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The European Central Bank confirms that gold has replaced US Treasuries as the leading reserve asset for the first time since 1996, with bullion now accounting for 27 percent of global reserves compared to 22 percent for Treasuries. ECB President Christine Lagarde highlights that relentless geopolitical friction acts as the primary driver for this exodus, …
Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a “fundamental breakthrough” that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved. Two of the universe’s most mysterious particles may be colliding invisibly throughout the cosmos — a discovery that could solve one of the biggest lingering problems in our standard model of …
The arrest of a key informant for Biden’s impeachment for giving false testimony does not change anything – the head of the relevant committee of the House of Representatives House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan brushed off questions about a whistleblower charged with perjury key to the GOP effort to remove Biden, saying it “doesn’t …
The assumption is the US will grant citizenship to everyone who chose to enter the country without going through legitimate, established, legal channels (in violation of our laws)… and everyone else who feels like it. This is fundamentally flawed and not in our interests. — River over troubled bridges (@JulietRedbird) January 12, 2024
“We require a fundamental reform of the global financial institutions so that they can be more agile and responsive to the challenges facing developing economies…” -President of South Africa Fundamental reform are strong words. pic.twitter.com/n6DhHBxkRA — Gold Telegraph ⚡ (@GoldTelegraph_) August 22, 2023
On June 1, Harpers put out a cover story titled, “Why are we in Ukraine?” The authors were professor Christopher Layne, the Robert Gates chair of National Security at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, and Benjamin Schwarz, a onetime national and literary editor of The Atlantic and former analyst for the RAND Corporation. Both …