Gold has nearly doubled in two years. Silver has outpaced it. For the commodity that backed money for most of human history and that central banks still treat as the final settlement asset, these moves should represent a clean signal about physical scarcity and monetary demand. Western gold prices no longer carry that information cleanly.
The primary reason given for the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran was that Iran would not give up its nuclear program, which it claimed was for peaceful purposes only. The US and Israel viewed this claim as merely a cover story for producing a nuclear weapon to be used as a first strike on Israel and perhaps the US itself. I posit that, even if we accept the US-Israeli position as true, there was no reason to attack Iran anyway.
April marks the time when the guns of war began to fall silent across the South in 1865, after four years of war. On April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. General Nathan Bedford Forrest stood down his cavalry on May 9. By June 23, General Stand Watie had surrendered the last of the Confederate soldiers still fighting, the First Indian Brigade which included his own Cherokee Braves.
In January of 1917, V.I. Lenin was disappointed. He was living in exile in Zurich, having failed to bring about a communist revolution in Russia in the wake of the Russian revolution of 1905. Yet, being a committed revolutionary, he refused to declare defeat.
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.”
—Murray N. Rothbard
The 2026 NFL draft was held in Pittsburgh, which was the first time in the city since 1946. This year’s draft also broke attendance records with north of 800,000 people attending the final day.
In 2022, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines announced an agreement to an acquisition of Spirit by JetBlue in a $3.8 billion transaction, mostly involving an exchange of stock. The acquisition would have catapulted JetBlue from a distant #5 in the airline industry (behind United, American, Delta and Southwest) to a near rival, perhaps expanding the Big 4 to a Big 5.
Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature. The fact that the private sector did not undertake these projects indicates that these projects were not demanded or prioritized by consumers. For example, if the government decides to build a pyramid, it is evident that most people regard this as a low or non-existent priority.
DOJ prosecutor Gaston replied: “I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting [habited nuns].”
