Markets, Manipulation, and Silver-Stacking

Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering, The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for 150 years. Since the 1870s, researchers have debated the identity of the strange fossil remains lurking in the Manchester archives. They possessed tiny fragments recovered from sites in England and Wales that puzzled them, but they could not piece them together. Was it a large woodlouse-crustacean? Life reconstruction of Praearcturus...

Xi Says "Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray" As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China President Trump's four-and-a-half-month crusade across the Western Hemisphere, and now into the Middle East, increasingly looks like a massive blitz to acquire - or control - energy assets and maritime chokepoints as part of a broader economic pressure campaign against China, which depends heavily on the Gulf and Venezuelan crude.  "Chokepoint after chokepoint: the administration is methodically building a portfolio of assets that they are stacking against China: the Panama Canal, which is the only exit...

Wheat Futures Volatile As Black Sea Crisis And Hormuz Chokepoint Spark Concerns Chicago wheat futures are coiling for a breakout (one way or another) as ongoing Russia-Ukraine attacks on Black Sea grain infrastructure and bulk carriers threaten exports from one of the world's most important breadbaskets. Most-active Chicago wheat has been choppy in the last few days... Hard red winter wheat gained as much as 2.7% to $7.505 a bushel. Soft Red Winter wheat futures are poised for a much larger breakout if prices sustain a move above $7 a bushel. Bloomberg noted Monday that...