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China imported 163 tonnes of gold in May, the largest monthly haul since March 2024. Then I looked at the rest of the numbers. This was the third straight month with gold imports above 150 tonnes. During the first five months of 2026, China imported 692 tonnes, a 76% increase from the same period a …
2007: Rodney Alexander ($15,000) 2009: Office of Carolyn McCarthy (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) ($8,000) 2010: Eric Massa I ($85,000) 2010: Eric Massa II ($20,000) 2010: Eric Massa III ($10,000) 2010: John Conyers I ($50,000) 2014: Blake Farenthold ($84,000) 2014: John Conyers (Severance pay $27,111.75) 2017: Patrick Meehan (2 cases resulting in 1 settlement) …
Have you bothered to do the math ? Both millionaire and $184k pay nearly identical anounts .. Tell everyone how that’s unfair ? If everyone pays the same what’s the issue here ?! pic.twitter.com/O1MG5sviVv — 😎Haveaniceday😎 (@Bidenhasfailedu) March 29, 2026
The Sierra Nevada mountains were walloped this week by one of the biggest storms in decades, with some areas seeing more than 10 feet of new snow. UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory tallied 111 inches of snowfall over the past five days, making for the snowiest five-day stretch in over 40 years. The only …
Oh god not again… pic.twitter.com/VzuyA8rG9p — SpacBobby (@SpacBobby) October 25, 2025 Stupidity bears no limits… pic.twitter.com/NpGzD4SGGt — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) October 26, 2025 Trade deal details. Looks like a giant 🌮 . China will still restrict rare earths to us. 💯 extra tariff eliminated. pic.twitter.com/YkivvpTgDu — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) October 26, 2025
Foreigners continue their epic buying binge in USTs and US$ assets, totally defying the narrative everyone around the world is ditching America. Despite the intent of so many to make this political, there is nothing political about this, purely economics (small “e”). We keep more evidence and data showing what those really are, and foreigners …
by Michael If the protests in Los Angeles are supposed to be peaceful, why is brand new riot gear being trucked in and given to the protesters? And why isn’t this making front page news all over the country? First of all, protesters only need riot gear if riots are going to break out. Secondly, …
I don't understand why people buy $MSTR instead of just buying $BTC. — HayderTrader (@HayderTrader) December 21, 2024 https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1870370239164166605 Bitcoin $BTC ETFs saw an outflow of $680 million on Thursday, the largest outflow in history 🚨 pic.twitter.com/PvAVtTFogQ — Barchart (@Barchart) December 21, 2024
China and Japan selling record amounts of Treasuries. Do they hate the dollar? Donald Trump? You and me? Not only will we answer the questions, while those countries saw huge selling of USTs, curiously the Cayman Islands got a truly massive deposit of them and it showed up during July, August and September. Seems very …
The top 4 @ISDA member banks with the HIGHEST amounts of DERIVATIVES 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 https://t.co/OopEpyvspm — PHIL 4 REAL (@StretchItSomeMo) June 21, 2024
via naturalnews An environmental advocacy group is warning that the allegedly “green” city of San Francisco is heavily polluting the bay with sewage in direct violation of multiple Clean Water Act provisions. San Francisco Baykeeper says it is filing a lawsuit against both the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) and the city itself after …
(Kitco News) China has been on a full-out gold shopping spree — topping up its gold reserves each month for the last 12 months. However, the official numbers are not even close to the actual amounts China is buying, according to Dominic Frisby, Founder of FlyingFrisby.com. The latest data out of China showed that its …
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy did a deal with Biden to suspend the debt ceiling entirely until 2025. So there is no debt limit now. That is one of the reasons he was removed as Speaker. Conservatives felt that was crazy to allow Biden to borrow unlimited amounts of money for 18… — Wall Street Mav …
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