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Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic.
Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March — cutting them from $16 billion to just $1.8 billion i...
International Man: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently declared that all US gold is “present and accounted for” and said the country’s stockpile is now worth more than $1 trillion at current market prices.
What’s your take on this?
Doug Casey: How does he know it’s “present and accounted for”? There hasn’t been an audit fo...
When I first heard the term “financial repression,” I thought it had to be a joke.
Why would governments and central banks use a term with such a negative connotation? Even people who are financially illiterate can understand that financial repression is a bad thing.
Simply put, financial repression is a strategy governments use to reduce their ...
The implicit notion–extant on both ends of the Accela Corridor—that the present financing arrangements for the $31 trillion of publicly held US Treasuries represent the natural order of things in the financial markets is just damn nonsense.
And that’s to say nothing of the brobdingnagian task ahead—finding a home for another $142 trillion
International Man: The government is now offering “Trump Accounts” for children, with a $1,000 federal contribution for eligible kids born from 2025 through 2028.
Why do you think the government wants this money held in an IRA-style structure instead of simply giving families direct ownership and control?
Doug Casey: My understa...