From the Babylon Bee O0 Libertarian Torn Between Investing In Shiny Rocks Or Magic Computer Coins https://babylonbee.com/news/libertarian-torn-between-investing-in-shiny-rocks-or-magic-computer-coins “It's only a matter of days or weeks or months or years or decades," he said. "Everything ...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:17 pm Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the warm weather.

I love hot humid weather. I think it’s supposed to rain today, right on the No Kings marchers.

Cool, Vinny 👍 Michael Lewis's "The Undoing Project" touches on this topic, in addition to having much else to recommend. Have to check that out. Looks like Israel is taking its lumps now. Iranian ballistic missiles overwhelming the defenses, which were made to handle Hezbollah’s rockets. A...

But I have a bias in that I'm one of those "Israel can do no wrong" people.

Wow. Even I can’t say that.

That Israel was able to do all they did shows what a mismatch it is between Iran and Israel. Israel can count on different forms of powerful backing from the United States. What effective support does Iran have from anywhere? While not exactly the US’s counterpart, Iran *is* the support. It *is* th...

In the gold scream room,

boglerdude wrote:Imagine thinking you can stop vinny

I can’t stop laughing. Vinny, you’re a juggernaut!

I didn’t realize you were going quote me half a dozen times O0 Before you quote me again in this gold thread: I was referring to strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The killing of military personnel is secondary. A massive retaliation from Iran is imminent. For anything else non-gold related, I’ll...

Not a pleasant reason for gold’s price to go up,
obviously,
but it’s Armageddon tonight

I hope Ad Orientem is still kicking and that he is watching this.

$36 and a half, wow

I happened to read about the Greek crisis in Nadav Eyal’s book on troubles from globalization. The author spent a huge amount of time in the country as his father ran a small business there. It was like what Glennds said. A lot of traders profited. Additionally, the Greek government sent misleading ...

How’s Greta doing?
Still afloat?

I was reading about the infamous killing of Georgi Markov ( yes, hi, Vil ) which allegedly involved the use of an umbrella gun and a ricin “bullet.”

The bullet with the ricin was made of 90% platinum
and 10% iridium.

Have a swell day, everyone

So, 1940-1941.

Very interesting post, Glenn! I have only visited Japan although I’ve lived elsewhere in Asia. May I ask where you lived? EDIT: I did a google search: “ Yes, some museums in Japan, particularly those focused on World War II, present a narrative suggesting that the United States was somehow responsib...

I hate the Kidde alarms.

The Musk-Trump battle today has been interesting.
Surprised it didn’t happen sooner.

I’m lovin this Lex interview with Mike Tyson

ugh

I know a lot of westerners living in Japan, and they have talked about a museum there in which the display says that the U.S. “tricked” Japan into invading. A few of those guys whom I met in the past even swallowed that idea, perhaps because they are so in love with the country (so am I). I always a...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 1:44 pm Gold falling sharply. I’d be inclined to buy more when it gets below 3000. Obviously more of a psychological threshold than a rebalancing band.

Aaand it’s almost 3400 now.

1. Why is that never brought up? Prange is well-known.