Gold had hit a record high of $5,594.82 on Thursday January 29th, silver hit a record high of $121.64 also on Thursday, and platinum hit its record high on Monday at $2,918.80

 -- Reuters

Gold and silver plunge after Trump picks more pragmatic Kevin Warsh to head the Fed over dove Kevin Hassett

 Gold and Silver tumble as Trump’s Fed Chair pick Warsh seen as preserving central bank independence

... Claudio Wewel, FX strategist at J. Safra Sarasin Sustainable Asset Management, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Friday that a “perfect storm” of geopolitical tensions had helped precious metals move higher this year, pointing to the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Washington’s threats to use military force in Greenland and Iran.

More recently, he said, speculation over who would be nominated as the next Fed chair had been influencing metal markets.

“The market has clearly been pricing the risk of a much more dovish contender, that’s been largely helping the gold price along with other precious metal prices. Over the last 24 hours, the news flow has changed a little bit,” Wewel said, prior to Trump’s announcement. ...

The U.S. trade balance has worsened after one year of Trump tariffs lol

 

Trade balance soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts

 

... On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024. 

The increase in the deficit counters Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to reduce imbalances around the globe. When announcing so-called reciprocal tariffs in April 2025, the White House used the level of trade deficits with varying countries as a baseline for determining the duties. ...

Last July's Big Beautiful Trump Bill was actually Trump's Big New Fascist Police State and Concentration Camp Bill

 

Spot gold to $5,591.61, spot silver to $119.34

 -- Reuters 10:42pm EST

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says economic activity has been solid lol

 10-year Treasury yield rises after Fed keeps rates steady, notes ‘solid’ economy

... “Available indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have remained low, and the unemployment rate has shown some signs of stabilization,” the post-meeting statement said. “Inflation remains somewhat elevated.” ... 

“I think, and many of my colleagues think, it’s hard to look at the incoming data and say the policy is significantly restrictive at this time,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in a press conference. ...

The economy should be three times the size it is, $90.4 trillion in GDP instead of $31.1 trillion.

 

 

Senator Thom Tillis gives as good as he gets

 

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is the evil energy at the heart of Trump's death star, brain-dead Kristi Noem simply follows his orders, and soulless J. D. Vance retweets him

They all have to go.

 

The White House wants you to know that totalitarianism is the final solution to illegal immigration

 

Border Czar Tom Homan is so full of shit

 Tom Homan’s Bid for Minnesota Reset Begins With Series of Demands

MINNEAPOLIS—Tom Homan, the White House border czar, arrived here with a series of demands for Minnesota’s Democratic leaders. Topping the list: an agreement from them to turn over more immigrants from the state’s prisons and jails, people familiar with the matter said. ... Walz has said the premise of the demand is false. “They’re taking credit for people that we’ve had in jail for a long time,” he told reporters Sunday. “We always hand them over.”

Oh, so that's why Border Patrol was in front of Glam Doll Donuts on Saturday. They were just looking for inmates.

 

 

Spot gold hit a peak of $5,181.84 per ounce as of 03:57 p.m. EST today, silver hit a record high $117.69 on Monday

 -- Reuters

The dollar is crashing is the stuff of hysteria

Chart showing US dollar crashing...

 

They do not remember 2008.

And they use an index, .dxy, which many now consider obsolete. 

The dollar is strong. 

 

 

Kristi Noem lied to our faces just like Greg Bovino, can't tell the truth about the small things let alone the big things

 

House Democrats tell Trump: Fire Kristi Noem or they’ll start impeachment proceedings against DHS chief

 

 

Silver hit a record high of $117.69 on Monday

 -- CNBC

Gee, I thought the GOP controlled all three branches of the federal government, how could this be happening?

 

Left Making Huge Progress Toward Letting Illegals Stay

Byron York, DC Examiner

 

Byron York presents a fair statement of the current immigration situation, but never questions the wisdom of the current policy.

 

Yes indeed, Americans want illegals deported, and Trump is spending billions upon billions trying to do just that, but even apart from the resistance being encountered in Democrat-controlled cities, the numbers just don't add up in all the places York says Trump is succeeding.

 

Byron says there are nine million new illegals because of Joe Biden. Trump has deported 600,000 so far, and is likely to be lucky to wind up deporting just 2.4 million. The vast majority of them will still be here when Trump is long gone.

 

Clearly the policy is ineffective, on top of being brutal, unjust, murderous, and a huge waste of money.

 

Trump is ominously expanding the federal infrastructure of a tyrannical police state which a future president might find all too tempting to use to impose gun confiscation, for example. He keeps demanding local cooperation with federal enforcement, which the courts have said violates the Bill of Rights. This impulse is authoritarian, not American. 

 

Trump should have spent what little political capital he won in 2024 by pushing a legislative solution to immigration which placed severe penalties and jail time on persons and companies who hire illegal aliens, and by imposing strict federal regulation against social spending on, and social privileges like drivers licenses for, illegal aliens.

 

Mitt Romney was right that we have to turn off the magnets which attract illegal immigration. Rounding them up one by one is a fool's errand.

 

Give a man a fish and he'll be back tomorrow with his family for five. 

Kash Patel is incompetent and he needs to go, too

 

WH Corrects FBI: Law-Abiding 'Have Right To Bear Arms'

Philip Wegmann, RCP

 

From my lips to God's ears

 

This little prick has to go

 

Lying New York Post reporter with a BA in English says Pretti's crime against the state was attempting to separate the ICE agents from the demonstrators (!) using a firearm (!)

 

 ... Protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was part of the street-side struggle, according to video, and became the center of a scrum of roughly six officers who tackled the 37-year-old after he attempted to separate ICE agents from demonstrators. ... Bovino claimed Pretti approached officers with the weapon and “violently resisted” agents when they attempted to wrestle the gun from him, he said in a news conference.

More. 

The Supremes long ago ruled against the totalitarian state that Trump keeps demanding

Local authorities don't have to cooperate on immigration, or on anything else.

Based on Supreme Court precedents like Printz v. United States (1997), courts have held that the federal government cannot command state or local officials to administer or enforce federal regulatory programs, including immigration enforcement.

Real Clear Politics should know better than to repost this bullshit. 

Dems Must Cooperate With ICE, End Sanctuary Policies

President Trump, Truth Social