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U.S. Gold Reset: "Stolen" Gold in Fort Knox, US Dollar VS. Gold, Revaluation, Bitcoin Reserve & $37 T Debt Payoff | Ryan McMaken

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As the gold price reached $3,000 per troy ounce, the Trump administration may consider revaluing U.S. gold reserves. Despite the fact that calls to audit Fort Knox have died down, the existence of nearly 8,000 tons of gold (worth about $750 billion) held at Fort Knox is still surrounded by mystery. Does the gold at Fort Knox even exist? What is its true origin? What’s driving the federal government’s lack of transparency? Will gold revaluation collapse the U.S. dollar, as so many gold brokers claim? Will gold reserves be used to pay off $37 trillion in U.S. national debt or buy Bitcoin for the newly created Federal Bitcoin Reserve? I discussed these and other questions with Ryan McMaken, economist and executive editor at the Mises Institute.

Ryan McMaken notes that the gold held at Fort Knox was effectively “stolen” from the American public by the U.S. government after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 in 1933. This order effectively made gold ownership, both in coins and bars, illegal for all Americans and punishable by up to ten years in prison.

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STOLEN Gold in Fort Knox, US Dollar VS. Gold, REVALUATION, Bitcoin Reserve & $37T Debt| Ryan McMaken

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PREPARE FOR APRIL 2: What the Launch of New Aggressive Tariff Regime Means for You

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STAGFLATION Alert: Panic Begins as Inflation Rises, US Economy Slows & Trade Policy Chaos Deepens

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Venezuela Blockade: Donald Trump Promises to Impose Tariffs on All Oil Importers Venezuela, Targets China and the EU

As America’s “Liberation Day” nears, the Trump administration added yet another country to a growing list of targeted states. The US will impose a 25% tariff on all importers of oil from Venezuela. President Trump clarified that the new tariff would be added to any other tariffs on trade with the United States.

During the past 12 months, nearly 200 cargo ships carrying Venezuela’s oil travelled to Europe, and 90 oil tankers shipped oil to China. The Trump administration might view the policy as a “two birds one stone” approach that allows it to wreck what’s left of Venezuela’s economy (as of February 2024, approximately 82% of Venezuelans live in poverty), potentially increase the cost of a fraction of China’s oil imports and weaken the EU, thus forcing it to focus on the US as its main source of energy (to its own detriment, without a doubt).

Imposing an economic blockade on Venezuela’s main source of revenue will cause disproportionate harm to the country’s civilian population. While economic sanctions are designed to destabilize the country from within, Nicolas Maduro has proven to be rather immune to covert regime change operations.

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End of Dollar Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Economy, Dedollarization Is Irreversible

“The greatest threat to dollar hegemony is that Washington might destroy the pillars underlying the currency’s appeal: rule of law, contract enforcement, government transparency, the unquestioned safety of US treasuries.” (Financial Times)

In a recently published article, Financial Times points out several “truths” that were previously regarded as anti-American: de-dollarization is the result of failed Washington’s policies, not the inherent “evil” of China, Russia, or other actors seeking to protect their economic sovereignty. While the entire world has started to point out the hypocrisy of waging economic wars and weaponizing the most valuable asset of the United States, its dollar as the global reserve currency, US policymakers appear to be in denial as the day when an aggressive tariff regime goes into effect is celebratory advertised as “America’s Liberation Day”.

Since access to the dollar system was essential for governments and businesses around the globe, Washington could punish adversaries without firing a bullet by blocking their ability to transact in dollars.

The trend to amplify currency multipolarity is one of many features that accompany the transition from unipolarity to a more balanced global structure. The US's ability to print an endless supply of dollars and export them abroad solidified US monetary hegemony. The decline of trust in the US dollar is a symptom of a much deeper shift that is transforming the world as well as its main actors.

NEW US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: Looting and Economic Colonization

The US-Ukraine minerals deal, expected to be signed any day, is nothing short of looting Ukraine’s resources for generations to come: the deal, in its current format, is “indefinite” and hands over all resources—oil, gas, minerals—to the United States as the main beneficiary. Even Ukraine’s members of Parliament are protesting on social media platforms: "It [the deal] is not in our favor!

While Volodymir Zelensky appears to deny that close to $120 billion provided in military assistance to Ukraine is, in fact, debt (one has to wonder - did Zelensky believe it was charity or humanitarian aid, or is this a maneuver to manipulate Donald Trump?) that Ukraine must repay, both sides appear to indicate that the agreement is close to being signed.


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This Week’s Top Headlines

  • On Friday, Elon Musk’s xAI acquired X (formerly Twitter) at a valuation of $33 billion. Combined valuation of XAI Holdings now exceeds $100 billion, not including the debt.

  • With the price of vehicles expected to rise due to new 25% tariffs effective April 3, auto dealers report complete chaos in their showrooms as buyers attempt to purchase a vehicle before the price increases. Automakers are accelerating shipments and builds.

    “US dealerships are sitting on about 60 to 90 days of inventory on average, providing them with a cushion against the immediate effects of the tariffs.

    What happens after that supply runs out remains unclear. Analysts say that automakers will most likely absorb some of the higher costs, dealers may see a hit to profitability and consumers will pay the rest. But exactly how that’s all balanced out is anyone’s guess at this point.” (Bloomberg)

  • The Trump administration is moving ahead with the Golden Dome missile defense project. This is not the first time the US has attempted to create the infrastructure— after issuing an executive order to make it official, President Donald Trump drew parallels with the well-known Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. An advanced system, whether it is practically justified or not, will cost billions of dollars to develop and implement, and it is a major win for American defense contractors.

  • President Trump threatened Iran, stating that “bad things will happen” if it refused to negotiate with the United States. The escalation follows Iran’s response, conveyed to the US via Oman, which indicated that the country will not agree to coercion but is open to diplomatic, respectful negotiations.

    Following the US withdrawal from the JCPOA agreement, which, according to independent reports, Iran was in full compliance with, the Trump administration may attempt to revive the failed deal. Whether such attempts will be made in good faith remains to be seen.

  • Despite not being acknowledged as such by the responsible parties, the Signalgate scandal that unraveled this week is a complete disaster on an international scale. Where does one even begin? Bombing an entire residential building to allegedly target a single individual, then cheering on an “excellent” outcome as the building collapses with civilians inside? Dislcosure of what should be classified information? A detailed list of planned bombings on Yemen? The list goes on…

    Here is a video of the “bomb Yemen” group chat shared by The Atlantic:

    Ted Snider's article "The Signal Scandal, Carelessness, Revelations, and Hypocrisy" provides an excellent perspective on the failure to protect national security and adhere to the rules of war.

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What I’m Reading & Listening to This Week

  • This week I enjoyed a podcast America’s Constitutional Crisis by featuring Prof. Katherine Franke from Columbia University. Whether you are independent, right, left or somewhere in the middle, it may be time to admit that selective application of law, as well as blutantly silencing dissent, is a red flag and a sign of much more pervaisive, structural issues that will only exxacerbate if left unchecked.

  • I focused on reading a well-resesarched, insightful book by Samuel Moyn, Humane. I will discuss it in greater detail in a new, Substack-exclusive, video series featuring interviews with authors that I am currently working on (please stay tuned and subscribe to get updates when it is released!)

    Moyn examines the evolution of modern warfare and the bi-partisan push for so-called “humanitarianism” in the context of US foreign policy.

    The author argues that this shift, which began in the mid-20th century, coincided with the rise of "humane" warfare tactics, such as precision bombing and drone strikes, which are portrayed by policymakers as less destructive and more ethical than traditional warfare methods. As we know well, these efforts have not necessarily led to less violence or fewer civilian casualties. Instead, they have provided a moral cover for ongoing US military interventions and endless wars abroad.


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NEW US - Ukraine Minerals Deal: Looting and Economic Colonization

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🔴 End of Dollar Empire: How America Weaponized the World's Economy, Dedollarization Is Irreversible

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🚨 Trump Administration Blockades Venezuela With 80% Citizens Living in Poverty, Sanctions EU & China

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Ukraine's Sabotage: Zelensky Strikes Russia's Key Natural Gas Facility, Violates Limited Ceasefire

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🚨 WAR FUND: EU Seeks 10 Trillion Euros in 'Citizens' Savings' to Fund the War Machine

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🚨 Fed's NEW Forecast: Rise in Unemployment, Inflation Increase and Slow Growth

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🔴 The U.S. & Qatar Celebrate a Win as Qatar Starts Exporting Gas via Arab Pipeline, With US Approval

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VIDEO: Interview with Maria Zakharova

The Russia House had a special guest, Maria Zakharova, the Spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry. What started as a classic interview turned into a remarkable conversation that touched on the very essence of the problems that exist today between Russia and the West, emphasizing the responsibility on the part of the West for these problems, and underscoring how important it is to overcome Russophobia if solutions to these problems are to be found.

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Classical conditioning holds that a neutral stimulus, when associated with a specific response, will over time become a conditioned stimuli which triggers a conditioned response. It’s basic cause-effect relationship analysis. Ivan Pavlov made it a household concept by studying the relationship between a dog’s salivation and the presence of food. “Pavlov’s response” is one thing when it is generated under controlled laboratory conditions. It’s another thing altogether when it occurs in “the wild”, where the impact of conditioned stimuli and its related conditional response often goes unnoticed in a world which overlooks these relationships until it is too late.

In the North End neighborhood of the city of Albany, a seedier section of the capital of New York State where old brick buildings dating back to the late 19th century stand in various states of disrepair, sits a four-ton, 28-foot-tall steel and fiberglass statue of a fox terrier named Nipper, the canine mascot of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA).

Nipper was one of four identical monumental terriers which were perched atop the regional distribution centers of RTA Corporation, an appliance distributor which specialized in RCA products; others graced the skylines of Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City. Overtime, the other Nipper statues succumbed to time and waning economic fortune, their buildings being abandoned and eventually torn down, together with the statues. Only in Albany did Nipper live on, and in the process became an iconic landmark of the city itself, which has adopted Nipper as its unofficial de facto mascot.

Nipper is named after a fox terrier owned by Francis Barraud, an artist from Liverpool, England who, in 1898, upon seeing Nipper listening to a wind-up cylinder phonograph playing a recording of his owner’s voice (Barraud’s brother), captured the moment in a painting, “His Master’s Voice.” The painting later was used as the basis for trademarks of several companies, perhaps none more famous than RCA.

The cause-effect relationship between an owner’s voice and a pet dog is well known to anyone who has ever owned a dog—the master calls the dog’s name, and the dog responds by running to the sound of their master’s voice.

Dogs are conditioned to comprehend changes in the tone of their Master’s voice, knowing when the master is pleased or angry, and responding accordingly.

This is the byproduct of what is known as “classical conditioning”. Right about the time Nipper was captured tilting his head to the sound of his master’s voice, a Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, was conducting research into the salivation of dogs. After inserting a small test tube into the mouths of his canine test subjects, the dogs were then fed with a special mix of powder made from meat. The experiment was predicated upon the assumption that dogs would salivate when presented with the food. But Pavlov soon discovered that the dogs began salivating when they heard the footsteps of his assistant down the hallway, who was bringing the food. Pavlov soon realized that stimuli that the dogs associated with food would trigger the same physiological reaction as the food itself—the classic “Pavlovian response.”

There are many scientific terms which came into being because of Pavlov’s work, and the work of psychologists who followed up on his findings. These are:

Neutral Stimulus (NS), a stimulus that initially does not elicit a particular response or reflex action. For example, in Pavlov’s experiment, the sound of his assistant’s footsteps was a neutral stimulus initially, as it did not cause the dogs to salivate.

Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS), a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed. In Pavlov’s experiment, the food was the unconditioned stimulus as it automatically induced salivation in the dogs.

Conditioned Stimulus (CS), a previously neutral stimulus that, after being repeatedly associated with an unconditioned stimulus, trigger a conditioned response. For instance, in Pavlov’s experiment, the assistant’s footsteps became a conditioned stimulus when the dogs learned to associate it with food.

Conditioned Response (CR), a learned response to the conditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s experiment, salivating in response to the assistant’s footsteps was the conditioned response.

Unconditioned Response (UR), an automatic, innate reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. In Pavlov’s experiment, the dogs’ automatic salivation in response to the food is an example of an unconditioned response.

According to Pavlovian theory, conditioned stimulus and conditioned response can occur in a vacuum, meaning that rather than being the byproduct of the intent of a laboratory experiment, the unpredictable reality of life can produce the same result, often without the subject realizing it.

Misophonia is a disorder where one has a decreased tolerance to specific sounds and things that can be sensed that are related to them. Misophonia is often triggered by post-traumatic stress. Many military veterans suffer from a form of misophonia; I, for instance, am triggered by the sound of helicopters.

We Americans like to see ourselves as happy go lucky people. An attribute that is often associated with Americans is their constant smile, and their willingness to engage in conversations with complete strangers as if they were life-long friends. While the United States is a diverse nation, possessing no single accent, the collective range of the American way of speaking is easily discernable as uniquely American, distinct from other forms of Anlo-Saxon linguistic expression.

Our speech has become a unique identifier and is often used to depict Americans when seeking to describe the “happy American” or the “ugly American”, and every variation of American in between. In movies American tourists are often identified by their uniquely American way of speech.

Using Pavlovian cues, the American voice, in and of itself, is a neutral stimulus.

Hunger, fear, anger, frustration, sadness.

These are emotions that can be triggered automatically by unconditional stimuli that are naturally seen as eliciting these emotions—the lack of food, war, altercations, loss.

Over time, if the unconditional responses which trigger the aforementioned range of emotions become linked to the sound of an American voice, then, according to Pavlov, we have achieved what is known as a conditioned response (the emotions) triggered by a conditioned stimulus (the sound of an American voice.)

So here is a Pavlovian experiment for my fellow Americans to consider:

We give voice to positions, ideas, and concepts using our unique way of speaking.

These positions, ideas, and concepts are heavily influenced by Russophobia, resulting in actions that produce events and actions inside Russia capable of triggering emotions which are the logical byproduct of unconditioned responses.

Over time, the people of Russia come to associate the sound of an American voice articulating these positions, ideas, and concepts with the events and actions which generate these negative emotions.

In short, the Russian people have developed a Misophonic reaction to the sound of our voice.

Think about it.

We are trying hard to repair relations between Russia and the United States.

We are trying to reach out to the Russian people to convince them that we are able and willing to live together in peace and harmony.

But the very sound of our voice triggers a response that is repulsive to the Russians.

We are our own worst enemies.

There are mixed opinions on whether a conditioned response can ever be disassociated with a conditioned stimulus.

In short, this means the sound of an American voice may always be found to be repulsive by Russians of the current generation.

We Americans need to do better.

We need to think of Nipper, and his adorable tilt of the head, and understand that the depiction we find so endearing was born of a conditioned response to a conditioned stimulus based upon love.

If we can’t get the current generation of Russians to stop recoiling at the sound of our voices, then let us try to ensure that future generations of Russians will not have the same conditioned response.

The problem isn’t the Russian people.

The problem is us.

We need to do better.

We need to start viewing the Russian people as people deserving of respect, admiration, friendship, and love.

If we can do this, then we are creating a conditioned stimulus which is capable of producing a conditioned response, in short, a situation where the Russian people look forward to hearing, seeing, and meeting their American counterparts.

Because, at the end of the day, it is not about the sound of their voices that matters as much as the intent behind the sound.

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