February 3
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Gold is up 5.47% to $4,915 and on track for its biggest daily gain since November 2008 | 10:00
Silver is $87.27, up 10.05%
S&P is down 0.25%
Dollar is down 0.02% after surging about 1.2% over the previous two sessions
10Y is higher by .4bp to 4.284%
Yen is 155.91 and looks poised to revisit the intervention level | Forex
The market is pricing 48 bps of easing by year-end
Reserve Bank of Australia Hikes Rates and Sees Another this Year
Trump TACOs on Iran Through Negotiations | Moon
Iran Says US Carrier Has Retreated Near Yemen, Opening Door To Diplomacy | Zero
US Failed to Defeat Houthis with Two Carriers, Yet It Thinks It Can Regime Change Iran with One? | John
Debt Rattle is back
Caracas is not like you think.
So there you have it. Trump wasn’t a draft-dodger.
The 2024 election sparked a shift in gun ownership among Black adults and liberals | ZME
“It may be that individuals feel that the government will not protect them or — worse yet — represents a direct threat to their safety, so they are trying to prepare themselves for self-defense.”
The Electoral College Is Poised to Get Tougher for Democrats
Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released new population estimates.
The Elon Two-Step Nonsense | MTick
Musk's X Office In Paris Raided By Cybercrime Unit As Brussels Becomes More Unhinged | Zero
State and local authorities may decline to participate in the enforcement of a federal regulatory scheme | Reason
Why? Just ask the conservative legal hero Justice Antonin Scalia. "The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems," Scalia wrote in the 1997 Supreme Court case of Printz v. United States, "nor command the States' officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program."
America has a ghetto, not a housing problem
There is housing available in large quantities for affordable prices in almost every major American urban core but most people choose not to live in it for rational reasons. When you dig into the actual logic residents give for why they oppose development across this country, again, and again, the main reason they offer is fear that new or proposed construction will attract crime and other anti-social behavior.
Uruguay signs cooperation deals in Beijing | Merco
China is Uruguay’s top destination for agricultural exports—such as wood pulp, soybeans and beef—and that Uruguay posted a $187.1 million trade surplus with China in the first half of 2025, while importing Chinese machinery, electronics and chemicals.
Denmark’s Fourth Realization
The First Realization was the early, naïve belief that all migrants would naturally assimilate into European society. The Second Realization was that deliberate integration policies were required for many immigrants to adapt successfully. The Third Realization, as Frederik Vad, a Social Democrat member of the Danish parliament, recently admitted, is that some citizens with ethnic-minority backgrounds are now undermining democracy from within. The Fourth Realization, most recently articulated by Eva Selsing in the Danish newspaper Berlingske, goes further still: The entire experiment has failed. Integration has proven an illusion, and only repatriation, not further social engineering, can preserve Europe’s civilization.
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