"Protecting cities will require mass-produced, cost-comparable, networked solutions." 

"Investors we speak to - including long-term institutional and private wealth investors with slow-moving allocation processes - signal strong interest in creating/increasing the gold share in their strategic portfolios..." - Goldman

Governments avoid sound money and controlling spending because these choices can hurt them politically right away, while using inflation and interventionist methods allows them to take a lot of wealth from citizens and give it to themselves and their favored industries...

Soon on the heels of escalating Trump rhetoric targeting Havana...

"The president's goal is for us not to make a hasty transition by replacing coal with gas, but to immediately switch from coal to nuclear power,"...

Inching toward diplomacy & averting war...

Leftists, globalists and their allies are not going to discern between MAGA, libertarians and centrists. They will ultimately treat everyone as an enemy worthy of elimination...

Here comes Skynet...

On Jan. 10, 1776... an incendiary 47-page pamphlet was printed, published anonymously, calling for rebellion against the Crown and independence from Great Britain...

Shocker, we know. 

"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"

...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...

PR campaign against Gaza Health Ministry has run its course

The deal gives SpaceX a valuation of $1 trillion, and xAI a value of $250 billion,

Bad optics... 

California residents who thought they could escape high gas taxes by purchasing an electric car will be disappointed...