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La capitalisation totale du marché mondial des cryptomonnaies, qui avait atteint un record d'environ 1 100 milliards de dollars début janvier, a perdu près de 200 milliards de dollars. Ce décrochage est principalement lié à l'effondrement du bitcoin, dont la valeur a chuté pour la de
SchiffGold.com
January 30, 2026
Last week, Peter joined Daniel Horowitz on the CR Podcast to lay out a clear, sweeping case for why gold is not merely a safe haven but the logical outcome of decades of monetary mismanagement. He walks through his long-standing gold forecast, why the dollar's reserve role is unraveling, how bonds are signaling inflation, why tokenized gold beats Bitcoin, and why a collapse of today's paper-economy is unavoidable.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
January 30, 2026
Maybe this arrangement isn't as stable and sustainable as the winners imagine.
Here's the US economy in a nutshell: corporate/state concentrations of financial, market and political power are the winners, and everyone outside these fortresses is losing ground. The Wall Street Journal is generally viewed as pro-business, and so it's particularly striking when the WSJ published this:
Il est plus facile pour la Chine et l'Europe de dire qu'il faut se débarrasser de leurs bons du Trésor américains, mais des ventes lentes et régulières nuiront davantage aux États-Unis que Trump ne l'admet. La bataille est visiblement engagée au plan financier avec ses conséquences sur l'ensemble mondialisé, et les observateurs supputent les chances de Trump et celles de ses adversaires dans les marchés, au sein de la classe dominante.
By George F. Smith
January 29, 2026
One of history's greatest ironies is that gold detractors refer to the metal as the barbarous relic. In fact, the abandonment of gold has put civilization as we know it at risk of extinction.
The gold coin standard that had served Western economies so brilliantly throughout most of the nineteenth century hit a brick wall in 1914 and was never able to recover, or so the story goes.
By James Anthony
American Thinker
January 29, 2026
In a so-called great inflation, politicians borrow and spend faster than usual by having crony bankers inflate the quantity of dollars faster than usual.
The added dollars start inflating asset prices, then start inflating producer-product prices, then start inflating consumer-product prices, and then start increasing wages. The purchasing power of wages recovers as fully as it can only after the political regime changes, reducing the uncertainty and the spending and inflation, and businessmen then resume their usual value-adding.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
January 29, 2026
This is why a recession will catalyze a collapse of the credit-asset bubble-dependent economy down to its foundations.
Narrative control works by having a pat answer for every skepticism and every doubt. Boiled down, the dominant narrative holds that the Federal Reserve (central banking) and the central government have the tools to quickly reverse any dip in GDP, a.k.a.
By David Stockman
David Stockman's Contra Corner
January 28, 2026
Hopefully, Elon Musk and his DOGE boys have learned a lesson the hard way. To wit, their earnest, dogged, sweeping and compelling demonstration early in 2025 that hundreds of billions can be cut from the Federal budget has already been shit-canned.
Almost in its entirety.
And by the usual suspects--the GOP appropriators on Capitol Hill-who are the biggest fake fiscal conservatives to ever come down the pike.
By Tom Woods
January 28, 2026
As usual, ol' Woods is the sensible voice of moderation.
I have some friends who say: politics is a waste of time, it always amounts to a bunch of broken promises (or, quite often, when the promises are kept, they're the kind of promises you wish had been broken!), and it isn't going to solve our problems.
Work on your own little world, they say, provide for your family and your close circle, and that's the best you can hope for.
By Jeff Thomas
International Man
January 28, 2026
The above quote is from William Gouge, commenting on the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had first expanded the money supply dramatically by offering loans, then contracted the money supply by tightening its requirements for new loans, causing a crash.
This is a useful quote, as, in its simplicity, it states the very nature of crashes brought on by irresponsible banking practices.
By George F. Smith
January 27, 2026
"Your money or your life" has been government's calling card for as long as government of the involuntary kind has existed. Of the choice between the two - money or government - there apparently is none. If we had no money we would be without a medium of exchange, the division of labor would collapse and civilization along with it.
As for government as it exists, its alleged necessity is drilled into our heads soon after we meet a public school teacher for the first time.
By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
January 27, 2026
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
In early 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic hysteria I noted that the covid panic seemed to perfectly coincide with the Federal Reserve's acceleration of interest rates and and asset dumping. This trend, I argued, was a precursor to a Catch-22 scenario I have been warning about for some time.
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Vue sur des lingots d'or produits par Krastsvetmet, une société russe spécialisée dans les métaux précieux, à Krasnoïarsk, en Russie.
Face à une instabilité géopolitique croissante et à des décisions américaines controversées, l'or s'impose plus que jamais comme une valeur refuge mondiale. Son cours vient de franchir 5 100 dollars l'once, un niveau qui reflète un basculement plus large du système économique international.
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Le logo de Moody's photographié sur le siège social de l'entreprise à Manhattan, New York.
Moody's remet en cause la trajectoire budgétaire affichée par le gouvernement français pour 2026. Elle anticipe un déficit public de 5,2 % du PIB, au-delà de l'objectif officiel de 5 %, pointant des recettes incertaines, des dépenses difficiles à contenir et un contexte politique instable qui fragilise la crédibilité financière de la France.
By Jim Quinn
The Burning Platform
January 26, 2026
The government reported CPI of "only" 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the "lowest inflation in 5 years". This is after last week's "surprisingly good" unemployment report where the country added 50,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%. Of course, they also revealed every month in 2025 had been revised downward.
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François Villeroy de Galhau, gouverneur de la Banque de France.
Le gouverneur de la Banque de France alerte sur les fragilités économiques de la France et de l'Union européenne. Face à la pression croissante des États-Unis, il appelle à un sursaut européen, critique un déficit public jugé trop élevé pour 2026 et défend le traité de libre-échange avec le Mercosur, malgré la contestation politique.
By George F. Smith
January 24, 2026
As a "stealth tax," inflation requires no legislation to impose, no agency to collect, and diverts responsibility for damages onto politicians' favorite whipping boys. It gives government the ability to buy almost anything for nothing, while creating endless problems that serve as a pretext for intervention. Inflation is the foundation of arrogant government and a prescription for our own demise.