Blown away by your timeliness, what's happening in the world is exactly what you teach. The largest naval mobilization in history is chugging its way to potential war with Iran to cut off oil
supply to China, as China is blockading refined silver bars from Tiawan, and the paper market is
disintegrating. Today is bloody Sunday in financial markets and tomorrow is D day on NYSE!
Minneapolis was a distraction, which turned deadly/tragedy, but things are going to change come tomorrow, Monday 1/26/26. Kudos on your insightful words. for you are incredible source of History mirroring itself.
Yes, we are clearly at a nexus. To expand your list, China/Xi has just made sweeping changes in his inner circle. The Ukraine appears to be teetering on collapse. Davos looks to have imploded as globalism dies, and Minneapolis is likely a symptom of it. People are clutching at status quo in a vain hope of clinging to anything familiar in a world of upheaval.
This year will be a wild ride. With the proper mindset, it will be quite a show unlike anything in our lifetime (assuming you don't personally remember WW2). Buckle up, Bucko!
When change looks impossible, it is often because we are still using the old vocabulary to describe a new reality - BRILLIANT.
Being an olde ‘stuck-in-the-mud’ thinker, I see no hope for evolved recognition and/or evolutionary change, we’re too deep into it and the reflective cave has us blinded to reality. We’ve endured 6+ life erasing epochal transitions and due for a seventh, a much earned one I must say. Blessed be those with The Vision of life’s endurance through all epochs, we still have much to learn.
The value of someone stuck in the mud is to warn others not to go that way. As you say, we've survived a few global upheavals, though probably not on the current scale, so we have insights to offer to the young'uns who have never been down this road. One of the joys of age is to have passed the existential crisis and are now able to relax and enjoy the performance.
Of all your great and insightful writings, Mr. Farside, this may be one of the very best. Yes indeed, change is inevitable, and I do believe that we are on the cusp of a big one. Life altering in every way. Falls right in line with the 4th turning concept in which we find ourselves in an ever deepening and rapidly moving crisis. As we go forth with eyes wide shut, believing all the BS officialdom throws our way, those of use fortunate enough to have shed those blinders can only shake our collective heads at what we see coming. Mr. Kramer's earlier comment may be spot on as far as both depth and timing.
While you are enjoying that monsoon, we here in the depths of Dixie are enjoying a real polar blast. Temps below freezing since Friday evening with about 4-5 inches of that white global warming covering everything. Not really snow, not really ice, but definitely a mess. Been out breaking it up on the dirt tank so the cows can find a drink. have the chicken waterer here in the office trying to thaw it out, and dealing with the mamma goats wanting to drop kids at (as always) the worse possible time. Already have lost 2, and I suspect several more before it all passes, and we see some reasonable Texas winter temperatures. Might be able to turn the house water back on Tuesday, but most likely it will be Wed. Lots of fun for a nearly 80 year old guy, but I'm here because of changes I made years ago, and would not want it any different.
I envy your location, though not the goats. They are by far the most irritating animals on the farm. Probably why the Indians skinned them and threw them in burning pits to get something useful out of the critters. I have been in your exact position with watering holes and I can't think of any tricks off hand to help your situation. I remember the winter of 75-76 in the Hill county being similar. When I poured water into a glass, it froze almost instantly. There's nothing quite as cold as Arctic air screaming down the plains. At least I can use my seat bottom cushion as a floatation device.
Keep your fingers and toes warm and the fire blazing. The lighting and thunder have started again tonight and we are expecting a Jakarta gully-washer on Tuesday. Beer stocked and ready to roll.
The Far Side is nothing if not a view of events from Low Earth Orbit. Glad you're along for the ride. By the bye, I would be nervous trying DMT. I'm already in orbit just with my own cogitation.
They are front running physical March delivery on contract in January-The slowest month of the year. Delivery of contracts are up 5 fold. March is a huge delivery month, and there will be an explosion in Silver prices. The big "riggers " of the shorts are fleeing the silver market with huge losses as we speak. Welles Fargo, TD Barclays are the first to go-watch the rest Rats implode-50 years of rigging the price of silvercatches up with you
More than 50 years, more like 200. Go back and read my piece "A Tale of Two Metals". Today started in the 1800s. In any event, clif high and the Remote Viewers have been highlighting $600 silver for a loooooong time -- clif since 2004 or so. At the time it seemed impossible. Now it appears to be right around the corner. What's more exciting than commodity prices is the global economic and systemic collapse we are witnessing.
Still looking for $180 silver to match January 1980. The thing to watch here is what price will trigger mass sell-offs to lock in profits, and the ramp-up in mining and refining triggered by industrial demand.
Silver hit $123 intraday here in Asia. Still a long way to go to reach the peak set in January 1980. On buying power parity, we need $180-$185 to break the all-time adjusted high. Still, fun to watch my holdings with an average price of $27 swell with pride.
I would never have expected Minnesota to be a hot-bed of revolution. All the folks I know from there are soft-spoken and have that Nordic common sense. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Pay attention to the opening of the Shanghai market today-6:00 EST {USA}
It will be a precursor to Mondays NYSE opening. As the USA currency cracks, the orange face clown will be going to war! Its all about Silver-whoever controls silver controls the future.
One advantage for me is that I get a bonus when clients pay in dollars, because the rupiah is falling off a cliff. We're always prepared on the Far Side.
One source said JPM needs 412 to get the short exposure they are exposed to. Watch March, as this is the largest physical delivery month and they are delivering the dwindling physical inventories
Blown away by your timeliness, what's happening in the world is exactly what you teach. The largest naval mobilization in history is chugging its way to potential war with Iran to cut off oil
supply to China, as China is blockading refined silver bars from Tiawan, and the paper market is
disintegrating. Today is bloody Sunday in financial markets and tomorrow is D day on NYSE!
Minneapolis was a distraction, which turned deadly/tragedy, but things are going to change come tomorrow, Monday 1/26/26. Kudos on your insightful words. for you are incredible source of History mirroring itself.
Thank you for your kind compliment.
Yes, we are clearly at a nexus. To expand your list, China/Xi has just made sweeping changes in his inner circle. The Ukraine appears to be teetering on collapse. Davos looks to have imploded as globalism dies, and Minneapolis is likely a symptom of it. People are clutching at status quo in a vain hope of clinging to anything familiar in a world of upheaval.
This year will be a wild ride. With the proper mindset, it will be quite a show unlike anything in our lifetime (assuming you don't personally remember WW2). Buckle up, Bucko!
More than anything is Asia, this is most likely to blow the lid off the Big Lie: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults
When change looks impossible, it is often because we are still using the old vocabulary to describe a new reality - BRILLIANT.
Being an olde ‘stuck-in-the-mud’ thinker, I see no hope for evolved recognition and/or evolutionary change, we’re too deep into it and the reflective cave has us blinded to reality. We’ve endured 6+ life erasing epochal transitions and due for a seventh, a much earned one I must say. Blessed be those with The Vision of life’s endurance through all epochs, we still have much to learn.
The value of someone stuck in the mud is to warn others not to go that way. As you say, we've survived a few global upheavals, though probably not on the current scale, so we have insights to offer to the young'uns who have never been down this road. One of the joys of age is to have passed the existential crisis and are now able to relax and enjoy the performance.
Of all your great and insightful writings, Mr. Farside, this may be one of the very best. Yes indeed, change is inevitable, and I do believe that we are on the cusp of a big one. Life altering in every way. Falls right in line with the 4th turning concept in which we find ourselves in an ever deepening and rapidly moving crisis. As we go forth with eyes wide shut, believing all the BS officialdom throws our way, those of use fortunate enough to have shed those blinders can only shake our collective heads at what we see coming. Mr. Kramer's earlier comment may be spot on as far as both depth and timing.
While you are enjoying that monsoon, we here in the depths of Dixie are enjoying a real polar blast. Temps below freezing since Friday evening with about 4-5 inches of that white global warming covering everything. Not really snow, not really ice, but definitely a mess. Been out breaking it up on the dirt tank so the cows can find a drink. have the chicken waterer here in the office trying to thaw it out, and dealing with the mamma goats wanting to drop kids at (as always) the worse possible time. Already have lost 2, and I suspect several more before it all passes, and we see some reasonable Texas winter temperatures. Might be able to turn the house water back on Tuesday, but most likely it will be Wed. Lots of fun for a nearly 80 year old guy, but I'm here because of changes I made years ago, and would not want it any different.
I envy your location, though not the goats. They are by far the most irritating animals on the farm. Probably why the Indians skinned them and threw them in burning pits to get something useful out of the critters. I have been in your exact position with watering holes and I can't think of any tricks off hand to help your situation. I remember the winter of 75-76 in the Hill county being similar. When I poured water into a glass, it froze almost instantly. There's nothing quite as cold as Arctic air screaming down the plains. At least I can use my seat bottom cushion as a floatation device.
Keep your fingers and toes warm and the fire blazing. The lighting and thunder have started again tonight and we are expecting a Jakarta gully-washer on Tuesday. Beer stocked and ready to roll.
You must have gotten a fresh batch of DMT. Talk about expansìve. Nice one, mate!
The Far Side is nothing if not a view of events from Low Earth Orbit. Glad you're along for the ride. By the bye, I would be nervous trying DMT. I'm already in orbit just with my own cogitation.
They are front running physical March delivery on contract in January-The slowest month of the year. Delivery of contracts are up 5 fold. March is a huge delivery month, and there will be an explosion in Silver prices. The big "riggers " of the shorts are fleeing the silver market with huge losses as we speak. Welles Fargo, TD Barclays are the first to go-watch the rest Rats implode-50 years of rigging the price of silvercatches up with you
More than 50 years, more like 200. Go back and read my piece "A Tale of Two Metals". Today started in the 1800s. In any event, clif high and the Remote Viewers have been highlighting $600 silver for a loooooong time -- clif since 2004 or so. At the time it seemed impossible. Now it appears to be right around the corner. What's more exciting than commodity prices is the global economic and systemic collapse we are witnessing.
Still looking for $180 silver to match January 1980. The thing to watch here is what price will trigger mass sell-offs to lock in profits, and the ramp-up in mining and refining triggered by industrial demand.
The US vaults are empty-watch Deutch bank explode under short positions of silver
Expect prices to get hammered down ahead of options expiration. They'll bounce again in early February.
Silver hit $123 intraday here in Asia. Still a long way to go to reach the peak set in January 1980. On buying power parity, we need $180-$185 to break the all-time adjusted high. Still, fun to watch my holdings with an average price of $27 swell with pride.
I live in Minnesota, such a depressing place. Thank you for your thoughtful words.
I would never have expected Minnesota to be a hot-bed of revolution. All the folks I know from there are soft-spoken and have that Nordic common sense. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Pay attention to the opening of the Shanghai market today-6:00 EST {USA}
It will be a precursor to Mondays NYSE opening. As the USA currency cracks, the orange face clown will be going to war! Its all about Silver-whoever controls silver controls the future.
One advantage for me is that I get a bonus when clients pay in dollars, because the rupiah is falling off a cliff. We're always prepared on the Far Side.
One source said JPM needs 412 to get the short exposure they are exposed to. Watch March, as this is the largest physical delivery month and they are delivering the dwindling physical inventories
now. They are paying 126 oz in china right now.