🤵 The Macro Butler Weekly Digest 🤵

🌐 When the bell rings and the confetti fall, every IPO begs one question: if it's this good, why are the insiders selling it to you? 🌐

Read more here: https://themacrobutler.substack.com/p/the-last-buyers-club

🚨 THE TRUTH ABOUT IPOs 🚨

Wall Street tells you IPOs are opportunities.

History suggests they're exit strategies.

💰 Insiders buy early.
📈 Hype reaches maximum levels.
📺 Financial media goes into overdrive.
🐑 Retail investors rush in.
Then reality arrives.

The biggest gains are made BEFORE the IPO... not after it.
Before you buy the next "once-in-a-generation opportunity," ask yourself:
👉 If the future is so bright, why are early investors suddenly so eager to sell?

⚠️ THE #1 RULE OF INVESTING: SURVIVE. ⚠️

Everyone wants the next 10x winner.
Almost nobody talks about avoiding the -50% loser.
📉 Lose 50%?
You need a 100% gain just to break even.

The secret to long-term wealth isn't making spectacular gains.
It's avoiding catastrophic drawdowns.
🏆 Protect capital.
🏆 Stay liquid.
🏆 Be patient.
🏆 Strike when Time & Price Meet.

Because the investors who survive the crashes are the ones who own the bargains afterward.
Don't focus on getting rich fast. Focus on staying in the game.

Learn to Earn what the mainstream media insights won't tell you.
https://themacrobutler.com/financial-academy/

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The Ministry of Beneficial AI has announced, with the serene efficiency of a Friday evening 9 p.m. press release, that Anthropic has been ordered to immediately pull the plug on all foreign access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — including its own foreign national employees — just four days after their triumphant launch, citing a national security export control directive. The pretext is a theoretical universal jailbreak that, in a detail the government of the Empire apparently missed during its review, no tester has actually found — with disclosed potential jailbreaks described as either entirely benign or providing no model-specific uplift whatsoever. Anthropic had already warned before launch that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider — a philosophical position Washington apparently treats as a four-day processing time.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

In the race to win the AI war, America's opening strategy was to confiscate its own weapon.

In her final act as outgoing Director of National Intelligence — presumably before the Ministry of Truth reassigns the filing cabinet — Tulsi The Brave has spent her last weeks in office detonating a remarkable quantity of carefully maintained official fictions. First, she declassified intelligence slides confirming that the US government funded more than 120 biolabs across 30 countries, including over 40 in Ukraine, information she says was "knowingly withheld from the American people" while officials including Dr. Fauci "lied repeatedly" about their existence — and threatened those who tried to expose the truth.

https://www.dni.gov/files/BIOLAB_Slides.pdf

Then, in a complementary act of institutional self-immolation, she retracted the intelligence community's own assessments on Havana Syndrome, finding they had selectively excluded inconvenient evidence, relied on an ethically flawed medical study, and were developed in a manner inconsistent with analytic integrity — which is the bureaucratic way of saying the reports were engineered to reach a predetermined conclusion while the afflicted diplomats and intelligence officers were quietly denied medical care. Taken together, the two revelations sketch a portrait of an intelligence apparatus that spent years simultaneously running programs it denied existed and dismissing the injuries of its own people with reports it now admits it fabricated.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/gabbard-rescinds-intelligence-committee-reports-on-mysterious-syndrome-6047063?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

When the outgoing intelligence chief's farewell gift is proof that the intelligence community lied about biolabs and its own wounded, the conspiracy theorists are owed a very long apology.

🚀 SPACEX IPO: THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY... OR THE BIGGEST TRAP? 🚀

Everyone is already counting their profits.

That's usually when investors should start asking questions.

🤔 Why go public now?
🤔 Who is selling?
🤔 Is the growth already priced in?
🤔 Are you investing... or providing an exit for early insiders?

History teaches the same lesson:

The most exciting IPOs often arrive when expectations have already reached orbit. 🌕

The best company in the world can still be a terrible investment at the wrong price.

Before you FOMO into the next "can't lose" opportunity, watch this video.

Because in finance, gravity eventually catches up with every rocket. 🚀📉

🚨 STOP FOLLOWING THE NOISE. START FOLLOWING THE MONEY. 🚨

The media is obsessed with headlines.

Smart investors are watching capital flows.

📺 News chases clicks.
💰 Markets chase liquidity.
🥇 Real assets preserve wealth.

While everyone argues about the latest crisis, the biggest opportunities are in gold, silver, energy, and hard assets.

The crowd follows narratives.

Successful investors follow signals.

🎯 The question isn't what people are saying.

It's where the money is moving.

Learn to Earn how to separate market noise from investment reality.

https://themacrobutler.com/financial-academy/

🚨 POLITICS, LOBBYING & POWER: THE STORY THEY DON'T TELL YOU IN FAKE NEWS MEDIA 🚨

Every election comes with promises.

Every campaign comes with donors.

And every major foreign policy decision comes with questions.

💰 Follow the money.
🗳 Follow the incentives.
🎭 Ignore the political theater.

The real battle in Washington isn't always Democrat vs Republican.

It's influence vs accountability.

Who shapes policy?
Who benefits?
And who ultimately pays the bill?

If you think politics is about principles, this video may surprise you.

The Ministry of Ever-Closer Union has announced, with the solemn gravitas of a press release written by committee, that Eurostan has taken "a major step forward" by agreeing to open the first accession negotiation cluster with Ukraine and Moldova — covering the "core values and principles on which the EU is built, from the rule of law to strong democratic institutions" — a sentence delivered with a straight face by an institution whose founding members include France, currently on its third finance minister of the year, and Italy, which has not balanced a budget since the introduction of the euro.

https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/statement-president-von-der-leyen-and-president-costa-agreement-open-first-accession-negotiation-2026-06-12_en

Welcoming a war-ravaged nation into a fiscally insolvent union and calling it a strategic investment is either visionary leadership or the world's most ambitious exercise in shared denial.

🚨 THE US ECONOMY IS BOOMING... SO WHY DOES EVERYONE FEEL POORER? 🚨

Politicians say the economy is strong.

Consumers say:
🏠 Housing is unaffordable.
🛒 Groceries cost more.
⛽️ Fuel costs more.
💳 Debt is exploding.

Someone is telling the truth.
Someone is managing the statistics.

The real economy isn't measured by press conferences.

It's measured by what families can actually afford.

📉 Rising debt.
📈 Rising living costs.
📉 Falling purchasing power.

Welcome to the strange world where official numbers look great while consumers feel worse.

The Macro Butler pulled up a chair on The Time Compass Show with Bud Leiser to dismantle the week’s most dangerous myths before the rest of the world had finished its coffee. Another Hormuz MOU — another peace deal with the shelf life of a campaign promise.

Kevin Warsh’s FOMC debut: why his much-anticipated entrance will confirm, like the ECB and Bank of Japan before him, that the Fed has become a purely decorative institution in the age of Trump Stagflation.

And private credit fund freezes rapidly curing investors of the illusion that “alternative” means “accessible” — and sending them straight back to the only asset class that has never needed a redemption gate, a press release, or a central banker’s blessing: gold and precious metals.

No hopium. No soft landings. Just the macro playbook the consensus is still too comfortable to price in.

🎧 Watch now — and decide what’s actually in your portfolio before the next gate closes.

https://themacrobutler.substack.com/p/interview-with-time-compass-show-743

In another news that will confirm that the next great gold bull market will be driven by Asia, Singapore has announced on June 15 that it will establish an over-the-counter gold-clearing system by end-2026, with six bullion banks — including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and DBS — signing on to participate, in what can only be described as the financial world's most eloquent vote of confidence in a metal that the same financial world spent the better part of a decade dismissing as a barbarous relic. The Monetary Authority of Singapore will also introduce central bank vaulting services from October 2026, allowing foreign central banks to store bullion reserves securely in the city-state — which is a diplomatically refined way of saying that sovereign institutions would like their gold somewhere stable, well-governed, and not subject to being frozen by executive order before breakfast.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/market/commodities/singapore-to-introduce-gold-clearing-system-this-year-become-bullion-hub-ws-el-19925317

Asian consumers already account for roughly 70% of the world's annual gold demand, yet the region's infrastructure has not kept pace — a gap Singapore is now moving to close with the quiet efficiency it brings to everything it decides to be serious about.

That JPMorgan, an institution not historically known for its sentimentality about gold, is among the founding participants tells you rather more about the direction of travel than any central bank survey or newsletter — including this one.

China's May data arrived like an uninvited houseguest bearing contradictions: retail sales fell 0.6% year-on-year — their first decline since the post-Covid reopening — fixed-asset investment retreated 4.1%, private investment slumped 7.1% at its worst pace since 2020, and car purchases plunged 16%, suggesting the Chinese consumer has studied the art of the closed wallet with monastic discipline. Meanwhile, the factory hummed heroically: industrial production climbed 4.5%, high-tech manufacturing soared 15%, semiconductors exports exploded 111%, and AI-related electronics jumped 17% — proof that the Middle Kingdom has mastered the ancient paradox of producing everything the world desires while its own citizens desire nothing at all.

In a nutshell, China keeps selling magnificently to the world while refusing to buy anything from itself