Me, Dec ‘24: “The Chinese central bank is currently buying at least ten times more gold than what you read in the newspaper” Newspaper (FT), Nov ‘25: “China’s unreported gold purchases could be more than 10 times its official figures.” tinyurl.com/fjjjzws9 tinyurl.com/ms3ruk4y

LATEST: 🇬🇧 Seven of the UK's largest banks, including Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC, completed the world's first interbank transactions using tokenized pound deposits on a shared platform built by Quant.

Wow. Just wow

.. how it’s going.

99 years ago, they made a film about 2026:

Oggi il Parlamento ha approvato in via definitiva la legge sul nucleare. Dopo quasi quarant'anni, l'Italia torna ad avere un quadro di regole per produrre energia nucleare. Una scelta coraggiosa e di buon senso. Oggi importiamo elettricità prodotta dalle centrali nucleari di nazioni vicine, ma non possiamo produrla noi. Questa legge serve a cambiare le cose. Cosa significa per famiglie e imprese: • Più sicurezza energetica: meno dipendenza dall'estero e meno esposizione alle crisi internazionali che abbiamo pagato in bolletta. • Energia stabile e a basse emissioni, che lavora insieme a tutte le altre, a partire dalle rinnovabili. • Una risposta concreta alla domanda di elettricità che crescerà con data center e intelligenza artificiale. Parliamo di tecnologie di nuova generazione, non delle vecchie centrali. Ora il Governo scriverà le norme attuative su sicurezza, autorizzazioni, gestione dei rifiuti e rapporto con i territori. Era un impegno preso con gli italiani. Un altro impegno che abbiamo mantenuto 🇮🇹

The Central Bank of Jordan reduced its #gold reserves by 3 tonnes in August. However, on a YTD basis it remains a net buyer of almost 2 tonnes. Total gold holdings now stand at 75 tonnes.

What a show

🇪🇺BREAKING: ECB launches “Digital Euro” for banks as Pontes begins tokenized finance pilot. President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde announces The ECB is launching Pontes today, a platform that will connect private blockchain networks with the TARGET system, allowing banks to settle tokenized assets directly in central bank money. “It's digital euro made available for banks,” the ECB says, allowing institutions to transact using tokenized assets and DLT “faster, without friction," she  adds. Pontes is the first step toward the ECB’s broader Appia ecosystem for tokenized financial markets, while consumer-facing digital euro testing is planned for mid-2027.

Bill Gates and Elon Musk have entered into a joint venture to manufacture a penis extender. It's called Elong-Gates. It cures Microsoft.

There’s a thought ..

The potential agreement, which would allow the interim government of Delcy Rodríguez to access funding, is one of the first concrete results from a US-backed negotiation process. ft.trib.al/UvhMOH5

. @grok Do AI systems have morality coded into their main architecture?

The Art Of The Deal

Gas prices are at crazy levels--fire Obama!

JUST IN: Multiple world leaders have reportedly fallen ill, after attending BRICS summit in India.

That’s got to sting.

Tether has emerged as a major bullion lender, providing about $1.5 billion in financing to a top US gold dealer after amassing one of the world’s largest private hoards of the precious metal. archive.ph/Dvnyd#selection-1…

Sorry to ask, is there anyone anywhere with some influence that has a plan for peace?

Mr. Armstrong appears to have learned his history and law of banking from Murray Rothbard or his devotees--which is to say that he knows nothing about either! In fact there's no evidence that banks ever illicitly or illegally lent anything that wasn't legally theirs to lend. 1/2

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