Everything that needs doing can and will be done by the market, by entrepreneurs who fill the needs of other people for a profit. The State is a dead hand that imposes itself on society.
US debt quickly skyrocketed through 32-trillion. 33-trillion took only another month, and I forecast (easily done) that 34-trillion wasn’t likely to take much more than another month, and now...
Why would anyone believe we’re coming in for a soft landing with a major real-estate meltdown slowly crushing banks, especially anyone who lived through the Great Recession?
Preppers will often add a bit of copper to their barter stash. It has a unit cost even lower than silver, so it can fill a gap. Copper might be used in the smallest transactions.
The US House gave Americans a last-minute holiday gift: a nearly trillion dollar military spending bill filled with lots of goodies for the special interests and the military-industrial complex.
The US and ally ships are patrolling the Red Sea and Persian Gulf region because pirates and terrorists are creating a MAJOR SHORTAGE crisis by ending shipments through the Suez Canal.
Bulls can afford to be patient, since anyone with half a brain can see that a global financial crisis is brewing that will become a source of urgent demand for gold (and, yes, for dollars).