By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
January 28, 2026
Hopefully, Elon Musk and his DOGE boys have learned a lesson the hard way. To wit, their earnest, dogged, sweeping and compelling demonstration early in 2025 that hundreds of billions can be cut from the Federal budget has already been shit-canned.
Almost in its entirety.
And by the usual suspects--the GOP appropriators on Capitol Hill-who are the biggest fake fiscal conservatives to ever come down the pike.
By Tom Woods
January 28, 2026
As usual, ol' Woods is the sensible voice of moderation.
I have some friends who say: politics is a waste of time, it always amounts to a bunch of broken promises (or, quite often, when the promises are kept, they're the kind of promises you wish had been broken!), and it isn't going to solve our problems.
Work on your own little world, they say, provide for your family and your close circle, and that's the best you can hope for.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
January 28, 2026
The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had first expanded the money supply dramatically by offering loans, then contracted the money supply by tightening its requirements for new loans, causing a crash.
This is a useful quote, as, in its simplicity, it states the very nature of crashes brought on by irresponsible banking practices.
By George F. Smith
January 27, 2026
"Your money or your life" has been government's calling card for as long as government of the involuntary kind has existed. Of the choice between the two - money or government - there apparently is none. If we had no money we would be without a medium of exchange, the division of labor would collapse and civilization along with it.
As for government as it exists, its alleged necessity is drilled into our heads soon after we meet a public school teacher for the first time.
By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
January 27, 2026
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria I noted that the covid panic seemed to perfectly coincide with the Federal Reserve's acceleration of interest rates and and asset dumping. This trend, I argued, was a precursor to a Catch-22 scenario I have been warning about for some time.
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Vue sur des lingots d'or produits par Krastsvetmet, une société russe spécialisée dans les métaux précieux, à Krasnoïarsk, en Russie.
Face à une instabilité géopolitique croissante et à des décisions américaines controversées, l'or s'impose plus que jamais comme une valeur refuge mondiale. Son cours vient de franchir 5 100 dollars l'once, un niveau qui reflète un basculement plus large du système économique international.
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Le logo de Moody's photographié sur le siège social de l'entreprise à Manhattan, New York.
Moody's remet en cause la trajectoire budgétaire affichée par le gouvernement français pour 2026. Elle anticipe un déficit public de 5,2 % du PIB, au-delà de l'objectif officiel de 5 %, pointant des recettes incertaines, des dépenses difficiles à contenir et un contexte politique instable qui fragilise la crédibilité financière de la France.
By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform
January 26, 2026
The government reported CPI of "only" 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the "lowest inflation in 5 years". This is after last week's "surprisingly good" unemployment report where the country added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. Of course, they also revealed every month in 2025 had been revised downward.
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François Villeroy de Galhau, gouverneur de la Banque de France.
Le gouverneur de la Banque de France alerte sur les fragilités économiques de la France et de l'Union européenne. Face à la pression croissante des États-Unis, il appelle à un sursaut européen, critique un déficit public jugé trop élevé pour 2026 et défend le traité de libre-échange avec le Mercosur, malgré la contestation politique.
By George F. Smith
January 24, 2026
As a "stealth tax," inflation requires no legislation to impose, no agency to collect, and diverts responsibility for damages onto politicians' favorite whipping boys. It gives government the ability to buy almost anything for nothing, while creating endless problems that serve as a pretext for intervention. Inflation is the foundation of arrogant government and a prescription for our own demise.
par Covidémence
Je vais vous dévoiler le plan machiavélique et d'une simplicité déconcertante de la Chine pour détruire l'hégémonie des États-Unis.
Rien de moins.
D'abord la mise en bouche avec le graphique (prix d'une once d'or en USD).
En 1971, Richard Nixon casse le lien or-dollar (la convertibilité). Forte hausse du prix pendant l'inflation qui suit (fin des années 70)...
SchiffGold.com
January 23, 2026
Earlier this week, Peter appeared on international news channel France 24 to discuss President Trump's latest protectionist moves. Peter warns that the administration's tariff push is doing real damage at home while exposing deeper fiscal and monetary fractures. He connects the tariff fight to battles over the Fed and a growing flight into gold and silver as inve
publié le 22/01/2026 Par Olivier Berruyer
Près de 40 000 milliards de dollars : c'est la dette publique américaine, un record historique qui dépasse même le pic atteint après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dopée par des déficits gargantuesques financés à coups de planche à billets, l'économie américaine a su afficher une croissance insolente - mais à quel prix ? Aujourd'hui, les intérêts de cette dette colossale explosent et menacent d'asphyxier le budget fédéral.
publié le 21/01/2026 Par Frédéric Farah
Les nuages sombres s'accumulent sur l'économie mondiale, et plus particulièrement sur celle de l'Union européenne. Le vice-président de la Banque centrale européenne a récemment souligné, dans une allocution, les difficultés susceptibles de toucher les circuits de financement européens, les dépenses publiques, ainsi que les vents contraires qui s'abattent sur l'Union.
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
January 22, 2026
According to- abcnews.go.com: Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They're outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to prevent the obscure sector from triggering a new financial crisis. But in doing so they risk drying up an important source of funding to banks and firms.
par Pepe Escobar
L'oligarchie qui contrôle réellement l'Empire du Chaos a appuyé sur le bouton panique, alors que les contours structurels de l'hégémonie vacillent sérieusement.
Le pétrodollar est l'une des caractéristiques clés de cette hégémonie : une machine à recycler qui canalise l'achat incessant de bons du Trésor américain, puis les dépense dans des Guerres éternelles.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
January 21, 2026
As the Great Unravelling progresses, we shall be seeing many negative developments, some of them unprecedented.
Only a year ago, the average person was still hanging on to the belief that the world is in a state of recovery, that, however tentative, the economy was on the mend.
And this is understandable. After all, the media have been doing a bang-up job of explaining the situation in a way that treats recovery as a general assumption.