The conversation between Rich, Tom, and Vince lays out a unified theory of the financial war running beneath the kinetic war with Iran. The core argument runs like this: Gold has reasserted itself as the ultimate collateral because the West destroyed trust in its own financial plumbing. When the EU froze Russia's euro-denominated assets at Euroclear in Belgium in 2022, every country on earth recalculated. If a nuclear-armed state could have its reserves seized, nobody's money was safe in Western treasuries or euros. The BRICS response — building alternative plumbing with gold as the common denominator — is the direct consequence. The yen carry trade was the engine of global financialization. For decades, Japan kept rates artificially low. Everyone borrowed yen at near-zero, converted to dollars or euros, and bought higher-yielding assets — treasuries, Nvidia stock, whatever paid. This funded European welfare states indirectly by keeping global capital flowing through Western channels. Now Japan is raising rates, coordinated with Trump's Treasury, and the carry trade is unwinding. Europe is the trapped animal. The Swiss National Bank cut to zero to act as Europe's emergency carry currency, but Switzerland is a house cat compared to Japan's lion — it lacks the industrial base and currency float to replace the yen. Europe cannot raise rates without collapsing its banks and insurance companies. It cannot lower rates without watching capital flee and energy import costs soar. The euro is being squeezed from both directions. Trump's energy policy is the financial weapon. By threatening the Strait of Hormuz and selling Europe expensive American LNG instead of cheap Russian gas, he raises Europe's cost of capital. Every rate hike to defend the euro kills exports. Every rate cut makes energy unaffordable. The Europeans are being forced to choose between economic death by inflation and death by deflation. Japan's repatriation of capital — selling European stocks, converting euros to yen, bringing money home — is draining Europe further. The US-Japan convergence on interest rates around 2% would leave Europe as the world's carry trade currency: everyone borrowing euros at low rates to invest elsewhere, bleeding the continent dry.

They're airing the moon launch in the Armin/Goldie Youtube stream beginning shortly. Elica Le Bon is there also visiting. This is the first USA manned space flight outside of low earth orbit in 54 years. (1 astronaut is a Canadian) The mission is 10 days and they'll be conducting human operated experiments to prepare for future Artemis missions which will put boots on the surface soon. Enjoy!

In regards to Armins rant on Epstein on the 04/09/26 livestream. I mostly agree with his point about the files have been overblown. They're overblown in the sense that if you spend a lot of time online you see many people with varying agendas who use the files to advance their interests. Normal people don't pay nearly as much attention to it and have probably never heard of Nick Fuentes, Candace Owen or the like. However, the Epstein files are still important because Epstein himself was linked to more politicians, celebrities, and titans of industry than we'll probably ever know about. And many of those people are implicated in participating in unspeakable crimes that don't begin and end with raping children. Idk if this is the appropriate platform to re-litigate all the details of the Epstein files and it's a deep dark rabbit hole anyways.

This is a video that explains the above fully. Lately Skool site is not allowing any U Tube videos from playing, That is why I disappeared for a while. To see this video just copy the link and put it in your web browser to go see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmuToQyWl5M