America’s new money explained

   

We believe Executive Order 14241 has unleashed a potentially huge change to America’s money.

Republican or Democrat – whether you support or oppose Trump’s New Dollar – you could soon be using it.

If you have savings in the bank or a stock portfolio, we believe you need to understand what’s unfolding – and take specific action to prepare.

   

In Porter Stansberry’s new documentary, you’ll discover:

  • How the last time America reset its money, it minted 1,300 new millionaires a day – and why we believe what's coming could be bigger still.

  • The 5 assets to own before America's new money rolls out – including the one Porter would buy today for immediate exposure.

  • The critical resources Trump is moving heaven and earth to control, because America’s new money depends on it.

  • Why the U.S. government is suddenly buying ownership stakes in tiny American mining companies – a move not seen since the depths of World War II.

  • Why a single gathering of world leaders this December – at Trump's own Miami resort – could be the moment America's new dollar is revealed to the world as a done deal.

An impossible sunset, a small man carrying too much weight, a widening spiral, and a joke that renamed a mistake… the week gathered up.

Good morning.

This week, four mistakes that turned out to be exactly what made the work last… let’s gather it up.

Let’s review.

   

The Week in Review

Monday – Thursday, this week

T his week. Four subjects, one shared engine. Each work got its power from something technically wrong: an impossible sky, a miscast lead, a private mythology, a misused word.

What We Covered

I Monday · Art The Fighting Temeraire

Turner painted a sunset facing a direction the real scene could never have shown it, and newspaper readers argued about the error in print. The line worth keeping: it’s still Britain’s favorite painting, impossible sky and all.

II Tuesday · Theater Death of a Salesman

Miller wrote Willy Loman as physically small; every audition proved the opposite, and a large, burly Lee J. Cobb defined the role instead. The line worth keeping: the weight of the character landed anyway, regardless of who carried it.

III Wednesday · Poetry The Second Coming

Yeats built his most quoted poem out of images he believed his own wife channeled from spirits during séances. The line worth keeping: readers now treat it as clear-eyed prophecy, built on a foundation most of them would call pure superstition.

IV Thursday · Le Mot Juste Malapropism

Sheridan’s first play flopped so badly it closed after one night, saved only by a rewrite. The line worth keeping: the character he added, built entirely around getting words wrong, is the one piece of the play that has outlived everything else he ever wrote.

   

A Way of Looking

Criticism Productive Ambiguity

In 1930, the critic William Empson argued in Seven Types of Ambiguity that a text’s unresolved tensions, its outright errors and contradictions, often generate more meaning than a clean, correct version ever could. This week runs on exactly that principle. A physically wrong sunset, a physically wrong actor, a scientifically wrong source of inspiration, a grammatically wrong word: in every case, the flaw is the reason anyone still remembers the work at all.

   

For the Weekend

Worth Reading

If Wednesday’s subject stuck with you, “The Second Coming” is barely twenty lines and free to read anywhere online, no book required.

Free version: the Poetry Foundation hosts the full text, free, no account required.  Insider tip: read it out loud once before reading it silently; the poem’s rhythm carries a lot of its dread, and it’s easy to miss on the page alone.  Read free at poetryfoundation.org →

Explore Further

Revisit: if you missed any issue this week, every past send lives free in the archive at connoisseurdaily.com/archive.

This Week’s Quiz Answers

Monday: a ship heading up the Thames couldn’t have had that sunset behind it; Turner placed the sun in the wrong direction entirely.

Tuesday: Miller imagined Willy Loman as small, though every audition convinced the director otherwise.

Wednesday: Yeats said the imagery came from his wife’s automatic writing sessions, which he believed were genuine spirit communication.

Thursday: “malaprop” comes from the French phrase “mal à propos,” meaning inappropriate.

Questions about any of it? Just reply to this email—I’ll write back.

   

That’s all for this week.

Monday, a new canvas, a new story, and no repeats.

In good taste,

Charles T. Mayfair

Editor, Connoisseur Daily

P.S. If you only have five minutes this weekend… read “The Second Coming” out loud, once, to yourself or to someone else.