by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 9, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Iran, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
The fact that China is America’s greatest geostrategic challenge is now so obvious as to have become cliché. Yet over the past five years, the United States has expended great effort and astronomical sums of resources—not to mention deficit spending—on two potentially...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jun 25, 2026 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Monetary System, Policy, Trump Administration, USA, War
In the Homeric epic Odyssey, the hero Odysseus navigates the storms of the “wine-dark sea,” seeking to return to his home and family after many years of war-fighting. He must first pass through a narrow strait of water, one with dangers on both sides. To...
by Michael Wilkerson | May 21, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Israel, Markets, Oil, Russia, Trump Administration, USA, War
What the U.S.-Iraq Wars Can Teach us The U.S.-led Gulf War (1991) saw Iraq’s large but unsophisticated military decimated, its vast infrastructure obliterated, and its formal leadership structures shattered, all within a few weeks of initial combat. U.S. President...
by Michael Wilkerson | May 18, 2026 | Banks, Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Politics, Trump Administration, USA, War
If the economy were represented by a dashboard, the warning lights have been switching on one by one over the past month. Each week brings not an alarm announcing an emergency, but discrete indicators quietly turning from green or yellow to red across multiple areas...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 21, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Blog Articles, Economy, Education, Finance, Inflation, Student Loans, Trump Administration, USA
The government sponsored student loan industry is a system structured to fail its borrowers and enrich university administrations at taxpayer expense. It should be profoundly reformed. When the Biden administration announced its student loan debt forgiveness program...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 11, 2026 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, NATO, Politics, Trump Administration, USA
During the past decade, a period in which Germany (Europe’s largest economy) was busy committing national energy suicide and France was trying to decide whether it wanted to remain French, Poland was steadily rebuilding what is now one of the strongest and most...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 31, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Trump Administration, USA, War
Prices for retail diesel and gas have each risen by over one-third ($1.30+ and $1.00 per gallon, respectively) since the launch of Epic Fury. Americans learned in the 1970s that Middle East conflict means energy pain, and that lesson has been reinforced through every...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 28, 2026 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Oil, Qatar, Russia, Trade, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
And How the United States and Russia May Benefit The global natural gas market is now in disarray, and this negatively affects everything in the modern economy … from agriculture to transportation to semiconductor manufacturing and beyond. The market did not just...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 6, 2026 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Gold, Healthcare, Historical, Inflation, Iran, Monetary System, Oil, Politics, Trump Administration, USA, War
A wartime economy is no longer a hypothetical future scenario to contemplate. It has already arrived. This week, with U.S. forces launching what the Trump administration labeled “Epic Fury” against Iran, the question is no longer whether war will affect markets and...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 12, 2026 | Banks, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Gold, Historical, Monetary System, Trump Administration, USA
With all the attention of late on the remarkable price moves in gold and silver, it is surprising that the question of a comprehensive audit of the U.S. government’s gold reserves, a headline issue one year ago, has been conveniently memory-holed. For a time in early...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 4, 2026 | Banks, Bitcoin, Blog Articles, Crypto, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Gold, Historical, Markets, Monetary System, Trade, Trump Administration, USA, Venezuela
Investors have been rightly impressed by gold’s remarkable run, which in dollar terms has doubled in price over the past year. This performance vastly outpaces the stock markets (which are also sitting at all-time highs) and Bitcoin (trading sideways for months), the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 16, 2026 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Trump Administration, USA
Nothing illustrates the disconnect between the financial economy’s (Wall Street’s) prosperity and the average household’s (Main Street’s) struggles than the increasing unaffordability of home ownership in America. In the post-war economic boom (around 1960) the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 21, 2025 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Immigration, Inflation, Trump Administration, USA
November’s job report, released this week from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), sent mixed signals about the health of the economy. On the one hand, payrolls were up much more than expected at over 64,000, of which private sector jobs increased by 69,000...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 8, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Blog Articles, China, Crypto, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Russia, Technology, Trump Administration, USA, War
It is difficult to overstate the sea change that the world is facing as a result of the rapid acceleration of advanced computing technologies and their applications—especially in AI, robotics, quantum computing, and micro-nuclear power. Thanks to a generation of human...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 27, 2025 | Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, USA
This week’s release of September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), a barometer of U.S. inflation, confirmed that inflation persists across the economy. Both CPI and Core CPI (which excludes food and energy prices), advanced by three percent on an annual basis. This was...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 3, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Education, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Immigration, Inflation, Politics, Technology, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA, War
America is fighting a war on three fronts. The first is primarily external; a conflict waged against known foreign adversaries based outside our borders. The second front is against the domestic enemies of our nation, actors actively working as a fifth column within...
by Michael Wilkerson | Sep 11, 2025 | Antichrist, Blog Articles, Historical, Politics, Terrorism, Trump Administration, USA
Charlie Kirk represented everything that is good about America. He was kind, compassionate, and truly cared for the people he met from all walks of life. He was committed to open debate and free speech. He believed in vigorously defending the truth, but wasn’t...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jul 3, 2025 | Blog Articles, Geopolitics, Historical, Iran, Islam, Israel, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Terrorism, Trump Administration, USA, War
For over 45 years, the people of Iran have been under the oppressive boot of the radical Islamic clerics who took over the country in 1979. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in power since the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, has continued his...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jun 16, 2025 | Banks, Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Policy, Politics, Tariffs, Technology, Trump Administration, USA
The Trump administration (and the President himself) have been pressing hard on the Federal Reserve (and especially its chairman, Jerome Powell) to further reduce interest rates. President Trump argues that inflation is under control, and that by prolonging higher...
by Michael Wilkerson | May 20, 2025 | Blog Articles, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Policy, Politics, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, USA
Tax Cuts are Revenue Cuts The U.S. financial markets and the American consumer are both expressing concern about the state of the economy. The impact of tariffs, downgrades, deficits, tax bills, and inflation are each being weighed. The U.S. has a severe spending...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 9, 2025 | Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Inflation, Trade, Trump Administration, USA
Last week was the worst week for the U.S. stock market since the “COVID crash” of March 2020. Indexes such as the S&P500 and the NASDAQ are each down over ten percent since Wednesday. Friday saw the largest volume of shares traded in one day ever. Markets...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 19, 2025 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Oil, Sanctions, Tariffs, Trump Administration, Ukraine
Energy prices are falling, but perhaps for the wrong reasons U.S. inflation cooled in February, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising less than expected at 2.8 percent. Excluding food and energy, Core CPI rose by 3.1 percent, as services costs such as shelter and...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog Articles, Crypto, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Policy, Politics, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, Ukraine, USA
Austerity has a price … worth paying The Trump administration came into office with an ambitious set of promises in tow. During his campaign, and among other things, President Trump committed to end the immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border, stop the war in...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 22, 2025 | Banks, Bitcoin, Blog Articles, BRICS, CBDCs, China, Crypto, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Tariffs, Trump Administration
Precious metals prices are on the move 2025 has started off with a golden hue. Gold and silver have been among the best performing asset classes in 2025, up 12% and 14%, respectively, year-to-date. Over the past two months, these precious metals have outperformed...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 31, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Banks, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Politics, Technology, Trade, Trump Administration, USA
Only time will tell whether the threat is real During the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution was facilitated by a new form of technology: railroads. By 1890, an estimated $10 billion ($347 billion in today’s value) had been raised for the industry in public...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 29, 2024 | Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, China, Crypto, Economy, Elections, Finance, Geopolitics, Iran, Monetary System, Russia, Sanctions, Technology, Trump Administration, USA
When then Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump pivoted in 2024 from crypto-skeptic to arch crypto-advocate, he successfully won over an industry of potential voters that, for the most part, hadn’t previously been active in politics or, in many cases, even voted at...