Trump and “uncertainty”
Don’t believe the deceptive government statistics. CCP China is getting destroyed under an avalanche of fake government economic data.
A quick look at the falling US dollar index indicates that the Trump regime is getting what it wants. Why wait for the Rothschild hireling Fed Chair Powell to act when the Trump regime can begin responding proactively on its own?
To wit, I present you with Exhibit A; the tanking USDX. By talking down the dollar, Trump achieves a lot. Who says “uncertainty” is a bad thing?
Flooding the zone is proving successful
The further that circumstances progress, the more it seems that Trump is actually succeeding here. He’s flooding the zone and overwhelming all his opposition. He’s facing little to no resistance in the states and any proposals the Democrats counter with is effectively blunted.
It’s the “uncertainty” surrounding Trump’s program implementation that is especially unnerving for global economic participants and his domestic opposition, but this has been highly effective.
Donald Trump doesn’t even have to fire Jerome Powell. Just the “uncertainty” surrounding the FED Chair’s status is enough to help overwhelm and flood the zone.
For Trump’s economic and national security policies to succeed it truly needs a fading dollar to make America’s export-driven markets more mathematically competitive and to dissuade domestic economic participants from continuing to source exclusively from overseas.
The fading dollar also helps to maintain price inflation, which the Trump regime desperately wants (though can’t admit). This helps to decrease the real government debt burden as well as the real value of the accruing fiscal deficits.
It was never about fair trade
“The CCP’s economic system is inherently exploitative, designed not to improve the citizen’s welfare, but to suppress them. The CCP’s goal is not to let people live well, but to keep the rich powerful and the people weak. In contrast, a typical nation might strive for both a prosperous economy and a strong populace. Under the CCP, however, economic, political, and social systems are structured to centralize resources in the hands of the state, which acts as the ultimate monopolist. ”
Wang He, economist and commentator
CCP China was determined to ride this as long as possible and had heavily subsidized and promoted its export driven industries to aggressively overwhelm the rest of the world.
There is a method to president Trump’s madness and I have to tip my hat to those running the show in the current executive branch for recognizing this sad reality.
Unfortunately, as countries like China and those in Southeast Asia continue to struggle as a result, the United States will face increasing rage from its trading partners.
When it comes to the real world, there’s no such thing as fair trade between existential enemies. It was never about fair trade anyway. It was all about building up America’s future adversaries, while degrading America’s own economic competitiveness.
America’s internal Marxist enemies always exclaimed that diversity brought strength and cheap foreign made goods brought a higher standard of living. Unfortunately, neither is true and the large fiscal and trade deficits that made America’s Marxist utopian concepts seem almost plausible cannot continue.
Those currently running the US government are well aware of this and have effectively announced to the world that they are terminating the globalized dollar-based transaction system in exchange for a less ambitious version that runs the Western hemisphere.
The CCP is already fighting WW III
So far, World War III hasn’t been fought with invading troops and nuclear bombs. CCP China was already fighting its true enemy, the United States, for the past 50 years, while America slept and “enjoyed” cheap Chinese products.
Indeed, WWIII was being fought with standard-sized shipping containers and large cargo ships. That is now changing as countries like China and its third-party nation trading proxies sink into the abyss with deflationary overcapacity and a dying economy.
Clearly, the trends of the past 54 years are rapidly coming to an end. We need to gird our loins and adjust accordingly.
I am noticing everything seems so quiet, and “calm”. We heard advancements of the enemy, new economic changes, but nothing of massive disposition has happened yet. Everybody talks about things coming quickly, prepare, etc. Even controlled opposition agents/woke agents alike are saying so but everything so sublime and quotidien.
Let us see what happens.
I also noticed this. I think I heard every ass in the Vatican slam shut actually.
I was waiting for the Easter message from the Pope, it came in the form of a symbol. He gave JD Vances’ children easter eggs. You may say “So what?”. Well, those are a pagan symbol – we were forbidden to have those or participate in easter egg hunts as kids in a strict Catholic household. Please see the wiki entry for Cosmic Egg, and you will see how inappropriate it is for Gods supposed representative to give such a thing to children. He knew. They all knew.
I expect a conservative Pope who will not yet attempt to assert his authority, it’s clearly not time for that. Financial pain seems unavoidable, we will have to deal with that.
The egg during Easter is not a pagan symbol. Maybe it was called one by some group at some point, but going back far enough, it is the symbol of the resurrection and beginning of new life. This is according to ancient Orthodox tradition. We don’t have or follow the Pope so no idea if any hidden meaning there. However, it seems people will theorize one way or another about an action or words of a high profile figure. While some theories make sense, many seem to perpetuate confusion.
Are you serious? That all had to do with the god and goddess of fertility. There is nothing Christian or biblical about the Easter egg.
Gosh darn, even the math behind Easter is a joke. Jesus wasn’t resurrected on Sunday. It was the end of Saturday and he was in the ground for three days and three nights, which puts that back till late wednesday.
Everything about the Catholic and Orthodox Easter is a joke. It’s okay, I guess, if one wants to observe Jesus’s resurrection on Easter. But guess what, I observe Jesus’s resurrection every day. Every day is a Resurrection Day for me. I pray mightily several times a day to YHVH, thanking him for Jesus’s shed blood on Calvary for the remission of my sins. I don’t have to roll around Easter eggs and have bunnies, which are just fertility symbols.
Holy smokes! The retardedness is overwhelming I can’t take this anymore.
Let’s go to Luke chapter 1. It fully explains that Zachariah, John the Baptist’s father was visited by an Angel (Gabriel) during his roughly two-week long priestly duties, and was told that Elizabeth would become pregnant. He was the temple priest during the course of ABIA, which is the 8th course of the Hebrew year indicating sometime in the first half of July. 6 months later, Mary became pregnant with Jesus. That puts it sometime in January. Jesus was then born sometime in September or the latest, early October.
I am tired of these organized religions. YHVH abhors religion. The problem with the Catholic church is that it over emphasizes Paul and turns the historical and significance of the story of the Bible going back to Genesis into a new religion.
Satan has deceived the whole darn world. We have 98% of the supposed Christians today walking around in circles. Gosh darn, I can’t take it anymore!
Leave the churches and stick to the Bible.
Precisely Correct!!!
“Jesus was then born sometime in September”
Could September 11th be the real birthdate of Jesus? The Elite sure like using 9/11 for events and things, I wonder why…….
The beheading of St. John the Baptist is commemorated on 9/11 by the Eastern Orthodox.
That date is very possible. Feast of Trumpets!
100% correct. I never understood the Easter bunny or Easter egg thing on Easter nor how it related to Jesus Christ rising from his grave. I clearly understood the religious aspect of Easter where Jesus Christ has risen.
I later learned that the Easter bunny and the Easter egg were springtime Pagan symbols. The Catholic Church took on these pagan holidays and Christianized them in the hopes of converting the pagans.
At least Santa Claus at Christmas reflected the Christian ideal of charity.
The Easter bunny was as Christian as Lucifer.
Not correct. Christ was not in a grave but in a tomb with the opening covered by a large stone. The egg on Easter is a sign of new life and as Christ’s resurrection. Pagans used that in their own way, which clearly has caused many to be confused to this day. Never mind the Catholics or anyone else. Eastern Orthodox have been blessing eggs on Easter since the early Christians of Mesopotamia.
Please show my the Bible verses which indicates that.
There aren’t any.
Al, you have to stop. You are full of errors. The fertility symbols go back to ancient babylon. Please stop. There’s very little that is biblical about your traditions.
I get your bias. You have made it abundantly clear in the past about how you felt about Western Europe and the Commonwealth. I get it. Biases die hard. Let’s talk after we study scripture and not whatever supposed Church Father has burped up.
Christ has Risen! Never mind the fact that the practice of blessing eggs that have been died red as a symbol of Christ’s blood has been going on for centuries in the Eastern Orthodox church. For the non Christians they are as you say.
God gave us free will so you can believe and do as you wish. I will stick to centuries of Christian teaching of the one true Catholic and Apostolic church led by example of the many monks, nuns, priests, bishops, etc.. whose relics were later found incorrupt and were canonized as saints. Proof of how these people lived in the world while at the same time being dead to the world. A very small remnant of the Orthodox church that maintains the unbroken Apostolic succession is the only preservation of the truth. No wonder the Bolshiveks did their best to destroy it.
I’ll leave you with the words of +St Isaac the Syrian (7th Century)
“The world” is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead…. Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it.”
Holy moly! Your bias is clear and it often contradicts scripture. I don’t care of your reasoning. You know that I stick to scripture and that the Bible is everything, even if it is often mistranslated by the Jews and Roman pagans.
There was no such thing as organized religions until the Jews took control of Rome and started spreading their Babylonian poison in 325 ad. Hence, we have the universal church and its Protestant and orthodox offshoots. Heck, The Universal Church and the Jews help formulate the kayfabe adversary, the Islamic faith.
Please don’t double down on your errors. Thank God I’m not held captive by an organized Church that accepts tax deductions and cozies up to governments. What does the Bible say? I cut out the middleman, who seems to be full of many errors anyway.
Today’s church priest and ministers are the middlemen between God and us and the problem with priests and ministers is that they are sinful biased humans like the rest of us. Many priests and ministers twist the word of God to fit their agenda and to empower themselves over their flock instead of elevating the flock towards God.
Jesus wanted us to reconnect with God that was broken when Adam and Eve committed the original sin,
Apparently the Word of YHVH is of no effect to you! You put men ahead of Scripture!
Mark 7:13
World Economic Forum’s Schwab Steps Down After Over 50 Years
(Bloomberg) — The founder of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab has stepped down from the organization’s board of directors after more than 50 years at the helm.
He will be succeeded on an interim basis by the WEF’s vice chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, the former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Nestle SA, according to a statement by the forum.
“I have decided to step down from the position of Chair and as a member of the Board of Trustees, with immediate effect,” Schwab, 87, said in the statement. The forum has begun a search process for a future chair.
The WEF, hosted once a year in the Swiss ski-town of Davos, is one of the world’s most-exclusive gatherings of head of states, top politicians, executives and business leaders. Schwab started what became the WEF in 1971 as a management symposium.
He had announced last year he was stepping away from an active leadership role at the organization.
Today, the board of trustees is comprised of more than two dozen world leaders and includes Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff, Blackrock Inc. CEO Larry Fink, former US Vice President Al Gore, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and her successor at the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva.
While Schwab has consistently stressed the need for better global cooperation, his organization has frequently faced charges of elitism.
Schwab, born in Germany to parents of Swiss origin, chose the Alpine town of Davos in a bid to make guests feel relaxed and speak freely, according to the Geneva-based nonprofit’s website. With a slogan of “committed to improving the state of the world,” the forum attracts global attention and criticism, as well as a helping of conspiracy theories.
The Average Household Is A Millionaire With A $1.06 Million Net Worth, According To The Fed — So Why Do People Still Feel Broke?
On paper, Americans have never been richer. According to the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances, the average U.S. household net worth hit $1.06 million in 2022 — a 23% jump from $868,000 just three years earlier.
That’s right. Millionaire status. Technically.
The survey, conducted every three years, captures the total value of assets — from homes and retirement accounts to vehicles and brokerage balances — minus all debts. It includes everything from checking accounts and 401(k)s to investment properties, annuities, and even boats and RVs. But here’s the catch: averages don’t tell the whole story.
In reality, this number is skewed by the ultra-wealthy. While the average household may clear seven figures, the median net worth — the point where half of households have more and half have less — was just $192,900. That’s a pretty big gap, and it says a lot more about how people are actually living.
Net Worth Is Up. So Are Prices.
Even with growing net worths and slightly higher wages, Americans are feeling the squeeze. Take housing, for example. According to Zillow, the average home value in the U.S. is now $361,263, up 2.1% in the last year. Homes are going under contract in just 26 days — if buyers can afford them.
Ownership is becoming so expensive that younger generations are backing out entirely. The National Association of Realtors says the average age of a homebuyer is now 56, up from 49 in 2023. That’s the highest it’s ever been, and a clear sign that first-time buyers are aging out before they even get in.
Then there are the cars. Kelley Blue Book reports that the average new vehicle now costs $48,039, up 43% in the last decade. That’s nearly a full year’s salary for many Americans.
Wages Aren’t Keeping Pace
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly wage for full-time workers in Q1 2025 was $1,194 — or about $62,000 per year. While that’s up 4.8% from last year, inflation rose 2.7% in the same period. So yes, there’s some real wage growth, but it’s not enough to offset rising costs across housing, insurance, food, and transportation.
And for many households, those net worth numbers are tied up in assets they can’t touch — like a primary residence or retirement accounts. They may technically have a high net worth, but it doesn’t help much at the grocery store checkout.
The Disconnect
The growing gap between what the data says and what people feel is at the heart of America’s current economic mood. You might be a millionaire — but not in a way that makes life easier to afford.
As prices rise to reflect the higher averages, they can leave the majority behind. The typical household isn’t upgrading to a luxury car or scooping up investment properties. They’re just trying to stretch a paycheck far enough to fill the gas tank and maybe save a little for the future.
So yes, the “average” American household is a millionaire. But for most people, it doesn’t feel like wealth. It feels like survival.
2025 Benzinga.com.
Regarding the article, yes, China will never replace the U.S. market. Since they have an export driven economy, they are up S**T Creek! This of course will drive them to war. Assuming this economic battle continues, even next year could be tricky! I’m glad I don’t live in Taiwan!
It could well be we have entered the end game here. Now we get a new Pope. Lets see if this one is Italian with ties to the middle east.
This morning in premarket, I bought back some of the HTZ I sold last Thursday. Still bullish. I will buy back more on further weakness.
Still has a high short interest, unless offering news gets dropped, it can still uptick. Same with KSS, high short interest, huge tute ownership, was up on a down day today and lowest it’s been in awhile. Many high shorted stocks don’t do much except briefly spike then right back down, gotta have that volume for it to pump.
You’re not getting it. It’s because of what Bill Ackman has done with this stock. It’s different than all the others you’re talking about. I’m up nicely.
Great article Stone. Your knowledge is priceless.
This beats any of those investment newsletters.
I think Joel Skousen is off the rails.
Pope Francis just died. Now what?
Wow! Didn’t see that coming. The prophecy of the Popes dies with him. I guess this prophecy was a fraud like Fatima.
So now we can watch and see if a beast rises from the sea or land soon!
Remember we talked briefly about the movie conclave in 2024, where a transexual – FtM, takes over as the new pope, revelation of the method? We shall see.
The Baphomet!
The only aspect of the prophecy of the popes left is that I estimated it’s set to expire in 2027. The prophecy isn’t totally dead yet, but it is on life support.
I didn’t see this coming either. It doesn’t necessarily mean Malachy’s prophecies are out the window. I think this is a possibility that the timeline may be speeding up. The tribulation events could start sooner and be more harsh. Buckle up your seatbelts and prepare for some very rough times coming soon. Things are about to get very interesting real fast.
If Malachy’s prophecies are potentially out the window, then nevertheless things will be very interesting as we could be on a timeline that may be better or much worse . We will never know unless we keep a close relationship with God.
Also very interesting and very symbolic that Pope Francis died right after Easter. This is symbolism to something mysterious and unknown.