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A NEW FINANCIAL WORLD ORDER

Clouted July 2, 2026

[TTP: This article is a deep dive. It will take about 15 minutes to read.

And it is worth every minute!]

Yes, this administration has a plan.

Yes, there is going to be a reset to the global financial system.

Yes, it is already being executed.

No, it is probably nothing like what you think.

Over the last fifteen months, a series of seemingly unrelated moves, tariffs, military operations, legislation, regulatory shifts, defense pacts, have been playing out across different theatres at the same time.

Most people are watching each one in isolation.

The tariff people are talking about tariffs. The military people are talking about Iran. The crypto people are talking about stablecoins. The economists are still saying so much but nothing at all. Almost nobody is connecting them.

This article aims to connect them. What follows is the full picture of what is actually being built, how each piece locks into the next, and why the result is a new global financial architecture that will define the next fifty years of American power. By the end, you may gain clarity on something that most of the world has not figured out yet.

THE INTELLECT THAT WORSHIPS

A.C. Rosenthal July 1, 2026

[TTP: Today’s articles were chosen specifically to show the results of thinking rationally and the refusal to do so.]

The deepest mind of the modern age sat in a lecture hall and admitted that a priest had out-thought him regarding the beginning of the world.

This is the story of how thinking all the way to the end stops looking like an argument and starts looking like awe.

In January of 1933, in a packed hall at Caltech, Albert Einstein listened to a Belgian priest explain how the universe began, and then he stood up in front of a room full of physicists and said it was the most beautiful explanation of creation he had ever heard.

This was not a man easily impressed, and it was not a conclusion he had wanted to reach.

A few years earlier Einstein had told the same priest, to his face, that his mathematics were fine but his physics were abominable. The idea offended him.

The priest, Georges Lemaître, was arguing that the universe was not the eternal, static, always-having-existed thing that every serious scientist assumed it to be.

He was arguing that it had a beginning. That if you ran the expansion of the galaxies backward far enough, everything collapsed to a single dense point, a moment before which there was no before.

Lemaître called it, with a poet’s ear, a day without yesterday.

Einstein hated it, and the reason he hated it is the most revealing part of the whole story.

L.A. METRO IS A CRIME-RIDDEN HELLSCAPE

Christopher F. Rufo and Haley Strack July 1, 2026

[TTP: Today’s articles were chosen specifically to show the results of thinking rationally and the refusal to do so.]

Every day, thousands of Los Angelenos take a deep breath, step out of their houses, and plunge themselves into a transit experience straight out of Mad Max. The city’s buses have become rolling homeless shelters, replete with drugs and feces.

Its trains are home to murder and mayhem. As Daquan, a daily rider who works near the North Hollywood station told us, “You could kill somebody down there and just get away with it.”

The transformation has been swift and stark. Between 2020 and 2025, crime in the system more than doubled.

What drove the change? L.A. Metro’s dedication to creating an equitable transit system, where all Angelenos—drug-addicted, homicidal maniacs included—can effectively ride free, without consequences.

In other words, Angelenos have been condemned to die underground, all in the name of racial justice.

Activists and their allies in city government have spent years laser-focused on driving cops from the L.A. Metro’s buses and trains. Their argument: making people pay to use the trains is racist.

THE MAN BEHIND THE SCIENTIST

Michelle Pryor July 2, 2026

The world knew Durk Pearson as a brilliant scientist, bestselling author, and pioneer in the field of nutrition and life extension. His groundbreaking research challenged conventional thinking and inspired millions of people to take a more active role in their health.

I had the privilege of knowing Durk personally for more than 30 years. Beyond his extraordinary scientific mind was a man deeply committed to the principles of liberty and the United States Constitution.

One thing many people never knew was Durk's profound admiration for James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution." He believed passionately in the Constitution, especially the First Amendment and the protection of free speech. His respect for Madison was so great that he even adopted "James Madison" as an alias for his mailing address in Tonopah.

To Durk, freedom of speech was far more than a constitutional right—it was the foundation of scientific discovery. He believed that science advances only when ideas can be openly discussed, debated, questioned, and tested without fear of censorship.

He often reminded us that today's accepted truths were once considered controversial.

Over the many years that Greg and I worked with Durk and Sandy Shaw, I came to appreciate that his passion extended far beyond nutrition.

He believed that individual liberty, personal responsibility, and the free exchange of ideas were inseparable from scientific progress. Those principles shaped not only his writings and research but also the way he lived his life.

That is the Durk Pearson I will always remember—not only as one of the most brilliant scientists of our time, but as a man of conviction who believed that knowledge should be free, truth should be pursued, and every individual should have the freedom to think, question, and decide for themselves. Happy Independence Day!

Dedicated to the memory of Skye who was Durk Pearson

Greg and Michelle Pryor are the owners of Life Priority, a licensee of Pearson & Shaw nutritional formulas. They are long time subscribers to TTP.

HOW TO OVERCOME OUR OLD, LIMITING BELIEFS

Dr. Joel Wade June 30, 2026

Have you ever felt that in striving toward a goal of some kind, that there’s something holding you back? Something that you can’t see or grasp clearly, but you feel it’s there, slowing you down—like you just can’t get traction?

This is something that most of us have experienced to one degree or another.

Maybe we find we hit a wall with how much income we earn; or we find a pattern in our relationships that limits our sense of closeness; or we feel there’s some obstacle in our work that we can’t seem to overcome.

It can feel like there’s a threshold that we can’t seem to cross, no matter how hard we try. We struggle to improve whatever it is, but it’s as though there’s something working against us, like a gravitational pull that keeps drawing us back within a certain range.

When this happens, what we may be experiencing is the effect of a rotten belief.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: AMERICA AT MOUNT RUSHMORE

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 3, 2026

I took this photo of Mount Rushmore looking straight on from a helicopter – so it may be from an angle you have not seen before. On the eve of America’s 250^th birthday, it may be worthwhile to think of these four heroic Americans from a different perspective, to reflect on the almost unimaginable -- in the light of our comfortable lives we live today – challenges they faced and triumphed over to create and sustain our America.

It is worth asking what would they say to us today, what advice and counsel would they give us on how to face and triumph over what unimaginable – to them during their lives – challenges of ours as Americans today.

Look into their eyes. What are they saying to you? This 250^th Fourth of July is a time of deep reflection on the meaning of being American. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #173 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

A MONSTER’S CASTLE

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 2, 2026

Cap Haitien, Haiti. On a steep mountain top three thousand feet high above the north coast of Haiti, stands this staggeringly gigantic fortress.

It is the Citadelle Laferrière, revered by professional distortionists of history as "the greatest monument to black freedom in the Americas." What it really is instead is a monument to totalitarian insanity.

In 1807, the leader of a victorious slave army against the French named Henri Christophe (1767-1820) seized Haiti and proceeded to re-enslave his people. With their slave labor, he built La Citadelle – 20,000 slaves died under the lash or from utter exhaustion building it, hauling hundreds of cannons, tens of thousands of cannon balls, and millions of bricks and rocks 3,000 feet up the steep slopes to the site.

Finally, in 1820, Christophe’s slaves rebelled, his body dissolved in a huge vat of liquid lime, the mortar for the fortress’ bricks. The Citadelle has been a deserted ruins ever since. I was the only visitor there. So much for "the monument to black freedom." Haiti has never experienced a single day of freedom in its entire existence to this very day.

Haiti, in other words, is not only a failed state – for over 200 years, it has always been a failed state. Tragically, the odds are high it always will be. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #265 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE SACRED LAKE OF PHOKSUNDO

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 1, 2026

West of the Himalayan giants of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri in Nepal lies a roadless high wilderness inhabited only by Tibetan nomads called Dolpa. The region is named after them, Dolpo. The Dolpa practice the ancient pre-Buddhist animist religion of Tibet called Bön. They worship sites of nature they consider holy. And holiest of all is the Sacred Lake of Phoksundo.

The Dolpa consider the blue of Phoksundo an act of magic by the gods. Once you see it, you can only agree. This picture is not photoshopped – it is real. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #41 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

THE IDEAL ESCAPE HATCH

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 30, 2026

What would be an ideal place to escape from all the lunacy washing over our country – for a few days to a second home?

Let’s see… it would have to be a First World country with all the civilized amenities of modern life, and a cultured, educated, and welcoming people many, many of whom speak English.

A First World country that brushes aside all Woke nuttiness engulfing the US as silly rubbish to be ignored, and traditional Christian family values revered instead. That is not much farther away than a US cross-country flight. That has Goldilocks weather, not too hot, not too cold. That has sunsets in the ocean, fabulous food and wine, incredible castles in the sky, history that’s thousands of years old yet so hip and current it’s the cultural capital of its continent.

We’ve had Glimpses of this place before: The Europe That’s Still There, and The Portuguese Riviera. Yes, the Ideal Escape Hatch for us is Portugal – a quick overnight flight getting there, a morning flight return.

Rebel and I have conducted a Portugal Exploration many times for TTPers. I'm sure we will do it again. You owe it to yourself to be entranced by this ideal place. (Glimpses of our Breathtaking World #157 ©photo Jack Wheeler)

THE SPIRAL CHURCH OF UVEA

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 29, 2026

Halfway between Samoa and Fiji in the South Pacific lies the French Territory of Wallis and Futuna. It’s so hard to reach I had to charter a King Air private plane to get here in 2016. The capital is Mata-Utu on Wallis Island which the native Polynesian islanders call Uvea. French missionaries arrived at Uvea in 1837 to convert the islanders to Roman Catholic Christianity. They were Marist Brothers, a branch of the Society of Mary. Today, 99% of the native islanders are Catholic.

The spiral church you see, Église du Sacré-Coeur (Church of the Sacred Heart) was built in the early 1900s out of hand-cut volcanic rocks . The interior is spectacular, and if you look high up on the fourth tier you’ll see a figure in an opening. That’s a statue of Jesus with arms outstretched in welcome to all who worship here. The islanders consider themselves French citizens with representation in both the French Senate and National Assembly in Paris. At the same time they consider themselves ruled by their own king – the King of Uvea (Wallis) and the King of Sigave (Futuna), which the French government recognizes. This is a peaceful, friendly, interesting place. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #299, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

SAD: WOMAN GIVES BIRTH ON BORDER AND NOW ONLY BABY’S TOP HALF IS AMERICAN

Babylon Bee July 3, 2026

EL PASO, TX — Witnesses reported that a migrant woman gave birth right on the U.S.-Mexico border this morning, sadly making only the top half of the baby American.

Sofia Perez had traveled all the way from Venezuela in an attempt to secure American citizenship for her new baby. Unfortunately, according to the nurse who delivered the baby, the top half of the baby came out on American soil, while the bottom half came out on Mexican territory.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Your baby's chest and head have all the rights and privileges of an American citizen, but he's still Venezuelan from the waist down," explained immigration attorney Benjamin Rodriguez. "Wherever the baby's bottom lands on the way out, that's the ball game. Baby Armando will have his bottom half deported, while his top half may stay and do as it pleases."

According to legal experts, baby Armando's top half would be eligible to apply for a Social Security card and would have access to an American education, but his bottom half must return to Venezuela. "If only Ms. Perez had scooted just 10 inches over, baby Armando would be fully American," sighed law professor Roger Valentine. "If just his left foot had landed in Mexico, we could have cut the foot off, and then he'd be set. It's a tragic situation."

At publishing time, ICE had detained Ms. Perez and baby Armando, but only his legs.

~ Babylon Bee reporting.

HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/26

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 26, 2026

“I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it… But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.” -- Argentine President Javier Milei

On Tuesday (6/23), New York Democrats elected two Socialist Nazis and another borderline-so to be their Congressional candidates this November. Their districts (7^th, 10^th, 13^th) are so deep Dem they are shoo-ins. Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez are 30-something nobodies who’ve never had a real job, accomplished nothing in their lives except being unhinged “activists”, and are Hate America/Hate Israel/Hate Jews Nazis (the truthful label for someone being rabidly “Pro-Palestinian”).

The third, Brad Lander, is just another run-of-the-mill sleazy Dem local politician who’s been around for decades and says what’s needed to be elected. He’s Jewish but since the district he’s running for has both lots of Jews and Moslems he pretzels himself in appeals to both. The “Hateful” label the NY Post applies to him doesn’t fit like it clearly does the other two. Actually, the incumbent Congresscritter Brad took out on Tuesday, Dan Goldman (D-NY) has made a career out of his unrelenting hate for Donald Trump – why many residents of MAGA-land are cheering his loss. . Especially this resident:So – does this mean Democratic Socialism aka Democratic Fascism is going to sweep across America now? Read on to find out! LOTS more good news in this HFR!

GET READY TO CRY TEARS OF JOY FOR AMERICA

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 22, 2026

Folks, we’re skipping an Archive this Monday for the most viral event on Earth taking place right now. That is an overwhelming deluge of lengthy videos on YouTube and short vid clips on X documenting and celebrating scores of thousands of World Cup fans from all over the world having their minds totally blown by how amazing, unbelievable, friendly, patriotic, and flat-out wonderful America is.

Frankly, I’m having a difficult time writing this as so much of this deluge is making me cry. I can’t stop the tears of joy for my country. We see so much woke media garbage focusing on the woke psychos who hate our country – and all of a sudden, thanks to this flood of World Cup fans coming here for the first time after having their minds messed up by the same media garbage in their own countries and experiencing with their own eyes the reality of what America actually is, we get to see that reality too.

This is an epochal event, world-changing. What has happened over the last several days and is happening as you read this is causing a “vibe-shift” in how countless millions all over our planet emotionally feel about America. From negative to positive. Not about Trump or politics or news events. Something far deeper: how they feel in their hearts about America, not about how they think in their brains, which, truth be told, for most people is a collection of randomly assembled memorized slogans. For now, those slogans may change for the good.

Here’s a sample of YouTube vids and X posts. You’re going to love them…

SCHEDULE F IS BACK – TRUMP’S LATEST ASSAULT ON THE DEEP STATE

Jeffrey Tucker June 24, 2026

Quietly, and with no great fanfare, President Donald Trump has resurrected the most innovative strategy of his first term.

In fact, I’ve argued that this one measure is the single most creative approach to government reform to advance in a century.

Trump’s executive order creates a new category for federal employment, set to apply to any civil servant who is working on policy and its implementation. It’s a resurrection of a similar executive order from late in his first term — promptly reversed by President Joe Biden — and the finalization of another announced in the earliest days of Trump’s second term.

What this means is rather dramatic. It brings the public sector, or at least part of it, to fit with the usual labor practices of the private sector.

This helps restore some part of people’s government. The people elect a president. The president can control employment in the executive branch rather than be beholden to a permanent civil service class.

This is precisely what the Founders created. It’s something of a wonder how and why that system was ever replaced with something so completely different.

AMERICAN ECONOMIC STATECRAFT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Scott Bessent (Presented at the Economic Club of NY’s America 250 Gala Dinner) June 25, 2026

Thank you for the invitation to be here on this wonderful occasion.

As a long-time member of the Economic Club of New York, I know that it occupies a place of great significance in our nation’s discourse.

For generations, few institutions have done more to shape how we confront the defining questions of the day.

And yet, across all those years, tonight’s gathering is without precedent as we assemble on the eve of an extraordinary moment in our history.

Over the coming days, we will celebrate 250 years of the American story and the proposition with which it began: that a free people answer to no power but their own.

But milestones of this magnitude demand more than ceremony.

They ask something of us. They invite us to reflect on the creation of our country, of course, but no less, on its condition.

Indeed, the most fitting way to honor those who founded this nation is to meet the great challenges of our own time with the same resolve that they brought to theirs.

And in that spirit, under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. Treasury is working to restore economic security as the foundation that allows a nation to fulfill its most basic obligations.

In my remarks before the Economic Club of Dallas, I detailed how the structural vulnerabilities that we allowed to accumulate over time precipitated a drift into dependence.

And last month before the Reagan Library, I noted that under President Trump, America has awoken to the risks we can no longer ignore and is now attuned to the responsibilities we can no longer neglect.

So tonight, I would like to take the next step and describe our strategy for economic statecraft, by which I mean the disciplined use of America’s economic power in service of our sovereignty.

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