from Sputnik News:
by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
There has never been a currency intervention in history that has worked.
Yen Gains on Intervention
Bloomberg reports Yen Gains on Intervention, Reports of Buying By Both US, Japan
by Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network:
Every geopolitical crisis seems to follow the same script. A conflict erupts somewhere in the world, television anchors begin talking about an oil shock, analysts predict triple-digit crude prices, and investors rush into energy stocks. We’ve seen this movie over and over again. Sometimes the headlines are dramatic, but the long-term outcome rarely matches the panic.
by Gary D. Barnett, Lew Rockwell:
“I do believe that we’re just at the beginning of the tokenization of all assets,, from real estate, to equity, to bonds..”
Larry Fink, CEO Blackrock
This is a subject that I have discussed on many occasions for years, but the acceleration of this atrocity of mass government theft is now progressing at lightning speed, and openly admitted to by the powers behind the throne. The evildoing Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, who by the way, was Trump’s first choice for Secretary of the Treasury, (Position now filled by Scott Bessent) is also the Chairman of the heinous World Economic Forum (WEF). He also was a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton and her run for president in 2016. His past is rife with far left-wing politics, so any notion that there is any difference between the democrats and republicans should by now be dismissed.
by Mark Mead Baillie, Gold Seek:
Our having taken on more of a bullish bent these last few weeks, we ~finally~ can open with some pleasing news: Gold just recorded an up week.
“Well, it really wasn’t much of a big deal, mmb… ”
True enough, Squire. Yet thus far through the year’s 29 trading weeks, Gold just recorded only its fourth positive one in the last 14: 
“Happy days are here again…”
–-[Milton Ager & Jack (not Janet) Yellen, ’29].
by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:
This article was originally published by Sterling Ashworth at Natural News.
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States climbed back above $4 on July 20, 2026, according to American Automobile Association data. The average stood at $4.0030, marking a return to a level that analysts describe as a politically sensitive threshold for American consumers. [6]
The increase followed a week of renewed hostilities in the Middle East, including Iranian attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and nine consecutive nights of U.S. military strikes against Iran. [8] Brent crude futures rose more than 3% on the day, pushing above $90 a barrel, as the conflict disrupted tanker traffic through the strategic waterway. [8]
from State Of The Nation:
And its increasing so rapidly that the monthly interest payment on the U.S. federal debt is approximately $85 billion to $86 billion.
Because of all the massive covert payments to the Zionist state of Israel since the very founding of that apartheid nation.
Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer
SOTN Exclusive
Even greater are the regular but highly classified and immense outlays made by the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations within the U.S. Intelligence Community to countries around the globe that needed to be bought in some way, shape or form……..for the direct benefit of Israel.
by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
Today’s action is different. And different is good.
Since March, gold has struggled with rising oil prices, rising bond yields or rising rate hike expectatons.
But here we are with the 30-year long bond on the verge of a major breakout, and rate hike expectations rising, yet the price of gold and silver are up anyway.
by David Stockman, International Man:
The implicit notion–extant on both ends of the Accela Corridor—that the present financing arrangements for the $31 trillion of publicly held US Treasuries represent the natural order of things in the financial markets is just damn nonsense.
And that’s to say nothing of the brobdingnagian task ahead—finding a home for another $142 trillion of US Treasuries by mid-century at a sustainable yield that does not blow the bond pits to smithereens.
The fact is, the existing global market for USTs is a wholly artificial, jerry-built construct arising from the money-printing central banks of the world, led by the Fed. The latter have sired three forms of artificial demand for USTs that make all the difference in the world between today’s ultra-low unsustainable government bond yields and the far, far higher levels that would otherwise prevail under a regime of sound money and honest supply and demand-based pricing.
