"The perfidious lust for unbridled power..."

“The decision reflects Blue Origin’s commitment to the nation’s goal of returning to the Moon and establishing a permanent, sustained lunar presence...”

...while the air is getting thinner the higher we go in gold prices, we are not yet close to a place where the structural rally in gold is at risk...

This is cliché narcissism-on-parade, of course, and is now so completely institutionalized in the pop culture industries...

...the Asia close/European open saw dip-buyers emerge across every asset-class... less systematic selling.

"A grievous abuse of our public trust..."

On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are...

"The move is intended to optimize resources and maximize revenue..." 

"Warsh becoming Fed chair won't lead to any major near-term shifts in monetary policy... Most of his comments, and historic disagreements with Fed policy, are on the balance sheet. However, the Fed has already gone down the path that he advocated against"

More snow is forecast in some areas in the coming days...

"We have 18,000 people on the company's payroll who code - using the AI techniques..." 

“How about everybody drop the politics for a couple of hours...”

"There's some light at the end of the tunnel for the winter-weary East Coast." 

Devon Energy and Coterra Energy announced on Monday a definitive agreement to merge and create a premier shale operator in an all-stock transaction, implying a combined enterprise value of about $58 billion.  

Rightward lurch in Latin America continues strong amid rise in narco-crime...

Though it still seems unlikely at this stage, if the reserve status of the dollar was genuinely threatened it would dramatically reduce the freedom to manoeuvre of US policy makers grappling with that “unsustainable” fiscal trajectory.