by Craig Hemke, Sprott Money:

Over the past two years, whenever it has come up, I’ve sought to remind interviewers of the most significant financial action of 2022. After the political events of this past weekend, it’s time to discuss this again.

Of course you’ll recall the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February of 2022. This was the most important geopolitical event of that year, and the ramifications continue to metastasize in 2024.

However, the most important financial event of 2022 occurred in early March of that year when the United States and the European Union combined forces to: