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Gold steadies near $4,000 as chip selloff hits equities - Kitco PM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are higher in late-afternoon U.S. trading Friday, as short covering helped metals stabilize after Thursday’s break while firm Treasury yields, a stronger U.S. dollar and elevated oil prices kept the broader tone defensive.
Wall Street breaks bearish, Main Street sentiment still split after gold struggles to maintain $4,000 support amid summer doldrums -
The latest Kitco News Weekly Gold Survey showed Wall Street overwhelmingly bearish on gold’s near-term prospects, while Main Street sentiment remained divided and indecisive after the yellow metal repeatedly tested the $4,000 support level.
Markets will find out next week how firm $4,000 is as a floor for gold -
(Kitco News) - Despite easing inflation pressures, gold is ending the week with another loss as it tries to hold support at $4,000 an ounce.
Spot gold hits session high near $4,000/oz after preliminary Consumer Sentiment rises to 54.4, one-year inflation expectations ease -
(Kitco News) - The gold market is trading near session highs after the latest data showed consumer sentiment in the U.S. improving, with shorter-term inflation expectations easing.The University of Michigan announced on Friday that the preliminary reading of its Consumer Sentiment survey for July was 54.4. The data was better than expectations, as the consensus forecast of economists calle...
Gold steadies, silver weakens as yields cap inflation-data relief - Kitco AM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold prices are slightly higher and spot silver prices are weaker ahead of the North American market open Friday, as traders weighed this week’s softer inflation data against resilient U.S. economic readings, firm Treasury yields and renewed Strait of Hormuz risk.
Gold remains under pressure as U.S. housing starts rise 19% in June -
(Kitco News) - Gold prices remain trapped below $4,000 an ounce and have been unable to attract any significant safe-haven demand despite persistent uncertainty in the U.S. housing sector, which threatens to weigh on economic activity through the second half of the year.
Gold breaks $4,000 as yields rise, Fed-rate relief fades - Kitco PM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are sharply lower in late-afternoon U.S. trading Thursday, as resilient U.S. economic data, firmer Treasury yields and a stronger U.S. dollar overwhelmed support from this week’s softer inflation reports and renewed Strait of Hormuz risk.
China's AI ambitions could make platinum the next strategic precious metal after gold - WPIC -
(Kitco News) - China has already cemented its position as one of the world's most important gold markets, and the country's next wave of industrial investment could elevate platinum to a similarly strategic role as artificial intelligence and clean energy reshape global demand, according to the latest report from the World Platinum Investment Council.
Strong retail sales mask widening K-shaped economy as consumer financial stress mounts -
(Kitco News) - The U.S. consumer continues to support economic growth, but beneath resilient headline spending, new data point to mounting financial stress for many households.
‘We have a plan to go overweight gold again’ – Fidelity’s Samson predicts return to bull market in 2027 -
(Kitco News) – The key trends that drove gold to an all-time high of $5,600 per ounce earlier this year remain in place, and the yellow metal will resume its bull market run in 2027, justifying a move from neutral back to overweight gold in investor portfolios, according to Ian Samson, multi-asset portfolio manager at Fidelity International.“We have a plan to go overweight gold again,” Samson s...
Zero Hedge
Social Media Influencers Andrew And Tristan Tate Arrested In Miami -
Social Media Influencers Andrew And Tristan Tate Arrested In Miami
Via Headline USA,
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking c...
Meet The "New Soros" Whose "Street Cred" Could Rise If Spain Blocks Extradition -
Meet The "New Soros" Whose "Street Cred" Could Rise If Spain Blocks Extradition
The federal government is well underway with a multiagency and multinational effort to combat the alarming rise of far-left revolutionaries. This was most evident on Thursday, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed delegations from 65 countries.
Meanwhile, Jim "Fergie" Chambers, the communist ce...
Traders Stunned By Momentum Meltdown As Earnings Quality Problem Simmers Under The Surface -
Traders Stunned By Momentum Meltdown As Earnings Quality Problem Simmers Under The Surface
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
📈Technical Backdrop – Coiling Below The Record
Here is where the quiet-index story gets interesting for traders. The S&P 500 closed the week at 7,457.69, and that put it right on top of its 50-day moving average near 7,464. Call it dead...
US-Iran Tit-For-Tat Spirals Towards Broader Conflict -
US-Iran Tit-For-Tat Spirals Towards Broader Conflict
The escalation pathway in the renewed tit-for-tat conflict between the US and Iran is becoming increasingly alarming and has been underway for eight days.
US forces reportedly struck Qeshm Island and the southern Iranian cities of Shadegan, Sirik and Hajiabad, while Tehran retaliated with drone and missile attacks targeting US ...
French Gambling Regulator Orders ISPs To Block Polymarket -
French Gambling Regulator Orders ISPs To Block Polymarket
Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com,
France’s Autorité nationale des jeux (ANJ), or the National Gambling Authority, has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket.
Prediction websites are considered illegal gambling, the ANJ said in a Friday press release.
The regulator said that Polym...
Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening 'Counter-Russia' Deterrence -
Germany To Join French Nuclear Exercise, Deepening 'Counter-Russia' Deterrence
In the latest development related to what some analysts have called the 'new Cold War' and nuclear saber-rattling between Russia and the West, Germany and France are planning a major nuclear exercise later this year.
The atomic drills were announced Friday, after a joint top-level meeting of the French ...
Nearly Half Of Poles Now Want To Stop Arming Ukraine -
Nearly Half Of Poles Now Want To Stop Arming Ukraine
Authored by Andrew Korybko,
The reason is Poles’ radically shifting views towards Ukraine since the start of their spiraling dispute sparked by Zelensky’s state-level glorification of the Volhynia Genocide’s OUN-UPA culprits.
Leading Polish conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita published the results of a survey that it commis...
Iran's Reliance On China's Beidou Satellite System Is A Game-Changer In War With US -
Iran's Reliance On China's Beidou Satellite System Is A Game-Changer In War With US
Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson
During the 12-day war in June 2025, Iranian missiles and drones struggled against sophisticated Israeli and American electronic warfare. GPS jamming and spoofing repeatedly disrupted their guidance systems, limiting their effectiveness during the intense...
White DSA Member Inadvertently Exposes Socialist Playbook: "Secret Nazis" Are Fine If They Advance Agenda -
White DSA Member Inadvertently Exposes Socialist Playbook: "Secret Nazis" Are Fine If They Advance Agenda
Far-left podcaster and Democratic Socialists of America member Emma Vigeland appeared to inadvertently expose the far-left movement's ends-justify-the-means political calculus: Even a "secret Nazi" would be acceptable if the candidate advanced a national socialist agenda.
Vige...
Election Integrity: Is Representative Democracy A Foolish Fantasy? -
Election Integrity: Is Representative Democracy A Foolish Fantasy?
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
The US Constitution is perhaps the most significant historical and governmental document in a millennia. It established the modern conception of the western Republic, along with true representative government designed to answer to the people rather than rule over the peop...
MarketWatch - Top Stories
Can former employers withhold money from your 401(k) when you’re laid off? -
There are two main ways to move money from your workplace retirement plan when you leave your job. One can cost you.
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Can the ‘Magnificent Seven’ save a stock market that might be doomed without them? -
Apple, Amazon, Nvidia and peers are quietly coming back to life, and that could easily jolt this sleepy stock market back into gear.
‘I am at a loss’: My brother is dying. We are not close. What responsibility do I have to help him? -
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Netflix is spending big money on sports. Is the company making the right bets? -
The streaming service says live programming helps draw in new subscribers, but investors have become disillusioned with Netflix’s broader engagement trends.
Your Netflix bill is up 29% in just over a year. It’s time for Washington to step in. -
Netflix is still a Wall Street favorite — and a target for government regulators
These are the obstacles still keeping women from retirement security -
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GATA
Muflih Hidayat: China's paper gold trading shutdown and its global price impact -
11:04a ET Sunday, July 19, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Australia's Discovery/Alert internet site published yesterday a brilliant and comprehensive report by its mining journalist, Muflih Hidayat, about China's plan to replace Western "paper" pricing of gold -- derivative-based pricing -- with pricing based on trading of real metal in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
... Dispatch continues below ...
France withdrew billions in gold from U.S. vaults. Is a global currency shift ahead? -
By Laura GrandeAssociated Pressvia Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, CaliforniaSaturday, July 18, 2026
Earlier this year France pulled off a financial maneuver that turned old gold into billions.
The strategy itself was relatively simple. Starting in mid-2025, France's central bank sold 129 metric tons of gold it had stored in New York and replaced it with newer, high-quality bullion held in Paris.
... Di...
Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee to traders for fastest feed of president's posts -
Maybe a legal form of insider trading.
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By Anirban Sen, Jaspreet Singh, and Courtney RozenReutersFriday, July 17, 2026
Donald Trump's social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the U.S. president's posts on his Truth Social platform, according to people familiar with the matter.
... Dispatch contin...
Treasury secretary says Fort Knox still has its gold but notes it doesn't back the dollar anymore -
Still no journalistic questions about leases, swaps, and other impairments.
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By Jing PanAssociated Pressvia Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, CaliforniaSaturday, July 18, 2026
Is Fort Knox's gold still there?
It's a question that has long fascinated Americans -- including President Donald Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent now says he has an answer.
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Bloomberg begrudgingly acknowledges gold's strong performance -
11:26a ET Friday, July 17, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
What's notable about the commentary below, "A Believer's Guild to Buying Gold Now," isn't anything asserted in the commentary itself but that it was first published today on the Bloomberg news internet site, which long has treated gold only with great resentment.
... Dispatch continues below ...
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Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea' -
Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.
AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope. -
The rise of autonomous AI agents necessitates the utilization of zero-knowledge proofs, argues Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.
Tether's USDT hits 2-year countdown threatening its position on U.S. crypto platforms -
The GENIUS Act has hit its first anniversary without U.S. regulators yet meeting deadlines to write regulations, though rules will be in full effect by July 2028.
Kraken says simpler options can unlock crypto's next derivatives market -
The Wyoming-based firm launched USD-settled bitcoin and ether options, saying product design, not demand, has held back adoption.
Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins -
Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.
Inside Zcash's new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second -
The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.
France orders country's internet service providers to block Polymarket -
The regulator cited concerns over addictive mechanics, a lack of self-exclusion tools, and a high volume of French users bypassing previous financial restrictions.
Crypto executives say digital native generations may never need a bank account -
Steakhouse Financial co-founder Adrian Cachinero says digital-native generations may rely less on banks, while Binance says younger users are already driving crypto adoption in emerging markets.
DOG Mode explains Bitcoin's next governance fight -
Leonidas' DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin's default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network.
Trump targets Brazil's payments system while dollar stablecoins are quietly overtaking country's payments -
Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil's crypto transactions.
bitcoin.com
Michael Saylor Teases Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Move After Buying Pause and $3 Billion Cash Buildup -
Michael Saylor’s latest chart has renewed attention on the company’s bitcoin plans, but recent BTC sales, no purchases since June 22 and a $3 billion cash reserve leave its next transaction uncertain. Saylor’s Bitcoin Chart Arrives With Strategy’s Next Move Unclear Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) could resume bitcoin purchases after a buying pause, continue preserving […]
Robinhood Roars, Coinbase Reorgs, and Ethereum Rakes in $1,538 – Week in Review -
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the week with a comment on each story. Bitcoin pushed up into $65K resistance early in […]
Kenya Investigates President William Ruto Website Breach as Hackers Demand 5 Bitcoin -
Hackers briefly disabled the official website of Kenyan President William Ruto on July 18, demanded a ransom of five bitcoins and threatened to leak unspecified data if not paid. Government Response Triggered Kenya’s government is investigating a cybersecurity breach that briefly disabled the official website of President William Ruto on July 18, with attackers defacing […]
Latam Insights: Unpacking Bolivia’s Stablecoin Push, Venezuela’s Massive P2P Market, and Argentina’s Libra Crackdown -
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Bolivia evaluates Tether’s USDT inclusion in its payment system, Venezuela’s crypto P2P economy reaches new highs, and an Argentine federal judge issues new fund freezes in the Libra case. Bolivia Evaluates Integrating USDT […]
Canada Crypto Week Returns July 20–26, Celebrating the Future of Web3, Digital Assets and AI -
Canada’s largest week-long gathering of conferences, networking events, and community experiences. TORONTO, ON – Canada Crypto Week returns July 20–26, 2026, for its sixth year, bringing together dozens of events across Canada focused on cryptocurrency, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. The week connects entrepreneurs, builders, investors, and institutions through a diverse lineup of...
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Tenth Amendment Center
Constitution: The REAL Reason it Even Exists. -
The founders knew - freedom cannot exist with a government - that doesn’t have strict rules, a clear line in the sand that it’s not allowed to cross. In other words, when government determines the extent of its own power. On this episode, how lessons learned in the American Revolution gave birth to the written constitution. And more importantly, the real reasons it exists - that the government-...
The Foundation of the Constitution: Top-5 Principles from the American Revolution -
Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the "foundation of the Constitution," and for good reason too. It enshrines many of the radical principles that sparked the “real American Revolution” in the years before the War for Independence.
The post The Foundation of the Constitution: Top-5 Principles from the American Revolution appeared first on Tenth Amendment Center.
Five Weapons. One Target: Your Freedom. -
The top tools of tyrants aimed right at your liberty. Washington, Webster, Paine, Madison, and more - they saw every one of them coming and warned us. On this Episode - what they use against us and what’s self-inflicted.
The post Five Weapons. One Target: Your Freedom. appeared first on Tenth Amendment Center.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices -
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of “human distress.”
In October 2025, EFF warned the public that Flock was rolling out a new feature called “Distress Detection” that would be deployed through...
Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future. -
This month, we celebrate 36 years of EFF and a mission that is bigger than any one of us. Thanks to EFF, communities around the world are demanding that technology protects their freedom, advances justice, and opens doors to opportunity. That's not a small thing—it's a life's work worth continuing.
If you are committed to staying on the cutting edge of digital rights issues, I'd like to invite ...
How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues -
When Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 was released in 2016, it was a headtrip for those of us working on digital-rights issues in the Bay Area. During the day, I'd fight tech-authoritarianism from EFF's San Francisco offices and then, at night, I'd fight tech-authoritarianism in an uncanny simulation of San Francisco from my home gaming console.
Watch Dogs 2 is an open-world video game that follows a h...
The Institute For Justice - Press Releases
Second Amendment Foundation
TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA
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CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit. The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a
The post CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARR...
SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS -
BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the
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Gun Owners of America
WY: Which Candidates Will Defend Your Gun Rights? -
The Wyoming Primary Election is quickly approaching, and your vote will help determine who will defend your Second Amendment rights in the years ahead. Gun Owners of America has completed our candidate evaluations and issued letter grades for a number of candidates across Wyoming based on their records, voting histories, responses to GOA’s candidate survey, and demonstrated commitment to protec...
DOJ Fights Us on NFA and GOA Files PA Lawsuit -
From the ATF issuing a new rule, strengthening the definition of “willfully” to protect FFLs and gun owners, to the Department of Justice fighting us on our lawsuit against the NFA’s registration requirements, and filing our latest lawsuit against the State of Pennsylvania… GOA has been busy. You deserve an update. Recently, the ATF issued a new Notice of Proposed Rulemaking indicating they are...
Gun Owners of America & Fuerza 2A Endorse Blaise Ingoglia for Florida Chief Financial Officer -
Gun Owners of America & Fuerza 2A Endorse Blaise Ingoglia for Florida Chief Financial Officer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2026 TALLAHASSEE, FL — Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Fuerza 2A proudly endorse Blaise Ingoglia for Florida Chief Financial Officer. Throughout his service in the Florida Legislature, Ingoglia has consistently stood with Florida’s law-abiding gun owners and fought to ...
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American Banker
Kansas bank becomes second in a week to fail, fourth this year -
Small Business Bank in Kansas failed on Friday, the second failure in a week and the fourth failure overall in 2026.
Citizens will stop lending to firms linked to ICE detention -
The regional bank faced months of pressure to end its relationship with CoreCivic and The Geo Group, two of the country's largest private prison operators. On Friday, it said it would "exit the credit facilities" it has in place for those companies, attributing the decision to business factors, not pressure from activists.
Fifth Third says it's using AI to track Comerica conversion -
Banks use artificial intelligence to do many different jobs. At Fifth Third, the technology is supervising the biggest post-merger integration in the bank's history.
How one bank is managing the risk that AI spending dries up -
Amid warnings that a future slowdown in AI capital spending could pose a systemic threat, executives at Regions Financial said they're preparing the same way they would for any other credit concentration.
How advisors can tailor services to clients with ADHD -
ADHD can cause a slew of financial woes for clients, leaving them feeling overwhelmed, frustrated or emotional. Here is how advisors can help them build their confidence and stay on track.
Bank of International Settlements
The evolving nexus: sovereigns, banks and NBFIs -
by Stefan Avdjiev, Bryan Hardy, Maximilian JagerThis paper documents that the traditional sovereign-bank nexus has morphed into a broader nexus that now also includes non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs): the sovereign-bank-NBFI nexus. The classical sovereign-bank nexus has been a major financial stability concern following the eurozone crisis. Since then, sovereign debt levels have increase...
Geopolitical risk and emerging market sovereign risk premia -
by Fredy Gamboa, José Vicente RomeroThis study examines how geopolitical risk (GPR) transmits to sovereign credit risk in emerging market economies (EMEs), using monthly data on the 5-year sovereign credit default swap (SCDS) and the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI) spread for 13 EMEs over the period of January 2005–October 2025. Using fixed-effects panel local projections, the fr...
The AI investment race -
by Phurichai RungcharoenkitkulThe AI build-out ranks among the largest technology-driven investment booms in US history. Its scale, reliance on debt and circular equity ties raise questions about the boom's sustainability and financial stability. We study a dynamic contest in which firms competing for a few dominant positions over-commit resources. The over-investment leaves the sector exposed ...
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