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US Says (New) Ayatollah Wounded, Disfigured - While Other Iranian Leaders Defiantly March In Tehran As Bombs Fall Summary: Trump and the Pentagon claim the US and Israel are "totally destroying" Iran as the war enters day 14, with Trump warning Tehran to "watch what happens" and "I am killing them" and "what a great honor it is to" Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is reportedly alive but wounded, "damaged," and "disfigured" Hegseth briefing: US and Israel have hit more than 15,000 enemy targets since conflict began Several senior Iranian officials […]

Savings Rate Highest In 6 Months As Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Rises Near 2-Year High The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE (a measure of price changes in consumer goods and services that excludes volatile food and energy costs) - rose o.4% MoM in January (in line with expectations) with YoY rising by 3.1% (as expected), slightly higher than the 3.0% in December... Source Bloomberg That is the highest YoY Core PCE since March 2024. The headline PCE rose 0.3% MoM (as expected) driving prices up 2.8% YoY (down from December's +2.9% YoY)... Source […]

Futures At Session Highs After Oil Drops Below $100 On India Hormuz Transit Hopes US stock futures rebounded from their overnight selloff, and were trading near session highs after three days of losses on Wall Street as Brent slipped below $100 a barrel and investors waited to see if the war in the Middle East would escalate further. The catalyst for the bounce was news that India asked Iran to allow its tanker armada through Hormuz, which would lead to a substantial easing of the global oil shipping blockade. And while it remains to be seen if this will pave the way for other […]

How Many Times Does This Have To Happen? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Yet another American life has been shattered by Democrat soft-on-crime policies that keep dangerous repeat offenders on the streets, this time in Virginia where an illegal immigrant with a staggering 30 prior arrests allegedly murdered a 41-year-old mother waiting at a bus stop. Stephanie Minter’s brutal stabbing death exposes the deadly consequences of leftist prosecutors who prioritize leniency over public safety, allowing predators like this one, Abdul Jalloh, to roam free despite a […]

US Tariff Investigations Put China, EU And Other Major Trading Partners In New Crosshairs The Trump administration has opened a new round of tariff investigations that could lead to higher duties on at least 16 trading partners, as officials seek to rebuild a trade enforcement framework after the Supreme Court invalidated a number of the president’s second-term tariffs. The probes, announced Wednesday by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, will be conducted under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, a statute that allows the U.S. to impose tariffs on countries […]

Ten Maersk Ships 'Trapped' In Persian Gulf Authored by Stuart Chirls va Freightwaves.com, The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has effectively trapped 10 Maersk ships in the Persian Gulf, its chief executive said. In separate interviews with CNN and the Wall Street Journal, Vincent Clerc said the Danish carrier’s ships “cannot get out,” are “stuck in the Upper Gulf” and cannot leave the region. As a safety measure, Clerc said the vessels have been grouped offshore and away from ports under attack. At least one ship is under contract to the U.S. […]

Bessent Greenlights Sale Of Russian Oil At Sea To "Promote Stability In Global Energy Markets" In a statement late Thursday on X, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the U.S. will allow countries to purchase Russian crude oil already at sea. The move aims to temporarily boost global supply availability, as the IEA warned earlier that the Middle East conflict has sparked one of the worst energy shocks on record. "To increase the global reach of existing supply, @USTreasury is providing a temporary authorization to permit countries to purchase Russian oil […]

'Societal Time Bomb' – Explosive German Police Study Finds Nearly Half All Muslims Under 40 Has 'Islamist' Attitudes Via Remix News, A newly released study by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), nearly 50 percent of Muslims under the age of 40 in Germany hold “Islamist” views, with these Muslims expressing an attraction to Islamism, a preference for Sharia law over the German Basic Law, and harboring anti-Semitic prejudices. The findings, described as “explosive in nature,” were featured in the latest edition of the “Motra Monitor.” The study […]

Large US Refueling Aircraft Down In Western Iraq In First Of Iran War Summary: State media: Iran claims responsibility for shooting down US refueling plane, says US refueling plane was downed with all crew killed in Western Iraq. CENTCOM confirms search and rescue operation underway after large KC-135 refueling tanker goes down over Western Iraq. Trump: Iran paying a 'big price' right now; situation 'moving along rapidly' Netanyahu confirms hitting IRGC and Basij checkpoints, in effort to 'topple regime' Iran's top security official to Trump: 'we will not […]

Feminist Monster Film "The Bride" Is Biggest Box Office Bomb Of 2026 According to polls, around half of the US population identifies with feminism and feminist activism (though, this stat is in steep decline among Gen Z men).  But if this is truly the case and there is such a large population of feminist allies out there in the ether, why don't they ever show up to movie theaters to support films with blatant feminist messaging?  The obvious conclusion is that the public has been lied to and there is no vast feminist movement.  It's a paper tiger, a fantasy, a mirage.  We […]

UK Govt Urges Schools To Snitch On 'Anti-Muslim Hostility' In Orwellian Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The UK government is ramping up its assault on free expression, now urging schools, councils, and workplaces to monitor and report “anti-Muslim hostility” as part of a broader strategy that critics slam as a tool to silence legitimate debate. Under Labour’s plans, institutions will be encouraged to track incidents of ‘prejudice’ against Muslims, with a new definition adopted to clarify unacceptable behavior. This comes amid a surge in hate […]

"Consumer Sentiment Going Down": EU Auto Heads Begin Blaming Iran Conflict For Industry Woes The first-order effect of the U.S.-Iran conflict was widespread disruption across the Middle East. The second-order effect was an energy price shock that drove gasoline and diesel prices at the pump sharply higher. The third-order effect could be a deterioration in consumer sentiment amid higher energy costs, rising inflation fears, and broader economic/geopolitical uncertainty. The transmission of the energy shock to consumers appears to have materialized just 12 days into Operation […]

Germany's Industrial Collapse: Degrowth And Ideology At Work Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Even with some temporal distance and broader perspective, the election result in Baden-Württemberg makes no sense. That the two eco-socialist parties, fused into a kind of political twin planet—Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and the CDU—could claim almost two-thirds of the votes cast is staggering given the economic situation in the country. It raises a fundamental question: Can—or will—Germans no longer connect economic decline with political responsibility in any meaningful way? […]

Saudi Aramco To Buy Ukrainian Interceptor Drones To Defend Oil Fields Low-cost interceptor drones are poised to see massive demand across U.S.-aligned Gulf states as the conflict with Iran grinds deeper into its second week, exposing the absurdity of expending multi-million-dollar interceptor missiles to eliminate IRGC drones that cost roughly $20,000 to $30,000 each. One day after The Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia is in talks with Ukrainian counter-drone firms to acquire low-cost interceptor drones, the outlet provided additional color on Thursday on the […]

Volkswagen Plans 50,000 Job Cuts Due To Plunging Profits; Board Members Grab €1.75MM Each In Bonuses Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, German automaker Volkswagen plans to cut around 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030 as profits slump and the company struggles with rising costs, tariffs, and declining margins. The job cuts were announced alongside the company’s 2025 financial results, which showed net profit falling 44 percent to €6.9 billion — the lowest level since the fallout from the Volkswagen emissions scandal. At the same time, Volkswagen’s board has […]

Pro-War Republican Senator Apologizes For Iran Girls' School Massacre After Trump Blames Tehran Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams A Republican senator apologized this week for what US military investigators have reportedly determined was an American missile strike on a girls' school in southern Iran that killed around 175 people—mostly children—amid continued sidestepping by President Donald Trump, who has blamed Tehran for the massacre. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.)—who supports the US-Israeli war on Iran—first apologized for the attack on the Shajareh […]

Indian H1B Scammers Found Guilty In Multi-Million Dollar Fraud In Pennsylvania A federal jury in Philadelphia has delivered a resounding guilty verdict against two Pennsylvania brothers and a longtime associate, convicting them of masterminding one of the most elaborate and prolonged racketeering operations uncovered in recent years. The scheme, which prosecutors say drained more than $32 million from Pennsylvania's Medicaid program while exploiting vulnerable foreign workers through the H-1B visa system, spanned over a decade and involved layers of deception across multiple […]

FDA Unveils New Platform For Tracking Side Effects Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Food and Drug Administration on March 11 made public a new, consolidated platform for tracking side effects experienced by people following receipt of vaccines and drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Officials are folding a number of existing platforms into the Adverse Event Monitoring System, which they are describing as a unified system that will be easier to search on. […]

Iran's Hormuz Naval Mines: A Powerful Asymmetric Weapon Paralyzing Tanker Traffic Iran's asymmetric warfare in the Strait of Hormuz has shifted from kamikaze drone strikes on tankers, bulk carriers, and container ships to littering the world's most important maritime chokepoint with naval mines. Even though much of Iran's conventional naval capability has  been severely degraded in the 12 or so days of the Operation Epic Fury campaign, IRGC forces retain asymmetric leverage in Hormuz and the Gulf region through sea mines, drones, small vessels, and missile threats. "It's a […]

Will Johnny Ever Learn To Read? Pushback Against Science Of Reading Mandates Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClearInvestigations, Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., it has only gotten worse: A quarter of all young adults, many of them high school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.  This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a […]

Eric Swalwell Rents Room Linked To Former Staffer To Claim California Residency Rep. Eric Swalwell has primarily been living in Washington, D.C. for years, and now that he’s running for governor of California, he’s hit a snag over residency.  According to reports, Swalwell is renting a single room in a home in the eastern Bay Area that’s occupied by a family of three to claim residency in the state. Public records show it’s a three-bedroom, 1,350-square-foot home owned by Nicolas and Kristina Mrzywka. It is unlikely that Swalwell has ever truly lived there. And now, […]

Paging Nostradamus: You Have A Margin Call Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If conditions change beneath the surface, the folks behind the curtain will be powerless to do anything but make it worse. This just in: predicting is hard, especially about the future. One solution is ambiguity: couch predictions in poetic allusions that are open to interpretation. What's hard is making an unambiguous prediction that turn out to be correct. Recency bias often trips us up, as making predictions based on projecting the recent past seems to work well until trends […]

Senate Republicans On Iran War Ending: Sooner The Better The ongoing U.S. military operation against Iran, which began February 28th with strikes aimed at destroying Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, navy, and other strategic assets, has prompted a range of reactions from Republican senators. While most GOP lawmakers initially supported President Trump's actions - evidenced by the Senate's largely party-line vote on March 4th to block a bipartisan war powers resolution that would have curtailed or required congressional approval for the conflict - several […]

US Court Clears State Medicaid Ban On Transgender Surgeries For Adults Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), West Virginia’s ban on Medicaid coverage of surgical procedures for people with gender dysphoria is legal, a federal court ruled on March 10. A sign in support of Medicaid rests in a walking device on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 27, 2025. Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images A 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision means the ban does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause or the […]

Ben Affleck Once Criticized AI, Now Netflix Is Buying His AI Startup For $600 Million Ben Affleck—who has previously warned about the risks artificial intelligence poses to Hollywood—has sold his own AI filmmaking startup to Netflix in a deal that could reach $600 million, according to Bloomberg. The cash portion of the acquisition is smaller, with additional payments tied to performance targets, but it still ranks among the largest AI-focused deals by a major studio. The startup, InterPositive, developed software designed to help directors edit footage after filming, such […]

The fate of the global economy is literally down to who blinks first.

Gold has outlasted every currency it has ever been compared to. But does 100 years of data actually prove it's a reliable inflation hedge? We break down the key periods — from the Nixon Shock to the 2024 all-time highs — to show exactly when gold shines, when it struggles,...

Is the world entering a silver supply deficit? Mike Maloney argues that rising industrial demand and slow mine supply could create years of shortages. If the trend continues, silver may become far harder to obtain—and prices could move much higher.

The Iran War is reshaping global markets in real time. Oil has topped $100, the largest emergency reserve release in history didn't stop prices from rising, and the gold price keeps climbing. Here's what investors need to know today.

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Silver often moves more dramatically than gold—but the reason isn’t random. Learn why silver is more volatile than gold, from its smaller market and rigid supply to industrial demand and leveraged futures trading. Understanding these forces can help investors better navigate silver’s bigger price swings.

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Today Gerald Celente issued a major update on the Iran War and its impact on global markets.

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Here is an important update on gold, silver, oil and the US dollar.

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We are seeing absolutely wild trading in oil, gold, silver and stock markets.

From ancient Rome to Nixon's 1971 gold shock, the history of currency debasement follows a predictable pattern. Understanding it is one of the most valuable things a long-term investor can do.

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Silver bars or coins — it's one of the first decisions every silver investor faces. This guide breaks down premiums, liquidity, storage, and volatility so you can choose the right form of silver for your portfolio and investment goals.

Oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. The U.S. shed 92,000 jobs in February. And the Fed meets in nine days. Gold is caught in the crossfire — but the forces driving today's dip may be building tomorrow's case for precious metals.

Today oil futures soared to nearly $120 a barrel before pulling back as the war in the Middle East continues.

Today one of the greats in the business discussed gold and oil supply shocks.

Most people use the terms money and currency interchangeably—but they are not the same. This article explores the difference between money vs currency, why fiat currencies lose purchasing power over time, and why many investors consider gold as a long-term store of value.

After January’s sharp selloff, gold and silver are climbing again. Oil’s surge, rising geopolitical tensions, and a difficult path for the Federal Reserve are reshaping the gold price outlook — with some Wall Street forecasts now pointing toward $6,300.

Silver isn't just a cheaper alternative to gold — it's a strategic asset with a unique role in any long-term wealth-building plan. This guide breaks down what investing in silver actually means, the difference between physical silver and paper alternatives, and the disciplined strategies that serious investors use. No speculation....

Gold and silver prices eased Friday despite a week of major market signals: a $1.3B institutional bet on silver, Iran disrupting 20% of global bullion flows, oil spiking on Hormuz fears, and labor data pointing to a gradual cooldown.

Not all gold is created equal. The karat on a jewelry piece and the fineness on a bullion coin are measuring the same thing — but they mean something very different for investors. Here's how to read gold purity the right way before you buy.

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Gold and silver portfolio allocation isn’t about predicting which metal will outperform. It’s about understanding their roles. Gold offers stability, liquidity, and long-term purchasing power protection. Silver brings industrial demand exposure and greater upside potential — along with more volatility. The right balance depends on your goals, risk tolerance, and...

Gold prices surge on Middle East tensions as U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran rattle markets. Stocks fall, oil jumps, and the Fed faces renewed inflation pressure. Here’s what the conflict means for equities, policy, and precious metals.

Gold and silver prices are full of short-term noise—daily swings driven by Fed commentary, currency moves, and speculative trading. But underneath the volatility lies a consistent long-term signal. Learn how to tell the difference, what structural forces actually drive precious metals prices over time, and how to build a strategy...