🚨 De-dollarisation: Central banks are piling into gold like... never before More central banks plan to cut their dollar allocations over the next decade than increase them, an OMFIF survey shows. Separate World Gold Council findings: 🔸 74% of central banks expect the dollar’s share of global reserves to fall over the next 5 years. 🔸 89% expect global central bank gold holdings to rise in the next 12 months. 🔸 A record 45% plan to increase their own gold reserves. They’ve already been hoovering up ~1,000 tonnes a year for the past four years — double the previous decade’s pace.show more

Our 2025 Thematic Mid-Year update explores how monetary alternatives... including gold are increasingly being used as reserves among central banks. At the same time, a growing number of investors may be looking to bitcoin to serve as a diversifier, as evidenced by IBIT surpassing $85b in assets under management in July after less than two years on the market. Learn more here:show more

🚨 HOLY SH*T, CHINA IS BUILDING A GOLD-BACKED FINANCIAL... SYSTEM And almost nobody understands how BIG this could become. China is pushing to internationalize the yuan through GOLD, new payment infrastructure, and alternatives to the U.S. dollar. Hong Kong’s government-backed gold clearing system began trial operations in July 2026, linked to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Bloomberg Research also reports that China is developing a global network of gold vaults that could strengthen the yuan’s role in global finance. At the same time, China is building blockchain-based payment infrastructure with BRICS countries designed to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar. And GOLD is at the center of everything. China has now bought gold for 20 consecutive months. In July, the UK, China, Japan, South Korea, and India all reduced their U.S. Treasury holdings while increasing exposure to gold. South Korea is buying gold again for the first time in 13 YEARS. Gold has now overtaken U.S. Treasuries as a more important reserve asset. Even Venezuela is moving its $4 BILLION, 31-ton gold reserves out of London after 8 years. The bigger picture is becoming impossible to ignore: GOLD → MORE U.S. TREASURIES → LESS DOLLAR DEPENDENCE → LESS China isn’t just buying gold. IT’S BUILDING AN ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AROUND IT. And if other countries follow, the pressure on the U.S. dollar could become much bigger than anyone expects. China is moving toward gold. WHO’S NEXT? 👀show more

🚨 CHINA WILL PUMP GOLD PRICE TO $38,000 PER... OUNCE COMEX, where the world's gold price gets set, is 100:1 paper to physical. For every ounce of actual gold, there are 100 ounces of paper claims trading against it. Less than 5% of COMEX contracts ever result in real delivery. The rest is speculation settled in cash. Nobody touches the metal. In January 2026, gold crashed 12% in hours. From $5,595 to $4,941. That crash happened entirely on paper. While COMEX was collapsing, physical gold in Shanghai traded at a $50-80 premium above the "official" price. Same asset. Two different prices. Because one market trades gold, and the other trades promises about gold. Now China is done playing that game. The Shanghai Gold Exchange requires actual physical delivery. No cash settlement. No paper games. China imports over 1,000 tonnes of gold a year. Largest gold buyer on earth. Every gram that enters the country goes through this exchange. The People's Bank of China has been stacking gold every single month, pushing reserves past 2,300 tonnes. The message is simple. The West trades gold like a casino chip. 100 paper claims for every real ounce. China is building an exchange where the price is set by people who actually hold the metal. If physical demand ever forces a real delivery squeeze, the paper price and the real price stop being the same number. And the exchange that has the actual gold decides what happens next.show more

China's central bank has now bought gold for 19... months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is. Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished. Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it. That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else. The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control. Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency. The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.show more

🐸 as the members head to the military, it’s... time to focus on more unit and solo works for the next two years. as an artist who would to perform for a long time. i have to find my own musical color during this period — it’s been 1 year and 2 months since seventeen entered their mandatory military service period, and those are exactly what they’ve been focused on over the past year (and will continue) 🥺 exploring units and solos.. HWAITINGGG!!show more

It's a snowy morning at the airport, with the... forecast calling for up to 10 cm of snow, mainly falling over the next few hours before tapering off to light flurries this afternoon. Our crews at the Airfield Maintenance Facility are ready to plow runways, taxiways and apron areas to keep them safe for operations, while teams at the Central Deicing Facility are gearing up to deice aircraft. It’s expected to be a busy morning, with all departing flights heading to the facility for a spray before takeoff. A traffic management initiative is in place to help regulate the flow of departing aircraft. Travellers are encouraged to check their flight status before coming to the airport.show more

I told everyone Elizabeth Warren was 100% in bed... with the Banks when I debated her with Jon Keller as moderator. She refused to ask Jamie Dimon a single question about his bank J.P. Morgan financing Epstein - the largest child-sex trafficking operation in American history. As for crypto, of course there are lots of junk projects and scams within the industry - that’s why we needed sensible regulations. ATM machines have been used for bad things like drug buys - but we don’t ban the technology. In fact, the banks are the biggest crooks in the world. JPMorgan Chase has been fined over $40B dollars for illicit activity NOT including Epstein. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc., all have engaged in criminal enterprises, including money laundering for some of the worst bad guys on the planet. Unlike the banks, Stablecoins require 100% reserves - which is far more safe than the fractional banking system Warren and Ed Markey love to protect. When Warren says that the economy will crash does she mean similar to the way the banks caused the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 and then people like her and Ed Markey supported bailing those same banks out with taxpayer dollars? Warren is a fraud. Ed Markey is a puppet. I look forward to seeing Markey on the debate stage next. #mapoli #MASen #Deatonshow more

Ray Dalio is right about one thing: Bitcoin forces... you to think harder. But zoom out. 1) “Bitcoin has no privacy.” Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. That’s by design. Transparency is what makes it auditable, trust-minimized, and globally verifiable. Privacy isn’t binary — it’s a spectrum. Second-layer solutions like Lightning Network improve transactional privacy, and self-custody + best practices eliminate counterparty surveillance. If your definition of “privacy” is “opaque like the banking system,” then yes — Bitcoin is different. It replaces institutional secrecy with mathematical transparency. 2) “Central banks don’t want to buy Bitcoin.” Correct. Central banks also didn’t want the internet, stablecoins, or gold leaving their vaults. Bitcoin isn’t competing for central bank approval. It’s competing as neutral collateral in a world of weaponized fiat. When sovereign debt hits structural limits, assets without counterparty risk win. That’s why individuals, institutions, ETFs, and even nation-states accumulate it — regardless of central bank preferences. 3) “Quantum computing issues.” If quantum breaks Bitcoin’s cryptography, it breaks the entire global financial system first — SWIFT, online banking, military communications. Bitcoin can upgrade via consensus long before that scenario materializes. Cryptography evolves. That’s not a flaw; that’s software. 4) “Relatively small and controlled market.” Every monetization process starts small. Gold was once a niche commodity. The internet was once “small and controlled.” Bitcoin’s market cap reflects 15 years of monetization — with no CEO, no marketing budget, and no state backing. And “controlled”? Try censoring a decentralized network running across tens of thousands of nodes worldwide. Dalio views Bitcoin through a macro-hedge lens. But Bitcoin isn’t just an asset. It’s: •Programmatic scarcity (21M hard cap) •Final settlement without intermediaries •Borderless value transfer •A hedge against monetary debasement The real question isn’t whether central banks want Bitcoin. It’s whether individuals want money that can’t be inflated, frozen, or diluted. History suggests they do.show more

The ongoing record-breaking heat wave in the West will... continue while expanding across the Central U.S. through the weekend. Based on preliminary data, there have been around 50 March high temperature records broken since March 17 and more than 150 daily high temperature records broken. Record setting temperatures are expected to continue over the next several days. Most areas will see temperature departures of 25 to 35 degrees higher than normal for this time of year. However, some locations in the central Plains on Saturday could see departures exceed 40 degrees from normal! Overnight low temperatures will also be well above average, providing little relief from the heat. The early time of year, prolonged nature of this heat wave, and limited seasonal acclimation will increase the risk of heat impacts especially among sensitive populations or those without effective cooling. Adjust plans to limit strenuous outdoor activities to early morning hours, drink plenty of fluids, and seek air conditioned spaces. For more heat safety tips visit:show more

The BIS, Bundesbank, HKMA, and commercial banks across three... continents have been building #tokenisation infrastructure on separate tracks, and their published work points to the same three-layer architecture for #digitalmoney. 1. Central bank money at the base for settlement finality 2. Tokenised deposits in the middle for programmable commercial payments 3. Public blockchain and stablecoins at the top for liquidity and market access 4. Underpinning all three is a horizontal #interoperability layer that makes them work as a coherent system rather than three separate silos. We've mapped that convergence into a framework for any bank building tokenisation infrastructure this year, covering what each layer does, where the industry stands on deployment, and what to prioritise before committing capital to any single component. #TokenisedDeposits #Stablecoinsshow more

🌍 Big Names. Bigger Vision. The Kima Story. From... central banks to global tech giants, Kima’s journey is powered by some of the most influential names in finance and technology, all united by one mission: making money move freely, securely, and compliantly across ecosystems. Here’s who’s shaping the future with us 👇 🏦 European Central Bank (ECB): Recognized by the ECB as a Pioneer in the Digital Euro Innovation Platform, where Kima showcased programmable public finance and conditional payments for real-world impact. 💰Commercial Bank International (CBI), Dubai: Partnering with Kima to power next-gen cross-border remittances from the UAE to major corridors like India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, fast, compliant, and cost-efficient. 💶 Bank of Israel: Selected participant in the Digital Shekel Challenge, building innovative use cases for national digital currency integration. ☁️ Alibaba Cloud: Providing enterprise-grade infrastructure to run global Kima nodes, ensuring speed, reliability, and compliance at scale. 💳 Mastercard: Collaborating through sandbox pilots to enable real-time stablecoin top-ups, bridging traditional banking and blockchain rails. 🔗 Kima Network is the universal settlement layer making all this possible: connecting banks, blockchains, and digital assets in one interoperable system. Kima is the settlement backbone connecting banks, blockchains, and digital assets, where TradFi meets DeFi, for real. 🚀show more

Nick Fuentes is a FED. This is Federal Agent... behavior! Anyone who has at least dipped their feet into the water in American history knows that before the Federal Reserve’s inception Rich elites devised a plan to create a central bank which would strip the wealth of the American people to enrich the political class and elites. Look what fiat money has gotten us in 56 short years. We get 2 cents today on the old dollar, we have never ending wars, we have the destruction of the middle class and small businesses, we have political lobbies and MEGA DONORS who have access to the money supply, we have trillions of dollars in debt, and we have central planners who are planning on pushing us towards a one world government. This system was designed to enslave us. Anyone with a big platform in politics that is for such a system is an operative. Nick is too intelligent to not know the harm this economic system does to our country!show more

🚨🇵🇰 Gwadar's transit hub vision gains altitude with second... airline South Air has just completed its first test flight to New Gwadar International Airport, becoming the second airline (after PIA) to serve the new hub. What does this mean for Gwadar Port – and what are the next logical steps? Basim Raza, Assistant Director at NUST Institute of Policy Studies, explains: 🔸 Delays explained: The main reasons behind the slow operationalization are the security situation in Balochistan and Gwadar's small population density, which does not yet generate enough passenger or cargo traffic. 🔸 Port impact: New flights will not directly increase cargo throughput, but they can help indirectly – by facilitating business travel and investor visits. 🔸 Central Asia reality check: Gwadar's long-term value for landlocked Central Asian countries depends on efficient road and rail corridors (via China or Afghanistan) – not on air links. "Ultimately Pakistan's ability to position Gwadar as a gateway to Central Asia will depend less on air links and more on secure transport corridors, efficient customs procedures, reliable road and rail infrastructure and most importantly a stable and peaceful political environment in Balochistan," Raza said.show more

🚩Indians are sharing an extract of Modhi’s speech in... Auckland yesterday where he announces that the NZ - India agreement includes connecting UPI while Luxon the stammering piglet looks on lovingly. The UPI (Unified Payments Interface) is an instant, real-time payment system developed by India for the diaspora to use to transfer funds directly between bank accounts using a UPI ID (linked to Indias Digital ID system called Aadhaaar) This will also allow remittances to increase, which hit $ US 135 billion world wide last year. Indian remittances from NZ is currently 0.25% of our GDP, this will accelerate quickly with more indians coming to NZ. Remember according to our own treasury report, this garbage FTA is only expected to increase our GDP by 0.7% …. and - AFTER 15 - 20 years ! Over the last decade India has assiduously worked to develop international payment gateways, and Modhi has made no secret of his ambition for India to be the architect of a global money network. Read the attached post for more detail on UPI’s and also the clause in the NZ- India FTA where Te Gimp has negotiated a joint venture with India to develop CBDC… yes the most corrupt nation on earth will design our dystopian Central Bank Digital Currency.show more

BREAKING NEWS: Accused NDIS fraudster Marcia De Menezes just... REFUSED to apologise to the family of the 16 year old autistic child who died under her care. Southport Coroner’s Court heard evidence yesterday that Marcia’s business essentially held Quinn Cook hostage, denying him access to a phone or access to a family - all while Marcia drained his NDIS plan. He had threatened suicide for months but Marcia continued to hold him in the 6th floor of a Gold Coast high rise tower, boarding up the windows and telling staff to contact her before ever calling 000 in the event of an emergency. She continues to run her NDIS business three years after the death. Watch our full expose on Marcia’s fraudulent business here:show more

There are four World Central Kitchen warehouses in Jordan... filled with food for the people of Gaza….rice, oil, flour, vegetables…over 100 trucks loaded and ready to arrive to the border crossing in less than an hour. We have hundreds more trucks ready to bring cooking supplies and more food, but still the government of Israel is not permitting us to enter with aid. We have been cooking and feeding in Gaza at a huge scale for more than 19 months. More than 130 million meals! For months, Israel has not allowed any aid to enter…we have been forced to shut down of our community kitchens and bakeries. We have no food left…but we are ready at any moment to start cooking again. Many innocent families are desperate to eat. Let us feed the people of Gaza!show more

🇨🇳 China once dominated India's toy market. Today, 🇮🇳... India is emerging as a global toy manufacturing hub. > Toy imports have fallen by 71% since 2019, driven by higher import duties and stricter BIS quality standards, while domestic manufacturing has expanded. > India's share of the $120 billion global toy industry is still just 0.2–0.3%, leaving significant room for growth. > The government has backed the sector through the National Action Plan for Toys, quality control norms, toy clusters, skilling initiatives and export promotion. > FM Nirmala Sitharaman has urged Indian manufacturers to target one-fourth of the projected $179 billion global toy market by 2032. > Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has called for a 10-fold increase in toy exports over the next four years, saying India has the potential to become a major global toy manufacturing hub. 🇮🇳 The push marks India's shift from a toy importer to a global toy manufacturer.show more

July has been the busiest month of my life.... Ten U-Haul's later, and I can finally say it's the end of an era. For the last six years, I "solo-preneured" and turned this 1,100 sq ft house into a multi-million dollar business. Hundreds of thousands of toys shipped and sold to customers all over the world. Optimal setup? Absolutely not. Do I regret a thing? Absolutely not. I would never encourage anyone to sacrifice their dining table to make space for inventory. To use Lowe's boxes as a TV stand. To convert a bath tub into storage space for action figures. But that has been a reality of mine for several years. One more U-Haul to go, and then it's time to take this 'little online business thing' to the next level.show more