Iran Fires Missiles At Israel In First Since April, After IDF Airstrike On Beirut 'Crossed All Red Lines'

USS Ford Carrier Returns To Mideast After Extensive Fire Repairs Over the weekend it was confirmed by Pentagon statements that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group has belatedly redeployed to the Middle East after a month in port for repairs following a fire aboard the ship. The world's largest aircraft carrier returned to operations after what's been officially described as a blaze in its laundry area, which headlines have presented as accidental. The incident injured sailors and forced significant maintenance work, and ever since it happened on March...

The Dollar's Funeral Keeps Getting Rescheduled Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 💰 The Dollar’s Funeral Nobody Attended Open any finance corner of social media this week, and you will be hit with some version of the same obituary. ZeroHedge declared in December that the dollar’s death in 2026 is now a mainstream talking point, citing a WIRED piece arguing that this is the year “dollar dilution” truly accelerates. A widely circulated Dollar Collapse post this month warned that foreign demand for Treasuries is fading and that the greenback is losing its safe-haven status “in a generation.” WatcherGuru ran a headline last fall declaring rapid de-dollarization is...

The Precious Paper Problem: The Divergence In Western Bullion Markets Authored by Armin Sidhu via The Mises Institute, Gold has nearly doubled in two years. Silver has outpaced it. For the commodity that backed money for most of human history and that central banks still treat as the final settlement asset, these moves should represent a clean signal about physical scarcity and monetary demand. Western gold prices no longer carry that information cleanly. The prices quoted in London and New York are increasingly detached from the physical reality of who owns what...