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15 Jul 2025

Silver surges above $39 for the first time since the first US downgrade in Aug 2011

Source: zerohedge

15 Jul 2025

BofA forgot to include bitcoin in their "best performing asset of the decade" table.

Bitcoin $BTC is up almost 1600% this decade 📈📈

15 Jul 2025

Yield on Japanese government hashtag#bonds are back to the highs they reached in May.

Japan was always held up by the MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) crowd as an example for how debt doesn't matter because governments can always cap yields. That view needs to be retired along with MMT. Fiscal space seems to be finite. Not infinite. Source: Robin Brooks, Bloomberg

15 Jul 2025

Federal Reserve just issued a joint statement with 2 regulators confirming that banks can offer Bitcoin and crypto custody.

Source: Bitcoin archive

15 Jul 2025

Oops... Jim Cramer just coined a new acronym PARC

Palantir $PLTR AppLovin $APP Robinhood $HOOD Coinbase $COIN Is it the end of the party for these 4 high flying stocks? Source: Evan on X

14 Jul 2025

Gold now outperforming the U.S. Stock Market (dividends included) over the last 25 years.

Incredible! Source: Barchart

14 Jul 2025

🚨China’s rare earth magnet exports COLLAPSED

Total shipments FELL 76% YoY in May, to 1,238 tons, the least since February 2020. Exports to the US FELL 92% YoY to 46 tons, and LESS than 1/10 of what was recorded in March. Source: Global Markets Investors

14 Jul 2025

Average annual inflation of 152 economies since 1971 when Bretton Woods collapsed.

No economy has averaged less than 2% inflation but Switzerland at 2.2% comes closest. Source: The Market Ear

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