Counter-Narrative Intel Brief #010: US-Canada Trade War (again); “Ghost Jobs” in a Ghost Economy; US Buying More if its Own Debt

When you understand that the Western world is run by a small, interconnected group of malevolent Judeomasonic mafia operatives to the benefit of global Zionism and a “new world order” agenda, events in business, politics, and world events take on a whole new meaning. I tell you why they are happening, what the mainstream is leaving out, and what comes next, in this daily report.

• Despite fresh talks, the US and Canada leap into another absurd trade war again

• States are finally stepping in on the “ghost jobs” giving a far more optimistic picture of the economy than actually exists

• Trump disclosed staggering stock trading activity with over 1000 trades made in June alone.

• Gold has surged back toward highs, as the US steals more money from taxpayers to buy back its own debt

• Gold (explained below in story #4)

• US defense majors (ahead of potential major escalation in Iran War; see “On My Radar” section below)

Today’s stories have a strangely consistent theme: the numbers increasingly don’t mean what you think they mean (unless you’re on the “inside” and know exactly how to move.)

Start with the labor market. Millions of Americans are being told that unemployment remains relatively low and that millions of jobs are supposedly available. Yet job seekers increasingly describe a completely different reality: hundreds of applications, almost no responses, and listings that remain online for months without apparently hiring anyone.

Now states are beginning to target the phenomenon of “ghost jobs”—listings companies post without necessarily intending to fill them. Estimates cited in today’s research suggest these could represent around 20% of online job postings – or a staggering 1.5 million jobs.

Meanwhile, another number deserves scrutiny: 1,000 trades in one month.

According to recently filed financial disclosures, President Trump reported more than 1,000 securities transactions during June alone—more than 550 purchases and roughly 450 sales—including seven-figure transactions involving Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, Mastercard, Meta and Motorola.

The official defense is that Trump doesn’t personally make the investment decisions. Independent managers supposedly do that, with representatives also pointing toward automated or AI-assisted management as another layer separating the president from individual trades.

But this addresses the wrong question. The important issue isn’t simply whether Trump personally clicks “BUY.” It’s whether a sitting president can financially benefit from assets whose values may be directly affected by policies his own administration controls.

And then we arrive at the biggest number of all: $40+ trillion.

America’s enormous debt load is colliding with stubbornly high borrowing costs, federal government officials are digging up increasingly creative mechanisms for supporting the bond market. In its latest move, Treasury officials have announced using funds from the Treasury General Account to buy back government debt – but this is money directly taken from tax revenues.

Whatever technical mechanism is ultimately employed, the larger problem is becoming difficult to disguise: financing an enormous and continually growing stock of government debt becomes increasingly painful when long-term yields remain around 5%.

Gold, at least, appears to understand the message. After pulling back toward roughly $4,100 only a month ago, gold has surged back toward $4,700. There was once a time when the US government, under FDR, made it illegal for citizens to own gold (after a nationwide confiscation was implemented.) This time, the US isn’t bothering with that – meaning if you can’t do anything about dollar debasement, at least you can hedge against it with a gold investment.

What the mainstream is saying: Despite Trump and his administration warming to Canada in recent weeks, signaling that a new trade deal would soon be reached with America’s largest trading partner again – talks were derailed over the weekend and a fresh round of punitively high 50% tariffs were announced on $20 billion of goods from Canada. Canada responded in kind with reciprocal tariffs of its own. Canada blamed Trump for the breakdown in negotiations, saying they were “attacked” and framing Trump‘s demands as unreasonable and deceptive, while the Trump admin claimed that Canada wanted to “have the benefits of being a state” without being one.

What they aren’t telling you: The key figure in the breakdown of these talks was not actually Trump, but rather US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Lutnick has been the extraordinarily aggressive character behind most of Trump‘s wildly aggressive tariff regime in his second term. That same tariff regime keeps coming back in varying forms, despite many lawsuits, countless complaints from America’s trading partners, and even the Supreme Court saying they were constitutional and forcing hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs to be refunded to US companies (which itself was a scam because they were chiefly paid by American consumers!)

Lutnick himself is no foreign policy genius – what he is is a global level financial criminal, and a high ranking member of the international Jewish financial mafia that has seized control of the United States. He was heavily involved with Epstein, having visited his island multiple times, lived next-door to him in Manhattan, and even bought his Manhattan townhome for a mere $10 (Epstein’s address was “9,” and the one he sold Lutnick was “11,” creating “9-11.”)

Then he was also a mysterious character in the 9-11 attacks themselves, having functioned as the head of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street investment firm that was lost more people during the 9-11 attacks than any other single company (though “lucky Lutnick” happened to be out that morning.) In the aftermath, the company received hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance premiums (most of which it then infamously withheld from its own employees.) Then, under Lutnick’s leadership, the firm then went on to be heavily involved in the financial manipulations that would later lead to the Great Recession.

In every way, Lutnick is a cancerous tumor, not just on the US economy, but the global economy - but it has become clear that he is running the show with respect to US trade policy, to the benefit of the mafia he serves, and not the American people.

What the mainstream is reporting: Amid increasing widespread reports of jobseekers across the country applying for hundreds of positions and never getting calls back, while job postings remain actives for months or years, growing public anger has prompted lawmakers in Pennsylvania and New York to start finding companies that post jobs they never fill.

The practice, which has become called “ghost jobs,” is responsible for an estimated 20% of all US jobs posted digitally on job sites; with total US job openings hovering at around 7.5 million, that means a staggering 1.6 million could be jobs that employers have no intention of filling.

What they’re not telling you: Why would companies advertise jobs that don’t exist – turns out there are several very self-serving reasons – and none of them are good for employees.

One reason is optionality. Companies can maintain a permanent pool of applicants so that if a position eventually opens—or an unusually attractive candidate appears—they already have hundreds of résumés waiting. It is essentially corporate window-shopping: We’re not hiring, but we’d like to see what’s out there just in case we see something we like. In this case, of course, the “product” is human beings and their livelihoods.

Another incentive is data. Every application produces a remarkably detailed packet of information: employment history, education, skills, location, salary expectations and sometimes demographic information. In an economy obsessed with feeding ever-larger datasets into algorithms and AI systems, applicant information has obvious potential value.

But the chief consumers of this data are typically not the hiring companies themselves – rather, they are those functioning as job marketplaces (the chief offender here is LinkedIn, but there are many others.) They can take the tens of millions of resumes that are uploaded and feed them into not only large scale AI model models based both in the US and abroad, but that personal data can then be harvested by government intelligence agencies seeking to create personality profiles of everyone in the country (in particular as predictive behavior modeling becomes more of a tool used by large corporations, intelligence agencies, and law-enforcement.)

Lastly is the oldest trick in corporate America: looking healthier than you actually are, to be seen as more valuable than you actually are.

A startup with dozens of open positions looks like a startup that’s expanding. A company advertising for engineers, executives and AI specialists appears successful enough to need them. That image can reassure employees, impress potential investors and create the impression that growth is right around the corner—even when nobody is actually being hired.

The larger problem is what this does to economic reality - if millions of listings are actually advertisements, résumé-collection mechanisms, speculative talent pools, or just corporate theater to prop up imaginary value, the number of job openings becomes much less informative - and the “ghost jobs” phenomenon really becomes a “ghost economy” phenomenon.

What the mainstream is reporting: Trump recently released his trading disclosures showing that in June of 2026, the president personally made over 1000 stock trades, including over 550 purchases and 450 sales. The largest were purchases of at least $1 million worth of Berkshire Hathaway, Visa, and MasterCard, while the largest sales were over $1 million worth of Meta and Motorola.

Despite the staggering amount of trading activity, a White House spokesman said “neither President Trump, nor any member of his family has any ability to direct, influence, or provide input regarding how the portfolio is invested, or when investments are bought or sold. All investment decisions are made entirely by independent managers.” To create yet another layer of insulation from accountability, Trump spokespeople have also claimed that it is not independent managers, but rather AI that makes the trades - and that this was being done specifically to address concerns about conflict of interest.

What they’re not telling you: Last year, the president’s own accounts revealed over 21,000 financial trades of various types last year alone, from which he profited over $2 billion (largely from his so-called investments in crypto ventures - which were really a wealth harvesting from his fanatical supporters, whose meme coin investments dropped to zero while the president made a fortune.)

As blatantly corrupt as this is, it is comical that Trump’s spokespeople are using the illusion of Trump and his family being completely uninvolved with any trading activity as though that is supposed to be reassuring. Not being involved actively in trading does not mean “not benefiting actively from trading,” and the president’s $2 billion profit in a single year makes that abundantly clear.

Looking deeper, considering that the Trump family is clearly now a branch of the international Judeomasonic mafia (a connection that was probably made official through Jared Kushner’s marriage to Ivanka Trump, though the ground was laid decades earlier.) As a result, we can see patterns of the exact same kind of corruption taking place among related operatives, such as the rest of the Kushner family, the Lutnick family, Steve Witkoff, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, and many others.

What we are witnessing is the greatest heist against the US government ever perpetrated in history. And as blatant as it is, the most frustrating aspect of it is that that even with this happening, Trump maintains a fanatically loyal 35% of the republican party base which won’t budge, no matter how blatantly corrupt Trump and his family become, or how much they run the United States and it’s economy into the ground.

What the mainstream is reporting: The US is having to become increasingly creative in order to support the dollar, especially as Treasury bond yields have gone stubbornly past the 5% mark, which is major cause for alarm. Most recently, two senior Treasury officials said in interviews that the Treasury could use it’s near $1 trillion “Treasury General Account” in order to buy back the government’s own debt in order to keep bond yields down, and therefore to hold down the US government’s borrowing costs.

(Interestingly, leading up to this bold move, Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent nearly doubled the Treasury’s General Account to $950 billion where it sits currently (compared with around $550 billion that it had during the Biden administration.)

What they’re not telling you: This is increasingly obvious to anyone with even a slide amount of economic literacy (though I fear most of the American population has virtually zero economic literacy) - but this is simply a case of the US government borrowing too much money and being unable to afford the interest payments on that debt, and printing (or stealing) more money to pay for it.

In order to keep the American population - and more importantly, the global governments and banks that hold the vast majority of the world dollars, from realizing that they are being duped - the US federal government is having to come up with creative ways to make this less obvious. In this case, the US Treasury, which operates directly under the authority of the US government and President Trump, operates a large “war chest” of money it can access in order to support the US is monetary policy goals in its so-called “General Account.”

But this money actually comes from tax revenues. So what we are seeing here is simply “monetization of debt” - another way of saying that money is being reallocated or simply printed, in order to pay the interest on money that was printed before.

Because most of the world is less easy to dupe than Americans are (especially global central banks), large scale gold purchases have recently ramped up, as it becomes more obvious that the dollar is being rapidly debased by the US government which has sent Gold surging from around $4100/oz where it sat only 30 days ago, to nearly $4700/oz where it sits today.

I have long recommended gold to my subscribers for this reason - because the US has absolutely no choice but to monetize ever more of its constantly growing debt, which means a continuously debating US currency, and an increasing price for gold. Many major financial institutions at the beginning of this year forecasted gold rising to around $6000/oz by the end of 2026 - and though the price has been jittery, mainly due to the economic shock of the Iran war, the fundamentals for that price, or higher, are still present.

On My Radar

• Gold and the 5% yield line. This remains the clearest macro signal I’m watching. If long-duration Treasury yields remain above roughly 5% while gold continues making new highs, its tells us the market believes sovereign debt stress is becoming structural rather than temporary. If policymakers respond with increasingly aggressive liquidity or debt-management measures – and they really have no other choice - my prediction of gold at the $6,000/oz level by year-end looks solid (if not higher!)

• A major escalation in the Iran War: As I wrote in this previous brief, due to Trump’s heavy entanglement with Israel and the large number of international Jewish mafia operatives in the Trump administration: despite Trump wanting to pull out of the Iran war, he will not be allowed to. As a result, his only other option will be to plunge into it deeply, in order to garner political support as midterms approach. The best way to do this will be positioning the US as a “victim” which means either a false flag attack, or a military operation gone wrong, with US forces taking hundreds of casualties and calling for “justice” or “revenge.” This will likely take place in the coming weeks, 45-60 days before midterms.

What do you guys think of the possibility of escalation of the Iran War, especially now that the US just moved another carrier group away from China and toward the Middle East?