cadillacattack

"Six ways from Sunday"

don't need AI for that ... most all of that has been discussed by many ... previously in this very thread ... fact.

IMO it is wise to consider the global prism when viewing precious metals and their trends.

China banks are banning gold for retail investors ... forcing liquidations in their accounts. Steven Van Metre has a nice piece out on this, worth watching. I think I can see the heavy hand of the CCP from here.

Big time economic problems in China right now, and they are a major player in precious metals, perhaps the biggest player if truth be known.

My 2nd traunch for PHYS and GDXJ both triggered this week when gold hit $3977. I have another traunch scheduled should further pullback present the opportunity .... and I suspect it will in the next 45 days. If it breaks support at $3899 and holds below $3900 ... then we could easily see spot price of $3600/oz.

Gold is continuing to build a base following the Q2 pullback. By August the demand kicks back in. I'm Long gold... with a target of $5050 by Q1/27.

And like the saying goes, "Gold and Silver are traveling partners"

Just my dos centavos ... good luck out there



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Hey, Pocahontas …. get off your azz and write good legislation to avoid this outcome.

After all, it is your job …..

Carville has lost his fastball…. and the young bucks are teeing off

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John Thune is running and hiding because he doesn’t want to get voter ID across the finish line.

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Thune leads the McConnell caucus within the Senate GOP …. he is McConnell’s hand picked protégé .

They do not care if they are in the majority or the minority in Congress. They vote as a bloc, and they do not provide support until they have received their necessary indulgences.

They don’t care about election integrity in the least …. because it is less work to sit back and be the toll collectors.

Just like with immigration, our Legislative branch is unwilling to do their jobs …. Unwilling to provide the legal governance to write good laws.

I doubt our legislators even remember how to write Law …. they’ve been completely reliant on lobbyists for decades.

H.R. 5736 — 112th Congress: Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.” www.GovTrack.us. 2012.

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Radcliffe doin’ work too …. 1200 employee purge.

I voted for smaller federal government, so it would please me if this continues….

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Didn’t see this posted on the first couple pages, so adding it here.

And now the stalemate begins …. several Democrats have said they will not support reauthorizing Section 702 while Pulte remains acting DNI.
I’ll bet Mark Warmer is melting right now …..

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Acting DNI Pulte Removes 51 from Agency – Six Fired and 45 “sent back to their home agencies”

June 23, 2026 | Sundance

CBS is reporting on events within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. As CTH previously outlined, Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte is following a very predictable path. {GO DEEP}

The part of the CBS report that tells the story is: “Six career and political intelligence staff were terminated and 45 were sent back to their home agencies, according to three sources familiar with the personnel moves.” …

“One source characterized the cuts as thoughtful and methodical. No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.” So, who was removed? Well, I’m certainly not the Nostradamus of USIC, but if I were to hazard an educated guess it looks like the National Intelligence Council – Directorate of Analysis, just lost six political staff, and 45 people from the various liaison desks were ‘sent back to their home agencies.’

As we noted last year, Tulsi Gabbard took the National Intelligence Council (NIC) out of the CIA – fired the heads, then putting the assembly back under the control of the ODNI. However, highly political operatives within the former CIA-controlled Directorate of Analysis (the former home of Eric Ciarmella) were still problematic.

It looks like Director Pulte just eliminated the remaining DoA rats.

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