The Real Story with Michelle Makori

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Christopher Irons, Author of QTR’s Fringe Finance Substack, to break down why today’s market may be repeating the same dangerous patterns that led to the 2008 financial crisis. As stocks push to all-time highs, Irons warns that beneath the surface, serious cracks are forming — from private credit stress to risin...

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Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews James Rickards, New York Times bestselling author and Editor of Strategic Intelligence newsletter. Is the Iran war a turning point or just the beginning of something much bigger? Rickards says the ceasefire doesn’t add up, the narrative of victory is misleading, and the real story is about a growing global monetary...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews Peter Krauth, author of The Great Silver Bull and editor of Silver Stock Investor & Silver Advisor newsletters. As geopolitical tensions escalate and markets react to war risks, silver and gold have pulled back. But Krauth argues this is not the end of the bull market, it’s a setup. He explains why metals sold o...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews James Lavish, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund and the author of The Informationist newsletter. Markets are flashing warning signs and according to Lavish, the biggest risk isn’t what investors expect. From geopolitical tensions and oil shocks to mounting U.S. debt and volatility acr...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. Has gold already peaked? McGlone makes one of his most controversial calls yet: the gold bull market may already be over. He argues that gold, silver, and even Bitcoin have likely topped following a historic run and warns that markets may now be en...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Adrian Day, Chairman & CEO of Adrian Day Asset Management, to break down why gold dropped during the Iran war and what comes next. Gold fell sharply as the Iran conflict escalated, but according to Adrian Day, this isn’t unusual at all. In this interview, Day explains the real drivers behind gold’s decline,...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews Edward Dowd, Founder of Phinance Technologies. Markets may be watching the wrong risk. While headlines focus on the Iran war and geopolitics, Edward Dowd warns the real breakdown is already underway beneath the surface of the U.S. economy. From a weakening housing market to a bursting AI bubble and a frozen private...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, to break down the sharp and unusual moves in gold and silver – and what may really be driving them. Gold saw its worst week in decades. Silver plunged nearly 50% from its January record highs. But according to Schectman, the real story may have...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with David Woo, Founder of global macro advisory David Woo Unbound and the author of ‘Merry-Go-Round Broke Down’ to discuss why markets may be dangerously underestimating what comes next in the Iran war. Recent developments have already shaken markets, with oil supply disruptions and geopolitical tensions driving vol...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, on a major gold development that’s flying under the radar and what it could signal for the global financial system. As the Iran conflict is in its third week, gold has surprisingly weakened instead of rallying. At the same time, the U.S. is quietly...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Peter St Onge, economist at the Heritage Foundation, to break down the real economic consequences of the Iran war and what it could mean for the U.S. economy, oil markets, inflation, and global financial stability. Peter St Onge explains why the economic impact of the war may not fall where many expect and why t...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Gareth Soloway, Chief Market Strategist at VerifiedInvesting.com. Soloway warns that markets may be showing early signs of stress similar to the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. While investors focus on the Iran conflict and surging oil prices, he says the real threat may lie in a hidden contagion risk buil...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, to break down a market mystery: why gold and silver haven’t surged despite escalating war in the Middle East. As tensions between the U.S., Israel, and Iran escalate and global oil markets face disruption risks, many investors expected precious...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, breaks down why silver may be the most undervalued asset in the world right now – despite surging demand across energy, technology, defense, and finance. Silver is essential to modern civilization. It powers solar panels, electric vehicles, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, medical technology, aerospace systems, and advance...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, interviews Michael Wilkerson, Founder & CEO of Stormwall Advisors. Are we already living in a wartime economy and if so, what does it mean for inflation, markets, and the future of the U.S. dollar? As the conflict with Iran intensifies and oil markets react, a deeper economic question is emerging: history shows that major...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Lt. Col. Hal Kempfer – CEO of GRIP, National Security Analyst, and host of the STRAT Podcast – about the escalating war between the United States, Israel, and Iran. In this conversation, Kempfer breaks down the military realities on the ground, including the impact of leadership decapitation strikes, degraded Irani...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Josh Phair, CEO of Scottsdale Mint and Co-Founder of Wyoming Reserve, about the powerful forces quietly reshaping the global gold and silver markets. Phair argues that the biggest buyers in precious metals today are governments, institutions, banks, and even publicly traded companies quietly accumulating physical m...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Andy Schectman, Founder & CEO of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, about the sudden CME gas & metals trading halt, massive silver withdrawals, Mexico supply risks, and whether silver is quietly becoming a national security asset. After silver broke above $90, the CME halted trading – again, citing “technical...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Mark Moss, Host of 'Mark Moss Show' & Partner at Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, to unpack why gold is surging and Bitcoin is crashing. And what it reveals about the future of money. Moss argues markets are signaling something deeper: a global search for neutral money amid rising geopolitical tension, decl...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Tom Luongo, Publisher of the Gold, Goats n’ Guns Newsletter, to break down what he calls President Trump’s “most ambitious economic reset in modern history” and why a major tariff setback may only shift the battlefield, not end the agenda. Luongo argues the real fight is about sovereignty, collateral, and who co...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with James Rickards, New York Times bestselling author and editor of the Strategic Intelligence newsletter, for a conversation on gold, artificial intelligence, and the growing risk of a global monetary crisis. Rickards explains why a move to $10,000 gold by the end of 2026 would not surprise him, breaking down the m...

Michelle Makori, Editor-in-Chief and President of Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Andy Schectman, CEO and Founder of Miles Franklin Precious Metals, in the debut episode of ‘The Real Story’ to explore what could be the most radical monetary reset in U.S. history. With the U.S. national debt soaring past $37 trillion and global trust in the dollar crumbling, Schectman reveals a covert plan to...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, speaks with Luke Gromen, Founder & President of Forest for the Trees (FFTT), about why a seismic monetary shift is already underway and why the outcome has effectively been decided. Gromen explains how the Trump administration is deliberately engineering a weaker U.S. dollar to reshore manufacturing, why central banks ar...

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, interviews Lawrence Lepard, Founder of Equity Management Associates and author of The Big Print: What Happened to America and How Sound Money Will Fix It. In Part 1 of this interview, Lepard issues a stark warning: - Another massive print is on the horizon – bigger than anything we’ve seen before - Inflation isn’t a policy f...