Peak Prosperity

Inflation came in a tad lighter than expected for June, but all the signs indicate that this was a temporary reprieve.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

We can all feel it and see the effects; there's a powerful machine running behind the scenes. Being able to see it clearly is the first step toward reclaiming your own agency and power (and possibly life).Click Here for Our Money System Is a Ponzi Scheme

Please share this with anybody who needs to be brought up to speed on what's at risk. Because it's quite a lot.Click Here for The Fat Pipe July 13th, 2026: Iran War Is Back, Russia Getting Pounded, WSJ on the SPR, Mitch’s Proof of Life Backfires, and Grab Bag

Ken McElroy sees the current trends and conditions for multifamily real estate as offering a very rare opportunity for investors. But AI is coming along like a freight train...how will that affect owners and renters alike?

I've been working on another big Theory of Everything. I'm always trying to determine "How do I make sense of this?" Is all of this just what happens... the end of empire, knuckleheads get in charge, is it pure incompetence?Click Here for the Full Episode

Creak! Pop! The Iran MOU is dead, Japan is busy fighting yen and yield fires, long bond yields are rising across the board, and South Korea's bubblicious stock market seems to have finally run out of buyers.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Stocks aren't just expensive, but are more expensive than at any other point in history including 1929 and 2000. The very last thing they'd need would be an energy price shock...Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

How much oil - and time - does the Strategic Petroleum Reserve have left? A lot of people have been guessing about it. I don't really like guessing, so we're going to go into the actual data as best we can.Click Here for the Full Episode

How much oil - and time - does the Strategic Petroleum Reserve have left? A lot of people have been guessing about it. I don't really like guessing, so we're going to go into the actual data as best we can.Click Here for the Full Episode

The oil and equity markets aren't just tricky, they defy reasonable explanations.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Trump suddenly caved in to Iran, and the reason is that he was finally informed by someone that just a few more weeks of the Strait being closed would result in a massive global economic catastrophe. Whew! Click Here for The Crash Course

Talk about a difficult investing environment! Join us as we unknot the tangled threads.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

To call the recent market moves in oil, gold and equities bizarre is an understatement. They are 180 degrees off from historical behaviors, as well as physical reality. Well, hello reality...Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Truly gigantic changes are afoot in the global financial system. Michael Gayed says "keep your eyes firmly on credit markets," especially credit spreads. And Japan...

It seems that the oil markets will remain irrational right to the bitter end. Predictions: Eventual oil price chaos (higher, of course) and the 'surprise' call for energy lockdowns and other punitive measures.Click Here for The Crash Course

With the Strait of Hormuz still closed, possibly until Labor Day (Sept 7th) , and inflation picking up steam while the yen threatens to breach the 160 level, the chance of a financial accident is rising daily. One that could trigger the Great Taking legal machinery...Peak Financial InvestingProtecting Your Wealth from The Great TakingRevisiting The Great Taking with David Rodgers Webb

I'm always searching for the theory that makes all the data fit. I'm happy to accept and reject hypotheses along the way, but it's becoming pretty clear to me that we are under attack and that a lot of what we're seeing right now is intentional. It's going to be devastating if this hypothesis is correct.Click Here for the Full Episode

The current stock market boom is running in the US as well as Japan and Europe. It did not begin with the Iran war, but began in 2022 when monetary and fiscal authorities freaked out about the twin declines in stocks and bonds and 'did something about it.' Now we've got that money flood plus the Iran war which, together, will combine to bring about extremely high (15%? 18%? 20%?) in 1-2 year's time..Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Having ‘energy awareness’ is like a superpower these days. It should be routine, but it’s not. Time to level up with a dive into natural gas supply and demand issues within the US.

The US is selling its reserve setting up future price spikes, commodities are launching on a new bull market, and inflation is set to come roaring back. This narrows down the investable universe considerably.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

The US continues to export its wealth in the form of oil and gasoline and other energy products. We’re eating our seed corn. When that ends, the price spikes will be extraordinary and cause a lot of economic damage.Click Here for the Crash Course

The US-Iran negotiations are going nowhere, Trump is growing impatient, and oil executives are sounding positively doomerish. Currently, there’s no end in sight. Plan accordingly.Click Here for the Full Episode

There be whales and elephants swimming and stomping through the markets. When big money moves, it’s our job to figure out why and how to position ourselves accordingly. This is wildly important.Click Here for the Full Episode

Are we in a blow off top? Can the AI-fueled earnings be believed? Can the prospect of both war and peace be stock market bullish? All this and much more in this week’s Finance U episode.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Time to talk to a calm, measured, highly-experienced oil and gas resource investor about it all…the Devil is truly in the details.

Trump’s Iran options: ‘bad’ negotiations or ‘worse’ escalation, amid an oil crisis risking a global depression.

We’re almost out of time. The US has to get the Strait of Hormuz open, one way or the other, before its own inventories of oil and refined petroleum products are depleted. By the end of May is the word on the street.

Urgent warnings about credit markets from Hank Paulson and Jamie Dimon deserve your attention. And the looming set of nested supply and inflationary shocks are being met with more money printing by the Fed.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens tonight, the damage has been done and it’s a lot worse than most people understand. Here’s the math… and the truth.Click Here for the Full Report

Equity markets are signaling the usual thing during a war: lots and lots of excess liquidity from “somewhere.” But this time, the loss of oil and NG from global markets means that physics has entered the room. I should point out that physics remains undefeated.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

We’ve entered a New Normal for US equity markets where fundamentals no longer seem to matter. Nor the reality of a a global disruption in energy and raw and intermediate products such as sulfur, aluminum, urea, helium, and ammonia.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

The suppression of the price of oil cannot last much longer. When it breaks – watch out – there could be significant (if not uncontrollable) market turmoil.Click Here for the Full Content

Time for our weekly Finance U episode with Paul Kiker. The “markets” are operating as if the largest energy shock in world history weren’t already unfolding and compounding by the day.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Western financial markets, (US, EU and Japan) are all stumbling into the future, no longer discounting, but seemingly lobotomized and unable to properly assess current and future realities.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Given the circumstances, US equity markets have been calm. Too calm…Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Between the unpredictable impacts of the world’s worst energy shock and the sudden loss of so many high salaried jobs to AI, what’s an investor to think (let alone do)?Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Things are developing slowly…then all at once…Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

The fog of war has crept over into the “markets” which are puzzlingly complacent. How to even begin to make sense of it all? Tune in…Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

I began my inquiry into AI with concern. Now I am profoundly alarmed: even if it goes well, catastrophic risks to work, wealth, and currency are ridiculously high.Click Here for the Full Premium Report

The headline stock index numbers look good, but beneath the surfaced things really aren’t all that great for the majority of Americans.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Creak! Pop! Beneath the surface equity markets are flashing warning signs.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

It’s time for the latest episode of Finance U. We dissect the latest BLS McJobs report (so named because it does not reflect reality) and the possibility that big money is quietly sneaking into energy and oil stocks.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Chris and Hakeem examine generational economic burdens, entrepreneurship risks, AI’s workforce impact, community resilience, real skills like permaculture, and cross-generational empathy for future uncertainties.Click Here for Hakeem's Company, AbovePhone

Was that a market liquidity tremor last week? If so, does that mean equity declines are ahead, or was it signaling something more dramatic?Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Get ready for some very alarming moves in the markets over the coming months. The old regime is ending and a new one is starting.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

One of my favorite podcast guests is back with us for our quarterly sit-down. Adam Rozencwajg’s thoughtful and measured views on trends, resources and commodities, are always rooted in an investment thesis that makes sense. and is backed by copious data. This one is a banger.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Staying abreast of these markets is a full time job. Unless you love doing it, which both myself and Paul Kiker do. Then it’s not work at all.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing

Dana Samuelson’s decades of precious metals experience shed light on the biggest monetary story of our lifetimes.Click Here for American Gold Exchange

Dave Russell joins me to discuss gold surge signaling monetary reset, fiat crisis, Japan’s bond yield spike, physical metals demand from big money, silver’s tech role, and gold as Tier Zero asset.Click Here for GoldCore

Do you know what is the last act of any bubble? The crack-up boom.Click Here for Peak Financial Investing