Trump Just Raised the Stakes. Japan Just Found Out Live on Camera.

Dear Reader,

Trump announced tariffs on Japanese goods on live television yesterday, catching Prime Minister Ishiba completely off-guard. He said it on camera, and Japan found out the same moment the rest of the world did.

This is exactly how empires signal they are done asking permission.

In Today's Issue:

■ The trade war just entered a new phase. Trump isn't negotiating anymore. He's declaring.

■ The Fed is trapped. They cut rates last quarter hoping to cool inflation. Instead, inflation stayed hot and the dollar got stronger.

■ $39.28 trillion national debt. $2 trillion fiscal 2026 deficit. Interest costs are 18 percent of federal spending. They're printing and we're paying the bill.

■ One Ticker Trader: How to profit from oil moves without owning a barrel — Brownstone Research reveals the strategy.

Here is what nobody is talking about: when you announce tariffs on live television instead of negotiating in private, you have crossed a line. This is not a threat. This is a declaration.

Japan has been America's most reliable ally for 80 years. And how does Trump thank them. On live television. In front of the cameras.

The message to every other nation is clear: loyalty doesn't mean anything anymore. Trade deals don't mean anything. If we're in a bad mood on any given Tuesday, we announce tariffs on camera.

But here is the real problem nobody is measuring. The Fed cut rates last quarter because inflation was supposed to be beaten. Except it wasn't. Inflation stayed hot. The dollar got stronger instead of weaker. So now the Fed is completely trapped.

They wanted to cut rates and see the dollar fall and inflation cool. Instead they got the opposite. The dollar is climbing and inflation won't break.

This is what happens when you run up $39.28 trillion in national debt and $2 trillion annual deficits. You lose control. The system starts eating itself.

The U.S. Treasury just reported that interest on the debt hit $867 billion in the last quarter alone. That is 18 percent of total federal spending. We are now paying more to service debt than we spend on infrastructure, education, or research combined.

We are in a debt trap. And the only way out is to either default, debase, or grow faster than the debt. America is not growing fast enough. The Fed won't let us default. So we're going to debase the currency instead.

This is the environment where hard assets move. Where gold moves. Where oil moves. Where the smart money stops holding paper and starts holding things.

The richest people in the world understand a simple truth: in times of monetary debasement, the things that hold value are not currency. They are assets. Land. Oil. Gold. Silver. Food production. Things.

This is not new. This is history. Every empire that ran up debt like this eventually printed their way out. The people holding cash lost. The people holding things won.

You have a choice. Stay in the game the way they're playing it, or step outside. Keep your money in paper and watch it debase, or own the things that hold value when the paper falls apart.

To your freedom, Robert Kiyosaki

P.S. In December President Trump will take the stage and shock the world.

Standing before the leaders of the most powerful nations on earth, at his own resort in Miami, I believe he’s set to unveil something that will impact every dollar you have saved and invested. 

The original agenda for the G20 Summit was development finance and climate change. 

That’s been scrapped. 

Instead, my friend, Porter Stansberry, indicates Trump could unveil a radical monetary reset that no one has prepared you for.

He's been tracking this story for months. 

He's convinced that what happens in that room could draw a brutal dividing line – between those who understand what's happening to their money, and those who do not.

Which means between now and December, there is a window. A chance to get ahead of what could be the most consequential change to our money in half a century. 

It wasn't voted on. It wasn't debated in the Senate. And most Americans have no idea it's even taking place but… 

President Trump is replacing the U.S. dollar.