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The Inside Trader’s Apocalypse

May 7, 2026

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Money & Markets

The Inside Trader’s Apocalypse

Catherine and John open with the “inside trader’s apocalypse”—questioning insider trading, prediction markets, and what they see as a staged assassination narrative serving to distract from a costly White House ballroom build, while Vance pushes stablecoins and digital tokens.

On Iran, they track the escalating conflict: contested missile-strike and Hormuz reports, rising gas and oil prices, U.S. crude exports drawing down inventories, and a broader energy and financial war aimed at squeezing China’s energy and capital costs.

The roundup: Gulf states (notably the UAE) angling for Fed swap-line access; China ordering firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil; Florida price cuts and rising fees; unrest in Germany; expanded Israeli propaganda funding and AIPAC’s spending against Thomas Massie; a massive Utah data-center power plan; crypto grifting and concentrated prediction-market profits; DTCC tokenization timelines; and what Palantir’s USDA deal means for food-supply control.


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89 Comments

  1. Is the power structure falling apart… “yeah”.. Are they dealing with it with hubris and arrogance.

    Trying to pretend is isn’t …”yeah”

    We been talking about this since I joined 7 or 10 years ago…

    Who’s actually in charge… (them or the Divine)…it annoys everyone you ask that question too unless you trust the Divine..

    You still have to do stuff… it’s a carry water / chop wood kinda world…but you let go of worrying about it…

    What are they supposed to do with that… they can’t do anything about it and your free.. and it completely screws up their plans …

    There just people… {the divine is the divine}…if your gonna pick one… all these control grid people choose very poorly.

    As it all falls apart… you cannot build things that last not in alignment with the divine.. it’s not a religious thing.. We are all made of it.

    Its a science thing… It is just the reality of what we live in.. the circumstances we find ourselves in currently…

    =) j

    1. In 1990, there was a prayer experiment performed by a group called intercessors for America. Here is the blurb: “In January of 1990, IFA joined Together In Ministry (TIM) to spearhead a 90-hour prayer-and-fasting vigil during the first week of the year in the District of Columbia. Multiethnic assemblies convened each evening at historic churches. Much intercessory work concerning the city was done, leading to a “breakthrough” jubilee time at the close of the vigil. In mid-January, an intercessory prayer conference was convened at New Covenant Fellowship, in nearby Northern Virginia. The Lord assigned the group to bind “deception” in Washington. It was on that very night that then-Mayor Marion Barry was caught in the act of smoking crack cocaine and arrested. That day began a purging of corruption and a renewal of “good government” in our nation’s capital.”

    2. I completely agree, and share your experience that when, if in the context of a political/world affairs conversation, the idea of a Divine solution is brought-up, many people cannot tolerate it- even if they are “religious” or “spiritual people. The presumption on their part is that I am somehow immature for daring to propose that perhaps a critical mass of people praying, or quieting their minds in the spirit of World Peace would have a measurably positive impact on our World. We are not going to think our way out of this mess:)

  2. Hey Solari Family,

    The news today that the UAE pulling out of OPEC is surely very significant, no?

    Alongside the US Military (which hasn’t exactly impressed of late), OPEC is one of the main pillars propping up the USD as world reserve currency right now.

    The UAE further undermined the dollar last week when it said it might have to settle its oil transactions in currencies other than USD (the so-called “swap line” request).

    The relationship between the ruling Emirati family, the bin Zayed al Nayhans, and the Trumps, is very close. The President’s brother and national security advisor, Tahnoun, owns 49% of the Trump family’s personal wealth vehicle, World Liberty Financial.

    Patrick Wood’s most recent (excellent) book, “The Economics of Technocracy” suggests the current global USD debt standard will be replaced by the Trump/Emirati joint venture stablecoin, USD1-or at least that’s the plan.

    Judging by the recent activity in the UAE, I think he’s right. They’re working together to tank the dollar.

      1. Thanks, Faye.

        Yes, an excellent article indeed.

        “the UAE has constructed a petrodollar bypass — not a petrodollar replacement. USD1 is dollar-pegged. The dollar’s utility as a unit of account is preserved. What is eliminated is the institutional architecture that gives Washington leverage: the SWIFT network, the correspondent banking rails, the Federal Reserve pipeline through which dollar sanctions flow. You cannot sanction what does not route through your system”.

        Well, quite.

        1. Ultimately the stablecons will be a three lock system which gives even greater central control. Not a work around. Just building a new distributed ledger system which can be managed by AI control systems. All the money that goes into the stablecoin goes straight into the Treasury market. Hard to envision the Trump family as an improvement over the Fed.

          1. Right. The Trumps will definitely be worse than the Fed-somehow.

            In the same way that Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s vision of replacing the US Federal civil service with AI will be worse than the current setup-despite the fact that it’s so bloated, and has continued to stay silent and collect paychecks, while the country has been robbed and poisoned for decades.

    1. Yup, I’m a member there, great posting, the missing scientist story interesting and the News and Views from the Nefarium April 29 with connection of assassin to the scientist.

  3. Brian Berletic has a video called DEEP DIVE US SENATE everyone should watch
    It’s pretty amazing

    1. Yes, good one. US planning on remaining the global hegemon.

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