Gold Outlook Report 2023

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell's Anti-Communist Classic George Orwell's prognostications about the future of authoritarianism have proven consistently accurate.  They have only been limited by his inability to foresee the creation of certain technologies which make the future look even more bleak.  The reason his books, like 1984 and Animal Farm, are considered classics of literature is because they are timeless.  Their warnings and messages still apply today and will probably apply centuries from now.  Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a tale specifically written as an allegory...

Israel Seeks To Disrupt Russian-Iranian Arms Transfer Route In The Caspian Sea Russia and Iran have long had positive bilateral relations, which deepened in the context of the Ukraine war, and now in the midst of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, where Moscow is said to be sharing vital intelligence and targeting information with Tehran. Fresh reporting in The Wall Street Journal suggests that recent large-scale Israeli attacks in the Caspian Sea could mean flirting with WW3 and potential attacks on Russian interests and assets. "An Israeli strike on a naval outpost in...

Futures, Bonds Tumble, Oil Soars After Trump Dashes Hopes For Early End To Iran War Global risk assets, including US equity futures and global markets, as well as Treasuries and precious metals, tumbled as oil soared with Brent hitting $110 this morning after Trump's late Wednesday speech refused to pivot and dashed hopes that the Hormuz Strait would reopen soon and the war in the Middle East is nearing a swift resolution. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures dropped 1.7%, reversing yesterday's short squeeze as investors refuse to add...