Michelle Makori

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GOLD is now “front and center” in U.S. national security in ways it hasn’t been in decades. Graham Summers @gsummersmba says gold is being “weaponized” as the U.S. operates in what he calls a “wartime economy,” with an economic war against China increasingly shaping markets, policy & capital. And the dots are striking: ▪️ President Trump invoked gold as a critical mineral in his original executive order on accelerating U.S. mineral production ▪️ Treasury is targeting the use of gold to circumvent U.S. sanctions, effectively weaponizing gold in economic warfare ▪️ The Department of War has created an Economic Defense Unit, which Summers calls the “tip of the spear” ▪️ Judy Shelton, a major proponent of gold-backed bonds, has joined Treasury ▪️ China is aggressively accumulating gold, while its true holdings remain unknown ▪️ Could the U.S. also be accumulating gold covertly? Summers: “I wouldn’t be surprised.” We dig into gold-backed bonds, gold revaluation, the Treasury market, critical minerals, the Defense Production Act, possible vehicles for covert U.S. gold purchases, Washington’s “trial balloons” & what this new wartime-economy lens means for investors. Summers’ bottom line: gold is entering conversations at the “highest echelons of government” in ways it hasn’t in decades. My latest with @gsummersmba Summers on The Real Story 👇 youtu.be/svlAZXiN3lM?is=L7iY…

Enjoyed discussing Bitcoin, Gold and Silver and especially enjoyed the passion and enthusiasm @CryptoLifer33 brings to the charts

Bitcoin has bottomed. Gold to $5,000. Silver to $168. And eventually, $1 MILLION Bitcoin? Trader & technical analyst Sam Price @CryptoLifer33 joined me on The Real Story and laid out a remarkably specific roadmap for Bitcoin, gold & silver. On Bitcoin, Sam says the bottom is already in around $57K-$60K, pointing to bullish divergences, a monthly double bottom, Fibonacci support & longer-term moving averages. He sees $93K-$96K as key upside targets and around $175K by January 2029. Longer term? Sam believes Bitcoin could eventually reach $1 MILLION by 2035. But he also laid out what he thinks happens between now and then, why he believes the traditional Bitcoin cycle may be changing, and how institutions front-running the April 2028 halving could reshape the next move. And then there’s gold & silver. Sam has some equally bold forecasts for both metals, including specific price targets, dates, key technical levels and the chart patterns he believes could drive their next major moves. How high does he see gold going? When could silver take out its previous all-time high? And what are the levels to watch along the way? But I also asked him a bigger question: What could possibly drive equities, Bitcoin, gold AND silver higher at the same time? And if they are all moving higher, what does that tell us about the dollar? Watch the full interview below for Sam’s gold & silver forecasts, his complete roadmap, the key levels to watch, and his answer to the bigger macro question. 👇 youtu.be/dH1CCNKWKGM?si=HKG6…

45 years ago today, the U.S. bond market hit a record that still stands. September 30, 1981: the 10-year Treasury yield hit an all-time high of 15.84% as Paul Volcker’s Fed waged war on double-digit inflation. The effective federal funds rate stood at 16.58% that day, after exceeding 20% earlier that year, while inflation was running around 11%. September 30, 2026: the 10-year is back around 5.25%, near its highest level since 2007, while the 30-year has breached 5.6%, its highest since 2002. And now another force is hitting the bond market: a flood of corporate debt. Paramount Skydance is preparing a roughly $32 BILLION investment-grade bond sale to finance its Warner Bros. acquisition, potentially one of the largest corporate bond deals in history. The 10-year yield has jumped roughly 47 basis points in September alone, as inflation concerns, government borrowing & massive corporate issuance compete for capital. We are nowhere near Volcker-era yields. But when the price of money rises, it eventually gets felt everywhere: mortgages, corporate borrowing, government interest expense & asset valuations. 45 years to the day after the 10-year Treasury hit its historic peak, the bond market is sending a message worth paying attention to.

A major change to the plumbing of the U.S. financial system just happened, and most people probably missed it. After the CLARITY Act stalled, the SEC moved ahead on its own. On Sept. 17, the SEC issued a five-year “Innovation Exemption” that creates a pathway for certain tokenized U.S. stocks to trade ON-CHAIN through new Tokenized Securities Venues using permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins explicitly called it a step toward bringing U.S. capital markets into the digital age by facilitating on-chain trading. Why does this matter? Because tokenization could fundamentally change how Wall Street works. Stocks could increasingly trade 24/7, settle faster and potentially interact with other blockchain-based financial applications. And then comes the AI piece. As more financial assets move on-chain, AI agents are becoming capable of executing trades, allocating capital and potentially automating increasingly complex financial strategies. That convergence could be enormously powerful. It also introduces an entirely new category of systemic risk. What happens when thousands of AI agents respond to the same signal at once? What if that signal is manipulated? What happens when smart contracts are exploited, or autonomous agents begin moving capital faster than humans can intervene? Hyunsu Jung, CEO of @HyperionDeFi, tells me we could see market-risk events in our lifetime created by agents becoming too deeply integrated into the financial system. Wall Street’s plumbing is changing. AI agents are moving in. What could possibly go wrong? My interview 👇 youtu.be/j39ytyN7SII?is=yT9b…

Is a Fed-Treasury “wedding” coming? Brent Johnson @SantiagoAuFund thinks it is. His thesis: as the world becomes more confrontational and the U.S. seeks to preserve its monetary and geopolitical dominance, the Fed and Treasury will increasingly have to act as a unified force. And if the Fed resists? Brent says it could eventually be “absorbed.” What could that look like? Closer coordination, rate cuts, QE, new liquidity facilities, and potentially using access to the U.S. dollar as an increasingly powerful geopolitical tool. And according to his thesis: a dominant dollar and soaring gold are NOT mutually exclusive. Brent says gold can reach $10,000 while the U.S. dollar remains the world’s dominant currency. We unpack the coming Fed-Treasury “marriage,” King Dollar, gold and what it could mean for investors. My latest conversation with Brent Johnson on The Real Story 👇 @MilesFranklinCo youtu.be/cx3SYvUhho4?si=jV5u…

What if powerful financial interests helped decide which medical treatments survived and which were pushed out? Did two of America’s most powerful fortunes help decide what counted as “medicine”? In 1910, the Carnegie Foundation commissioned Abraham Flexner to investigate all 155 medical schools operating across the U.S. and Canada. The resulting Flexner Report exposed genuinely poor standards and helped professionalize medical education. But its impact went much further. Medical schools closed or merged. Homeopathic and other non-conventional schools were particularly hard hit, while medicine increasingly consolidated around laboratory science, clinical research and pharmacology. Then came Rockefeller money. John D. Rockefeller had built one of the greatest fortunes in history through Standard Oil. His philanthropic organizations subsequently poured enormous sums into the emerging biomedical model of medical education. And that’s where the conspiracy theory gets really interesting. The theory argues that powerful financial interests helped push natural remedies, homeopathy and other competing therapies to the margins while medicine increasingly embraced standardized drugs and treatments that could be manufactured and commercially protected. Natural remedies and therapies like light therapy were far harder to own or patent. Pharmaceuticals were a very different commercial proposition. So was this the triumph of better science and desperately needed medical reform? Or did money, oil and commercial incentives also help determine which forms of medicine survived? I spoke to @JonathanOtto17 Otto about the Flexner Report, the Rockefeller connection, the patent question, and where the documented history ends and the conspiracy theory begins.