Has the rally in silver gone so far now that the metal’s price action is actually behaving like a meme stock? Or is there something more fundamental and deeply disturbing behind what precious metals are doing? Maybe we should consider how it isn’t a loss of faith in the dollar as so many people wrongly claim which is propelling both gold and silver right now, what if it is the growing mistrust in how the entire world works and fits together. Or used to.

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=480421

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After cutting 14,000 jobs back in October and denying there were more of them coming, Amazon confirmed yesterday there will be another 16,000 layoffs and made comments suggesting the company won’t be done even after then. These job cuts will only add to the worsening anxiety among American workers, who reminded everyone of those deep concerns in the latest plunge in consumer confidence. According to the most optimistic measure for it, from the Conference Board, confidence crashed to its lowest level in over a decade.

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CNBC Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/amazon-layoffs-anti-bureaucracy-ai.html

Internal messages reveal which teams, jobs affected in Amazon layoffs
https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-messages-teams-jobs-affected-amazon-layoffs-2026-1

CB US Consumer Confidence Fell Sharply in January
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/

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One of BlackRock’s private credit funds has just resurrected the cockroach concerns over debt woes in the space. By announcing that it will have to write down 19% of its net asset value, the fund also discloses more areas of cockroach concerns beyond those we had already become aware of. While at the same time, further reminding everyone how everything that people were worried about before they need to keep worrying about and then some.

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BlackRock TCP SEC Filing 8K
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001370755/000114036126002240/ef20063739_8k.htm

BlackRock Private Debt Fund Tumbles After Writing Down Loans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/blackrock-private-debt-fund-tumbles-after-writing-down-loans

Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7 Trillion Private Credit Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/how-private-credit-market-boom-is-hiding-potential-valuation-problems

BlackRock to Auction Amazon Seller Once Valued at $1 Billion
https://pe-insights.com/blackrock-to-auction-amazon-seller-once-valued-at-1-billion/

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An unprecedented shakeup at the very top of the Chinese military has shaken up the rest of the world. Xi Jinping didn’t just go after a longtime friend and ally, he has gone after everyone in what increasingly looks like a paranoid, Stalinist shakeup. But why? I’ve told you many times before about the economic pressure on China that has only intensified more recently. But that’s not the only thing. That’s where it starts, but where it ends is what is increasingly being confirmed as Cold War 2.0.

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60 Minutes How China could use U.S. farmland to attack America
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-china-could-use-us-farmland-to-attack-america-60-minutes/

NYT Xi’s Purge of China’s Military Brings Its Top General Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/world/asia/china-top-general-xi-military-purge.html

U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area
https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is warning we shouldn’t be focused on trade wars, instead the real concern is capital wars. In those, Dalio says there will be a reduced appetite for owning US government debt or any US assets. Maybe even including American stocks. The comments were made in the context of recent geopolitical flashpoints in Venezuela and Greenland. As always, there’s a lot of noise surrounding this kind of topic, but what does the evidence say?

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CNBC Ray Dalio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gda9T9gZSe4

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A huge arctic blast, the weather wedge, has sent natural gas prices soaring in historic fashion. Some futures prices surged by a whopping 75% in just five days leading up to what people are calling the storm of the century. Freezing cold. Snow. Ice sheets. Icemageddon. Winter hazards slated to impact two-thirds of the eastern United States, roughly half the country’s population. The combination of low natural gas inventories and that huge sudden for it, the jump in price is to be expected.

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How A Weather Wedge Is Shaping This Weekend’s Southern Ice Stormhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2026/01/23/how-a-weather-wedge-is-shaping-weekend-southern-ice-storm/

Natural Gas Prices Across the US Surge Ahead of Arctic Blast
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/us-natural-gas-falls-after-record-breaking-three-day-rally

CEOs Wary of a Jittery US Consumer as Global Tensions Intensify
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ceos-wary-of-a-jittery-us-consumer-as-global-tensions-intensify

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The Japanese government bond market suffered a major meltdown this week that has shaken up a lot of people as they try to figure out what’s going on over there and how it might impact more than just government bonds as a class. One of the key factors that has emerged, however, is just how little selling it took to create these massive price swings. That has enormously profound implications.

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The US housing market seemed like it was moving in the right direction recently, some better results people said were lower mortgage rates finally starting to work. But then reality dropped like a hammer today when the nation’s largest realtor group reported a massive 9.3% drop in pending home sales for December, biggest monthly decline since 2020. Stunned analysts are trying to figure out why lower rates aren’t stimulating housing and what these latest results mean.

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US Pending-Home Sales Plunge by Most Since Start of Pandemic
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/us-pending-home-sales-plunge-by-most-since-start-of-pandemic

NAR Pending Home Sales Report Shows 9.3% Decrease in December
https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/nar-pending-home-sales-report-shows-9-3-decrease-in-december

NAR First-Time Home Buyer Share Falls to Historic Low of 21%, Median Age Rises to 40
https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/first-time-home-buyer-share-falls-to-historic-low-of-21-median-age-rises-to-40

BlackRock and Housing: Setting the Record Straight
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/brochure/blackrock-and-housing-setting-the-record-straight.pdf

Trump Signs Order Targeting Institutional Housing Investors
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/trump-signs-order-targeting-institutional-housing-investors

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