Is the AI Trade Dead… or Are the Biggest Gains Yet to Come?

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

A MAJOR shift has taken place in the markets.

Ever since this current bull market began in late 2023, the MAG-7 have led stocks to the upside. Indeed, their outperformance has been so dramatic that many analysts have claimed the market is being held up by just seven stocks. You can see this clearly in the below chart comparing the performance of the MAG-7 ETF (MAGS) to that of an equal-weighted S&P 500 (a version of the index in which big tech is not heavily weighted).

However, this situation is now changing with the other 493 stocks that make up the S&P 500 outperforming the MAG-7 by a wide margin. The ratio between the Ex-Mag-7 ETF (XMAG) and the MAG-7 ETF (MAGS) has broken out of a long-term falling wedge formation (blue lines in the chart below).  It has since formed a rounded bottom (purple line) and has broken out above critical resistance (red line).

This has raised the question… is the AI trade dead? After all, thus far the bulk of the market gains from AI have come from Big Tech/ Mag-7 stocks that are building out the AI networks.

The answer is… not at all.

The reality is that while everyone talks about AI, few companies have actually introduced it to their operations. BoAML has noted that only 15% of large companies have introduced AI. And smaller companies have been even more reticent to try the technology: only 7% of small companies have introduced AI.

When we consider this… the AI trade is NOT dead, it’s just shifting as the other 493 companies in the S&P 500 begin introducing the tech to their operations. Put another way, it’s time for the rest of the market to play “catch up” to Big Tech. And since many of these companies are small-cap in nature… it’s very possible the BIGGEST gains are yet to come.

In the meantime, if you’re interested in profiting from AI as it gains critical mass in 2026, we just published a new special investment report The AI Plays Your Broker Doesn’t Know About that details three unique AI investments.

Best of all, Wall Street has little to no idea these companies even exist, let alone their AI potential.

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Phoenix Capital Research

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An $11 TRILLION Systemic Risk is Coming in Late March

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

The situation with silver is becoming even more ludicrous.

As I’ve previously noted, according to the CME’s registry there are 440 million ounces of silver located in its depositories. However, the current silver futures contract  which settles in late March 2026  has an open interest of 150,200 contracts. At 5,000 ounces of silver per contract, this comes to 751 MILLION ounces of silver contracts trading… or 1.7 TIMES the amount of actual silver the CME has stored in various depositories.

Put another way, the CME is permitting silver contracts to trade that are backed by NOTHING.

The CME, rather than addressing this issue, has chosen to introduce a new silver futures contract, the mini silver contract, that represents the right to buy or sell 100 oz of silver (as opposed to the usual 5,000 oz).

The catch?

This new contract is settled “financially” meaning there is ZERO silver backstopping it.

Put another way, rather than doing something to address the fact that much of the current silver trading is backstopped by nothing, the CME is doubling down by introducing NEW derivatives that are EXPLICITLY financial in nature… with ZERO actual exposure to silver itself.

Does this fix anything?

Nope.

Will it fix the potentially systemic issue for silver that will hit when the current silver contract expires on March 27th 2026?

Nope.

And if you think this ISN’T a systemic issue… consider that the CME doesn’t just trade silver futures… it also trades stock, bond and other commodities. And not a little either… average daily volume for the CME’s futures contracts if $11 TRILLION.

What happens to the financial system when traders begin to realize that the CME is allowing derivatives to trade that are backstopped by NOTHING?!?!

Silver at $100 per ounce? $200 per ounce?

Investors have a small window of time to prepare for this.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

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Is Silver About to Break Our Debt-Based Financial System?

Posted on January 13, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

Silver is becoming a systemic risk.

For years, rumors have swirled that the CME and other futures exchanges were permitting too many silver contracts. Remember, a silver futures contract is supposed to be backed up by actual physical silver, meaning the investor has the option to “take delivery” of actual silver bullion if he or she chooses.

As Bill King notes according to the CME’s registry there are 440 million ounces of silver located in its depositories. As I write this, silver open interest on the CME is 150,200 contracts. Each contract is worth 5,000 ounces of silver.  

This means there is 751 MILLION ounces of silver contracts trading for the March 2026 contract… or 1.7 TIMES the amount of actual silver the CME has stored in various depositories.

This current silver contract expires on March 27th 2026. And the last delivery day is March 31st. If a significant portion of the current open positions opt for physical delivery, there is a chance the CME would face a potentially systemic issue.

Specifically, the silver ISN’T there.

This helps explain why the precious metal is going parabolic.

How ironic would it be that precious metals end up being the proverbial “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for our current debt-based fiat financial system? And what happens to silver and other precious metals prices when investors realize there isn’t enough actual bullion backstopping the trades being made on the major exchanges?

Silver at $100 per ounce? $200 per ounce?

We have a small window of time to prepare for what’s coming.  And those investors who are correctly positioned for this could potentially generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Is Trump’s Vendetta Against the Fed About to Kick the $USD Off a Cliff?

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

The Trump administration has launched a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

The specifics of the investigation pertain to whether Powell lied under oath to congress concerning the Fed’s renovations of its Washington DC headquarters. However, it’s been clear that the President has had a personal vendetta towards Powell ever since the former took office at the start of the year.

Why?

President Trump fully believes (and there is ample evidence he is correct) that the Fed is in fact a political entity.

As I outlined in my 2024 bestseller Into the Abyss during President Trump’s first term former Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer noted that the Fed intentionally tightened monetary policy to hurt the President’s economic agenda. The result was the credit markets freezing and a stock market crash during the 2018 holiday season.

Once Trump was out of office, the Fed veered even more aggressively to the left with Powell promoting topics like climate change, race reparations, and more. To be clear, I am not saying those topics are bad. What I am saying is that the Fed has NO business discussing them. The Fed is supposed to focus on employment and inflation. Period.

The political games didn’t end there, either. From late 2020-late 2021, Fed Chair Powell pushed the ridiculous narrative that there was no inflation or that inflation was “transitory” for a full year despite the Fed’s own data showing he was lying. It is quite telling that he dropped this claim within a week of then-President Biden nominating him for a second term as Fed Chair.

It says a lot about Jerome Powell that he was willing to engage in this kind of careerism and political pandering at a time when inflation was eviscerating Americans’ checkbooks.

Setting politics aside, the Powell Fed believes itself to be above the law. Multiple senior Fed officials committed FELONIES during Powell’s watch (mortgage fraud, insider trading, etc.) To date, NO ONE has gone to jail. In fact, the Fed officials who engaged in insider trading weren’t even FINED for their crimes. They simply resigned and were allowed to keep the money!

More recently, Fed Chair Powell has refused to force current Fed President Lisa Cook to resign despite the evidence she committed mortgage fraud. Whether she intentionally did this or not is irrelevant. If she’s not capable to filling out mortgage documents accurately, she has no business determining economic policy for the American people.

Which brings us to today.

The Powell Fed is now in the process of getting a taste of its own medicine. Sure, the reasons for the investigation against the Fed are suspect (it is clear President Trump is enacting revenge on the Fed), but politics is a full contact sport and if you want to play political games (pushing leftist political themes, permitting felonies to go unpunished, intentionally hurting the President’s economic agenda) don’t act surprised when your opponent hits back.

How this plays out remains to be seen. But the one thing that is clear is that the President is willing to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to force the Fed to start aggressively easing monetary policy.

The end result of this will be a raging hot economy and another round of inflation. It is NOT coincidence that gold and silver are erupting higher while this plays out. Similarly, it is not coincidence that the $USD is about to end a 15-year bull market.

What does this mean for investors?

We have a small window of time to prepare for what’s coming. Jerome Powell’s term ends in May. Put another way, within four months the Fed will be completely under President Trump’s control.

Whether you like this or not is irrelevant. It’s coming. And the time to prepare to profit from it is NOW before it hits.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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Three Charts That Suggest 2026 is the Year For Precious Metals Miners

Posted on January 9, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

Despite multiple raids/ bear attacks/ interventions, silver and gold are refusing to break down.

Silver peaked at ~$80 per ounce. The CME and other institutions have repeatedly attempted to suppress the precious metal by hiking margins and other tactics. In spite of this, silver has rebounded and is trading at $77 per ounce (less than 5% off its all-time highs).

This is a MAJOR signal of demand. The fact that multiple interventions failed to push silver down and every dip is being aggressively bought signals that this bull market in precious metals is nowhere near over.

It now looks as though silver miners are about to play catch up.

The ratio between silver miners and silver bullion is trading at extreme lows. This means that silver miners are underperforming the precious metal by a WIDE margin.

This situation is not specific to silver either. The underperformance by gold miners relative to gold is even MORE extreme! But by the look of things… it won’t last much longer!

Even a small “reversion to the mean” here would mean precious metals miners EXPLODING higher. Indeed, it looks as though 2026 could be THE year for precious metals miners to dominate.

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Is AI Really In a Bubble?

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

Everywhere you look, analysts and commentators claim AI is in a massive bubble that will burst shortly.

The facts do not support this claim. Yes, there are certain AI companies that are extremely overvalued (PLTR trades at a P/E of 400+). But it is VERY difficult to argue that AI is a bubble when the Big Tech hyper-scalers are trading at LOWER forward P/E ratios than Walmart or Costco.

CompanySymbolForward P/E
NvidiaNVDA23
AppleAAPL33
MicrosoftMSFT29
AmazonAMZN27
AlphabetGOOGL27
MetaMETA21
WalmartWMT38
CostcoCOST42

NVDA trades at a forward P/E or 23… and Costco trades at a forward P/E of 42. What kind of AI bubble is this?

Moreover, for all the hype and hope about AI in the financial media, the reality is that corporate America has BARELY begun to introduce the technology. According to research by Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch, only 15% of large companies have actually adopted AI technology. That’s somewhere between one in six or one in seven!

Put another way, 85% of large corporations are NOT using AI currently. And please note that adoption rates actually peaked for large companies in mid-2025 and have seen been declining!

It’s tempting to blame this low level of AI-adoption by large companies on corporate inertia; large companies are slow to pivot and introduce new strategies or technologies. Well, take another look at that chart and you’ll see that AI adoption rates for smaller firms are even lower at a mere 7%!

That’s just ONE IN FOURTEEN!

But wait… there’s more.

Even amongst those companies that have adopted AI technology, thus far few if any been able to generate any significant results! As I noted earlier this year, a review by MIT titled “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025,” found that 95% of companies fail to achieve measurable financial returns from their AI initiatives, with only 5% demonstrating rapid revenue acceleration or significant business value.

Put simply, for all the hype and hope, AI adoption at corporate America has been minimal (only 1 in 7) and out of that 15% of companies that have introduced AI, only 5% have seen a meaningful uptick in financial results. This means that less one out of 100 companies (0.7% of corporate America) could truly be considered an AI success story as of late 2025.

The implications of this are vast. For one thing, it means we are much earlier in the AI cycle that most people realize. Either AI proves to be a complete dud and the market collapses into a bear market led by Tech… or we are on the cusp of widespread adoption and the AI bubble does in fact get a LOT larger.

I believe we are on the cusp of widespread adoption. And as I’ll detail in tomorrow’s article… the markets agree with me.

In the meantime, if you’re interested in profiting from AI as it gains critical mass in 2026, we just published a new special investment report The AI Plays Your Broker Doesn’t Know About that details three unique AI investments.

Best of all, Wall Street has little to no idea these companies even exist, let alone their AI potential.

We are making just 99 copies available to the general public.

To pick up yours…

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Best Regards

Graham Summers, MBA

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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Will Gold CRUSH Stocks in 2026?

Posted on January 7, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

The move from paper assets into hard assets is now accelerating.

In recent analysis, we’ve noted that hard assets are experiencing a once in a lifetime transition as hundreds of billions of dollars in capital (and possible even trillions) has begun moving into the space.

Some of the key drivers behind this mega-trend include:

  1. The AI arms race between the US and China requires gargantuan amounts of hard assets/ natural resources (copper, silicon, rare earths, steel, even water, etc.). The Trump administration is clearly “all in” on this, designating 60 minerals as “critical” to national security, cutting regulations/ fast-tracking the domestic production of these minerals, and even taking direct stakes in companies themselves.
  1. Globally governments are turning to fiscal dominance to finance economic growth. This means increased debt issuance, which in turn means more money printing by central banks to buy debt and maintain stability in the bond markets. This benefits hard assets/ inflation hedges.
  1. Central banks are now buying 1,000 tons of gold per year. For the first time in 40 years, gold is a larger portion of foreign reserves than Treasuries (in percentage term).

This is truly a tectonic shift. And by the look of things, it’s nowhere near over.

The Gold/ S&P 500 ratio is forming a clear Cup and Handle formation. This is an extremely bullish development. And it predicts gold is about to enter a period of MAJOR outperformance relative to stocks.

If this trend REALLY gets going, the outperformance by gold could be truly jaw-dropping. For the better part of 15 years, stocks have outperformed gold on a relative performance. Even a small “reversion to the mean” could result in gold CRUSHING stocks going forward.

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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Phoenix Capital Research

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The AI Revolution Is About to Ignite a MAJOR Bull Market in Hard Assets

Posted on January 6, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

The US and China are currently engaged in a global arms race for AI dominance.

That arms race is being fueled by fiscal spending, aggressive state intervention in promoting key technologies and… securing minerals deemed critical to the development of said technologies.

For years China has been in the lead in this process, securing deals with various nations in Africa and South America to ensure the supply of items like copper, lithium, cobalt and more. However, as the world just discovered, the U.S. is rapidly playing “catch up” in a big way, using the crimes of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as an excuse to invade Venezuela thereby securing access to vast quantities of natural resources.

As investors, our job is not to invest for the present, but to invest for what’s coming down the pike. And the U.S.’s actions in Venezuela, taken in the context of the AI arms race, indicate that global superpowers are “all in” regarding the securing of hard assets.

This is a “once in a lifetime” event for investors. Since 2011 hard assets/ commodities have been in a bear market relative to stocks. The ratio between the Commodities index and the S&P 500 has been in a steep decline throughout that time period as stocks, led by Big Tech’s rapid growth, have left hard assets/ commodities in the dust.

By the look of things that outperformance is about to change. The ratio between commodities and the S&P 500 has just put in a double bottom. And it is carving out a classic bullish falling wedge formation. This forecasts a potentially EXPLOSIVE move upwards as hard assets ignite relative to stocks.

Again, the dominant theme for the global economy today is the arms race for AI supremacy between the U.S. and China. And this race is igniting a MAJOR bull market in hard assets.

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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The REAL Reason the U.S. Took Action in Venezuela

Posted on January 5, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

The AI race between China and the U.S. took a major turn over the weekend when the U.S. arrested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro had been indicted on very serious charges in the U.S., but as many commentators have rightly noted, the larger issue and perhaps the real reason the U.S. took this decisive action was to secure Venezuela’s natural resource assets, most importantly, oil as well as natural gas, iron ore, bauxite, gold, nickel, copper, zinc, diamonds, coal, and rare earth elements.

Why is the U.S. doing this?

As the Trump administration has made clear, the AI-arms race between the U.S. and China is a matter of grave national security. As the AI revolution transitions from software based Large Language Models (LLMs) to agentic and physical AI (robotics, automated machines, etc.), the natural resource demands will be MASSIVE.

Consider that a single data center requires 5,000 to 10,000 metric tons of copper for cabling and equipment. An AI-controlled robot can require anywhere from 50-100lbs of copper… and experts are anticipating MILLIONS of robots to hit market by 2030. Indeed, by some estimates, AI could increase copper demand by 15%-20% annually through 2030.

Copper is not the only natural asset physical/agentic AI requires to function. Uranium, lithium, cobalt, concrete, steel, rare earth minerals and other hard assets will experience extraordinary demand as the U.S. and China compete for AI global dominance.

The markets are illustrating this fact clearly.

Copper is about to close at an all-time high.

The same is true of steel…

Even uranium, which has been left for dead for years, is catching a major bid driven by AI’s ravenous demand for energy.

Again, the dominant theme for the global economy today is the arms race for AI supremacy between the U.S. and China. And this race is igniting a MAJOR bull market in hard assets

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t br surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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Phoenix Capital Research

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A Deep Dive Into Precious Metals Miners, AI, and the Markets With Graham Summers, MBA

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

This week Chief Market Strategist, Graham Summers, MBA sat down with Gary Bohm of Metals and Miners to discuss his outlook on precious metals, precious metals miners, the AI arms race, the case for a bull market in 2026 and more. It’s one Graham’s most in depth interviews and offers some of his most compelling analysis on where to invest today.

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The Interventions Aren’t Working Any More

Posted on January 2, 2026 by Phoenix Capital Research

Panic is beginning to show up in the financial system.

As I noted earlier this week, rumors are swirling that a large, systemically important financial institution is being forced to liquidate its precious metal short positions. We get strong evidence of this from the CME Group which has suspiciously raised margins on precious metals futures trading for the SECOND time in one week (first on December 26 and again on December 31st).

The CME raises margins in this fashion whenever it begins to lose control of the precious metals market and is desperate to “flush out” a lot of positions. The fact it has done this TWICE in the last week alone suggests us someone “big” is likely on the wrong side of the precious metals trade.

The interventions aren’t working, either.

Despite these two margin hikes, precious metals continue to hold up. As I write this, silver is catching another bid. When you look at the chart the precious metal has held critical support at $64 per ounce multiple times. This indicates the current volatility is in fact a consolidation, NOT the end of the bull market.

I would also note that the Bank Index is beginning to collapse. Again, between this and the price action in precious metals, it appears “someone” big is in serious trouble behind the scenes.

Big Picture: precious metals are signaling something MAJOR is coming down the pike in our financial system. When even a large-scale liquidation can’t stop silver or gold from rallying you KNOW it’s time to back up the truck!

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that rose 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% in 2025! And I wouldn’t br surprised to see them REPEAT this performance in 2026.

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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Phoenix Capital Research

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Is a Major Financial Institution About to Go Bust?

Posted on December 30, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

Yesterday we discussed how the parabolic spike in precious metals signaled that our current debt based financial system has entered its final chapter.

In case you missed it:

  1. The defining issue for the last 50 years has been the super cycle bull market in bonds. This bull market meant that from 1982 onwards, debt payments became cheaper and cheaper, allowing governments to issue gargantuan amounts of debt.
  1. This super cycle bull market in bonds ended in 2020-2022. Since that time, bond yields have spiked higher and are now consolidating.
  1. It is not coincidence that precious metals erupted higher when the bull market in bonds ended. For centuries, gold and silver have been “crisis trades” that investors turn to during times of panic.

We got confirmation of this yesterday when rumors swirled of a major financial institution missing a margin call and being forced to liquidate its precious metals positions in the overnight session Sunday night.

This panic selling resulted in silver plunging 16% and gold plunging 5% intraday… while the odds of a major bank failing by January 31st 206 hit 71% in the betting markets (h/t Bill King).

The “big tell” in all this mess is the fact that both gold and silver have already rebounded sharply. If everything was actually fine “behind the scenes” gold and silver would have stayed down after their initial plunge.

They’re not.

As I write this, silver has already recouped nearly half of its losses from the panic liquidation Sunday night. This signals RABID demand from the markets. 

Big Picture: precious metals are signaling something MAJOR is coming down the pike in our financial system. When even a large-scale liquidation can’t stop silver or gold from rallying you KNOW it’s time to back up the truck!

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. 

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Graham Summers

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Phoenix Capital Research

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The End Game Has Begun For Our Current Financial System

Posted on December 29, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

Gold and silver are signaling that the end game is approaching.

For decades, central banks have “papered over” the decline in living standards (falling real incomes relative to increased costs of living) with easy credit/ money printing. This scheme only worked because throughout that period, the bond market was in a super cycle bull market that resulted in yields falling steadily, allowing governments to issue gargantuan amounts of debt without triggering a debt crisis.

As the above chart reveals, that chapter of our debt-based financial system ended in 2022 when bond yields broke out of a 35-year downtrend to the upside.

This was a major signal from the financial system that the great “papering over” scheme employed by central banks since the early 1980s was coming to an end. And bonds weren’t the only asset class signaling this. We got confirmation of this from precious metals.

It is no coincidence that precious metals began to move higher in 2020-2022 when the super cycle bull market in bonds ended. For centuries, precious metals have served as the ultimate “crisis trade.” For one thing they represent a currency that cannot be devalued by money printing. They also allow you to stockpile a significant amount of capital in a relatively small space.

In this context, when gold and silver exploded higher back in 2020-2022, it was a major signal that our current debt-based financial system was in its final chapter.

This process is now accelerating. Gold is now in a near perpetual “panic bid” as everyone from retail investors, to hedge funds, to even central banks themselves are piling into the precious metal.

The writing is on the wall. The financial system is rapidly barreling towards a crisis of confidence. Some investors will make fortunes. Others stand to lose everything.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we in light of what is unfolding today, we making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

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Phoenix Capital Research

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The Fed Debates Inflation… While the U.S. Implodes

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

The Fed is arguing about inflation… as if they have a clue what they are talking about.

According to Team Trump, inflation has been defeated. One of President Trump’s closest economic advisors, Stephen Miran, has argued that “market-based” inflation is in fact close to 2%, despite the official inflation metrics (Consumer Price Index, CPI and Personal Consumption Expenditures, PCE) being closer to 3%. He is openly calling for the Fed to cut rates by 0.5% instead of the usual 0.2% rate cuts.

By way of contrast, numerous other Fed officials are concerned that inflation is NOT tamed. They point to countless metrics which indicate inflation has NOT hit the Fed’s preferred target of 2%. In fact, if anything, inflationary pressures are broadening in the data with nearly HALF (47%) of the components that make up the Core-PCE clocking in at over 3% year over year.

How is this possible? How can two sets of intelligent people have such different views over the same data?

The answer is that the inflation data in the U.S. is a joke and has been for years. So, the current inflation debate at the Fed is basically a bunch of white-collar intellectuals arguing over their interpretation of imaginary entity like the tooth fairy.

Some of the more egregious issues with the inflation data:

  1. The measures for shelter, which are the single largest component of the data, are estimates that the Fed invented, NOT market-based measures.
  1. The data doesn’t include food or energy prices, because after all, who actually needs those to survive?
  1. The data is so massaged and gimmicked that it claims healthcare insurance costs only rise 2%-5% per year. I’ve yet to meet a single person whose insurance costs rise that slowly.

And on and on.

The reality is that ALL of the inflation data is in the U.S. is designed to do one thing: understate the true rate of inflation to hide the fact that living standards have declined in the U.S. for decades.

This fact stares all of us in the face every day, but no one in the media or at the Fed has the decency to admit it publicly.

In the 1950s most families did fine with one parent working. Today, typically both parents work AND the family has a mortgage, credit card debt, auto loan AND possibly a student loan.

The above is IMPOSSIBLE if inflation is anywhere near the claimed rate.

The reality is that the true cost of living in the U.S. has skyrocketed relative to incomes in the U.S. at least since the 1970s. So, when Fed officials debate inflation in public, they’re basically debating an imaginary number that has no connection to reality.

I know this. You know it. And the markets know it as well.

People like to point to stocks as signaling that everyone is wealthier today than they were two decades ago. According to the charts, the S&P 500 is up over 400% during that time.

However, stocks are priced in the U.S. dollar. And thanks to the true state of inflation, the U.S. dollar has lost over 40% of its purchasing power during that time. When you price stocks in gold, which cannot be devalued, the S&P 500 is actually DOWN since 2006.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains as gold and precious metals plays erupt higher in the coming weeks. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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No, Trump is Not Insane… He’s Preparing Us For What’s Coming

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

President Trump is telling us what is coming… but people are mistaking his claims for insanity.

In the last week, the President has stated the following in public interviews/ press conferences:

  1. “Our interest rates should be the lowest in the world, maybe even negative.”
  2. “Instead of a 4% GDP or 3% GDP, it should be able to be 20 or 25%. I don’t know why it can’t be.”

Many commentators are seeing this and claiming the President has lost his mind. This is incorrect. The President may be engaging in his usual braggadocio, but he’s running the same playbook that he’s used his entire career in commercial real estate.

Regarding #1, the President is the self-proclaimed “King of Cheap Debt.” His entire career and personal fortune have been the result of using huge amounts of leverage at the lowest possible interest rate to develop/buy key assets.

In this capacity, the President understands that the single most important issue for the U.S. is solvency. With over $9 trillion in debt coming due in the next 12 months, the President wants rates as low as possible. And if rates were to go negative, the U.S. would in fact be PAYING investors to lend it money.

It sounds insane, but both Japan and Europe did the same thing to address debt issues.

Which brings us to #2: the President’s claim that “Instead of a 4% GDP or 3% GDP, [the U.S.] should be able to be 20 or 25%. I don’t know why it can’t be.”

If the U.S. were to run the lowest interest rates in the world, if would undoubtedly unleash inflation. In this context, we HAVE to remember that economic data like GDP growth is measured in nominal terms, meaning if prices go up 10% due to inflation, it will appear as if growth was 10%… even if ALL of the increase was due to inflation and growth was actually 0% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.

In this capacity, the U.S. could in fact generate MUCH higher growth if inflation re-enters the financial system simply by virtue of the U.S. dollar losing purchasing power and prices rising. Sure, this growth would in fact be the result of inflation, NOT actual growth… but the President could still point to the numbers and say, “see growth is over 4%!”

This sounds ridiculous, but it’s how the President made his fortune in commercial real estate. Real estate is an inflation hedge. During the President’s lifetime, the U.S. dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power. The President’s commercial real estate holdings have acted as an inflation hedge rising in value as the $USD falls. Throw in the President’s penchant for marketing assets at elevated prices to the wealthy and BOOM you’ve got a billionaire real estate developer.

To be clear, I’m not saying I agree with the President’s goals or his methods for achieving them. I’m simply pointing out that his Presidency is following the same framework he personally used during his career prior to entering politics.

The big question for us as investors is…

HOW DO WE MAKE MONEY FROM THIS?

The answer?

Invest in HARD ASSETS, just as the President has done his entire life.

It is not coincidence that gold is outperforming stocks since the President took office. This is PRECISELY what you would expect!

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains as gold and precious metals plays erupt higher in the coming weeks. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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The Fed is Doing This… Whether We Like It or Not

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

The Fed is printing money again.

As I first outlined in my 2017 best-selling book The Everything Bubble, once a central bank embarks on a path of emergency monetary policy, it can never escape/ normalize. Yes, there will be periods during which a central bank attempts to normalize… but those will only last a few years at best before the bank is once again back to easing.

The Fed just proved this point, again.

The attempt to end inflation lasted a roughly 30 (from March 2022 to September 2024) before the Fed was back cutting rates. The Fed has since cut rates SIX times, reducing the cost of money in the financial system from 5.5% to 3.75%.

This easing accelerated in a big way on Wednesday when the Fed announced a new QE program through which it will print $40 billion per month and use it to buy short-term Treasuries.

Why is the Fed doing this?

Because the U.S. is adding $1 trillion in new debt every 100 days. The Fed can either induce a melt-up via inflation… or let the bond bubble burst, triggering a crisis.

The Fed is chose options #1.

I don’t like this, nor do I agree with it. But I intend to profit from it in a big way.

You should too.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains as gold and precious metals plays erupt higher in the coming weeks. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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Do NOT Look at These Charts Unless You’re Ready to Take Action!

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

As I noted yesterday, the U.S. is turning into a banana republic.

By quick way of review, the hallmarks of banana republics/ 3rd world countries are:

  1. Rampant corruption/ abandonment of the rule of law for those who are politically connected.
  2. Manufactured economic data.
  3. Currency devaluation/ higher rates of inflation.

Today let’s focus on #3.

The talking heads in the media like to point to stock market gains as indicative of wealth in the U.S. The only problem with this is that the stock market is priced in U.S. dollars. And the U.S. dollar has lost a THIRD of its purchasing power since 2008.

This begs the question… just how much of the “wealth” generated by the stock market has come from currency devaluation?

The answer, unfortunately, is a LOT.

When priced in gold, the S&P 500 actually peaked back in late 2021/ early 2022 and has since declined to levels first traded in the mid-1990s. Put another way, when you price the stock market in gold, a currency that CANNOT be devalued, stocks haven’t generated any real wealth in ~30 years.

I wish that was the end of the bad news, but it’s not.

The ratio between the S&P 500 and gold has just taken out the bull market trendline that has supported EVERY MAJOR low since 2014. This is a MAJOR warning that the financial system is entering a new regime in which hard assets outperform stocks.

Put simply, if you’re allocating the bulk of your capital to stocks, you might want to rethink things. As I’ve already illustrated MOST of the stock market gains were the result of currency devaluation. And by the look of things, this trend is about to accelerate as gold outperforms the stock market.

On that note, our Special Investment Report titled Survive the Inflationary Storm details FIVE secret investments you can use to potentially make extraordinary gains as gold and precious metals plays erupt higher in the coming weeks. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 75%, 140%, 150%, 180%, 280% and an incredible 574% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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How to Invest As the U.S. Becomes a Banana Republic

Posted on December 9, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

The U.S. is rapidly turning into a banana republic.

All the signs are there:

  1. Phony (or unpublished economic data).
  2. Rampant corruption.
  3. Loose monetary policy/ currency devaluation.

Let’s start with #1.

Rather than publishing fake data like China, the U.S. has simply stopped publishing its economic data. The alleged reason is that the government shutdown, but we all know that if the data was good, the Trump administration would have found a way to publish it. After all, as the President routinely claims, the economy is fantastic and arguably the best of all time.

The lack of economic data is not the only thing pointing towards the U.S. becoming a banana republic. Regardless of which side of the political aisle you sit on, it is clear that corruption is rampant throughout every major institution in the U.S. Congress is full of people getting rich off insider trading, bills are passed that no one even bothers to read, people commit major felonies and aren’t even indicted let alone arrested, heck… the central bank which controls the value of the U.S. dollar has people who commit mortgage fraud, insider trading and worse deciding economic policy!

Which brings us to #3:  the U.S.’s banana republic monetary policy.

The U.S. dollar has lost a THIRD of its purchasing power since 2008. Heck, it dropped 10% in the first six months of 2025 alone. And this is BEFORE the Fed starts printing money again (the Fed has in fact been DRAINING liquidity from the financial system over the last two years).

As I write this, the $USD is sitting on a 15-year bull market trendline. When this goes, inflation will return to the financial system in a big way. Higher inflation is a hallmark banana republics/ emerging markets.

Ok, so now the big question is… how do we, as investors, profit from this?

Hard assets.

Stocks are up 15%. That sounds pretty fantastic until you consider that hard assets like gold and silver and up 60% and 97%, respectively.

They’re not the only hard assets soaring. Copper, uranium, even coffee prices are up more than stocks!

On that note, we just published a Special Investment Report concerning FIVE secret investments you can use profit from the next major bull run in hard assets.

The report is titled Survive the Inflationary Storm. And it explains my top precious metals plays, including their names, their symbols, and the resources they own. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 40%, 120%, 120%, 140% and an incredible 450% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

To grab one of the last remaining copies…

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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Warning: The Most Important Market in the World is Breaking Down Again

Posted on December 8, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

The most important market in the world is signaling that inflation is returning to the financial system.

The financial media (and most investors) like to focus on stocks because they are a volatile asset class and this volatility potentially translates to making a LOT of money quickly. However, the reality is that the stock market is in fact one of the smallest, most junior markets in the world.

The global stock market is about $80 trillion in size. By way of comparison, the debt/ bond market is over $300 trillion in size. And while stocks are a junior asset class, bonds, particularly sovereign/ government bonds are THE bedrock of the current financial system. Indeed, the yields on these bonds represent the “risk free” rate of return against which all risk assets (including stocks) are valued.

Put simply, BONDs, not stocks, are THE asset class to watch for clues as to what is coming down the pike. And the bond market is signaling that inflation is coming.

The yield on the 10-Year Japanese Government bond is going parabolic. Japan is the grandfather for monetary policy insanity having first introduced insane policies like Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) and Quantitative Easing (QE) a decade before the Fed or anyone else. So, it makes sense that Japan is the first country to lose control of its bond market.

Japan is not alone. The yield on Germany’s 10-year Government Bond is also turning up signaling that inflation is returning to that financial system as well. This is deeply concerning because the European Central Bank is in fact cutting rates… and the yield is going UP instead of down (the ECB is easing into another inflationary storm).

Which brings us to the U.S. and the Fed.

The Fed has already cut rates twice this year. And the yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury is refusing to break down. If anything, it’s coiling in a triangle formation, preparing for a violent breakout. Given what is happening in Japan and Germany, the odds are that this breakout will be UP… meaning bonds are breaking down again.

Put simply, THE most important market in the world (bonds) is signaling inflation is returning to the financial system. And those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns.

On that note, we just published a Special Investment Report concerning FIVE secret investments you can use profit from the next major bull run in precious metals miners.

The report is titled Survive the Inflationary Storm. And it explains my top precious metals plays, including their names, their symbols, and the resources they own. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 40%, 120%, 120%, 140% and an incredible 450% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

To grab one of the last remaining copies…

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Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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Warning: The Trump Fed Will Ignite a MELT UP

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Phoenix Capital Research

Sometimes it’s worth taking a step back and looking at things with unbiased eyes.

The bears keep telling us that the stock market is in a massive bubble and that it’s about to crash and burn… but the reality is that the macro setup today indicates risk assets are much more likely to experience a melt UP than a melt-down.

Consider the following…

  • The economy is growing at an annualized rate at ~4%.
  • The consumer as a whole (mostly the top 10%) is out and spending: the Redbook Index which tracks same-store sales on a year-over-year basis is clocking in at over 7%.
  • The Trump administration is running a deficit equal to 5% of GDP… DESPITE taking in much higher revenues via tariffs. Put another way, the Trump administration is all in on a “run it hot” framework as far as the economy is concerned.
  • The Fed is cutting rates, has just ended QT and will soon be introducing QE.
  • The Fed will soon be run by a new Fed Chair who will be handpicked by President Trump who is famously obsessed with stocks going up.
  • By June, the Fed voting board will be largely comprised of Trump-appointed officials.

In the above context, it’s VERY difficult to be bearish risk assets. Doing so means you are effectively betting against the Fed AND the White House. Given that those two entities control money printing and the government’s purse strings that’s QUITE a contrarian bet!

Sure… a deflationary bust could happen down the road… but right now, an inflationary melt up is much more likely. And the markets know it!

Gold and Silver are breaking out the upside.

The Russell 2000, which is the riskiest market index, is breaking out of a five-year consolidation period to the upside.

And the $USD is about to break a 15-year bull market trendline.

All of these SCREAM “melt up” NOT bear market/ crash.

Those investors who are correctly positioned for this could generate life-changing returns. We’re talking about hundreds of billions if not TRILLIONS of dollars in capital moving out of paper assets (bonds) and into hard assets like gold as the $USD drops like a brick.

On that note, we just published a Special Investment Report concerning FIVE secret investments you can use profit from the next major bull run in precious metals miners.

The report is titled Survive the Inflationary Storm. And it explains my top precious metals plays, including their names, their symbols, and the resources they own. These are HIGH OCTANE positions that are already up 40%, 120%, 120%, 140% and an incredible 450% this year alone!

Normally I’d charge $499 for this report as a standalone item, but we are making just 100 copies available to the public.

To grab one of the last remaining copies…

CLICK HERE NOW!

Best Regards

Graham Summers

Chief Market Strategist

Phoenix Capital Research

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