Autumn Steam
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/894208/

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/2026-02/annual-survey-of-mining-companies-2025-newsrelease-intl.pdf?blm_aid=153865218

some classify brass and lead as precious metals.

SWBI is my only non precious metal stock, I bought it back in 2021 and finally today I see  a 17% break out. I guess they had a good profit report. S&W is sort of gold related, I’ve heard the phrase Guns and Gold. lol

That pricing job sounded like a lot of work. Back to the point though, more jobs will be replaced will come.

I get what you say about the entertainment sector and layers of jobs that should have to be there including tax dependent , but at the same time like in acting it cannot replace the personality or add libs, of real actors or writers. Both writers and comedians are now censored so they won’t offend somebody or to suppress some truth they don’t want getting out. But yet they can offend even more  themselves with what they put out, like a man dressed in drag on a beer can. I can see it now a AL painting sitting next to a Rembrandt. Robot police officers and dogs scanning your digital ID.  Life focused on antisocial isolation and extremely boring.

If I was to buy his stuff I would definitely have his silver checked to be sure of the quality and authenticity of what you are buying. It might look like silver….and it might shine like silver…but does it analyze like silver?????  Does he only sell retail  because his stuff won’t pass the “999” silver test? Just saying fwiw! DYODD! SNG

These shares can’t seem to get moving. OTOH higher energy prices will take a bite out of earnings, so I guess now we need $10k gold.

KOW

… is quickly getting ready for your orders …

… local sound money barter systems offer alternatives to the insanity of increasingly corrupt and coercive fiat regimes … they are the wave of the future … all aboard.

Mornin all

Try imagining a peaceful Iran not bent on exporting Jihad (just like you might imagine a peaceful Ukraine, not making itself a problem for the rest of the world). Forgive the cliché, but Iran (a.k.a. Persia), is an old and durable culture, with a highly educated population, one of the world’s largest oil-and-gas reserves, and plenty of other resources. Iran could be somebody. It doesn’t have to be a bum with a one-way ticket to Palookaville.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-rockets-red-glare

OSINTdefender
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Several large fires are currently burning at the primary refinery for the Bahrain Petroleum Company in Ma’ameer, following a short-range ballistic missile attack against the facility and other nearby infrastructure by Iran.

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2029586536497283311

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tehran-rocked-heaviest-bombardment-yet-iranian-missiles-israel-slow-pezeshkian-says

up 13 % on the day and going…

Shares not so much yet. Jobs report noise?

despite the machinations of the criminals here in the U.S. holding their fix prices right around $96.

I’m hoping those banks took delivery here in the U.S. because this is a bottom of sorts. Unfortunately, the dollar keeps ripping ahead.

Dollar strengthened on us. Oil did too. They wasted no time jacking up the price of gasoline around these parts.

maddog – I must say. The GOP has done enough damage to themselves for the midterms, they don’t need any help.

PM shares look sick in the premarket. I guess the rally is over for a while.

Maybe it’s time to buy some leveraged short shares across all sectors except oil.

He doesn’t owe Trump any favours. He was doing much better under the autopen.

Is it getting complicated or what?

That article about Putin has a bit that says, two major pipelines are about to be blown up….which means the lunatics behind the Ukraine war, are looking to exacerbate the situation in the Oil mkt, to drive prices higher, to hurt the GoP in the mid Terms……..and generally cause mayhem.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-vulnerable-energy-crisis-putin-says-russia-may-pull-plug-gas-supplies-europe

When will the drongos in Europe realise that they have no sway over Russia? As Putin said, Russia was a very reliable supplier. He doesn’t owe them any favours.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/major-win-putin-us-grants-russia-license-sell-oil-india-while-strait-hormuz-blocked

Maybe it is a longer term problem.

which is all about fakery is now upsetting folk because it is now faking the actors and actresses. Even though it has been the case since the first voiceover 98 years ago with Steamboat Willie. From cartoons, to single shot animation, voiceovers, multiple exposures, color tintings, through to SFX and today’s CGI, it’s been a steady journey of change and replacement. From once a week at the cinema to everything on demand anywhere anytime it’s been a journey of the impossible being continually delivered. AI generated characters (think of Gollum as maybe the first) are just another piece.

I saw the piece on the lawyers in NYC. Nearly died laughing. Sooner the better – actually, it’s too late. SLMs are already delivering for lawyers and NYC would become the laughing stock of the world (imagine the lawsuits!!) if they tried to go it alone. But your 21:34 article is based on a false premise, that these white colloar workers actually contribute anything. They don’t. They are leeches on the system, by and large mandated by governments to ‘protect’ investors, whose functions are now being eliminated in the same fashion as lower class white collar workers were eliminated in far greater numbers in the seventies, eighties and nineties. I used to work for a retailer, where we processed 44,000 invoices a week. Manually entered into the IBM 38. Staff used to put individual price labels on every tin and packet in the shops, which were then eyeballed and punched in to the cash register. Now an invoice never becomes paper, prices are all barcoded, we are our own check-out chicks and millions of jobs worldwide are gone. The accountants’ and lawyers’ numbers will be insignicant by comparison.

Have you seen those short clips about a minute on YouTube. There already making AI and will make it harder to tell the difference. Some you can right away because although it looks real it’s not realistic.  I wonder if that will eventually affect the movie star industry.

Outsourcing factories was systematically eliminating jobs then insourcing was eliminating American jobs and unions to keep wages down but not necessarily better.

Then things moved from manufacturing to service related jobs and now they’re going after those jobs too. Those are only some of the jobs they already eliminated. Much more to come. Taxis, Uber, restaurants but personally I wouldn’t want to have a robot replace a human in either driving or a restaurant. Many more jobs to come just so a few can make more money. Even lawyers are working to get laws on the books that AI can not replace legal counsel in multi aspects of law.

From the Alaska shore at Skagway,
Up the mountains at White Pass,
This rail line was built to access
The Yukon gold fields.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/893787/