We have long expected a year-end rally...I believe the party whipping up now may be an impulse to the real play, an “inflation trade”, which could show up and persist in 2026.
The EU and the UK are talking about dumping all their holding of US debt. That’s a vulnerability the US has that would cripple it deeply if it were to happen...
Spreading education programs among many departments may reduce spending. For example, it could spur Congress to stop wasting millions of dollars a year on PR for the Education Department.
When you ask people what they’d rather give someone right now, cash or gold, 55% say gold is the better gift. Which sounds like a conversation you’d expect to overhear in 1910, not 2025.
The WGC has also noted that “diversification” with “a reduction of U.S. assets” is one of the factors driving central bank gold buying. In other words, de-dollarization.
While what is left of the DOGE website currently claims that the number has grown to a little over $210-billion saved, numerous audits claim otherwise.
From a libertarian standpoint, the question of banning so-called “hate speech” is a no-brainer. Banning any kind of speech, whether it is good or bad, is incompatible with a free society.
