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The Road to 7% Yields and a Stock Market Crash, showing AI buildout, military spending and US reindustrialization driving interest rates higher.

The Road to 7% Yields and a Stock Market Cras…

Posted September 27, 2026

The yield on the 10-year US government bond surged above 5.2% last week, reaching its highest level since 2007. That move has major implications for stocks, property, borrowing costs and

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Higher oil prices, inflation, and interest rates illustrated with a diesel pump, oil refinery, rising Treasury yield chart, and the headline “Higher Oil. Higher Inflation. Higher Rates.”

The Fed Had To Raise Rates To Stop Rates From…

Posted September 18, 2026

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates this week. At first glance, the reason seems obvious: inflation is too high. But I believe something much more interesting—and potentially much more important—is

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Interview: The New Economic Era

Posted September 15, 2026

I recently joined Keith Weinhold on the Get Rich Education podcast to discuss some of the biggest forces reshaping the global economy today. We talked about the new defense spending boom, the

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Industrial shredder destroying Japanese yen, symbolizing the Bank of Japan’s quantitative tightening and its risks to global financial markets.

Japan’s Monetary Reversal Could Wipe Out Tr…

Posted September 3, 2026

For more than 25 years, the Bank of Japan conducted the most radical monetary experiment the world had ever seen. Now, the BOJ is reversing that experiment—and Japanese government bond

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Cracking yen symbol bound by snapping cables above Tokyo and falling global market charts, representing the risk of a yen carry-trade unwind.

Japan Could Shake Global Markets Again

Posted August 21, 2026

Is the Yen Carry Trade About to Unwind? During the first days of August 2024, the yen appreciated by approximately 13%. That helped trigger an abrupt unwind of the yen

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Free Video: The Defense Industry Is Being Rei…

Posted July 31, 2026

I have just published a new seven-minute video, The Defense Industry Is Being Reinvented. It is free for everyone to watch, and I highly recommend it. Click here to watch this

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Deficits, Bubbles, China, Defense, and AI – Macro Watch

FREE VIDEO: Deficits, Bubbles, China, Defense…

Posted July 23, 2026

This Macro Watch video is free for everyone to watch. You do not need to be a Macro Watch subscriber. Over the last several months, Macro Watch has examined a

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Massive AI infrastructure construction in the United States showing data centers, electrical substations, transmission lines, and semiconductor manufacturing facilities supporting the AI arms race.

The AI Arms Race Has Begun

Posted July 9, 2026

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the most important military technology of our age. The country that masters AI first will dominate the rest of this century economically, militarily, and strategically.

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Image showing a rocket launch, military drones, a stealth aircraft, and defense command screens with the title The Silicon Valley Challengers.

The Silicon Valley Challengers

Posted June 25, 2026

The US defense industry is being transformed. For decades, the Pentagon relied mainly on a small group of large defense contractors to build America’s most important weapons systems. Those companies

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Collage featuring fighter aircraft, naval shipbuilding, missile production, and a submarine representing America’s traditional defense contractors.

The Titans of Traditional Defense

Posted June 11, 2026

America is entering a new era of rearmament. President Trump has called for $1.5 trillion of defense spending in fiscal year 2027, a dramatic increase from just two years ago.

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