The selloff in precious metals, particularly silver, has extended into today’s session. One reason why, one additional reason why, we’re seeing reports of fraud emerge in heavy buyer China, including from a guy who’s apparently called “the hat.” It’s the kind of thing that usually comes up when big bubbles go up and then pop, so another sign that’s what’s happening here in the short run. Which raises another question, how far down might silver go in the near-term?

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China gold "protests"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HbICfItSfZA

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A key corner of the credit market is experiencing sustained and even accelerated selling at the end of January 2026. What we’re talking about is historically one of the most economically sensitive segments, a growing caution about the climate ahead. And it’s not the only one. From cryptocurrencies to the inability of the AI bubble to get going, the cracks continue to widen rather than fade away like everyone said they were going to.

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Consumer prices are never going to go back to where they were before the pandemic. This simple reason is they can’t. You think that since they went up, they can just go right back down. That’s not unlikely, it is impossible and I’m going to show you why with a very simple example. Now the implications of this economic fact are profound. In fact, it explains everything about the economy we have right now, from the labor market and the lack of jobs to, yes, affordability.

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Has the rally in silver gone so far now that the metal’s price action is actually behaving like a meme stock? Or is there something more fundamental and deeply disturbing behind what precious metals are doing? Maybe we should consider how it isn’t a loss of faith in the dollar as so many people wrongly claim which is propelling both gold and silver right now, what if it is the growing mistrust in how the entire world works and fits together. Or used to.

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=480421

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After cutting 14,000 jobs back in October and denying there were more of them coming, Amazon confirmed yesterday there will be another 16,000 layoffs and made comments suggesting the company won’t be done even after then. These job cuts will only add to the worsening anxiety among American workers, who reminded everyone of those deep concerns in the latest plunge in consumer confidence. According to the most optimistic measure for it, from the Conference Board, confidence crashed to its lowest level in over a decade.

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CNBC Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/amazon-layoffs-anti-bureaucracy-ai.html

Internal messages reveal which teams, jobs affected in Amazon layoffs
https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-messages-teams-jobs-affected-amazon-layoffs-2026-1

CB US Consumer Confidence Fell Sharply in January
https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence/

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One of BlackRock’s private credit funds has just resurrected the cockroach concerns over debt woes in the space. By announcing that it will have to write down 19% of its net asset value, the fund also discloses more areas of cockroach concerns beyond those we had already become aware of. While at the same time, further reminding everyone how everything that people were worried about before they need to keep worrying about and then some.

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BlackRock TCP SEC Filing 8K
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001370755/000114036126002240/ef20063739_8k.htm

BlackRock Private Debt Fund Tumbles After Writing Down Loans
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/blackrock-private-debt-fund-tumbles-after-writing-down-loans

Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7 Trillion Private Credit Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/how-private-credit-market-boom-is-hiding-potential-valuation-problems

BlackRock to Auction Amazon Seller Once Valued at $1 Billion
https://pe-insights.com/blackrock-to-auction-amazon-seller-once-valued-at-1-billion/

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An unprecedented shakeup at the very top of the Chinese military has shaken up the rest of the world. Xi Jinping didn’t just go after a longtime friend and ally, he has gone after everyone in what increasingly looks like a paranoid, Stalinist shakeup. But why? I’ve told you many times before about the economic pressure on China that has only intensified more recently. But that’s not the only thing. That’s where it starts, but where it ends is what is increasingly being confirmed as Cold War 2.0.

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60 Minutes How China could use U.S. farmland to attack America
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-china-could-use-us-farmland-to-attack-america-60-minutes/

NYT Xi’s Purge of China’s Military Brings Its Top General Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/world/asia/china-top-general-xi-military-purge.html

U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area
https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-secret-service-dismantles-imminent-telecommunications-threat-new-york

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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is warning we shouldn’t be focused on trade wars, instead the real concern is capital wars. In those, Dalio says there will be a reduced appetite for owning US government debt or any US assets. Maybe even including American stocks. The comments were made in the context of recent geopolitical flashpoints in Venezuela and Greenland. As always, there’s a lot of noise surrounding this kind of topic, but what does the evidence say?

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CNBC Ray Dalio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gda9T9gZSe4

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