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McAlvany Financial Group
WEEKLY MONETARY, ECONOMIC, GEOPOLITICAL NEWS AND EVENTS
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Jul 23, 2025 • 43min
Cyber-Intrusion, Banking Fragility, & Petro-Dollar Replacement
If It’s Free To You Online, Realize That “You Are The Product” Banking Crises Are Actually Designed Ahead Of Time Dollar Recycling Being Replaced By Gold “And it just goes to show how vulnerable a lot of this infrastructure is, particularly the internet. When you talk about the internet as we conceive of it, like […]

Jul 16, 2025 • 31min
Dr. Peter Zhao: The Importance Of Virtue In Economics
Former Communist Atheist Explains Why A Market Economy With Churches Works China Is In Need Of Spiritual Reform To Save Economy When A Country Lacks Faith In God, The Nation Becomes Its God “I think there are four flash points of global geopolitical situations, and out of the four I identify three as already being […]

Jul 9, 2025 • 40min
Germany & Italy Want Their Gold Back
Devaluation? Dollar Loses 10% In Six Months Can Powell Lower Interest Rates Without A Dollar Crash? “90 Deals In 90 Days” – Only 2 So Far “Germans and Italians asking to repatriate their gold holdings from the US. This is not an insignificant sum, $245 billion in bullion they’d like to have onshore. If nothing […]

Jul 2, 2025 • 46min
The Power of Economic Warfare: Edward Fishman on Chokepoints, Sanctions & Strategy
Former State Dept. official Edward Fishman breaks down the rise of economic statecraft How modern warfare is waged by “guerrillas in gray suits” — not soldiers on battlefields Why controlling chokepoints and financial systems may prevent military escalation This week, we’re joined by Edward Fishman, Author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic […]

Jun 25, 2025 • 40min
What Type Of War, Banks or Bunker Busters?
Central Banks Now Have More In Gold Than In Euros 95% of Central Bankers See Their Gold Reserves Rising Over Next 12 Months Breakout In Silver & Mining Shares “When I talk about the investor coming into competition for ounces with a price-insensitive buyer, what’s underappreciated about gold, truly underappreciated, is the supply inelasticity there. […]

Jun 18, 2025 • 34min
War, Nukes, & Regime Change
Would Regime Change In Iran Effectively Solve The Nuclear Deal? Will The Middle East War Spread? Gold Replacing T-Bills As Flight Captial Preference “We talked about the breakout in silver, and I think silver more than even the gold market is your tell for the Western investor finally saying, maybe we do need some version […]

Jun 11, 2025 • 33min
“Sound Money” Actually Makes A Sound
Did Anyone In Government Read The Big Beautiful Bill? “Genius Act”: A Crypto Version Of Fiat Dollar Tomahawk 6 By Broadcom Threatens NVIDIA Share Value “The gold market has been driven by central bank demand, and one of the reasons why I wanted to highlight some of the moves in silver today and the change […]

Jun 4, 2025 • 43min
The Big Beautiful Bill’s Hidden Bomb
Jamie Dimon Says Bond Market Will Cause Panic In Future Section 899 Of Bill Could Scare Money Out Of Dollar Is Private Equity The New Money Trap “We go back to the 30,000-foot perspective and see that interest rates are the issue for the Treasury Departments in the UK and in the US and in […]

May 28, 2025 • 35min
Can We Really Outgrow Our Debt
Explore the rising bond yields and the shaky ground of the U.S. debt situation. Delve into personal anecdotes that weave military service with fiscal responsibility. Examine how government spending is pushing national deficits to alarming heights. Discover the contrasting roles of gold and Bitcoin as safe haven investments amid market volatility. Don't miss insights into the skepticism surrounding central banks and the urgent need to reassess economic strategies in a world of increasing inflation.

May 21, 2025 • 27min
Big Money Flowing Out Of U.S. Dollars
Buffett Eyes Japan As A Stronger Currency Trump Is Isolating Iran From Its Perceived Friends Register For Thursday’s Webinar “What we will look for as the final element in the international investor trifecta spurring on increased capital flight is when the US economy slows considerably. So if you then combine a slowing economy on top […]


