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Your article makes good sense, Walter. Thanks for the rational explanation. 👍
I also heard that some central banks have had to sell gold in response to needing to pay higher oil prices. That would remove another support from the gold price.

The Gulch was built with Google tools from the start. I doubt the site has been modified in years and that may affect using your cellphones on the site.
I don't know why you guys are getting popups while on the Gulch site, but I'm not getting any popups at all from the Gulch site. None.
I do not use my phone to visit the Gulch; I use a Win10 pc.
I don't use the browsers from MSFT or Goog and I DO block ads using AdGuard browser extension in addition to the built in ad-blocker of the browser.
The above is just my experience and I'm no expert on cellphone browsing.

I agree! The site is degrading into a popup mess. I can't even move my pointer anymore without an ad that has to be dismissed to continue. My guess is Google now owns the Gulch and, as usual, has to get into everyone's face. I've been contemplating leaving this Gulch and looking for another. OK, I have to admit monetarily I'm a freeloader here, but hope to make enough interesting or humorous contributions to earn my keep. However, carpet bombing me with useless ads turns the experience into total waste of time.

Why the phuck are their ID hack site links on on this god damn site?!??! WTF! Popping up on my mobile web page.

To be picky " 7. But an AI runs on a distributed network of processors. The NVIDIA A100 GPU “can perform 300 trillion operations per second.” 300 trillion is roughly equivalent to the number of stars in three Milky Way galaxies...."


According to an

AI Overview
"The best estimate for the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is between 100 billion and 400 billion. While 100 billion is a common, conservative figure, many researchers now favor a range of 200–250 billion, accounting for the high number of faint, low-mass red dwarfs." This latter number comports to the best estimate I recall from a college course in Astronomy.

It raises a concern about AI, namely, was the overstatement of 100000000 human generated error? Or did AI provide the number?

When I first heard that I was very glad we finally had a president that speaks the truth to those freeloaders. This line, "You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us." may be a message of things to come. We'll see. MAGA!

Maduro who? LOL

Nice batch, Dobrien.
Me dino does not get the "message" supposedly behind the No Kings scooter pile-up with three libtarded old farts playing dead in the foreground.
I don't think the onlooking No Kings protestors do either. That also goes for whoever thought this silly Schiff up.

He’s doing everything I wrote above. Please elaborate on your accusations. A stupid war is when we don’t try to win like all of Clinton Bush and Obama wars. If you can’t see the difference , you are like the looney left. Brainwashed to react emotionally.

The excursion is virtually complete. In a week or 2 this will be forgotten like Maduro’s extraction.

Oh he has many agendas with this excursion. Another one is President Trump has shown how feckless NATO and our so called western allies are.
In Trumps own words:
All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

Bravo, Dobrien. Extremely well done. Thank you.

I have mixed thoughts on a protracted war with Iran, but allowing such a regime to virtually strap on a nuclear suicide vest is out of the question. Death means very little to such fanatics. Trump finally did what should have been done a long time ago. Let them have the death they crave so much, but prevent them from exporting it to the rest of us.

Many ex-pats are using it now. It does work for US citizens.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/inter...
"If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, $112,000 for 2022, and $120,000 for 2023). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts.
Foreign-earned income: Foreign-earned income means wages, salaries, professional fees, or other amounts paid to you for personal services rendered by you."

I seriously doubt the recipients of such largess will be us taxpayers. [I'd do an "LOL" here, but it's really not funny.] Oh heck, LOL at the BOHICA of the whole thing.

It would be great if that were true. Trump's cabinet is as corrupt as the Dems, and he is getting us into stupid wars.

The first step was the capital gains tax they enacted 3 or 4 years ago.

But there are still 7 states without state income taxes: AK, NV, WY, SD, TX, TN, FL. And NH doesn't tax wages but does tax interest and dividends.

This will not work for US citizens unless they give up their citizenship. And in that case, you get nailed with the exit tax also called FATCA.

Are there any reliable data on the purchases and sales of gold by the governments of China and India?

Are there any reliable data on the amount of gold held by the government of America in the Fort Knox vaults?

Are they important to the rise and fall of gold prices?

Of course they would protest and no doubt Trump will be honored as a hero for freeing Iran. Believe me, if that was his only agenda, he would not have taken that risk.

. . . alleged murderer! You should know by now that effective freedom fighters are destroyed once they become a serious threat to those in control. I will ignore your Ad hominem and assume you don't like the content of my post.

The decline was probably amplified by the need to raise cash to meet margin calls. It wasn't just the price of gold, all the precious metals - gold, silver, platinum and palladium - were hit at the same time. The stock market and Bitcoin are way down also. I expect that many investors are cutting their losses and retreating to cash and treasury bills, which are still generally seen as more of a "safe haven" than gold.

Wonder who gets the $ when sports teams rename stadiums (as a corporate advertising gimmick) every few years (after getting the stadium paid for by taxpayers)?

ThanQ Doc

Don't worry, the TSA union, with our best interests at heart, will have this mess straightened out in no time flat - COUGH COUGH!!