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No ads, no remuneration. Die Gedanken sind wirklich frei. The tyrant "has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles."
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And no, we're not afraid of him. We just loathe him, that's all. He's not one of us.
If we have to vote Democrat for the first time in our lives to stop him, we will. If Russell Kirk could do it in 1976, so can we. William F. Buckley Jr championed Democrat Joe Lieberman in 1988. If Gavin Newsom can support Thomas Massie in 2025, we can also be tactical in 2026. It doesn't mean we're getting married. Dividing political power intentionally is the genius of America. It's only ideologues who think you are who you vote for.
That others saw through this fraud long before us is to their credit. We should learn from them. It is no shame to be mistaken, only not to learn from one's mistakes.
The country is only marginally in Trump's hands. He can be defeated easily a year from now, and he must be.
Conservatism has always been counter-revolutionary.
Trump is a disgrace.
His administration can't end soon enough.
. . . Since the ceasefire took hold, Hamas has killed at least 32 people in a wave of killings meant to target anti-Hamas clans that had surged in the Strip.
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Even when his A.I. & Crypto Czar trolls you today, or Trump does in September, or The White House does in February.
This is all nothing more than a joke they keep on telling.
You can access the Treasury's Monthly Treasury Statement here to see for yourself.
The OUTLAYS BY FUNCTION for September 2025 in the Figure 1 graphic DO NOT ADD UP TO $346 BILLION, as stated.
They add up to $560 billion.
The receipts DO ADD UP, almost, to $543 billion.
That the graphic indicates $544 billion, not $543 billion, is another clue that the entire thing is a tendentiously fabricated interpretation of the data from within the report, obviously.
Well duh.
Meanwhile that "Other" category isn't a Red Flag for nothing!
"Hello! Hey! Yes, you! We're about to pull a fast one! Pay Attention!"
In the end outlays of $560 billion minus receipts of $543 billion = a September DEFICIT of $17 billion, NOT A F^@KING SURPLUS OF $198 BILLION.
They are asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes, and they know it.
It's a total lie, as in Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
When you can't trust the U.S. Treasury Department, who can you trust?
The upshot is that Fiscal Year 2025 ends with a deficit of $1.973 trillion, far worse than FY 2024's $1.816 trillion . . . by 8.6%.
But the Trump Regime wants you to think the deficit is smaller than in 2024, at $1.775 trillion, that they're cutting spending by closing agencies and departments and firing federal employees, and increasing revenues through tariffs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and that the Big Ugly Bill is working.
LIES, DAMN LIES, I tell you.
... Spot gold was down 2.2% to $4,228.89 per ounce, after scaling an all-time high of $4,378.69 earlier in the session. ... Spot silver fell 4.1% to $51.99 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $54.47 ...
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. . . Spot gold was gained [sic] 0.4% per ounce to $4,343.63 per ounce Thursday evening, after bullion touched a record high of $4,330.42 [what?!]. ... Spot silver rose 1.8% to $54.04 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $54.15 earlier in the session. ...
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Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
... “When you are facing a nonmarket economy like China, then you have to exercise industrial policy,” Bessent told Sara Eisen at CNBC’s Invest in America Forum in Washington, D.C.
“So we’re going to set price floors and the forward buying to make sure that this doesn’t happen again and we’re going to do it across a range of industries,” the Treasury secretary said, without naming specific industries the administration was looking at beyond rare earths. ...
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” the Treasury secretary said when asked about additional equity stakes. “When we get an announcement like this week with China on the rare earths, you realize we have to be self-sufficient, or we have to be sufficient with our allies.”
The Trump administration will not take stakes in nonstrategic industries, Bessent said. “We do have to be very careful not to overreach,” he said. ...
2025, 2008, 2002, 1979, 1977, 1974, 1973.
Gold extended its rally to a fresh record high on Thursday ... Earlier in the session, bullion touched a record high of $4,241.77, climbing for a fifth consecutive session. ...
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J. P. Morgan explains gold's rise as having something to do, in part, with "waning confidence in fiat currencies." 😏
Why should anything pegged to fiat be more confidence inspiring, especially involving PayPal?
People who've been permanently banned by PayPal this morning are probably saying, "Couldn't have happened to a finer company".
This event should be good for fiat, and really good for gold, which won't suddenly be minted by anyone to the tune of $300 trillion, at least not until Elon Musk lassoes one of them thar asteroids.
PayPal’s crypto partner mints a whopping $300 trillion worth of stablecoins in ‘technical error’
Paxos, the blockchain partner of PayPal, mistakenly minted $300 trillion worth of the online payment giant’s stablecoin on Wednesday in what the company called a “technical error.” ...
Transactions on Etherscan showed that the mistake had been fixed after about 20 minutes.
PYUSD is advertised as a dollar-pegged stablecoin that is fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, U.S. treasuries and similar cash equivalents. Therefore, PayPal says the tokens are always redeemable for U.S. dollars on a 1:1 basis.
However, the technical error highlights that the dollar peg is guaranteed by PayPal and its independent third-party attestation reports, rather than intrinsically tied to the minting of a stablecoin. ...
... Spot gold rose 1.3% to $4,193.39 per ounce after hitting an all-time high of $4,217.95 earlier. ... Silver climbed 1.7% to $52.31, following Tuesday’s record high of $53.6. ...
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