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Bill is interviewed by The Market Sniper (Also posted under Interviews)
The latest from USA Watchdog –
Bill’s Commentary:
“When you pay something for nothing, why would you expect to get anything more than “nothing” back? “
What the hell happened to NFTs?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/rise-and-fall-of-nfts/
Bill’s Commentary:
“The real economy stops dead in its tracks when credit seizes up…”
Race To The Financial Dung Heap
As I wrote just weeks ago, I believed (and still do) that any new market collapse could come at the hands of crypto and/or stablecoins, which have in many ways become an essentially unregulated $4 trillion slush-y money market fund reminiscent of 2008.
But watching the headlines coming out of commercial real estate, private credit and subprime auto over the last week or two — and I’m not certain we don’t have a new leader, or leaders, in the nationally televised Race To The Financial Dung Heap™.
Let’s try to make this case as clear and as simple as possible, with examples and charts for people with very short attention spans, like myself.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Surprise!!!“
Shocker: Soros-Backed Tides Foundation Funding Wikipedia
X user DataRepublican, also known as Jennica Pounds, who leads DOGE-adjacent efforts in an open-source capacity, has delved deeper into the dark-money-funded NGO world. Her latest target: George Soros and one of the largest soft-power projects of the 1990s, called the Muskie Fellowship program.
But the focus here is not the Muskie Fellowship program, but rather her question: “This is straight off the Federal Register. Now ask yourself why Wikipedia doesn’t mention the Soros Foundation.”
She added, “And fun fact — Soros had further grants for these graduates of the Muskie fellowship program. Hard to interpret this as something other than using our taxpayer funds to educate his minions.”
Bill’s Commentary:
“How is your blood pressure these days?”
Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this true?”
MIT study on AI profits rattles tech investors
Wall Street’s biggest fear was validated by a recent MIT study indicating that 95% of organizations studied get zero return on their AI investment.
Why it matters: Investors have put up with record AI spend from tech companies because they expect record returns, eventually. This study calls those returns into question, which could be an existential risk for a market that’s overly tied to the AI narrative.
Driving the news: MIT researchers studied 300 public AI initiatives to try and suss out the “no hype reality” of AI’s impact on business, Aditya Challapally, research contributor to project NANDA at MIT, tells Axios.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Grace defined!”
Mormons raise $200,000 for family of gunman who attacked their church
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in deep grief after a gunman ambushed a worship service in Michigan on Sunday, killing four people and wounding eight others.
They started fundraisers for the victims. Then they did something remarkable: They began donating money to the wife and son of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who police say carried out the attack.
That fundraiser, which has raised close to $200,000, has collected donations from more than 5,000 people, many of them Latter-day Saints.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Some in your face reality from Erik”
The latest from Erik –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Is this even legal? If so, it should be MADE ILLEGAL!”
Israel Paying US Social Media Influencers $7,000 Per Post As Right-Wing Support Craters
Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in New York on Friday with a group of pro-Israel influencers, we learn that Israel is likely paying them a whopping $7,000 per pro-Israel social-media post in a desperate drive to bolster plummeting support of Israel among America’s young conservatives.
That’s the conclusion of Responsible Statecraft’s Nick Cleveland-Stout, based on analysis of a disclosure filed with the US Department of Justice as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). While pro-Israel lobbying heavyweight AIPAC is notoriously exempt from FARA registration, the social media operation comes under the transparency law’s provisions because Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is paying for it.
The latest from USA Watchdog –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“This is just like the system as a whole… do you really trust ANY manmade “lifetime guarantee”?”
Publishers Clearing House’s new plan: Future winners will be protected. Past winners still won’t get paid
Publishers Clearing House – the bankrupt sweepstakes company that told its past prize winners they would no longer receive their ‘forever’ payments – has a new CEO, who has a plan to protect the company’s prize winners.
Future winners. Past winners are still out of luck.
ARB Interactive, a mobile gaming company that now owns PCH, announced Tuesday that Owen O’Donoghue will lead a “revitalization” of the 70-year-old brand that ensures “all future sweepstakes payouts are fully secure,” according to a statement. O’Donoghue, the new PCH CEO, also plans to make PCH a “mobile-first digital entertainment platform.”
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Nothing is “going up,” your currency simply buys less…”
Gold Isn’t Going Up, Your Money Is Just Losing Value
Whenever gold rises and I get excited as a gold investor, I’m often met with the familiar refrain: “Gold isn’t really going up, the dollar is just losing value.” I used to brush that off as a cliché or a game of semantics, and honestly, it annoyed me. But over time I decided to dig deeper. I started analyzing the data visually, which is my favorite way to learn, and that’s when it finally clicked. They were right. Gold wasn’t truly soaring; fiat currencies were quietly eroding. Since then I’ve made it a mission to help others see this clearly too, using compelling charts that drive the point home. That’s exactly what I’m going to show you today.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Erik describes massive overreach…”
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Bill’s Commentary:
”I don’t know, because Treasury yields are actually below the true inflation (debasement) rate?”
Why investors are ditching bonds for gold in 2025
Gold has surged to the top of investors’ wish lists in 2025. The yellow metal, long revered as a hedge against inflation and geopolitical turmoil, has seen its price rocket to record highs above $3,600 (€3,080) per ounce, delivering returns of nearly 40% year-to-date ––gold’s best year since 1978.
While global equity markets have delivered positive returns this year, they remain well behind gold’s performance. In contrast, bonds are enduring yet another year of disappointing performance.
Bill’s Commentary:
”How much is your time worth?”
Bill’s Commentary:
”The height of stupidity!”
Swiss voters narrowly approve plan for electronic ID cards
Swiss voters have narrowly approved a plan to introduce voluntary electronic identity cards.
With all votes counted, 50.4% of those who voted said yes to the proposal, while 49.6% rejected it.
The closeness of the ballot is a surprise. Opinion polls had suggested up to 60% backed digital IDs, which also had the approval of the Swiss government, and both houses of parliament.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“His Secret Service detail is now on high alert 24/7!”
Bill’s Commentary:
“I am shocked I tell you, SHOCKED!”
FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds, congressional source says
The FBI has acknowledged it had 274 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021, more than four and a half years after questions were first raised about the level of FBI involvement that day, Blaze News has learned.A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events.
But given the FBI’s until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters.
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Bill’s Commentary:
“Delusional…”
Trump Says Ukraine Can Win Back All Territory Lost to Russia
In a dramatic reversal from his previous stance where he urged Zelensky to seek a ceasefire with Putin promptly as recently as a month ago following his summit with Putin in Alaska, on Tuesday afternoon President Donald Trump said that Ukraine should go on the offensive against Russia and reclaim all occupied territories.
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
The latest from USA Watchdog –
Bill’s Commentary:
“Hey Macron, this is called STEALING!”
Macron Opposes Seizure Of Frozen Russian Assets, Cites “Respect” For International Law
Amid mounting speculation that Europe can fund at least part of its gargantuan fiscal commitments with seized Russian assets, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a Sept 21 interview with CBS News that confiscating frozen Russian assets would constitute a violation of international law.
Recall that at the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, G7 countries froze approximately $300 billion in Russian central bank assets, with about two-thirds held by the Belgian clearinghouse Euroclear. At the same time, Russia was kicked out of the global dollar cross-border payments network, SWIFT. The decision to weaponize fiat currencies sparked a historic meltup in gold and led to the disconnect of gold with such traditional drivers of the price as real yields.
Bill’s Commentary:
“I looked for the word “vaccine” but didn’t see it…”
Trump Administration to Announce Two Potential Causes of Autism: Report
The Trump administration is slated to reveal two potential causes of autism during a White House event scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Two senior administration officials who spoke with Politico, but were not identified by the news outlet, said President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will first announce that Tylenol use during pregnancy can contribute to an autism diagnosis after the child is born.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Goldman’ commodity specialist James McGeoch says ‘Remember what I say. Demand moves are linear, supply moves are exponential.’
This is just more blood in the water for longs to devour the shorts and create a failure to deliver via the fractional reserve commodity exchanges…”
“A Black Swan Event”: Copper Prices Soar After FCX Declares Force Majeure At World’s 2nd Largest Mine
In what Goldman’s commodity team dubbed a “black swan event”, copper mining giaint Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia, the second-largest source of the metal, sending prices of the metal soaring.
The US company also cut its copper and gold sales guidance for the quarter, now seeing 4% lower copper sales and 6% lower for gold than July 2025 estimates – as it continues to search for five missing workers following an accident at the site two weeks ago. Two employees are confirmed to have died following a flow of about 800,000 metric tons of mud into Grasberg’s underground levels.
Bill’s Commentary:
“The latest from Chris Marcus”
Daniel Ghali Talks About Silver Supply Fears On Bloomberg
We finally got a little bit of a sell-off today in the gold and silver markets after a furious rally had pushed the gold futures over $3,800 and the silver futures over the $44 level.
The gold futures are currently down $47 to $3,768.
Bill’s Commentary:
“Way past borderline!”
The latest from Erik –
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Bill’s Commentary:
“This does not smell even remotely correct with a 30-06 involved? We no longer live in 1963, I am sure there will be far more on this in the future…”
Charlie Kirk’s final miracle revealed by surgeon who examined fatal neck wound
The surgeon who operated on Charlie Kirk said the bullet that killed him miraculously did not exit his neck, likely saving others from getting hit.
Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet revealed on Saturday night that he had spoken with the surgeon who made the comments directly to him.
In a post on X, Kolvet wrote: ‘I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know.’
Bill’s latest interview with Dr. Dave Janda (Also posted under Interviews)
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