- MarketMunch
- Posts
- 📉 Big Oil knew about this for 50 years
📉 Big Oil knew about this for 50 years

Dear Friend,
In the 1970s, Chevron, Unocal, and Texaco all drilled for the same energy source.
It worked.
They walked away anyway.
Why? Because tapping it would have threatened the most profitable business model in human history. Oil.
So the verdict stood for fifty years: “We can’t get to it.”
Not because they couldn’t. Because they wouldn’t.
Now one company has spent sixty years quietly proving them wrong.
Google just signed a 15-year contract.
Bill Gates just wrote a $100 million check.
And on July 4th, the government hands this energy source its biggest advantage ever.
The oil companies are scrambling back in. But one company already owns the entire chain.
“The Buck Stops Here,”
Kelly Maguire
Behind the Markets
BREAKING NEWS
🪙 Trump Just Filed His Taxes. Crypto Was The Craziest Line Item.
The President's annual financial disclosure just dropped and it's 927 pages long. We certainly didn’t read all 927 pages but the people who did found something worth talking about.
Donald Trump reported earning at least $1.2 billion from crypto ventures in 2025. Not from hotels. Not from golf courses. Not from real estate deals. From crypto. Digital assets were the single largest source of income across his entire business empire last year by a wide margin.
Here's exactly where the money came from:
🐸 $635 million from the TRUMP memecoin. A memecoin is a joke cryptocurrency that sometimes stops being a joke. Trump launched the $TRUMP coin just days before his inauguration, collected $635 million in royalties from the licensing deal, and watched it crash 98%. The coin is now worth $1.66.
🏦 Over $580 million from World Liberty Financial. The Trump family's own crypto platform sells governance tokens called WLFI and runs a stablecoin called USD1. Those tokens have since fallen 72% from their highs but the family still got paid first.
💰 At least $50 million in Bitcoin - still untouched. Trump disclosed holding more than $50 million in Bitcoin in cold storage, plus $5–25 million in Ethereum. Vice President JD Vance reported $250,000–$500,000 in Bitcoin. Same asset, very different-sized bet.
The Munch Take: The sitting President made more money from a memecoin than from all of his traditional businesses combined. Whether that's impressive or absurd probably depends on your portfolio and your political stance. Either way, crypto gets a bad reputation because of things that crash 99% but the owners/creators still made hundreds of millions of dollars. We don’t love that. As a general rule of thumb, 99% of everything in the crypto world is garbage. We focus on Bitcoin and nothing else. If you follow our philosophy, you’ll (mostly) avoid getting burned.
The most fascinating mystery in the market (Ad)
It's understandable when a stock goes against us, and we lose money on options.
But if the stock actually spikes, even by 1%, and you’re still losing money... then you're missing a piece of the puzzle.
Luckily, I found that missing piece by leveraging a weird little glitch in the options market.
THE MARKET WATCH
🖨️ The Money Printer Hit A New Record. Here's What It Means For Your Portfolio.
M2 money supply sounds like something only economists care about. It's not. It's one of the most important numbers in finance and it just hit a record high of $23.1 trillion in May 2026, the largest monthly increase since May 2021.
Year to date it's up $698.6 billion. That's nearly $700 billion in new money sloshing around the system in just five months.
Here's the simple version: M2 measures all the money in the economy: cash in your wallet, money in your bank account, savings accounts, and money market funds. When that number goes up fast, it usually means one thing. More money is trying to buy the same amount of goods. When that happens, prices usually go up because there’s more demand than supply.
The question every investor should be asking right now is where does all that money end up?
📈 Stocks tend to win when money supply expands. More liquidity means more money flowing into equities. The S&P 500 has historically performed well in periods of M2 expansion and that’s exactly what we’ve seen in 2026.
🥇 Gold typically rises when the money supply grows. More dollars can reduce purchasing power, and gold is often used as a hedge against that. Central banks have also been steady buyers. The catch? It often takes gold a while to catch up, which is why it’s down this year.
₿ Bitcoin was literally built for this moment. Only 21 million will ever exist, while money supply can grow without limit. That scarcity is a key part of its long-term investment case.
🏠 Housing prices tend to rise when more money enters the system without a matching increase in supply. That extra demand can worsen affordability over time. Just look at what happened post-Covid.
The Munch Take: The US money supply just hit a record high and most people have no idea it happened. That's usually how the important stuff works. More money in the system is good for assets and bad for the purchasing power of cash sitting in a savings account doing nothing. The biggest, most simple takeaway? At the end of the day, you need to own assets or you’ll get left behind.
Your 82% Discount For Life-Changing Dividends (Ad)
Time is running out on our 4th of July special! For just $9—an 82% discount—you could set yourself up for massive dividends as high as 140% - no options trade involved, just buying and holding ETFs. Don't miss out on boosting your income with this limited-time deal. Click now to secure your access before the clock runs out!
What do you think of today's edition? |
A portion of this message is a sponsored advertisement sent on behalf of Behind The Markets. Market Munch receives compensation for this placement. We do not endorse or recommend any specific investments. Please do your own research.
If you have questions or concerns about your subscription, feel free to contact our Canadian-based support team at [email protected].
