Every dollar you own is being replaced

You didn’t vote for this…

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Something strange is happening to your money.

It wasn't voted on. It wasn't debated in the Senate. And most Americans have no idea it's even taking place but…

President Trump is replacing the U.S. dollar.

Not with crypto. Not with a digital currency. Something far bigger than that – and it's already been signed and sealed in the back rooms of D.C., ready to be issued by the U.S. Treasury.

Bypassing every legal and political channel under the guise of "national security," Trump has enacted this total money reset using a landmark executive order (1421).

Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, whether you support this new money or not, it doesn't matter.

Soon, every U.S. citizen will be forced to use Trump's New Dollar to fill their gas tank, buy groceries, and pay medical bills.

Which is why I've produced a critical new documentary laying out exactly what Trump's New Dollar means for your savings, your investments, and your family's financial future.

Detailing three important steps you can take today to prepare – including the name of a core band of assets connected to Trump’s initiative that could surge as a result.

As you’ll see in my briefing, the last time America reset its money like this – under Richard Nixon’s presidency in the 1970s – it created one of the greatest wealth divides in the history of our nation.

On one side, it minted an average of 1,300 new millionaires a day for over half a century. And on the other… the folks left behind, drowning in debt, with no idea how to use America’s new money to create wealth.

As Trump rolls out his new dollar, the question is:

Which side will you be on?

Good investing,

Porter Stansberry

PS. If you’re wondering what Trump’s new money will look like, when it will be issued, what it means for your investments – all of those questions are answered in my briefing.

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Good morning.

Today, a poet convinced spirits were speaking through his own new wife… and the poem that came out of it, still quoted every time a headline calls something “a widening gyre.”

Let’s begin.

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The Poet Who Watched the Center Fail to Hold

W.B. Yeats—“The Second Coming”

F	our days after his wedding, 1917. A fifty-two-year-old poet watched his twenty-five-year-old bride pick up a pen and begin writing sentences she claimed weren’t her own.

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was already one of Ireland’s most established poets, deeply involved in the occult and psychical research for most of his adult life. He married Georgie Hyde-Lees in October 1917, and within days of the wedding, she began practicing what both of them called automatic writing.

Yeats convinced her to give an hour or two nearly every day to what he believed were genuine spirit communications… he later wrote that when he offered to spend the rest of his life interpreting the scattered sentences, the voice answered: “No, we have come to give you metaphors for poetry.”

This is Yeats around the years his reputation was becoming international.

William Butler Yeats, photographed by George Charles Beresford.

One image from those sessions became a gyre: a widening spiral Yeats used to describe two-thousand-year cycles of history, one era spinning outward until it loses contact with its own center and collapses into the next. He wrote “The Second Coming” in January 1919, months after the end of the First World War, in the middle of the Spanish flu pandemic and the opening months of the Irish War of Independence.

The poem opens with a falcon spiraling so far from its handler that it can no longer hear the call to return. From there, everything comes apart at once.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

Opening lines, “The Second Coming,” 1919

In one of the most quoted lines in English poetry, the poem announces plainly that the center cannot hold.

I used to read this poem as pure prophecy, a poet foreseeing fascism a decade before it had a name. Reading about the séances first changes that. Yeats wasn’t predicting the future. He was describing 1919, as precisely as he knew how, through a private mythology only he and his wife had access to.

Where Christianity expects a returning messiah, Yeats imagines the opposite arriving instead: a “rough beast,” slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. The poem never says what happens once it gets there.

Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, four years after writing this poem, becoming the first Irish writer to receive it. He treated the award, in part, as international recognition of Ireland itself as a newly independent nation.

William Butler Yeats, photographed by Pirie MacDonald, around the time of his Nobel Prize.

A widening spiral, dictated by a voice only two people ever heard… and a phrase reporters still reach for every time something falls apart in public.

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Three Things Worth Knowing

I	Le Mot Juste Gyre

Yeats didn’t invent this word; sailors had long used it for a spiral current in the ocean. He gave it a second life as a symbol for cyclical history, expanding it into a full theory of time in his 1925 prose book A Vision. Book titles, band names, and countless headlines have borrowed the term since, almost always tracing back to this one poem rather than the original nautical meaning.

II	Art His Father’s Portrait

Yeats’s own father, John Butler Yeats (1839–1922), was a professional portrait painter, and his younger brother, Jack B. Yeats, became one of Ireland’s most important twentieth-century artists. The Yeats family produced one of the rare cases in art history where the same household turned out major figures in both poetry and painting, working only a generation apart.

III	Philosophy Cyclical Time

Most Western thought since the Enlightenment assumes history moves forward in a straight line, always progressing. Yeats belonged to an older, rival tradition, found in ancient Greek and Hindu thought alike, that treats history as a wheel, rising and collapsing in repeating loops rather than climbing steadily upward. His gyres are one twentieth-century poet’s attempt to revive that much older argument.

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Connoisseur’s Diary

Worth Seeing This Week

Yeats is buried beneath Ben Bulben, the mountain that gave him some of his most famous imagery, in Drumcliffe churchyard, County Sligo.

Where: Drumcliffe, County Sligo, Ireland. Tickets: the churchyard is free and open at all times; the adjoining visitor center charges a small fee. Insider tip: his own epitaph is carved on the stone, three lines he wrote for the purpose himself; it’s worth reading in person rather than looking it up beforehand. Plan a visit at yeatssociety.com →

Worth Reading

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats — W.B. Yeats. The full body of work, from his early Celtic Twilight verse through the harder, later poems that include this one.

W.B. Yeats: A Life — R.F. Foster. A two-volume, definitive biography, widely considered the standard scholarly account of Yeats’s life.

A Vision — W.B. Yeats (1925). Yeats’s own strange prose system of gyres and historical cycles, built directly from his wife’s automatic writing sessions.

Explore Further

Listen: the Poetry Foundation’s free podcast archive includes a full episode analyzing “The Second Coming” line by line, at poetryfoundation.org/podcasts.

Browse: the National Library of Ireland holds a large digitized Yeats manuscript collection, including drafts of this poem, free to browse online.

Visit: the National Library of Ireland’s permanent Yeats exhibition in Dublin uses his wife’s automatic writing notebooks as a central display piece.

Test Your Knowledge

1Where did Yeats say the imagery in “The Second Coming” came from?

His wife’s automatic writing sessions, which he believed were genuine spirit communication

A dream he had while serving briefly in the Irish military

A commission from the Irish government to write a national poem

Answer: His wife’s automatic writing sessions. Georgie Hyde-Lees began the practice within days of their 1917 wedding.

2What does a “gyre” represent in Yeats’s poem?

A widening spiral representing two-thousand-year cycles of history

A type of falconry rope used to recall a bird

An Irish folk dance referenced throughout the poem

Answer: A widening spiral representing cycles of history. Yeats borrowed the sailor’s term for an ocean current and gave it a second life as a historical symbol.

3What older view of history did Yeats’s theory of gyres revive?

Cyclical time, history as a wheel rather than a straight line

Strict Enlightenment progress, always moving forward

A purely Christian timeline ending in judgment

Answer: Cyclical time. Ancient Greek and Hindu thought both treat history as a repeating wheel rather than a steady climb.

If the links above don’t respond in your email app, just reply with your answers—I’ll write back.

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That’s all for today.

Tomorrow, one word… and the playwright who named an entire kind of mistake after a character he invented.

In good taste,

Charles T. Mayfair

Editor, Connoisseur Daily

P.S. Try this at dinner tonight… ask if anyone can name where “the center cannot hold” actually comes from. Almost everyone has heard the line. Almost no one remembers it’s Yeats.