Eric Luebchow Analyst Performance

The petrodollar arrangement that anchored the US dollar for 50 years quietly expired in June 2024. Since then, China has cut its Treasury holdings by 45% from their peak, and BRICS nations offloaded $47 billion of American debt in a single month. The Trump administration has responded with a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile called Project Vault, equity stakes in miners like MP Materials and Lithium Americas, and a push to secure resources from Greenland to Ukraine. Porter Stansberry lays out the full story in a new documentary, including five companies positioned at the chokepoints of what he calls Trump's New Dollar.

A small public company trading under $5 a share operates inside the secure perimeter of Kennedy Space Center, right alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin. It holds a special agreement to use a multi-billion dollar federal launch facility for just $500, and its customer list already includes the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, and GE Aerospace. Most Wall Street analysts have not caught on yet, but a major milestone could change that soon.