Weekly Recap
Why $140k Feels Like the New Poverty Line, Platinum Becomes One of 2025’s Top Performers, Japan Raises Rates Kicking Off the Unwind of the Yen Carry Trade
Why Everyone Feels Poor Right Now—Even If the Government Says Otherwise
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Matt Smith recently wrote about macro strategist Michael Green’s analysis of America’s poverty line. Green discovered something striking: if you take the government’s own 1963 methodology for calcula…
Gold’s Not #2 Anymore in 2025
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Silver’s the best performing precious metal this year. You probably knew that. But do you know what’s second? If you said gold, you’d be wrong. It’s actually a metal most investors don’t usually thin…
Japan Just Raised Rates Again—And a Slow-Motion Crisis Has Begun
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Yesterday, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its benchmark interest rate to 0.75%. That’s the highest level in roughly three decades.
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