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The next trillion matters more for gold than the next Fed rate hike -
(Kitco News) - Something incredible happened this week, and even if you weren’t paying attention, the gold market certainly was.
Wall Street turns bullish on gold price ahead of the Fed, Main Street clings to slim bullish majority despite weekly slide -
The latest Kitco News Weekly Gold Survey showed Wall Street returning to its bullish bias after gold’s late-week rebound, while Main Street further pared back its bullish majority following another weekly decline.
Gold price holds $4,300 support as CPI lifts Fed-hike odds - Kitco PM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are higher in late-afternoon U.S. trading Friday, as a pullback in crude oil and a softer U.S. dollar helped precious metals recover from Thursday’s inflation-driven selloff, even as markets priced a higher probability of a Federal Reserve rate hike next week.
The Fed can hike, but it won’t derail gold’s long-term bull market – analysts -
(Kitco News) - The gold market is ending another week in negative territory as investors prepare for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next week.
Gold price holds near high after preliminary Consumer Sentiment falls to 47.8, inflation expectations spike -
(Kitco News) - The gold market is trading near session highs after the latest data showed consumer sentiment in the U.S. declining, with inflation expectations shooting higher.The University of Michigan announced on Friday that the preliminary reading of its Consumer Sentiment survey for September was 47.8. The data was far worse than expectations, as the consensus forecast of economists c...
Gold, silver prices whipsaw as core CPI keeps Fed hike in play - Kitco AM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are sharply higher with extreme volatility in early U.S. trading Friday, after August core CPI rose more than expected and kept the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 15-16 rate decision tilted toward another hike.
Gold prices holding its ground following muted U.S. CPI data -
(Kitco News) - The gold market is struggling to find any solid direction on Friday as U.S. inflation pressures remain elevated but have not accelerated.
Gold, silver prices tumble as hot PPI, oil shock lift yields - Kitco PM Report -
(Kitco NewsWire) - Spot gold and silver prices are sharply lower in late-afternoon U.S. trading Thursday, as hotter wholesale inflation, a crude-oil surge and a jump in Treasury yields overwhelmed safe-haven demand tied to the U.S.-Iran war.
If these key gold price levels fail, expect accelerated near-term selling – TD Securities -
(Kitco News) – Gold is outperforming other precious metals despite the headwinds of higher energy prices and rising Fed hike expectations, but Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA) and major funds could become sellers if gold breaks key support levels, according to commodity analysts at TD Securities.In a Thursday note, TD Securities’ Ryan McKay and Bart Melek wrote that while gold has given up some...
Gold’s record prices are reshaping demand as investors replace jewelry buyers - Metals Focus -
(Kitco News) - Investment demand has been a critical pillar of support for gold in recent years and, while the unsustainable rise in global sovereign debt remains a key driver in the precious metal’s long-term uptrend, one research firm is warning investors to keep an eye on another pillar that has weakened.
Zero Hedge
What Critics Keep Getting Wrong About Capitalism -
What Critics Keep Getting Wrong About Capitalism
Authored by Vincent Geloso via FEE,
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is not a publication most would be familiar with. It is meant as a repository of overviews of big topics in philosophy broadly defined, inclusive of political theory. As such, entries added to it are unlikely to generate strong responses by the experts deepl...
Bill Maher Delivers A Brutal 9/11 Reality Check To The Left -
Bill Maher Delivers A Brutal 9/11 Reality Check To The Left
Bill Maher used the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say something that once required no courage at all: terrorists are terrorists. That the observation now counts as provocative says something about how far we've come since 2001.
On Real Time with Bill Maher, in a segment titled "Clash of Civilizations,"...
Trump: Houthis 'Don't Want' US In Yemen - So They're Letting Most Red Sea Shipping Through -
Trump: Houthis 'Don't Want' US In Yemen - So They're Letting Most Red Sea Shipping Through
After it was widely reported this week that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman urgently sought military assistance from President Donald Trump amid the rapid Houthi takeover of Yemen's Red Sea coast from the forces of the internationally recognized Sanaa government, Trump has said the Hou...
'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send -
'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send
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Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public - the American machine was winning the AI race until the dastardly forces of China's open-weight juggernaut began delivering decisive blows to US ingenuity - jeopardizing the AI Buildout thesis and threate...
'I Have To Sit With That': Gayle King's Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black Man -
'I Have To Sit With That': Gayle King's Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black Man
After the media spent the last two weeks casting pent up handmaiden feminist energy at the 'male holdout' juror who caused a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, "CBS Mornings" anchor Gayle King had a visible record scratch after one of the karen jurors revealed that the h...
DHS Proposes Quickly Removing Visa Holders After Job Loss -
DHS Proposes Quickly Removing Visa Holders After Job Loss
Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is floating the end of a 60-day grace period that currently allows some immigrants to remain in the United States after they lose their jobs.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin speaks during a news conference in the ...
Trump & Hegseth Try To Tie Iran To 9/11 At Pentagon Ceremony -
Trump & Hegseth Try To Tie Iran To 9/11 At Pentagon Ceremony
The two main 9/11 ceremonies on Friday marking 25 years since the terror attacks were held at Ground Zero in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC. President Trump attended the latter while VP JD Vance was present at the former.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth also helped lead remembrance events at the Pentagon, but...
Sweden Discovers That Deporting Immigrant Gangsters Reduces Crime... -
Sweden Discovers That Deporting Immigrant Gangsters Reduces Crime...
Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com,
Among the things a police career taught me is that a small number—usually single digits—of felons commit most felonies. They’ll draw in other criminals, involve them in their crimes, and when convenient, abandon them to arrest. There is no honor among thieves. An...
Watch: 9/11 Widow Goes Off Script, Blasts Saudi Arabia For Complicity During Ground Zero Ceremony -
Watch: 9/11 Widow Goes Off Script, Blasts Saudi Arabia For Complicity During Ground Zero Ceremony
We have for many years carefully followed and documented what has emerged in the over two decades since the 9/11 attacks concerning Saudi state complicity. Families of 9/11 victims have long had a lawsuit pending against Saudi government. The kingdom's intel officials show up in all ki...
This Time Is Different? Earnings & Price Break 90-Year Trends -
This Time Is Different? Earnings & Price Break 90-Year Trends
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
September, so far, is living up to its reputation. The market slipped to the 50-day moving average, with the tape taking orders from crude oil. For the week, crude rose about 9% over four sessions, which pulled the 10-year Treasury yield higher right along with it,...
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Inflation is outpacing wage growth again, squeezing Americans’ paychecks -
In August, consumer prices rose 3.4% over the past year while wages increased just 3.1%.
Consumer outlook plunges in September as inflation outlook worsens -
The survey's headline index hit a level of 47.8, down 7.5% from the August reading and off 13.2% from a year ago.
Record U.S. cyclosporiasis outbreak is over, CDC says -
The largest outbreak, linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, sickened more than 12,000 people.
Inflation persisted in August, potentially locking in a Fed interest rate hike -
The all-items consumer price index was expected to rise 0.4% in August, with core, excluding food and energy, showing a 0.2% gain, according to the Dow Jones consensus.
Friday's CPI inflation report is even more important than usual. Here's what to expect -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the August consumer price index report at 8:30 a.m.
GATA
Alasdair Macleod: A credit crisis is unfolding -
By Alasdair MacleodGoldMoney, TorontoFriday, September 11, 2026
Usually, credit crises are in the private sector. Today it's a global government funding crisis from which there's no rescue. Gold and silver are the escape route.
This week brought the beginning of a government financing train wreck to public attention, affecting all G7 nations. That it is only the start of a crisis is the key poi...
More gold and silver investment money is diverted from metal to the imaginary -
Kalshi Launches 'Perps' for Gold and Silver Following CFTC Approval, Expanding Futures Offerings
By Davis GiangiulioCNBC, New YorkThursday, September 10, 2026
Kalshi has won approval to list perpetual futures tied to precious metals gold and silver in the U.S., in the latest development as the company seeks to grow its trading offerings beyond prediction markets.
The listing was originally fil...
Chinese miner takes Belt and Road to Papua New Guinea with $453 million gold deal -
By Peter KerAustralian Financial Review, SydneyThursday, September 10, 2026
A Chinese state-backed resources group has cited Beijing's flagship Belt and Road infrastructure and influence initiative as the reason it is spending more than $1 billion acquiring mines and port projects across three islands in Papua New Guinea, largely from Australian companies.
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Jim Rickards: China prepares for currency wars -
By James RickardsThe Daily Reckoning, BaltimoreThursday, September 10, 2026
That China has a large quantity of gold in its official reserve position is not news. China's gold reserves have been rising substantially since 2009.
At that time, Chinas official gold reserves were 1,054 metric tonnes (mt). Today those reserves stand at approximately 2,366 mt, an increase of about 124%. But that does ...
Brien Lundin: Gold and bonds are warning us -
By Brien LundinGold Newsletter / Golden OpportunitiesMetairie, LouisianaWednesday, September 9, 2026
It might seem like everyone believes Kevin Warsh when he says he won't hesitate to raise rates.
Well, everyone except one subset of investors: Those who keep buying gold.
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Wolf Street
Inflation Not Going Back into the Bottle: CPI, Core CPI, and Core Services CPI Bounce Back -
Core services CPI +4.0% annualized, Core CPI +3.5% annualized, all-items CPI +4.9% annualized in August from July.
Bond Market Has a Cow, Treasury Yields Spike across the Board, 10-Year Yield near 5%, 30-Year Yield at 5.37% -
Lots of Bad Stuff all at once, topped off by Trump’s $1.35 Trillion Free-Money Promise, $5,000 for every adult American, at the worst possible time.
Sales of Existing Single-Family Homes Sag Further, Supply Spikes to Decade High. Condo Sales Drop to Data-Low, Supply Spikes to 14-Year High -
The average weekly mortgage rate, at 6.76%, is not high historically. Inflation is high. And home prices are high.
CoinDesk
OpenAI IPO won't happen this year, says Sam Altman -
"Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune.
Bitcoin Suisse plans to cut up to half its Swiss jobs as it shifts work abroad -
The company is closing its Copenhagen IT site while maintaining Bratislava and opening a new hub in Vietnam to reduce costs.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK lands $97 million donations from two crypto billionaires in 24 hours -
The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing.
Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down citing safety. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees -
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk have agreed on an unusual position: frontier AI development may need to slow as systems become capable of helping build their own successors.
Ripple stablecoin chief sees $13 trillion corporate treasury opportunity for RLUSD -
Payments and capital markets are driving growth for Ripple's $2.4 billion digital dollar as it looks to bring RLUSD to Europe under MiCA, the firm's Jack McDonald said.
Ditching bonds for bitcoin: How crypto can tackle the AI-heavy portfolio dilemma -
Bitcoin Suisse says rising AI investment, government debt and weakening stock-bond diversification strengthen the case for adding bitcoin to traditional portfolios.
Staked ether should be seen as the benchmark of the decentralized economy -
The yield-generating asset has a special place in the digital asset investor’s portfolio, argues GlobalStake’s Ryan Haczynski.
Bitcoin activity, passports exposed after Revolut falls for fake government request -
Passports, selfies and home addresses were also handed over after the digital bank treated a fraudulent request as legitimate, but no customer funds were lost.
Robinhood CEO says companies shouldn't get veto over stock tokens in AMC feud -
In a post on Friday, Vlad Tenev said securities issuers should control shareholder rights, but not separate products that track their publicly traded shares.
The legal drama of imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried is waiting on its last act -
The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.
bitcoin.com
Zcash Mining Highly Profitable: Grayscale Says Rewards Beat Bitcoin 2x -
Zcash mining rewards are roughly twice Bitcoin’s per machine and four times higher per unit of electricity, Grayscale estimates. Strong token prices are encouraging more mining activity, with the firm linking that expansion to stronger network security. Grayscale Details Zcash’s Mining Advantage Zcash miners can earn roughly twice the daily rewards per machine compared with […]
An IVF Company Bought 146,432 XRP Last Year, Then Sold It All -
Newgenivf Group’s latest Nasdaq registration statement shows the fertility provider bought 146,432 XRP during 2025, disposed of all of it before Dec. 31, and cleared $10,849 on the round trip. What The SEC Filings Actually Say Buried in an amended registration statement from a fertility clinic operator with units in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan is one […]
Polymarket Gives Bitcoin Price a 64% Chance of Reaching $80K This Month -
Traders on Polymarket put a September dip to $75,000 at 68.5% and a touch of $80,000 at 64%, pricing the downside as the likelier of the two with 18 days left on the clock. What the $80,000 Market Actually Asks Polymarket’s “Will Bitcoin reach $80,000 in September?” market resolves yes if even a single one-minute […]
Inside Solana’s Staking Giants and the Mystery Whales With Billions -
Solana has been trading above the $100 mark since the end of August, but the more interesting action may be happening far away from the price chart. Tens of millions of SOL are sitting in enormous staking positions controlled by exchanges, institutional operators, liquid staking pools and, further down the list, a handful of entities […]
Goldman Sachs Flips to a Rate Hike as Bitcoin’s Price Stalls Under $80,000 -
Goldman Sachs abandoned its forecast that the Federal Reserve would hold rates through 2026 and now expects a 25-basis-point increase next week, days after a hotter-than-expected inflation print pushed hike odds above 86%. The Reversal As recently as July 31, Goldman Sachs was the loudest institutional voice arguing the Fed would sit still. The bank […]
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Tenth Amendment Center
Heading toward the Cliff -
The American people are complaining about affordability. The prices of groceries, automobiles, movies, clothes, gasoline, rent, mortgage payments, and just about everything else are soaring. Many Americans are having a very difficult time making ends meet.
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How to Beat an Empire: The Founders’ Ignored Blueprint -
Paul Revere rode into Philadelphia on Sept 16, 1774 with urgent business for the First Continental Congress. His task? Deliver a document from Boston - a blueprint for total resistance. If adopted, secession from the British Empire would be unavoidable. On this episode, it’s Joseph Warren’s forgotten and ignored Suffolk Resolves: The American Revolution’s step-by-step guide for defeating tyrann...
You Don’t Have “2nd Amendment Rights.” You Just Have Rights. -
Millions of people today refer to their rights by amendment number, as if they get them FROM the Bill of Rights. Like referring to their right to keep and bear arms as their “2nd Amendment Rights.” But the founders saw things far differently. The words on paper aren’t a permission slip for the people. They aren’t a “gun permit.” They are a restraining order for government: hands off our natural...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans -
Governor Newsom signed a package of 12 bills yesterday aimed at “protecting children” online. One of them was AB 1709, which EFF has opposed this legislative session and serves as a functional ban on young people under 16 using social media. However, EFF supported two of the bills signed into law, AB 2071 and AB 2298, which require that children learn critical digital literacy and cybersecurity...
Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy -
Amazon recently debuted a new feature for its Ring cameras that the company is calling Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE). The idea is to cut back on the amount of video content available to the company, and thus potentially available to law enforcement. But while it might technically add a speed bump to accessing full video content, it doesn’t deliver nearly the level of privacy we should be...
We All Deserve a Better Internet, Not A Smaller One -
Bans Like California’s Don’t Fix What’s Wrong With Social Media Companies SAN FRANCISCO - Technology and the laws that regulate it should support and empower young people. California’s AB 1709 - signed into law today by Gov. Gavin Newsom - falls far short of this goal, say the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and its allies.
Using technology is how we learn and build community in today’s...
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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
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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
GOA LEADS INDUSTRY COALITION IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT TO DEFEND AR-15s -
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2026 GOA LEADS INDUSTRY COALITION IN SUPREME COURT FIGHT TO DEFEND AR-15s WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF)—along with Century Arms, Canik USA, B&T USA and Fostech—filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down “assault weapons” bans in Viramontes v. Cook County. What that case comes d...
This Week In Gun Control -
THIS WEEK IN THE FIGHT Here’s what you may have missed this week in the fight for the Second Amendment… Biden’s “Ghost Gun” rule was struck down by the courts. GOA’s case against it is still active. Gun shops are passing ATF inspections after selling suppressors with no registration. A foreign ransomware gang hacked ATF. A federal judge struck down … Read more
PA: Legalize Suppressors -
Let’s Eliminate Suppressor and SBR/SBS Restrictions in Pennsylvania Pennsylvanians should NEVER be treated like criminals for exercising their constitutionally-protected rights. Yet under Pennsylvania’s archaic Title 18, Section 908, law-abiding citizens face state criminal charges simply for possessing suppressors (hearing protection) and short-barreled firearms—tools that are widely owned acr...
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