Gold hits record high on US shutdown risks, rate-cut bets
No more Milleys.
OK man, but it would have cost a lot less just to fire them all when they failed their next fitness tests.
The round trip tickets must have cost a fortune, paid by the taxpayers.
... Spot gold was up 1.9% at $3,829.63 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $3,833.37 earlier in the session. ... spot silver climbed 1.9% to $46.85 per ounce, hitting a more than 14-year high. ...
The anti-white racism is amazing.
The purity of the left must be defended at all costs.
The objective is the marginalization into irrelevance of all whites, the shooter, the victim, and their entire kind.
Allahu Akbar.
That basically encapsulates the initial emotional reaction of the Trump administration to the murder of Charlie Kirk in 2025.
... That evening, CNN reported that bombs were dropping in Afghanistan — and then updated the report to say they weren't our bombs.
They should have been ours. I want them to be ours.
This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack. Those responsible include anyone anywhere in the world who smiled in response to the annihilation of patriots like Barbara Olson. ...
You probably remember the column more for the closing however:
We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Here is an archived copy of the post with fictional video since taken down at Truth Social.
Here is a news story about the hoax published in July 2024.
That you can hear about the crazy things crazy people do almost instantaneously now is what contributes to our perception that there's been a drastic change in behavior, but the share of the world that is crazy has been quite low and stable until the pandemic.
The craziest place in the world in 2021 appears to have been Portugal at 21%, followed by Iran at 20.7%, Lebanon at 19.9%, Greenland at 19.5%, Brazil at 19.4%, Greece at 19.1%, and Australia and Tunisia tied at 19%. No country scored below 9.2% in 2021. The world averaged 13.9%.
In 2011 the top eight list was Portugal at 19.8%, Iran, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Spain, Greenland, and Greece at 17.7%. The rear was brought up by Mali at 8.7%, and Mauritania at 9.1%. The world averaged 12.8%.
I'm guessing it's an alias, but for some communist from Dane County who works for the law firm Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
Calumet County voted for Trump over Harris 59-39, and spends most of its time milking cows and making cheese, and on a winter Sunday drinking beer and playing Sheepshead. They have never hurt a flea.
Some of my folk come from there.
Current U.S. Debt to the Penny is $37.46 trillion, he he.
They say we could never pay it back.
... Spot gold rose 0.8% to $3,778.62 per ounce as of 01:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), after hitting a record $3,790.82 earlier in the week. ...
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What could go wrong, right?
I'm guessing some people will now fly only on the FAA-issued certificate aircraft lol.
And you thought only National Popular Vote liberals were capable of end-runs.
CoRe InFlAtIoN rAtE hElD aT 2.9% In AuGuSt, aS eXpEcTeD, FeD’s GaUgE sHoWs
The damn thing's elevated 74% above the average 1.67 for the twenty-five years 1996-2020 and we're supposed to be OK with it because it's "as expected".
Jai Ya.
Today's third estimate for 2Q2025 real GDP came in 0.5 points hotter at 3.8% on increased consumer spending:
Real GDP was revised up 0.5 percentage point from the second estimate, primarily reflecting an upward revision to consumer spending.
The big picture, however, indicates that the compound annual growth rate of real GDP from this report comes in at only 2.50% per annum for the eight years since 2Q2017. The corresponding figure for the sixty years 1947-2007 is 3.45% per annum. Economic growth since the year of the Trump Tax Reform late in 2017 therefore undershoots that post-war rate by 27.5%.
And measured from 2007 instead of 2017, real GDP growth has been even worse. Over the eighteen years since 2Q2007, real GDP has grown at a compound annual rate of just 1.97%, almost 43% worse than the pre-2007 rate of 3.45%.
Lower economic growth since the Great Financial Crisis remains the great unsolved economic problem of our time.
People who say "Just wait for the Trump tax cuts of 2025 to kick in" don't get it. There's nothing broadly, fundamentally, permanently different coming down the pike from that legislation. It's a continuation of the 2017 legislation, plus some temporary sweeteners.
A serious country would care about all this, but that would not be us.
Unamuno was removed from his two university chairs by the dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera in 1924, over the protests of other Spanish intellectuals. ... Unamuno returned to Spain after the fall of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in 1930 and took up his rectorship again. It is said in Salamanca that the day he returned to the university, Unamuno began his lecture by saying, as Fray Luis de León had done after four years of imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition, "As we were saying yesterday..." (Decíamos ayer...).
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... But Disney, the parent of ABC, where “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs, squeezes a lot of juice out of Kimmel, people there tell me. There are affiliate fees for networks that pick up Kimmel’s programming, online ads and sponsorship deals. He hosts the Oscars, which helps with brand building.
The segments featuring his sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez, are also a draw for advertisers, these people say. Taken together, all this means Kimmel, despite his annual salary of $16 million (nearly as much as his ad-revenue losses), a massive staff (200 people working on the show) and falling ratings, is profitable, my sources at Disney say. ...
Nexstar, Sinclair won’t air Jimmy Kimmel’s return on ABC affiliates
Disney, meanwhile, is seeking regulatory approval for a deal in which the NFL would acquire 10% of the company’s ESPN in exchange for NFL Media assets.
This video which she posted on the 12th, however, just two days after the assassination, was itself pretty cringe. The video appears to have been edited since then. The reporter quotes what she said in the unedited version, which I remember.
A president for all the people, the bi-partisanly hateful public!
The Trump Department of Injustice dropped the case.
So where's the money then? In Bob Menendez' closet?
Is DePauw University also a subsidiary of Nexstar?
And how much was this guy paid to write this?
Kimmel's Ratings in Steep Decline, ABC Looked for Way Out
Don't the PUBLIC airwaves have to serve them, too?
... Through this public spectrum for radio and TV stations, the federal agency has the right to regulate broadcasting and requires each network “by law to operate its station in the ‘public interest, convenience and necessity.’ Generally, this means it must air programming that is responsive to the needs and problems of its local community of license,” according to the FCC website. ...
Typically, the discussion of whether a station violated the FCC’s guidelines centers around children’s programming, a cut to news content, or obscenity — such as Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction during the Super Bowl in 2004. ...
On the contrary, gold has risen despite continued dollar strength.
The enormous gains for gold in 2024 and 2025 are not explained by a round trip in the dollar index from 120 to 129 and back again. That's just a little side show in the bigger picture of dollar strength.
The dollar index has made steady progress out of the pit of despair at 85.46 in July 2011 under Barack Obama, the enemy of fossil fuels, to a place of relative strength today averaging above 120 in 2022 and 2023, 123 in 2024, and 125 in the first half of 2025.
Speaking of a weak dollar in this context is laughable.
Maybe the dollar is so strong again because the United States has become a net exporter of oil. The 1975 ban on oil exports was lifted in December 2015. Net imports of oil went negative for the first time since 1950 in 2020.
Gold is probably so strong in part because of increasing debt globally, which like rising prosperity helps drive demand for it as a hedge. Extreme poverty gripped half the world in 1950 but by 2020 it afflicts just 10%. Meanwhile gold production has nearly tripled over the period.
As a percentage of global GDP, global debt has gone from just above 100% of global GDP in 1980 to a whopping 235% of global GDP in 2024.
Only "one official did not want any cuts, including Wednesday’s."
Story here.
Spot WTI averaged nearly $95/barrel in 2022.
In 1H2025 it averaged $68.
The price fell again in August to an average just under $65, too.
Trump could be refilling at cheap prices, but he's too busy with nonsense.
... Trae Stephens, a Thiel ally and self-proclaimed “arms dealer” who co-founded the drone warfare company Anduril (another warped Lord of the Rings reference), frames his work as part of a quest to “carry out God’s command to bring his Kingdom to earth as it is in Heaven.” Stephens’s wife, Michelle, co-founded ACTS 17 Collective (Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society), which evangelizes to tech workers and is hosting Thiel’s Antichrist lectures. ...
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There is no such command.
Some Christians still understand that:
[Turning Point USA speaker] Leigh-Allyn Baker rallied her fellow parishioners at Conduit Church in Franklin, Tennessee, 20 miles south of the capital, to not let Charlie Kirk’s death be in vain.
In a video the church played for a service Sept. 14, Baker encouraged the audience to speak more boldly and publicly for their conservative values than ever before. ...
Conduit congregants welcomed Baker’s video with whoops, shouts and tears, signaling a shared grief. Among those congregants, one person wore a hat that read: “Pray hard, lift heavy, stay deadly.”
But Christians who are angry over Kirk’s death cannot be violent or retaliatory, [Conduit pastor Darren] Tyler said in his sermon.
“Some of you are angry. Some of you want revenge,” Tyler said. “The Bible speaks very clearly: ‘Vengeance is mine, says the Lord,’” Tyler said. “If you’re thinking about it, I’m rebuking you right now. We do not make Jesus king by force.” ...
These guys slapped ginormous tariffs on China and now complain China is straining relations.
They also blamed Ukraine for starting the war with Russia.
The chutzpah.
Designated terror organizations can be legally attacked using the US military. They'll do the designating, and then they'll do the attacking.
That's why they are doing this.
That's why they are fascists.
Stop Left-Wing Terror Networks and Their Funding
Biden signs Israel, Ukraine, TikTok bill into law
Oracle and Silver Lake part of TikTok investor group as Trump extends deal deadline [for the fourth time]
Impeach the bastard.
... Several of the messages, which were detailed in charging documents shared with CNBC later Tuesday, contained romantic sentiments.
The roommate told police that, on the day of the shooting, Robinson texted, “Drop what you’re doing. Look under my keyboard,” the documents alleged.
The roommate looked and found a note stating, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”
After reading the note, the roommate texted Robinson, “What?????????????? You’re joking, right????”
Robinson replied that, “To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”
The roommate asked, “you weren’t the one who did it right????”
Robinson wrote back, “I am, I’m sorry.”
When the roommate asked why Robinson did it, he replied, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Robinson also texted that he had been planning the shooting for “a bit over a week,” according to the charging documents.
And he discussed dropping a firearm at the university after fleeing, texting the roommate, “If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.”
He added: “I’m wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle, I’m worried what my old man would do if I didn’t bring back grandpa’s rifle.” ...
Kirk hated Trump but saw an opportunity, claims ex-employee...
Well no shit.
The GOP today is riddled with sycophants who formerly opposed Trump but support him now. Those of us who supported Trump in 2015-2016 took great pleasure in pointing it out as they came crawling back.
Many who changed their minds about supporting Trump defend themselves today by saying they changed their minds because they were persuaded by reflection on the Trumpist agenda, but none of that is becoming the law of the land today through the GOP Congress. It's all by executive order and lawfare. None of this will last, except for the ka-ching ka-ching.
In Charlie Kirk's case, flipping to Trump has been bery bery good for Turning Point USA, which went from a lousy little $2 million operation in 2015 to an $80 million one by 2022.
I mean, how many dollars will it take before we actually get some of that fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government which it is supposed to promote, seeing that we're headed for a $2 TRILLION deficit by September 30th?
Considering how awful Trump is now on just about everything compared with his first term, it must be that they all flipflopped only for the money, the power, and the influence.
Socialism going mainstream? New poll suggests might be...
... This survey marks the first formal poll the DSA Fund has released — the latest example of the left seeking to professionalize its operations and create infrastructure to build on its recent electoral victories. The organization said it plans to share its findings with hundreds of socialists elected around the country. ...
In the poll, democratic socialists were defined as believing “that the government should take a more active role to improve Americans’ lives. They generally support higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners, support regulations that protect workers and consumers, and want more public ownership of key industries like housing, health care and utilities.” ...
74 percent of likely Democratic voters said democratic socialism comes closest to their viewpoint, while 16 percent said the same of capitalism. A plurality of independent voters and a majority of Republicans said they preferred capitalism.
The survey of 1,257 likely voters nationwide, conducted from Aug. 22 to 24 using web panel respondents, had a 3-point margin of error.
The run of the mill narco smugglers from Venezuela suddenly are terrorists under Trump, so they blow them up.
Suddenly the left wing Charlie Kirk critics are being transformed into terrorists, too, so they say they will also destroy them.
Who's next? Where will it end?
J. D. Vance once wanted to stop this underlying basis for neo-con adventurism. Now the chameleon is part of its expansion to include unconstitutional domestic repression.
These people must be stopped.
