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Alden Wells | The Six Pillars of Inner Strength -Pillar 4, Part 2: Love & Happiness — Adages, Affirmations, Anchors & Observations

Why love isn’t found but grown, and how to build the inner garden where happiness naturally rests.

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Gold: The Coiled Spring: Central Bank Buying and the Junior Miner Valuation Gap

While China and Poland drive global reserves to historic milestones, a stark disconnect leaves resource explorers starved for capital.

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Breaking the Tri-National Machine: How USMCA Brinkmanship Upends the North American Auto Sector

Following the July 1, 2026 USMCA non-renewal, Washington weaponizes trade timelines to try to force a structural reshuffling of continental

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The Geopolitical Decoupling: NATO’s Independent Defense Surge

As allies quietly drift away from U.S. procurement, a historic cross-border rearming phase is triggering an unprecedented squeeze on critica

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The Split-Phase Commodity Market: Real Leverage in an Era of $4,100 Gold & $60 Silver

Secular energy demand and banking reforms are creating an unprecedented floor for physical metals—but only for those Juniors with bankable a

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Pillar 4, Part 1: Love & Happiness — Ancient Prayers, Modern Anchors & The Foundations of Joy

Bridging the Science of Stillness with the Spiritual Architecture of Joy

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The Geopolitical Decoupling: NATO’s Independent Defense Surge

As allies quietly drift away from U.S. procurement, a historic cross-border rearming phase is triggering an unprecedented squeeze on critica

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Connecting 350/400+ Million People: Inside the Joint Push for a Canada-Mercosur Trade Deal

Why the sheer population volume of the southern group makes this trade pact a game-changer for Canadian exporters and investors this year.

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Critical Minerals and Metals: The Structural Super-cycle and the Junior Mining Imperative

Where global electrification collides with mineral scarcity — and Juniors become the only path forward.

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CHINA’s ECONOMY 2026: The Great Asset Rotation and the Hard-Asset Pivot

“China isn’t just buying gold and silver — it’s quietly cornering the physical hard assets of the future and reshaping the global monetary s

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The $900 Billion Partnership at a Crossroads: Why the 2026 CUSMA Review Matters More Than Ever

Tariffs, legal shifts, and the Gordie Howe Bridge dispute have raised the stakes heading into July 1 — a review that won’t decide the long t

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Stones in Your Pocket: Timeless Wisdom for Unshakeable Self-Worth

The Alden Wells Series- Pillar 3 (pt 3) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest acco

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Minefields to Midstream

From Minefields to Midstream

“Resource nationalism has evolved from defense to offense with the rise of the state-backed supply chain.”

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Silver’s Center of Gravity Moves East

Why Shanghai — not New York — is now anchoring the global Silver market

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North America’s Minerals & Metals Awakening

Inside the emerging two tier supply chain — and the powerful tailwinds forming for critical minerals, gold, silver, and junior miners

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No Skin in the Game: Why AI Cannot Be Allowed To Hold the Gavel

We are accelerating a technological locomotive without a map of the terrain ahead. Our task isn't to slow the train—it's to lay the tracks.