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A few days ago, at 03:20 AM, an earthquake hit Turkey and Syria hard; it also rocked the high-rise that I reside in. At 07:40 AM, as I called the elevator to escort my daughter to her school, where she attends 1st grade, a neighbor who was already in the elevator asked me if I felt the quake.

The EndTwo weeks ago, when I was in France, in the village of Valmorel, my wife and I took the chairlift up the mountain. As we got off it, in front of us were two attractions: (1) a paragliding slope, where you ski for 10 meters and then you're in the air, gliding...

No need to be alarmed; the price of gold isn’t plummeting, but I was sent this message yesterday, before the FED meeting, along with an attached chart. The sender told me that gold is insanely overvalued right now and that we’re about to see it go down to an abyss of $1,700, when the Federal Reserve continues raising rates into a recession.

For 40 years, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, has been an influential figure in shaping policies – primarily in the West – and how they relate to other countries and global dominance.

As we have already written about many times, some of the biggest threats to China are the geographical barriers from the Strait of Malacca. It is a trading corridor that could easily be blocked by the U.S. and its allies in times of geopolitical tension and wartime escalation, so the CCP is looking for new trade routes. As we all know, they are advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.

In the near future, we could all wake up to the sound of sirens, breaking news, and the early stages of WW3, so unlike in the days of the original Pearl Harbor, I want to lay out how a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could go. To me, this possibility seems like a last-ditch effort in a long line of alternative political, economic, and diplomatic plans that could fail and leave the Chinese fresh out of other ideas and without much to lose, forcing them to choose the riskiest and deadliest of all military strike blueprints.

“Frenemy” is an oxymoron and a portmanteau of “friend” and “enemy.” In the Middle East, I know this term all too well. You may find this hard to believe, but Israel and Iran used to be on the best of terms until the 1979 revolution. Even in the 1980s, Israel and Iran conducted business that included military and weapons.

On Sunday, I explained how the petrodollar is, perhaps for the first time since 1944, in jeopardy of losing its status as a risk-free asset, an event that will have dire consequences for every American and, indeed, for every person, business and government in the world.

My late grandmother was a Polish Jew, whose family migrated to Frankfurt and settled there. When she was born in 1927, Germany was in the midst of recovering from the Weimar Republic hyperinflation, but by 1933, as the Great Depression in the U.S. plummeted the German economy into a tailspin, Hitler’s party won the elections.

“This is the beginning of the new beginning,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson, who was sworn in this past May. He was talking about Artemis 1, which we’ll get to. In 2022, the race to space was boosted by thrust and ignition, with private players and government alike all competing for first dibs on the universe.