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It’s all coming into focus now. Huge volatility will be the name of the game going forward if the “de-financialization” thesis is right.

To begin, the definition of financialization is “making money with money.”

It turns out that when “making money with money” is possible, that’s the thing that people very much prefer to do. It’s easy, you can do it in a café from a laptop, and you don’t have to worry about hiring and firing people, making payroll, logistics, inventory management, or marketing.

That stuff is hard, risky, and time-intensive.

The world’s central banks have spent all of their efforts over the past 20–30 years suppressing volatility and pumping financial assets higher, which paved the way for massive financialized activities to sprout like mushrooms after a spring drenching.

While the unwinding of all those leveraged trades is beyond the scope of this podcast, Paul Kiker and I noted the many signs that they are ending.

Rapid surges in gold and silver, uranium, and copper are early signs that something is amiss.

Goosing all of this along are the ambitious plans by the Trump administration to breathe life into the so-called “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” which calls for a weaker dollar, higher tariffs, reduced NATO involvement, and a US-centric global economic realignment.

Recently, Trump really trash-talked the dollar, and it took quite a dump.

Alongside that, we have had numerous revelations of dollar-truth made by the likes of Ray Dalio (Bridgewater fund manager), Ron Baron (billionaire investor), Warren Buffett (ditto), Ken Griffin (Citadel), and David Malpass (former World Bank president).

They are all saying some version of “Dollar excesses seem to have gone too far and there will be heck to pay.”

The reason we care about this is that once the titans of the financial industry are all making such warnings, we are not all that far off from “common knowledge,” which is when everybody knows that everybody knows that the dollar is toast.

From there, it’s a hop, skip, and a very short jump to really massive moves that will frighten most people.But not those who have a risk-managed portfolio approach or who have a lot of hard assets to their name.

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