Were you on the gold-eagle site before goldtentoasis existed?
Total Voters: 47
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Yep it is changing and some of that oil buying is going to move to the US in US dinero. Heads up Texas and Alaska.
+5
I sold it, I made $168. I’ll watch it and if it starts going back up I’ll buy it back.
The Strait of Hormuz May Reopen, But the System Has Already Broken
they both are very over extended,,,as is the the Mkt….so trading against the move looks tempting…..but when you read Aufevers post about how strong the real economy is, I would not fight the economy……
Has any economy ever had so many smart self made people running it, as opposed to amateur fools, which most countries get…..
Semi long, https://schrts.co/DTsjHyNx
Semi short, https://schrts.co/HqXpakxz
What would you do?
To me the long looks like momentum like when Gold hit $5500
Don’t forget the double/triple ETF’s don’t give you overnight gaps…only what is made that day…so if a stock closes at 10, opens next day at 15 and closes at 20, you only get 5 pts not 10 !!!!!
Out of a list of about 68 of them, only a few of them are up today. Friday I bought 200 shares of the short times three semi etf, SOXS, and its up 6.21% now. I’m wondering if I should sell it or double up on the shares.
You need to click on the percent change t top to get them in order.
re: AFD They can’t take over soon enough! Will it be too late?
Yeah I agree. Big pharma must hate Trump, he’s cutting into their profits. RFKjr is a breath of fresh air. Many of the vaccines are totally worthless if not harmful.
No autism amongst the Amish who don’t take any!
Many is his base feel betrayed by Trump admin rulings that allow Glyphosate to still be sprayed on crops.
MAHA Advocates To Converge In Washington For ‘People Vs. Poison’ Rally
Re Mertz
He’s such a winner…the AfD will eat his lunch.
Talking of Trump hate…I wonder if it is not being stirred by Big Pharma, as well…Trump put in RFK Jr and he is making their life hell, to the extent they will never recover…Big Pharma is the largest advertiser in the US MSM, so can pull v big strings……that is of course along with the Dems etc…..but the criticism is relentless, even when he is doing something that no person should object to, like stopping Child Trafficking.
re yr 19.57,,,,my tks …that explains why the SM has been moon shooting…mny, mny tks.
Germany’s Merz Says US ‘Humiliated’ By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration’s Iran war gambit. There’s been plenty of criticism out of Europe since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28, but Merz’s Monday words are especially direct and scathing.
He proclaimed that Iran’s leadership was embarrassing the US, claiming it was prompting US officials to travel to Pakistan and then return without achieving any outcome. “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,” he said.
The top German official made the remarks before students in the town of Marsberg. His sharpest attack came in the following: “An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible.”
I’m gonna have to save for a while … 🙂
… maybe I could buy an NFT of one. LOL
No need to bother; I didn’t mean add it literally. “Mental” is good enough 🙂
Sounds good! I’m out pricing Porsches. 🙂
They have just announced a soft top GT 3……a mere $ 273,000….they say it has $ 40,000 of what would normally be extra’s, so it is relatively cheap….gulp !!!!!
Don’t you love the way the news media pretends it can’t figure out the motive of Cole Tomas Allen, who tried to shoot-up Saturday’s White House correspondents’ gala. He was a creation of the very White House correspondents who ducked under their tables at the sound of his shots. Cole Tomas Allen had digested and internalized the “narrative” spewage of the Democratic Party’s propaganda department. MSNOW occupied his brain like a glistening parasite.
Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamath
The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax.
The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don’t believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure.
Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will.
The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn’t look closely at what it actually does to you.
On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.
They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.
Here’s how the tax would work: As a voter, you’re being asked to approve a tax that would require you to:
1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board.
2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each.
3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion.
4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing.
This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself.
If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages.
It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.
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.
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.
Add a “yes”–since 2003, if I remember right.
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
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.
