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The oval-set stone, deep blue in colour, was framed by exquisite filigree: thin gold wires twisted and soldered into spirals, accented with tiny granulated beads.Although the blue "stone" is likely coloured glass rather than sapphire, such materials were prized for their symbolic power -- believed to cool inner heat, preserve chastity, and confer divine protection.With its rich decoration and small size, experts believe the ring once belonged to a woman of high status.The discovery was made during extensive excavations in the Norwegian city of Tønsberg, specifically in Prestegaten and its surrounding streets, where archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural...

The late chairman of the Federal Reserve, who died this morning at 100, believed that ‘gold and economic freedom are inseparable.’… … In the strongest terms, Greenspan condemned those who would redistribute national income through fiscal overspending. He deemed it a scheme for the “hidden” confiscation of wealth. “Gold stands in the way of this insidious process,” he wrote. “It stands as a protector of property rights.” In Greenspan’s view, that explained the “almost hysterical antagonism toward gold” among big government statists.… … Here I am proud and grateful to acknowledge that I was considered by Alan Greenspan to be...

When David Lammy addressed the World Gold Council and London Bullion Market Association this week, he intended to warn his audience about illicit gold. Instead, almost accidentally, he explained why so many people own it. “Unlike cash,” he said, gold “ does not need a bank account, a password or an internet connection.” This was meant to sound sinister. To anyone who has ever dealt with a frozen account, a failed payment system, a banking scare, a cyberattack, a currency crisis or the creeping absurdity of modern digital finance, it sounded rather more like a sales pitch. That is the...

Australia's wealthiest person, mining baron Gina Rinehart, has taken a stake of more than $1 billion in the record-setting $75 billion SpaceX (SPCX.O), the Wall Street Journal reported on ​Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter... Hancock is a significant investor in ‌a swathe ⁠of rare earths companies including U.S.-based MP Materials, and Rare Earths Americas (REA.A), and Australia's Lynas Rare Earths (LYC.AX), as well as lithium producer Liontown Resources (LTR.AX), among many others. It bulked up its defence, gold and rare-earths holdings in its $3.3 billion U.S. portfolio this year, filings showed last month... While commending Musk's entrepreneurial...

Iran is increasing its military presence in Venezuela, with officials and personnel, with some members of the country's elite acquiring properties in the Latin American country and being offered political asylum ... The relationship between the two countries has grown over the years, Infobae has detailed, with Iran having established a drone development base at the El Libertador air base in Venezuela, where training for Venezuelan military personnel is also carried out. That project includes the production and training in the use of a wide range of unnamed aerial vehicles (UAV) Among them are the ZAMORA V-1 (Shahed-131), used for...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After being told her Social Security funds were supporting terrorism, a widow was directed to buy $700,000 in gold — but an alert store owner intervened before crooks could make off with her money, records show. A young man, who was reportedly sent to Michigan from Illinois to fetch the gold, ended up with a bag of chocolate coins and a pair of 20-year felonies instead. “They didn’t know they were getting chocolate gold coins,” said Ben Soldaat, owner of Grand Rapids Coins, who alerted authorities to the suspected scam in early May. “It just...

On a leafy Connecticut road in the summer of 2024, would-be kidnappers pulled a couple from their Lamborghini SUV, beat them in broad daylight and threw them into a van, only to be arrested shortly thereafter as multiple witnesses, including a passing off-duty FBI agent, called police. The investigation would lead police to some sensational findings. The attack turned out to be linked to a $245 million Bitcoin heist the month before involving the couple’s son. And this week, a California cryptocurrency mogul who authorities say called himself “The Godfather” and had previously hired off-duty sheriff’s deputies to strongarm his...

In April 2011, excavators working on a natural gas pipeline in northern Germany unearthed one of the largest gold hoards from prehistoric Europe. Dated to about 1300 B.C., the Gessel gold hoard consists of 117 artifacts that together weigh over 3.7 pounds (1.7 kilograms).The hoard was discovered in the village of Gessel near the town of Syke and is now the centerpiece of the Forum Gesseler Goldhort museum. Around 3,300 years ago, someone placed the gold objects in a linen bag, secured the bag with six bronze pins, and buried it in the dirt...The Gessel gold hoard includes 82 spiral...

The Pope “would be totally opposed to the destruction of a sacred place” to mine gold, a priest told a public inquiry in Northern Ireland. Fermanagh priest Father Joe McVeigh made the claim as the potential cultural and heritage impacts of Dalradian Gold’s planning application were examined, the Detail website reported. The North American company hopes to mine gold, silver and other metals in the Sperrin Mountains designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty for more than 20 years. Over three days this week, the Planning Appeals Commission heard witnesses on a number of topics, including a mass rock site cited...

Something Suspicious Is Happening The accumulating evidence has led me to believe Gold is going to get revalued… and sooner than most think. Bond yields are blowing out now. Central banks are buying gold at record levels. President Trump recently announced he wants to audit Fort Knox. States across America are reintroducing gold and silver into the monetary system. And every single day, I watch one expiration: December 2026. Deep out-of-the-money COMEX gold calls. $10,000/oz — 1.1M oz in open contracts $15,000/oz — 2.4M oz in open contracts $20,000/oz — 2.65M oz in open contracts Thousands upon thousands of contracts....

Gold has surpassed US Treasuries to become the world's top reserve asset, a European Central Bank (ECB) report has revealed. The shift highlights a major change in the global financial landscape as central banks continue to increase their gold reserves amid geopolitical uncertainty. By the end of 2025, gold accounted for 27% of official reserves, surpassing US Treasuries at 22% and euros at 15%.....

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price fell below $70,000 on Tuesday morning, wiping out nearly $800 million in leveraged crypto traders in the last 24 hours amid escalating outflows from spot BTC exchange-traded funds. Bitcoin’s price was trading at around $69,400 at the time of writing, down 4.4% in the last 24 hours – the steepest decline among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization – and was among the top trending tickers on Stocktwits.....

Bridgett Fertig repostedBridgett Fertig@LightOnLiberty·May 30America's gold is missing and President Trump knows it.A 1974 article in a New York periodical stated that the Rockefeller family was directing the Federal Reserve to liquidate Fort Knox gold at below-market prices to unnamed European buyers.3 days after her tip launched that story, Louise Auchincloss Boyer, Nelson Rockefeller's personal secretary, fell to her death from her 10th floor Manhattan apartment.The investigation ended there and the gold was gone. For 14 years, industrialist Ed Durrell wrote to over 1,000 government and banking officials demanding a full accounting of what remained in the vaults of Fort...

Gold:The earliest documented use occurred in China around 2,500 years before it was presented to the baby Jesus. In medieval times, and still today, certain outlets promoted the consumption of gold to alleviate depressive symptoms and migraines, while improving concentration and alertness. In the 19th century, gold was considered nervine — an agent that calms the nerves — and it was used to treat diverse conditions ranging from alcoholism to epilepsy... Some gold salts, though, can be processed by the body and have anti-inflammatory properties. Some arthritis drugs include gold salts, such as sodium aurothiomalate and auranofin... The isotope gold-198...

President Donald Trump wants someone to go count the gold at Fort Knox. On May 31, Trump posted an image to Truth Social reading "Time to Physically Audit Fort Knox." It was attached to a New York Post story headlined "Former CIA official arrested after feds find $40M worth of gold bars stashed at his home." The post drew more than 10,000 likes....

In a compelling development stemming from an FBI raid conducted last year, a portion of the gold bars found in the residence of embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have been identified as those stolen in a high-profile 2013 robbery. In September, Sen. Bob Menendez, the senior U.S. Senator from New Jersey and the former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were indicted on bribery and corruption charges. In October, Bob Menendez was charged with acting as a foreign agent in a superseding indictment. Bob Menendez and his wife are under investigation for their involvement...

A former CIA senior officer with top secret-level clearance has been accused of secretly stashing [$40] millions of dollars in gold bars in his home that he said he needed for “work-related expenses,” according to court documents...David Rush, who held a management position, was charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed in the Eastern District of Virginia. He was also accused of lying to his employers about his background for nearly two decades. [snip]“After a CIA internal investigation identified potential violations of the law, CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred the information to the FBI for a...

hina buys up the bullion, the relevance of paper markets on Comex (and London) is shrinking. Liquidity and relevance of paper gold and silver relative to bullion are diminishing. This market report analyses why open interest on Comex has declined to multi-year lows and the consequences. Clearly, liquidity has been drained from western paper markets by the continual drift of bullion into firm Asian hands. We present evidence of the strains on market makers on Comex who have limited capital resources and we debate the consequences. Open interest is now at multi-year lows This week saw open interest in the...

A former senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million from the federal government and stashing them in his home. David Rush was arrested and charged with criminal theft of public money last week, according to federal court filings in Virginia, where he lives. From November to March, Rush requested and received a “significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses,” according to an affidavit from an FBI agent investigating the case. The affidavit says its unclear what Rush...

China has instructed its major domestic banks to limit their purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds and sell off existing holdings. While this stops short of a complete legal ban on all cross-border investment, it marks a substantial drawdown of China's exposure to U.S. debt and a pivot away from U.S. financial assets. In this video, we break down Beijing’s quiet but massive crackdown on mainland Chinese investment into U.S. stocks and bonds, why eight Chinese regulators coordinated the move together, and how it connects to a much larger long-term strategy involving gold, payment systems, energy trade, and the future of...