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@PeterSchiff If you were a customer of Euro Pacific Bank, make sure to follow the updates on the bank's website, now that I have regained control. Qenta—the company that purchased the right to custody the gold and silver previously held by the bank on behalf of customers (among other assets)—just told a federal judge that it should be allowed to keep all of the appreciation in the gold and silver since it was transferred to their custody, to be held for customers, on Sept. 30, 2022. The gold and silver were worth about $25 million then; they are now worth...

The price of existing homes last month fell 2.2 percent, the largest monthly decline in the almost four decades the number has been tracked, according to an industry report released yesterday. Nationwide, the number of existing single-family homes sold fell 14.2 percent in September compared with September 2005, according to the report from the National Association of Realtors. The number of sales has fallen each month since March. Prices fell everywhere in the country, with the Northeast and West most affected. Declines were more moderate in the South, which includes the Washington area....