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“Gold ETF assets under management (AUM) in US-listed products have surged to a record $215 billion… the value of US gold ETF assets has doubled in just two years, marking one of the sharpest accelerations in the history of the asset class.” Source: https://finbold.com/u-s-gold-frenzy-hits-record-highs-as-215-billion-inflows-into-etfs/ “North American demand surged in February, adding US$6.8bn. This was the …
RSI, or Relative Strength Index, is a momentum indicator in technical analysis. It measures the speed and change of price movements on a scale of 0-100. Readings above 70 suggest overbought conditions (potential sell signal), while below 30 indicate oversold (potential buy). In gold’s case, a high RSI might signal overextension. Highway to the Danger …
A California woman is facing six years in prison for allegedly registering her dog to vote and casting mail-in ballots in two elections, one of which was counted, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced. Read more: https://t.co/wlhGF45Zpc pic.twitter.com/jVsSyect2V — ABC News (@ABC) September 10, 2025 A California woman is facing six years in prison …
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First surfacing in 2021, the “dead internet theory” is the idea that the future internet will be largely driven by autonomous bots rather than real-world humans, creating an endless content factory driven by the engagement of solely digital entities. Although first inspired by the rise of …
Both parties cheat in their own way but this is truly next level. @JoeBiden and @TheDemocrats rigged the jobs data for all of the Biden years. Disgraceful. Build Back Better was Built on Lies. — Sold At The Top (@soldatthetop) September 9, 2025
All three children of New Zealand fugitive Tom Phillips have now been rescued after their father was killed during a shootout with cops. New Zealand Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers revealed Maverick, 10, and Ember, 9, were found safe and well at a campsite at 4.30pm on Monday. The discovery came about thanks to …
The warning signs were impossible to miss. They were dismissed, ignored, and buried beneath the language of actuarial tables and regulatory fog. In 2025, Americans are facing the largest health insurance premium spikes in fifteen years, with some plans climbing 18 percent https://www.forbes.com/advisor/d/aca-premiums-rising-short-term-insurance . This is not inflation. It is extraction. The timing is deliberate. …
Gold and silver are about to explode in value while the dollar slowly crumbles. The elites have been quietly hoarding metals, but soon the masses will realize fiat is collapsing and crypto is just a trap to keep money flowing into U.S. debt. Every other asset will fall as the global debt bubble finally bursts …
by Michael Are we defined by what we do? For so many of us, our identities are tied to our occupations. For example, when I worked in the legal field many years ago so many of my colleagues took great pride in being able to say “I’m a lawyer” when they were asked about their …
A Minnesota man walked out of prison on Thursday after spending nearly three decades behind bars for a murder that he not only didn’t commit but might have been carried out by the trial’s key witness, prosecutors and advocates said. Bryan Hooper Sr., 54, was released from Stillwater Correction Facility after a state judge on …
The dollar’s collapse against gold is a warning few are ready for. When ETFs and institutional money start chasing the yellow metal, demand could explode, sending prices into uncharted territory. Every decline in the dollar erodes savings, pensions, and wages, and global markets that rely on dollar liquidity will face sudden shocks. The Dollar has …
Eight U.S. warships carrying 1,200 missiles are now sitting off Venezuela’s coast. The timing is not random. The deployment came one day after Trump met with Putin. Russia is supposed to be Venezuela’s shield, yet it stayed silent. No condemnation. No defense. No deterrence. That is not passivity. It is a signal that the trade …
Rep. Ilhan Omar, elected on a $174,000 salary, now reports a net worth between $6 million and $30 million. That is not drift. That is detonation. “Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s net worth reportedly skyrocketed to upwards of $30 million in 2024 after claiming she’s ‘barely worth thousands’ earlier this year,” reports IJR. source The …
“It is a priority of this administration to ensure that American cities are safe again. And I’m so glad you brought up the crime in Chicago, because we’ve seen the governor of Illinois parading around saying there’s nothing wrong with Chicago. It’s a great place to live. That there’s no crime there. That he doesn’t …
Germany’s unemployment has surged past 3 million for the first time in over a decade, reaching 3.025 million in August 2025. The jobless rate ticked up to 6.4%, with manufacturing and energy-intensive sectors hit hardest. Labour Minister Baerbel Bas called for “countermeasures,” while Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces mounting pressure to deliver reforms. DW reports the …
Worse than GFC Nobody is buying. https://t.co/BOkVkQh8AS — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) August 28, 2025 It’s not a strike because that implies a choice. The average family simply can not afford the average house today. The only people buying are current homeowners or the fairly well off. First-time buyers are absolutely screwed and this isn’t healthy …
Snowfall was recorded in Poland’s High Tatras mountains on August 24, 2025, for the first time in August since 2010, as temperatures dropped to -3°C (26.6°F) at the summit of Kasprowy Wierch. The event was driven by an Arctic air mass that moved across Poland over the weekend. Poland’s High Tatras Mountains recorded their first …
Social Security will be “bankrupt” in 7 years. At which point the options are: – Cut grandma’s check– Hike everybody’s taxes– Raise retirement to 75 Or what they will do: Borrow another trillion per year. pic.twitter.com/b8t3SSfK8c — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) August 28, 2025
by Michael How many plagues have to hit us before people finally start waking up? So far this month I have written about rabbits with “black, tentacle-like protrusions coming from their heads”, squirrels with “ghastly growths that burst open”, deer that have “tumor-like growths hanging off their bodies”, and a “mysterious fungus” that is transforming spiders in the United States and elsewhere …
Statistical data for England and Wales can be explored through the Office for National Statistics. Germany’s rape crime statistics are obtainable from the Federal Criminal Police Office. Information for France can be found from the Ministry of the Interior. Meanwhile, Poland’s figures, by the Polish Police, are available via Statistics Poland. In the United States, reported rape crimes totaled …
Are office buildings the last prop holding banks from imploding? Small banks are hiding massive losses in CRE. Massive, like going out of business levels of losses. That's why they're kicking the can hoping they don't have to foreclose. There's nothing to foreclose on. This shit would make Lehman look like a walk in the …
“China has to give us magnets. If they don't, we charge a 200% tariff or something. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago let’s all do magnets." – Trump ????? pic.twitter.com/hI91SCnwjd — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) August 25, 2025
They were promised mobility. They got a wall. The class of 2025 is walking into a labor market that is not just cold, it is punishing. Sherwood News reports: “The unemployment rate for recent college grads (aged 22 to 27) rose to 5.8% in March, the highest level in nearly four years.” That breaks the …
Working Americans have been in depression since 2008. They bailed out the establishment by stealing YOUR quality of life. It doesn't just "feel" worse, it IS worse. pic.twitter.com/oWLyAme7Nv — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) August 23, 2025 Insane chart: Boomers for the win. Sickening https://t.co/8Ldcixm4OL — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) August 24, 2025 What bubble? 😳 pic.twitter.com/f3Lmfvz5t0 — …
They didn’t hedge. They didn’t even flinch. A new Jackson Hole paper opens with this line: “In our baseline, it is possible to push long-run debt to 250% of GDP without raising interest rates.”source That isn’t reassurance. That’s a loophole. Four economists ran models out to the year 2100, assuming that as long as investors …
A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer’s Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. Davis Lu, 55, a Chinese national living legally in Houston, worked for an Ohio-based company, reportedly Eaton Corporation, from 2007 until his …
“A homebuyer must earn $114,627 to afford the median-priced U.S. home, up 15% from a year ago and more than 50% since the start of the pandemic… That’s the highest annual income necessary to afford a home on record” https://investors.redfin.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/987/redfin-reports-that-homebuyers-must-earn-115000-to-afford “Buyers now need to earn 70% more than they did six years ago to buy …
Thirty years ago, Timothy McVeigh was arrested and later executed for the deadliest act of domestic terror in American history. Margaret Roberts says most of what you think you know about the Oklahoma City bombing is a lie.
Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the @DCPoliceDept crime statistics, you won’t… — Anna Giaritelli (@Anna_Giaritelli) August 14, …
WK Kellogg Co. has announced that it will stop using artificial dyes in its breakfast cereals by the end of 2027, according to a statement from the company. WK Kellogg Co. has announced that it will stop using artificial dyes in its breakfast cereals by the end of 2027, according to a statement from the …