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21 Feb 2025

This is truly a historic moment for the US economy.

US government interest expense has gone parabolic in the past few years It has now crossed a staggering $1.1 TRILLION At this rate, it is expected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2034 US debt is now becoming a major concern Source: Bravos Research

21 Feb 2025

BREAKING: 85% OF SWISS GOLD EXPORTS NOW HEADING TO THE USA.

Gold exports from Switzerland rose year on year in January as supplies to the United States soared to the highest in at least 13 years and offset lower deliveries to top consumers China and India, Swiss customs data showed on Thursday. Switzerland, the world's biggest bullion refining and transit hub, alongside Britain which is home to the world's largest over-the-counter gold trading hub, saw a surge in gold transfers to the U.S. in recent months as President Trump readies wide-reaching import tariffs that some market participants fear could affect gold deliveries. The concern has widened the price premium between U.S. gold futures and London spot prices, attracting massive deliveries to Comex gold inventories. According to the Swiss data, gold exports from the country to the U.S. rose to 192.9 tons in January from 64.2 tons in December. This was the highest monthly amount of exports in the customs data going back to 2012. Trump has not mentioned precious metals are likely to be targeted at all, but since late November, when he pledged to impose tariffs on imported products from Canada and Mexico, 20.4 million troy ounces (636 metric tons) of gold worth $60 billion at current prices were delivered to Comex-approved warehouses. These deliveries raised Comex gold stocks by 116% to 38.0 million ounces, the highest since March 2021, and tightened liquidity in the London OTC market. Source: Yahoo Finance, Make Gold Great Again on X

21 Feb 2025

Nasdaq market capitalization to US M2 Money Supply has hit a RECORD 142%.

The ratio has DOUBLED over the last 5 years and even exceeded the Dot-com Bubble levels of ~130%. Equities rise has MATERIALLY outpaced the money supply increase. Source: Global Markets Investor

21 Feb 2025

The S&P 500 is expensive on 19 out of 20 metrics, according to the BofA analysis.

Some metrics such as the Buffett Indicator (Market Cap to GDP ratio) are over 100% above historical averages. Source. Global Markets Investor

21 Feb 2025

$BABA beats on the big three revenue, adjusted net income and adjusted EPS!

"Cloud revenue growth accelerated to double digits at 13% year-over-year, with AI-related product revenue achieving triple-digit growth for the sixth consecutive quarter" Source: The Transcript

21 Feb 2025

The ECB has recorded the biggest loss in its 25y history.

This is the result of its aggressive policy responses to Eurozone crises & surging inflation—1st buying large amounts of bonds & then sharply raising interest rates. As a result, ECB is earning less interest from the bonds it holds than it has to pay to banks for their deposits. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

21 Feb 2025

Pretty soon Fort Knox will be filled up again ;-)

Source: Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop on X

20 Feb 2025

Started from the bottom now we're here.

Source: BitcoinTeddy on X

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