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It’ll have to be a mental addition. 🙂
I guess I could just edit my post.
I missed the poll..
Add a “yes”–since 2003, if I remember right.
Poll Results ………………… Lots of Gold Eagle Alumni
Were you on the gold-eagle site before goldtentoasis existed?
Yes (68%, 33 Votes)
I lurked there (19%, 9 Votes)
I don’t remember because I’m too old (9%, 4 Votes)
No (4%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 48
This is what a productive economy looks like
Saturday Class – It’s Being Built, Baby, Built! – April 25, 2026
Brian Lantz takes you on the factory floor of the American economy: durable goods +8.2%, manufacturing construction +20.2%, machine tool orders +22.5%, the U.S. now the world’s third-largest steel producer. It’s being built, baby, built.
The S&P Global Manufacturing PMI hit 52.3 in March — the eighth consecutive month of growth.
The tariffs are working — and they aren’t going away
Between Liberation Day on April 2, 2025 and February 2026, the U.S. goods trade deficit fell 24%. The deficit with China is down 32%. With the European Union, it’s down nearly 40%. Tariffs have generated a 4.9% increase in federal receipts.
And they aren’t going away. People get nagged about this — your neighbor gets nagged about this. The Section 232 tariffs (1962 Trade Expansion Act) on steel, copper, and aluminum, the Section 301 and 122 tariffs (1974 Trade Act), and now the expansion of 232 to derivative products — products that contain steel, copper, or aluminum content — replace the IEEPA-based tariffs the Supreme Court overturned. Tariffs have been a feature of the American System since Hamilton and Washington. They’re continuing.
The result on the ground:
The United States is now the third-largest steel-producing nation in the world — we just passed Japan.
4 million tons of new crude steel-making capacity is expected to come online in the next two years across West Virginia, Arkansas, and South Carolina.
Century Aluminum, in joint venture with Emirates Global Aluminum, is building the first new U.S. aluminum smelter in decades — in Oklahoma.
Highland Copper, Ivanhoe Electric, Rio Tinto, and Wayland are expanding copper mining, smelting, and fabrication.
Machine tools, robotics, and physical AI
Machine tools — the machines that make the machines — are the heartbeat of any real industrial economy. Machine tool orders were up 22.5% in 2025. January 2026 orders ran 24.4% above the prior year. Cutting tools — drills, milling cutters, carbide-tipped inserts that get consumed by the machine tools as they work — are up 11.3% so far in 2026. That is a real-time gauge of physical production, and it is climbing.
On top of that, the Trump administration’s Genesis Mission — launched by executive order in November 2025 and led by the Department of Energy — is driving the merger of advanced CNC machine tools, robotics, and AI on the factory floor. Brian calls this physical AI: fenced-in, application-specific, machinist-supervised — AI as a tool of human creativity, not its replacement. Lyndon LaRouche made the machine-tool principle the center of his economic theory; the Trump administration is now building the policy and capital to deploy it at scale.
Where the workforce comes from
The single most important question for an industrial economy is: where do the skilled workers come from? National Apprenticeship Week runs April 26 – May 2. It is one piece of a much larger reality:
Enrollment in vocational two-year community college programs is up 11.7% since spring 2024. Trade-focused institutions are up nearly 20% since spring 2020.
The number of 18- to 20-year-olds earning associate degrees has jumped 50% — many of them with certificates in the trades.
The U.S. armed services — meeting recruitment quotas in record time — train enlisted men and women in the trades, mechanics, nursing, and the technical skills our industrial economy needs.
Energy unleashed — and the nuclear renaissance
Last week the White House issued five Presidential Determinations directing the Department of Energy, under the Defense Production Act of 1950, to deploy every tool the federal government has to expand oil, natural gas, coal, and large-scale energy projects. The National Energy Dominance Council — chaired by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright — will run the operation.
On nuclear, the dam has broken:
On April 14, the White House established the National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power — reactors in orbit by 2028, on the Moon by 2030.
The Air Force has selected Buckley AFB (Colorado) and Malmstrom AFB (Montana) for its first base micro-reactors.
New Jersey lifted its de facto nuclear moratorium on April 8.
California’s Diablo Canyon received a 20-year operational extension from the NRC on April 2.
Michigan’s Palisades plant is moving toward restart.
In Tennessee, Oak Ridge and the Tennessee Valley Authority are pushing forward — Kairos Power broke ground on April 17, and GE-Hitachi’s BWRX-300 is being built at the Clinch River site.
On March 31, all six New England governors — Republican and Democrat — issued a joint statement calling for a regional energy strategy built on nuclear power and advanced nuclear technologies. They don’t want to be an energy island. Reality is sinking in.
Maddog
Sounds good! I’m out pricing Porsches. 🙂
ipsofacto
Re yr 17.03.Free cash Flow….I presume that assumes prices stay around here……which means if we double or quadruple, those numbers go crazy.
At first glance,
Chelsea Clinton, Hunter Biden, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson.
Would you be on the list if you were a complete nobody? That would explain the omission of Keir Starmer, Manny Macron, Zero Zelenskyiyiiyyy etc.
Who’s not on there
illuminatibot
@iluminatibot
Here’s Jeffrey Epstein’s Island visitors that was confirmed on #EpsteinFlightLogs #EpsteinClientList
Adam Perry Lang
Akon
Al Gore
Alan Dershowitz
Albert Pinto
Alee Baldwin
Allison Mack
Alyssa Rogers
Anderson Cooper
Andrea Mitrovich
Andres Pastrana
Angelina Jolie
Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Weiner
Barack Obama
Ben Affleck
Bernie Sanders
Beyoncé
Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Bob Saget (deceased)
Bruce Willis
Casey Wasserman
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Celine Dion
Charles Barkley
Charlie Sheen
Charlize Theron
Chelsea Handler
Cher
Chris Tucker
Chris Wagner
Chrissy Teigen
Cyndi Lauper
Claire Hazel
Courteney Cox
Courtney Love
Demi Moore
Dan Schneider
David Koch
David Spade
David Yarovesky
Dolores Zorreguieta
Donovan Mitchell
Doug Band
Drew Barrymore
Ed Buck
Ed Tuttle
Ehud Barak
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Spencer
Eminem
Emmy Tayler
Fleur Perry Lang
Francis X. Suarez
Freya Wissing
Gary Roxburgh (pilot)
George Clooney
Ghislaine Maxwell
Glenn Dubin
Greg Holbert (deceased)
Gwen Stefani
Gwendolyn Beck
Hank Coller (pilot)
Heather Mann
Heidi Klum
Henry Rosovsky
Hillary Clinton
James Franco
James Gunn
Jay-Z
Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased)
Jean-Michel Gathy
Jeffrey Jones (deceased)
Jim Carrey
Jimmy Kimmel
Joe Biden
Joe Pagano
John Cusack
John Legend
John Podesta
John Travolta
Joy Behar
Juan Pablo Molyneux
Juliette Bryant
Justin Roiland
Justin Trudeau
Kathy Griffin
Katy Perry
Kelly Spam
Kevin Spacey
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kristy Rogers (deceased)
Lady Gaga
Larry Summers
Larry Visoski (pilot)
Laura Z. Wasserman
Lawrence M. Krauss
Linda Pinto
Lisa Summers
Lynn Forester de Rothchild
Madonna
Mandy Ellison (assistant)
Mare Collins-Rector
Marina Abramovit
Mark Epstein
Mark Lloyd
Melinda Luntz
Meryl Streep
Michelle Obama
Michelle Wolf
Mikel Arteta
Miley Cyrus
Nadine Dorries
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Watts
Natalie Blachon de Perrier
Nicole Junkermann
Olga Kurylenko
Oliver Sacks
Oprah
Orlando Bloom
Paris Hilton
Patton Oswatt
Paul Mellon
Paula Epstein (deceased)
Paula Hala
Peter P. Marino
Pharrell Williams
Prince Andrew
Prince Charles
Quentin Tarantino
Rachel Maddow
Rainn Wilson
Ralph Ellison
Ray Barzana (pilot)
Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
Rihanna
Rita Wilson
Rob Reiner
Robert DeNiro
Robert Downey Jr.
Rodney E. Slater
Ronald Burkle
Rudy Gobert
Sander Burger
Sarah Kellen (assistant)
Sarah Silverman
Seth Green
Shelley Harrison
Shelley Lewis
Sophie Biddle-Hakim
Sophie Trudeau
Stephen Collins
Stephen Colbert
Steven Spielberg
Steven Tyler
Svetlana Glazunova
Teala Davies
Tiffany Gramza
Tom Hanks
Tom Pritzker
Tyler Grasham (deceased)
Victor Salva
Wanda Sykes
Whoopi Goldberg
Nattokinase ……………………. We’ve been taking 4000 fu, I think we’re going to up the dose.
healthbot
@thehealthb0t
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Why hasn’t nattokinase replaced statins?
Joe Rogan discussed a study where 1,062 people took it for a year.
Ultrasound showed their arterial plaque shrank 36%.
This enzyme stops new blockages and reverses existing plaque.
Why not mainstream yet?
Sweet! Now let’s see it reflected in the share prices.
Oliver Groß
@minenergybiz
Gold Stocks: The giant explosion in free cash flow for gold miners is without precedent. Nice chart from RBC
Buygold
I am coming to the conclusion that the joint is run by Compromat …which is why they hate Trump so bad. he doesn’t have any worth talking about….same in UK we have a new party…Restore Britain run by Rupert Lowe and the establishment hate, hate , hate him….never a mention in the MSM etc and again self made with no real Compromat.
Morning Maddog
Most people can’t even grasp the kind of evil that is so pervasive among the Epstein type elites. Scarier still is the heads of state and most governments are full of them at the highest levels. They are not like us, they have no empathy.
Hell is a very real place, whether we want to believe it or not.
Buygold
Re yr 15:45
Wow…I read she was bad…..but that has shocked me ……Now I understand where yr coming from with that kind of info….!!!!
Cheers