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The Fat Pipe Jan 23rd 2026: Trump at WEF, Exponential Growth, Gold, Silver, Commodities, and What’s Up With Claude?

I scour the news so you don’t have to. Please, use your time wisely and effectively. The fiat money regime is dying and ugly death. Nobody is truly prepared for this.

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I’m off to a Brownstone gathering today and tomorrow.  Given the mega storm, we’ll see how many actually show up.  But there are some very intriguing names on the list…

Now for the Friday Fat Pipe…


Trump Abroad

Trump is either wildly uninformed or part of the operation:

After all, Warp Speed wasn’t just about forcing the death and disease jabs on everyone, right down to 6-month-old infants, but included enforcing authoritarian lockdowns and incoherent rules like ‘six feet apart’ and you have to wear your mask in a restaurant, until or unless you are sitting down.

However, I’ve been told by several people I really trust that the full speech is a real tour de force and that Trump made them really proud (once you get past the first 10-15 minutes of blustery self-congratulations).  I have yet to listen to the whole thing:


Exponential Thinking Makes The Main Stage

A core component of the Crash Course is the insight about how exponential growth operates and has been embedded as the central mechanism of our system of money and economic growth and therefore of resource extraction.  As I am fond of saying, perpetual exponential growth on a finite planet is not possible.  Worse, it’s a terrible idea to pursue to its illogical ends.

Finally, the thinking has hit the main stage.  Billionaire investor Robert Friedland observes what 3% growth in copper consumption implies:

Then casually informs the audience, “You people have no idea whatsoever what we’re facing.”  I wonder if even Robert fully grasps the implications?

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