Monday The Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe) is an accurate observation of the cycles that reliably break down into 4 x 20 year periods (approx) and which aggregates into one complete cycle. The four different stages of the current cycle are generally described as1 The High (post WW2),2 The Awakening (think hippies),3 The Unravelling (think everyone must be equal etc.), … [Read more...]

The world is in a precarious state.Bomber Trump’s M/E war continues to crush the economies of the West and Asia. Trump is strategically and intellectually way out of his depth. Rather than accept that he has badly lost the war, his nature demands that he furthers the humiliation of the U.S. by doubling down and screwing up even harder. The most dangerous of fools is the one who … [Read more...]

Friday 99.9% of Gold commentary plays into the hands of central bankers whose power is entirely dependent on people continuing to believe the charade that paper debt notes measure Gold’s value.One can either be a part, however unwittingly, of the central bank cheer squad, or one can understand that Gold is the only money and hence the only store and measure of value. There … [Read more...]

Tuesday With Glenn Diesen and Commodore Steven Jermy Well worth watching... … [Read more...]

Wednesday An excellent post by Thomas Allen In “The Iran War: A Background of Decades and Centuries,” Beyond Today, May–June, 2026, pages 18–21, Scott Ashley discusses Iran’s hostility toward Israel and the United States. My comments are enclosed in parentheses. Ashley blames the current Iranian war on Hamas’s invading and killing some 1200 Israeli civilians. (He fails … [Read more...]