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THE OUROBOROS | Here's why we are reaching the end of AI Bubble
Now THIS IS the time to sell.
 • Dorian
WEEKLY MACRO | The Fed Faces Three Flashpoints This Week — Markets Are Priced for None of Them
FOMC minutes, a Fed governor's board fight, and Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote land in the same eight days, while the VIX curve prices the outcome…
 • Dorian
Dr. Copper’s Four Ratios: What Gold, Silver, Oil, and the COMEX-LME Spread Are Saying
Is Dr. Copper screaming global economic expansion?
 • Dorian
Why Bitcoin Can't Hold $64,000: A Bearish EMA Stack and a Dying Senate Bill
Institutional flows turned negative the same week the CLARITY Act's odds started falling — here's the September calendar that decides which one breaks…
 • Dorian
The Bad Transparency: How the Fed Is Becoming Trump’s Fed
Kevin Warsh walked into his first FOMC meeting as chairman and did something no recent predecessor would have risked.
 • Dorian
Japan’s insurers and GPIF are buying JGBs again, not selling — so why is the yen still near 40-year lows despite two BOJ hikes?
Four forces are pulling at USD/JPY — insurer buying, a mixed BOJ signal, capital repatriation, and a US toolkit that's already thinning. None of them…
 • Dorian
THE 12% LIE 99% OF INVESTORS ARE TOLD
What actually happens to the S&P 500'S average return once it meets your money.
 • Dorian
THE GOLD PRIMER: GOLD IS INSURANCE. SILVER IS A WAGER. MOST TRADERS NEVER LEARN THE DIFFERENCE.
A primer on how the two metals actually trade — and why confusing them costs money
 • Dorian
MACRO WEEKLY | GOLD’S FOUR PRICES: WHY BULLION BECAME THE PhD OF THE MACRO MARKET
Four different examiners are grading gold right now, and only one of them has been passing all year.
 • Dorian
Forced Sellers Move Markets More Than Headlines Do
The 2022 UK gilt crisis, the August 2024 VIX spike, and every quarterly index rebalance trace back to the same mechanism — someone running out of room…
 • Dorian
The Carry Trade That Could Break the Treasury Market: Inside Japan’s Yen Defense and the 2026 Unwind Risk
The carry trade that funds half the world’s risk appetite is already back near record size — and this time the exit runs straight through the US…
 • Dorian
BESSENT PUBLICLY ORDERS THE FED TO BAIL OUT THE YEN — AND LEAVES WARSH NO QUIET WAY OUT
Treasury just asked the Fed to underwrite Japan’s currency war. Warsh’s answer will decide who runs monetary policy from here.
 • Dorian
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