Written by Bryan Lutz, Editor at Dollarcollapse.com:
Every Sunday morning I sit down to write a few thoughts.
Sometimes these thoughts end up being about life, other times they are on gold, geopolitical issues affecting the markets, or the economy.
Here are three thoughts for this morning:
1. The Institutions are coming down. Here’s one more example.
It’s the Fourth Turning, a time of upheavel, uncertainty, and even chaos.
DOGE revealed just how much NGO corruption was happening through USAID, social security, and even through Trump’s big, beautiful, budget earlier this year.
Now we’re seeing RFK Jr’s work tear through the US Food and Drug Administration.
Take a look at the corruption from regulatory capture.
Brownstone Institute reports:
FDA Exposed: Hundreds of Drugs Approved without Proof They Work
“The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hundreds of drugs without proof that they work—and in some cases, despite evidence that they cause harm.
That’s the finding of a blistering two-year investigation by medical journalists Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee, published by The Lever.
Reviewing more than 400 drug approvals between 2013 and 2022, the authors found the agency repeatedly ignored its own scientific standards.
One expert put it bluntly—the FDA’s threshold for evidence “can’t go any lower because it’s already in the dirt.”
The findings were damning—73% of drugs approved by the FDA during the study period failed to meet all four basic criteria for demonstrating “substantial evidence” of effectiveness.
Those four criteria—presence of a control group, replication in two well-conducted trials, blinding of participants and investigators, and the use of clinical endpoints like symptom relief or extended survival—are supposed to be the bedrock of drug evaluation.
Yet only 28% of drugs met all four criteria—40 drugs met none.”
It’s not only the FDA that’s going to be turned upside.
Watch Big Pharma fall…
And then watch Americans stop taking pills and start getting sleep, exercising and eating unprocessed foods.
2. The S&P 500 hit new all-time-highs this week. This is what a pump and dump profit taking looks like at the end of the day.
There’s so much cash just floating around out there, it’s unbelievable.
Institutional investors have enough money to move markets on good news.
(For most of the fiat era, they always have.)
Specifically, WWIII averted (or not yet, at least).
And so the S&P 500 went up.
Then the money managers took their profit Friday afternoon, booked off early and headed to the local men’s club on Wall Street for an Old Fashioned and a Cuban.
The point is, they made profit.
If you’re a retail investor managing your own savings, that’s the point that should be coming across.
The S&P can be a pump and dump.
New all-time highs are great times for profit taking.
3. I’m no expert on crypto, or Bitcoin but, Bitcoin is making its mark in traditional finance.
Mark Jeftovic has been tracking a select few companies that hold Bitcoin on the balance sheet and use it to their advantage.
Michael Saylor’s Microstrategy is the one company leading the way.
It is, in fact, the archetype.
The model other companies ought to follow.
In the past two years, it went from $30 a share to over $385…
Over 10x in 2 years.
That’s how well Microstrategy has performed.
It’s what all Bitcoin Treasury companies ought to model themselves after.
Mark added MSTR here —v
More and more companies are using the compounding annual growth rate of Bitcoin, which is 24%, to increase shareholder value.
Some flop because the market knows they’re doing it to compensate for operating losses. Or they flop for other reasons, like lack of conviction from the CEO.
But the fact is, more and more companies are adopting this strategy to leverage Bitcoin against the failing US Dollar.
And some do very well.
3x-4x the value of Bitcoin in Up-Only Mode.
See below…
He calls them “Bitcoin Treasury” companies.
If you’re interested in learning more, here’s where you can download the Bitcoin Treasury Playbook.
So you know…
They are all publicly-traded stocks, not Bitcoin.
Otherwise, check out John Rubino’s latest post on the subject, here.
