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Gold is oversold, the debasement trade is still on, and the pressure is building – Sprott’s Paul Wong -
(Kitco News) – Gold is massively oversold by every meaningful metric and is likely to set a cyclical bottom before September, while currency debasement is the fundamental driver that will push gold to its next all-time high, according to Paul Wong, managing partner and market strategist at Sprott Inc.In a recent interview, Wong told Kitco News that gold tends to find support when prices fall to...
Gold, silver firm as equities slip and Hormuz risk supports oil - Kitco PM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are modestly higher in late-afternoon U.S. trading Monday, as short covering helped metals stabilize after last week’s selloff, while higher Treasury yields, a firmer U.S. dollar and elevated crude oil prices capped the rebound.
Despite Middle East escalation, interest rates remain the key price driver for gold and silver – StoneX -
(Kitco News) – Interest rates are still the key driver for precious metals prices even as the conflict between the United States and Iran escalates further, with gold and silver facing continued downside risk, according to Rhona O'Connell, Head of Market Analysis for EMEA & Asia at StoneX.
Gold gains capped as markets ignore positive data over Hormuz worries, Indian silver premiums rise despite low demand – Heraeus -
(Kitco News) – Gold prices aren’t benefiting from lower rate hike expectations because market participants are worried about the Iran conflict, while India’s new import controls are causing 10% price premiums on domestic silver even as demand languishes, according to precious metals analysts at Heraeus.In their latest update, the analysts noted that gold prices have remained trapped in a $250 r...
Gold softens, silver rebounds as Fed-rate risk limits metals - Kitco AM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold prices are slightly lower and spot silver prices are higher ahead of the North American market open Monday, as renewed U.S.-Iran escalation pushed crude oil back above $90 a barrel and kept Treasury yields firm, limiting gold’s safe-haven response.
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 ...
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.
Zero Hedge
Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority Of The State -
Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority Of The State
Authored by Jacob Reynolds via 'Academy of Ideas' substack,
Perhaps the central battleground of contemporary politics is the need of our political elites to control the narrative. Primarily, the role of establishment politicians is not to deliver changes and reforms, not to fix problems identified by people in their everyday...
Oregon Sees Disturbing Spike In Gender Transition Therapy For Children -
Oregon Sees Disturbing Spike In Gender Transition Therapy For Children
If you're curious to see what the US would look like under an entrenched progressive regime, deep blue states like Oregon offer special insight. Four years of woke Democrats running the show under the Biden Administration was bad enough - Pride flags draped across the White House and naked transgenders dancing ...
Is China Sabotaging America's Data Centers? -
Is China Sabotaging America's Data Centers?
Authored by Lipton Matthews via American Greatness,
China is the one foreign power with both the resources and the strategic incentive to shape American technology.
Washington’s preoccupation with foreign influence has become almost reflexive, though curiously selective in its targets. Some lawmakers have built entire political identi...
National Guard Deployment To DC Will Continue Until Trump's Term Ends -
National Guard Deployment To DC Will Continue Until Trump's Term Ends
A new extension of the National Guard’s deployment to Washington will keep guardsmen in the nation’s capital until President Donald Trump’s term ends in more than two years.
The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the mission for which National Guard troops were deployed will continue until Jan. 20, 2029, or unt...
The False Choice Facing American Agriculture -
The False Choice Facing American Agriculture
Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times,
This week, I was talking with one of my neighbors, a good man who raises hay and runs a cow-calf operation. As we discussed different approaches to grazing and pasture management, he laughed and called some of my ideas "fantastical fairy tales." We both laughed.
A farmer moves cattle fro...
Woman Walks Into Ontario Police Department With Live World War II Grenade -
Woman Walks Into Ontario Police Department With Live World War II Grenade
An Ontario police department is warning residents not to bring unexploded military munitions to the station after a woman walked in carrying a live World War II grenade, according to the NY Post.
The incident happened at an Ottawa-area Ontario Provincial Police detachment, where officers said a resident arri...
Inside California's Battle With The Marijuana Black Market -
Inside California's Battle With The Marijuana Black Market
Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times,
A convoy of sheriff's deputies heads into a vast network of illegal marijuana grow operations in the foothills of Mount Shasta in California's Siskiyou County.
They drive into a dusty encampment strewn with garbage and piles of empty plastic fertilizer containers, a blight on th...
NYC Street Vendors Now Openly Selling Illegal Prescription Pills Across 10 Blocks -
NYC Street Vendors Now Openly Selling Illegal Prescription Pills Across 10 Blocks
What looks like an ordinary row of street vendors in Washington Heights is, in reality, an illegal outdoor pharmacy, according to the NY Post.
Along roughly half a mile of St. Nicholas Avenue, between West 179th and West 183rd streets, vendors openly sell prescription medications from folding tables,...
Winter Is Coming: The Work To Keep Us Warm Is Underway -
Winter Is Coming: The Work To Keep Us Warm Is Underway
Authored by Larry Behrens via RealClearEnergy,
As temperatures near 100 degrees across the country, the last thing on the minds of most Americans are worrying about is…heat.
Not the summer heat. The other kind.
Winter is coming, and in just a few months, millions of Americans will move from cranking up their air conditione...
Trump Reaches For A 1930 Tariff Law To Hit Canada With 50% Duties - But Not On These Items -
Trump Reaches For A 1930 Tariff Law To Hit Canada With 50% Duties - But Not On These Items
President Donald Trump signed three proclamations Monday imposing an additional 50 percent tariff on a broad list of Canadian goods, accusing Canada of discriminating against American dairy, alcohol, and auto exports. The White House said the president was acting to hold Canada accountable fo...
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Goldman Sachs note hints China's gold accumulation may be far more than official numbers -
By Eamonn SheridanInvesting Live, Limassol, CyprusMonday, July 20, 2026
China's true pace of gold accumulation is running far ahead of what official figures suggest, according to new estimates from Goldman Sachs. The bank calculates that China acquired more than 48 tonnes of gold in May through the London over-the-counter market, the largest monthly purchase in over a year and nearly five times...
U.S. technology giants' $1.65 trillion 'invisible debt' sparks concerns -
By Choi In-junThe Chosun Daily, SeoulWednesday, July 20, 2026
Major U.S. big tech companies have accumulated "invisible debt" totaling $1.65 trillion through massive investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure, surpassing the debt officially recorded in their financial statements.
Concerns are growing that these companies could face astronomical liabilities if global AI demand falls ...
On LFTV, Macleod and Maguire discuss China's takeover of the gold market -
10:34a ET Monday, July 20, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Monetary metals market analyst Alasdair Macleod is the guest on this week's episode of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, joining London metals trader Andrew Maguire in a discussion of China's takeover of the international gold market and its establishing the yuan as a gold-backed alternative to the U.S. dollar. The yuan,...
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...
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Inside Cardano's 'Van Rossum' hard fork, and what it means for users -
The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano's community voted in the upgrade, not the company that built it.
Exodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shift -
This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company's acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.
AI compute stocks bounce as Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts -
The deals sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.
Tom Lee's Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stock -
The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum's supply.
Saylor's Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.2 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchanged -
For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.
Brazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposal -
The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.
A bitcoin 'volmageddon' may be brewing, key indicator suggests -
Your day-ahead look for July 20, 2026
Bank of Korea prepares for live CBDC transactions with 9 banks in September -
Major banking heavyweights join a massive blockchain network test that will allow retail consumers to trade tokenized won freely across commercial lines.
Crypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatter -
With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.
Hyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4 -
Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.
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Americans Lost $11 Billion to Crypto Scams Last Year. Most of It Ended at a Gas Station -
Americans filed 181,565 cryptocurrency-related complaints in 2025 and reported more than $11.366 billion in losses, with crypto making up over half of the FBI IC3’s $20.877 billion in total internet-crime losses. A fast-growing slice is crypto kiosks, which generated $389 million across 13,460 complaints, and victims 60 and older accounted for $257.4 million of that […]
What Happens When a Bitcoin Block Is Full? Every Byte Sparks a Live Fee Auction -
When Bitcoin traffic gets heavy, a full block does not stop the network; it turns the next available space into a live auction where urgency has a price. The Line Forms Before the Block Think of a crowded subway platform at rush hour. Every new rider has a valid ticket, but the arriving train has […]
Grayscale to Pay Quarterly Cash From ETH and SOL Staking Rewards: A Look at The Mechanics -
Grayscale plans to amend its Ethereum Staking exchange-traded fund (ETHE) and Solana Staking ETF (GSOL) to convert staking rewards into cash and distribute them to shareholders at least once a quarter. The Filing Onchain analyst Wu Blockchain relayed the update in a post on X, citing that the proposed amendments would require the trusts to […]
Strategy Says Bitcoin Reserve Provides 31 Years of Dividend Coverage as Cash Buffer Reaches $3.2 Billion -
Strategy says its bitcoin treasury provides 31 years of dividend coverage, while its U.S. dollar reserve provides 1.8 years of near-term coverage. The figures shift attention from bitcoin purchases to the company’s ability to sustain preferred-share obligations. Bitcoin Reserve Becomes a Key Measure of Strategy’s Financial Strength Investors in Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) are increasingly […]
Robert Kiyosaki Reveals What He Would Do With $10,000 If He Lost Everything -
Robert Kiyosaki envisions losing all of his assets and starting over with only $10,000. The Rich Dad Poor Dad author explains how he would use that money to rebuild his wealth—and why none of it would initially go into stocks, cryptocurrency, or real estate. Why Would Robert Kiyosaki Refuse to Invest the $10,000? During a […]
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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.
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Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool -
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy.
It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your i...
“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be. -
There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything but.
“Stealth crawlers” are simply automated tools to access and collect public web data—without disclosing the user’s identity. Private crawlers like these facilitate all kinds of important work that benefits the public, i...
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.”
...public pressure can sometimes work to influence both companies and lawmakers that control a city’s purse strings to discontinue or dive...
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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
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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 Sues U.S. Virgin Islands Over Unconstitutional Ban on Nonresident Right to Bear Arms -
Gun Owners of America Sues U.S. Virgin Islands Over Unconstitutional Ban on Nonresident Right to Bear Arms FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2026 CHARLOTTE AMALIE, USVI — Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Virgin Islands’ prohibition on nonresidents exercising their Second Amendment rights. The lawsuit argues the USVI ...
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...
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A Mythos moment? Frontier AI and cyber risk -
by Iñaki Aldasoro, Raphael Auer, Jon Frost, Fernando Perez-CruzFrontier artificial intelligence (AI) models increase the speed, scale and complexity of cyber attacks, and they also strengthen cyber defence. But the costs are asymmetric and may favour attackers. The medium-term impact on systemic cyber risk depends on the various actors' access to the most advanced tools, on compute power to run...
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...
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