Sitemap - 2026 - QTR’s Fringe Finance

This SpaceX Pump Just Keeps Getting Uglier

Concerning Interest In Redefining “Inflation”

Walking Away

Lest We Forget, Private Credit Is Still Imploding

Morningstar Just Issued The Most Bearish SpaceX Valuation Yet

Everything You've Been Told About Index Funds Is No Longer True: Phil Bak

Saylor Breaks The 'Immaculate' Bitcoin Narrative

I Avoid Tech, But Here's One Overlooked AI Trade: Harris Kupperman

Skeptics Step Back From SpaceX

This Is What A Market Top Looks Like

The American Consumer Is Piss Broke

The Two Ugly Paths Now Facing The U.S. Economy

Propping Up The Yen, Again and Again

Peer Review Is Broken—Here’s How to Fix It

One Key Signal Says Rate Hikes Could Be Coming

For Those Who Refuse To Leave

The Devil Neither Political Party Will Name

You Can Never Win, You Can Never Be Right

The Quiet Collapse Is Getting Louder

Impulse Control Fixes This

The SpaceX IPO May Be The AI Bubble's Final Test

Redefining Inflation to Obscure Its Origins

What To Own Before A Bond Market Crisis

Foreign Treasury Selling Is Getting Serious

Causes of Uncontrollable US Public Spending and Debt

The Bond Market Is About To Break Washington

When Success Becomes Sin

Berkshire Trolls The AI Bubble By Buying Macy's

Heed Orwell's Warning On Policing Hate

Under The Chaos, One Stock Still Looks Cheap

The Causes of Unemployment: What’s Missing?

The Fed Will Invent New Inflation Numbers Out Of Thin Air

Your Retirement Is Being Used To Buy Wall Street's Toxic Sludge...Again

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Job Is Impossible

Bonds Are Screaming "Something's Wrong"

Are General Health Checks Harmful?

This Rally Ends In Panic

Why You Should Have Hope in 2026

Time For Rate Hikes

Why I Avoid Tech Investments...Even During A Tech Boom: Harris Kupperman

The Coming Gamma Nightmare

5 Stocks I'm Still Keeping An Eye On

Do the Rich Pay Their “Fair Share” of Taxes?

Another Real Crisis Hiding Behind Record Highs

$5,000 Gold is Repricing Marriage in South Asia

Serious Warning Signs From One Unnoticed Sector

The Market’s Feedback Loop Will Self-Destruct

Why We Need Austrian Economics

Fewer Earnings Reports Means More Retail Investor Risk

A Glimmer Of Common Sense Emerges

How Deregulation Made Flight Affordable

New York Told Ken Griffin To Leave...And He Listened

Inflation, Communication, and Noise

Is This How SanDisk Gets To $5,000?

Trump’s Greatest ‘Art of the Deal’

The Short-Term Path For Gold Gets Messier

Federal Judge Blocks Kennedy’s Vaccine Reforms

The Permanent Distortion Theory

Congrats, Elizabeth Warren, On The Death Of Spirit Airlines

Buying One Staple Stock That's Been Crushed

13 Week Money Supply Growth is Trending Above 5%

Stocks Now In “The Biggest Bubble Of Modern Times”

Steakhouse to Supermarket, High Beef Prices Aren’t Going Away

The UAE And The FTC

Glowing Numbers...With Glaring Omissions

AI Hammers in the Final Nail in Karl Marx’s Coffin

Comex Report: Deliveries Slow but Metal Keeps Leaving the Vault

A Quick, Intersting Bull Case Worth Reading

Why Keynes Would Have Feared AI — and Why We Shouldn’t

The Private Credit Infection

The Day The Memecoin Dies

Did A $1.5 Trillion Pin Just Pop The Entire AI Bubble?

Rand Paul’s “Six Penny Plan” to Balance the Federal Budget in Five Years

How One Fund Manager Is Taking Advantage Of Wartime Volatility

A Proven Skeptic Raises Another Red Flag

Going Nuclear

SpaceX, Incentives And Perception Versus Profit

Precious Metals Work

Mamdani Is Destroying The Tax Base His Stupid Ideas Desperately Need

More Positive Momentum For Psychedelics

Central Banks Are Hoarding Gold, Governments are Starting to Hoard People

Two Stocks, One Buyout Idea

Gold And Silver Prices "Going Much Higher"

Federal Spending Rises to Post-Covid High in Wake of DOGE Failure

Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2?

State Wars Bleed A Nation To Death

Strait Of Hormuz Will Cause "Ripple Effects" For The Whole World

Psychedelics Go Mainstream

Why Sovereign Debt Is Structurally Insulated from Market Discipline

Suicide Should Not Be a Government Service

Is A "Vicious" Treasury Market Emergency Here?

We've Overshot The Mark: QTR With Michelle Makori

An Overheating Feedback Loop

SpaceX's IPO Feels Like A $2 Trillion Trap Door

Consumer Sentiment Has Never Been This Bad

Taxing, Borrowing, and Printing: Three Ways America Pays for Government

"As Thin As This Playing Card..."

The Myth that Won’t Die: “War is Good for the Economy”

Watching A Potential Big Pharma Buyout

New Steel and Aluminum Tariff Rules Further Increase Costs

Good Riddance, Pattern Day Trade Rule

Not Your Grandfather’s Stagflation

Bernanke’s Broken Promise: Is It Time To Shrink the Fed Yet?

Why Has No One Held Cathie Wood Accountable?

Congress Is Moving the Goalposts on Fiscal Responsibility

Sick Behavior From Financial Psychopaths

Phone Service for 94,000 Dead People, and Other Things Congress Won’t Cut

Inflated Grades Deflate Future Earnings

A Tidal Wave Of Useless "Oh Shit" Moments

Two Weeks to Stop the Spread of War

If Congress Uses Reconciliation Again, It Must Significantly Reduce the Deficit

Price Inflation and the Price of Oil

Jobs Numbers Show Economy "Hanging By A Thread"

The Next Sector To Collapse?

Today's Rip Higher Is Not A Real Stock Rally

Did The NY Times Just Find Satoshi Nakamoto?

Revisiting A Star Stock From 2022

A Microcap Stock Idea Worth Watching

Peter Schiff vs. Saifedean Ammous: Gold vs. Bitcoin

Jamie Dimon’s Annual Letter Is A Subtle Warning

Another Day, Another Private Credit Fund Takes A Shit

Trading The Shit Show: April 2026 Market Update

The Wisdom of the Market

Trump Rages At Iran: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait”

What Gives Something Value?

Cue the Iranian “Regime Change” Puppet

Ron Paul: War Abroad and Authoritarianism at Home

"I'll Be Short Again Quite Soon" But Not Yet

It's Past Time To Privatize The Post Office

"Unprecedented" Withdrawal Requests Just Paralyzed One Firm

The OpenAI Trade Without The Baggage

Is This Market Leader Finally Worth a Look Again?

Congress Hasn’t Funded TSA’s Paychecks and That Should Matter

The EU’s Failed Green Deal Is a Warning to Us All

Not 2008, But Still Dangerous: Private Credit’s Squeeze

Bitcoin's Cryptography Could Crack By 2032, New Study Claims

It's Bigger Than You Expected?

Comex Report: Ignore the Paper Price and Watch the Physical Metal

The Real Lesson of the TSA Walkout

The Mag 7 Ate Your Index

A 10% Dip Is Not A Green Light To Go All In

I'm Sorry, But The Fed Has Run Out Of Road

A Veteran Investor Sees The System Breaking

My Bear Market Stock Shopping List

Private Credit Cracks Reach Real Estate

The Private Credit Snowball Accelerates

Ron Paul: Just Get Out! Now!

The Mistaken Identity of Prediction Markets

Bigger Isn’t Better: A Case for Downsizing the Federal Reserve

I've Reached Peak Lobotomized Consumer

Fire, Already

Ever Wonder Where $7 Trillion Goes?

Could Artificial Intelligence Finally Make Central Planning Work?

Malaysia’s Resurgence

The Smarter Way To Bet On Anthropic And OpenAI

The 'Blame Game' In Private Credit Begins...

Another Morning, Another Private Credit Fund Seizes Up

You Can’t Unsee This

Carnage In Private Credit Just Got Worse

A Strategic Failure in Iran

Fringe Finance Stocks To Watch

A Flywheel Of Chaos

Eventually, Reality

Mamdani’s Tax Fantasy Is Already Failing Somewhere Else

Heed The Warning

Three Microcap Stocks I'm Watching Very Closely Right Now

The Private Credit Crisis Is Spreading

Why I Have Doubts About The “Next Global Financial Crisis”

Jerome Powell's Scorched Earth Moment?

The Inevitability of Self-Driving Cars

Fed Should Hold Rates Steady In March

The Oscars Died This Weekend, Did Anyone Notice?

Wealth Taxes Raise Less Revenue Than You Think

Private Credit Exec Admits "All" Marks Are "Wrong"

The End of Pax Americana

What Covid Policy Did to Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent

Mamdani's Estate Tax Will Suffocate NYC's Middle Class

QTR & Adam Taggart: Private Credit, Valuations, Favorite Sectors

How Concerning Are the February Jobs Numbers?

The Persona And Legacy Of Murray Rothbard

How (And When) Gold Could Reach $10,000

Private Credit Is Officially Fucked

Another One

Guy Adami: “Something Is Brewing Beneath This Market”

Investing In A Country You'd Never Think Of

Oil Flips A Shit: First Trade Ideas For Monday

A Horrendous Job Report Looks Even Worse Under the Surface

War Expands, Markets On Edge: Latest Portfolio Update Into Monday

The Precipice

AI: Now With Less Circle And More Jerk

Private Credit Just Turned Into Public Panic

A Tax Proposal Against Progress And Democracy

Another One Bites The Dust

The Market’s Favorite Exception

Tariff Refund Delays Could Cost Taxpayers $700 Million A Month

What If The Automatic Stock Buying Stops?

Good Riddance, Jasmine Crockett

Stuck In Another Disastrous Middle East War: Ron Paul

How Justice Gorsuch Helped Save Us From a “Climate Emergency”

The Fed Is Adding $20B A Month To The Balance Sheet

The Private Credit Collapse Accelerates

An Uncomfortable, But Justified, Column About War

Economics Isn't "About" Anything

Forward Looking Investing Radicalism

An Uncomfortable, But Justified, War

If You Only Watch One Thing In Today's Trading...

The Last Living Value Investor's Portfolio

Nuclear Power Needs Realism And Freedom

What War With Iran Means For Markets Monday

Banks Sell Off Hard: This Is How Credit Cracks

Still Not Out Of The Woods

Hey PayPal: Follow Block, Cut 40% Of Staff Tomorrow

“Blizzard” Gives NYC Mayor Mamdani Pretext For A “Climate Lockdown”

"A Perfect Storm For Silver": Comex Supplies Continue To Shrink Rapidly

New York Can’t Afford to Sideline Private Developers

What Price Could A PayPal Buyout Happen At?

What Causes Stagflation?

Amazon Should Acquire PayPal

One ETF Up 13% This Year And Another I Like

Are the ‘Liberals’ of Today Really Liberals?

Enablers

Why Boom-Bust Cycles Validate Austrian Economics

“Uniquely Destructive”: Matt Taibbi Talks Epstein Files

Shit Is Getting Ugly In This One Sector I'd Avoid

Zohran Mamdani's Budgetary Buffoonery

"Economy Is In Recession": Only 181k Jobs Gained For All Of 2025

Sports Betting And The Zero-Sum Trap

When Both Sides Go Quiet

Bitcoin Mining and the Electricity Grid: A Quiet Savior

Down 60%, One Stock I Still Love

Countdown to Detonation: America’s Leverage Problem

Homeownership “Wealth” Is A Fallacy

Liberty Eroding, Gold Rising: 30 Years of Warning

"Absolute Train Wreck": US Adds $481 Billion In Debt In 3 Months

So...Is The Gold Boom Over?

Today's Epstein’s Records Destroy Official Narratives

Our Liquidity Addiction Continues

If I Had To Buy 4 Stocks Monday Morning...

Do DOJ Docs Show Epstein Death Notice A Day Early?

This Crash Is Bitcoin's Biggest Test Yet

The Hijacking Of Bitcoin: Epstein’s Hidden Network

Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites

The Day Crypto Died: Anton Wahlman

"I Expect A Crash": Harris Kupperman

Inside The ETF Machine: My Conversation With Eric Balchunas

Quick Gold Update: "Nothing Has Changed"

Warsh Or Not, The Fed’s Next Chair Will Inherit Too Much Power

Tom Lee’s $250K Bitcoin Target And Other Bedtime Stories

The True Price For An Ounce of Gold: $20,275?

This Is What A Real Estate Crash Looks Like In Real Life

Miracles In The (In)famous Pfizer Trial

The Case For A 30% Market Crash

Minnesota, Fraud, and Selfishness

Gold & Silver: A Volatile Day, Not a Broken Thesis

One Stock I'll Avoid Forever

One Underperforming Stock I Keep Adding

"The End Of The Monetary Road": Larry Lepard On Gold, Silver & Bitcoin

"Chaos" Is Coming In 2026, Says Gold Guru Who Returned 174% In 2025

How I'd Trade Gold And Silver Here

Private Credit Could Be On Thin Ice

The US Must Return To A Gold Standard

The “Sell America” Trade Isn’t A One-Off

Dry Powder

Mini-Podcast: What The Market Shrugged Off Today

Greenland Exposes The Greenback

Japan’s Bond Market Collapsed And Everyone Missed This Trade I Love

How To Look Smart On TV And Dumb In History

Valuations Don’t Matter When Money Is Fake

Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage

The Powell Affair and the Limits of The Fed’s Immunity

"The Dollar Is Fine," Says Everyone Watching It Burn

Two Of My Favorite Investments: Chris DeMuth

The Dam Has Burst In Silver And Gold - Now What?

Why Can’t I Have My Own Money Printer?

Powell’s Confidence On Trial, Gold Rips Higher

Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy

Cea Weaver vs. The Entire Field Of Economics

Every Jobs Report In 2025 Has Been Revised Lower

Liquidity, Not Logic: QTR And Epoch Times Talk Markets

New York’s Death Wish

Down The Path(ways)

Mamdani’s Clown Show Offers Its Opening Act

Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy

Is Silver At $200 Possible?

So Far, So Good

One Microcap Stock I Own

Larry Lepard: 2026 Predictions For Bitcoin, Gold, Silver and Stocks

Yoink! Got Your Dictator!

Spam Alert: I Will Not Message You

Drug War: Trump Takes a Step Toward Liberty

My "Best Idea" Sector For 2026

I'm Sick Of Uber's Shit

Fraudulent Businesses Paid The Equivalent Of The GDP Of Somalia

The Case For Sanity