Brent Johnson, creator of the Dollar Milkshake Theory, posted what he considers one of his most important reports yet — Empire by Code: The Rise of USD Stablecoins. He also explains the issues around stablecoins in two recent interviews with Adam Taggart and Viva/Barnes. He says that USD stablecoins are not just another fintech innovation but instead they represent a fundamental shift…

I read The 2025 National Security Strategy. It’s well worth a look. There’s nothing that surprising in the document if you’re familiar with Trump’s positions. However, as an official American foreign policy strategy document, it’s an obvious break from decades of old and failed post-Cold War policies.  The document rejects the pursuit of global hegemony that…

Empires Always Fall | Martin Armstrong | WWIII Interview Series Why Linear Thinking Leads to Collapse Martin Armstrong has spent decades tracking patterns that most analysts miss. His approach reveals an obvious problem in that the world operates on quantum mechanics principles whereas decision makers rely on linear models. “The average person just looks at…

In two wide-ranging podcast conversations, financial analyst Tom Luongo and precious metals trader Vince Lanci map out a massive shift in how global markets work. Their discussions move way beyond the trivialities of daily price action. Instead, they’re looking at structural changes that upend everything we’ve assumed about money, power, and trade. Just listening to a few minutes of…

Decoding the Shift from U.K. and European Control of U.S. Finance In Episode #213 of the Gold, Goats and Guns Podcast (April 17, 2025), Tom Luongo and Caitlin Long discussed something barely anyone talks about: America is finally breaking free from financial control by London and European banks. This battle has been going on for decades, but most people…

Here’s another nice bit from Marc Andreessen on all the things changing right now in the United States politically and economically — and how close we came to falling off a dystopian cliff. Previously, see Andreessen Looks Relieved. These long interviews with Andreessen are good to reveal new details here and there, but for those of…

Marc Andreessen gives the background on some of the serious issues many people have been struggling with under the current rogue regime in Washington. I’m familiar with all of the issues he discussed (some personally), but I learned many disgusting details nevertheless. It’s a three hour conversation but Marc speaks at Warp speed. There’s never a…

Great discussion on Bitcoin, history, and war with lots of disagreements. It’s a standard for civil discourse. In episode 154 of The Bitcoin Standard Podcast, economist Saifedean Ammous and historian Niall Ferguson engaged in a discussion that ranged across a century of monetary history, from the origins of World War I through the Russia-Ukraine conflict.…