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		<title>Stocks and Metals Rally, Crude Oil Crashes — But Gasoline Holds Firm</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/stocks-and-metals-rally-crude-oil-crashes-but-gasoline-holds-firm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[davefairtex]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Market Updates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad home sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bond rally]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crude decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curds and whey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FED money printing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immunodeficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increased credit card debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metals rally]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[producer price increase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk on]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stocks and metals rallied sharply this week while crude oil plunged. Surprisingly, gasoline barely budged. A tale of diverging markets amid rising producer prices and recession signals.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump’s Private Iran Fears Exposed by WSJ as Israel Support Erodes &amp; Nuclear Power Bill Advances</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/trumps-private-iran-fears-exposed-by-wsj-as-israel-support-erodes-nuclear-power-bill-advances/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/trumps-private-iran-fears-exposed-by-wsj-as-israel-support-erodes-nuclear-power-bill-advances/#respond</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Digest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today's Digest covers Trump's Iran frustrations, US Syria exit, declining Israel support among conservatives, non-citizen births, nuclear bills, pipeline permits, NASDAQ streak, Meta layoffs, and Anthropic's AI vulnerabilities.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump’s 7 Falsehoods on Iran “Deal” and $760M Insider Bets, Bombing Set to Resume</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/trumps-7-falsehoods-on-iran-deal-and-760m-insider-bets-bombing-set-to-resume/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/trumps-7-falsehoods-on-iran-deal-and-760m-insider-bets-bombing-set-to-resume/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Digest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today's Digest covers Trump's Iran deal claims on the Strait of Hormuz and nuclear material, Iranian denials, oil market bets, energy dislocations, U.S. drought impacts, water commoditization, and CDC director nomination.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Episode #18 of The Wake-Up Call:  Strait of Confusion: Has Anything Changed?</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-18-of-the-wake-up-call-strait-of-confusion-has-anything-changed/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-18-of-the-wake-up-call-strait-of-confusion-has-anything-changed/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Premium Wake-Up Call]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What a day! Peace has broken out. Trump has pulled off the 5D chess and the United States has won. That is the story. Or is it?]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>127</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Good News Friday: Distilling Ban Overturned, J Street Calls to End Israeli Subsidies, Vaccine Panel Overhauled</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/good-news-friday-distilling-ban-overturned-j-street-calls-to-end-israeli-subsidies-vaccine-panel-overhauled/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/good-news-friday-distilling-ban-overturned-j-street-calls-to-end-israeli-subsidies-vaccine-panel-overhauled/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Digest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today's Digest covers home-distilling ban reversal, J Street on Israel aid, RFK Jr. vaccine reforms, fluoride shortages from Iran war, US WHO exit, Jan. 6 convictions, DOJ referrals, and a blocked FISA extension.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Episode #17 of The Wake-Up Call:  Foaming the Runway</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-17-of-the-wake-up-call-foaming-the-runway/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-17-of-the-wake-up-call-foaming-the-runway/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Premium Wake-Up Call]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a plane is coming into an airport and it's lost its ability to drop or lower its landing gear, emergency teams will foam the runway so that the plane lands and skids into a big pile of foam. That way, if any fires erupt, it's already pre-foamed and maybe keeps the fire hazard down. So when you're expecting something bad to happen, you foam the runway.
]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Investing When Nothing Matters and Anything Goes</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/investing-when-nothing-matters-and-anything-goes/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/investing-when-nothing-matters-and-anything-goes/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Public Finance U]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We've entered a New Normal for US equity markets where fundamentals no longer seem to matter.  Nor the reality of a a global disruption in energy and raw and intermediate products such as sulfur, aluminum, urea, helium, and ammonia.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Iran Threatens Red Sea as Bessent Slams China for Protecting Itself, Russia Offers Energy Lifeline</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/iran-threatens-red-sea-as-bessent-slams-china-for-protecting-itself-russia-offers-energy-lifeline/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/iran-threatens-red-sea-as-bessent-slams-china-for-protecting-itself-russia-offers-energy-lifeline/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Digest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today's Digest covers China tensions, Iran Red Sea threats, Russia warnings, German drone deals, lubricant shortages, IMF Treasury risks, Pentagon auto-munitions talks, Russian energy pledges, Australian refinery fire, EU grid woes, and FISA renewal.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Italy Suspends Israel Defense Pact, Virginia Joins Unconstitutional Pact to Bypass Electoral College</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/italy-suspends-israel-defense-pact-virginia-joins-unconstitutional-pact-to-bypass-electoral-college/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/italy-suspends-israel-defense-pact-virginia-joins-unconstitutional-pact-to-bypass-electoral-college/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ivor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Digest]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today's Digest covers Italy-Israel defense pact suspension, Virginia vote/gun bills, US Hormuz blockade, Ukraine robots, Iran crypto, SEC trading rules, Anthropic AI, robot training, Japan AI bias, and unvaccinated blood.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Episode #16 of The Wake-Up Call: The Abstractionists vs. The Realists</title>
		<link>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-16-of-the-wake-up-call-the-abstractionists-vs-the-realists/</link>
					<comments>https://peakprosperity.com/episode-16-of-the-wake-up-call-the-abstractionists-vs-the-realists/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Premium Wake-Up Call]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://peakprosperity.com/?p=734609</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I'm struck by how control has shifted from physical slavery to a more subtle system of debt, where people trade decades of work to repay money created with just a few clicks. With debt growing exponentially and real-world limits tightening, this system looks increasingly unsustainable. And a veiled power struggle is underway over what replaces it.]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>152</slash:comments>
		
		
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