-climate-cartel-count-us-out

Looked at the Fire Map

Highroller lives down the road where a major fire has started along the lake. Usually the fires burn from West to East with the winds so hopefully he’s not affected. Highroller is all well?

HIDDEN HAND: Trump’s Secret Weapon Won the Middle East Without Firing a Shot

PROMETHIAN ACTION…BRILLIANT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfUppcD1r4

640 HOMES DESTROYED as MASSIVE BLAZE RIPS through Spokane, Washington

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2083947541922537622

https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2084037516219314667

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2083959652086054980

https://www.facebook.com/reel/902956752864161