Friends,
I hope the new year is off to a great start for you. It’s certainly been a winter wonderland up here in the mountains of Virginia. The ground has been covered in ice all week, and temperatures have been around zero degrees Fahrenheit every night.
This environment reminds me of why it’s wise to keep extra provisions on hand and to invest in alternative energy sources.
We’ve been routinely enjoying old-fashioned fires in the fireplace up here. And we just added a second 500-gallon propane tank to our homestead last month to make sure that the generator always has plenty of fuel.
In addition, I’ve been running my solar shed on a Jackery backup battery system since the solar panels will be buried in ice for the foreseeable future. If you haven’t seen these devices yet, they are incredible. You can get more information on them at: https://www.jackery.com/.
Here’s a picture of the frozen solar shed with our bare-faced cliffs looking down in all their majesty:
On the investment front, everything is playing out according to our initial 2026 investment outlook. Gold has already surpassed $5,200 an ounce while silver, copper, and uranium mining shares have gone parabolic – along with other investments in critical minerals.
The only asset that hasn’t participated in the run has been Bitcoin… and that’s fine by me. I see sub-$100k Bitcoin as a great opportunity to continue accumulating. I view gold and Bitcoin more as savings rather than investments, anyway.
On that note, I would like to invite you to the Phoenician League’s first public strategy session of 2026. We’re going to do another joint session with the Remnant Finance team to dive into the nuances of some advanced wealth strategies.
We’ll open the session with a robust overview of why max-funded life insurance structured according to the principles of the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) can serve as a cornerstone for strategic investors… and how the capital these policies generate can be leveraged to feed into some advanced wealth strategies.
Of course, we’ll also shed some light on what those advanced strategies are, how they work, and how anyone can implement them.
Retirement Incorporated tries to pretend that these things don’t exist… but they do. And they can create true financial security and extra streams of income for those who know about them.
So this is going to be a fun one.
If you’re interested, I’d be honored to have you join us. We’ve scheduled the session for Wednesday, February 4 at 5:30 pm Eastern.
So please save the date if you can join us live. Everyone will be able to ask questions and contribute to the discussion in real-time, and we’ll do our best to facilitate everything.
I don’t have a registration link for you today though. We’re going to use the Riverside platform once again for this one, so no registrations are required.
I’ll follow up with the join link ahead of our session next Wednesday. I hope to see you there!
Joe