Gold prices reflect a shift in paradigm – Part I

Sotomayor Blames Colleagues For Flood Of Emergency Appeals Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said a surge in emergency appeals to the Supreme Court is largely the court’s own doing. “We’ve done it to ourselves,” she said during an April 9 event at the University of Alabama School of Law. She said that the volume of emergency filings has reached levels never seen before in the court’s history.   Over the past 15 months, the Trump administration submitted about 30 emergency requests to the court, succeeding in more than 80...

Trump Administration Set To Receive $10 Billion Fee From TikTok U.S. Deal The Trump administration is poised to receive roughly $10 billion in payments from investors involved in the recently completed transaction to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations, delivering an unusual financial windfall tied to the government’s role in keeping the popular social-media platform active in the United States. ByteDance is the Chinese parent of TikTok. John G Mabanglo/EPA/Shutterstock The payments are part of the arrangement under which a consortium of admin-aligned investors took control of TikTok’s American business from its...

Shares Of Infrastructure Developer Erupt On Gulf Energy Reconstruction Prospects The two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire looks more like a pause in the six-week conflict than a long-lasting agreement, with language so broad and vague that it remains unclear who conceded what. The one clear point is that Iran's reported willingness to allow vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz was enough to send crude prices tumbling from triple-digit territory and spark a global relief rally across equities and bonds. Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief on Wednesday morning, and traders are...