You have to be informed to do that job.i don’t think she was. Also would help to have a orientation not just thrown in. Especially her taking off to have children next. Biden’s had selective questions and answers in front of them or they just didn’t answer.
Buygold
Straight down lol But I’m watching for support holding. I retained a few shares but with so many liquidity issues my only long is the phyzz. As long as the metals are in demand between central banks and industrial demand as AI stocks are pulling money from other sectors on top of everything else and AI needs metals for their chips the mining stocks themselves could out preform if the metal itself is manipulated down although by how much as long as they aren’t in debt or needing to borrow.
Buygold @ 18:45 …When I lived in Alaska in the 1970’s, Earthquakes were a daily occurrence… and always have been.
Anchorage had “preserved” Earthquake Park in its original “destroyed” condition as a reminder of what an earthquake can do. I built a home overlooking Knick Arm with a hanging cupboard over the breakfast bar, and that hanging cupboard would shake and rattle with every earthquake; sometimes many times daily. I see almost 1/3 of todays earthquakes are from Alaska. SNG
ferrett @ 17:44
Thanks for the background. Things are a lot different now! I’m not sure it’s a solvable situation. Some states such as Poland who haven’t been importing immigrants are in better shape. No riots there, but still the EU bureaucracy and their agenda hampers them. Where is industry going to be in a few years?
Earthquakes picking up again
50 in the last 24 hours vs just 35 two days ago. Alaska has been going non-stop with small earthquakes under 4 magnitude.
sng, it’s tricky, isn’t it?
Would you trade two Gretas for one Zyy?
ipso, I’d just read Kunstler. What may not be clear is that this didn’t happen suddenly.
It started in 1950 as the European Steel and Coal Community, founded by France and West Germany, with the following intentions:
“The Monnet Plan emphasized expansion, modernization, efficiency, and modern management practice. Its process – focusing, prioritizing, and pointing the way – has been called “indicative planning” to differentiate it from highly directive and rigid Soviet-style planning.” (wiki)
And now, 76 years later, it has developed from a purely economic zone for two industries and two countries, specifically set up to prevent war, to 27 countries who are trying to start one. Now committed to destroying the steel and coal industries and building social and political constructs by an unelected bureaucracy. Contrast with Russia, which had 15 Soviet states, plus the six satellites behind the Iron curtain and the six states comprising Yugoslavia which was also 27 states, which lasted 72 years …..
Buygold
I’ll watch for it! 
Kunstler
Things Have Changed…
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Oct 16, 2026 – 01:20 PM
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com,
I remind you once again: history is a trickster. Sometimes things turn out, and sometimes they just turn, and these days they’re turning hard. Get this: Russia is not our mortal enemy anymore. This is not 1956 or even 1986. It is no longer the so-called Free World against the wicked Hammer and Sickle.
Russia is no longer a weird political science experiment acting in defiance of human nature – that is, of people striving to make good lives for their families. No more sacrificing everyone’s happiness to prove Karl Marx’s cockamamie theories. No more trying to foist all that on the rest of the world. Russia gave up on that project and opted to become a normal nation, with the full kit of normality: commerce, shopping, banks, enterprise. Things have changed.
Things have gotten strange, too. You see every indication that, for now, Europe has become something of adversary, if not exactly our enemy, yet. Europe has lost its mind. Now, it is Europe’s turn to destroy itself in pursuit of idiotic theories – such as: nations don’t matter. . . you can have a high standard of living without productive industry. . . carbon is destroying the world.
Europe is now tyrannized by the unelected EU commission, much as the old Soviet Union was tyrannized by its politburo. An Orwellian switcheroo has occurred. When history plays tricks, it plays doozies. So, now you’ve got the grandmotherly Ursula von der Leyen dictating what all the countries in Europe may do and not do with their farms and factories and the daily lives of their people, just like Joseph Stalin in 1937. And you have the grotesquely weak leaders of France, Germany, and the rest submitting to this.
Ipso
A stray missile might just happen to hit the Al-Aqsa mosque which is the site where they plan to build the third temple.
Watch for it.
Imminent
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetter
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BREAKING: Multiple mobile bomb shelters are now being rapidly deployed in Tel Aviv, Israel.
There are also movements of Iron Dome, US THAAD and David’s Sling air defense batteries today, and in the past few days.
Similar preparations occurred in the days before February 28, when the war began.
goldielocks @ 15:03
I think the problem was that she was somewhat short of brain power. You’ve got to be fairly bright to do that spokesperson job.
Big win for the shares
Hopefully a sign of better things ahead for the metals.
Goldie – really? It’s down near $3.50 this week and was up 1 day, the only straight line has been down. Don’t know about you but I’m running out of long term.
Buygold
Silver still off the lows and can’t expect it to go in a straight line especially in this climate as it’s more of a industrial than monetary and why the swings are so crazy.
Looking out to the future the industrial demand is only going to grow and scarcity will become a issue and a driver. Even now when silver dropped temporarily a little below 55, online plain silver bullion was going for 69oz
NEM & RGLD look great
Shares deserve a medal if they can close around here or better today.
Poll results
Summary, combining some categories:
16/40 (40%) say Republicans retain control of both houses.
8/40 (20%) say Dems gain control of the House of Rep.
18% said the election will be postponed — I didn’t know if this would get any votes when I put it in the list.
I must confess
Even though it sucks that we gave up all our gains today, it is somewhat comforting to see the Nasdaq getting punched in the face and Bitcoin smacked around as well.
PPT better go to work Sunday night.
Maddog -I hope you’re right about over sampling and face planting because a Democrat congress would finish this country. Never underestimate the power of stupid people, we have a lot of brain washed idiots that academia has destroyed in the country, and unfortunately they vote.
BTW – silver looks pathetic again.
Ipso 14:12
I don’t know why being a lawyer is necessary for being a press secretary considering the characters Biden used.
I hope one day men will learn that their priorities alone aren’t the only thing that matters and step back to let the significant other have their space to concentrate on their own career as well not just there for them if they really care about them. If they intend to interfere and expect them to put it aside the women should end it before that window of opportunity closes because that person didnt care enough about them anyways. It was about self centeredness and control. It just happens too often because of their tendency to put others before themselves they can be taken advantage of or for granted.
Do the last hour buyers turn up…again…..GDX minus 0.25 % not a tragedy at all.
Notice no sign of book squaring/profit taking in front of the weekend, in anything …
Well if someone is painting the mkts to make them look shiite and by default Trump/GoP
they have employed a very good painter, with an ocean sized bucket……lord knows what size the possy is now, because they have been at it for weeks.
Not even Musk’s flying car can help TSLA…up over 5 % o/n…now down over 3 %
Meanwhile it seems that the Polls are oversampling Dems, Dem candidates are face planting all over the joint, so we could have a monster unwind after the elections and no-one on the other side……the losses could be epic.
Poll Results … Fingers Crossed ……………. Thanks to aufever
As Regards the Results of the 2026 mid-term election …
Republicans retain control of House and Senate. (28%, 11 Votes)
I have no idea. (23%, 9 Votes)
The election is postponed. (18%, 7 Votes)
Republicans gain two or more seats in the House (currently 218) and one or more in the Senate (currently 53). (13%, 5 Votes)
Democrats gain control of House and Senate. (13%, 5 Votes)
Democrats gain control of the House. (8%, 3 Votes)
Democrats gain control of the Senate. (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 40
Maybe that clip was real
After Brutal Hannity Interview, Katie Zacharia Sets Record For Fastest-Fired Trump Official
At least it’s not as bad as the Nasdaq
Usually we are much worse, hoping that is a change that sticks. If so, then we can’t be too far away from a move up. I think. 🤔