Loading ...I told my sister in law to tell the children when anyone ask them what they want to be when they grow up tell them to say a brain surgeon because everyone is nuts.
amals
I don’t know how to do that, or if it’s possible.
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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8h
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
Ferrett
The military government or the governments military.. or militia’s.. or gangs in some places. Just makes it more risky to invest in those countries. I feel bad for the innocent men trying to make a living especially when that’s their key or only asset, work. Like so many across the world.
Now because all the indecision and non permanence and perhaps interference with the Strait it’s going to cause permanent changes in trade and loss of the number of ships going through.
re: financing
Muslims with money ie the oil exporters.
Christians in some African countries are under attack.
Yep, the military government is so corrupt
that despite having stolen half of every gold mine in the country, and the whole of many other assets, they can’t defend their ill gotten gains with the help of the Russians. Sums up Africa in a nutshell. I mean, look at the town in the X video. What is there worth fighting for?
But yes, who is financing the insurgents? China, via Neville? CIA? Probably not Iran.
Check this convoy. The rebels seem well financed.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Convoy of jihadist militants with Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) seen moving south through the town of Kati just to the northwest of Mali’s capital Bamako, with small clashes reportedly taking place against elements of the Malian Army and Russia’s Africa Corps.
Russian mercenaries fighting the Jihadis
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🇲🇱 Mali’s government is losing its grip.
Rebel groups (FLA) and Al-Qaeda-linked militants (JNIM) have teamed up to retake Kidal, a major northern city. They kicked out the Malian army and their Russian mercenaries (Africa Corps), even tearing down their flags.
More shockingly, fighting has reached Kati, a military hub just 15 kilometres away from the capital city, Bamako.
If Kati falls, the entire government could collapse.
Source: BBC
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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🚨🇲🇱 TERRORIST ATTACK KILLS MALI’S PRESIDENCY SECRETARY-GENERAL
He was reportedly killed when his convoy was ambushed near Kerela, around 140 km from the capital, Bamako.
While it’s not yet clear who carried out the attack, the prime suspects are groups linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS that have expanded operations in rural areas, while the government struggles to maintain control outside major cities.
The attack comes as Mali remains deeply unstable, following a 2021 coup that brought a military junta to power and severed the country’s ties with France and UN peacekeepers.
Ferrett
Right, I wasn’t going to buy over 70s, leave it for the newbies but this drop prompted me to buy a little more. I picked up some engelhards.
deer79, 8:57, and so it has been for decades.
Maybe even centuries. Or millenia; the first derivative contracts date to the first century BC.
But they can’t stop fundamentals. The debt. The deficit. That’s why gold is up over 40% in the last year, and 160% in five years, paused only by a war in the Middle East from a guy who promised no more wars, no more income tax, no more deficit and paying down the debt. When the smoke of war clears and people realise that it has only caused the debt and deficit to increase even more quickly, PMs will continue where they left off.
Looks like the typical garbage close
They’ve got 13 minutes to take the rest of the gains out of SLV – they’ve already taken half.
NEM keeping the HUI close to 800, otherwise the gains would be miniscule.
What a crap show.
Mr. Copper, Maddog
Mr. Copper – probably right about all that. No one seems to want them going into earnings. OTOH, I wonder if NEM would be up much if the metals were down today? Good for them though, I’m glad they were able to pull off some solid earnings. Good luck with the SOX trade, it’s odd to see a breakout in tech right now.
Maddog – They are both evil demons. Hillary is evil beyond measure though. There have been leaks about some of the stuff coming out from Anthony Weiners laptop of several years ago. Apparently there is a video labeled as “insurance” that shows Hillary and Huma Abedin filleting the face of a young girl. I guess some of the videos were so bad career FBI agents and NYC police officers were vomiting after seeing the contents. When I say “demons”, I MEAN LITERAL DEMONS. This info came from a Republican representative from Colorado, Lauren Bobert who is demanding to get a hold of the laptop, as are others.
You think to yourself, how are they not arrested and put away somewhere? The evil that permeates highest levels of government is much more powerful than just human. Bloodlines of real power go way back, thousands of years. Secret societies worship and receive real power from “the powers and principalities of the air” that Paul talks about in the Bible. IMHO, the world is very close to understanding just how real all this stuff really is.
There’s a massive war going on in the dimensions outside our own and it is starting to spill into our 3.5 dimensions.