Weekenders

Aug 16, 2026

19 min

Below you can find short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. Further down, there’s also some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.

Aug 15, 2026

20 min

Exactly 55 years ago, President Nixon announced he was "temporarily" suspending the US dollar's convertibility into gold. (yep, each US dollar used to be convertible into gold from the US gov…) ~95 years ago, the then global super power, Britain, announced that the Pound Sterling (the global reserve currency at the time) would no longer be backed by gold… (World Wars aren't cheap, and you can’t print gold backed currency) Read on to find out how the British Empire’s actions back in 1914 set off a chain of events over the last 100 years that led to small ASX stocks going up for the last 2 weeks

Aug 9, 2026

21 min

Below you can find short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. Further down, there’s also some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.

Aug 8, 2026

14 min

Can you feeeeeeel it? While it's only been 8 wonderful days - it feels like the market is… back? Global markets all ripping higher. The ASX hitting new record highs. Silver up ~12% in the last 7 days - silver stocks all up. Gold up 8% in the last 7 days - gold stocks all up. US Critical metals macro news just keeps rolling in and the theme keeps getting stronger. US critical minerals stocks all up too. And here’s what happened last night…

Aug 2, 2026

16 min

Below you can find short overviews of all the content we published last week, plus links to each full note. Further down, there’s also some links to other interesting stuff we came across on our travels around the internet.