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Macroeconomics, markets, trading psychology and geopolitics — explained clearly, without the jargon.

Trading

How Professional Traders Actually Think

It's not the strategy that separates professional traders from amateurs — it's process, discipline, and how they handle being wrong. Here's what years of mentoring successful and failed traders reveals.

August 1, 2026
Markets

Europe: The Beginning of the End?

Loose monetary policy, mass migration, and a costly energy gamble have left Europe's industrial core exposed. Here's how the ECB ended up trapped between saving the euro and saving the economy.

February 9, 2025
Markets

What's Really Happening in China?

Office vacancies above Covid-era levels, a property market buried in bad debt, and youth unemployment near 25% — China's slowdown looks far deeper than official numbers suggest, and the social strain is starting to show.

September 14, 2024
Commodities

Gold as a Hedge: What's Really Driving the Rally

Gold's surge isn't a speculative fluke — it's the clearest signal of just how much value the dollar has quietly lost since 2020. Here's the case for why gold still has room to run.

May 12, 2024
Markets

How the American Dream of Homeownership Was Destroyed

Decades of welfare housing policy, cheap credit, and runaway inflation have quietly priced most people out of owning a home. This is the full story of how it happened, one administration at a time.

April 7, 2024
Macroeconomics

Is the Fed Quietly Losing the Fight Against Inflation?

The Fed keeps promising a return to 2% inflation, but the data tells a different story — one where 3%-plus is becoming the quiet new normal, and where that serves the government's interests more than the public's.

March 16, 2024
Education

A Brief History of the International Monetary System

From the gold standard to Bretton Woods to today's floating-rate dollar system, the history of global money reveals the same trilemma playing out again and again — and hints at where the system goes from here.

March 2, 2024
Geopolitics

The Middle East Crisis and Its Impact on the World

The widening Gaza conflict is colliding with a fragile U.S. debt picture and fading confidence in the dollar. Here's why the fallout could send gold to record highs in 2024.

February 3, 2024
Macroeconomics

2024: Which Direction Is the World Heading?

With pivotal elections in the U.S. and UK, shaky coalitions across the EU, and wars in Ukraine and Gaza still unresolved, 2024 looks set to accelerate the retreat from multilateralism.

January 2, 2024
Commodities

What to Expect from Gold in 2024?

Gold thrived on uncertainty in 2023. Drawing on the 2007-2010 crisis playbook and today's inflated market bubbles, we assess whether gold is set for new all-time highs in 2024.

December 22, 2023