SILVER closes at $103 per ounce, new record high. GOLD closes at $4,983 per ounce. Precious metals short squeeze on steroids.

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@GC.1 https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/@SI.1/ 🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The U.S. dollar records its largest daily drop since mid-December 2025, falling 0.7% after Trump’s threats to Europe over the future of Greenland triggered widespread selling of U.S. stocks and government bonds. pic.twitter.com/Tf12qxAduf — Jackson Hinkle …

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Beloved 135-year-old chain permanently closes all 65 stores after blistering bankruptcy: ‘End of an era’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15148559/bartell-drugs-closures-seattle-cvs-rite-aid.html The great American drugstore shakeout has claimed another victim — as yet another regional favorite vanishes from the high street. After 135 years in business, one of Washington’s most iconic pharmacy chains has shut its doors for good, closing …

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Trump Closes De Minimis Exemptions for China

Summary of the official White House page https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-closes-de-minimis-exemptions-to-combat-chinas-role-in-americas-synthetic-opioid-crisis/ 1. Anything sent outside of official postal (via UPS, DHL, FedEx, etc.) will require duties paid, and 2. Anything sent though official post will have a 30% or $25 duty PER ITEM …

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School district closes for a week due to ‘overwhelming illness.’ Ah, the new normal—where ‘returning to normal’ means redefining normal entirely.

Overwhelming illness there, a little bit of sickness here. Kids are being turned into human punching bags. https://t.co/HPK1RbWoR3 — Jammer (@acrossthemersey) December 10, 2024 School district closes for a week due to 'overwhelming illness.' Ah, the new normal—where 'returning to …

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7-11 closes 400+ locations.

Several hundred “underperforming” 7-Eleven locations across North America are closing, the convenience store announced. Seven & I Holdings, the chain’s Japan-based parent company, revealed in an earnings report Thursday that 444 locations of 7-Eleven are shutting down because of a …

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Seattle closes gifted and talented schools because they had too many white and Asian students

I thought Asians were a minority, and “people of color?” Many come from other countries….blacks are generally born in America…what gives? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266205/Seattle-closes-gifted-talented-schools-racial-inequities.html “Seattle has shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the school board determined they had too many white …

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