Before the 2024 election earlier this month, President-Elect Donald Trump talked daily about tariffs. Now that he’s preparing to take office, it’s becoming increasingly clear that he wasn’t just making frivolous campaign promises. As he is wont to do, he intends to keep his promise and use tariffs as leverage to improve America’s economy.
He even warned China, Canada, and Mexico that if they don’t help him seal the border from human invasion and drug trafficking, they would be the first recipients of harsh tariffs on top of what he already has planned.
So far, it seems to be working as both Canada and Mexico signaled a strong willingness to play ball.
With Trump’s Agenda 47, tariffs will be implemented swiftly and economists believe will likely have their desired effect. As Reuters noted Thursday:
Gold prices rose on Thursday as geopolitical uncertainty and trade war concerns boosted safe-haven demand, with low trading volumes expected as U.S. markets are closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Geopolitical risks remain elevated with ongoing war in Russia-Ukraine, and while an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is in force, Israel’s contingencies for retaliation keep tensions alive, said Aneeka Gupta, director of macroeconomic research at WisdomTree.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to hit Canada and Mexico with tariffs was also having an effect, she added. “It did increase a bit of concern on the possible repercussions from these two countries. So that continues to remain an important support factor for gold.”
Jonathan Rose, CEO of Genesis Gold Group, said his company has positioned its clients to ride the Trump economic wave by using a proper mix of physical gold and silver to back their retirement accounts.
“We anticipated Trump’s victory and made the right moves to benefit our clients, both new and existing,” he said. “There are still threats but with the Trump administration steering the ship we project big moves for precious metals prices just as they moved in his first term.
“In fact, we have reasons to believe his administration will be even better for precious metals than his first term when gold rose 51%.”
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
The same can be said about our preparedness sponsor, Prepper All-Naturals. Their long-term storage beef has a 25-year shelf life and is made with one ingredient: All-American Beef.
Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
