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"2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up: Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology with Tim Caban"
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This week, financial planner Tim Caban and I present the Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology for the 2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up.
We start by posing a strategic question: “Which is more important to you—the current value of your assets, or whether those assets will continue to be yours?” This is a question that every one of us needs to deeply consider.
Tim and I then take a look at this quarter’s Rambus Chartology and what it tells us about market valuations. Special thanks to Rambus for the wealth of charts and technical analysis he provides each quarter. If you are following the stock and commodities markets, we recommend this special quarterly piece as well as his excellent website.
We also take note of recent remarks by Jeremy Grantham about historical bubbles. Noting that “Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism,” Grantham warns, “Every great bubble in history has broken—there are no exceptions.”
Grantham is right; however, the financial tools now gathering with distributed ledger technology to extend the current bubble are formidable. We have been covering and documenting these extensively at the Solari Report this year. This is one of many reasons you want to make sure to read the Wrap Up on Programmable Money we just published in PDF form. (We will be mailing hard copies to Print + Digital subscribers after Labor Day.)
“Perpetual war” is front and center in our discussion of current trends. To bolster the dollar system, the U.S. is leading an effort to control energy supplies worldwide, no matter the harm to the global economy. In the push to shift global citizenry into the dollar system and the U.S. stock and bond markets, the U.S. fiscal machine is unleashing a tsunami of stimulus that is benefiting defense and control grid stocks and facilitating more plunder. Tim and I look at the dollar system (does the U.S. dollar remain dominant but dangerous?), sectors (such as value vs. momentum and small/midcap vs. large cap), and the private equity/private credit implosion and its impact on the insurance industry.
Finally, we review allocation choices and options. With the various steps Mr. Global is taking to implement programmable money and assets and to use programmability as an instrument of surveillance and social control, we believe it is more essential than ever to withdraw support from the control grid (see Coming Clean). How do you know where the money in your 401(k), IRA, and savings is really going? We discuss steps you can take.
We also continue to emphasize the importance of steadily increasing your personal and household resilience, of prioritizing analog and responsible digital technologies, as well as getting legislative consumer protections in place. As the Solari team works to revise and launch updated model legislation, we invite you to join in—there is much opportunity in the next round of state legislative sessions after the midterm elections.
Full Report: solari.com/2nd-quarter-2026-wrap-up-equity-overview-rambus-chartology-with-tim-caban
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"2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up: Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology with Tim Caban"
Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/solarireport
This week, financial planner Tim Caban and I present the Equity Overview & Rambus Chartology for the 2nd Quarter 2026 Wrap Up.
We start by posing a strategic question: “Which is more important to you—the current value of your assets, or whether those assets will continue to be yours?” This is a question that every one of us needs to deeply consider.
Tim and I then take a look at this quarter’s Rambus Chartology and what it tells us about market valuations. Special thanks to Rambus for the wealth of charts and technical analysis he provides each quarter. If you are following the stock and commodities markets, we recommend this special quarterly piece as well as his excellent website.
We also take note of recent remarks by Jeremy Grantham about historical bubbles. Noting that “Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism,” Grantham warns, “Every great bubble in history has broken—there are no exceptions.”
Grantham is right; however, the financial tools now gathering with distributed ledger technology to extend the current bubble are formidable. We have been covering and documenting these extensively at the Solari Report this year. This is one of many reasons you want to make sure to read the Wrap Up on Programmable Money we just published in PDF form. (We will be mailing hard copies to Print + Digital subscribers after Labor Day.)
“Perpetual war” is front and center in our discussion of current trends. To bolster the dollar system, the U.S. is leading an effort to control energy supplies worldwide, no matter the harm to the global economy. In the push to shift global citizenry into the dollar system and the U.S. stock and bond markets, the U.S. fiscal machine is unleashing a tsunami of stimulus that is benefiting defense and control grid stocks and facilitating more plunder. Tim and I look at the dollar system (does the U.S. dollar remain dominant but dangerous?), sectors (such as value vs. momentum and small/midcap vs. large cap), and the private equity/private credit implosion and its impact on the insurance industry.
Finally, we review allocation choices and options. With the various steps Mr. Global is taking to implement programmable money and assets and to use programmability as an instrument of surveillance and social control, we believe it is more essential than ever to withdraw support from the control grid (see Coming Clean). How do you know where the money in your 401(k), IRA, and savings is really going? We discuss steps you can take.
We also continue to emphasize the importance of steadily increasing your personal and household resilience, of prioritizing analog and responsible digital technologies, as well as getting legislative consumer protections in place. As the Solari team works to revise and launch updated model legislation, we invite you to join in—there is much opportunity in the next round of state legislative sessions after the midterm elections.
Full Report: solari.com/2nd-quarter-2026-wrap-up-equity-overview-rambus-chartology-with-tim-caban
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Local Pushback against Privatization of Public Infrastructure: One Person Can Make a Difference with Terri Hall
By Elze van Hamelen
The story of Terri Hall is a remarkable tale illustrating how—with perseverance, faith, and a refusal to give up—one person can have a major impact. In this interview, Hall describes how a call to action on local radio and a small meeting in a school library turned into successful, statewide grassroots pushback.
In 2005, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) had plans to convert an existing, taxpayer-financed freeway into a toll road and to transfer ownership to two foreign corporations in a 50-year deal. The contracts would have allowed no competing projects in the nearby area, hindering any future public development. The plans also called for expansion onto private land to be seized through eminent domain and transferred to the foreign companies—a clear infringement of property rights and an abuse of eminent domain (which is only supposed to be applied for urgent public purposes). For the private companies, there would be no limits to the toll fees that they could collect, and if the project failed to become profitable, citizens would be taxed to cover the investment gap.
Toll road projects of this type hit low- and middle-income citizens the hardest, forcing them to pay exorbitant toll fees just to get to work. Recognizing the “kitchen-table issues” in play, homeschooling mom Terri Hall was, therefore, shocked when she heard about the TxDOT’s plans. In response, she organized a highly successful grassroots initiative that led, in 2007, to a moratorium on privatized toll roads, and, in 2012, to the removal of a full chapter from the state’s transportation code. She explains,
“[As] anyone [knows] who has ever done legislative work, it’s hard to get a single line out of code. Sometimes it can take you years just to get a single initiative out of code. We managed to get an entire chapter of the transportation code completely erased.”
The toll road was intended to be part of a national NAFTA superhighway, with Texas selected as the starting point due to its gateway relationship to Mexico. Halting the “Trans Texas Project” stopped the superhighway network from spreading across the U.S.
Through her two non-profits, Texans Uniting for Reform & Freedom (TURF – “Defending Freedom to Travel & Property Rights”) and Texans for Toll-free Highways, Hall continues to push back against privatized toll roads and other threats on the horizon. Describing the ongoing efforts to privatize public infrastructure, attack property rights, and restrict citizens’ freedom of movement—for example, through the federally mandated kill switch in all new cars, driverless cars, surveillance, and non-competitive contracting—Hall observes, “The other side will never stop because they’re working 24/7, sometimes with our money, lobbying against us. So we have to be just as vigilant as they are.”
Hall also describes the importance of “training up younger blood” and growing the ranks of citizens lobbying for freedom. The practical information she shares is sure to inspire some to join the pushback.
Full Report: https://solari.com/local-pushback-against-privatization-of-public-infrastructure-one-person-can-make-a-difference-with-terri-hall/
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