Price of (something) has increased a staggering 53% in one year. Why? It's not good

The chart below shows the price of gold over the past year.  If you divide last Friday's close by the $2,630 at the beginning of this year, you'll find it's increased 53% in the past year.  But if you're like most Americans you have no idea what this means.  Let me help.

 

Lots of investors consider gold a "safe haven" in uncertain times:  If something bad happens, causing stocks and bonds to crash, the conventional wisdom is that gold will retain its value.  So the huge increase in the price over just the last year tells us that a LOT of people are worried about the future.  In other words, they expect some sort of upheaval ahead.

It would be fabulous if a company that purports to poll public opinion would ask folks who'd bought gold recently why they did.  Of course that won't happen...because the Democrat party and the Mainstream Media haven't yet realized they can use to win congress next year--and the presidency in 2028.  When they figure it out, they'll do endless stories about it.  So for what it's worth here's my take: 

Like EVERY "leading indicator" of the future for the U.S. except one, the 53% increase in the price of gold in a year shows LOTS of people anticipate bad times ahead.  And obviously gold is a world-traded commodity, the price of which is the result of all investors world-wide, so we can't immediately conclude that the rise is being mainly driven by Americans.  But there are far more Americans in the "investing class"--people who can effortlessly move a million dollars from, say, stocks or bonds into a new investment--than in any other nation.  So I suspect (speculate) that Americans are the main force behind the huge increase.

So why would Americans be concerned enough about the future of stocks and bonds to buy gold?  The list of reasons is damn near endless. 

A good start is the debt bomb--the fact that the $39 TRILLION debt owed by the federal government is now forcing the govt to pay one trillion dollars a YEAR in interest, every year.  And that this can only get worse, since congress refuses to cut spending.  Also, as older T-bills at 2% mature they're replaced by higher-rate paper at an interest rate around 4.5%.  So the amount of interest the gruberment will have to pay is gonna rise far faster than before.

The staggering amount of interest alone--almost 14% of all federal expenses--would cause smart Americans to be looking for life-jackets.  And we're just getting started. 

Socialists (and specifically the Democrat Socialists of America) are becoming more popular, as indicated by not only the two mayoral races but also by the numbers at their street rallies.  The GOP has just lost two members of congress (MTG and Cory Mills) and others are shaky.  This means the GOP will almost certainly lose their razor-thin majority in the House--and losing the House will allow the Democrats to block any rational laws from being passed for the last two years of Trump's term.

There is no indication at all that congress wants to reduce the "debt bomb" that's now costing the government a TRILLION dollars every year just in interest payments.  Quite the opposite: the dumb bastards are continuing to spend more than the gruberment takes in, every year.  Trump's tariffs were an effort to increase government income by giving companies a strong incentive to move manufacturing back to the U.S., and foreign companies to set up U.S. operations.  But as you surely know (??), leftist/Dem judges have ruled Trump didn't have the authority to impose tariffs!  It's utterly insane, but that's how they RULED.  The case is before the Supreme Court.  We'll see.

Monthly job creation:  Despite the number last month being TWICE the "expert forecast," job creation is less than needed to keep unemployment level.  Layoffs are up, labor force participation is down.  All welfare spending is at record highs as millions of clever rat-bastard loafers realize they can live nicely without having to work.  And once they realized that--due to both welfare fraud and generous Dem programs--it's no surprise that millions have decided getting stoned all day is way more fun than having to work for a living. 

Trump ordering the government to junk DEI hiring was a positive step, but Democrats who rule universities and corporations have counteracted that by simply changing the name of the department, but keeping the same DEI policies.  Hiring on merit?  "Nah, bro, we gets betta results when we hire less-qualified pipo frum groups who vote Democrat.  Cuz 'die-versity is ouah strength,' right?"

The indicators above are short-term.  Long-term indicators are no better:  For the past 20 years or so, year after year, so-called "achievement test" scores of U.S. highschool students--the tests that measure whether a highschool grad is competent--have fallen--and yet the communist pieces of shit who head the two main teachers' unions somehow dodge any blame.  Union members don't vote 'em out, because teachers have been conditioned to claim "not ouah fault!"  So nothing ever gets better.  Corrupt school boards continue to rule in every Democrat-ruled city, refusing to fire teachers who praise communism and tranny-ism.  They bleat that "sex assigned at birth" is a type of oppression and must be rejected.

Is there ANYONE who thinks this bodes well for the long-term future of the U.S? 

Lethal illegal drugs continue to kill 100,000 Americans every year.  If al-Qaeda were killing that many each year, everyone would realize this was a war.  But when Trump orders the military to take out obvious drug-smuggling boats, Democrats scream that it's the worst thing evah!  When Obozo used drones to kill LOTS of people in other countries--with whom we were NOT at war--the Dems didn't utter a peep of complaint.  But with Trump as president, suddenly it's totally illegal, eh?  Of course!  Dems ignore the double-standard (one for them, a far different one for conservatives).

(As an aside:  Any of ya have any idea how many lethal doses of fentanyl a single drug boat can carry?  To do that you need to know how much fentanyl it takes to kill the average person.  That's a thing called "LD50"--the dose experiments show will kill half the animals who ingest it.  That dose is converted to humans by ratioing body weight.  Go ahead and say your guess out loud--preferably in front of witnesses so you're forced to face your lack of knowledge.  

Not one percent of you know--nor do you care.  And I get it, really: You don't take the stuff, and you don't think your kids do, so why would you care, eh?  

It's two milligrams.  Average Dem voter: "How much iz a milligram?"  Well one ounce is 28,000 milligrams, meaning if just one damn ounce was evenly distributed, you could make 14,000 pills having enough fentanyl to kill half of those taking one.  So unless given the antidote in minutes, about 7,000 would likely die.  From ONE OUNCE. 

For another reference point: those yellow packets of Splenda contain one gram, which is 1,000 milligrams.  Evenly divided that would be enough to give LD50 to 500 people, on average killing 250. 

But don't yew dare support cutting off that supply, eh?  Cuz Democrats claim it beez "uh act of war" to blow up drug boats!  Yep yep yep!  See, dey would rather the drug reach cartel members in the U.S. heartland than blow up the drug-smuggling boats 200 miles offshore.  Perfectly logical.

From the aerial photos you can easily count the big white bundles each boat carries.  Care to guess how much each one weighs?  But don't worry, citizen: the Democrats had the perfect counter!  They claimed the bundles did NOT contain fentanyl, but...wait for it:  cocaine.

Ahh, well in that case nevermind!  Cocaine is totally fine!  Question: how do you lying rat-bastards claim to KNOW THAT, eh?

Congressional Democrats also claim the crews on the drug boats are merely "Columbian fishermen."  Seriously.  

But the crowning triumph of the rat-bastard Democrat leaders is actively encouraging mobs of their supporters to throw rocks at agents trying to deport illegal alien invaders.  And of course ramming agents with cars.  I challenge anyone to find a video of even ONE Democrat in congress telling their mobs "The law says it's illegal to be in the U.S. without permission, so do NOT impede federal agents in enforcing valid U.S. law."  They refuse to say that because the more violent the mobs become, the more Democrats get fired up to vote in the crucial midterm elections, and again in 2028.  It's working, and it costs them NOTHING.

In fact, both AOC and that moron Jasmine Crockett have said entering the U.S. illegally is NOT a crime.  Try to resolve that paradox, eh?  But hey, dey iz smaht congress-shits, so we gots t'believe 'em, eh?  At least that's what the Media implies by quoting both without a scintilla of pushback. 

The mobs are the best method the Democrats have ever found to turn out Dem votes--far better than ad campaigns, because it doesn't cost them a cent!  And of course the Lying Media elites refuse to condemn the actions of the Democrat mobs.

Since nothing can make Democrats in congress order their mobs to stop, the only way to stop the mobs would be for Trump to stop deporting illegals--to concede that the executive branch will NOT enforce valid U.S. immigration law.  Unless you're a brain-dead liberal, that's a really bad precedent.  

The Constitution says presidents can't make or change laws.  Yet when Obozo was prezzy he unilaterally DECREED that kids brought to the U.S. by their illegal-alien parents could stay in the U.S. forever.  He couldn't find a way to stretch existing legal loopholes like "Temporary Protected Status" enough to fit, so he simply had one of his lackey agencies DECREE the creation of a program cunningly named DACA: "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals."  That title was carefully chosen so the average voter would have no idea what it actually meant. 

That illegal decree--a unilateral change in U.S. immigration law, not allowed under the Constitution--allowed 800,000 kids of illegals to stay in the U.S. indefinitely--Dems hoped it would be forever.  And thanks to leftist, pro-illegal, anti-American judges, that's exactly what happened--as Obozo and the Democrats intended.  Cunning, eh?  

So did the children of illegals become U.S. citizens, and able to vote Democrat?  Good luck finding out.  The Deep State will never allow you to know, deplorable, cuz that would get a few million of ya to stop voting Democrat.

This is a war, folks.  You just don't realize it, because the Media isn't showing you the bodies-- and won't.  Instead they blame Trump for deporting illegals and blowing up drug-smuggling boats.  

The ONLY positive note has been that the stock market is at near-record highs.  But if you pay attention to market analysts (not just the three stock indices the Media report every day) you know that the ONLY sector propping up the market today is AI.  And AI is a classic "bubble:" the New Hot Thing, eh?  

SO given all the telltale signs, it's no wonder lots of Americans are buying gold, in record amounts, pushing up the price 53% in just one year.  Americans realize that the Democrats' slurs on Trump, fully supported by the Dem-fellating Mainstream Media, make it highly likely the Dems will win control of the House next year--which ends all chances of any laws being passed to improve the U.S. situation: spending will get worse,  record amounts of welfare fraud, and murders and drunk driving by illegals, will be ignored.

And when the economy goes south in 2027--as seems inevitable--the Dems will blame Trump.  Just watch.

Of course if any of you have a benign explanation for all these things, I'd love to hear it.