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The Strait Report

Posted by ipso facto @ 22:13 on May 19, 2026  

Mark
@Mark_IKN
·
2h
According to this report, the rise in sulphuric acid prices has added between 15c/lb and 50c/lb to the cash cost of producing copper via heap leach operations in Chile.

(Fwiw, around 20% of copper production in Chile requires H2SO4)

https://x.com/Mark_IKN/status/2056887542390108479

That’ll eff the borrowing costs … Do people still worry about that?

Posted by ipso facto @ 22:04 on May 19, 2026  

The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: The US 30Y Note Yield rises to 5.18%, its highest level since July 2007.

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2056728241335939294

Too bad, integrity is in short supply in DC

Posted by ipso facto @ 20:17 on May 19, 2026  

Trump scores major victory with Massie’s primary defeat in Kentucky

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5883936-massie-loses-kentucky-house-primary/

Buygold, Iran is not a semitic country.

Posted by ferrett @ 17:01 on May 19, 2026  

There are no semitic countries, only semitic languages. As the national language of Iran is Farsi, the modern name for Persian, which is an indo-european language rather than a semitic one, Iranians are not semitic people either.

Hitting The Wall: Inflation, Debt Crisis, And Gold & Silver Outlook….The Set up for Gold’s biggest rally

Posted by Maddog @ 14:01 on May 19, 2026  

https://www.sprottmoney.ca/blog/hitting-wall-global-debt-inflation-gold-silver-prices?utm_source=Sprott+Money+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0769b77be1-EMAIL_May19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-9898488f94-293875353&goal=0_0a3cfde35b-0769b77be1-293875353&mc_cid=0769b77be1

Nice comeback

Posted by Buygold @ 13:53 on May 19, 2026  

For the SM anyway…

Maddog re: Captain

Posted by ipso facto @ 13:52 on May 19, 2026  

Me too!

Maybe he’s just keeping a low profile …

Buygold

Posted by ipso facto @ 13:51 on May 19, 2026  

“The last US President”

I’ve gotta say I have a little more rosy view than you do. 🙂 Anything’s possible …

Maddog

Posted by Buygold @ 13:49 on May 19, 2026  

So, you’re an anti-Shiite? 🤫🤔

Ipsofacto

Posted by Maddog @ 13:24 on May 19, 2026  

It is odd the way the Captain suddenly stopped posting….i hope all is well.

Buygold

Posted by Maddog @ 13:23 on May 19, 2026  

Iran is Shia…but run by the Mullahs, of whom I am very anti…..

Nice try 🙂

Ipso, Maddog

Posted by Buygold @ 11:49 on May 19, 2026  

Agree. If it’s not true then the criticism isn’t fair. I haven’t heard otherwise, but I didn’t confirm with GROK yet either. I suspect it’s true though.

Allowing 500K new Chinese students and allowing China to continue buying farmland is another stroke of brilliance as well.

I’m convinced that he’s the exact guy the uniparty wanted in place. He’s setting everything up for the NWO. The adversarial stuff with China and Russia are a ruse. The only 3D Chess being played is on “we the people.” Time will tell, but I think he’s the last US president. JMHO, but all mine.🤣

Still waiting for the mother of all comebacks or a bullish chart to actually work. These days when the pf is down another 5% are getting old.

Maddog – Iran is a Semitic country, are you an anti-Semite? 🤣😂😇

But at what price? Why do I think there’s gonna be a discount.

Posted by ipso facto @ 11:04 on May 19, 2026  

Bloomberg
@business
Ghana wants large-scale gold mines to sell at least 30% of their annual output to the central bank to increase local refining and boost the country’s foreign-exchange reserves

https://x.com/business/status/2056429651539493236

The Drone Gap

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:59 on May 19, 2026  

Gandalv
@Microinteracti1
The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.

Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.

Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.

But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.

The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
Latest 👇

https://x.com/Microinteracti1/status/2056474595872403638

Just talk?

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:57 on May 19, 2026  

The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: NATO is discussing deploying troops in the Strait of Hormuz to help ships pass through the waterway if it is not reopened by early July, per Bloomberg.

https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2056739366089670803

goldielocks

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:54 on May 19, 2026  

No it’s not. I hope he’s OK.

Hard Times

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:53 on May 19, 2026  

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge
·
3h
For 20 years we told every smart kid get a $100,000 degree and sit in a cubicle.

A cubicle that AI is now disassembling.

https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/2056745552432201767

Ipso 10:42

Posted by goldielocks @ 10:52 on May 19, 2026  

That doesn’t sound good.

Tried getting in touch with Captain Hook but his email address was “not found”

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:42 on May 19, 2026  

Deer79

Posted by goldielocks @ 10:41 on May 19, 2026  

I know what you mean. I was quoting the dealer. The truth is not how much someone wants it to be but how much someone is willing to pay for it. As long as the deficit increases and not being able to stay out of other people’s wars or money problems somewhere else or plain greed and outright theft  that will only increase. He wanted answers and was bewildered by the answer he got. If demand is so high and refiners can’t make it fast enough why the dropping prices although selling back is also high but only on the retail end.

What may have been left out is the interest rates. The refiners need to borrow or use credit to buy all this silver with overwhelming demand by the exchanges ” which I’m curious if there’s also pressure what price exchanges buy from refiners vs sell to the public”  and these high interest rates are a burden to them thus why their halting buying less than 999 pure because it takes longer to refine and probably more energy cost to refine. They can’t make it fast enough for industrial demand but apparently also limited by banking borrowing costs. All this selling with mines also can’t produce in fast enough is gonna go into industrial refining it looks like, once their gone then what? At what point does the retail  buying back stop getting easy.

No joy in Mudville today

Posted by ipso facto @ 10:30 on May 19, 2026  

10 yr Note has built an ominous Bull flag……. ie. rates up

Posted by Maddog @ 10:08 on May 19, 2026  

10's

German Bunds have already broken to upside…….

bunds

Uptrend gone in GDX/AU…….not looking great.

Posted by Maddog @ 10:02 on May 19, 2026  

gdx/au

Interesting

Posted by ipso facto @ 9:50 on May 19, 2026  

Pakistan playing both sides?

Posted by ipso facto @ 9:09 on May 19, 2026  

I read recently that at the beginning of the war Iran sent many of it’s aircraft to Pakistan so they’d be sheltered from destruction.

Pakistan Deploys Thousands Of Troops, Jet Fighter Squadron To Saudi Arabia

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pakistan-deploys-thousands-troops-jet-fighter-squadron-saudi-arabia

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