dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 8:18 pm Thanks, yeah, I had seen similar things from private attorney sites when I googled.
Aren’t all our social security numbers on the dark web by now, for the low, low price of $20?

It feels like it.

I find it sickly, ironically humorous that the Iranian traffic/spy camera network was hijacked by the Israelis, and they used it to find and kill the Ayatollah.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 1:38 pm Did anyone else get paper mail notifying you that your personal info was leaked in a security breach?
From the John Buck Company.
I believe it’s legit.

https://www.claimdepot.com/data-breach/ ... mpany-2026

Jack Jones wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 9:14 am

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 7:12 pm

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:45 pm

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:23 pm What do Venezuela and Iran have in common? Something not shared with say Cuba or Afghanistan or North Korea.

Sources of oil for China.

Yes, and outside of the dollar system, too.

Can we add Libya to that list?

Probably so.

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:45 pm

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:23 pm What do Venezuela and Iran have in common? Something not shared with say Cuba or Afghanistan or North Korea.

Sources of oil for China.

Yes, and outside of the dollar system, too.

What do Venezuela and Iran have in common? Something not shared with say Cuba or Afghanistan or North Korea.

Xan wrote: ↑Sat Feb 28, 2026 12:28 pm Hoo boy... I would like to say I hope he knows what he's doing, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't. Still, it could work out...

I don’t think it will. There’s so much I’d like to say but it’s pointless.

A year ago I read the case for Trump doing some kind of monetary reset involving a monetary use for gold. Weaker dollar, tariffs, etc. I think it said that gold would have to be $10,000 for it all to make sense. So that is what I voted.

Yes he does indeed O0 At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars. Let’s revisit that in a couple of weeks. Do you not think its another Venezuela II case, build up the fleet to readiness, then a concurrent decapitation of the IRG as and when that becomes a evident possibility rather than outri...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2026 6:29 am Yes he does indeed At least he hasn’t started any new forever wars.

Let’s revisit that in a couple of weeks.

I think you’re right DS. He wants to stop the expense. And then there is the Biden thing, and the Ukrainian role in the impeachment thing. He probably can’t wait to be rid of supporting their war. And he likes to brag about how many wars he has ended.

At least a couple of those are true.

Yes, the kicker is that we could experience short or longer term deflation, which would shake the world. Although, we (including me) all assume that they will create money to prevent that. Ultimately leading to persistent double digit inflation. Honestly I have found it more productive to not try t...

Dieter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:49 pm Damn, I was going to rebalance a bit out of Silver this week

So close!

My silver is now only up 63% in the last three months

Grr

If you hold physical, you might not have found a buyer anyway. That's what I'm hearing.

Yes, the kicker is that we could experience short or longer term deflation, which would shake the world. Although, we (including me) all assume that they will create money to prevent that. Ultimately leading to persistent double digit inflation. Honestly I have found it more productive to not try to...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 2:02 pm I see mathjak covered it elsewhere, but damn. Down over 1/4 !

A quick peek at a news story suggests that people had bought silver ETF(s) on margin, and the drop triggered margin calls. Which of course drive more selling.

I didn’t realize the MN fraud had been going on for over a decade. A couple of hi lights are below. The whole article is worth reading in my opinion. “It feels never-ending,” Thompson said. “I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away.” Publ...

So much of the articles and videos today are just clickbait.

If gold was dropping or dormant these same people would write “gold is dead”. It’s so hard to not get drawn into their game.

cost to mutch
it suck
no good
send to many disk.
Me and my friends took a bisk and lit it on fire and froze it
slamed it angaisnt the boor.


(The earliest meme I can remember.)
(Remember newsgroups?)

Bananas and rice needs to achieve meme status. If it hasn't already.

Do we have a thread for social and political cartoons? If not, here goes. I hope this shows up. If not, I will edit until it does. https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rPNW!,f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe06393f5-d1c...

This guy, Bill Bonner, is a libertarian political economist, author, etc. His style is detached naysaying. :) If you want to read critiques of Trump that might be different from the run of the mill stuff, check out his site, which I think is a Substack. I find it hard to disagree with him, almost ev...

Last election, we truly had two awful choices. I still feel that Harris would have been way worse, though.

And I was okay with Trump the first time. I heard it put this way recently, “The best things said about him are true, but so are the worst things.”

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

Not to mention the email.

I just bought a new iPad and it seems like several steps backwards.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:07 am I never dreamed my silver would more than triple. I just bought it for fun, not for the pp.

I have to think it will drop a lot at some point. This highlights the difference between it and gold. It’s kind of a penny stock.

I’ve got a lot of it but I don’t need the money so I’ll HODL.

I guess it sounds like typical Trump negotiation tactics.